When Santa Cruz Was ‘The Murder Capital of the World,’ Part Two
Tweetby BJW Nashe In the early 1970s, the charming seaside town of Santa Cruz, California was plagued by a series of murders. The main culprits were a trio of serial killers who claimed the lives of at...
View ArticleThe Woody Allen Lifetime Shame Award?
Tweetcommentary by Patrick H. Moore The Golden Globes honored Woody Allen with the Cecil B. Demille Lifetime Achievement Award Sunday night. Diane Keaton, who accepted the award on Allen’s behalf,...
View ArticleGuilty Pleasures: Film Noir, Gay Porn and Other Forbidden Flowers
Tweetby lissaredshoes “The naming of hidden pleasures is blasphemous.” – Our Lady of the Flowers, Jean Genet Straight porn has all the emotional intensity of limp fish on Quaaludes. Gay male porn, on...
View ArticleCharles Manson — Murderer, Scapegoat, Superstar??
Tweetby BJW Nashe Superstar Murderer. The scope of Charles Manson’s fame is an odd phenomenon in the history of American culture. Manson was a violent criminal convicted of mass murder in 1970. The...
View ArticleThe Last Public Hanging in the United States — Dateline Kentucky, 1936
Tweetcompiled by Patrick H. Moore Rainey Bethea, age 27, was the last person to be publicly executed in the United States. Bethea had confessed to the rape and murder of a 70-year-old woman named...
View ArticleOrange County Cop Acquittal Sends Clear Message: Beat the Homeless to Death
Tweetby BJW Nashe The acquittal on Monday, January 13 of two Fullerton police officers on trial for killing a schizophrenic man named Kelly Thomas is perhaps more than a mere confidence-booster for...
View ArticleDon’t Text at the Movies, The Life You Lose May Be Your Own!
TweetA warm All Things Crime Blog welcome to Mike Roche, retired U.S. Secret Service agent and threat assessment expert. by Mike Roche Chad Oulson, 43 and his wife Nicole, 33, of Land O’ Lakes,...
View ArticleTexas Man Sentenced to 50 Years in Prison for Stealing a Rack of Ribs
Tweetcommentary by Patrick H. Moore “It is hard to argue with the fact that everyone loves a good plate of barbeque ribs…and deep down in the heart of Texas, good ribs are like good religion. Many a...
View ArticleDarlie Routier Not Gone with the Wind
Tweetby Lise LaSalle In 2013, Werner Herzog made a documentary about the Routier case called On Death Row. It is far from over and the prosecutor’s misconduct should be condemned until there is...
View ArticleTen Notorious Crimes That Transfixed the Nation
Tweetcompiled by Patrick H. Moore Here are ten thumbnail descriptions of an equal number of spectacular crimes that shocked and transfixed the nation. Several of these crimes remain unsolved to this...
View ArticleWhen Santa Cruz Was ‘The Murder Capital of the World,’ Part Three
Tweetby BJW Nashe During the early 1970s, the charming seaside town of Santa Cruz, California was plagued by a series of murders. The main culprits were a trio of serial killers that claimed the lives...
View ArticleOhio Condemned Murderer/Rapist Struggles to Die after Botched Lethal Injection
Tweetcommentary by Patrick H. Moore A grisly scene was played out for all the world to see today at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio where condemned rapist and murderer...
View ArticleInternational Sex Police Bust Large Live Child Sex Webcam Ring
Tweetby Bob Couttie In a joint investigation conducted by the UK’s National Crime Agency, NCA, the Australian Federal Police, AFP, and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE, international law...
View ArticleAaron Hernandez May Have Been ‘Shooter’ in Boston Double Nightclub Murder
Tweetcommentary by Patrick H. Moore At this time of year Aaron Hernandez should be with “his guys” preparing for the New England Patriots’ playoff showdown with Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos....
View ArticleTen Best Serial Killer Quotes -These Folks May Not Be Quite Human!
Tweetadapted by Patrick H. Moore “Serial killers have fascinated and disgusted us for generations, their behavior an insane cesspit of deviant acts that we can’t get enough of – whether it be films...
View ArticleIf You Play, You Pay: S & M Murder-Dismemberment of Beautiful San Diego Woman!
Tweetby Patrick H. Moore Brittany Killgore’s dismembered, lifeless body was discovered on April 17, 2012 in an area near Lake Skinner, north of San Diego. Three self-styled San Diego area S&M...
View ArticleFamed ‘Illuminatus!’ Author Robert Anton Wilson Writes His Daughter’s Tragic...
Tweetby BJW Nashe Robert Anton Wilson was not generally known as a crime writer. Yet one of his best books, Cosmic Trigger, hinges on a truly horrific crime – the brutal murder of his 15 year old...
View ArticleTen Frightfully Butchered U.S. Executions
Tweetafterword by Patrick H. Moore Capital punishment has been eradicated in all of western Europe and most of eastern and central Europe. Most of the countries of the Americas have also abolished the...
View ArticleThe Violent and Revealing Adam Lanza Radio Hour
Tweetcommentary by Patrick H. Moore A time passes a more complete picture of Adam Lanza is emerging. Among other things, based on a call he made to “Anarchy Radio” host John Zerzan on Dec. 11, 2011 at...
View ArticleTed Nugent Prepares for Martin Luther King Day by Making an Ass out of Himself
Tweetby BJW Nashe Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson may have been temporarily muzzled following his disastrous interview in last month’s GQ Magazine, but his fellow right-wing culture warrior Ted Nugent is...
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