Small Town Prosecutor

In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, Bob Simpson, a former Vermont prosecutor, worked with police and other prosectors to bring evidence of murder, attempted murder, kidnapping, and sexual abuse before more than a dozen juries. In 1981, two teenagers raped and murdered a 12-year-old girl in Maple Street Park. In 1982, two men bludgeoned a rowdy bar patron and left him for dead in the Winooski River. In Barre, a man pleaded insanity after fatally shooting his downstairs neighbor because he