Steve Goodwin Brings History and Murder Mystery to Talk

CRIME didn't pay again, this time at the Senior Center in the early hours of Wednesday afternoon, a good sized group sitting as witness.

Standing alone at the scene, was former WHS History teacher and Waltham Hero Award winner, Steve Goodwin, a man who knows his murder, leaning over in low light, a ticking and clicking crime machine putting out Killer Headlines, crime scenes and pictures of people who looked good for it.
The game was indeed afoot with this spooky sidebar to the popular two-time presentation "Wicked Waltham", tripled eerie narrations making murder in the Watch City burst through the door and caught on film in the belly of the Waltham Library,

On the case for each gory story were Steve Gumshoe Goodwin, Jack Plainclothes Cox and WPD Detective Jimmy Auld.

Wednesdays talk, on the tools of murder investigation, first thought to be on prevention by one witness, who brought a friend, exited with the words, "But it was fascinating!"
Tales told included the case of James Blaikie suspected of three murders good for fourG

Goodwin wove a tapestry of crooks and crimes and insurance money, a charming suspect, with someone in the audience attendee exclaiming, "I think I went to school with him!"

James Blaikie was local, a WHS 1963 grad and a charmer at Northeastern. The Book "Faral Ambition" by William Sonszki tells three tales of Blaikie's chain of evil including Whitman R

Lively question and answer brought interesting banter to the center

's second story.

*Yeah we're having some fun,* said New Director Patrick O Brien.