True Crime Florida: The Tampa Bay Files

Three bridges cross the bay. The files beneath them reach through nearly a century of Florida history. In The Tampa Bay Files, J.R. Stranahan follows the cases that changed Tampa, Clearwater, and the communities between them: the Licata family tragedy later distorted by drug propaganda, Lisa McVey's extraordinary survival, the murders of Joan, Michelle, and Christe Rogers, Lisa McPherson's final seventeen days in Clearwater, Robert DuBoise's wrongful conviction, the deaths of Calyx and Beau Schenecker, and the four murders that placed Seminole Heights under siege. The final chapter opens six shorter files involving underworld figure Charlie Wall, missing millionaire Don Lewis, infant Sabrina Aisenberg, the disputed death-row conviction of James Dailey, the Curtis Reeves theater acquittal, and Steven Lorenzo's guilty pleas. Built from court opinions, official investigations, medical and legal records, historical archives, and contemporary reporting, this is Tampa Bay true crime centered on the people whom myths and headlines too often leave behind.