Email Author Paul Rubin

Awards

• 2012 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing

  "Shadow Dwellers"

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

  "Unbalanced"

• 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 - 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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2006 Stories by Paul Rubin

• Jump Street

  published December 14, 2006

  It's been two years since the city of Phoenix's chief financial officer jumped to his death from atop his moving Mercedes on East Camelback Road.... More >>

• Hey Diddle Diddle

  published December 14, 2006

  Some time ago, New Times got a letter from an inmate in Florence named James Stites, who is serving a six-year prison sentence for... More >>

• Dead Man Talkin'

  published October 5, 2006

  "You know, prison and the death penalty, they may not deter a guy from a life of crime," Robert Comer writes, "but I promise you this. Sentence a... More >>

• Sunnyside Up

  published September 28, 2006

  Barney Mullen is a man of few words, but many kind gestures. For almost three decades, Mullen has been going about his business at the Denny's... More >>

• I Dunnit

  published September 21, 2006

  James Mullins is talking for the first time publicly about why he confessed — falsely — to killing a 19-year-old woman in Tempe a year... More >>

• Toy Box Killing

  published August 10, 2006

  Last week, a Maricopa County grand jury indicted former Phoenix resident Eric Natzel on two counts of felony child abuse in the brutal August 2005... More >>

• Fear Factor

  published July 27, 2006

  The Phoenix homicide detective reaches the crime scene just after 8 p.m. on December 12. A woman has been shot to death behind a warehouse at... More >>

• War & Peacenik

  published July 20, 2006

  When Ann Marie Tate was a little girl, she wrote a story that her mother, three decades later, recalls precisely. Chien Johnson says her... More >>

• Tough Coach

  published June 8, 2006

  During the Arizona State-Arizona series in Tucson a few weeks ago, Arizona Daily Star sports columnist Greg Hansen wrote of ASU's head... More >>

• The Case of the Two Abigails

  published May 18, 2006

  The last morning of Abigail Nicole Lahnan's short life begins peacefully. It is March 23, 2005, a Wednesday. Abby, who was born at... More >>

• Black and White -- and Over

  published April 27, 2006

  County prosecutors may have to take no for an answer now that a state panel again has rejected their attempts to have a judge sanctioned for... More >>

• The Case of the Wily Coyote

  published April 6, 2006

  For Margarita Parada, a 19-year-old from a village deep in Mexico, the adventure of a lifetime is about to start. It is April 11, 2005, and... More >>

• The Case of the Fatal Femme

  published March 9, 2006

  Gabe Cruz was pumped as he left work at 3 a.m. on the morning of March 3, 2005, a Thursday. Gabe had put in a long shift as a "bar back" at... More >>

• The Case of the Jealous Lover Boy

  published February 16, 2006

  Gary Sedlacek is awakened by someone pounding on a side door to his home in downtown Phoenix's historic Coronado District. It's about 5:30 on... More >>

• The Case of the Grim Tweaker

  published February 2, 2006

  Dave Uribe reports for duty at 6 a.m. on May 10, a Tuesday. Uribe had been a Phoenix police officer for 22 of his 48 years. He still loved... More >>

• Risky Business

  published January 19, 2006

  It's a Saturday evening in late November on the border of Phoenix and Glendale. The scent of barbecue drifts through the brisk air on a... More >>