So many times in a big package you want to tell the story in as many ways as possible, but we broke it up even further. There were so many cliffhangers along the natural story lines that it was easy. Writing it was just scene-to-scene-scene.
Crime is still a big problem in New Orleans. Why did you decide to do a narrative instead of a big-picture feature?
We do those stories, and people read it, but you need to show them all the nuances behind the murder story and all the issues. That gets them involved and makes it hit home so much more.
We’ve written stories on how people have reluctance in cooperating with police and here we show the exact words people say to the police and how the police coax them to cooperate.
The ultimate hope is that people will read it from beginning to end and it’ll inform them a little bit about crime in the city.
How much time did you get to dedicate to this piece?
My editor freed me up for a little over a week.
I would like you brendan mccarthy to do a fellow up story on lance zarders my friend.Not to much juest enough lance father and mother truely loved him to do what they done,and these times.The reward has been 12,500.00 dollares and crime stoppers dont say nothing about lance death or the reward money.Its been over one year and the reward is still there.What more do crime stoppers want this family to do.I feel crime stoppers should do much more when a family puts there own money up to try to help catch a killer.Crime stoppers dont say nothing eles about my good friend lance zarders on the news,4,6,8,26 or54.I read lance guest book on line and lance father feels he done all he could have done.Now he puts it in gods hands,so i hope brendan mccarthy you could fined in your heart to up date lance zarders story,because his mother and father has no juestice.
Posted by a friend of lance on Fri 17 Jul 2009 at 02:57 PM