I've spent much of my adult life at crime scenes....belly-up to police tape in big cities and small towns....watching as emergency responders do their thing.
Over the last 30 years a lot of those scenes have sort of blurred together in my memory. A handful, however, stand out.
I'll never forget the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City after Timothy McVeigh parked his truck bomb out front--ripping the building apart and killing 168 men, women and children. When I first saw it with my own eyes it felt like somebody straight-armed my in the chest and knocked the wind out of me.
I'll will also never forget the sights, the sounds, the taste and the feel of New York's Ground Zero--the smoldering wreckage of the World Trade Center in the days immediately following 911 attack.
Add to the list of the unforgettable: a home in south Scottsdale--burned to the ground early one morning as t.v choppers hovered over head broadcasting the inferno on live television.
In the ashes, cops would find the bodies of a mom and her two children. .....more to come.....mw

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