Best of the Best Crime Fiction – Twelve Remarkable Crime Novels
Tweetby BJW Nashe 1. Dog Soldiers, by Robert Stone Dog Soldiers may be the best thriller ever written by an American. Set in the tumultuous early 1970s, the story follows John Converse, a journalist...
View ArticleThe Monstrous H.H. Holmes and His Murder Castle Inc.
Tweetby Darcia Helle You’ve probably fantasized about your dream home. Most of us do. You might want a spacious mansion, a decadent penthouse, or an old farmhouse. Chances are you won’t be fantasizing...
View ArticleU.S. Only Country Where A Child Can Be Sentenced To Life without Parole
Tweetcommentary by Patrick H. Moore It is a scandal of the first order. Today in the U.S., more than 2,600 people are currently serving life without parole because of crimes they committed as children....
View ArticleThe Eerie Minds of the Moors Murderers, Myra Hindley and Ian Brady
Tweetby Bob Couttie Ruth Ellis was the last woman to be hanged in England, in 1955. The last man to be executed is a coin toss between Peter Anthony Allen and Gwynne Owen Evans who were simultaneously...
View ArticleDJ Murdered in Berlin for Playing the Wrong Music?
Tweetby BJW Nashe Some of us take our music very seriously. A recent story about a DJ murder in Berlin by a disgruntled “vinyl purist,” followed by an attempted murder in Philadelphia by a truly...
View ArticleColonel Russell Williams Where Have You Been? I’ve been to London to Fly the...
Tweetby Lise LaSalle In 2010, Colonel Russell Williams was chosen newsmaker of the year in Canada. The year had started so well for this decorated colonel. He was a rising star in the ranks of the air...
View ArticleBoyfriend Won’t Stop at McDonalds,Tennessee Mom Runs Him Over With His Own Truck
Tweetcommentary by Patrick H. Moore Most of you have seen the TV ad where The Most Interesting Man in the World intones just a bit smugly in his sexy voice, “I don’t drink beer very often but when I do...
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 ArticleCan Tammy and Sidney Moorer Be Convicted of Murdering Heather Elvis without a...
Tweetcommentary by Patrick H. Moore Most observers would probably agree that the Horry County prosecutors in the Heather Elvis murder case have pretty strong circumstantial evidence against Sidney and...
View ArticleIncestuous Michigan Man Ryan Wyngarden Convicted of Murdering Sister Out of...
Tweetcommentary by Patrick H. Moore Suppose you’ve been dating a new man for a month. Things are going well and you’re beginning to think the relationship may have potential when one day, to your...
View ArticleTo Burn or Not to Burn? Auto-Da-Fé Is Not Good for Women or Children!
Tweetby Darcia Helle Burning at the stake was a form of execution practiced at least as far back as Babylonia and ancient Israel. Treason, heresy, and witchcraft were among the crimes for which this...
View ArticleBeautiful Serial Killer Groupie Samantha Spiegel Mutates into High-Class Escort!
Tweetby BJW Nashe The first two photographs in this post are courtesy of San Francisco-based photographer Frank Gaglione. You can see more of Frank’s work at his website. The fact that some women and...
View ArticleDupont Family Heir Robert H. Richards IV Gets ‘Sweetheart Deal’ after...
Tweetcommentary by Patrick H. Moore Suppose that on one side of your family you are an heir of one of America’s richest and most prestigious industrialist families. Then suppose that on the other side...
View ArticleCruel Adoptive Parents Force Child to Wear Electric Shock Collar and Live in...
Tweetcompiled by Patrick H. Moore NBC New York has just reported a new story in which a Connecticut couple has allegedly forced a 9-year-old girl in their care (possibly a foster child) to wear an...
View ArticleBarrett Brown: Author and Hacktivist Goes to Trial
Tweetby BJW Nashe Federal prosecutors have dismissed 11 of the 17 counts against Barrett Brown, but the author and activist is still facing up to 70 years in prison as he awaits the start of his trial...
View ArticleTen Fatal Facts about Ted Bundy’s Formative Years
TweetThe following 10 somewhat bizarre yet prophetically fatal facts about Ted Bundy during his youth and young adulthood come to us courtesy of Bukisa.com and Wikipedia. Bukisa’s interpretations of...
View ArticleSaudi Princesses in Captivity for More Than a Thousand and One Nights Are...
Tweetby Lise LaSalle As children, we learned of the One Thousand and One Nights stories that Scheherazade would tell the King in an attempt to save her life. By captivating him with her delightful...
View ArticleHog-Hunting Florida Mama Leaves Kids to Freeze While Hunting Wild Boar!
Tweetcommentary by Patrick H. Moore We hear a lot of complaints these days about bad parenting. Some folks insist that today’s parents are lax and self-absorbed and fail to instill proper standards...
View ArticleDesperate Girl Gangsters Get the Shaft
TweetThousands of girls, some as young as eight, are living lives in which rape is a weapon used against them, and carrying drugs and guns is regarded as normal, says a report probing the lives of...
View ArticleColumbia Mall Shooter Darion Aguilar Followed the Model of Notorious Mass...
Tweetby Mike Roche Their mutual interest in skateboarding brought three young Maryland adults together and, ironically, led to their deaths. Briana Benlolo, 21 was the assistant manager of a...
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