KC Confidential

Sarah McLinn

Ever read something so ridiculous you had to rub your eyes, reread it and it still made no sense?

You know, besides here on KC Confidential. We all have, but I have to tell you, I literally could not believe my eyes when I read the following graph in the Lawrence Journal World in a story about murdered 52 year-old CiCi’s Pizza owner Harold Sasko and his alleged murderer and former live in hottie, 19 year-old Sarah McLinn.

Check it:

“McLinn’s sister, Ashley McLinn, 22, of Topeka, has also shared her cellphone number (785-806-****) in hopes that her sister will call her. She said the family feared Sarah did not have her cellphone with her and wouldn’t remember their phone numbers.”

Note that I blanked out the last four digits of the young woman’s cell number. Continue reading →

The media feeding frenzy on University of Missouri defensive end Michael Sam?

“Is it much ado about nothing?” muses sports scribe Craig Glazer. “The answer is pretty much yes, it is. I don’t think anybody who follows sports doesn’t believe that there have been several thousand players over the years that have been gay.

“The rumors were so strong about Chiefs kicker Nick Lowery and Royals star George Brett that Brett got Jeff Flanagan to write a column in the Star denying that he was gay.”

None of which much matters in today’s society, Glazer argues. Continue reading →

Sarah McLinn

There’s an elephant in the room but nobody seems to be able to see it…

That in regard to pending murder charges against 19 year-old Sarah Gonzales McLinn in the brutal slaying of her former boss and live-in roommate, 52 year-0ld Lawrence businessman Harold Sasko.

It’s like this.

Four weeks after Sasko – the owner of three area CiCi’s Pizzas – was found murdered in his home by Lawrence Police, no one has come forward publicly with a theory as to what McLinn’s alleged motive for killing him was. Her lawyer went as far as to tell reporters recently that, “The case would center on her motive, not on whether or not she committed the crime.”

Meaning what – that McLinn did it – but had a good reason for killing Sasko?

The $64 million question: why has no one has so much as raised the obvious question as to whether Sasko and McLinn were romantically involved? Continue reading →

No way is Jay Leno going quietly in the night…

I may be wrong, but that’s my take having worked with Leno and kept an eye on him through the years.

Because of that relationship, I got a call from KSHB TV last Thursday wanting to interview me about my Jay Leno show at the Music Hall in April 1986.

Ostensibly it was Leno’s first appearance  in KC so Channel 41 sent a reporter and cameraman to my house in Lawrence to record a piece for the station’s 5 p.m. newscast on Leno’s last night as the host of the Tonight Show (KSHB being the local NBC affiliate.)

While the television audience got the first bite, obviously I saved the best for you guys.

so here’s my pull-no-punches story: Continue reading →