Blogtober 2023 Murphy escorted Carl to the sheriff's office first-aid station to clean up the cut on his head. The offices sat on the...

Blogtober 2023 Carl had settled down considerably once he was deposited in the back of the police cruiser, a ride he was quite familiar...

Blogtober 2023 Carl, blood from his scalp running down his face like war paint, turned and punched his assailant three times in the face....

Blogtober 2023 The man emerged from the shadows with the mad confidence and utter certainty that only the highly inebriated can muster,...

Blogtober 2023 To call the Twelve-Point Tavern a dive bar embellished the reality of its depressing seediness to absurd hyperbole. It was...

Blogtober 2023 Clarkton picked Murphy up from the deputy’s house the next morning. As he stepped onto his front porch, a large...

Blogtober 2023 “That’s not possible,” Clarkton said. “Someone didn’t roll up and replace his blood with Pennzoil.” “It’s not oil, either,...

Blogtober 2023 Within the next hour, the narrow county road was reduced to one lane as a variety of emergency vehicles arrived for their...

Blogtober 2023 “Is that Iron Mike?” Murphy asked. “Looks like him,” Clarkton said, “but he’s not trying to bite our hands off.” Iron Mike...

Blogtober 2023 “Joe Don” was Joseph Donwell Clarkton, head of the County Crime Lab. The youngest homicide detective in the history of the...

Blogtober 2023 Deputy Doug Murphy found the 1991 Ford F-150 three miles down County Road 675, a location that the few residents of Butler...