Email Author Paul Rubin

Awards

• 2012 - National Council on Crime and Delinquency/Prevention for a Safer Society Award, published January 20, 2011

  "Unbalanced"

• 2012 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing

  "Shadow Dwellers"

• 2011 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published November 25, 2010

  "Whitewash"

• 2011 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published September 23, 2010

  "Pinalcchio"

• 2011 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published July 22, 2010

  "Phantom Murder"

• 2011 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published April 1, 2010

  "Honor Thy Father"

• 2010 - National Council on Crime and Delinquency/Prevention for a Safer Society Award, published January 15, 2009

  "Judging Juvies"

• 2010 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing

  "Are Your Papers in Order?"

• 2010 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc.

  "Are Your Papers in Order?"

• 2010 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published October 22, 2009

  "Friday Night Frights"

• 2009 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published August 21, 2008

  "Felonious Monk"

• 2009 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published February 14, 2008

  "Bombshell"

• 2009 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published February 7, 2008

  "If the Shoe Don't Fit"

• 2007 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing

  Murder City

• 2007 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published July 27, 2006

  "Fear Factor"

• 2007 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published July 2, 2006

  "War and Peacenik"

• 2007 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published June 8, 2006

  "Tough Coach"

• 2006 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published September 23, 2010

  "Crying Shame"

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1991 Stories by Paul Rubin

• HIDE AND SICK THE MESA POLICE DEPARTMENT HAD TO WORK HARD TO IGNORE WHAT DICK AND LAURIE ELLIGET WERE UP TO

  published November 27, 1991

  A SICK JOKE has been making the rounds. What is the link between the Tucson suspects in the Buddhist Temple murders case and the Phoenix suspects?... More >>

• INSIDE THE ELLIGET FAMILYSTACIE'S AUNT AND UNCLE TRY TO RIDE OUT THE MESA POLICE SCANDAL'S SHOCK WAVES

  published November 13, 1991

  Because of his conflicting emotions, Mesa police officer Tim Elliget isn't sure if he'll ttend the sentencing of his disgraced ex-cop brother,... More >>

• "He loved her to death"

  published November 13, 1991

  Herb Trammell heard the shotgun blasts just after dawn on August 1, 1989. He looked out his bedroom window in time to see an orange car with wood... More >>

• THE SCANDAL AT THE MESA POLICE DEPARTMENT

  published November 6, 1991

  LATE ONE NIGHT, after everyone else had gone to bed, Dick told Stacie to take off her clothes. "Let me massage your whole body," he... More >>

• THE REAL HERO

  published November 6, 1991

  Stacie Elliget hid from all but a few girlfriends that her father, Mesa Police Department patrol cop Dick Elliget, had been sexually molesting her... More >>

• THE WORLD'S BEST EXCUSE--HANDS DOWN

  published October 2, 1991

  With his attorney's license in jeopardy for lying to clients, Jim Feeley needed to pull something out of his hat. What he produced was way out in... More >>

• MY BROTHER THE KILLERWHAT'S IT LIKE TO HAVE A MASS MURDERER IN YOUR FAMILY?

  published September 25, 1991

  When Carol Hottell answered the telephone in her east Mesa home late on the evening of September 6, she heard a voice that made her shake. ... More >>

• THE 64-CENT QUESTIONWHAT HAPPENS WHEN A VETERAN WAITRESS DECIDES TO POCKET SOME CHANGE?

  published August 28, 1991

  For seven years, Beverly Lemieux donned her blue waitress uniform and slung hash at a Smitty's restaurant in north Phoenix. Lemieux enjoyed the... More >>

• KEATING GETS CARDEDYOUR MONEY MIGHT BE SAFER IN THESE THAN IN AN S&L

  published August 14, 1991

  Someone ought to send 90-year-old Sarah Mandell the Savings and Loan trading-card set. Mandell is that little old lady from Hollywood who recently... More >>

• LIKE A GOOD NEIGHBOR

  published July 31, 1991

  Seven-year-old Tina Harris looked up at her mother and blurted out the truth. "You told me if I ever was afraid to do anything, if I didn't want... More >>

• R.I.P. TREATMENT

  published July 17, 1991

  When it was Yavapai County Sheriff Buck Buchanan's turn to vote at the meeting of the Arizona Peace Officers' Memorial Board, several Oro... More >>

• ASU'S MODEL COUNSELING PROGRAM BITES THE DUST

  published July 10, 1991

  ASU's pioneering sport- psychology program was put to the acid test in the days after Bobby Janisse's self-inflicted death. It passed... More >>

• BOBBY HAD A GUNAND ASU'S MOST PROMISING WRESTLER TURNED IT ON HIMSELF

  published July 10, 1991

  No one paid much attention when Bobby Janisse excused himself from the off-campus bash last March 9. "Be right back," he told a young woman... More >>

• NOT CARVED IN STONEARIZONA'S MEMORIAL BOARD FIGHTS OVER WHETHER TO HONOR A DEAD COP

  published June 26, 1991

  Kathy Gravell woke up last week in the Motel 6 on East Van Buren Street. She put on a pretty flowered dress and drove her red Toyota a... More >>

• LOCAL LAWYERS INTRODUCED TO ETHICS

  published June 26, 1991

  "This is going to be fun," assistant Maricopa County attorney Jessica Funkhouser promises the bleary-eyed barristers. The occasion is a... More >>

• A DEATH IN THE DESERT

  published June 12, 1991

  Three weeks ago, Kathy Gravell stood beneath the Washington Monument and prepared to place a flower in a large wreath. The occasion was the tenth... More >>

• SCARRED FOR LIFE

  published June 5, 1991

  Sue Holmes eyed the newspaper ad like a hungry fish eyes a worm. "I remember exactly what it said," she recalls. "`Free consultation with one... More >>

• KITTY IS DROWNING!A NEIGHBORHOOD PLAY IN FOUR ACTS

  published May 22, 1991

  Why was this guy knocking on my door at nine o'clock on a Sunday night? I warily peeked out my living-room window. He looked... More >>

• DIAL HIM FOR MURDER

  published May 15, 1991

  Odd as it was, the caller's request didn't shock Leigh Wilson. "This woman on the other end said she had plenty of money and that she wanted... More >>

• A KINDER, GENTLER COFFELT

  published April 24, 1991

  In the unforgiving world of the Coffelt housing project, even the little victories are hard to come by. The 1,000 or so people who live... More >>

• FAIRWAY TO HEAVENTHIS IS A COURSE OF A DIFFERENT COLOR--BROWN

  published April 24, 1991

  Annette Morris lines up an eight-footer on the third hole at the Arizona Acres golf course in east Mesa. "Just about the same one as that... More >>

• NORMAN SPEAKS!

  published April 17, 1991

  In the Big Scheme, a poetry reading by an ASU professor normally wouldn't rank as a major event. But when the poet is Norman Dubie, and it's his... More >>

• THE MOTHER'S FATHER CONFESSOR

  published April 10, 1991

  December 3, 1989, began as Armando Saldate's day off, but proved to be one of the most momentous of his twenty-year career. "It was a... More >>

• DEATH-ROW DEBBIE NO ONE WANTED TO BELIEVE SHE COULD KILL HER CHILD.

  published April 10, 1991

  The prisoner's dream starts with such promise. "They're letting me out and I'm going to meet Christopher," Debbie Milke says. "He's... More >>

• ESCAPE FROM HELLOWNERS OF A BURNING BACKYARD REACH SETTLEMENT, LEAVE TOXIC PAST BEHIND

  published March 27, 1991

  The owners of a burning backyard in the White Mountains finally have moved out of the danger zone, after two years of battling one of... More >>