Does Anybody KNOW About This: An Uncautionary Tale of Doing What I had to Do In Order to Do What I wanted to Do

The murder of Tampa Super Cop Dick Cloud; Central Florida gambling kingpin Harlan "The Colonel" Blackburn; reputed Tampa Mafia hit man Sam Cagnina; John Spinkelink, the first man executed after the death penalty was restored in Florida ; Bushaxe Williams, the meanest man on Death Row; serial killer Ted Bundy -- as an investigative reporter for The Orlando Sentinel, Dick Burdette covered them all. Christmas at a nudist camp, Billy George's Two-Stool Bar, The Shade Tree Gang, Mad Dog, Moland and the Mule, Blueberry, the Uproar Man, The Richest Reb in the World, The Wavin'est Man in Florida, Johnny Walker Red, The Swamp Cabbage King, Something Nice for Earl, The man who loved to go to funerals, the church with two members, jumping mules, the farmer who went to town to buy a ham sandwich and purchased a church instead, Bloody Harlan County, the yard sale that stretched from Alabama to the Ohio River -- as a roving human interest columnist the Sentinel and later, The Lexington Herald-Leader, he wrote about them all too. Does Anybody Know About This? chronicles not only where he went and who he met and what happened when he got there, but how the redemptive powers of adversity and the clarion calls of opportunity combined to make the entire joyous, adventurous, journey through life as a footloose journalist possible.