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Detective P.E. Jones, a 36-year-veteran of the Dallas Police Department, has spent the past 16 years in the homicide department. He says, I’ve always gotten a lot of enjoyment out of working homicide investigations. I enjoy talking to people. Everyone’s got a story, good or bad, right or wrong or indifferent, they’ve got a story to tell. It’s just a matter of getting that story out.
He adds, I think human nature is to give your own slant to whatever incident or occurrence has happened. I think everyone gives their own slant to the facts and of course it’s our job to decipher those stories and try to determine what is fact and what is fiction. If you rely strictly on what they told you and not what your evidence is, then you find yourself with a messed up story.
Jones thinks of his work as representing the victim, no matter what their life choices were. He says, One thing about homicide cases is you’ll remember cases ten years later. And some of the cases that you don’t solve that you wish you had solved, those cases sta
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When Detective Ken Penrod was in an interrogation room with an accused killer, there was always a good chance he would end up holding the suspect’s hand.
“The Penrod touch” was not just a trick to win confessions. Penrod genuinely believed in treating even the most evil people with respect. It won him countless murder convictions over the 30 years he served the Dallas Police Department, most of that time as a homicide investigator.
“Ken brought justice to lots of people,” said John Palmer, a friend and fellow officer. “He also served some of the people who he prosecuted just as well. They needed their side of the story told.”
Penrod died Tuesday in hospice care at his home in Combine after a battle with brain cancer. He was 55.
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A memorial service will be at 1 p.m. Friday at the Church of the Incarnation, 3966 McKinney Ave.
Kenneth Martin Penrod was born in Lubbock and grew up there and in Arlington, where he graduated from Sam Houston High School.
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List of film and television accidents
In the history of film and television, accidents have occurred during shooting, such as cast or crew fatalities or serious accidents that plagued production. From 1980 to 1990, there were 37 deaths relating to accidents during stunts; 24 of these deaths involved the use of helicopters.[1] According to an article by the New York Times following the fatal shooting incident on the film set of Rust, there have been at least 194 serious accidents in American television and film sets from 1990 to 2014, and at least 43 deaths, quoted by Associated Press.[2][3]
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- Across the Border (1914). On 1 July 1914, while filming on location in Cañon City, Colorado, cast member Grace McHugh was filming a scene where her character was crossing the Arkansas River in a boat. When the boat capsized, camera operator Owen Carter immediately jumped into the river to save her. He dragged her onto a sandbar that was reported to be quicksand. The rest of the film crew watched helplessly as they were both sucked into the
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