[brbethke]

Don't stop with this reporter. This "article" (op-ed piece, actually), is called out in a top-of-the-fold sidebar on the front page of this morning's paper. The lead article (Court Shooting Brings Charges) also leads off with "A St. Paul woman charged with shooting her cousin and her cousin's lawyer outside a Hennepin County courtroom used a turn-of-the-century five-shot revolver that she bought at a gun show, authorities said Wednesday."

The PPress isn't alone. Three other newscasts that I heard last night also led off with the "gun show" angle. What I want to know -- and have been peppering every reporter I have access to and receiving no real response to -- is this:

Susan Rae Berkovitz is a documented pathological liar. WHY is every media outlet in the Twin Cities suddenly rushing to give credence to this one part of her story? Could it be that they have an agenda?

Nah, that's right-wing paranoid thinking...

[jdege]

http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/4129929.html

Investigators haven't verified whether she actually bought the weapon at a gun show. Where it came from will be difficult to trace because serial numbers weren't required when it was manufactured, presumably between 1890 and 1910.

If the Strib is putting this in the story, it's because someone in the investigation has told them that he thinks she's lying.

Which probably means that she can't seem to remember a single venue where a gun show has ever been held.