Dale Hausner
Live from the courtroom: In the early part of his testimony, Serial Shooter suspect Dale Hausner portrayed himself as a bit of a man about town. He talked up his work as a boxing photographer. “I have done photography for all the major boxing magazines,” he said. He talked about his appearances on television. “In 2005 and 2006, I had my own cable boxing show called ‘The Best of Boxing with Dale Hausner.'” And he mentioned a brief stint as a local comedian. “I did stand up comedy for about a year,” Hausner said. “I’m not as funny as I think I am.”
Amid the denials of murder and other shootings, Hausner has tried to turn up the charm for the jury. He touted his credentials as a sort of rising celebrity in the Phoenix area. He even used his work as a janitor at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport to vouch for his credibility. He went through an extensive background check to even begin working there. “If you were a bad guy, you could do some bad stuff at the airport,” Hausner said. “So they’d try to weed out the undesirables, so to speak.”
Update (11:55 a.m.): Later in the morning testimony, Hausner said he was known in Las Vegas, too. “I’m a preferred member at the now defunct Stardust (Resort and Casino), so I got cheap room, free food,” Hausner said. “I’d probably been there easy 50, probably up to 100 times. I had so many friends I could stay with, met girls out there. i was out there a lot.”