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Killer Who Axed Radio Talk-Show Host Pleads Guilty to Murder

By David Lohr

No, the victim was not Rush Limbaugh.  In fact, the victim did not even broadcast conservative views.  He was 52-year-old Mike Webb, of Seattle, Washington, who shared his Queen Anne area home with 29-year-old Scott Brian White and had been broadcasting his late-night liberal talk show on KIRO-AM radio for approximately 10 years before being fired after he was charged with insurance fraud.  Like Rush Limbaugh, you either loved listening to the guy or you hated listening to him - even some of those who hated listening to him listened to him anyway.  Toward the end of his tenure at KIRO-AM, some people began to think that Webb had become irrational and possibly mentally ill, partly because he had become paranoid over a death threat that he had received and apparently was concerned that he would meet a violent end like Alan Berg, a radio talk-show host from Denver who was gunned down in his driveway by a neo-Nazi in 1984...continue to full post

Full post as published by Bizarre Crimes of the Week on June 05, 2009 (boomark / email).