Category: Crime
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A Miami police informant, a prophetic racist and fresh questions about JFK’s death
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
At 94, former Miami Beach mayor and still active Miami-Dade Senior Judge Seymour Gelber is among the few who remember Miami police informant No. 88, Willie Augustus Somersett. Somersett has been dead 43 years. But in the half-century of assassination lore that’s grown up around the murder of President John F. Kennedy, Somersett has attained a kind of immortality as the man who heard about it first. -
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. -
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TD Bank accused of altering evidence by victim of Scott Rothstein’s Ponzi scheme
By Brian Kindle
Special to BrowardBulldog.org
TD Bank lost a $67 million jury verdict in January in a case related to the notorious Fort Lauderdale lawyer and swindler Scott Rothstein. Now, the Canadian-owned bank is accused of withholding evidence during the 70-day trial. -
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. -
Reality TV show case leads to disclosure of countywide roster of cops in trouble with the law
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
An investigation involving a Broward Sheriff’s Office reality TV show has led to the release of a state attorney’s list of 137 police officers and deputies whose testimony may be suspect because of their troubles with the law.
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