by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 18, 2014 | Features
I was devastated. It was a warm, Sunday afternoon, in the middle of summer at about 5:00 p.m., Milwaukee time. I was riding around with a man almost twice my age in a dark sedan on Milwaukee’s South Side. We were relatively quiet, with the older man asking me...
by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 11, 2014 | Features
Milwaukee County Stadium was the modest housing of a major league baseball team, the Milwaukee Brewers. Built in 1953, it initially housed the former Boston Braves, who moved that year to Milwaukee for a cup of coffee, as it were, and then fled town to Atlanta in...
by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 4, 2014 | Books, Features
Carl didn’t like new guys comin’ to the crib. Didn’t like it at all. When I knocked on the door I was expecting to see his brother, Eddie. Carl was too high to deal at night. That’s what my reliable, drug addicted police informant had told me....
by Crimespree Magazine | Feb 25, 2014 | Features
“I’m famous,” the short old woman, wearing a thick scarf and a long, worn out overcoat said. She was standing straight, but leaning slightly against a concrete street light pole. It was dark. It was cold. Too cold outside for an old woman to be standing...
by Crimespree Magazine | Feb 18, 2014 | Features
This is the first in a new ongoing series of articles by Rob Riley. Rob is a good friend of ours and a retired Milwaukee Police Detective. He’s also the author of a couple great books, PORTRAIT OF MURDER and DEAD LAST with more to come. ~Jon When I review my...
