Dateline Episode Airing Tonight Is Based on Award-Winning New Times Story



NBC's Dateline at 10 EDT tonight will feature the disappearance of David Jackson and the investigation two decades later that threatened to tear a family apart. Our cover story, "My Father's Bones," won last year's Sigma Delta Chi award for feature reporting. (Yeah, I'm bragging; shut up.)

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Seven Sins, Village Voice Media True-Crime Anthology, Hits the E-Shelves

Categories: Crime Writing
An early-morning message from Village Voice Media:
Every week, writers for New Times Broward-Palm Beach and our parent company, Village Voice Media, produce elegant magazine-style feature writing -- a gritty portion of which comes in the form of true-crime stories.

Now VVM has collected some of its best recent true-crime yarns into an ebook: Seven Sins: A True Crime Anthology From Village Voice Media. Available on Amazon and iTunes, the book features seven stories, including the odd story of a young San Francisco woman so enamored of serial killers that she became known as America's most prominent "murder groupie" and the incredible tale of a young American Muslim woman "honor-killed" by her own father.
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Diver Found Dead, Broward Sheriff's Office Reports

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The BSO is investigating Robert Hocke's death.
​​A Davie scuba diver was found dead around 5 p.m. Sunday, about one mile south of the Dania Beach pier, the Broward Sheriff's Office has just reported.

Cops say that 62-year old Robert Hocke went missing at 1:14 p.m, after signaling to his dive buddy that he was running low on air. 

Both men returned to the surface together and agreed to return to their friends' boat. When Hocke's dive buddy got back to the boat, however, Hocke was gone. 


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Mo' Metal, Mo' Problems: Scrap Thefts Ravage Broward

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Metalhead?
A handful of Broward hooligans has shown that some people think metals are a little too precious.

Six storm drains have been stolen from Oakland Park in the last two nights, according to the Broward Sheriff's Office. The upswing in metal thefts -- which includes a "Slinky" AC thief -- has also taken place in Pompano Beach, where five sewer drains have been stolen since May.

The BSO didn't specify whether the robbers cribbed manholes, or just grated storm drains. At this time, investigators aren't sure whether the thefts are the work of one or more crooks, the BSO says.



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"Slinky Metal Thief" Arrested; Turns Out to Be Man, Not Actual Slinky

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Copper stopper
A "slinky metal thief" has been caught on video stealing copper wires and tubing from Oakland Park air conditioning units, the Broward Sheriff's Office reports.

"It was just after 4 a.m. Wednesday when Amos Issac finished stripping another air conditioning unit for its copper tubing and wires," according to the BSO's Dickensian prose.

"He loaded the valuable metal into a shopping cart and began walking. A few feet away, a Broward Sheriff's Office sergeant watched from his car."



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A History of Violence: Brian Krebs' Arrest Report

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Krebs' booking photo.
This week's New Times cover story reveals the turbulent past of Brian Krebs, who stands accused of stabbing promoter and drummer Jimmy Pagano to death and slashing five others in a bar fight.

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Brian Krebs to Get New Defense Lawyer

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Krebs, before jail.
The prisoner in the striped jumpsuit dozed off as he waited for his turn before the judge.

That man, Brian Krebs, is accused of stabbing to death beloved drummer/promoter Jimmy Pagano -- and knifing four others who tried to stop him -- during a fight over a bar tab at Fishtales.

He was back in court Monday morning to get a new lawyer.

If convicted, Krebs could spend the rest of his life in prison.

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Alleged Suburban Stalking Mom Sent Stripper to Victims' House

Categories: Crime Writing

Georgia Roberts, who was acquitted of stalking Channel 10 reporter Kristi Krueger in 2003, now stands accused of stalking a family in the Orlando area in an eerily similar manner.

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Roberts at the time of the alleged Krueger stalking

Roberts, according to a Winter Gardens police report, was arrested at a Publix store after confronting the wife of the family she is accused of victimizing, whom we'll call the "Baileys" for the sake of privacy. Mrs. Bailey said that Roberts had stalked her not only at the supermarket but at her daughter's school and the family's church. She said Roberts had also plagued the family with dozens of unwanted phone calls, emails, and text messages. 

Mrs. Bailey, who was shaking and crying as she spoke with police at the Publix store, said that Roberts got in her way in the aisle of the supermarket and wouldn't let her pass, causing her to fear for her safety. It was only the latest in what she described as more than three years of Roberts stalking her and her family.

In addition to the bizarre Krueger case, Roberts also shot and killed Angela Puccetti, her high school's homecoming queen, in 1986. The death was ruled an accidental.

Inside, read about Roberts' most bizarre act and her alleged confession to police after they handcuffed her and put her in the patrol car.   

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"Ynot" Death Details Revealed

Categories: Crime Writing
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Ynot at work.
Welcome to the first post of 2011, and Happy New Year. Let's hope it's a great one for all the dedicated Pulpsters -- and casual readers too, of course.

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Ynot with his baby son, Max.
Thought I'd get in/ a post about the homicide of graffiti and tattoo artist Jonathan "Ynot" Corso, who was run over twice in the parking lot at Club Eden in Davie. A colleague from down south, Gus Garcia-Roberts, has broken some new ground on the story.

There was a lot of speculation about who was behind the crime. Answers have come to light after the arrest of the man who was at the wheel when Corso, photographed at right, was mowed down. But it wasn't the driver, Reynaldo Rodriguez, who triggered the deadly early-morning melee.  

Inside, see what happened and who really started the fight that would end Corso's life on his 21st birthday.  

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BSO Jail Guard Romanced Suspected Cop Killer

Categories: Crime Writing

We all know that three Broward Sheriff's Office deputies were arrested earlier this month and charged with supplying contraband to inmates and having sex with them.   

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Deitrick Johnson and Dep. Kiara Walker (inset)
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dentity of the prisoner whom one of the female jail guards was romancing and supplying with contraband. Kiara Monet Walker, a 21-year-old deputy, was consorting with Dietrick Johnson, according to court records. Johnson is one of the notorious pharmacy store bandits who remains a chief suspect in the murder of BSO Sgt. Chris Reyka.

Dep. Walker is accused of exchanging sexually explicit texts and photographs with Johnson, some of which referred to having sex in his jail cell. She is also alleged to have supplied him with a cell phone.

Sources inside BSO tell me that more arrests are expected in the case and that there may have been a plan in the works to smuggle in a gun to an inmate, possibly Deitrick Johnson.

How could a sworn deputy become intimate with a prisoner who is suspected in the cold-blooded murder of a fellow deputy in her own agency? That's a question the continuing investigation is trying to answer. 

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Reyka
Sgt. Reyka, by all accounts an exemplary officer, was shot to death behind a Walgreens store in Pompano Beach at 1:30 a.m. August 10, 2007 -- at the height of Johnson's robbery spree. Sheriff Al Lamberti has publicly stated that he believes Reyka's murder is connected to those robberies, but so far there hasn't been enough evidence to make a case.

Veteran private investigator Dan Riemer, who delved into the case, filed court papers last year claiming to have solved the Reyka murder. Although Riemer wouldn't name names publicly, sources say his investigation determined that the pharmacy store robbers were behind the murder, including Johnson, Gerald Joshua, and gang leader Tim Johnson, who is no relation to Deitrick. As the triggerman, Riemer named 

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