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After the press conference I had a chance to call home and say hello to the kids. They already had heard I was a supercriminal and in prison for the rest of my life, so I had to tell them I had broken out and would be home later that night. They both promised to stay up to see me, which seemed unlikely to me.

We didn’t leave Conover until almost eight. Both Delahoye and Ruskin had run out of things to ask me and agreed that they knew how to find me if they had any questions.

Kelly and my parents had driven over in Mom’s Sienna, though Dad had insisted on driving. On the way home I drove up front with him for the simple reason that I was taller than Mom or Kelly and needed the leg room. On the drive home I told my family what had happened, which caused both Kelly and my mother to start crying again.

We stopped for dinner at a barbecue joint in Athens. There was a television on the wall tuned to Fox News and the Conover story was all over the news, though the sound was off. I saw video of the press conference as well as video from 2010, when Obama gave me the Medal. There were some statements on the screen, but it was too far away to read the highlighted sections. I was going to have to wait until getting home to watch it on the news.

That ended up being Friday morning. When we got home it was after midnight, and Seamus and Sharon were dozing in the living room. Despite their plans to stay up until I got home, the kids were asleep in their beds. Likewise, while Kelly had told me that she planned to use me for her demented carnal needs as soon as we got home, I was asleep before she ever got out of our bathroom. Deviant sexual excess would need to be delayed until Friday night.

I spent most of Friday watching news reports on television and the Internet and calling my various clients to tell them what had really happened. Helping in that regard was the fact that the deputies had screwed up by slamming my face into the bars of my cell. It’s hard to argue that you never touched somebody when they’re bleeding and have a black eye. Client relations went well, but not perfectly. Two departments dodged my phone call and a police chief in Alabama said he was waiting until things ‘settled down’ before contacting me again. At least the outfits down south I was working with on SWAT systems were all standing firm, sticking with the plan to use me for design and implantation of their SWAT teams. I said thank you and promised to visit the following week to review plans and update them on my situation.

I also heard from Simon & Schuster. My editor had seen me on television, with my messed-up eye and busted lip, and wanted to know if I was going to be in shape to be on television. The final name of the book was The Slave Patrols: An Evolution of Violence, and was officially scheduled for release on Tuesday, October 17. The book tour would begin the Tuesday before. That was in about two-and-a-half weeks, and we could realistically expect that my face would be healed by the time I had to be on television. If there was any remaining color, it could be covered up with makeup. The book tour would begin on MSNBC, and Al Sharpton was going to be on the show with me, since his name was on the cover of the book (Foreword by Rev. Al Sharpton) in a smaller font than my name but much larger than I thought he deserved. Oh well.

One thing we weren’t as sure of was what extent the notoriety with the bank robbery would affect the book tour and sales of the book. Hurt or help? The best we could plan for was developing a set of canned answers for when somebody asked. We also knew that it would be when they asked, not if they asked. There was a lot more interest this time; outlets and shows that had only given us tentative slots for Protect and Serve were giving us definite airtime for Slave Patrols. We also guessed much of the interest was so people could ask about the bank robbery.

I stayed in touch with Irene Delahoye and Bill Ruskin concerning the bank robbery and deaths afterward. The Conover County District Attorney had refused to charge the deputies who had thumped me in the back room of the jail and decided to dump it on the Feds. He also refused to charge Sheriff Conover. The DA was related to the Conover family somehow and wasn’t going to screw up family dinners at Christmas. His opinion was that the evidence wasn’t sufficient to proceed. This despite the video evidence and my DNA in the bloodstains in the cell. He didn’t even ask for bail, and they were all out on their own recognizance.

The US Attorney for Northern Georgia, Bo’s old job, wasn’t impressed. The deputies involved in my beating and the sheriff were brought up on Federal civil rights charges. Sheriff Conover had plenty of family money from corruption and graft to be able to hire good lawyers, but his deputies didn’t; Delahoye reported that they were attempting to plead out, but she was holding out for them to start ratting out the Conover family. I was willing to, if not forgive, then to forget my black eye and busted lip to help get Conover.

Not so fortunate was Ronnie Conover. Considering the video evidence of him blowing away a couple of customers in the bank, even the Conover County DA couldn’t bury this disaster. He was charged with involuntary manslaughter and was released on $50,000 bail, which was paid in cash. Involuntary manslaughter was an appropriate charge since none of us could imagine why Ronnie would have wanted to kill Reginald Westman and Adrienne Mussolo. Involuntary manslaughter carried a sentence of from one to ten years in prison, but it wasn’t that simple. Since Ron Conover killed the two customers while acting in his role as a peace officer, he could argue that he was acting legally but in an unlawful manner, which could knock the involuntary manslaughter down from a felony to a misdemeanor. That was up to the judge, a family friend.

