by Mark Johnson | Mar 30, 2016 | Blog Article, True Crime
10 Ways Cops Know You’re Lying In fiction, the murderer is always an evil genius, a professional hit man, or a taunting serial killer. But in my experience as a police detective, most criminals are hapless goofs whose crimes are wholly unplanned, the result of...
by C. Joseph Greaves | Mar 10, 2016 | Blog Article, True Crime
THE FLIP SIDE OF PROFILING: COERCION & THE CAPTIVE MIND By Carla Norton Years ago, I wrote a true account of an astonishing crime that gave me nightmares: Twenty-year-old Colleen Stan was kidnapped at knifepoint, locked in a coffin-sized box, and held captive for...
by Alison Gaylin | Feb 9, 2016 | Blog Article, True Crime
Having grown up devouring books like Helter Skelter and Hollywood Babylon, I understand the power of a Hollywood crime story: the shocking twists, the legendary players, the insidious role of the entertainment industry and its power to build and shatter dreams. The...
by Alan Hirsch | Feb 3, 2016 | Blog Article, True Crime
Five greatest art thefts As the author of a forthcoming book about a fascinating art theft, I am sometimes asked to name the most impressive or important art heists ever pulled off. These thefts deprived the public of access to masterpieces—not something to...
by Bernard Besson | Dec 31, 2015 | Blog Article, True Crime
Spooking the Spooks… Bond has Spectre. The NSA has Snowden. The CIA has teen hackers. What else is making everyday spies lose sleep? Here are ten topics the intelligence world is thinking hard about. The “democratization” of spying. Intrusive technology used to...
by C. Joseph Greaves | Nov 10, 2015 | Blog Article, True Crime
Mobsters and mouthpieces, snitches and stool pigeons…history is a graveyard of colorful and controversial gangland prosecutions, and these are my candidates for the all-time Top Ten: 10. Waxey Gordon (1933). After a painstaking investigation that included over 200,000...
