Police seek killer of Dorchester man, father of seven

And I was sincere in asking for a reference to it.

The Globe thing is interesting because their homicide database shows no links to a story. But even a blurb in December is a bit unusual given the poor guy was shot - and died - in September.

To be honest, the way I even got on all this was because David Bernstein, late of Boston Magazine, has been on a tear of late for the way so many of the homicides in the Globe database are still listed as "unknown male" when, in fact, most of the victims had been identified, and I figured I should go back through my own murder posts and update as many as I could, and I stumbled across this particular case.

BPD has no responsibility to inform journalists (although it's great that they do, and it makes a lot of sense). I'm not criticizing them for anything, was just a bit surprised they never said anything at all about this particular case, since, as I mentioned, they are usually very good about publicly reporting murders.

And, yes, you're absolutely right about good journalists needing to put in some legwork sometimes, because police do not report (again, publicly, through BPDNews or whatever) everything that might be of interest.

I will not pretend to be a good journalist who wears out several pairs of shoes a year, but one example of that is the thing I posted this morning about a woman getting mugged at gunpoint in Roslindale. I happened to hear it on the scanner last night, then confirmed it this morning with the online equivalent of the BPD police log - the daily incident log now available through the city's data gateway.

And if you use Google to search bpdnews.com for information about this case, the only things that come up are that report - which is not something they normally post - and the "unsolved 2014 cases" page.