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Dan Sullivan

Tampa, United States

Staff Writer at Tampa Bay Times

Courts and criminal justice reporter for the @TB_Times. Storyteller. Trial watcher. Submitter of public records requests. Man about town. I hate Twitter.

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  • 1 week ago | yahoo.com | Dan Sullivan

    TAMPA — The crime was notorious and extraordinary. The victims: a mother and her two teenage daughters vacationing from Ohio, their bodies found one morning in 1989, bound and weighed down with concrete blocks in the waters of Tampa Bay. The ensuing murder investigation was unlike any other by local law enforcement. The eventual arrest and conviction of the killer became a point of pride for the many investigators who worked the case, most especially the St. Petersburg police detectives.

  • 1 week ago | tampabay.com | Dan Sullivan

    TAMPA — The crime was notorious and extraordinary. The victims: a mother and her two teenage daughters vacationing from Ohio, their bodies found one morning in 1989, bound and weighed down with concrete blocks in the waters of Tampa Bay. The ensuing murder investigation was unlike any other by local law enforcement. The eventual arrest and conviction of the killer became a point of pride for the many investigators who worked the case, most especially the St. Petersburg police detectives.

  • 2 weeks ago | gazettextra.com | Dan Sullivan

    By Dan Sullivan - Tampa Bay Times (TNS) While the Florida House last week abruptly ended its probe into the diversion by Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration of $10 million from a Medicaid settlement to a nonprofit tied to his wife, questions linger. What happens next? Will anyone be held accountable? Or will explosive findings recently uncovered go unexplored and die on the vine? Copyright 2025 Tribune Content Agency.

  • 2 weeks ago | tampabay.com | Dan Sullivan

    A state disciplinary panel recommended Wednesday that Hillsborough Circuit Judge Nancy Jacobs be removed from the bench, finding that she violated judicial ethics rules in her successful 2022 campaign against Judge Jared Smith.

  • 2 weeks ago | tampabay.com | Dan Sullivan

    Attorneys are fighting to stop Florida from executing Jeffrey Hutchinson on Thursday evening, arguing that the 62-year-old Army veteran suffers from severe mental health problems in tandem with Gulf War illness. A jury in 2001 convicted Hutchinson in the shotgun slayings of his girlfriend and her three young children at the home they shared in Okaloosa County. A judge sentenced him to death for the children’s murders.

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Dan Sullivan
Dan Sullivan @TimesDan
4 May 25

Ex-FBI agent’s account of notorious Tampa Bay murder irks retired investigators @TB_Times https://t.co/J4iWZZagOj

Dan Sullivan
Dan Sullivan @TimesDan
30 Apr 25

Updated story: Panel recommends Hillsborough Judge Nancy Jacobs be removed from bench -- "The 'combined effect of Judge Jacobs’ misconduct demonstrates her present unfitness for office,' the panel’s opinion states." @TB_Times https://t.co/Mph9WNQYBX

Dan Sullivan
Dan Sullivan @TimesDan
30 Apr 25

Breaking news: Panel recommends Hillsborough Judge Nancy Jacobs be removed from bench @TB_Times https://t.co/Mph9WNQYBX