What’s the harm?

At the risk of being chastised for repeating myself once too often, I’ll do it anyway. In numerous posts about the Stacey Burns murder case, I mentioned my bewilderment at the hesitancy of the police to speak with me. Notice, I did not say provide me with any...

And they . . .turned to their affairs.”

Robert Frost’s powerful poem, Out, Out, use a narrative style to tell the tragic story of a young boy who suffers a horrible farmyard accident as he is cutting wood. When the boy dies as a result of the accident, Frost ends the poem with a telling commentary on...

Enough shame to go around

Is anyone else getting tired of this? I did not know Stacey but my reasons for trying to write a book about her _______murder (I am running out of adjectives to describe it) have been documented over and over again. However, I feel a personal shame that my...

Compartmentalizing a murder

Today, I share a thought from someone whom I shall not name but it is someone I highly respect. The truth in the short statement is rather profound. Here it is: “Somewhere someone lives with the memory of murdering Stacey. I wonder who that person is and how  it...

“I will not give up on this case!”

Homicide investigators often talk about their murder book which is, in effect, a compilation of all documentation relating to a specific case. Well, I have my own murder book relating to the Stacey Burns murder case. It contains hundreds of pages of letters, notes,...

New Hampshire Cold Cases

No, the murder of Stacey Burns is not among the over 100 murder cases mentioned in a post from WMUR-TV in Manchester. I guess that should make everyone feel much better, although the list they have has not been updated since mid-2012. Perhaps in the last year and an...