The US Attorney’s office was not amused by any of this. Federal marshals were waiting at the courthouse and arrested Ronnie as the smiling fool left with his father and their lawyers. Murder is normally a state crime but there are some exceptions that make it a federal crime, such as killing a federal judge or law enforcement official or elected federal official. One notable exception is bank robbery - a federal crime! Since Westman and Mussolo died during the commission of a bank robbery, that made their deaths felony murders, and murder committed during a bank robbery was a violation of 18 USC 1111. The fact that the murder was committed by a police officer rather than a bank robber was irrelevant.

Ronnie was promptly whisked off to Atlanta by the marshals, with his lawyers trailing them. The bail money was returned to the Conovers in the form of a check, and the FBI immediately began tracing where the Conovers got their hands on fifty grand in unmarked twenties and fifties. This case was just the gift that kept on giving. I was meeting with Irene, Bo, and a couple of investigators when they informed me of how suspicious it all was. When I asked why, the bunch of them looked at me like I was the village idiot. Irene said, “Grim, there’s a simple formula in the money-tracking business. Corrupt cops plus bucketloads of untraceable cash equals drug money. The Conovers are dirty. We just don’t know how dirty yet, but we’ll figure it out. It’s what we do.”

The sheriff was loudly proclaiming his innocence and welcoming the opportunity to clear his name and resume his rightful role defending the safety of the citizens of Conover County. Meanwhile he planned to run for reelection as Sheriff. That didn’t matter, though. Until and unless he was acquitted of the federal charges, the Conover County Sheriff’s Department was under the control of a Georgia State Patrol lieutenant reporting directly to Bill Ruskin; said lieutenant was reportedly born without a sense of humor and was not making life easy on the remaining deputies. He planned to run them all out of the county!

Bo, meanwhile, was having the time of his life working on a defamation lawsuit against Sheriff Conover. When the sheriff issued his statement saying I was a drug kingpin and crime lord and murderer it became an open and shut case of slander. So said Bo, anyway. He also told me that while the case was a slam-dunk, legally speaking, it would take years before I ever saw a penny of it, if I ever saw any of it. The reason for that was that the Conovers had spent years hiding their money. He was piggybacking on the FBI investigation trying to track their money and said it would take years to dig it out. Any court victories would probably end up being symbolic only. “It kind of sucks, buddy, but my bet is the Feds will probably scarf most of it up anyway,” he told me.

“You’re a fucking bundle of good news,” I replied.

Bo just grinned. “They can’t spend it in jail.”

“There is that,” I agreed.

My trip to New York went much as my first trip. I flew in on Monday and stayed at the same Hilton Garden Inn I had stayed at last year. This time I called in a favor from the FBI and Delahoye had one of her agents ease my way through security at ATL. It wasn’t as good as a magic pass and badge from TSA, but it worked well. We chatted about the latest fun and games in Conover County, and he flashed his badge at my luggage check-in and also at the security screening station. He couldn’t promise anything for my return trip, but I thanked him and went on my merry way.

I was scheduled for additional time on MSNBC Tuesday morning. Last year I was scheduled from 8:46 until 8:57. This year I was scheduled from 8:38 to 8:58, with a commercial break from 8:44 to 8:46. My editor expected that one segment would be on the bank robbery and the other would be on the book. Like before, I was stopped on entry to the studio because of my weapon, and when the head of security showed up, he brought with him an escort to follow me around. I was fortunate in that I had my Glock 22 back. For a couple of weeks my 22 had been in the custody of the Staties and the Feds, and I had been using my 27 for protection. That was smaller and more easily concealed when I wore casual clothing, but I preferred the larger 22 with its larger magazine. It didn’t really matter in New York, because I had to limit my magazine size in either case to seven rounds.

The morning’s commentators were the usual mix of political pundits and reporters. We knew that Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski would be there, and Al Sharpton was a lock to blow his own horn on the book. In the green room I learned that the other talking heads were Willie Geist, Mike Barnicle, Eddie Glaude, and Peggy Noonan. Geist was a well-known second-generation reporter who was a cohost on the show, Barnicle was a freelance columnist who was almost a regular, Glaude was a writer and academic who specialized in African-American issues (he was African-American like Sharpton), and Noonan was an ex-Republican speechwriter and political pundit. As usual, Mika did the introduction:

Mika: (Holding up a copy of the book) “We are joined this morning by Doctor Graham Reaper who recently wrote a new book on the history of southern police, The Slave Patrols: An Evolution of Violence . The book is a follow-on to his successful book from last year, To Protect and Serve: A History of Policing in America. Welcome back, Doctor Reaper.”

