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Famed Author Steven Long Live This Saturday 2pmPT/5pm ET on True Crime Uncensored

Listen LIVE Saturday June 9th 2pm PT/5pm ET  10 PM England via OUTLAW RADIO by clicking this link.

 June 9th -- STEVEN LONG 

Steven Long is a triple threat. He is an editor, journalist, and humanitarian most famous for his books on some of the most sensational true crime events in the nation. He has spent more than 2,000 hours in the courtroom, more time than most practicing lawyers spend there in a lifetime. He has covered some of the most important cases of the last two decades. Few can capture the drama of lawyer vs. lawyer quite like him. 

 
Now he takes his immense talent for narrative to the pages of fiction with his new novel Ruby’s Passing, a worthy successor to his bestsellers, Death Without Dignity, Out of Control, and Every Woman’s Nightmare.

 
Long began his career in radio but quickly moved to print. For most of 11 years, he served as editor and publisher of Galveston’s In Between Magazine, an award-winning alternative weekly famed for its gritty investigative work. His first freelance piece appeared in the respected Texas Observer.
In the 1982 Texas election for governor, Steven Long asked the incumbent, Bill Clements, a question that changed the state’s history. “Would you appoint a consumer, for example, a housewife, to the Texas Public Utilities Commission?” The governor blundered and answered, “There isn’t a housewife in Texas qualified to serve on the PUC.” He lost the election. 

After closing In Between, Steven Long carved out a career as a feature writer with the Houston Chronicle. One article resulted in the indictment, conviction and disbarment of the late Houston adoption lawyer Leslie Thacker for buying and selling crack babies in several Texas county jails.

Another series of investigative stories ultimately resulted in the indictment and conviction of the head librarian of the oldest medical school west of the Mississippi for stealing rare and historic medical texts, some dating to the sixteenth century. He exposed the Texas prison system’s wholesale practice of allowing the use of inmates as subjects for medical residents to hone their skills in cosmetic surgery at a state teaching hospital.

Steven Long covered the Andrea Yates murder case for the New York Post from the scene to conviction. For the same paper, he found rogue CEO Ken Lay who hid for ten days when the Enron scandal broke. He covered the lengthy and complex trial of the Arthur Andersen accounting firm for Agence France Presse, as well as Crain’s Chicago Business.  

An avid horseman, he has been a contributor to Western Horseman magazine. He secured one of the last, if not the final interview with the late actor Tony Curtis for Cowboys and Indians gazine 

Steven Long is currently writing the prequel to Ruby’s Passing. It too is set in the storied badlands of Texas’ Big Bend country. The working title of the book is Sauceda.
Steven and Vicki Long, a fiction writer, live in Houston, Texas. He serves as Vice President of The Greater Houston Horse Council. The two own Horseback Magazine and Horseback Online, the nation’s leading online newspaper covering the equine world.

 

Then...June 16th -- Let's get some hookers in the S.F. Tenderloin with Jeri Estes....she ran away from her normal home life in the San Fernando Valley and wound up working the street, her hips, lips and tuchas as a metrosexual entertainment expert -- (ie lezbionic hookerette). Her book Stilletos and Steel tells all! 

         

Framed for Murder-- SCAPEGOAT! Live this Saturday 2pm PT/5pm ET

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Scapegoat :  Chino Hills Murders and the Framing of Kevin Cooper

Kevin Cooper was convicted of the brutal murders of a Chino Hills, California family and a young houseguest in 1985 and has been on death row at San Quentin ever since. In his new explosive expose,SCAPEGOAT, investigative journalist J. Patrick O’Connor reveals how the sheriff’s office and the district attorney’s office of San Bernardino County framed Cooper for these horrific murders.

Two days before the murders of Doug and Peggy Ryen, their 10-year-old daughter, Jessica, and 11-year-old Christopher Hughes, Cooper escaped from a nearby prison and holed up in a vacant house 125 yards below the murdered family’s hilltop house. Two days after the San Bernardino sheriff’s department established that Cooper had been hiding there, it locked in on him as the lone assailant despite numerous eye witness reports that implicated three, young white men as the perpetrators.

From that day forward, four days after the murders were discovered, the sheriff’s department discarded information that pointed at other perpetrators, destroyed evidence that exculpated Cooper, and planted evidence that implicated him.

“The justice system has failed him at almost every turn in his long, drawn-out appeal process” O’Connor said “If it were not for a court-ordered moratorium on executions in California over the lethal injection controversy, Cooper – with no appeals remaining – would have been executed by now.” The moratorium is expected to remain in place until at least the beginning of 2013.

SCAPEGOAT provides a rare direct examination of the broken justice system in the United States where homicide detectives and district attorneys all too often become blinded by their goal of winning convictions rather than searching for justice for both the victims and the accused. The Kevin Cooper case, as Judge William Fletcher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, is a prime example of justice gone begging.

At Gonzaga University School of Law on April 12, 2010, Judge Fletcher delivered a lecture on the subject of the death penalty, in which he said that the problems with the administration of the death penalty are widespread. To illustrate he cited the Kevin Cooper case, stating “The case I am about to describe is horrible in many ways. The murders were horrible. Kevin Cooper, the man now sitting on death row, may well be – and in my view probably is – innocent. And he is on death row because the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department framed him.”

The miscarriage of justice means Kevin Cooper has now spent half of his life on death row for a crime he had nothing to do with. He will be scheduled to die by lethal injection once executions are allowed to resume in California. He is, in a word, a scapegoat.

