Great Moments in Journalism are submitted by readers, and can be sent to this address. Well, the polls have closed, and your winner is Tom, Interchangeable Black Name, and Harry. This week we're going to do something very special here at Gawker; we're going to choose the Greatest Moment in Journalism of the year. We've carefully sifted through each nominee since this feature's inception and picked out the four that seemed to resonate the most with you, the readers. We'll spend the next four days reacquainting you with some old friends, and then, come Friday, we'll select 2006's Greatest Moment. Your first nominee is after the jump.

Back in September, Barb Ickes of the Quad City Times introduced us to Tony Reynolds, whose sixteen-year-old daughter Adrianne was murdered. Here's what we learned:

Adrianne's dad, Tony Reynolds, sat on the floor with us for a few minutes, reading the latest poem he'd written to her. All his poems began, "Roses are red, violets are blue."

We were on our third or fourth game when Tony wandered back over, leaned against the wall near the big row of windows, looked down at us and said, "Could whichever one of you loses help me change the oil in my Mustang?"
He was chewing gum when he said it, which only made it funnier to me.

He held a pink pillow, Adrianne's favorite color, and tried to hide how much his back hurt from sitting for days on the wooden benches inside the fifth-floor courtroom.

Tony's a truck driver. His daughter is dead.

And violets are blue.

No Hope for the Dead