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1997 Stories by Terry Greene Sterling

• Vanishing Act

  published October 16, 1997

  In 15 years, about 400 people died in a small room in Reverend Sky Guadagno's coral-colored house in South Phoenix. After each death, Reverend Sky... More >>

• Glendale's Witness-Protection Program

  published September 18, 1997

  The story of the recent murder of a young west Phoenix couple has become an Elmore Leonard novel, with its bounty hunters and police snitches and... More >>

• Best of Fife Vol. II

  published September 11, 1997

  Editor's note: In 1994, New Times printed Volume I of "The Best of Fife." The New and Improved Volume II incorporates the best of... More >>

• The Indomitable Dougherty

  published September 11, 1997

  The bailiff read the jury's verdict: Defendant John Fife Symington III was guilty on seven counts of fraud. Last Wednesday, as Judge Roger... More >>

• Marian Theology--Phoenix Style

  published September 4, 1997

  His Holiness Pope John Paul II is expected soon to plumb deep into his papal infallibility. Some four million Roman Catholics--many of whom... More >>

• Spinning Westech

  published August 28, 1997

  James Warne III called a press conference earlier this month to whine about his company, Westech, once again. Warne told reporters about the... More >>

• The Fifester, the Wifester, the Mother and the Prosecutor

  published August 14, 1997

  Last Friday afternoon, as the criminal trial of Governor J. Fife Symington III drew to a close, prosecutor David Schindler got one last chance to... More >>

• Horndog Jim

  published August 7, 1997

  In late July, Mesa city councilmember Jim Stapley sued fellow councilmember Joan Payne. Stapley claimed that Payne had slandered him by calling... More >>

• Rage Against the Legal Machine

  published July 24, 1997

  I knock on the door, let myself in. Melody Baker can't hobble from the living-room couch to the front door unless she takes the morphine... More >>

• Crime Spree on the Reservation

  published July 3, 1997

  The first bullet entered Brian Patrick Lindsay's head and tore through his tongue. The 20-year-old Subway sandwich shop clerk grabbed his... More >>

• The First Lady's Last Stand

  published June 5, 1997

  On one of their first dates, Ann Olin Pritzlaff and J. Fife Symington III watched Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, a movie about the escapades... More >>

• In the Name of the Father and the Son and the Wholly Owned Subsidiary

  published May 22, 1997

  Iolanda and Pasquale Ranalli immigrated to New York from Italy in 1953. Middle-aged and poor, they had modest aspirations--to raise their three... More >>

• Little Drummer Boy

  published May 1, 1997

  Across the street from the house where 8-year-old Lee Holmes lives, there is an empty doghouse, presumably built by a neighbor who has since... More >>

• The Truth About Cats & Dogs

  published March 27, 1997

  When I was a kid, a cat lady lived near my grandparents. The cat lady's cheeks were rouged in perfect round circles and she muttered to herself.... More >>

• Taken to the Cleaners

  published March 20, 1997

  Eleven years ago, after her father suffered a stroke, a middle-aged housewife and mother named Charlotte Walton suddenly found herself at the helm... More >>

• Marshmallow Roast

  published February 13, 1997

  Kim MacEachern, Mary Simmerer and Peggy Guichard-Watters are women of unusual courage and honor. But these three environmental regulators... More >>

• Joe Parham Stands Up

  published February 6, 1997

  Tony Freman needed his mother. He had been selling drugs on Minneapolis street corners, which got some people irritated with him. So he... More >>

• Adios, Gringolandia!

  published January 2, 1997

  Saturdays and Sundays, Rosa Banuelos wakes up at first light and packs her car with whatever is needed to replenish her stock of... More >>