Murderer with a Badge: The Secret Life of a Rogue Cop

By Edward Humes

Book Overview

As a Los Angeles police offer, Bill Leasure was so lacking in ambition that he was content to be a traffic cop who hardly ever gave out tickets. As a thief, he ran six-figure scams stealing yachts,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525934987
• ISBN13: 9780525934981
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: Dutton Books
• Length: 454 Pages
• Weight: 1.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Mild Bill - He Was Such A Nice Guy

Murderer With A Badge reads like a good work of fiction, but the story is completely true. In a story filled with numerous details, plot twists and a long list of shady characters, author Edward Humes does an excellent job of keeping everything tied together. Most fascinating is the way that Humes portrays the complicated LAPD officer named Bill Leasure, who was regarded as a nice guy by his co-workers, his neighbors and most everyone else who knew him. While he was a great cop on the outside, in secret, he was a yacht thief, swindler and murderer, and because he seemed like such a nice guy, he was able to cover up his inner demons for most of the 17 years that he was with the LAPD. I really enjoyed reading this book and I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys reading true crime or fictional police novels.

He liked to give motorists a warning -

The kind of cop i would like to pull me over - he liked to give traffic violators a verbal warning instead of a ticket, wish we had traffic cops like that here in Reno. But he built an 8 car garage and filled it up with stuff stolen from yachts. He had a WWII trainer plane, several corvettes, and his own yacht. A mild mannered cop who slept around on his wife, stole and was involved in three murders, but he hated to write tickets! His wife was an LA prosecutor, but she claimed she did not know about her hubbie cops illegal activities. She did not even know about his affair with a young Chinese woman. A great read - I could not put it down.

MURDERER WITH A BADGE

VERY INTERESTING STORY. CANNOT BELIEVE HIS WIFE DID NOT KNOW OF ALL HIS INVOLVEMENT OF STOLEN GOODS.WHAT A DISGRACE FOR LAPD..HE WAS LUCKY HE TOOK DEAL SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN MUCH HARDER SENTENCE. SO MANY LIVESCUT SHORT..WHERE IS HE NOW? BOOK WELL WRITTEN. EXPOSING THE CORRUPTION THAT COULD POSSIBLY BE IN MANY OTHER PD.LEASURE WAS A DISGRACE TO HIS PROFESSION. WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM AND WIFE THIS MANY YEARS LATER TERM OF 15 YEARS FINISHED..