He’d been trying for almost a year to talk to the former police chief. Sgt. Mike Slaughter, a police detective in suburban Philadelphia, wanted to interview the retired chief, Thomas Mills, about a decades-old unsolved homicide. The detective said he had repeatedly gone to Mills’ home and asked intermediaries to help broker a meeting. But Mills refused, he said. Finally, in December 2015, the former chief agreed to a recorded interview and, after roughly an hour, Slaughter said he came away... Read this story
