Two interesting obits from the police blotter:
Melvin Lane Powers. I meant to note this last week when it appeared in the HouChron, but somehow it got past me. Powers was a prominent developer in Houston, but before that, he was a defendant in the Candace Mossler murder trial.
(Edited to add: for comparison purposes, here’s the HouChron obit.)
P. Basil Lambros, L.A. defense attorney and sharp-dressed man. This didn’t ring a bell with me until I read the obit and realized he was Spade Cooley’s defense attorney. John Marr did a fantastic piece on the Spade Cooley murder in issue 19 of “Murder Can Be Fun“; I commend it to your attention. (No, it isn’t online, but sending John Marr $2 isn’t going to break you.) If you can’t wait, here’s the Wikipedia entry on Spade Cooley, who was a leading competitor of Bob Wills, and actually beat him in a battle of the bands.
Robert Schuller’s Crystal Cathedral has filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition.