In my Don Bolles homicide-related Newsletter No. 50, entitled “A Case of Curious Coincidences”, first published in my February 26, 2009 newsletter and now this blog, I also provided brief commentary on the much earlier murder in Illinois of the first wife of Motorola founder Paul Galvin. Along with her young maid, Edna Sibilski, the … Continue reading
INTRODUCTION Editor & Publisher recently has given me permission to include here an op-ed piece I wrote for that publication back in June 2007. A PDF file of that article follows this introduction. While it doesn’t contain the identities of those believed responsible for the 1976 car-bomb murder of reporter Don Bolles with the specificity of … Continue reading
When I released Newsletter No. 50 on the Don Bolles homicide case back in February 2009, I also felt compelled to append copies of three documents to remove any uncertainties about several key aspects of that information. I have decided to make those documents available here as well. Click on the thumbnails for a view … Continue reading
[Originally published in Devereux Newsletter No. 50, February 26, 2009] A “strange coincidence,” to use a phrase By which such things are settled now-a-days. —Lord Byron ( 1788-1824) Any coincidence, I’ve learned, ought to be viewed with a modicum of suspicion when it neatly underpins the resolution of a contentious issue. Lord … Continue reading
[Originally published in Devereux Newsletter No. 49, May 20, 2002] Phoenix reporter Don Bolles was killed in June 1976. Millionaire businessman Robert McCulloch died in the Los Angeles area in February 1977. Although their deaths were some eight months and hundreds of miles apart, they might have been connected. And the link could have been … Continue reading
[Originally published in Devereux Newsletter No. 48, April 8, 2002] The Federal Bureau of Investigation does not get involved in many local homicide investigations, but it certainly did so when Phoenix journalist Don Bolles was the victim of a deadly car-bombing on June 2, 1976. And it did so for several reasons. First, it was … Continue reading
[Originally published in Devereux Newsletter No. 47, February 1, 2002] CAR BOMB KILLS INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER Phoenix newspaper reporter Don Bolles was the victim of a car-bombing in a mid-town hotel parking lot on June 2, 1976, ultimately dying on June 13, 1976, from injuries and infection resulting from the blast. His life and death, his … Continue reading
As an approaching octogenarian, a sense of my own mortality inevitably has become a factor in what’s left of my life as a journalist. And, happily busy as I continue to be in other, unrelated investigative projects, I realize that I may never get around to finishing my long-intended book on the 1976 car-bomb murder … Continue reading
Don Devereux is a graduate of Phillips Academy (Andover), a veteran of the U.S. Army during the Korean War period, and subsequently a graduate on the GI Bill of Michigan State University. He has been a resident of the Southwest since 1962, living initially in New Mexico and after 1977 in Arizona. He variously has … Continue reading
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