detnews.com - Charlie LeDuff

For detective, Tamara Greene a girl caught in 'dope beef'

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:32:00 EST

It was a cold and wet evening back in the spring when the lawyer representing the family of Tamara Greene, the stripper at the center of the fabled wild Manoogian Mansion party hosted by then-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, and the retired Detroit homicide detective who was the last man in charge of the case met at a bar in Ferndale. The detective wanted to pass on some information to the lawyer -- you're chasing the wrong dog.

Suspect in slaying also accused in shooting

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:00:00 EST

Detroit -- According to police accounts, not only does Eiland Johnson not know how to behave at a nightclub, he doesn't know how to dress for one either.

Slaying of murder witness in Detroit leaves trail of fear

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:32:00 EST

The August murder of Anthony Alls, a witness to the killing of a friend at a Southfield nightclub, on the surface was just another random killing in Detroit. Just another murder until you look beneath the sheet of the Alls case. Confronted with the details, one sees the pillars of the criminal justice system buckling; the cracks and crevices increasingly filled by organized criminals who walk the streets with impunity.

Art imitates life: Kilpatrick friend plays mayor in film

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:57:00 EST

Available soon in a car trunk near you: Kwame Kilpatrick, the movie. "Scandal in the City" is a feature-length movie chronicling the low life and hard times of fictitious Mayor Calvin Kennedy, a charismatic politician who is consumed and ultimately destroyed by his ambitions and sexual appetites.