by Stephen Hillard | Jul 20, 2017 | True Crime
Five Great JFK Conspiracy Reads, and Why the Genre is Important Sometimes described as the Great Dragon of Conspiracies, the “Assassination of JFK” is undergoing a dramatic shift. It is fast fading into that realm of myth and lore where other dragons reside, where...
by Jenni L. Walsh | May 27, 2017 | Blog Article, True Crime
10 Surprising Facts About the Roaring Twenties Many read Roaring Twenties and picture Gatsby-inspired parties. But what else did the 1920s bring? Some of the revelations, fads, and nuances of this era may surprise you. While the 18th Amendment made the...
by Stacy Green | May 17, 2017 | Blog Article, True Crime
Top Five Creepiest Serial Killers I’m not a serial killer groupie, but I definitely enjoy a good, twisted story of evil. I often say that if I’d known myself better in college (read: hadn’t been a dumb kid with zero confidence), I would have gone into criminal...
by Sara Paretsky | Mar 21, 2017 | True Crime
THE TRIP TO DOTY ROAD THE INTERROGATION David Bates (Illinois exoneree), as told to Sara Paretsky After another interval, perhaps two hours, Curly returned with a different detective, not Moustache. They unhooked him from the ring in the wall and put him in a...
by Sara Paretsky | Mar 20, 2017 | True Crime
THE TRIP TO DOTY ROAD THE INTERROGATION David Bates (Illinois exoneree), as told to Sara Paretsky few can imagine any circumstances that would lead them to confess to a crime they didn’t commit, especially if the crime is a heinous one. But false confessions...
by Robert Wallace and H. Keith Melton | Mar 13, 2017 | Blog Article, True Crime
Top Ten Literary Spies Movies depict spies and writers idling around disreputable gin joints in disheveled trench coats or sporting tuxedos and tossing quips between martinis. Implausibly, practitioners of writing and espionage not only share many of the same...