Phoenix AZ—As a former Chicago cop and licensed private investigator I suddenly found myself drafted into TV news. I had no formal journalism education and doing TV news never entered my mind. It was late in 1989, I met a young investigative TV producer, Jim LaMay and his sidekick reporter, William LaJeunesse. Those two saw me in action in the Phoenix, AZ courts and begin to follow me around. They were both visionaries that wanted to know every way to gather newsworthy information in order to beat the competition. I handed them an interesting story of a young black man recently railroaded into a second degree murder conviction for killing a white man who was also the son of a local judge. It turned out the Public Defender was over confident that the case would be won simply with a legitimate self-defense claim. Virtually no investigation or efforts to expose the horrific criminal history of the de...