From that day onward, he had his hands full, trying to boost morale and hold the department together in the wake of Curtsinger's firing. He was a novice to homicide, had almost no experience with solving murders, but he did not think that mattered. It didn't work. But she had no trouble recalling details. They interviewed him there in the house. William Katzer, an inmate in the Florida State Prison system shared a jail cell pod with Chandler from January 16, 1993 to February 25, 1993. But Hal didn't know how to talk about what had happened. Glen Moore did not know why God had allowed this person to walk free through the world, doing such horrific things. Leslie had of 9 felonies. But her girlfriend, she told him, still did not want to come. At his 1994 trial, the jury heard that five ship-to-shore calls were made from his boat, Gypsy 1, in the bay hours after the Rogers family was last seen. The record reflects that the body of Joan Rogers and those of her two daughters, Michelle and Christe, were discovered floating in Tampa Bay on June 4, 1989. "I have not had a chance to, sir." He has written numerous series for the paper, including A Cry in the Night and South of Heaven, both of which were later published as books. I'm sure you talked to your client after that. Chandler denied telling Rick and Kristal to lie if anybody lot of coffee. . For her part, Michelle could not help feeling jealous of all the attention showered on Christe. Did one of them ask the guide if there were life jackets on board? One week later, housekeepers notified the general manager that the Rogers' room had not been inhabited for several days. The doors were locked; the passenger seat was pushed forward, as though someone had just climbed out of the back. Chandler: I went to the motel, checked in, give her a call. They went to California for fifteen, twenty days. Some of the quotes and scenes were witnessed firsthand by the reporter or photographer or were taken from police reports or transcripts of official proceedings; others are by necessity based on people's recollections. About 300 people among them family and friends of the victims attended the service. Susan Schaeffer, the trial judge, was named last month as one of five finalists to fill a vacancy on the Florida Supreme Court. Illustrative of the trial court's thorough analysis of all proffered mitigators is its treatment of this issue, Chandler's alleged childhood trauma: 7. "May I approach the witness, your honor?" See Chandler v. State, 442 So.2d 171, 173 (Fla.1983). they would say to the team members emerging from the inner sanctum. He was trying to trade or sell his vehicle.

He believed that the country was coming apart and the apocalypse was close at hand.

No, Chandler said. Has he gone over that with you? Think of Michelle, then, and remember. This was a massive and complex triple homicide case; there were hundreds of motions to be filed, and hundreds of witnesses to be questioned, and thousands of details for both the state and the defense to weigh before taking the case into court. They were barreling toward an arrest. With that, Hal broke down. The caller did not give a first name, although he identified his boat as Gypsy One.

"I called the governor's office and he declined to take my phone call. Both identified Chandler. One showed Michelle inside the motel room, sunburned and staring into the camera. "He doesn't like to be disturbed. You may be seated." Said all he had was two ounces of cocaine he could front me. Blair testified that she believed he would have killed her had it not been for the fact that a friend was waiting for her back at the dock. Chandler was the fourth of five children. For one thing, when the two detectives looked at the directions on the brochure and the map beside it, it appeared that the point of origin for the directions was in fact on Dale Mabry or nearby.