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Item Details
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DEAD BEFORE DEADLINE
... AND OTHER TALES FROM THE POLICE BEAT |
| By: |
Robin Yocum |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£12.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1931968152 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781931968157 |
| Publisher: |
THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 May, 2004 |
| Pages: |
290 |
| Synopsis: |
During the four-plus years that Robin Yocum was the police reporter for the Columbus Dispatch, he covered over 1,000 deaths. Some were flukes; some were deserved. He interviewed decorated cops and transvestites, pimps, prostitutes, and pushers, killers, and child molesters. He went on drug, porn, and moonshine raids. He waded through cornfields looking for missing planes and children, a county landfill in a vain search for child pornography, through a squalid home with knee-high trash and a flooded basement where a family of ducks had taken up residence. He ruined so many slacks and shoes that he began wearing Sansabelt and cowboy boots because he needed something he could hose off at the end of his shift. This book chronicles Yocum's years on the police beat for the Dispatch. The tales are sometimes sad, and sometimes funny, and sometimes in odd combination of both. Yocum takes the reader into the life behind the pyline and into the gritty world of crime reporting. It is not a rehash of old headlines, but Yocum explores his interactions with people who made headlines for all the wrong reasons.He tells of a prison interview with a 17-year-old who had murdered both parents; recounts the words of a mother who lost her son to senseless violence; and details a grieving father's plan to kill his former son-in-law. The police beat is not without its humour, and Yocum captures the personalities of the oddball set of characters. Yocum has woven together these vignettes into a compelling book that will fascinate and enthral readers. |
| US Grade: |
College Freshman and over |
| Illustrations: |
b/w photos |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
The University of Akron Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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