Given the importance of what they do, and the controversies that often surround
them, and the violent people they sometimes confront, it is remarkable that in t
he history of the USA only four active federal judges have been murdered. Judge
Raymond Fawcett just became number five. His body was found in the small basemen
t of a lakeside cabin he had built himself and frequently used on weekends.
W
hen he did not show up for a trial on Monday morning, his law clerks panicked, c
alled the FBI, and in due course the agents found the crime scene. There was no
forced entry, no struggle, just two dead bodies - Judge Fawcett and his young se
cretary. I did not know Judge Fawcett, but I know who killed him, and why.
I
am a lawyer, and I am in prison. It's a long story.
