Decades of corruption, murder, and high-level cover-ups, from an unsuspecting widow’s death to the assassination of a heroic Tampa police sergeant, are finally revealed.
On October 23, 1975, former Tampa Police Sgt. Richard Cloud was shot to death in his home. Five decades later, the story of the shocking crime has been told many times. It has been the subject of outstanding investigative journalism.
However, the whole story of the surrounding circumstances and linked crimes has never been known or told. Few people are aware that the assassination was related to other major crimes, and that had a wave of murder and corruption been stopped in Miami a decade earlier, a criminal network operating throughout Florida would have been terminated rather than enabled and protected…