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...early release after a judge sentenced him to a year for probation violations. Since 1996, Downey's been arrested numerous times on drug-related charges, and has gone through countless drug treatment programs. None of it helped curb his self-destructive tendencies. "It's like I have a loaded gun in my mouth and my finger's on the trigger," Downey told a judge in 1999. "And I like the taste of the gunmetal...
...DeKalb's sheriff-elect headed home alone in a rented white sedan. The drive was less than two miles; the destination, a neighborhood of older brick ranches and split-levels built before two-car garages came into style. The Browns' house, with Mediterranean arches along its front walk and gun-metal blue trim, is among the nicest on the block. It has a narrow front yard and a paved driveway. Derwin and Phyllis Brown's son, Robert, 18, looked out a front window to see his father, who had parked in the street, walking up the driveway with a bounce...
Young Robert had turned around only a heartbeat before the shooting began. It looked as if his father had lurched forward, but he was not sure. He ran to his parents' bedroom, tearing open drawers. "Where's Daddy's gun? Where's Daddy's gun?" he yelled. The 9-mm handgun was missing. Robert opened the closet where Phyllis and Derwin kept shotguns and rifles inherited from her father and his grandfather, who had been hunters. Robert found the rifles but no ammunition. "Why are you even looking for guns?" his mother asked him, still thinking the shooting was next...
...undercover narcotics detective and even an Internal Revenue investigator. "Renee, I'm not afraid," he told her. "I am on a mission. When you find something in life that you're willing to die for, that's your mission." If he sensed danger, he never started carrying a gun. Nor did he warn his family to be careful, though he had trained his wife and kids to shoot. "If he felt that any of us were in danger," says his wife, "he would have said, 'Phyllis, when you leave the house, take a gun...
...Sonata remains a mystery. One can easily imagine someone less guilt ridden than Bergman regarding the incident more as a youthful folly than as a life-shaping event. The facts of the matter are mundane enough, as he says in his book. In 1949, Bergman and a journalist named Gun Hagberg, both unhappily married, entered into a passionate affair, beginning with a long tryst in Paris, and continuing after their return to Sweden, where she discovered she was pregnant with his child. A bitter wrangle with her husband over custody of their children ensued. One night, Hagberg's husband called...