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writer418
New York
www.paullarosa.com is my website. I'm a journalist of a certain age and have used a typewriter professionally
Interests: yoga, reading, writing, etc.
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Is the age of innocence over for Craigslist?
Craigslist was a great idea but increasingly, it looks like the emphasis is on the word "was." The site (or list really) began in a more innocent time where people would tell each other about jobs, housing and potential mates.... Continue reading
Posted Apr 11, 2011 at The Murder Book
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Eight bodies but not the one they're looking for...
Nearly a year ago, a 76-year-old Gus Coletti was shaving in his home out on Long Island when a he heard a banging on his front door. It was 5 a.m. “I hear somebody screaming and bang-bang on the door,”... Continue reading
Posted Apr 7, 2011 at The Murder Book
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Four more bodies found on Long Island (NY) beach dumping ground...
In the past week, four more bodies have been found on an area of Long Island where four women's bodies were previously found. There is little doubt that a serial killer -- possibly responsible for eight murders -- was dumping... Continue reading
Posted Apr 4, 2011 at The Murder Book
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The psychology of the victim...
That's the name of a class I spoke to yesterday at John Jay College for Criminal Justice. I showed the class and spoke about a recent hour I produced for "48 Hours Mystery" about a lawyer who killed his wife,... Continue reading
Posted Mar 18, 2011 at The Murder Book
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Was she a sex slave or willing accomplice?
I'm interested in another Craigslist-related case that just broke this past week. A resident of Williamsburg, Brooklyn -- John Hopkins, 45 -- was arrested and charged with 16 counts of rape for allegedly luring a 27-year-old midwestern woman to his... Continue reading
Posted Feb 20, 2011 at The Murder Book
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Sylvie Cachay -- up and coming fashion designer
The NY Times has a long article today on the tragic death of a young woman who came to NYC to make it as a fashion designer. I have a personal interest in this story and I can tell you... Continue reading
Posted Feb 6, 2011 at The Murder Book
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Hit/run driver kills disabled woman in East Harlem...
Ilia Lopez, a 58-year-old woman on an early-morning trek to pick up methadone, was struck and killed by a speeding black car Friday morning at 121st Street and Second Avenue, according to the Daily News. The car reportedly carried Lopez'... Continue reading
Posted Feb 5, 2011 at The Murder Book
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The Craigslist Serial Killer...
The NY Post is reporting today that all four escorts whose bodies were found dumped on Long Island advertised their services on Craigslist. Last week, the police identified one of the victims as Meg Waterman, 22, from Maine. Yesterday, the... Continue reading
Posted Jan 25, 2011 at The Murder Book
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Another Craigslist victim...
Megan Waterman, a 22-year-old from Scarborough, Maine, whose body was found dumped on New York's Long Island along with three other women, was advertising as an escort on Craigslist, according to police and published reports. Her family has set up... Continue reading
Posted Jan 21, 2011 at The Murder Book
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Mar 15, 2010
wow your mother is old...lol. i'm 55!
Battling expectations....meeting Lil Wayne....
Next Wednesday, February 4th at 9 p.m. eastern time, CBS-TV will broadcast Katie Couric's "All Access" Grammy Special. Katie will be chatting with Lil Wayne, Justin Timberlake, Katy Perry, and Taylor Swift. I produced the Lil Wayne interview, and I have to say I really had my eyes opened by...
oh yes...and mustard, ketchup or both...what a deal!
Who says NYC is an expensive town?
Not when it has bargains like this!! Photo was taken Wednesday across the street from Carnegie Hall. Oh, and the hot dog does come with a bun and catsup and mustard etc. The NY Times today is featuring other "recession photos" taken from around the world.
Paul, you know the way it really was. It's so amazing that sometimes even I can't believe how wild things were. Of course, we were forced to go outside and use our imaginations because we had no video games, cable tv, or the internet and, who cares I sound old, I preferred it that way.
Of boys and arrows.....
The strangest thing happened in the Bronx last week -- a woman in Riverdale, just standing in a driveway minding her own business -- suddenly got hit by an arrow fired from who knows where. Now a lot of people get shot in the Bronx, more get stabbed, but hardly anyone gets hit with an arrow! ...
my favorite lobby is in the hudson hotel at w.58th street between 8th and 9th. you pretty much have the run of the place and it has a lot of public space though you'd never know it from the street. it's where these pix were taken...
One thing I love about NYC...
...are hotel lobbies. I mean really nice hotel lobbies. It's one of my secret pleasures of NYC, to just people watch in a big hotel lobby, or alternately, to sit quietly in the plush surroundings and read a newspaper and have a cup of coffee in the mornings. I don't think most NY'ers know how t...
i agree....i think it's a network conspiracy.
My mother has met the digital TV conversion....
...and suffice it to say she does not like it. Who can blame her? When she was younger -- as in this photo when she posed with our family's first TV set in the 1950's -- televisions were relatively simple and my mother likes them that way. (mom was probably 30 years old then; these days she i...
haha...'faulty' to you perhaps....
Plaxico Burress gets "Glock leg"...
Turns out Plaxico Buress, the NY Giants bad-boy wide receiver, fell victim to a pretty common malady among those who arm themselves with Glock automatics -- the dreaded "Glock leg." Glocks are unusual guns because they don't really have safeties. When you put your finger on the trigger of a Gl...
I've heard a million arguments like yours. I'm not impressed. I'm sure you know what my position is...end of story.
Plaxico Burress gets "Glock leg"...
Turns out Plaxico Buress, the NY Giants bad-boy wide receiver, fell victim to a pretty common malady among those who arm themselves with Glock automatics -- the dreaded "Glock leg." Glocks are unusual guns because they don't really have safeties. When you put your finger on the trigger of a Gl...
That's the reason we need gun control, isn't it? Because morons keep getting guns, and no matter how safe they may be, there is the moron, er, human element.
Plaxico Burress gets "Glock leg"...
Turns out Plaxico Buress, the NY Giants bad-boy wide receiver, fell victim to a pretty common malady among those who arm themselves with Glock automatics -- the dreaded "Glock leg." Glocks are unusual guns because they don't really have safeties. When you put your finger on the trigger of a Gl...
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