Crime: November 2007 Archives

If you're like The Hound, sniffing out Christmas presents for your significant other gets harder every year. But, with the holiday shopping season ready to shift into high gear, the perfect gift --- a blue barrel --- is nearby.

Like Shakespeare's Lady MacBeth, perhaps former Bolingbrook police office Drew Peterson, a suspect in in his wife's disappearance and in an ex-wife's death, "doth protest too much."

Drew Peterson, the now ex-cop considered a suspect in the mysterious death of his third wife and the disappearance of his fourth, will be getting a $72,000-a-year pension. Not a bad deal for patrolling the mean streets of Bolingbrook.

The Hound is always intrigued by the numerous ways people try to part hard-working folks from their hard-earned cash. The most-recent case is that of Reuben Collier, the erstwhile insurance agent/broker in Waukegan who police say wrote around 100 bogus policies.

The Hound was somewhat of a prankster in days of old, but he never panicked a school like what two geeks did on Halloween. And for that, the geeks have been charged.

Too bad Hollywood's writers are on strike for better compensation when it comes to "new media" ventures because Lake County has had a rash of stories recently which just cry out for film treatment.

Some years ago, The Hound labeled movies on the Lifetime cabler "Women in Jeop", mainly because most of them featured women who were in jeopardy in one form or another, mainly from creepy, controlling husbands and boyfriends. Although the channel has moved on, many of the featured films were and are based on true stories.