Crime Components

Preface

PREFACE

Early in Gene McLain’s career as an investigative reporter, there were no computers, internet, cell phones, boom boxes, seat belts, air bags, VHS, CD’s, DVD’s, or any of the technology we take for granted today.

There was no Miranda-Escobeda law. When you were arrested, police could get confessions any way they wanted. Also, there was no known way of matching DNA.

There was no “America’s Most Wanted” or “CSI”.

Television was new and the nation was amazed at black and white pictures. The passenger jets we fly in today were just a dream on a drawing board.

We did have crime, and that’s what this is all about: the world of homicide, Gene McLain’s world. He not only wrote award winning stories about crimes, he solved them.