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Florence Snyder: Memo from The Moon, ‘641 Muriel Court’

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Kyle Jones‘ mother was among the hundreds who packed The Moon last night for the Tallahassee premier of the Florida State University senior’s first foray into filmmaking. She must be over-the-moon proud. Jones, assisted by fellow students Elijah Howard, Deanna Kidd, and Michael Walsh, received a loud and warm ovation for “641 Muriel Court,” their documentary about the 50-year-old unsolved murders of Robert and Helen Sims and their 12-year-old daughter Joy, a student at nearby Raa Middle School. Everyone in…

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Today on Context Florida: Hunt & fish, FDLE, empathy and unsolved murders

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Today on Context Florida: Former state Rep. Rick Dantzler asks legislators where Florida children will now learn to hunt and fish. Hunting leases in Florida are too expensive, so gone are the days when a group of families from Central Florida could lease a big piece of land within a two-hour drive and find the kind of Florida in which Dantzler grew up. Jac Wilder VerSteeg offers a quick word about the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s decision to investigate whether…

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Florence Snyder: Postcard from a cold case

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A half-century after an unsolved murder, who did the crime is less important that what the crime did to those left behind. The October 22, 1966, murders of Robert and Helen Sims and their 12-year-old daughter Joy changed Tallahassee, overnight, from a place where everyone trusted everyone to a place where the unspeakable could happen to anyone. Sims, a pioneering information technology official with the state Department of Education, and his wife and youngest child were slaughtered that night in…

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