From the monthly archives: December 2014
by BJW Nashe
In Joe McGinniss’ Fatal Vision, we have a grisly triple murder at the Fort Bragg home of Ivy League doctor and Green Beret Captain Jeffrey McDonald. The doctor’s pregnant wife and two young daughters are stabbed and bludgeoned to death. The doctor suffers relatively […]
by 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 watch the accused be drawn and quartered, hanged, beheaded, or burned at the stake.
Dr. […]
by 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 the celebrity couple in front of their exclusive […]
by 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 video at some point during your escapades. Soon your appearance […]
by 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 daughter in Berkeley in 1976. Wilson’s description of […]
by Robert Emmett Murphy Jr.
Nationwide, in the last four months, there have been four police killings of unarmed blacks:
The youngest victim was 12 years old (Cleveland, Ohio)
Two were not engaged in any criminal behavior (Cleveland, Ohio and New York, New York)
[…]
by 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 on his way back to California from Vietnam, who […]
compiled by Patrick H. Moore
Beth Thomas was the angry little girl featured on the remarkable, albeit disturbing, HBO documentary, Child of Rage, which was released around 1990. She suffered from severe Reactive Attachment Disorder.
by Max Myers
As I’m writing this, my first “blog”, I’m listening to an amazing track from my mate, J.D. Fortune, formerly of INXS, “Fire ‘Til We Burn”. He’s the perfect example of someone, with unlimited talent, who despite some intense setbacks, […]
by John Nardizzi
A summer film, “The Iceman”, claims that the film is “based on a true story,” namely the sordid, violent life of Richard Kuklinksi, a New Jersey man who claimed to have murdered over 100 men using almost every means imaginable: guns, […]
