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Flayed, Boiled and Broken on the Wheel: Death in the Bad Old Days
Tweetby Darcia Helle In our modern, enlightened American culture, we keep our executions quietly behind closed doors. There was a time, though, in the pre-modern world, when this would have been...
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Murder 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...
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Top 10 Most Interesting Heists in US History
Tweetby Jaclyn Lambert From Hollywood-dramatized shootouts at a Blackjack table to underworld Mobster racketeering, our culture is collectively fascinated by the cliche of a street-smart thief dressed...
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The Deep Sleeper – Darlie Routier’s Plight for Innocence
Tweetby John W. Taylor (July 14, 2015) “I think if I live to be a hundred, I wouldn’t be able to tell you everything that happened that night.” – Darlie Routier (Court Transcripts, The State of Texas...
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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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Masks of Sanity: Jerry Bledsoe’s Classic True Crime Sagas
TweetOverview: Jerry Bledsoe’s series of critically acclaimed true crime sagas, originally published in the late 1980s and 90s, have been made into various movies (including Before He Wakes and Honor...
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The Stone Is Rolled Off of All Things Crime Blog’s Head! Raise a Glass in...
Tweetby Patrick H. Moore Great Good News, Dear Friends and Comrades. Thanks to a wise Federal judge in Newark, New Jersey, the 900 pound stone that has been sitting on Patrick H’s (and by extension All...
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Mom’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...
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Jared Fogle’s Disastrous Fall from Grace
Tweetby Patrick H. Moore Those of us who are getting a bit long in the tooth or have even reached the backside of 30 probably remember that unforgettable day when Jared Fogle first burst upon the...
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Italian Supreme Court Knocks Hard on Amanda Knox’s Prosecutors
Tweetby Patrick H. Moore My best beloveds, well do I remember that dreadful day when I first began running posts on the Amanda Knox – Meredith Kercher case. I was still very much a true crime greenhorn...
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“COLD SERIAL: The Jack the Strangler Murders” Come Alive in Brian Forschner’s...
Tweetreview by Patrick H. Moore I get asked to read a fair number of true crime books. The writers, like writers everywhere, are working hard to promote their creations and are eager for exposure. I...
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Drew Peterson – A Legend in His Own Mind
Tweetby John W. Taylor After a drawn-out battle over money and custody, Drew Peterson finally divorced his third wife, Kathleen Savio, in October of 2003. He married Stacy Cales (“Peterson”) days after...
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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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Not How It Was Supposed To Go: Joanna Madonna and the Murder of Jose Perez
Tweetby John W. Taylor Joanna Madonna moved to the Raleigh, North Carolina area in 2007 with her second husband, three daughters, and elderly father. After divorcing her second husband a couple of...
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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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Murder 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...
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Howard Kaplan’s Israeli Spy Thrillers, “The Damascus Cover” and “Bullets of...
Tweetreview by Patrick H. Moore I was recently contacted by a liberal Zionist novelist and humanitarian named Howard Kaplan who wrote two first-rate Israeli spy novels back in the 1970s and 1980s. To...
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The Secret at Fox Hollow Farm: Herb Baumeister Murdered and Buried 11 Gay Men...
Tweetby Jared Keever Author’s Note: The name Tony Harris, as mentioned in the following story, is fictitious. In the interest of privacy, and because I have not personally spoken to some of them for...
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The Last Public Hanging in the United States — Dateline Kentucky, 1936
Tweetcompiled by Patrick H. Moore Rainey Bethea, age 27, was the last person to be publicly executed in the United States. Bethea had confessed to the rape and murder of a 70-year-old woman named...
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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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