THOUGHTS OF A POET IN THE RAIN

Tag: true crime

• COMMENTS AND FOLLOWS 9/3/2017 A

  Posted at 8:19 am by Gordon, on September 3, 2017

  
  

  MovieBabble, thanks for the follow. A reviewer of movies at

  https://moviebabblereviews.com/2017/08/06/worst-movies-of-july-2017/

  very interesting commentary there.

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  Here is an interesting place by Juansen https://lonelyblueboy.wordpress.com/2017/08/04/my-experience-in-a-mental-health-facility/

  Very forceful, passionate, and open. Wow. Juansen, I know depression and I know it can easily kill a person. Thanks for sharing. Powerful.

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  https://charlesfrenchonwordsreadingandwriting.wordpress.com/2017/08/13/it-can-happen-here-a-lesson-from-charlottesville-virginia/

  Charles, I was not aware of Sinclair Lewis’s book “It Can’t Happen Here” so thanks I will have to get it and read it. And thanks for liking my post.

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  Four more that you should look at if you haven’t already. Very interesting, from the heart and soul of these writers. Well worth the time to visit and maybe follow. I am using links only because of time needs and not because of any other reason. GO and ENJOY these are places of fresh air!

  https://dandougblog.wordpress.com/2017/08/03/private-political-journals-vol-1/

  The Second Coming

  https://thesarahdoughty.wordpress.com/2017/08/12/pennies-2/

  https://franksolanki.wordpress.com/2017/06/25/%e2%80%8bpretty-lady/

   

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• CONTACTS 09.01.2017 A

  Posted at 11:28 am by Gordon, on September 1, 2017

  
  

  More contacts.

  Harsh Reality wrote that like my comment on “Life.” And, I did and do like it. Harsh Reality is also known as Opinion Man. He is someone who really puts a lot of thought into what he is writing and has a huge following.

  https://aopinionatedman.com/2017/08/16/life-5/?c=451612#comment-451612

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  MakeItUltra is another site worth visiting. The author speaks on therapy, narcissism, and narcissistic abuse. That can be found at https://makeitultrapsychology.wordpress.com/2017/08/10/5-signs-you-havent-fully-healed-from-narcissistic-abuse/

  There he  offers 5 signs about narcissistic abuse. Very interesting.

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  Man of Many Thoughts is another that I have commented on and is well worth a journey to his blog to see what he is writing about. Guaranteed he can set up a scenario  that will generate a lot conversations. https://keithgarrettpoetry.com/2017/08/18/dismantling-of-america/

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  Then there is this delightful blog BlueFishh. The author welcomes you warmly and explains what she is all about in a few simple paragraphs. The blog used to be call Economix.

  https://bluefishh.wordpress.com/about/?blogsub=confirming#blog_subscription-3

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  If I could… (Friday Night Poetry Corner #142)

  You have to visit this location. Seriously. The art work is interesting in itself, a bit confusing at first, but draws the artist/poet/searchers/etc (etc is a pretty big area) right in. So go, read.

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  Lakshmi Padmanaban is an Indian girl who …. well, you can read about her at

  https://thethoughtfulrants.wordpress.com/about/

  if I tell you anything it will spoil the adventure of going and reading her blog. So, go, now. Just do it.

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  jade0207  ah, this one is an area for ladies.

  https://being1nsane.wordpress.com/2017/08/01/why-we-desperately-need-girl-friendships-in-todays-times/

  164 bloggers like that page!!!!!!

  Personally I have always had more girl relationships than male relationships. I guess I just like women more than men and, as far as my mom and dad were concerned, that was and is a good thing.  Women are just so incredible, love everyone I ever met.

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  Later more on Delmer Smith and the victims whose blood he shed.

   

   

   

   

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• New followers or those making comments.

  Posted at 8:27 am by Gordon, on August 30, 2017

  
  

  Just wanted to take a moment and say thanks for those who have opted to follow or who have commented on my blog. THANK YOU. I appreciate your comments and the fact that you have taken the time to follow me. You are welcome here and I hope that I hear from you.

