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“Serial” and the Introduction of Truth in Crime Entertainment
Tweetby Zachary Evans There are countless portrayals of criminal justice, criminology, and criminal investigations in popular culture today. Shows like CSI have become ratings juggernauts, while ones...
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Al Capone Could Not Bribe the Rock: Alcatraz, Fortress of Doom
Tweetby Darcia Helle In our modern world of supermax prisons overflowing with gang members, it might be difficult to imagine Alcatraz as a place criminals feared. But the men who spent time locked away...
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Two’s Company, Three’s a Deadly Crowd: The Cruel Killing of Martha Gail Fulton
Tweetby Starks Shrink Donna Kay Tapani paid three misfits to murder Martha Gail Fulton, the wife of her former lover, George Fulton. That’s the simplest story; the motivations and complexities of this...
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Brittany Murphy and the Terror Within
Tweetby Lise LaSalle After the initial shock of Brittany Murphy’s death on December 20, 2009, several questions were raised about her premature passing. Her husband Simon Monjack was in disbelief and...
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Autopsies: Truth, Fiction and Maura Isles and Her 5-Inch-Heels
Tweetby Darcia Helle “To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.” ~ Voltaire If books and TV shows like the Rizzoli and Isles series are to be believed, then medical examiners...
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Stanford University Swimmer Allegedly Rapes Unconscious Woman In Public
Tweetcommentary by Patrick H. Moore When I was a young man I was seriously down and out for a few years, living in low rent apartments in our local “hood”, East Palo Alto, and trying to stay out of...
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Mental Health Stigmas and Over-Criminalization: Our Nation Searches for Answers
Tweetby Robert Parmer We live in a country still unfortunately filled with some social, physical health, and mental health stigmas. America doesn’t have the best track record when it comes to these...
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Will the Real Henry “Portrait of a Serial Killer” Lee Lucas Please Stand Up?
Tweetcompiled by Patrick H. Moore Henry Lee Lucas (the real life inspiration for Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer) loved confessing to murders whether he’d committed them or not. At one point he...
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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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Heartbreaking Claire Hough San Diego Cold Case Solved 30 Years Later with DNA...
Tweetcommentary by Patrick H. Moore In the world of capital crime, there may be nothing more fascinating than The Cold Case. The term itself conjures up dark, hidden mystery suspended in time yet...
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“Met Her on the Mountain”: Cold Case Social Worker Hog-Tied, Raped and Killed...
Tweetby Darcia Helle Met Her on the Mountain: A Forty-Year Quest to Solve the Appalachian Cold-Case Murder of Nancy Morgan is as much a cultural study as a true crime story. Author Mark I. Pinsky takes...
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Illinois Sister Who Stabbed Little Sister 40 Times Out of Jealousy Gets...
Tweetcommentary by Patrick H. Moore Sibling rivalry is a clear and present danger in many (most) families and the only sure-fire solution may be to have only one child. In my own family where I was...
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Meth Heads Post Selfie on Facebook with Overdosed Corpse Before Dumping Body
Tweetcommentary by Patrick H. Moore One of the big problems with doing heavy drugs is that sooner or later either you or somebody you know is going to wind up dead. And like it says in the Bible, “You...
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Dateline Aaron Hernandez: The Loss of His Father and Mother Destroyed Him
Tweetcompiled by Patrick H. Moore In August of 2013, we posted a short piece on Aaron Hernandez describing how his adventures with Angel Dust/PCP transformed a angry, volatile young man into a highly...
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Tammy and Sidney Moorer Are Free on Bond; Has the Prosecution’s Case Lost Its...
Tweetcommentary by Patrick H. Moore Surprise Surprise. Tammy Moorer has already been released from custody and Sidney is expected to follow in her wake as soon as his bond is secured. I haven’t been...
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Shooting Mom! “I Was Only Changing a Diaper When My 3-Year-Old Shot Me...
TweetMy Tulsa neighborhood near 1st Street and 168th East Avenue is reeling in shock today. Yesterday was an ordinary day in the neighborhood until a very strange thing happened. I was changing my...
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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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3-Year-Old New Mexico Boy Shoots Mom and Dad with a Single Bullet
Tweetcommentary by Patrick H. Moore Marshawn Lynch AKA Beast Mode This weekend we had two momentous events that elevated the Great American Bad Choice Sweepstakes to new and previously unscaled...
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Young Satanist Gets 25 to Life for Murdering and Skinning Mother
Tweetcommentary by Patrick H. Moore They say the devil is a trickster but there was nothing tricky about the way Moises Meraz-Espinoza — an 18-year old self-styled Satanist and factory worker sporting...
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Sexy Bob Crane of Hogan’s Heroes Was Bludgeoned to Death in 1978. His...
Tweetby Patrick H. Moore The list of radio and television personalities who have had their lives cut short by murder includes Bob Crane, the incredibly popular Los Angeles morning radio personality,...
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