Category: Broward Sheriff’s Office
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Killer’s wife set to inherit victim’s money; “a travesty,” Broward prosector says
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
Ten years ago, killer Robert Burkell bludgeoned to death his 81-year-old tenant Charles Bertheas. The motive: money. Today, Burkell is in prison for life. But his wife Susan, who authorities say did not participate in the slaying but knew what was happening, is set to inherit the victim’s money. -
Hidden owner of ‘news’ site gave $120,000 to group that paid sheriff’s campaign manager
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
The registered owner of an online Broward “news” operation contributed over $120,000 to a political group that made payments to a firm owned by Sheriff Scott Israel’s campaign manager, Amy Rose, and to her husband. -
Miami cop jailed in trio of rapes had “dozens” of victims; city’s lawyers tell of hiring screw-ups
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
There was little public discussion last fall when Miami commissioners voted unanimously to pay $550,000 to a working mom who had been kidnapped and raped by a city police officer in his patrol car. But for 53 minutes before the vote, commissioners privately heard a disturbing earful from city lawyers -
A Pompano Beach murder mystery; a year later BSO has not cracked it
By Karla Bowsher
BrowardBulldog.org
During the first week of January 2011, Russell Walker answered his front door and was shot nine times, his body left lying face down in a pool of blood on the floor of his Pompano Beach home. The killer got a long head start on a getaway. A week would pass before anyone even knew Walker was dead.
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