  Poetryfest   visit https://festivalforpoetry.com/

  https://lifetrapblog.wordpress.com/

  https://en.gravatar.com/navneetkumarblog

  https://poetscornerblog.wordpress.com/2017/08/16/poem-of-the-day-balls-over/?c=51733#comment-51733

  Sherry Zendel

  and https://easysays.com/2017/08/10/our-home/

   

   

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• truth slain and random thoughts over ice cream 8.14.17

  Posted at 12:28 am by Gordon, on August 14, 2017

  
  

  Truth Slain on a TV Stand

  The morning bell was met head-on
  And each child followed the trail as winter won
  To where truth then was set upon and promptly slain
  For sadly truth had gathered thinking it safe
  As if fearing safety it mattered simply not
  The rot that had grown up in Webster’s lot
  While all about the dreamer’s world came that
  A web of cotton thread all wound about
  That hid the learned from the learning there
  With great gashes to the bone through grisly hair
  I watched as torment swept up the path
  To claim that which was left of the day
  Coiled in self-incriminating powered doubt
  For none was there with whom to share
  And none was there to take the classic dare
  But, instead, the gentle waves of sympathy rose
  To climb aboard the train of memories
  Before the closing bell had rung and
  Students filled with nonsense about the world around
  Ran home to watch Kukla, Fran, and Ollie
  On the small black and white TV screen
  That had come to land in a place of pride
  An altar of electronic marvel to stun the world
  The twisting movement about of rabbit ears
  The frantic swirling the antenna about
  In hopes to get the camera shot
  Before the ending of the show
  In search of the spot, the spot, the spot to find
  To make the frazzled snow look more real
  Where Lucy, Desi, Ethel and Fred would be
  Along with an accordion player had earlier graced the day
  Making life appear as easy without pain or torment
  They lied, the lied, they spun and twisted the thin posts
  And they lied, they lied, while we ate cold beans in a pouring rain
  While children we ate Tomato Soup with thick buttered white bread
  Prophesied to help us in at least 8 ways
  Enriched (we found was putting back that removed) for us
  Only to be told so many years later that
  White bread will kill you as it brings on the fat
  And that Lucy and Dezi, Ethel and Fred
  Didn’t get along, but we never knew and so
  We twisted those damn antennas round and round
  Until we found the spot, the spot, the damned spot
  And certain ghost like creatures appeared in scattered form
  Focused on the glass screen as if the world was somehow going right
  While war was off in a foreign land
  And so we searched for the spot, the spot, the spot. 8.13.2017

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• GOODREADS BOOK GIVEAWAY

  Posted at 8:43 am by Gordon, on February 6, 2017

  
  

  Goodreads has a contest running on my book Do You Know How To Fly which is a true crime novel. It is the first of two books about a career criminal who came to the Tampa Bay area after being placed on parole for bank robbery and sentenced to 15 1/2 years in Federal prison.

  Shortly after his arrival here he dumped the woman who married him sight unseen while he was in prison and who helped his being released from prison and moved in with a woman much younger. Shortly after that he began a series of robberies, assaults, and home invasions. It ended with his capture after a bar fight but too late for the murder of a local doctor’s wife. Sadly had the FBI’s CODIS program for DNA been up to date he would have been stopped months prior before two local women (one the doctor’s wife) was brutally murdered.

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• PREDATOR: The Man Who Didn’t Exist, The Woman in a Pink Top

  Posted at 9:50 pm by Gordon, on December 22, 2016

  
  

  So here I sit with the majority of Book Two done and I am procrastinating. Call it what you will, but I just can’t seem to get myself going. I am within reach of being done with Book Two and I just can’t seem to push myself over the edge. Maybe it is a case of fear. Yes, fear.

  I have been working on this for 6 1/2 years and to let go of my baby, so to speak, is frightening. Not only that but is it a good book or is it shit?  I don’t know. I feel it is a good book but at the same time I am concerned that the author, me, is just delusional. That happens to everyone I think that has created something and who has this ache in their hearts to be looked upon as an artist, relevant for the current times and yet building a legacy for others to look up at and marvel at the work done so far.

  So, anyway, I met with retired Sheriff’s Detective Ned Foy who solved the Briles’ murder case and had coffee with him. I gave him a copy of Book One and he said he is excited to read it. He is also looking forward to Book Two.

  Now the pressure is on. Actually it had already started this morning at breakfast when Sherry Call Roberts walked up to me and poked me in the stomach asking how close I was to finishing  Book Two .  Of course she was being playful but the point was simply this: get going and get finished and stop  procrastinating. It is easy to fall into that trap. So I am grateful to Sherry and to Ned and to everyone who is bugging the hell out of me to finish the book.  It needs to get done.

  The other nice thing, and I mean that really, is that Ned told me that he would join the readers I have now and review Book Two. After all, he is the main man on that. It was his case to solve and he did. He can provide me with even more insight than I have now. He’s excited. I’m excited. And, I know that everyone else will be excited too as we all move forward with this. I know I am not alone.