Me: “Thank you for inviting me back. It’s a pleasure to be here.”

Joe: “Before we get into the new book, Doctor Reaper, I’d like to ask you a few questions about something that happened to you recently. Just a few weeks ago you were in a bank in Conover, Georgia, and the bank was robbed. Could you tell us what happened?”

We knew this sort of thing was going to happen, though not the specific question format.

Me: “Well, my car broke down in Conover and I needed to go into the bank for some cash. While I was in line three masked robbers entered, firing their weapons and ordering everybody to the floor. I dropped to the floor, but the robbers lost control of the situation. The local sheriff’s department responded too quickly for them to escape, and it became a hostage situation. When the robbers began threatening to kill the hostages, I was forced to draw my weapon and respond.”

Joe: “You killed the bank robbers.”

Me: “Yes. Then it got worse. Several of the customers tried to run out of the bank at that point. The first deputy to enter began shooting and killed two of the customers. I was taken prisoner in an attempt to shift the blame. Several deputies attempted to coerce me into confessing. Eventually I was rescued by an FBI Response Team.”

A picture of me taken in the cell flashed on the screen, laying on the bunk and bleeding. A second picture in better lighting of my swollen shut eye and my stitched lip followed.

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Fall 2018 to Spring 2019 Thanksgiving was at my parents’ house. Last year it was supposed to be there, but Kelly had inherited it when Dad had his heart attack that week. Another way of looking at it was that Mom gave him a heart attack, considering what the two of them were up to when the event occurred. With all the mayhem I’d been around in my life I’d prefer to check out the way he almost did. Regardless, this year it was at Mom and Dad’s, and it would give us a chance to tease them some...

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The Grim Reaper Reaper Security ConsultingChapter 24 Boxie

2024 Sunday, I helped Jack get home. He had chartered a plane to fly from California to Matucket (“ Can you imagine flying commercial through Atlanta with a wheelchair?”) so I simply drove over to their house Sunday morning and helped him out of the house and down to his rental. None of our homes had ramps and I asked whether we should build some for their next visit. “Grim, I’m not sure you should bother. I don’t think I’ll be coming back here any time soon.” “Jack...” “Grim, I just...

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The Grim ReaperChapter 31 Fire Team Leader

June 2005-March 2006 The next morning, we were back to the Army in earnest. Most everybody had filtered back, and we began with PT, physical training, including calisthenics and a four-mile conditioning run. I was hurting as bad as any of the other troops. Leave had left me soft. It didn’t matter, since I knew I would be back in shape in a few weeks, tops. Montoya and Gonzalez, the fuzzies just out of Benning, were in decent shape. Riley was coming off leave and was in about the same...

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The Grim ReaperChapter 47 Job Hunting

Nothing job-related came to my attention by Friday afternoon. I speculated what the perfect job ad would look like - “Wanted! Matucket Firearms Corporation has an immediate opening for product design and testing in their Machine Gun Division! Iraqi war veterans with PTSD desired! Call now, operators are standing by!” I remembered that the AK-47 was invented by a busted-up Russian sergeant during World War II. Too bad there really wasn’t a Matucket Firearms Corporation, either with or without...

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The Grim Reaper Adventures in Southern Law EnforcementChapter 15 Background Briefing

Monday, March 19, 2018 “Dispatch to One-Six-Three.” “One-Six-Three to Dispatch, go ahead.” Dispatch to One-Six-Three, say location.” I was curious as to why Dispatch wanted to know where I was, since they had sent me to supervise an accident at Pinetree and Glen Aubrey. There was a three-car pileup on Glen Aubrey after the first car, a silver Nissan sedan had suddenly braked for a squirrel. The next car, a red Ford Fusion had slammed into the Nissan from behind and had then been...

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The Grim Reaper Reaper Security ConsultingChapter 12 Doctor Reaper

Spring 2019 to May 2022 Saturday morning things started getting silly. I was home when it started, sacked out while Kelly got up to tend to the offspring, when she came in and said, “You’d better get up.” “What’s up?” “The President is complaining about you again.” I looked at her curiously. “Trump?” She nodded. “What’s wrong now? Jack tweeting again?” “I don’t know, but something set him off. He’s tweeting that the Army needs to yank your medals again,” she replied. I rolled my eyes...

