[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
