Sweet Tea Murders

From the book “Stories of Pensacola’s Finest” available at Amazon. It was a Saturday morning. The sun was bright, the weather was comfortable, and the humidity was unusually low –

On today’s date – April 22 – in 1895, Theodore Cunningham went on trial for the murder of Mary Sellers. The scene today is a quiet street that transitions from

By Mike Simmons Newsflash – Police work is always changing. Wow, nobody knew that…of course, everyone knows that. With each new change in our culture, technology and communities, policing changes

If you drove east about ½ hour from Niagara Falls, you would find yourself in the town of Pendleton, New York, a small rural town that was established in the

From the book “Pensacola’s Finest in Pictures” Corpus Delecti. What is it? A loose translation is concrete evidence. For a homicide detective, that often means that to charge someone with

       “Oh my God!” said the shrimper as he looked into the trash bag and suddenly jerked back involuntarily. “It’s…a head. A human head. Looks like a girl, but I

RECOGNITION OF A TRUE HERO Today, Retired ECSO Deputy Bruce Harris was presented the Sheriff’s Award by Escambia County Sheriff Chip Simmons. In 2021, Deputy Harris was assigned to Investigations.