In a story you read first on Hair Balls, local rocker and Bookstop warehouse manager (and occasional Press contributor and full-time curmudgeon) John Cramer helped Houston police crack the case of the mysterious amnesiac woman.Since then, the woman's identity has been made public. Her name is Janene Luttrell Nicewonger and she is 33 years old, and it appears that her unfortunate surname is not the only part of her checkered past she might want to forget.Both her ex-husband Brian Nicewonger and h
Photo courtesy HPDThe amnesia victimIf you work on loading docks long enough, you develop an eye for the rhythms of a parking lot. You learn whose car is there daily, of course, but you also learn who's living in their car, and how to spot a dumped stolen ride. After 15 or so years as the receiving manager at the Alabama Bookstop and now at the Westheimer & Voss Barnes and Noble, today the local musician and misanthrope John Cramer's eye can spot something odd in a parking lot the same way a vet
The case of the Curmudgeon and the Amnesiac Drifter has legs. Inside Edition, the hard--hitting news program that launched blowhard Bill O'Reilly on an unworthy America, has picked up the story, putting it alongside such Frontline-esque headlines as today's vital (also Houston-tied!) scoop: "For the first time, Inside Edition is hearing from Barbara Bush's mysterious Speedo hunk!")
Yesterday John Cramer, the misanthropic Galleria-area Barnes and Noble employee whose tip helped police ID the
