All posts by Kevin Davis

May 12th, 2011

A Chicago Street Encounter With a Man Nearly Executed

He drives a white Cadillac stretch limo, vintage 1970s, with whitewall tires, black vinyl roof, leather interior.  Smooth ride. It’s the kind of car you might have seen ferrying newlyweds back in its day. But instead of “just married,” painted on the rear bumper, there’s a message crudely lettered in slashes of red paint. “Stop Killing One Another.” …more

July 28th, 2009

The Perfect Murder Weapon

“Hey, kid, what’s the perfect murder weapon?”

George Covaleski used to ask me this question every time I went to see him. No matter how hard I tried, I could never come up with the right answer.

George knew a lot about murder weapons and the many ways people could get killed. …more

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Kevin Davis is an award-winning journalist, author and magazine writer based in Chicago. A former crime reporter for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, his writing has appeared in USA Today, the Chicago Tribune, Chicago magazine, Utne Reader, In These Times, American Bar Association Journal, Reader’s Digest, USA Weekend, Encyclopaedia Britannica and many other publications. He is the author of two non-fiction books on the criminal justice system, The Wrong Man, and Defending the Damned (recently released in paperback).

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