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Paducah Attorney Found Dead

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Prominent Paducah attorney Tod Megibow has died.  The 61-year-old New York native was found dead in his office Wednesday morning.  

McCracken County Coroner Dan Sims tells The Paducah Sun the cause of death is still under investigation.  Sims says investigators estimate Megibow died late Tuesday with no indications of foul play.  An autopsy is not planned.  Before becoming a lawyer, Megibow was a professional sculptor.  Friends and colleagues say Megibow was a brilliant legal mind who was proud of his heritage and his Jewish faith.  Funeral arrangements are still pending.  

Megibow authored  a legal thriller novel  called Dyslexic Sukcess [sic].  Megibow farmed his own experience to create the main character, a dyslexic Jewish attorney from New York, who has relocated to a small town that looks suspiciously like Paducah. Megibow speaks with Angela Hatton about the book, and his struggle with dyslexia.

Hear Megibow's 2010 interview with WKMS above.

Todd Hatton hails from Paducah, Kentucky, where he got into radio under the auspices of the late, great John Stewart of WKYX while a student at Paducah Community College. He also worked at WKMS in the reel-to-reel tape days of the early 1990s before running off first to San Francisco, then Orlando in search of something to do when he grew up. He received his MFA in Creative Writing at Murray State University. He vigorously resists adulthood and watches his wife, Angela Hatton, save the world one plastic bottle at a time.
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