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 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published April 1, 2010

  "Honor Thy Father"

• 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"

• 2010 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing

  "Are Your Papers in Order?"

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

  "Friday Night Frights"

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

  "Judging Juvies"

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

  "Are Your Papers in Order?"

• 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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2004 Stories by Paul Rubin

• Balls in the Air

  published December 16, 2004

  Rick Romley remembers precisely what he said to his rescuers after a land mine in Vietnam blew his body apart on April 7, 1969. "I asked them... More >>

• Gone But Not Forgotten

  published December 16, 2004

  Phoenix residents awoke on the morning of March 9, 1991, to terrible news. Someone had bludgeoned an elderly father and his daughter to death... More >>

• Lord of the Lies

  published November 11, 2004

  Hours after storied Phoenix attorney Tom Thinnes died September 14, two of his adult sons drove to a rental storage facility on West Indian School... More >>

• Blood on their hands

  published October 14, 2004

  Lenny Aviles and his girlfriend Lulu Saldana slipped away from his mother's west Phoenix home on the early evening of June 23, 1999. The... More >>

• Hyde Out

  published September 23, 2004

  These days, few students at Gateway Community College at 40th Street and Van Buren are aware of the horrible events that happened at the site more... More >>

• Security Flap

  published September 16, 2004

  If you've ever stood in line waiting to pass through security at downtown Phoenix's county courthouse, you've surely uttered a word or two that... More >>

• Dangerous Mind

  published August 26, 2004

  In his cruel and unusual 1994 book Crime and the Sacking of America: The Roots of Chaos, Maricopa County Attorney hopeful Andrew Peyton... More >>

• Catch Him If You Can

  published August 12, 2004

  On March 24, 1993, Robert Shawn Owens stood before Judge Ronald Reinstein in a downtown Phoenix courtroom. Owens recently had turned 30 at... More >>

• Capped

  published July 29, 2004

  "It's going to unravel like a cheap sweater." That's how Phoenix attorney Holly Gieszl reacted to word of the arrests in Southern California... More >>

• Perfect Gamer

  published June 17, 2004

  Robby Hammock remembers his every glorious hop, skip and jump into the arms of Randy Johnson after the Perfect Game last month. "I know I... More >>

• Indian Givers

  published May 27, 2004

  Carletta Tilousi got a phone call in March 2003 that would not only change her life, but that of every person in her tribe. She's a member of... More >>

• Civil Outcome

  published May 6, 2004

  On his first solo night in February 2001, P hoenix rookie cop Shawn Dirks found himself accused of anal rape. He knew his accuser was drunk --... More >>

• Just Desserts

  published April 29, 2004

  Have you heard the one about the onetime felon who threw a fund raiser for the guy who wanted to be the county's top prosecutor? Mike Bailey,... More >>

• Mental Wards

  published March 18, 2004

  A court commissioner has dismissed criminal charges against two men and is likely to drop many other cases because he says the agency providing... More >>

• Speed Queens

  published March 11, 2004

  The world's fastest 17-year-old girl summons her teammates to the finish line of Peoria High School's oval track. It's the end of a grueling... More >>

• Molecular Damage

  published February 5, 2004

  Shawn Dirks says he couldn't wait to report for duty. After months of training, February 17, 2001, would mark the first time that Dirks would be... More >>

• Luck Out

  published January 22, 2004

  Convicted murderer Jasper McMurtrey III says he feels "like Rip van Winkle winning the PowerBall." McMurtrey was released from Arizona's... More >>

• No Choice

  published January 8, 2004

  During the first hours of what turned out to be a grueling 44-day trial, Brian Finkel said to no one in particular, "I'll be glad when this clown... More >>

• Red Flags

  published January 1, 2004

  One question that nags in the Southern California rent-a-patient scam is this: Why have health-care insurance companies paid crooked clinics and... More >>