by William Oldfield and Victoria Bruce | Aug 21, 2018 | True Crime
A Forbidden Family History: One Man’s Quest to Share His Great Grandfather’s Takedown of a Deadly 20th Century Italian Mob All families have secrets. My family’s were hidden away in two cardboard boxes, wrapped in blue plastic and secured with packing tape by...
by Max Allan Collins and A. Brad Schwartz | Aug 1, 2018 | True Crime
10 Surprising Facts About Al Capone and Eliot Ness AL CAPONE AND ELIOT NESS LIVED ON THE SAME STREET In 1923, Capone purchased a humble two-flat for his family on Chicago’s South Side at 7244 South Prairie Avenue. Five miles down the road, Eliot...
by Stephanie Gayle | Apr 12, 2018 | True Crime
My Obsession With Missing Persons My mother read me Miss Nelson is Missing! before I achieved literacy. The story is about a good, sweet, conventionally pretty teacher whom the children she teaches all take for granted. Then she goes missing and a cruel, ugly...
by Maggie K. Black | Mar 19, 2018 | True Crime
Five Ways to Foil a Kidnapping Imagine that a dastardly villain is out to kidnap you. Perhaps he’s a ruthless serial killer who’s been foiling police for years and is now out to make you the latest victim in his complicated plot. Or maybe he’s a Victorian count set on...
by J.D. Allen | Dec 13, 2017 | True Crime
Don’t underestimate the fairer sex when it comes to having the steel to commit serial murder. You hear it all the time in crime shows and mysteries: the false, sexist perception that there are few, if any, female serial killers outside of fiction. This mistaken belief...
by William Brodrick | Aug 15, 2017 | True Crime
FIVE HISTORICAL HAPPENINGS THAT GENERATED A COLD WAR NOVEL BASED IN WARSAW The Cold War has generated countless novels. When I dared to write my own, I chose to base the story in Warsaw during the early ’80s after the imposition of martial law. Remember, this...
