INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST - PODCAST: 'TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES WITH DOUG POPPA'. Previous-Baltimore Post-Examiner, authored over 135 stories on the OCTOBER 1 LAS VEGAS MASSACRE. US Army Veteran. Former law enforcement officer/criminal investigator. Guest on national radio/TV news programs. In 1992 I testified that the prosecutor/sheriff's captain withheld exculpatory evidence in an attempted murder trial that led to the release of the man from prison. I was fired several months later.