A former Dallas Cowboys wide receiver is speaking out following his release from the team after he was wrongly accused of shoplifting — after the actual suspect allegedly stole his identity.
Even before being cleared of any wrongdoing in the Virginia case, Lucky Whitehead worked to convince Dallas Cowboys management that he wasn’t the man who stole from a Wawa convenience store on June 22. He claims the team didn’t believe him.
“Let’s not sugarcoat anything,” Whitehead told the Dallas Morning News. “I was pretty much being called a liar.”
The statements come just days after authorities in Prince William County,...
Even before being cleared of any wrongdoing in the Virginia case, Lucky Whitehead worked to convince Dallas Cowboys management that he wasn’t the man who stole from a Wawa convenience store on June 22. He claims the team didn’t believe him.
“Let’s not sugarcoat anything,” Whitehead told the Dallas Morning News. “I was pretty much being called a liar.”
The statements come just days after authorities in Prince William County,...
- 7/26/2017
- by Char Adams
- PEOPLE.com
Getty Colson Whitehead in 2009
“I’m a super nerd,” said novelist Colson Whitehead, pausing midsentence to mock himself for describing his new novel’s place in “the zombie canon.”
A certain amount of geeking out is inevitable when an acclaimed literary novelist writes a book about his favorite occult subject: flesh eating walking corpses. In “Zone One,” Mr. Whitehead, who’s known for such literary novels as “Sag Harbor” and “John Henry Days,” delivers a horror novel with a high body count.
“I’m a super nerd,” said novelist Colson Whitehead, pausing midsentence to mock himself for describing his new novel’s place in “the zombie canon.”
A certain amount of geeking out is inevitable when an acclaimed literary novelist writes a book about his favorite occult subject: flesh eating walking corpses. In “Zone One,” Mr. Whitehead, who’s known for such literary novels as “Sag Harbor” and “John Henry Days,” delivers a horror novel with a high body count.
- 10/18/2011
- by Alexandra Alter
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
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