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• Tuesday 12/13/16 update to file

  Posted at 8:11 am by Gordon, on December 13, 2016

  
  

  Working still on http://www.authorgordonkuhn.com  frustrated with trying to understand how to put a website together to market books. I think it is coming together slowly. I have a store front. There are four books displayed. Not sure how it looks to someone looking for a book to read. Interested in comments. Thanks. Gordon.

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• PREDATOR: The Man Who Didn’t Exist; Book One; Do You Know How To Fly?

  Posted at 5:38 pm by Gordon, on September 11, 2016

  
  

  Do You Know How to Fly? is now on Kindle.

  This is a true crime book. It took me six years to write this book. Book number two will be out soon in paperback and on Kindle through Amazon.

  The book is about a man on death row in Florida. He is a career criminal whose life in crime started as a youth. His first conviction occurred when only 14 for the rape of a woman who was in her 30s at a car wash. He would have murdered his victim but she managed to get away. He later was arrested as an adult at age 18 for home invasion robbery and spent another 18 months in jail.

  After that he was arrested for bank robbery and spent 15 1/2 years in prison. Following being married to a woman he had never met, he was granted parole and he came to Florida and continued his life in crime here. He assaulted mainly older women who lived alone. He is a suspect in one murder in Sarasota County and was convicted in another in Manatee County. I spent six years working on two books. The first book is Do You Know How to Fly. The second will be titled: The Woman in a Pink Top.

  These books will be available through Amazon and Barnes and Noble and all other book stores. But, Do You Know how to Fly is the first and you can now download through Kindle for $3.00. You can order paperback copies through the locations listed above or by contacting me for an autographed copy.

  You may also get an eAutograph on Kindle by requesting it.

  I hope you enjoy my books as much as I enjoyed writing them for you.

  Best to you,

  Gordon Kuhn

   

   

   

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• FRIENDSHIPS, WONDERS, BAGPIPES, AND WHO’S ON FIRST

  Posted at 10:19 pm by Gordon, on August 25, 2016

  
  

  A friend called and asked Jan and I out to dinner. It was fun. Jan and I have not seen them in a long time.

  Jean and Mike! We went to a Mexican restaurant locally (like where else would we go? oh, just thought we’d pop off in a commercial jet and wing our way to California…God help us…and get Mexican fast food) where we had eaten before. Personally I think it is all made up and kept in the fridge (a lot of restaurants do that) and just pop it in the micro when someone comes along and orders it. Anyway, it was good. I brought home my leftovers in a foam type package and we left it on the table inside the front door. Bet you are wondering where it is tonight and no I didn’t eat it.

  Anyway, it was a surprise and welcome one but I am a bit of an anti-social person and I hate crowds and I always feel uncomfortable in such situations. (This morning I met with a group of fellow vets and they sang happy birthday to me. Yep. Pure torture.) On the one hand I want and welcome the attention and on the other it is like telling me that I just walked through a patch of poison ivy. I think that is part of my self-destructive nature like forgetting it was my month to buy donuts for my vet group because it was my birthday month…..hey, why doesn’t the group by the donuts for the person having the birthday and not the reverse.

  I would think that is the way it should be, but I guess it all works out in the end. One of the vets there this morning was in a unit in Vietnam that suffered the most casualties of the war. In one engagement they had over 300 casualties. I find it amazing to be in the company of such men as he.

  In other interesting news facts, I came across a veterans art studio in St. Petersburg. They are doing an open house on September 16. There is to be a band there, other artists, and me. I’ve been invited to do a book signing. So now the mad rush is on to complete and print the first of two books in a series regarding a true crime event. I managed to get a cover done for the book. It only took me three days. I only lost 12 versions of the artwork to the monster hiding in my computer that probably ate the damn things. When I reported my problems to the software manager/owner/developer I was informed that no one ever from the time that God made Adam had ever reported having any difficulty with their software. I guess, in a way, that was a polite way of being told, “you’re stupid.”

   

   

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• PREDATOR (Forward & The cast) 12.14.15

  Posted at 7:56 am by Gordon, on December 14, 2015

  
  

  FORWARD CONTINUED:

  A short-lived smile touched her lips. Her voice lowered, softened. She lit a cigarette, busying her fingers, took a deep draw on it, then blew the first exhale up and away from my direction. “My friends,” she inhaled again. “My family,” she said quietly, more to herself than to me. Her eyes were still looking down and with the palm of her free hand she absent mindedly smoothed her dress. “It was like, you know, I was at fault for some reason. I was the guilty one. That is what they wanted to know.” She took a sip of her tea and looked around at the other lunch customers seated at tables near ours who were, like she and I, enjoying a soft Florida breeze. “Every one of them.” She paused, then added, “‘He was your boyfriend,’ they said to me,” her voice climbed with passion. “Like that gave me some kind of magical insight into the man. It’s all bullshit.” Her eyes dropped to the pavement, then up, fierce, black.