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The Grim Reaper Adventures in Southern Law EnforcementChapter 20 Hospitalization

Mom got a text from Kelly that she and the kids would fly home early Saturday. Seamus was acting fussy, and it would be very late by the time they arrived on the East Coast. She told me she would call back when she got the kids fed and settled down. I was going to have to con my mother into loaning me her phone, so that she wasn’t listening in while we talked. It was late enough in the afternoon that it was time to watch the press conference on television. I turned it on and dialed through...

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The Grim ReaperChapter 17 Summer

June to August 2002 The following week we had finals, and that was it. Seniors had to go through graduation, but the rest of us were out for a couple of months for the summer. For me that meant I had about a week of goof-off time before I had to go back to the mill full time. That would take me through all of June and into July, at which time it was back to practice for the football season, running twice-a-days and sweating off about ten pounds under the July sun. Somewhere during that...

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The Grim Reaper Reaper Security ConsultingChapter 35 Chief Of Police

Holden looked at me curiously. “How can I help you, sir?” “Tell me about the department. How did you get the acting chief slot, for one thing? Seniority?” He nodded. “Basically. I was hired by Chief Babcock back when he was first hired. Shawn Warren was hired about a year later. He has Patrol.” “So, you’ve been a captain about two years, and he’s only been a captain one year.” Again, he nodded. “We weren’t even considered for the chief’s slot, at least not permanently. Besides, Chief...

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The Grim Reaper Reaper Security ConsultingChapter 19 Decisions

I was glad I had asked for a brunch meeting and not a breakfast meeting. Kelly not only thanked me for being a hero when we got back to the room, she insisted on thanking me again the next morning! It’s too bad that the Herndons were flying back with us, because I would have bet a significant portion of my net worth that Kelly could have been talked into joining the mile-high club otherwise. Ah well... Mike Forrester and Bob Jenkins met us at ten in the cafe for the breakfast buffet. They...

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The Grim Reaper Reaper Security ConsultingChapter 11 Hold the Line Part II

May 2019 The spring moved along, slowly at times, quick and harried at others. February saw Chris Balvin sending out advanced copies of his final draft for everybody involved to do a final edit. We were supposed to review it for any technical or factual errors; it was sent not just to Tolley and me, but also to Jose and Bob. The deal we all had was that any proceeds from the book would be split three ways. Chris was paid a flat $150k up front to write the book, and then he got a percentage...

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The Grim ReaperChapter 49 Training

October 2007 - December 2007 Mid-October, about when it became obvious that I was going to stick it out and go to the academy, Tim Hungerford showed up at the rickety-bench-with-delusions-of-grandeur that I called my desk. He had a packet of paperwork with him. “Take a break,” he ordered. “You need to look this stuff over.” I looked at him. “Why? What is it?” “It’s the packet from the academy.” “Ah!” I nodded at that. “Let’s take a look. You’ve been through this, right?” Tim nodded....

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The Grim ReaperChapter 59 Back to Work

Monday, May 26, 2008 Certain things worked out for me. The bullshit out of the CORB had gotten pretty extreme, and the Justice Department planned to investigate them and not me. The Review Board wasn’t helped when Pendergast was caught saying that he was hoping for the dissolution of the entire Matucket Police Department and its replacement by a federally supervised police force. That was considered more than a bit nutty, even for hard-core Democrats. In any case, it got me off the hook with...

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The Grim ReaperChapter 27 Returning Home

June 2004 - August 2004 Word came down from Battalion that the rest of Second Brigade would be deploying to Iraq soon. It was expected that they would show up sometime in July, but no dates were available. What they would do then was not known, or at least not known to us down at Camp Custer. Where exactly they would be positioned wasn’t known or might change before they got here. However, one interesting tidbit came out. Fourth of the Fourth was going to get some leave. Over the next few...

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The Grim ReaperChapter 22 Leave

I told my family to stay there, and I would get my gear and catch up to them. Kelly offered to follow me, but I had to explain that women were not allowed in the barracks, no way, no how! Luckily there was a parking lot near the barracks that would allow me to load my gear up. Dad had driven down in the F-150, so we could toss my stuff in the back and then ride home. The ride home was mostly taken up with my parents and Kelly asking me about the Army and my training. What did I do, what did...

