A3 + PLUS >> Toll-road routes to be set starting next year, See 3A FOOTBALL FOOTBALL Indians’ playoff Allen: Tigers took hopes still alive Lee too lightly See Page 1B See Page 1B THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2019 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.00 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM Famed prosecutor recounts notorious PUMPKIN PICKER 1892 slaying COURTESY PHOTOS Live Oak native Jared Lee. Once-deaf COURTESY Bob Dekle’s latest. dog leads Dekle takes on LO cowboy murder to glory Pair takes second in old in cowdog world NY finals in Texas. By CARL MCKINNEY By CARL MCKINNEY [email protected] [email protected] When Batman was born deaf, A true-crime tale Live Oak-grown cowboy and cattle revolving around the mor- dog supplier Jared Lee considered phine-laced 1891 murder putting the pup down, figuring there of a wealthy New York City was no way to train woman at the hands of a the animal to be man desperate to keep his ranch-worthy. secrets buried, as told by But Lee, one Lake City-based retired of the stars of the prosecutor-turned-author six-part TV series Bob Dekle, aims to cast a “Ultimate Cowboy spotlight Showdown” current- on a case ly airing throughout Batman that was this week, couldn’t at the cut- go through with it. After coming in ting-edge second in his category at a major of forensic championship event in Texas this science. month, Batman proved it was the “Six right call. Dekle Capsules: TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter “Because my brother was born The Gilded Age Murder of Hannah Crews, 8, carries a pumpkin while she eats a pumpkin-colored doughnut at the with cerebral palsy, I decided that no Helen Potts,” Dekle’s latest Columbia High FFA Pumpkin Patch at Gleason Place Shopping Center, 2173 U.S. 90 West, life was worth throwing away,” the book, which the author Wednesday afternoon. The CHS FFA sells pumpkins as an annual fundraiser. The pumpkin 35-year-old said. “I trained him with highlighted on the A&E patch will be open Monday-Thursday, 1-7 p.m., Friday from 1-8, Saturday from 10-8 and Real Crime blog and “Most Sunday from 10-7 through Oct. 31. BATMAN continued on 3A Notorious” podcast earlier this year, explores the trial of medical student Carlyle Harris. Harris, something of a Operation Green Light lasts just 2 more days serial sex fiend, seduced one woman after anoth- Plan to help some drivers regain the road by offering leniency for unpaid traffic is participating in the program, which offers er, Dekle said. When his driving privileges ends on Friday. tickets. to waive penalties and interest that have advances didn’t work, he Operation Green Light, an initiative by accumulated on a person’s unpaid civil traffic talked them into secretly By CARL MCKINNEY county clerks of court throughout Florida, citations, giving them a chance to get their marrying him under an [email protected] assumed identity. is being offered this week only by the coun- driver’s license back that day. They still have “It was a sensational ty Clerk of Court’s Office. The program, to pay the original cost of the tickets, but can case that had got a tremen- Time is running out for struggling ex-driv- which started Monday, is still active today do so through a payment plan. dous amount of publicity ers with suspended licenses to take advan- and Friday — but local officials are hitting the The program applies to tickets such as run- tage of a program at the Columbia County brakes after that. MURDER continued on 2A Courthouse that can help them get back on This is the first year the local clerk of court GREEN continued on 2A Vol. 145, No. 155 CALL US: TODAY’S WEATHER Obituaries . 3A (386) 752-1293 Opinion . 4A BIG WEEKEND AHEAD SUBSCRIBE TO Sports . 1B THE REPORTER: 77 54 Advice & Comics . 3B Voice: 755-5445 Community Calendar, 5A Fax: 752-9400 Sunny Classified . 4B Experience the Mention this ad and recieve Alternative & 10% off Holistic Remedy! 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With renunciation life begins. at the time,” said Dekle, When Potts, a student at for advancements in chem- The aftermath of the who served as an assistant — Amelia Barr, 1831-1919, U.S. novelist (‘Remember a prestigious New York fin- istry and the pharmacology Harris trial reminded the Alamo’) state attorney in the Third ishing school, complained of poisons, Dekle said. Dekle of a case he had Judicial Circuit from 1975 about chronic headaches, Multiple chemists looked prosecuted while working through 2005 before teach- Harris saw at Potts’ with the Third Circuit State ing law at the University of his way organs and Attorney’s Office — the Florida. out. He prescribed were able to 1978 abduction and mur- Winning Lottery Numbers Potts was unlucky He pre- her something find enough der of 12-year-old Lake Pick 3: (Tuesday p.m.) 2-9-1 enough to catch Harris’ scribed her traces of mor- City girl Kimberly Diane Pick 4: (Tuesday p.m.) 2-8-5-5 eye. After resisting at first, something to help with her phine to help Leach. Dekle was the lead Fantasy 5: (Tuesday) 3-6-7-26-29 she eventually agreed to to help determine prosecutor in that case, for wed Harris in an arrange- with her problem, hoping a cause of which notorious serial kill- ment kept between the two problem, death. er Ted Bundy was ultimate- of them. it would solve See an error? hoping it “It was a ly executed. The Lake City Reporter corrects errors of fact in news She got pregnant three would solve his. ‘He gave remarkable The public perception times, and Harris per- items. If you have a concern, question, or suggestion, his. feat of foren- of Harris was similar to please call the editor. Corrections and clarifications will formed abortions in each “He gave her enough sic science the way people reacted run in this space. Thanks for reading. case. Illegal in New York her enough morphine to that they to media coverage of the at the time, the proce- morphine could do Bundy slayings, Dekle dures were risky and the to kill her kill her about back in the said. third one nearly killed the about three 1890s,” Dekle “They said, ‘this couldn’t Submissions woman, Dekle said. times over,” three times over,’ said. be a murderer. He’s too The Lake City Reporter accepts photographs and caption When Potts’ mother Dekle said. Dekle said. Dekle handsome, articulate information to run at the discretion of the editor. If you would found out what was going It wasn’t first learned and smart,’” Dekle said. like to see your organization in the newspaper, send the picture on, she demanded Harris until of the case “There’s parallels between and information to Robert Bridges: rbridges@lakecityreporter. go public with their mar- months while attend- Harris and Bundy.” com. riage. after the mysterious death ing law school at the One woman who was “And that was going to that Potts’ mother gave University of Florida in the doing charitable work in be difficult because he permission for the body to 1970s, where he stumbled the jail where Harris await- Lake City Reporter already had another secret be exhumed so an autopsy onto transcripts from the ed execution ended up HOW TO REACH US BUSINESS ........... 754-0419 wife and he was engaged could be performed. trial. falling in love with the con- Main number ....... 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