Charles 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 ArticleMontana Man Sets Death Trap in Garage and Kills 17-Year-Old Exchange Student
Tweetcommentary by Patrick H. Moore Ambush in the Mind When I was a wee lad with stealth and energy but very little brain, one of my great joys was to lie in wait for my brother Tom who in my mind was...
View ArticleWho Killed Nurse Cindy James?
Tweetby Lise LaSalle On June 8, 1989, a 44-year old Canadian nurse named Cindy James was found dead in Richmond, a suburb of Vancouver. She had been drugged and strangled, with her hands and feet tied...
View Article“The Long Goodbye”: A Gentler, Kinder Philip Marlowe?
Tweetby Peter Maiden “He had been a man it was impossible to dislike. How many do you meet in a lifetime you can say that about?” This reflection in the mind of world-famous sleuth Philip Marlowe, in...
View ArticleUpdated: Patrick H. Moore Will Be Interviewed on The Controversial IRP6 Case...
TweetPatrick H. Moore will be interviewed on the radio regarding the controversial IRP6 case out of Denver, Colorado today, Tuesday, April 29, 2014 at 6:00 pm California time. This case involves a...
View ArticleItalian Court’s Torturous Reasoning Tortures Amanda Knox
Tweetcommentary by patrick H. Moore The psychological torture that Amanda Knox has endured since that fateful day in 2007 when someone or several someones brutally murdered Meredith Kercher is now in...
View ArticleJury Finds Byron Smith Guilty of Murdering Two Minnesota Teens
Tweetcommentary by patrick H. Moore Tuesday, April 29th, would appear to be an important day in American jurisprudence. This is the day a six-man, six-woman jury of his peers found Byron Smith of...
View ArticleWhen 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 ArticleMarissa Devault Spared the Death Penalty by Maricopa County Jury
Tweetcommentary by Patrick H. Moore Yesterday a life was spared in Maricopa County. After three days of deliberation (imagine all the back-and-forth that must have volleyed around the jury room during...
View ArticleMontana State Supreme Court Overturns Judge’s 30-Day Sentence in Schoolgirl...
Tweetcommentary by Patrick H. Moore When Billings, Montana District Court Judge G. Todd Baugh sentenced school-teacher Stacey Dean Rambold to 30 days in county jail on August 26, 2013 for the rape of a...
View Article25 Striking Quotes from Jeffrey Dahmer, Serial Killer
TweetCourtesy of The Lair, we present 25 striking quotes from Jeffrey Dahmer. Unlike Ted Bundy, Dahmer does not make excuses. Rather, he reaches for answers to the unanswerable horror that he...
View ArticleThe Highway of Tears
Tweetby Lise LaSalle A documentary titled Highway of Tears premiered on March 6th, 2014 at the Human Right Watch Film Festival in Toronto, Canada. The film director, Matt Smiley, announced that...
View ArticleTop Ten Bizarre Courtroom Scenes: Tell Me I’m Dreaming?
Tweetby BJW Nashe The George Zimmerman trial got off to a dramatic start when attorneys delivered opening salvos laced with jokes and profanity. Prosecutor John Guy’s first words to the jury were,...
View ArticleMurder Stories I Can Never Forget: Snake River Serial Killer Still at Large?
Tweetby JJ Rogers I was born in Clarkston, Washington and grew up across the Snake River in Lewiston, Idaho. The two cities are located in a deep valley at the confluence of the Clearwater and Snake...
View ArticleMass Murder As a Form of Hero Worship: John LaDue Infected with the Columbine...
Tweetcommentary by Patrick H. Moore We all have folks that we look up to. In some cases, that respect may evolve into adulation and the desire to emulate. For example, how many latter-day schoolboy...
View ArticleSoCal Good Samaritan Stabbed and Killed Chasing Armed Robber
Tweetcommentary by Patrick H. Moore Every time I hear of a Good Samaritan coming to the aid of a crime victim, I bask in the milk of human kindness and find myself thinking that maybe the world isn’t...
View ArticleWorld Class Skater Gator Rogowski’s Slide into Infamy: A Cautionary Tale
Tweetcompiled by Patrick H. Moore While sleuthing around online, searching for new information on the San Diego County Brittany Killgore sado-masochism murder case (Killgore is a strange name for...
View ArticleWatching Karla Homolka: Reality Bites and Karla Becomes Unhinged
Tweetby Patrick H. Moore For two almost magical weeks in February of 1993, Karla Homolka’s actions — although not exactly care-free — were still those of a woman determined to wring every ounce of...
View ArticleMan Tortures and Kills Wife for Being a Bad Cook
Tweetcommentary by Patrick H. Moore There may come a time in the life of any married person when the husband, wife, or same-sex partner considers garroting the other party. Generally, this is a...
View ArticleChapman, Hinckley, Bardo, and the Murderer’s Handbook — The Catcher in the Rye
Tweetby BJW Nashe A Comeback. J.D. Salinger, who died in January of 2010, is now poised to make a posthumous literary comeback. A probing biography released earlier this year sheds new light on the...
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