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• News Notes From Florida -

  All they ever found of Lorraine Hatzakorzian's remains was her head. No one knows what happened to the rest of her. But the authorities did discover who was driving her blue Dodge pickup truck.
  
  # George Zimmerman's lawyer has released what the defense says is a new [...]
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• News Notes From Florida -

  All they ever found of Lorraine Hatzakorzian's remains was her head. No one knows what happened to the rest of her. But the authorities did discover who was driving her blue Dodge pickup truck.
  
  # George Zimmerman's lawyer has released what the defense says is a new [...]
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• Brief Browse -

  Fans of Miami's Wacky Factor . . .
  
  will be delighted to learn that Dave Barry has a new novel making its debut called Insane City. And NPR has posted a recent interview with him.
  
  # Laura Wilson briefly reviews a clutch of crime fiction picks, [...]
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• Brief Browse -

  Fans of Miami's Wacky Factor . . .
  
  will be delighted to learn that Dave Barry has a new novel making its debut called Insane City. And NPR has posted a recent interview with him.
  
  # Laura Wilson briefly reviews a clutch of crime fiction picks, [...]
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• Chasing Media Phantoms -

  "Trust your mother, but cut the cards,"
  as the late Sidney Zion used to say . . .
  
  The story about the football player's girlfriend who turned out to be a hoax, which the Mainstream Media went along with, is a cruel story, but not more cruel than [...]
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• Trayvon Case: Backing Down (3 of 3) -

  What about this "Duty to Retreat?"
  
  "You either have the ability to defend yourself without the duty to retreat or you don't," explained Jacksonville attorney Mitch Stone.
  
  How does that premise relate to this case? I believe the State could try to take it in potentially two' [...]
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• Trayvon Case: Backing Down (2 of 3) -

  I have no interest in demonizing a juvenile minor; my point here is that there may have been overly lax supervision of a minor, which was evinced in the youngster's strange reaction to his encounter with a resident of the estate, George Zimmerman.
  
  Instead of simply explaining to Zimmerman [...]
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• Trayvon Case: Backing Down (1 of 3) -

  The Birth Mother of slain juvenile Trayvon Martin has called for the repeal of Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law. Sybrina Fulton, accompanied by a group of state legislators, appeared at a press conference in Tallahassee earlier today.
  
  The defense team for George Zimmerman has received Martin's school [...]
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• Browsing Around -

  Murder off Miami by Dennis Wheatley was originally published in 1936 and then reprinted in the 1970s. Today, it has become a collector’s item. Christopher Fowler wrote about it recently on his blog.
  
  # Anyone miss Max and Freddy, the bicker team of Cologne detectives, from the German Tatort [...]
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• New Spree Groupies -

  Serial and Spree Killers
  have attracted groupies before . . . 
  
  Such a retinue or fanbase has emerged around the accused Colorado movie theater shooter James Holmes called the Holmies, which is beginning to attract attention from the Mainstream Media.
  
  Trench Reynolds gives his picks [...]
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