Rachel Worth writes: Hi Gene, Why in the world would you write that article about the Torrance pimping and pandering case and say it's Alana and Chris [Evans]? I sat in every day of the trial (almost three weeks) and got to know Jill and Chris very well. It's a real tragedy that they will have to serve time, and the whole case was a huge waste of taxpayers' money. I tried to post a comment on the article on your site, but it never appeared. It is true, by the way, that Chris Davis resembles Chris Evans. I thought that from the moment I met him seven months ago.
Gene sez: I didn't write the article. It was the LA Times story. But I did insert the Evans' name. Where I'm kicking myself on this whole thing is the fact that I violated my own first law- the doubting Thomas principle, that unless you see something first hand, it doesn't exist. The fact that I didn't post this story until late Sunday meant I had some doubts on the issue which I should have heeded. But I kept getting phone calls and assurances from Thursday to Sunday from people telling me that, yes, they had seen this story on Channel 4, that it was The Evans'. Yeah, that's their real names, yeah. Ugh.
Because I personally didn't see the story I paid little heed. I made the error in listening to too many people figuring they would probably know better than me. Where, in some cases, that can be an asset in reporting a story, in others that can be a disaster. The Chasey Lain OD story is a fine example of how it can.
