What Florida county is David Morgan Sheriff of?
The public face of the investigation into a wealthy Florida couple’s slayings presciently told a newspaper while campaigning for sheriff a year ago that this county of 300,000 “isn’t Mayberry anymore.” The husband and wife’s killings on Thursday proved Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan’s words true, and the investigation has given him more chances to demonstrate his knack for delivering ready-to-publish sound bites. Morgan told a news conference on Sunday he was anxious to share more details about the case because “it’s going to be a humdinger.” The next day, he compared the killings of the couple known for adopting children with special needs to the 1959 slayings chronicled by Truman Capote in the book “In Cold Blood.” On Tuesday, after the last three of seven suspects were arrested, he stood in front of the cameras and hugged a sobbing daughter of one of the victims, saying he’d kept a promise made to her the night of the slayings. “It is my honor today to tell you, Ashley … we
The public face of the investigation into a wealthy Florida couple’s slayings presciently told a newspaper while campaigning for sheriff a year ago that this county of 300,000 “isn’t Mayberry anymore.” The husband and wife’s killings on Thursday proved Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan’s words true, and the investigation has given him more chances to demonstrate his knack for delivering ready-to-publish sound bites. Morgan told a news conference on Sunday he was anxious to share more details about the case because “it’s going to be a humdinger.” The next day, he compared the killings of the couple known for adopting children with special needs to the 1959 slayings chronicled by Truman Capote in the book “In Cold Blood.” On Tuesday, after the last three of seven suspects were arrested, he stood in front of the cameras and hugged a sobbing daughter of one of the victims, saying he’d kept a promise made to her the night of the slayings. “It is my honor today to tell you, Ashley … we
Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan says he hopes to make one or two more arrests today in the precision-style killing of a wealthy Florida Panhandle couple, Byrd and Melanie Billings. Morgan tells ABC’s Good Morning America that authorities have tied at least seven people to the crime but that nothing links any of the suspects to the family directly. Sources: http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2009/07/sheriff-expects-more-arrests-in-slaying-of-fla-couple.
