Whenever I'm doing research, there's always some kind of unexpected thread tying cases together (by unexpected, I mean not the thing I just typed in the search box). Like the Richard Scarry yellow bug: not really a main character--just there. So one time, drug-sniffing dogs were appearing everywhere. Another time it was movable ceiling tiles. Lately, it's been the Johnnie Cochran of Wisconsin: Stephen P. Hurley. He represented Georgia Thompson, Scott McCallum, Peg Lautenschlager, and he's currently representing Eugene Zapata, who allegedly murdered his own wife in 1976. (This isn't brand new news, btw, so lower your expectations.)
The state recently decided to reopen Mrs. Zapata's homicide investigation, and cadaver dogs identified two locations connected to Mr. Zapata (a crawl space in their former home and his storage locker) that apparently still smell like dead people. Hurley convinced Judge Fielder that the dogs are unreliable, and so the poor pups weren't even allowed to have their day in court. The jury, in turn, wasn't able to come up with a unanimous verdict.
Just wait, though, Hurley gets famouser still! Madeleine McCann (cute missing British girl)'s parents appear to be in huge trouble for possibly murdering her. Or, at least carrying her around, lifeless, in a rental car. Cadaver dogs went crazy when smelling Mom McCann's clothes and the Portuguese rental car. Understandably PANICKED, the attorneys representing the [still living] McCanns contacted the world-famous cadaver-dog-expert and occasional AGSLS professor, Steve Hurley. At his 608 area code.
We're just three degrees of separation away from People Magazine.
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