Do Helena Stoeckley’s Ramblings Convey Reasonable Doubt for Jeffrey MacDonald?
Tweetby John W. Taylor In the early morning hours of February 17, 1970, Jeffrey MacDonald made an emergency call reporting a stabbing at his home at 544 Castle Drive in Fayetteville, North Carolina....
View ArticleHow Jeffrey MacDonald’s Words Betrayed Him
Tweetby John W. Taylor On February 17, 1970, the military police at Fort Bragg, North Carolina found Colette MacDonald and her two young daughters, Kimberly (age 5) and Kristen (age 2), viciously...
View ArticleEmbracing the Other: You Can Make It If You Really Try
TweetPatrick H. Moore’s post, “Embracing the Other: You Can Make It If You Really Try”, is now live on Darcia Helle’s blogsite, Quiet Fury Books (http://www.quietfurybooks.com/). Darcia has kindly...
View ArticleInstafreebie Crime Fiction Group Giveaway
Tweetposted by Patrick H. Moore Crime Fiction Giveaway Alert Suzanne Jenkins is a dear friend of mine and an accomplished romance and crime writer. I have read several of her books and strongly...
View ArticleHidden in Plain Sight: The Darker Side of Aaron Hernandez
Tweetby John W. Taylor Aaron Hernandez excelled in high school athletics. He has been portrayed as the best athlete to ever come out of Bristol, Connecticut. Off the field, he appeared physically older...
View ArticleThe Tragic Death of Jason Corbett: Father-Daughter Tag Team, or Self-Defense?
Tweetby John W. Taylor After Jason Corbett’s first wife died from an asthma attack in November of 2006, he was forced to raise his two children, Jack and Sarah, alone in their homeland of Ireland....
View ArticleCan’t Miss Crime Fiction: “Second Story Man” by Charles Salzberg
Tweetreview by Patrick H. Moore Charles Salzberg has always been an interesting crime novelist. He came late to writing fiction, but since publishing Devil in the Hole in 2013, his brilliant...
View Article“American Justice on Trial: People v. Newton”– the untold story by Lise Pearlman
TweetLise Pearlman is a retired California judge and award-winning author who appeared in Stanley Nelson’s 2015 film, “The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution” as the country’s leading expert on...
View ArticleWhy Revisit the Newton Death Penalty Story Today? — Blog #2 in Our 10-Part...
Tweet© Hon. Lise Pearlman (ret.) Last week I quoted from the author’s note to my 2016 book. This week I share some then-and-now observations in the book’s Introduction. As we go along, I will be...
View ArticleOAKLAND: THE MAKINGS OF A RACIAL TINDERBOX: Blog #3 of our 10-Part Series
Tweet© by Lise Pearlman 2018 West Oakland was a tinderbox long before the Black Panther Party came into being — a ghetto suffering from two decades of high unemployment, overcrowded housing and...
View ArticleThe Unsolved Murder of Missy Bevers
Tweetby John W. Taylor On April 18, 2016, surveillance video from the Creekside Church of Christ in Midlothian, Texas captured an individual breaking into the church. It was 3:50 a.m. For the next 25...
View ArticleTHE ROOTS OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY FOR SELF-DEFENSE: BLOG #4 OF OUR 10-PART...
Tweetby Lise Pearlman © 2018 How did Panther Party founders Huey Newton and Bobby Seale become revolutionaries? The Seale family arrived in the Bay Area from Texas the year before the worst disaster of...
View ArticleThe Many Trials of Tim Hennis
Tweetby John W. Taylor In 1985, Gary and Kathryn Eastburn lived in Fayetteville, North Carolina with their three daughters, Cara, 5, Erin, 3, and Janna, 22-months. Gary was a captain in the Air Force....
View ArticleDo Helena Stoeckley’s Ramblings Convey Reasonable Doubt for Jeffrey MacDonald?
Tweetby John W. Taylor In the early morning hours of February 17, 1970, Jeffrey MacDonald made an emergency call reporting a stabbing at his home at 544 Castle Drive in Fayetteville, North Carolina....
View ArticleHow Jeffrey MacDonald’s Words Betrayed Him
Tweetby John W. Taylor On February 17, 1970, the military police at Fort Bragg, North Carolina found Colette MacDonald and her two young daughters, Kimberly (age 5) and Kristen (age 2), viciously...
View ArticleThe Unsolved Murder of Martha Moxley
Tweetby John W. Taylor Greenwich, Connecticut exudes wealth and privilege. Much of the affluent town is filled with old money and respected surnames that have carried down through generations. Within...
View ArticleTop Seven British Miscarriages of Justice
Tweetby Blackwater Law Getting accused of something you know you didn’t do can be annoying at the best of times, but imagine actually being sent to prison as a result. Unfortunately, the criminal...
View ArticleThe Many Trials of Tim Hennis
Tweetby John W. Taylor In 1985, Gary and Kathryn Eastburn lived in Fayetteville, North Carolina with their three daughters, Cara, 5, Erin, 3, and Janna, 22-months. Gary was a captain in the Air Force....
View Article“Mind Games” is Now Available For Free!
Tweet All is not lost! Our dear friend Darcia Helle has collected and published a scintillating collection of crime fiction–short stories that will keep you thinking long after you have read the last...
View ArticleThe 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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