An account

Vanessa Gezari on the police beat:

At 7:31 a.m. Tuesday, on a quiet street in St. Petersburg, a man who had done terrible things to a woman and dodged justice for almost two years sat slumped over in the cab of a white Chevy pickup, his life ebbing away as the law closed in.

Edward Lee Green was 53 years old with a staggering rap sheet and a price on his head.