Seven unsolved murders in Peoria
It’s a good decision.
One of those unsolved murders is that of Brian Alexander. He was shot early one morning outside his East Bluff home. To say that his friends and neighbors are upset at the apparent lack of police interest in this case is an understatement.
I’ll reveal now that I received a call from Peoria Police Detectives one night asking me the source of a quote I used in a blog entry about Brian Alexander’s murder. I explained I pulled that quote from a television station Web site. This call came months after the shooting happened.
Some of the task force detectives continue to work the case of Frederickia Brown, one of the two of the 10 known missing or dead women Bright claims to not have killed. The other is Wanda Jackson, which begs the question: “Why aren’t the detectives working that case as well?”
And the last sentence of this article can be classified under the category of too much information: “He used some of the human remains to fill in tire marks in his back yard.”
I’m sure relatives of the slain are so happy to have that detail released to the public.
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Billy Dennis is a former reporter and editor at small daily and weekly newspapers in Illinois and Missouri. He comments on media, news and politics. He also owns and operates 
Have you ever thought it might have taken a couple of months to contact you because that is how long your blog might have went unnoticed?
Also, from hanging around cops quite a bit, there is one thing I have learned and that is in crime victims, often times there are victims who are victims because of lifestyles and truly innocent victims. With that in mind, I can honestly say that with a victim such as Alexander, the cops have not been sitting idly by drinking coffee and doing nothing and you should apologize for suggesting so. When it comes to the truly innocent crime victim, cops work like no other people.
Maybe you should spend some time around cops and see how bone weary they are and how hard they work, even if it doesn’t look like it.
I don’t think the murderer runs in tbe blogger crowd, so what might seem like inaction to you is probably contrary to what you believe.
Mike: I covered cops and courts on and off for close to 20 years, at small and medium-sized newspapers across two states. And the quote that appeared on my blog originally was broadcast on one of the three network affiliate’s afternoon and evening news shows. Similar remarks appeared in other local media. I believe they called me because they misunderstood that I was quoting someone I had spoken too, and wanted that person’s name. I directed them to the station in question. I am glad that they called me and cleared the matter up. But it left me with the impressing they were playing catch-up. And it is entirely possible they were understaffed because of the manpower being devoted to catching the serial murderer, which they eventually did.
The more things change, the more they stay the same – that adage could be applied to some aspects of the East Bluff. It was an area on a downhill slide 20 years ago when I was a Peoria resident, and efforts were underway even then to preserve an old, comfortable neighborhood. I suppose we can’t blame one single entity or one specific force for this slippage either. It’s not just the police, or the city or the residents, and until everyone learns the real and lasting costs, it will continue in cities everywhere.
As a selfish non-resident, I hope that one day the person responsible for Brian Alexander’s murder will be apprehended and the killer’s mortal fate here decided. I applaud The Peoria Pundit for his advocacy and focus on this horrific crime, and fervently pray that the attention continues. I am among many who will never, ever forget a caring and very dear friend, and how he left us too soon.