REAL TALK

The Murder Book, a daily chronicle by a former journalist of every murder reported in NY in 2008, is shaping up to be the real-life version of Alma "The Wire" Gutierrez's triple-homicide-on-page-12 story. I.e. today, 30-year-old black father of two shot in head on Long Island City; lands page 15 on NYDN.

Semi-Related: Black and Missing But Not Forgotten, which reports black missing persons days, weeks before Associated Press, if the AP ever does.