Bill Shirk was sitting in a Hamilton County jail cell—handcuffed and with heavy chains around his neck. An hour and 37 minutes later, he’d escaped—as he would some 25 more times over the years to earn ...
Four years after Jacksonville’s former public defender, Matt Shirk, first faced ethics complaints, the now-disgraced attorney faced punishment Friday morning. The Florida Commission on Ethics agreed ...
In one of the stranger twists in the history of Indianapolis media, it fell to a former professional wrestler from Delaware County, a white guy known as an escape artist, a sort of late 20th century ...
After former Public Defender Matt Shirk was ousted from office in 2016, he spent or gave away tens of thousands of dollars on himself and his friends, including handing nine state-owned firearms to a ...
Kenelm L. Shirk III, Akron’s Borough’s former solicitor serving supervised release for threatening to kill unspecified Democratic senators in 2021, was disbarred Monday by the U.S. Supreme Court. The ...
Five and a half years after former Public Defender Matt Shirk’s scandals rattled the public, he has yet to face any discipline. In 2013, The Florida Times-Union exposed how Shirk inappropriately hired ...
As a young girl, Thea Shirk Beaver remembers her mother, Dr. Annadora V. Shirk, reading aloud to her from a copy of the Dickens classic “A Tale of Two Cities.” “She just made the book come alive,” ...