Scribe Braces Hard Facts of Life - Even Severed Thumbs

The Washington Examiner‘s Scott McCabe isn’t afraid to think about some of the ugliest crime stories to cross his desk. He has his faves — one is the hotshot who forgot his thumb at the crime seen, another is a child sex offender (who was caught), and still another is a kidnapper who held his hostage “at a Days Inn in Northeast, but escaped from police in a wild shootout and ducked into the National Arboretum never to be seen again.”