|  |  | |
It all started with a dead fish with a red rose in its mouth.
In 2002, freelance reporter Anita Busch had found both items on the
smashed windshield of her car along with a note that simply said,
"Stop." At the time, Busch was writing separate articles
about actor Steven Segal's involvement with the Mafia and former
super-agent and short-lived Disney president Michael Ovitz's
difficulties re-establishing himself as an agent. Busch reported the incident to the |
On my way to Bill's house, I got lost for about an hour, but
finally found the street and soon rolled up his driveway, pulling into
a parking spot near a set of horse barns. The house was quite
beautiful, nicely built, rustic, country. A blend of aromas hit me as
soon as I opened my car door: pine trees and horseshit. As
I stood for a moment, collecting my coat and brief case, I couldn't
help but recall a trip I had taken for the same book a few months
before this. It had been a bit |
"Where do you live?" I asked Bill. Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire
Come to find out, he lived in upstate New York. Great, I told myself. I live outside Hartford, Connecticut. Bill's house was a five-hour drive on a good day. I
spoke to his wife again a few days later. She told me that a friend of
the family wanted to meet me. She'd read one of my previous books. I wanted to tell her no. I just don't have the time. I have to finish the Gary Evans book. I'm on a deadline. But
before I could |
In 1978 Susan Reinert applied for an
exchange teaching position in England on the Fulbright-Hays program. In
December of that year, she also attempted to buy a life insurance
policy from the USAA Company for $500,000, naming William Bradfield as
its beneficiary. As Wambaugh wrote, "The insurance company denied her
application on the grounds that such a large policy would overinsure
her life." Reinert confided some exciting news to a
close friend in March 1979. Bill had finally asked her |
I arrived here in Cologne last Saturday. The [Neue] Rheinische Zeitung
will be appearing on 1 June. But if we are not at once to come up
against obstacles, some preliminary arrangements must be made in
London, and we are taking the liberty of entrusting these to you since
there’s nobody else there.
1. Arrange at any newsman’s for a subscription to The Telegraph (daily paper) and The Economist, weekly paper, from the time this letter arrives until 1 July. The newsman,
whose address you can |
There has recently been a very curious business here. All those
elements among the local Germans who are dissatisfied with us and what
we do have formed a coalition for the purpose of overthrowing you, me
and the communists in general, and competing with the Workers’ Society.
[158] Bornstedt
is exceedingly displeased; the story emanating from Otterberg, passed
on and confirmed by Sandkuhl and exploited by Crüger and Moras, to the
effect that we were simply exploiting him, Bornstedt, has |
Dear Marie,
Great was my joy on hearing the news that you had been blessed with
a strong, sturdy boy who bears a close resemblance to your beloved
spouse. I should have long since sent you my congratulations, having
had Mother’s notification in my pocket for almost six days now. But so
ordinary a letter of congratulation is so ordinary and ceremonious a
thing that I should have been truly ashamed to send off promptly by
return a polite, conventional communication of this kind to you, my |
|
|
|