Patricia Purcell walked unsteadily into Courtroom 6 in San Diego's federal courthouse. Her face sagged from too little sleep, no makeup, and tension. Supporters in the courtroom for her sentencing hearing did a double-take. The …
January 26, 1995
News & Stories
Patte and Len Purcell – 37 months in federal prison for getting caught up in the real estate market
Danny Welsh wrote March 1972 cover article in Life, “Tampering with Justice in San Diego,”
How did theSun get Cox’s interview of Wilson? ‘The Baltimore Sun reporter happened to be in town. But he knew Bob Cox and they sat down together one night just to play the tape.”
January 26, 1995
The severed head of Haydn, the boiled body of Mad Anthony Wayne
Dear M.A.: I seem to recall a few months back you discussed the sagas of the severed heads of Santa Ana, et al. I therefore naturally thought of you when I saw the enclosed, taken …
January 26, 1995
I bought four inches of Alaska from Quaker Oats
Dear Matthew Alice:Some 40-plus years ago, when I was a youngster, a major cereal company sponsored a promotion offering one square inch of free land in Alaska with each purchase of a box of their …
January 26, 1995