Sublime

“In some poor neighborhoods, crime became almost a way of life,”

Harvey and Rita Cooper, having recently been found in their basement shot to death. Rudy said that so far it was looking a lot like a murder-suicide, with the wife doing the honors, but that was NYPD’s problem.

“She’s the cop, right? The one I saw on TV trying to sneak out of the hospital they got you parked at? I’ve been reading about her on the Google all morning. Turns out she’s got a rather colorful past. Might be looking for a way to dull it down some by catching some big-time button from the East.” The Google. Big-time button. Rita couldn’t decide w

In the fall of 1990, the fourth and fifth of the six defendants in the Central Park attack, Kevin Richardson and Kharey Wise, went on trial. Since this particular narrative had achieved full resolution, or catharsis, with the conviction of the first three defendants, the city’s interest in the case had by then largely waned. Those “charlatans” who

Did Jonathan Gold somehow provoke this tragedy? Was he in fact counting on it?