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Last Writes

R.I.P.: Last Writes

11/16/2009 10:31 AM
Kim Matas

Bidding adieu to the death blog.

Scientist who proved exercise is heart-healthy dies at 99 1/2

11/12/2009 05:57 AM
Kim Matas

Almost every day, well into his mid-90s, Jeremy Morris swam, pedaled his exercise bike or walked for at least half an hour.

Serial killers who hunt from home — a rare breed

11/11/2009 12:47 PM
Kim Matas

“The fact that they would dirty their own nest, as it were, is peculiar to me and suggests a level of mental illness or sickness,” said a mental health expert.

Murder case a glimpse into stresses of caretaking

11/11/2009 05:33 AM
Kim Matas

Man cracks after years of caring for elderly, ailing parents. My question is, why didn’t he put his father in an elder-care home instead of growing increasingly frustrated and angry?

“Life and Death in Shanghai” author dies

11/10/2009 12:25 PM
Kim Matas

Memoirist Nien Cheng wrote a harrowing account of the Cultural Revolution in China and her years of imprisonment and torture at the hands of the Red Guards.

R.I.P.: A true steel magnolia

11/10/2009 06:24 AM
Kim Matas

Teacher Evelyn O’Neal, 91, embodied rigor, style of her era.

Nobel-winning Russian physicist dies at 93

11/10/2009 01:43 AM
Kim Matas

An inventor of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, Vitaly Ginzburg still considered himself a “secular humanist.”

Arizona "honor killing"

11/09/2009 11:48 AM
Kim Matas

Westernized Iraqi woman living in the U.S. is run over by her father.

“House of Horrors”

11/09/2009 11:37 AM
Kim Matas

Serial killer’s digs become tourist attraction. Onlookers flock to site of Cleveland killings.

Gang-bangers gun down infant

11/09/2009 11:31 AM
Kim Matas

Mother tries to cope with her baby’s shooting death.

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About 'Last Writes'

Last Writes is the sometimes serious, sometimes irreverent extension of reporter Kimberly Matas' Life Stories series, which chronicles the lives of recently deceased Tucsonans.





About Kim Matas


Kim has been getting paid to write since she was 16 and a freelance high school correspondent for the Phoenix Gazette. More than 25 years later, she's still at it. No one knows why.
Email: kmatas@azstarnet.com