Metro columnist Theodore Decker started at The Dispatch in 2006 as a police reporter.
There's a certain skill to writing a good headline that I have never possessed, that I have struggled with since my earliest journalism classes at the University of New Hampshire.This column is my last as the Dispatch metro columnist, a job I've held for just about 6⅟₂ years. It marks the end of my 17-year run at The Dispatch and my 30-year career in newspapers. I'm headed to Denison University in Granville to be a marketing writer.
As my professional interest shifted to crime coverage, I covered a case of parricide in upstate New York that ended with an arrest in Texas thanks to TV's"America's Most Wanted," and I dug into the underground world of truck stop prostitution, drawing attention that helped to jumpstart a federal investigation in Pennsylvania and Ohio.
I know I went to the same wells a few too many times. The pandemic knocked me off my game and I never quite regained my momentum. I also never found a routine that allowed me to stay on top of my emails, and for that I apologize.Before I show myself the door, I thought I'd revisit a few things I've written since becoming a columnist, not because I thought they were especially poetic or took some bureaucratic blowhard to task.
I was the first and only person to call, but after the column ran I heard from helicopter pilots from all over the country who were eager to help out. The stench of mold, river muck and rot was enough to make you gag inside Raymond Tucker's trailer. Yet Tucker, then 62, was still living there, laboring alone to clean up and salvage what he could.
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