The Love Affair That Rocked City Hall
He’s been divorced four times. She is 23 years his junior. But what really got the gossip going: he’s the chief of police, and she’s a tenacious TV reporter
The debate had been raging all day at the Dallas Morning News. On Wednesday, September 20, Metro columnist Sherry Jacobson had written a story for the next day’s edition breaking the news that Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle was dating CBS Channel 11 City Hall reporter and news anchor Sarah Dodd. Jacobson’s story confirmed the rumors that had been flying around City Hall and at Jack Evans police headquarters for days. Kunkle, who had filed for divorce from his fourth wife just a month prior, had been seen canoodling with Dodd at a number of Dallas hot spots. Now the