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The Grim ReaperChapter 41 Abu Dhabi

January 2007 Mom was very upset that I wasn’t going to come home on my leave. She just wasn’t buying my explanation about losing my squad. She wanted me to come home, squad or no squad. I think Dad understood, and he told me that his father understood, but Mom was very unhappy. I had been in the Army now for four Christmases, and three had been spent in Iraq. I didn’t even bother telling her about the incident at Yankee North. One of her latest kicks was, “Are you the only soldier in Iraq?...

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The Grim ReaperChapter 56 End of a Career

I stared at Jerry for a second, and then ran over and knelt next to him. His upper right arm was mangled and bloody, and his face was covered in blood. “Oh, Jesus, Jerry!” I wailed, and then I grabbed the mike on my shoulder. ‘OFFICER DOWN! OFFICER DOWN! OH JESUS! OFFICER DOWN AT MATUCKET AND ELM! ONE-SIX-THREE TO DISPATCH! I NEED BACKUP AND AN AMBULANCE ... ROLL EVERYTHING! OFFICER DOWN!” Dispatch was saying something, but I didn’t pay any attention. “Oh, shit, Jerry, don’t you die on me!”...

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The Grim ReaperChapter 12 The Perfect Game

I couldn’t take any more days off that summer. My time with Kelly was restricted to evenings and weekends, which was probably a good thing, at least as regards to my health. Keeping up with her appetite for sin was tiring! She might kill me, but I’d die with a smile on my face. I did speak to Dad about a temporary dock, and he nixed it, at least for this year. “One, it’s not as easy as you think, or as cheap, or as quick. You won’t get it done, at least not done right, until the end of the...

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The Grim Reaper Reaper Security ConsultingChapter 13 Professional Work

I had a problem with the academy in Athens related to graduation. Specifically, I would graduate with my doctorate mid-May, but the current Basic Law Enforcement class ran from the end of March through mid-July. I couldn’t stay in my apartment after graduating and we couldn’t justify my moving to a new apartment for just a month. I had been keeping Rich caught up with my schedule and plans over at UGA, but as May moved along, it was obvious my time in Athens was ending. Some of my lectures...

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The Grim ReaperChapter 4 Matucket Middle School

1996 to 1999 In August, football started up again. Matucket Middle School didn’t have a real football team, only flag football, so I was still playing Pop Warner football. I turned twelve on March 1, so I changed to the Midget League team, the Spartans. At twelve I had jumped over the Junior Midget team, which was ages ten, eleven, and twelve. The Midget team was ages twelve, thirteen, and fourteen, so I could probably play there until I got to high school. I knew Matucket High played real...

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The Grim Reaper Reaper Security ConsultingChapter 37 Fixing Things

Seamus turned fourteen on May 8. Like every year before then, Kelly and I wondered whether he would live long enough to see another birthday. The eternal question was which one of us would kill him first. On the other hand, he could consistently manage to take my mind off the ongoing crisis in the Matucket Police Department. Over dinner that night he asked, “Dad, a mistress is a girlfriend, right?” I looked across the table at Kelly and she looked as confused as I did. I turned my head...

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The Grim ReaperChapter 23 Fourth of the Fourth

September 2003 - December 2003 Dad drove me over to Hartsfield International in Atlanta Thursday morning, sometime around the crack of dawn. Mom stayed at home, which was a good thing, because she spent most of Wednesday night and Thursday morning crying. She was a total basket case, even though I was only going to New York. I didn’t want to be around her when I ended up going overseas. I had to be there early, because I was on a very cheap Delta flight, and you had to be there two hours...

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The Grim Reaper Reaper Security ConsultingChapter 36 School Days

I went into the station the next morning at 0730. I figured I would go in early and see the shift changes and roll calls for a bit to get a feel for things from the bottom up. After roll call, I headed back to my office, only to get stopped by Mindy Hollis. She dragged me back outside to the department parking lot and over to the corner it shared with the impound yard. “This is where we should build a storage annex,” she said. “Why here? In this corner?” “It’s the best choice. It’s inside...

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The Grim Reaper Reaper Security ConsultingChapter 29 Summer Fun

2026 to 2027 We spent about a week cleaning up from the remodeling. There was dust on everything, even the ceiling, and everything needed to be wiped down and washed. Dust even got into all the clothing that hadn’t been boxed up and left in the closets, since the closet doors had to be open so the flooring in the closets could be replaced. We were doing wash nonstop for a week, and Custom Clean Dry Cleaning made a small fortune off us when we took all our good clothes over. The most amusing...

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