Bob Greene

Having avoided facing a murder charge, Patrick Bourgeois and his girlfriend, Tracy Lynn Bratton, sent word through their defense attorneys to Franklin County prosecutors that they would be willing to...

It appeared to be, if not an open-and-shut case, at least one in which prosecutors would have absolutely no trouble proving how the victim was killed, and who the killers...

"The initial story we got from the father and the girlfriend was, `We don't know. He wouldn't eat his eggs, and we put him to bed, and in the morning...

At 9:30 a.m. on Feb. 29, 1996, Dr. Patrick M. Fardal, forensic pathologist for the Franklin County Coroner's office, approached an autopsy table in the county morgue to do what...

"We knew we had a 3-year-old with no heartbeat. They had him on a cot when they brought him in from the ambulance. The first I saw him . ....

"We got the call that someone was having difficulty breathing," said Mike Bates, a paramedic with the emergency services division of the Columbus Fire Department. "We got halfway there, and...

The victim had been beaten so severely that his brain was bleeding. His assailants had also bitten him deeply on various parts of his body, leaving teeth marks in his...

There's something about county fairs in September that feels different from the ones at the height of summer. The air is a tossup, and you know it going in; you...

The great and unanticipated gift to come out of the Olympic Games in Sydney may turn out to be this: The mental health of the world can be improved forevermore...

Imagine yourself applying for a new job -- and receiving the good news that you've been chosen: The job is being offered to you. Your new employer sits down with...