Category: Alex Taylor Tuesdays – Crime and Outdoors

I’ve labored long and hard for bread, For honor, and for riches, But on my corns too long you’ve tread, You fine-haired sons of bitches. — Black Bart, 1877 Black Bart’s stagecoach robberies are the archetype of Wild West legend. Alex Taylor’s Tuesday continues with his story and an unrealized tip. Hmmm … road trip? As…… Continue reading The Poet

Original Publication Date: 1/26/1988 The Gainesville Times, Page 3A “NE GEORGIA” section Alex Taylor continues Elizabeth Short’s murder mystery with a clarification to NBC’s fictional take, which ran two weeks earlier. It is was 30 years ago, the case was never solved and still open. Take it from an official source — the FBI. Of…… Continue reading The Short of It – Part II

More from the vaults of Prof. Alex Taylor… As it appeared in the January 19th, 1988 Gainesville Times, the NE Georgia page exhibits the Professor discussing the history behind the mob’s “Kiss of Death.” For those not aware, my father endured his own “examinations” by organized crime while serving in Tampa Police Department’s Criminal Intelligence…… Continue reading Kiss Me Nots