Runners-Up for Top Story Aug ’05: Joseph Edward Duncan III, Jose Raul Pena and others
Runners-up for top story of the month: Retired actor Robert Sorrells, 75, who appeared in Westerns and on TV in the 50s and 60s, sentenced to 32 years in prison after confessing to killing Arthur DeLong last year. After drinking at the Regency Lounge in Simi Valley, Ca., he was escorted out by DeLong for "unruly behavior"and, after "reflecting on his perceived mistreatment,"went home, retrieved his gun, returned to the bar and shot DeLong at point blank range. Sorrells admitted his judgment was impaired because of his "biochemical state."Jimmy Lee Smith, 74, one of two men convicted in the 1963 "Onion Field"murder in which LAPD officer Ian Campbell was shot to death, sent back to prison for three years after ...
