Las Vegas Harold: Hyman was one tough reporter

The Boulevard bids farewell to one of its most dogged scribes, former Las Vegas Sun police reporter Harold Hyman. He was 77, and in recent years worked at Professional Investigators for private detective Tom Dillard.

Harold was one of those reporters capable of producing an armload of daily copy. He helped break the scandal involving “Silver King” James Ray Houston in 1974, but mostly he specialized in murder. He augmented his Sun income by freelancing colorfully detailed true crime pieces to several pulp magazines of the genre.

Those who knew him forgave him for occasionally stealing their lunch from the Sun’s refrigerator.

“Harold had one of the finest personal integrities of any person I’ve ever met,” Dillard says. “He was as honest as the day is long and as loyal as a hound dog.”