Category Archives: Whodunit

Whodunit Chapter Six: Who’s killing my neighborhood?

Posted on August 12, 2008 by

Chapter Six: Criminal Charges The wheels of justice grind slowly — if at all. For the last month, I backed away from my voluntary role as neighborhood detective to see how the system dealt with the illegal conversion in my … Continue reading →

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Whodunit Chapter Five: Who’s killing my neighborhood?

Posted on August 10, 2008 by

Chapter Five: Serial Killers Maybe I shouldn’t have been so surprised when the phone rang and Chief Inspector Frank Bush of Building and Safety was on the line telling me he had bad news. The house that became a tenement … Continue reading →

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Whodunit Chapter Four: Who’s killing my neighborhood?

Posted on July 6, 2008 by

Chapter Four: Zine’s cop-out Much of city government took days off in advance of the holiday so I was lucky to run into Councilman Dennis Zine who had the first shot at stopping the illegal conversion of a single family … Continue reading →

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Whodunit Chapter Three: Who’s killing my neighborhood?

Posted on July 3, 2008 by

Chapter Three: Westside RentalsOne of the mysteries that befuddled me about this case was how a single-family house became three apartments with six bedrooms, four bathrooms, three kitchens and a studio apartment. In 2,047 square feet. With a combined rental … Continue reading →

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Whodunit Chapter Two: Who’s killing my neighborhood?

Posted on July 1, 2008 by

I caught up with the neighbor lady Monday. It was hot, like only the Valley can be, when I walked to the corner and took a look at the house illegally converted into apartments. There was a guy who didn’t … Continue reading →

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Ron’s whodunit: Who’s killing my neighborhood?

Posted on July 1, 2008 by

Chapter One I’d suspected something was amiss for a while but until I heard the knock on the door I looked the other way like everybody else. It was Saturday and there was a neighbor lady standing there. She held … Continue reading →

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