- Only child of a single mother
- Was a loner growing up until he found his passion for writing and joined the school newspaper and became more accepted by the overall community
- Graduated from Yale with a journalism degree
- Won awards for cover stories on true crime
- Accolades for going beyond the call of duty to find the truth
- Rumors about substance abuse started to surface due to alcohol abuse
- The pressures of the job started to show and admitted himself into home isolation to recover from the trauma and receive psychiatric treatment
- Work ethic became loose and unpredictable
- Fired from assignment for becoming too acquainted with a woman who was inside the investigation
