Michael Gordon
Legal Affairs Reporter at The Charlotte Observer
Legal affairs writer and a 20-year veteran of the Observer
Articles
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Jul 26, 2023 |
charlotteobserver.com | Michael Gordon
Charlotte serial killer Henry Louis Wallace killed 10 women in east and west Charlotte over a 22-month period before he was identified and captured in 1994. The question remains: How? Thirty years later, former detectives involved in the investigation and families of the victims still debate why Wallace was able to kill for as long as he did.
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Jul 26, 2023 |
charlotteobserver.com | Michael Gordon
Tyrece Woods doesn't remember his mother. How Brandi Henderson laughed. The way she moved. The warmth of her touch. Nor does he recall her death. But he believes that something from that night of horror almost 30 years ago, when Henderson was raped and strangled by her boyfriend's best friend - Charlotte mass murderer Henry Louis Wallace - seeped into his very bones.
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Jul 25, 2023 |
charlotteobserver.com | Michael Gordon
My last phone call with Barbara Rippy took us to a familiar place: her decades-old anger over the plight of the seven children left motherless by Charlotte mass murderer Henry Louis Wallace. "Write something for the kids," she urged me in September, on the eve of her 83rd birthday.
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Jul 25, 2023 |
charlotteobserver.com | Michael Gordon
Two hours before his arrest, Henry Louis Wallace watched professional wrestling on TV with some friends in their east-side apartment and talked of leaving Charlotte. His companions had started worrying about the 28-year-old. Wallace had begun wearing the same clothes for days at a time, and he no longer appeared to have a place of his own. They suspected that he had become a crack addict.
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Jul 17, 2023 |
editorandpublisher.com | Michael Gordon
Dannye Romine Powell and Michael Gordon | The Charlotte Observer In his farewell column as publisher of The Charlotte (North Carolina) Observer in December 1997, Rolfe Neill said that in 40-odd years, illness had kept him away from work for less than a week.
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