by Cuyler Overholt | Sep 26, 2016 | True Crime
Ten Ways to Die in Turn-of-the-Last-Century New York The first decade of the twentieth century in New York City was a time of crowded tenements and splendid mansions, of extraordinary inventions and ubiquitous fraud, of widespread corruption and reformist zeal. It...
by Yiftach Reicher Atir | Sep 8, 2016 | Blog Article, True Crime
The Secret Life of Undercover Agents You might read about them in the newspapers, probably because they get caught. You might read their autobiographies, probably because they are unhappily retired. But you don’t read about them when they perform their duties...
by Kate Horsley | Aug 26, 2016 | Blog Article, True Crime
Ten of the Best Fictional Crime Novels Inspired by News Stories Megan Abbott, The Fever (2015) The inspiration for Abbott’s The Fever was a 2011 mass-hysteria case in LeRoy, New York, when Tourette-like symptoms afflicted a dozen high school girls. Abbott’s novel...
by Robert Tanenbaum | Aug 17, 2016 | Blog Article, True Crime
The Mystery Murder Case of the Century If I were asked to select one case in the history of our justice system that epitomized the essentials and professionalism of a ministry of justice in terms of tempestuous drama, personal anguish, garish confrontation, and, yes,...
by Linda Fairstein | Jul 26, 2016 | Blog Article, True Crime
Top Ten Secrets You Didn’t Know About New York City’s Fashion World When I started to write crime novels twenty years ago, I was still prosecuting homicides and sexual assault cases in the New York County District Attorney’s Office. My day job was courtrooms and crime...
by Nick Foster | Jul 18, 2016 | Blog Article, True Crime
From outside its main gates, the jail looked like an abandoned car-repair shop. It had razor wire on the perimeter walls but, then again, just about every wall in the city of David, Panama, is topped by rings of razor wire. There was a line of visiting women, a few of...