Black October and the Murder of State Delegate Turk Scott

by Stephen Tabeling, Stephen Janis

Overview

As the drug business spread its tendrils through the city of Baltimore in the 1970s, a shadowy vigilante group emerged threatening to fight the narcotics trade with street justice. And in the cavernous parking garage of a non-descript apartment building Black October did just that. Gunned down was State Delegate Turk Scott, a consummate political insider who had just been indicted for bringing ten kilos of heroin into the city. Tasked with solving the crime was former Baltimore Homicide Lieutenant Stephen Tabeling. The veteran cop takes the reader inside the investigation of one of the most notorious murders in charm city history. A deep and compelling look at the emerging drug business that would engulf the city in violence for decades.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014717076
Publisher:	Baltimore True Crime
Publication date:	06/16/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

STEPHEN TABELING He was the first detective to win a murder conviction without a body. A cop who investigated the attempted murder of former Mayor William Donald Schaefer. A detective who was on the scene when a sniper shot seven Baltimore police officers in the bloodiest day of violence in the history of the city force.

Put simply, former Lieutenant Stephen Tabeling’s history and the history of the city he served are one and the same.

And now the man who started out walking a beat in Northwest Baltimore but later supervised some of the most consequential criminal investigations in the annals of this city is opening his case files, and his conscience, for all to see.

In a series of mini-eBooks, Tabeling takes readers on a tour through the shadowy back alleys of Baltimore City crime, revealing for the first time details of cases that once made headlines. In straightforward, spare and descriptive prose, Tabeling’s case files offer a frank insider’s take on the task of investigating death, drug dealing, and how violent crime evolved in a city that has since become engulfed in it.

STEPHEN JANIS is an award-winning reporter who publishes Investigative Voice, an online watchdog journalism website based in Baltimore Maryland. As a staff writer for the former Baltimore Examiner (and one of only a handful of reporters who worked at the paper for its entire existence) he won a Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Association award in 2008 for investigative reporting on the high rate of unsolved murders in Baltimore. In 2009 he won an MDDC Press Association award for Best Series for his articles on the murders of prostitutes. As co-founder of the independent investigative website Investigative Voice, Janis’s work uncovering corruption and government waste in Baltimore City will be chronicled in the upcoming national documentary “Fit To Print.” The site has won worldwide critical acclaim for its unconventional presentation and hardnosed reporting and is read regularly by insiders in city government as well as the police department. Janis is the author of two novels, Orange: The Diary of an Urban Surrealist and This Dream Cal