Tyrus Raymond Cobb’s life was a ball of fire and chaos before he ever stepped foot in Detroit. He was a mixture of intelligence, hypersensitivity and unhinged rage. The personality emerged early. Cobb said he beat up a classmate in the fifth grade who caused the boys to lose to the girls in the school […]
George Hunter
George Hunter has covered crime for The Detroit News for more than 20 years. He’s familiar with the subject; he grew up in the Cass Corridor, one of Detroit’s most impoverished, crime-ridden neighborhoods, and three of his siblings were Detroit cops. Hunter is also a lifelong Detroit Tigers fan, having attended his first game at Tiger Stadium in 1970.