Episode 109: The Hot Seat
In this week's episode, Kate and Paul go to 1976 Phoenix, AZ where an investigative reporter is targeted while at a hotel. After the attack, what ensues could only be described as truly "far reaching".
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Sources:
“Who Killed Don Bolles” (Documentary by Nicholas Bartlett)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNZzd7XbRHg
“Bomb Explodes in Car of Newsman Profiling Mafia” (Associated Press, June 2, 1976)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/583063113/?match=1&terms=don%20bolles
“The Death of a Reporter Who Knew Too Much” by Jon Bradshaw, (New York Magazine, September 6, 1976)
http://www.thestacksreader.com/the-death-of-a-reporter-who-knew-too-much/
Note: This is archived in The Stacks Reader, and tagged “New York,” and the writer was a staff writer at New York Magazine at the time, so all that points to this having originally run in NY Mag, but I can’t find an original copy.
“40 years later, final words of murdered reporter Don Bolles still a mystery” by Richard Ruelas (The Arizona Republic, December 20, 2016)
“Is there a new theory on who killed Don Bolles? Valley 101 sits down with a case expert“ by Amanda Luberto (The Arizona Republic, August 21, 2023)
“Daughter of convicted murderer in 1976 Don Bolles car-bomb claims dad was framed” by Briana Whitney (3TV/CBS 5, April 20, 2023)
“Arizona Paper Does Not Publish First Articles Prompted by Slaying of Its Reporter” by Grace Lichtenstein (The New York Times, March 15, 1977)
“Suspect in Car Bombing Amazed Victim Survived” by Roger Timberlake (United Press International, June 22, 1976)
“3 Discussed Legal Funds for Adamson” by Paul Dean and John Winters, (The Arizona Republic, June 27, 1976)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/117839547/
“The story that haunted Don Bolles isn't the story most people think they know“ by Richard Ruelas, (The Arizona Republic, December 3, 2019)