90s Crime Time

In the summer of 1994, a young man who felt he had been wronged by his recent employer, and wasn't heard by the ones who went to for help....decided to let his voice be heard in the most heinous of ways... and when he did several lives would be shattered...

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News Sources

1. New York Times - https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/22/us/an-airman-s-revenge-5-minutes-of-terror.html

2. LA Times - https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-06-22-mn-7137-story.html

3. Lansing Stae Journal - https://www.newspapers.com/image/204288442/

4. Spokesman - https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1994/aug/13/error-kept-fairchild-gunman-uniform/
- https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2014/jun/15/in-one-week-20-years-ago-fairchild-air-force-base/
- https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1994/jun/22/spokane-mourns-dead/ 

In 1991, a ghastly finding was found floating in The St. Joseph's river in Michigan... and once the investigation into this discovery was examined, many people would be left angry and upset... and fingers would be pointed.

WARNING: This episode contains elements of alleged racism

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News Sources

1. ABC57
- https://www.abc57.com/news/the-river-the-eric-mcginnis-murder

2. WSBT- https://wsbt.com/news/local/eric-mcginnis-family-wants-more-answers

3. Herald Palladium- https://www.heraldpalladium.com/communities/benton_harbor/report-suspect-kicked-eric-mcginnis-into-st-joseph-river/article_1b8e6bea-8d5e-5185-8ab4-1e27bbdf7366.html
- https://www.newspapers.com/image/366365861/?terms=eric%20mcginnis&match=1
- https://www.newspapers.com/image/366381829/?terms=eric%20mcginnis&match=1
- https://www.heraldpalladium.com/communities/benton_harbor/report-suspect-kicked-eric-mcginnis-into-st-joseph-river/article_1b8e6bea-8d5e-5185-8ab4-1e27bbdf7366.html

4. South Bend Tribune - https://www.newspapers.com/image/518773424/ 

5. AG Report - https://newscdn2.weigelbroadcasting.com/uw0pG-1650486890-AG-report-Eric-McGinnis.pdf

6. Michigan State Police report - https://newscdn2.weigelbroadcasting.com/mI7S3-1654203975-ericmcginnis_MSP.pdf

7. Official Report - https://newscdn2.weigelbroadcasting.com/TB6G8-1540331045-ericmcginnis_BCProsecutor.pdf

8. FBI report - https://newscdn2.weigelbroadcasting.com/Odbpw-1540331076-ericmcginnis_filecloseDOJ.pdf

9. Curtis 1991 interview - https://www.woodtv.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/51/2022/05/REDACTED-Eric-McGinnis-Curtis-Pitts-interview.pdf?ipid=promo-link-block4

10. WoodTV- https://www.woodtv.com/news/target-8/the-death-of-eric-mcginnis-questions-then-questions-now/
- https://www.woodtv.com/news/michigan/teens-1991-death-ruled-a-homicide-but-suspect-dead/

In 1997, a young woman living in Queens, New York had just gotten out of a relationship... but when her ex failed to take no for an answer, and after the people she went to for help failed her.... lives would be lost.

WARNING: This episode contains elements of domestic violence
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News Sources

1. Find A Grave - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38427194/bliss-verdon
-  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/582773/rodney-calvin-dilbert 

2. Bliss’s scholarship - https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/africana-studies/_pdf/blissverdon23.pdf

3. New York Post - https://nypost.com/2002/08/09/hes-untrue-blue-disgraced-ex-cop-tells-tall-tales-in-state-senate-run/

4. Behind The Blue Wall - http://behindthebluewall.blogspot.com/2011/06/nypd-14-years-ago-today-bliss-verdons.html

5. New York Daily News - https://www.newspapers.com/image/477432654/?terms=bliss%20verdon&match=1
- https://www.newspapers.com/image/477168048/?terms=bliss%20verdon&match=1
- https://www.newspapers.com/image/477515693/?terms=bliss%20verdon&match=1
-  https://www.newspapers.com/image/392491853/?terms=bliss%20verdon&match=1
- https://www.newspapers.com/image/477431846/?terms=bliss%20verdon&match=1
- https://www.newspapers.com/image/407888781/?terms=bliss%20verdon

