March 22nd, 2010

What kind of sadness would drive someone to shoot themselves in the head? I understand deep despair, but shooting yourself in the head?. The resolve it takes to go through with that act is extraordinary. Maybe that’s why I lean towards the death of the comedy writer I’m helping to investigate as murder. I will receive ALL of her unpublished work, journals, etc. later this week. I’m off to Montana tomorrow to the Little Big Horn. I’m looking forward to the trip and the information I can glean about Elizabeth Custer. On this day in 1882 -Wyatt Earp and friends gunned down Florentino Cruz at Pete Spence’s wood lot outside tombstone. Cruz was innocent of any participation in the attacks on the Earp family. Pete Spence and Indian Charlie were the men that the Earp posse were looking for, but they weren’t at the wood lot. The Earp Posse just killed Florentino because he was handy.