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 ArticleWas 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...
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 ArticleFrank Lloyd Wright and the Great Gasoline Mass Murder
Tweetby Darcia Helle August 15th of this year marks the 100th anniversary of the most gruesome mass murder Wisconsin has ever seen. The story has all the makings of a New York Times bestseller or...
View ArticleSerial Killer Aileen Wuornos Sets the Record Straight
Tweetcommentary by Patrick H. Moore In Aileen Wuornos’ final interview with Nick Broomfield one day before her execution, she starts out calmly enough and appears to have made her peace with dying. She...
View Article“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...
View ArticleSkylar Neese and the Mean Girls Who Killed Her
Tweetby The Starks Shrink Skylar Neese was just 16 years old when she climbed out of her bedroom window for the last time on July 5, 2012 at around midnight. She was a bright teen, with a strong work...
View ArticleHow Errol Flynn, Hollywood’s Bad Boy, Beat His Rape Charges!
Tweetcompiled 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....
View ArticleForensics Dispatch From New York City: Searching A House Of Horrors!
Tweetby John Paolucci The investigation into the Cleveland kidnappings is in many ways just beginning. It brings to mind the case of a murdered 8 year old Hasidic boy by the name of Leiby Kletzky, who...
View ArticleMom’s Been Murdered: Courageous Tiny Tot Walks a Mile to Grandmother’s House...
Tweetby Patrick H. Moore You are a three-year-old girl and you live in a house in a place called Mascotte. You also live in a place called Florida which you understand is bigger than Mascotte so you...
View ArticleFamily Annihilator Darin Campbell Murders His Family and Torches Lavish Tampa...
Tweetby Mike Roche 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 the gates of the...
View ArticleSchizophrenic Child Killer Sheilla Shea Would “Sell Her Soul” to Bring Her...
Tweetby Starks Shrink On July 2nd 2005, Oklahoma resident Sheilla Shea took a knife and stabbed her six year old son, Patric, to death in front of her other three children, one of whom wrestled her to...
View ArticleGetting 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...
View Article“The Wrong Carlos”: Non-Violent Manchild Executed for Murder He Did Not Commit
Tweetby Darcia Helle “I didn’t do it, but I know who did.” Imagine you are a 20-year-old, uneducated man-child who has spent his entire life in a small, crime-infested community. Your family defines...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleAlphabet Serial Killer Joseph Naso Gets the Death Penalty
Tweetby Patrick H. Moore The Alphabet Serial Killer Joseph Naso enjoyed one helluva run but even his luck ran out when a Marin County jury recommended the death penalty for the 79-year-old former...
View ArticleThe Night I Said No To The French Connection!
Tweetby Bob Couttie Many years ago, on another planet, I drank champagne on the French Riviera and bedded a princess. Outside the shuttered windows a clear blue Mediterranean Sea sparkled below the...
View ArticleAileen Wuornos, America’s First High-Profile Female Serial Killer, Never Had...
Tweetby Darcia Helle Allow me to tell you a story about a woman born into the most dismal of circumstances. Her mother is a young teen when she marries a violent man. He is soon arrested and convicted...
View ArticleThe ‘Butcher Baker’ Is Dead at Last: Alaska’s Most Prolific Serial Killer...
Tweetcompiled by Patrick H. Moore It’s no secret that serial killers often masquerade as everyday good citizens. To some degree, Alaska’s most prolific serial killer, ‘Butcher Baker’ Robert Hansen, did...
View ArticleTwo’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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