J.D. Mullane is a columnist for the Bucks County Courier Times and a blogger for Phillyburbs.com. He was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his crime series that examined the 1962 rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl in a Bristol Borough church.

Mullane has covered many Bucks County murder trials, four of them death penalty cases. He is the only reporter to interview bank robber William Alston, who shot a Bristol Township sergeant and escaped to Africa, where Alston lived for a decade as a clean cut, soft- spoken university English professor.

Mullane frequently guests on Philadelphia talk radio, most recently about the Bucks County 9-1-1 debacle in which a disabled woman was killed in a house fire after a dispatcher asked her to “hold.”

He will appear on an upcoming episode of “Forensic Files” on Court TV where he discusses the 2000 murder case of Rachel Siani, BCCC student and “gentlemen’s club” stripper who was tossed from the Pennsylvania Turnpike bridge by Jack Denofa, a local businessman.

He attended Bucks County Community College and has a BA in journalism from Temple University.