Email Author Bob Burtman

2000 Stories by Bob Burtman

• Pumped Out

  published October 26, 2000

  A Month before he closed his Texaco service station at Forest Lane and Webb Chapel Road, Greg Kraft surveyed the array of honors lining his office... More >>

• Belly up

  published April 20, 2000

  It's 10 a.m., and all is quiet on the battlefront. Conditions breezy and cool, water calm. The thin, dead stumps of the Black and Amber forests... More >>

• Presumed guilty

  published February 3, 2000

  Helen Bass enjoyed an ordered if unremarkable life. The 42-year-old vocational nurse worked the second shift at the state hospital in Wichita... More >>

• Questions of innocence

  published February 3, 2000

  Odell Barnes joins a growing list of death-row inmates whose convictions have become a lot less... More >>

• Bay botch

  published January 13, 2000

  As the harsh smell of raw crude oil becomes overpowering, Joe Nelson peers over the bow of his aluminum skiff. "There it is," he says, pointing to... More >>