True Crime Florida: The Fort Lauderdale Files

In The Fort Lauderdale Files, J.R. Stranahan follows eight chapters of murder, fraud, wrongful conviction, institutional failure, and lives nearly erased by the record. The cases range from the 1935 lynching of Rubin Stacy and the abduction and murder of Adam Walsh to the men convicted while Eddie Lee Mosley remained free, the SunCruz assassination, Scott Rothstein's counterfeit settlements, the American Pain pill mill, and the warnings that failed before Parkland. The final chapter opens six shorter Broward files, including a Coast Guard execution, a vanished bullion fortune, law enforcement misconduct, the Fort Lauderdale airport shooting, the murder of XXXTentacion, and a cold case renewed by forensic genealogy. Built from court records, official investigations, public documents, and contemporaneous reporting, this is Broward County history told through the people its headlines left behind.