'I Was There'

"My editor freed me up for a little over a week."

It can be done. Thanks to Angie for passing on this interview with Brendan McCarthy, who did Homicide 37:

Talk about your reporting with Pardo and Wischan, the two detectives, and the family of the murder victim Lance Zarders.

I was there. I stood there and listened, but I wasn't allowed inside the yellow tape. I was in the back seat of the car. I wasn't allowed in the interview room, but I would stand around and catch dialogue as they went in and out. I listened as they talked. They go back and forth with each other a lot and they talk out the case. They also have meetings with their boss, and then I went back and interviewed them afterward.

I did the same things with the family. I went to the funeral and went back to the family.