Pre-publication praise for SCAPEGOAT has been enthusiastic:

Noelle Hanrahan, investigative reporter and director of Prison Radio said, “O’Connor focuses on critical crime scene details that illuminate a grisly murder scene (reminiscent of In Cold Blood) while exposing the epic cover-up that lands a man on death row. Read this gripping tale of how small town cops bury justice, and the courts conspire to bury the truth.

Don Fulsom, former UPI White House reporter and the author of Nixon’s Greatest Secretssaid, “Pat O’Connor combines meticulous research, sound logic and judicial passion to convincingly claim that death row inmate Kevin Cooper was framed for the vicious 1985 quadruple homicide in Southern California known as the Chino Hill murders. I was glued to every page of this riveting book.”

Win Wahrer, director of The Association in Defense of the Wrongfully Convicted:  “A riveting and disturbing account of Kevin Cooper’s long, continuing and painful journey to unveil the truth to prove his innocence.   It is a testament to the human spirit and the unwillingness to give up the good fight. A horrific, all too true story about how easy it is to be convicted and sent to death row largely due to the disregard the criminal justice system can have of an individual’s basic rights.”

John Edginton, Director, “Mumia Abu Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt?” “Pat O’Connor has written a classic of investigative journalism. His book makes a hugely compelling case for a major miscarriage of justice. The case reeks of doubt , appalling police work, racial profiling . It is a terrible chronicle of how innocence can be so cruelly denied in the justice system of the United States .”

MAY 26th: Mickey Sherman returns!

Mickey Sherman & Max Cannon May 26th -- Yes, two guests on one show!

 2pm PT/5pm ET

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 MAY 26th   From before the bar to behind bars and back again ...MICKEY SHERMAN!!
Mickey is super-cool, very funny and got a little caught up in the  fast lane -- he overlooked about $1.2 million in taxes he owed Uncle Sam. OOOPS! Well, it probably wasn't so much being in the slammer for a year that was unpleasant -- but being without his Ipad was a real bummer.  

He's back practicing law and polishing his legend. Mickey Sherman returns to True Crime Uncensored Saturday the 26th 2pm PT/5pm Et.  As Mickey says, "I have a very high bar for embarrasment."  He's proved that in court, in public, and (so we hear) in private.  We love Mickey, and who can blame us? 

Then, at 2:30 PT/ 5:30 ET is Max Cannon from Crimepays.tv

MAX CANNON offers rewards..BIG BUCKS..for solving crimes!  For example: $150,000 RewardThe beautiful, shiny, loving Morgan Dana Harrington was a true original. She brought much joy and fun to family and friends for 20 years. Her light and potential were extinguished when she was abducted from a Metallica concert 10/17/09 in Charlottesville Virginia.Morgan was born on July 24, 1989 in Charlottesville, Virginia and killed there in October 2009.

ROGUE MOBSTER -- INSIDE THE BOSTON MOB WARS

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When the infamous gangster Whitey Bulger went on the lam in 1995, the streets of Boston became a war zone between the Mafia and the renegades, with the Winter Hill Gang looking on. Co-written by Mark Silverman with Scott Deitche, Rogue Mobster: The Untold Story of Mark Silverman and the New England Mafia chronicles the inside story of the Boston mob wars of the 1990’s when over two dozen gangsters were killed in a vicious war for control of the Boston underworld. Rogue Mobster is told in the words of Mark Silverman, an outsider from Medford who got inside the mob and became an integral part of the ensuing war. His account is the first-ever inside glimpse into what went on at the street level, why people were killed, and what the stakes were. Silverman grew up in the shadow of Whitey Bulger, Howie Winter, Raymond Patriarca and Jerry Anguilo, bosses of Boston’s most infamous crime families. With a Jewish last name, his opportunities should have been limited in Boston’s Irish/Italian underworld, but he moved up quickly, gaining acceptance across the board. Silverman was ‘made’ in the Patriarca Family as a reward for infiltrating a renegade mob faction backed by a New York family. The book begins with a unique history of the Boston gangland scene and takes the reader up to the late 1980’s, when a change in the Patriarca crime family leadership started a war between the loyalists to the regime and a renegade faction, backed by the Luchesse crime family of New York. Characters like Whitey Bulger, Mafia boss Cadillac Frank Salemme, and renegade boss Paul DeCologero became major players in the complex mob scene. Silverman recounts the shifting alliances and friendships that were torn apart as the various mob factions battled for control of the Boston underworld through the early 2000’s. Rogue Mobster is a firsthand account of the violent Boston mob wars of the 1990s, when bodies were piling up across New England and Mark Silverman was walking a tightrope between Winter Hill and the Mafia.

HEAD SHOT Burl Barer Gets Interviewed Saturday June 2nd! Jeri Estes June 9th!

Listen LIVE Saturday June 2nd 2pm PT/5pm ET  10 PM England via OUTLAW RADIO by clicking this link.

Edgar Award winning author Burl Barer is a guest on his own show as his co-hosts put him in the hot seat about the new 2012 edition of his highly praised true crime classic, HEAD SHOT. 

  This picture of Robert Plant with Burl Barer has nothing to do with the book or the show, but it's a cool picture, and Burl was as high as an elephant's eye when it was taken, and he probably wishes he was back in his wayward youth hanging out with rock stars! Wait, he still hangs out with rock stars.

 James Kottak of the Scorpions is a rock star. Honest! 

But we digress.

This should be a really cool show. Buy the book. Listen to the interview.

Then...June 9th -- Let's get some hookers in the S.F. Tenderloin with Jeri Estes....she ran away from her normal home life in the San Fernando Valley and wound up working the street, her hips, lips and tuchas as a metrosexual entertainment expert -- (ie lezbionic hookerette). Her book Stilletos and Steel tells all!