The Chase

I loved this behind-the-curtain look at a robbery investigation from John Barry: TAMPA — In blurry videos of three convenience store robberies last week, one detail got everyone's attention — a big, black, blunt gun. It looked like a sawed-off shotgun. The way the robber pulled it out of his shirt and aimed it gut-level looked unforgivingly lethal, a murder in the making.

It turned out to be the strangest of cases, a jewel of police work.

One long day last week, a detective swore he wouldn't go home without a bust. He worked day and night, 21 hours. And when he finally got his man, nothing about the case was what he expected.