Ex-FBI Agent Who Authored Books Critical of J. Edgar Hoover Has Died at 88
William Weyand Turner, a former FBI agent who criticized J. Edgar Hoover in several books, died Dec. 26.
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Convicted Ohio Congressman James Traficant Jr. Dies at 73
By Matt Schudel Washington Post James A. Traficant Jr., an iconoclastic nine-term Ohio populist in the U.S. House of Representatives who was convicted on corruption charges in 2002, becoming the second member of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War, died Saturday, Sept. 27 at a hospital in Youngstown, Ohio. He was 73. A family…
Detroit Cop on ATF Task Force Dies From Wounds Suffered in April Shootout
By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit DETROIT — Detroit cop Patrick Hill — part of a federal task force– who was critically wounded in a shootout with a murder suspect in early April on the city’s west side, died Saturday, a source tells Deadline Detroit. Hill got into a shootout while trying to arrest a murder…
Ex-Nashville U.S. Atty. John Roberts Dies at age 74
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Former Nashville U.S. Attorney John Roberts, who served during the Clinton administration, died Sunday after a long illness, the Memphis Post reported. He was 74. After leaving his post, Roberts served as executive director of the Livingston-Overton County Chamber of Commerce. Previously, he served as a General Sessions Court judge. The…
FBI Report: More Law Enforcement Officers Died in Line of Fire in 2009
By Allan Lengel For AOL News From three Pittsburgh cops gunned down in one day to a U.S. border patrol agent ambushed by Mexican teens, the year 2009 was an especially deadly one for local and federal law enforcement, according to the FBI. In its preliminary report, the FBI found a 17 percent jump in…
Retired Philly ATF Agent William Drum Dead at Age 85
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com William J. Drum, a highly regarded “take-no-prisoners” Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives agent in Philadelphia for 20 years, died last week at age 85, the Philadelphia Daily News reported. Drum started with ATF in 1960 and retired in 1980, the paper reported. He also worked as an investigator in…
Secret Service Agent Maurice Martineau Who Testified on Kennedy Assassination Dies in Ill. at Age 95
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Maurice G. “Marty” Martineau, a U.S. Secret Service agent from 1941 to 1972, who coordinated security at the 1968 Democratic Convention and testified before Congress on the Kennedy Assassination, has died at age 95, the Chicago Tribune reported on Sunday. During his 31-year career, Martineau protected every president from Franklin D….