WITH A TIP FROM A TAB

POLICE ARREST A SUSPECT IN THE COSBY MURDER--WITH HELP FROM THE ENQUIRER

More than a thousand calls came into the National Enquirer's Ennis Cosby hot line after the paper posted a $100,000 reward in the case. One came just a few days after the Jan. 16 murder, when an edgy informant with a slight foreign accent got on the phone with a junior reporter in the Enquirer's Los Angeles office. "You guys are the ones who did the O.J. Simpson case," the caller said as he divulged information about a man who had admitted shooting an African American with a .38-cal. gun in the same area where Cosby was killed. "The tipster was...

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