An award-winning documentary about sexual assault in the military touches on Ohio Rep. Mike Turner’s crusade for such since the death of Maria Lauterbach, who was originally from his district. Turner. From The Dayton Daily News website. Read the news.

Swansboro police arrested John L. Giltz, who turned 66 Thursday. He is charged with murder in the shooting death of 50-year-old Suzy Zemlick. Read the news. – Mike McHugh, Daily News columnist and master researcher, liked this otherwise sad case because Giltz and Zemlick are a whole lot easier to track down on the Web [...]

UPDATE: INVESTIGATORS SAY MATTHEW ZEMLICK IS NOT A SUSPECT IN HIS WIFE’S DEATH. MATTHEW ZEMLICK DOES HAVE RESTRAINING ORDERS ON FILE AT THE ONSLOW COUNTY COURTHOUSE. Read the latest news in the case. —————————— Details are beginning to emerge from the Monday shooting in Swansboro Heights involving a resident of S. Dogwood Lane. The Daily [...]

Police are tight lipped on Monday’s homicide in Swansboro. Read the news here. Mike McHugh and I bounced some information around and here’s what we came up with: The address where crime scene investigators were working Monday is rented by John and Helen Giltz. I dialed their number in the phone book with the South [...]

Due to several requests, I am posting this letter here so that more people can read it without having to befriend me on FaceBook. I will be asking commissioners about this letter, interviewing the sheriff and continuing to gather information this week about the current situation at the Sheriff’s Office. —————————————————— Commissioner W.C. Jarman, Chairman [...]

An unpublished opinion of the North Carolina Court of Appeals does not constitute controlling legal authority. Citation is disfavored, but may be permitted in accordance with the provisions of Rule 30(e)(3) of the North Carolina Rules of Appellate Procedure. NO. COA11-912 NORTH CAROLINA COURT OF APPEALS Filed: 17 January 2012 Cherokee County No. 10-CVS-561 SEAN [...]

YES. I am aware a high-ranking deputy sheriff was fired last week. YES. I am aware the sheriff collected deputies’ phones back in December. NO. I don’t know whether the two have any correlation whatsoever. Everybody wants me to write about the malaise at the Sheriff’s Office, but no one wants to go on the [...]

Michael Ward – the guy who gives new meaning to being popped in the can – will most likely be shipped back to Georgia as soon as possible. Detectives – who say they still strongly believe Ward smuggled a handgun into the Onslow County Jail  in his ass – say they’d like to just see [...]

While I want to see the autopsy report before saying for sure, SSgt. Senn’s death sure sounds like drunken head trauma syndrome. I wrote about that in 2007. It is a decent report on the phenomenon. Read that report here. Best quote ever: “I’ve seen plenty of dead drunks who died in wrecks.” – Dr. [...]

Michael Ward is suspected of having a gun in his rectum when he was booked into the Onslow County Jail. Read the news. Read the official press release from the Sheriff’s Office. It seems besides having a suspected ability for really packing it in, Ward has a proclivity for making up identities. He is charged [...]

A Southwest man remains in jail after being charged in a drunk driving crash that killed two friends and injured his brother and fiancee. The decedents were not wearing seatbelts. Read the news. Also check out this well-done video by WCTI12 that shows the group at the pool hall moments before their fatal ride. There [...]

Daily News content editor Amanda Hickey sent me this link to share on the blog. This 17-year-old Hendersonville girl was charged with leaving her baby in the trash. We had a similar case here a few years ago. Looking for more information, I searched the web using the words “”baby” and “trash.” It is depressing [...]

I have compiled what I believe to the 10 most captivating local crime stories of the last year. These are the crime stories that got our readership talking. No. 1: “JHW-018.” The popularity of spice and bath salts hit the tipping point in 2010 as military members substituted the synthetic for marijuana since it left [...]

I have compiled what I believe to the 10 most captivating local crime stories of the last year. These are the crime stories that got our readership talking. No. 2: “No reasonable jury.” Sentenced in May 2010 to life in prison in the Sept. 16, 1972, shooting death of Marine Sgt. Bill Miller, retired Marine [...]

I have compiled what I believe to the 10 most captivating local crime stories of the last year. These are the crime stories that got our readership talking. No. 3: “Pasquotank.” Although convicted murderer Cesar Laurean spent all of 2011 locked up in a state prison 150 miles from Jacksonville, his infamous crime continued to [...]