Yeah, I’ll show ’em

Jim Whitlock checked into the motel at 6:10 on a Monday night. He paid cash. At 6:30, he walked across the street to a liquor store and bought a fifth of Jose Cuervo Gold and took it back to his room. He sat at the table and laid out three whole limes, a container of...

Season of dread

Unlike a lot of people, Patsy Ellington hates the Christmas holidays. The holidays mean more phone calls, more long hours and more stress dealing with more people who just can’t take it any more. Patsy Ellington works the phones at a Washington area suicide...