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Robert Nelson
Profiles
“Flush Him Down the Toilet”
Cult leader Michael Ryan is dying of cancer on death row. Good riddance, his son says.
Deconstructing Dave
Why is this guy our most popular governor ever?
War and Peace
Chuck Hagel experienced firsthand the nadir of America’s armed forces. As Secretary of Defense, he’s battling for a future free of the quagmires of the past.
Going with the Flow
Noted architect Jack Savage’s home on the Missouri River.
Otis XII
Flower power, album rock, Mozart, and, off the air, the hunt for a rapist.
My Right Foot
For Gordon McGuire, pity hurts much worse than the
elephantitis.
Television
This is a recent Investigation Discovery program episode in which I appeared. The show was based heavily off of reporting I did in my 2005 Phoenix New Times piece, "Altar Ego," about the murder of a South Texas Hispanic activist and beauty queen, Irene Garza. The lead suspect in the case is a former priest who still remains free. (I do most of my talking later in the show).
Columns and Essays
Slogan Explosion
If you live in Omaha, Nebraska, you’re nice and you don’t coast.
Urban Blight
Why Nebraska hates us.
Divine Excess
Why must Omaha have a festival devoted to gobs of fried food?
Investigative Reporting
Cross to Bare
Dale Fushek is a rock star within the Catholic Church. He also may be a sexual predator.
Do or Die
A tighter border. Vicious human trafficers. A brutal desert. The long walk to America is deadlier than ever.
Features
Hardball
I'm the problem with modern youth sports.
America’s Most Haunted House
... or not
The Curse
A half-billion-dollar stadium may be all it takes to fix a terrible franchise.
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