It's a tip avalanche today, which is timely because I am mad busy, yo. This one comes from reader Mike A. (note: this is a different and more lengthy version of the story Mike sent, which I mention in case the tipster himself is reading and wants some further details of this tale).
''(Martha) said he was in the bed and she gave him Sudafed, gave him Aleve or Advil, gave him something I had never heard of,'' Hazel Freeman said in a telephone interview yesterday from her home in Bristol, Tenn. Yesterday morning, two days after that phone call, Hazel Freeman learned that her son had been beaten to death inside his home by a man police said had been in a romantic relationship with Martha Freeman. In fact, Rafael DeJesus Rocha-Perez — who has been jailed on murder charges — had been secretly living in the Freeman couple's closet for a month...