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Michael Connelly, a former Los Angeles Times police reporter who became an author of acclaimed crime novels, said he came to think of Wambaugh as a mentor 25 years before actually meeting him and becoming his friend.

In Carr’s best-known book, “The Alienist,” John Schuyler Moore is a New York Times police reporter in 1890s Manhattan who helps investigate a series of vicious murders of adolescent boys.

He was previously a U.K. correspondent in London and a police reporter in New York.

Schieffer, was a 26-year-old police reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram at the time.

But Simon, who covered the drug war as a police reporter at The Baltimore Sun from 1983 to 1995, said Williams confided that an impulse toward addiction would be a constant in his life.