The Daily News picked up on the same Fort Walton Beach connection with earlier home invasions in Okaloosa County (Read article) that I reported earlier. The Pensacola News Journal believes the seven…
Tag: Billings murders
Time covers Billings case
Duwayne Escobedo helped with the reporting on this article – Pensacola murders. The blog gets plug at the end.
FWB suspects don’t fit – updated
The involvement of four Fort Walton Beach black men with the home invasion and murder of Bud and Melanie Billings doesn’t fit with what I am hearing about Leonard “Lenny” and Patrick…
The Daily Beast: Anatomy of a Massacre
How I write for the blog, the newspaper and The Daily Beast is very different. Each has a a different audience and each is a different twist on the Billings case. The…
Transcript of Tice interviews
The State Attorney has released the transcripts of the interviews with Henry “Cab” Tice. In his interview, Tice described Salvano Gonzalez as a good salesman that worked for him and later for…
Reports reveal more on the Billings’ murders
The interviews by the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office with dozens of witnesses give the picture of a horrible, grisly double homicide that defies the motive a simple robbery. Seven men invaded the…
Blog attracts NY Times
In today’s edition of the New York Times: “The official storyline was clear. The state attorney said it was a robbery; Byrd and Melanie Billings, the parents of 13 adopted children with…
Wiggins may lose 1971 Buick
Early this week the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office had a forfeiture hearing before Judge Frank Judge concerning the 1971 Buick Gran Sport Convertible that Pamela and Hugh Wiggins own. As part of…
Markhams to block release of images
Ashley Markham, the daughter of Bud and Melanie Billings, has asked the courts (Case 2009 CA 002655) to stop the public release of the images taken from the surveillance cameras of inside…
Grand jury indicts Beulah Seven
The grand jury has indicted Leonard Patrick Gonzalez, Jr., Leonard Patrick Gonzalez, Sr., Wayne Thomas Coldiron, Gary Lamont Sumner, Jr., Frederick Lee Thornton, Jr., Rakeem Chavez Florence and Donnie Ray Stallwortheight people…
Inside Car City: Bud, Cab
The used car business is a closed society, a private club that doesn’t like outsiders. Since the murders of Bud and Melanie Billings, I have tired to gather information on two figures…
Tice and Mexican mafia
Sheriff David Morgan’s comment about Henry “Cab” Tice and the used car dealer’s admission that he was involved with the Mexican mafia has almost been overlooked by most of the media. I…