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The Good Son: A True Story of Greed, Manipulation, and Cold-Blooded Murder by Stella Sands (February 2011)
Posted on February 7, 2011 | 4 CommentsIf a story about teenagers who kill their parents and believe they'll get away with it (idiots!) isn't enough to get your eyes rolling, then a butchered book on such a case will. -
Friday Fiction: The Impaler by Gregory Funaro (February 2011)
Posted on February 4, 2011 | No CommentsBAU FBI Special Agent Sam Markham must face the upcoming execution of his wife's killer while hunting a serial killer whose murders seem to have no pattern. Could the answer be in the stars? -
The Devils Rooming House by M. William Phelps (April 2010)
Posted on February 2, 2011 | 1 CommentHow can a woman kill over 40 elderly roomers and still beat a death sentence? -
Dead Reckoning by Caitlin Rother (February 2011)
Posted on January 31, 2011 | 4 CommentsSkylar Deleon went from a child actor on Mighty Morphin Power Rangers to an inmate on California's death row when he killed Tom and Jackie Hawks for their money and boat -
Remembering the Crew of the Challenger Space Shuttle
Posted on January 28, 2011 | No CommentsIt's been 25 years since the explosion of the Challenger Space Shuttle. What does this have to do with true crime? Nothing, really. I just want to remember and pay tribute. -
Salt of the Earth: A Mother, A Daughter, A Murder by Jack Olsen (March 1997)
Posted on January 26, 2011 | 4 CommentsHow does a Mother go on when her child disappears? Jack Olsen follows the life of a mother who spent years living the worst that life has to offer -
Driven to Kill: The Clara Harris Story by Clifford L. Linedecker (July 2003)
Posted on January 24, 2011 | 2 CommentsWhen Texas wife Clara Harris had enough of her cheating husband, she took matters into her own hands...by running over her husband with her Mercedes Benz...over and over and over again -
Ghost: The True Story of One Mans Decent Into Madness and Murder by Glenn Puit (January 2011)
Posted on January 19, 2011 | 8 CommentsFrom Alaska State Trooper to an FBI Most Wanted Poster, John Patrick Addis had an uncanny ability to elude police and avoid justice. -
The Peyton-Allan Files by Phil Stanford (2010)
Posted on January 17, 2011 | 2 CommentsIn November 1960, young lovers Beverly Allan and Larry Peyton were murdered as they parked along a deserted lovers lane. Fifty years later, the question remains - who did it? -
Friday Fiction: While Galileo Preys by Joshua Corin (September 2010)
Posted on January 14, 2011 | No CommentsIt begins in Atlanta. Fourteen dead, fifteen if you count the dog. Twelve of them being police officers


