Category: Wade, Vince
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A police murder investigation goes astray – apparently on purpose.
Johnny Curry was pissed. That’s the way Rick Wershe, Jr. remembers the Curry gang discussion in the spring of 1985 regarding what to do about the unintended murder of a 13-year old Detroit boy named Damion Lucas. On the night of April 29, 1985, several members of the Curry drug organization shot up a car…
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The Snitch Who Looked Like Howdy Doody
Richard Wershe, Jr. was such an unusual informant the FBI didn’t have any rules for dealing with someone like him. That’s because he was 14 years old and looked like the lead character in a popular children’s TV show. But he was soon doing things no kid ever imagined doing. “When I walked in the…
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I was a Teenaged FBI Snitch – by Vince Wade
One of the staples of Hollywood B-movies in years past was to take themes from horror or monster films with adult casts and apply them to movies with teenaged casts; I Was a Teenage Werewolf, I Was a Teenage Frankenstein, I Was a Teenage Zombie, etc.
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What If A Sinner Pays For His Sins, But There’s No Redemption? – by Vince Wade
Richard J. Wershe, Jr., better known to some as White Boy Rick, is a sinner. There isn’t any argument about that. He is the first to admit it.
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Informants: The Disorder Side of Law and Order – by Vince Wade
Hands down, the most infamous snitch of all time has to be a guy named Judas Iscariot. He ratted out a troublesome Jewish preacher and the rest is history.