Brazilian pepper was the pervasive invasive in the 1980s when I moved to this area. Now there are iguanas. Fewer “square groupers” wash ashore on summer nights; instead more sea turtles make the annual trek up the beach. Then sometime during the past
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By Rich Pollack
Al Camentz was known locally as a computer guru, a magician with Macs, who could keep them humming.
Camentz was also known as a fan of New Orleans music, especially of a swamp rock band named The Radiators.
Listening to live music o
By Jane Musgrave
When Jennifer Rey heard that Delray Beach police in July were trying to find out who shot a woman, dismembered her body and stuffed it into suitcases, she immediately suspected a husband or a lover.
“My gut reaction was this was a do
By Rich Pollack
A 78-year-old Delray Beach man has been charged with fatally shooting his 80-year-old wife last month and then placing pieces of her dismembered body into suitcases and bags before pushing them into the Intracoastal Waterway close to
By Rich Pollack
A 78-year-old Delray Beach man has been charged with fatally shooting his 80-year-old wife and then placing pieces of her dismembered body into three suitcases before pushing them into the Intracoastal Waterway close to his Venetian D
David Del Rio was handcuffed and remanded into custody after pleading guilty to 36 felony counts and getting a 15-year sentence.
Photos by Jim Rassol/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
Maureen Forte can find comfort in knowing that the man accused of bi
By Rich Pollack
For 4 1/2 years, the identity of “Baby June” and the questions of how her tiny 2-day-old infant body ended up floating in the Boynton Inlet remained a mystery.
Despite relentless efforts by Palm Beach County Sheriff’s detectives sear
By Rich Pollack
For four and half years the identity of Baby June and the questions of how the tiny 2-day-old infant ended up floating in the Boynton Inlet remained a mystery.
Despite relentless efforts by Palm Beach County sheriff’s detectives searc
By Rich Pollack
The apartment on the third floor of the Penthouse Highlands condominium where the body of 85-year-old Elizabeth “Betty” Cabral was found with her throat cut three years ago this month remains empty.
Some furniture is inside and there
Boca Raton police investigate the beginnings of a hole that the suspect intended to use as a grave for his father’s body, according to the police report. Photo provided
By Mary Hladky
A 26-year-old man is being held without bond in the Palm Beach Cou
By Rich Pollack
David Del Rio, the financial adviser from Florida’s West Coast charged with siphoning close to $3 million from the life savings of a Highland Beach widow found murdered, has been released on bail after being locked up since mid-Septem
By Rich Pollack
Attorneys for convicted double-murderer Duane Owen hope a Palm Beach County judge will grant their client a chance to get off Death Row.
They hope to persuade a new jury to reconsider two death sentences Owen received for the murde
By Tim Pallesen
The abduction and drowning of Circuit Judge Curtis Chillingworth and his wife, Marjorie, from their Manalapan oceanfront home still ranks as the county’s most terrifying crime 60 years later.
It was 1 a.m. on June 15, 1955, when t
After three decades, a death warrant may be near
for Palm Beach County’s most notorious killer.
We look back at the case that still haunts our memories.
Why we chose to do this story | Duane Owen: Debate over his fate
By Randy Schultz
She las
How could you write this story? Why dredge up such horrible memories?
I expect to hear those questions. I anticipate this story may upset many of our readers. I recognize that this is a very different sort of story for The Coastal Star.
Let me explai
By Randy Schultz
The debate about whether Duane Owen should live or die is about whether Duane Owen is the person he was or the person he supposedly has become.
Inmate 101660 at Union Correctional Institution in Raiford is serving two death senten
Gail Adams Aaskov, author of two books, also is a Realtor, property manager and a town commissioner.
Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Rich Pollack
Gail Adams Aaskov remembers getting the call that Sunday morning in February seven years ago.
On
