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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...
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14 Pound 9-Year-Old Handicapped Houston Girl Found in Crisper Drawer of...
Tweetcommentary by Patrick H. Moore Life is hard and that goes for children as well as adults. Probably no one, though, has it as tough as a handicapped child with incompetent parents. I say parents in...
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In Case You Didn’t Understand Why Blacks Are Protesting the Police in 32...
Tweetby Robert Emmett Murphy Jr. Nationwide, in the last four months, there have been four police killings of unarmed blacks: Tamir Rice The youngest victim was 12 years old (Cleveland, Ohio) Two were...
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In Case You Didn’t Understand Why Blacks Are Protesting the Police in 32...
Tweetby Robert Emmett Murphy Jr. Nationwide, in the last four months, there have been four police killings of unarmed blacks: Tamir Rice The youngest victim was 12 years old (Cleveland, Ohio) Two were...
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Famed ‘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...
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22-Year-Old Heroine Killed with Baseball Bat after Saving Two Teens from...
Tweetcommentary by Patrick H. Moore We have a few problems here. More often than not, cops seem to get away with killing civilians with relative impunity; if the reports are to be believed, college...
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Female Texas Troopers Perform Body Cavity Searches on Routine Traffic Stops
Tweetcommentary by Patrick H. Moore Texas troopers in both the Dallas and the Houston areas have sunk to a new low (or perhaps it’s just standard procedure in that part of the country). In a pair of...
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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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Helpless Maryland Kids Forced Out onto the Street Because They Can’t Find...
Tweetcommentary by Patrick H. Moore What is life but a constant setting, juggling and readjusting of priorities? After my daughter had been away at college for four weeks we received an aggrieved phone...
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95-Year-Old Chicago War Veteran Dies after Being Tasered and Bean-Bagged by...
Tweetcompiled by Patrick H. Moore John Wrana died in July of 2013 at the age of 95. Over 65 years ago, Mr. Wrana served in the Pacific Theater during World War II. He fought in India and Burma and was...
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Ten Fatal Facts about Ted Bundy’s Formative Years
TweetThe following 10 somewhat bizarre yet prophetically fatal facts about Ted Bundy (Monster Smooth) during his youth and young adulthood come to us from Bukisa.com and Wikipedia. Bukisa’s...
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Pennsylvania Man Murders His Lovely Step-Daughter Jessica Padgett as Prelim...
Tweetcommentary by Patrick H. Moore The law is a funny animal and no matter how hard its pundits and practitioners try to “get it right”, it will always have quirks that stagger the mind of the bemused...
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Mentally Ill Man Who Murdered Mother and Four Young Children in Brooklyn with...
Tweetcommentary by Patrick H. Moore From 1991 through 2011, the violent crime rate in the U.S. either dropped or remained stable. Recently, however, the statistics have shown that the 20-year trend...
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The Kidnapping of Mollie Digby: Was the Fair-Haired Stranger Actually Mollie?
Tweetby Darcia Helle In 1870, New Orleans was a city divided by politics, class, and race. The Civil War had left much of the south reeling, and now the government’s Radical Reconstruction attempted to...
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Wealthy Bisexual Businessman Acquitted of Honeymoon Murder of Beautiful Wife...
Tweetcommentary by Patrick H. Moore In a rather interesting case, a British businessman, Shrien Dewani, was arrested in December of 2010 for allegedly hiring a hit man to kill his wife, Anni Dewani, in...
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Deep Cover? Bank Robbers’ Ingenious Disguises
Tweetby BJW Nashe These days, if you’re going to start robbing banks or convenience stores, you need to put some effort into personal style and fashion. You are certain to be caught on surveillance...
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Killers and “The Catcher in the Rye”
Tweetby Mike Roche Exhibit I: The Killing of John Lennon In the darkness of a cold December night, the assassin waited for his prey to return home. He watched in silence as the limousine dropped off...
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“Don’t Behead Me, Dude!”: The Rise and Fall of the Guillotine
Tweetby Darcia Helle Throughout world history, criminals have been executed as punishment for their crimes. Early methods were brutal and torturous. Held as public events, entire towns gathered to...
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Ultimate Horror: 19-Year-Old Mississippi Girl Jessica Chambers Burned to...
Tweetcommentary by Patrick H. Moore A new case out of Panola County in northern Mississippi is like something out of a nightmare so horrific that the dreamer would never want to go to sleep again. On...
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The Lonesome (and Thoroughly Dramatic) Death of Ted Bundy, Serial Killer
Tweetcommentary by Patrick H. Moore Although unlike Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy rarely elicits much sympathy or compassion from the “typical” true crime fan, oddly enough, his death by electrocution in...
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