Email Author Paul Rubin
Awards
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2012 - National Council on Crime and Delinquency/Prevention for a Safer Society Award, published January 20, 2011
"Unbalanced"
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2012 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing
"Shadow Dwellers"
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2011 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published November 25, 2010
"Whitewash"
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2011 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published September 23, 2010
"Pinalcchio"
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2011 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published July 22, 2010
"Phantom Murder"
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2011 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published April 1, 2010
"Honor Thy Father"
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2010 - National Council on Crime and Delinquency/Prevention for a Safer Society Award, published January 15, 2009
"Judging Juvies"
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2010 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing
"Are Your Papers in Order?"
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2010 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc.
"Are Your Papers in Order?"
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2010 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published October 22, 2009
"Friday Night Frights"
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2009 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published August 21, 2008
"Felonious Monk"
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2009 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published February 14, 2008
"Bombshell"
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2009 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published February 7, 2008
"If the Shoe Don't Fit"
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2007 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing
Murder City
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2007 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published July 27, 2006
"Fear Factor"
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2007 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published July 2, 2006
"War and Peacenik"
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2007 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published June 8, 2006
"Tough Coach"
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2006 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published September 23, 2010
"Crying Shame"
2008 Stories by Paul Rubin
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The Outcome of the "Serial Shooter" Case Seems Certain, While the Doug Grant Mormon Murder Trial Is Anything but That
published December 18, 2008
Two wildly divergent high-profile murder trials are well under way at the Maricopa County courthouse in downtown Phoenix. On the 13th... More >>
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Nation’s Oldest Death Row Inmate Will Never Be Executed
published December 4, 2008
A few weeks ago, an elderly gentleman named Viva Leroy Nash wrote to New Times about the death penalty. "Now that our stubborn... More >>
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A Gilbert Detective Crossed the Line to Turn Doug Grant’s Wife’s Bathtub Drowning Into a Murder Case
published October 16, 2008
This is Part 2 of a two-part story. Read Part 1 More >>
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Mormon Widower Doug Grant Wasn’t Counting on a Murder Rap When He Followed His Late Wife’s Instruction to Marry His Ex-Lover
published October 9, 2008
On September 23, 2001, Faylene Grant wrote a letter to her husband Doug and his ex-girlfriend, Hilary DeWitt. "I know I will be here with... More >>
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Tawni Mazzone's family finally has closure, nine years after she disappeared
published August 28, 2008
The tragic and mysterious case of 99-305 was ice cold for nine years. Until last week. What unfolded over a matter of mere hours last... More >>
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A severely diabetic Valley woman faces criminal charges over her "service animal": a chimpanzee named Joey
published August 21, 2008
Joey answers the front door of his home in Surprise, 30 miles northwest of downtown Phoenix. Playing the perfect host, he jumps into his... More >>
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Judge Jose Padilla says he was racially profiled twice before traffic stops
published July 24, 2008
When Jose Padilla hears about the latest local police "sweep" against Latinos who may be in this country illegally, he flashes back to his... More >>
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Suzi Dodt’s on a mission to return the nameless dead to their loved ones
published July 17, 2008
Suzi Dodt, who sees dead people, is speed-talking about one of her "unidentifieds." "99-305 has a name, a family, a story, but we just... More >>
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A legal battle with Wal-Mart over injury benefits broke this elderly store greeter’s spirit
published June 5, 2008
Herman Teague loved his new job as a greeter at the Wal-Mart Supercenter just off the 101 and Raintree Drive in Scottsdale. It wasn't... More >>
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Can former Phoenix Sun Kevin Johnson overcome his past to become Sacramento’s mayor?
published May 22, 2008
One of the NBA's most amazing plays happened 14 years ago this month, when the Phoenix Suns' big-time point guard Kevin Johnson executed a... More >>
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Kerr's legendary moments
published April 24, 2008
• Six straight first-half three-pointers as UA routed ASU in 1988. • More >>
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Steve Kerr's been beating the odds his whole life
published April 24, 2008
The preppy blond guy whose career highlights in the NBA and for the Arizona Wildcats equal basketball legend is relaxing at a Phoenix sports... More >>
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Jurors convict Robert Ortloff in Kathleen Smith's murder
published April 24, 2008
Prosecutor Noel Levy expressed a quiet confidence in the outcome moments before the jury returned its guilty verdicts in the quarter-century-old... More >>
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Head on a skewer: Joe Arpaio was so obsessed with getting a hard-charging New Times writer prosecuted that he badgered Andy Thomas into making a fool of himself
published March 20, 2008
On May 2, 2005, a prosecutor and an investigator at the Maricopa County Attorney's Office asked senior staffers to review a potentially landmark... More >>
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A key witness in the Robert Ortloff murder trial recants what she's been telling authorities for 24 years
published March 13, 2008
Lisa Pickett Steedman, a key witness in Robert Ortloff's murder trial, had just torpedoed the defense with startling courtroom testimony that... More >>
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Danny Carbajal, brother of boxing great Michael Carbajal, is going to prison for theft
published February 28, 2008
Michael Carbajal, Phoenix's greatest boxing champion, sat on his front porch on East Fillmore Street, watching the world go by. He looked... More >>
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Abbey Natzel's dad faces at least 17 years in prison for fatally locking the 2-year-old in a toy box
published February 21, 2008
Amy Natzel took the witness stand February 7, a few minutes after a Maricopa County jury had convicted her estranged husband, Eric, of physically... More >>
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Bombshell: The explosive backstory in the Robert Ortloff murder trial may be more fascinating than the case itself
published February 14, 2008
In Part One of this series last week, Paul Rubin described how Tempe police focused on two suspects in the aftermath of the murder of 20-year-old... More >>
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Twenty-three years after Kathleen Smith's storied Tempe murder, a footprint will loom large in her alleged killer's upcoming trial
published February 7, 2008
On the morning of October 5, 1984, Lisa Pickett, 14, let her three cats outside of her mother's condo on West University Drive in Tempe, east of... More >>
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