6. New York Times - https://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/12/nyregion/officer-subject-of-a-complaint-before-shooting.html
- https://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/07/nyregion/sergeant-is-dismissed-for-handling-of-call.html 

In a span of warm summer days in the beautiful city of Honolulu, Hawaii, one man who was down on his luck, decided to let the world know he was angry.... but when did, innocent lives would be lost....

WARNING: This episode contains elements of domestic violence

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News Sources
1. The Baltimore Siun - https://www.newspapers.com/image/375931962/?terms=Michael%20Touchette&match=1

2.Honolulu Star Bulletin- https://www.newspapers.com/image/273674377/   
- https://www.newspapers.com/image/273602130/?terms=Orlando%20Ganal&match=1
- https://archives.starbulletin.com/2003/10/26/features/index2.html

3. Find A Grave - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/95121121/michael-robert-touchette

4. Hawaii Tribune Herald - https://www.newspapers.com/image/556608558/?terms=Orlando%20Ganal&match=1

5. Orlando Inmate Info - https://vinelink.vineapps.com/person-detail/offender/23620913;tabIndexToSelect=0

6. The Honolulu Advertiser - https://www.newspapers.com/image/264960771/?terms=Orlando%20Ganal
- https://www.newspapers.com/image/266865356/?terms=Michael%20Touchette
- https://www.newspapers.com/image/265103405/
- https://www.newspapers.com/image/266862550/?terms=Michael%20Touchette&match=1
- https://www.newspapers.com/image/264971096/?terms=Michael%20Touchette&match=1
- https://www.newspapers.com/image/265039759/?terms=Orlando%20Ganal
- https://www.newspapers.com/image/265055753/?terms=Orlando%20Ganal
- https://www.newspapers.com/image/265073444/?terms=Orlando%20Ganal&match=1
- https://www.newspapers.com/image/265056973/?terms=david%20touchette 

In 1993, a bright and beautiful newly formed soldier was trying to make her country proud, before she went on to more great things... however, on a warm summer night that year, a monster lurking in her barracks had so much hatred for her in a split second... that her life would end viciously, and would make her fellow soldiers and loved ones wonder, how this could happen, when she wasn't even in combat.

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News Sources
1. People Magazine - https://people.com/archive/death-in-the-barracks-vol-40-no-19/
2. Arlington National Cemetery - https://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/lbryan.htm
3. Jet Magazine - https://books.google.com/books?id=5ccDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&dq=Sgt.+1st+Class+Ervin+Graves&source=bl&ots=1k3X1niXeU&sig=ACfU3U310242ZiS81UZFl0in1minHn9Amw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjdlbL0gtToAhVSC6wKHStXD184ChDoATACegQICxAn#v=onepage&q=Sgt.%201st%20Class%20Ervin%20Graves&f=false
4. LA Times - https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-07-23-mn-18819-story.html
5. The News and Observer - https://www.newspapers.com/image/656389520/?terms=Sgt.%201st%20Class%20Ervin%20Graves&match=1
- https://www.fayobserver.com/story/news/2013/03/17/delta-sigma-theta-members-come/22147539007/
6. Case Law - https://cite.case.law/mj/47/632/
7. Find a Grave - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6294875/lisa-nicole-bryant
8. Washington Post - https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1993/07/16/from-princeton-honors-to-the-path-of-a-bullet/aee83959-36e6-49b6-b292-fce26c58c6f2/
9. New York Times - https://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/23/us/families-grasp-for-answers-as-army-murder-trial-ends.html
- https://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/18/us/divided-by-shared-grief-slaying-shatters-two-proud-army-families.html
- https://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/17/us/a-bright-and-shining-future-is-laid-to-rest-at-arlington.html