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Caitlin Rother did not set out to become a true-crime writer. But if you look back at the San Diego author’s life, the clues were there all along.
When she was a general-assignment reporter for the Berkshire Eagle and the Springfield Union-News in western Massachusetts in the late 1980s, Rother spent her spare time reading about sensational murder cases and devious criminals in New York magazine.
From 1993 until 2006, Rother was a reporter at The San Diego Union-Tribune, where she ended up writing some memorable stories involving bizarre deaths. Like the case of Steven Jean Hoover, a 50-year-old computer programmer who starved himself to death in his Clairemont condominium in 1995.
Keeping Score: Hot stove digest
Published: 2/19/2021 5:57:38 PM
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On a cold February day in 1964, Bob Kieras paid 69 cents for a No. 457 Scrap Book, took it home and started clipping spring training stories out of the Springfield Union.
Kieras found it while he was cleaning out the attic and put it in the mail. “I turned 12 in July that year, and my passion for the Red Sox was so great, we rooted for them no matter how bad they were.”
They were bad for many years, but we didn’t know how good we had it until the advent of $100 ticket prices.
Pakistan court frees four men convicted in beheading death of journalist Daniel Pearl
Updated Jan 28, 2021;
Posted Jan 28, 2021
Daniel Pearl, 38, was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, who was kidnapped and beheaded in 2002 by terrorists in Pakistan.
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Pakistan’s highest court ruled Thursday that four men convicted of kidnapping and murdering American journalist Daniel Pearl should be set free.
Pearl, who was working for The Wall Street Journal at the time of the kidnapping, had ties to Western Massachusetts, including stints at the North Adams Transcript, Berkshire Eagle and the then Springfield Union-News in the late 1980s. Pearl, 38, was reporting on Richard Reid, the British terrorist known as the “shoe bomber,” when he was kidnapped in Pakinstan’s Sindh province in 2002.
Starting a teaching career in New York City in 1986 wasn’t exactly an ideal time or venue, but that’s when and where it happened for me. While my classmates were going to work on Wall Street, I was student-teaching at Martin Luther King High School on.