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Family Annihilator Darin Campbell Murders His Family and Torches Lavish Tampa...
Tweetby Mike Roche Until last Wednesday, the Darin and Kim Campbell family lived in a rented 1.6 million dollar Tampa mansion, the former home of retired tennis star James Blake. The house sat behind...
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The Six Degrees of Separation of Nancy Grace
Tweetby Lise LaSalle Recently, I had the pleasure of discovering an older movie called “Six Degrees of Separation”, a film adaptation of a play written by Pulitzer Prize winner John Guare. The story...
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‘Ms. Puppy’ Gets 30 Years for Bludgeoning His Kind-Hearted Employers
Tweetcommentary by Patrick H. Moore Ronald Thomas Ford and Ramiro “Rome” Sanchez were 63 and 55 respectively when their lives were cut short when they were bludgeoned to death at their home in the 100...
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“Sid and Nancy” Were Destined to Die Young: But Who Really Killed the First...
Tweetby BJW Nashe Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen’s death-trip punk romance culminated in her murder in October, 1978, followed by his death from a heroin overdose in early 1979. For thirty years, the...
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“Behind and Beyond the Wall”: Tyler’s Story of Finding Life in Darkness
TweetAll Things Crime Blog has been posting excerpts from Nicholas Frank’s book, Destructive Justice, in which he tells the story of how his 17-year-old son, Nathan, received several life sentences for...
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Was Karla Homolka a Normal Child? The Answer Is a Resounding No.
TweetWe here at All Things Crime Blog extend a warm welcome to Yalonda Laugh. Yalonda is a Karla Homolka super-sleuth and is the main author of this post. We thank her for digging deep and providing us...
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6-Year-Old 16-Pound-Girl Starved in Cage Until She Eats Herself — Parents...
Tweetby Patrick H. Moore There is a new Reality TV show called “Parents from Hell and the Children They Abuse” that is Number One with a Bullet. The object of the game is to determine which set of...
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When Santa Cruz Was “The Murder Capital of the World,” Part One
Tweetby BJW Nashe When I lived in Santa Cruz, California from 1982-87, I had no idea that this pleasant seaside town was once dubbed “The Murder Capital of the World.” By the time I moved there to...
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7-Year-Old 25-Pound Home-Schooled Pennsylvania Boy Starved, Beaten and Forced...
Tweetcommentary by Patrick H. Moore Although it’s rare, I’ve been known to occasionally go out on a limb and make dictatorial pronouncements that while not intended to offend, nonetheless anger certain...
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Getting Away with Murder: Serial Killers Who Were Never Caught
Tweetby BJW Nashe “Getting away with murder” now serves as a euphemism for avoiding the consequences of just about any kind of bad behavior. In its most literal sense, however, the phrase points to an...
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How Errol Flynn — Hollywood’s Bad Boy — Beat His Rape Charges!
Tweetposted by Patrick H. Moore On February 6, 1943, the famed film actor Errol Flynn, after a month-long trial, was acquitted of the rapes and statutory rapes of Peggy Satterlee and Betty Hansen. The...
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The Diane Downs’ Case Was No Small Sacrifice
Tweetby Lise LaSalle On May 19, 1983, Elizabeth Diane Downs and her three small children were shot on a country road near Springfield, Oregon. Her 7-year old daughter Cheryl died but her 3-year old son...
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SF Man Impersonated Police Officer And Targeted Immigrants for Sex Crimes
Tweetcommentary by Patrick H. Moore There’s little doubt that most of us at times have fantasized about being something (or someone) other than who we are. For example, in my (not so) secret moments, I...
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Florida ‘Toxic Tush’ Doctor Gets One Year in Prison for Botched Butt Injections
Tweetcommentary by Patrick H. Moore Even though there is no proof he ever said it, Phineas T. Barnum of Ringling Bros. Circus fame is often credited with saying, “There’s a sucker born every minute.”...
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22-Year-Old Autistic Twins Locked in Urine-Soaked Basement for 6 Years
Tweetcommentary by Patrick H. Moore Just when you think the onslaught of child abuse stories cannot get any worse, along comes another one so awful that, at first blush, it would destroy one’s faith in...
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9-Month Old 17-Pound Baby Boy Dies After Babysitters Inject Him with Heroin...
Tweetcompiled by Patrick H. Moore As children in school — at least when I was a child in school so long ago — we were taught about “America the Beautiful”, a land of bountiful opportunity where through...
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Is American Justice 100 Years Behind Western Europe?
Tweetby Lorenz I am an American citizen born and raised in Germany. While I love the USA and this is my home country, my values, I have found, are grounded in those of Western Europe, as I am...
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The Burning Need for Prosecutorial Fairplay: Inspiring Words by Former U.S....
Tweetshared by Rick Stack with a brief word of explanation by Patrick H. Moore Yesterday was an interesting day in the brief and sometimes stormy history of All Things Crime Blog. First, I want to...
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Jealous Mother Murders 4-Year-Old Daughter in Order to Break Father’s Heart?
Tweetcommentary by Patrick H. Moore Although it is generally believed that men are typically the “evil beings” who brutally slay their children for no good reason (not that there is ever a “good...
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Teenage Girl Allegedly Stabs Best Friend 65 Times for Posting Nude Selfie on...
Tweetcommentary by Patrick H. Moore In trying to make sense out of the wobbly world of crime, we’re occasionally confronted by a case both gruesome and strange that makes us shake our heads and ask,...
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