Officer Julius Fulmore confirmed as pastors' source

I called Officer Julius Fulmore last week. I had a short list of candidates for the anonymous source who told the Rev. Nelson Johnson that Lt. Craig McMinn ordered the destruction of about 50 boxes of files related to the Klan-Nazi shootings while he commanded the special intelligence section. Fulmore confirmed that he was the one. Here's the story.

Fulmore told me: "I know that you know; otherwise you wouldn't be calling me."

We decided to hold off on publishing the information about Fulmore's roles in hopes that we could learn more from interviewing him. I haven't spoken to Fulmore in depth yet. I've gotten some of the details from Fulmore's lawyer, Amiel Rossabi over the past seven days. It was only a matter of time before Fulmore's identity was going to come out, and secrets are hard to keep in a small city like Greensboro.

We decided to publish our story.