  “‘You lived together. And, you are telling me, telling us you didn’t know?'” She thumped her chest with a thumb and turned her head quizzically to look at me. Our eyes met and once more I could not look away. Her chin was high and her eyes, moments before warm and friendly had grown suddenly cold, hard, flinty.

  I could see, could feel the emotional intensity that burned inside her. She felt wronged by the very people she thought would have been there for support. She wanted to say to each of them, “What about me? All these questions are about why I didn’t know. What about me? Don’t any one of you who are aware of the relationship that I had with Delmer recognize that I had feelings in this? Don’t you recognize my fear? My bewilderment? My sense of betrayal? Is it only that you want to know why I didn’t know? Well, better yet, if you were around him, why didn’t you know?”

  She didn’t need to say those words. I felt them emanating from her heart and soul. I saw them in her eyes, the way she held her head, the silence that surrounded her as she sat and stared into her tea.

  This was our first meeting, Michele and mine. However, it would not be the last.

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  MAIN CAST OF CHARACTERS 

  SARASOTA COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE

  Sergeant J. Blessee, Patrol Supervisor District Two

  Miss Farnsworth, Victim’s Assistance

  Detective Rhonda V. DiFranco, Forensics

  Detective C. Dusseau

  Detective Michael “Mike” A. Dumer

  Jessica Hendrickson, Crime Scene Technician

  Jessica Jarecki, Crime Scene Technician

  Detective B. Keane

  Detective M. LeFebvre

  Detective K. McGath

  Deputy Mrzuack, K-9 Officer

  Deputy Josh Pelfrey

  Deputy B. Pollock

  Sergeant Sirran

  Deputy John Swinney

  Jessica Sawyer, Forensic Technician

  Deputy John Thomas

  Detective D. Tuck

  Sergeant Daniel Tutko

  Detective Sergeant John Walsh

  Deputy Wineka, Helicopter Pilot

  SARASOTA CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT

  Detective DeFrancisco

  Detective Linda DeNiro

  FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF LAW ENFORCEMENT

  Rochelle Gatemen, Supervisor FDLE Bio-Lab, Fort Myers, FL

  Shana Hayter, FDLE Crime Laboratory Analyst in Biology and DNA

  Michael Rafferty, FDLE Chief of Forensic Services

  FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

  Special Agent G. Sandoval

  FEDERAL PAROLE OFFICER

  Gerri Cotter

  CITY OF VENICE, FLORIDA POLICE DEPARTMENT

  Sergeant Jason Adams

  Officer Guinart

  Officer Long

  FAMILY, AND ACQUAINTANCES OF DELMER SMITH

  Shannon (Bodell) Barrett, landlady

  Michele Quinones, former fiancé

  Alicia Phillips, niece

  Christina Smith, niece

  Martha Tejeda, personal friend

  STATE OF FLORIDA PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS SARASOTA OFFICE

  Elizabeth Scanlan

  Earl Varn

  DEFENSE ATTORNEY SARASOTA COUNTY

  Marjorie Bender

  MANATEE COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE

  Detective Kumiko Carter

  Detective Edward “Ned” Foy

  Robert Feverston, Latent Fingerprint Examiner

  Grace Givens, Crime Scene Technician

  Andrew Hasty, Deputy

  Hurley Smith, Crime Scene Technician

  Richard Talbot, Crime Scene Manager

  Adrianne Walls, Crime Scene Technician

  FRIENDS AND FAMILY MEMBERS OF KATHY BRILES

  James A. Briles, MD

  Calvin Briles, MD

  Kristie Gish

  Mary Wanser

  OTHER MANATEE COUNTY WITNESSES

  Michael Bierds, Publix Store Manager

  Wilson A. Broussard, Jr. M.D., Forensic Pathologist

  Armenouhi Comstock, Owner Armiks Fine Collectibles

  Stanley Grubbs, Atrue Lock Service

  Kevin Noppinger, DNA Laboratory Manager, DNA Labs International

  Istvan Szecsenyi, Owner Roadkill Auto, Inc.

  Oliver Young, Duct Tape Product Manager

  Victoria Marshall., Sarasota County Victim

  STATE OF FLORIDA PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS MANATEE OFFICE

  Suzanne O’Donnell

  Brian Iten

  DEFENSE ATTORNEYS IN MANATEE COUNTY

   Daniel Hernandez

  Bjorn Brunvand

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