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True Crime Movies & Television
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While She Slept: A Husband, a Wife, a Brutal Murder by Marion Collins (June 2005)
Posted on November 15, 2011 | No CommentsJeff Cahill beat his wife to the point of near death with a baseball bat then, while out on bail, he disguised himself as a janitor and calmly strolled into her hospital room where he forced her to drink cyanide. -
Friday Fiction: The Burning by Jane Casey (September 2011)
Posted on November 11, 2011 | No CommentsThe turnabout of a murder victim's best friend may be just what London Detective Constable Maeve Kerrigan needs to catch a fire loving serial killer. -
Lifetime Movie: The Pastors Wife starring Rose McGowan and Michael Shanks (October 2011)
Posted on November 9, 2011 | No CommentsWas Matthew Winkler a the good kind man as his murderous wife first stated or was he really the kinky, domineering husband she later told about a trial? -
Conspiracy of Silence by Lisa Priest (February 1989)
Posted on November 7, 2011 | No CommentsBetty Osborne was an ambitious young woman who only wanted to succeed, but four drunk young men had something else in mind first. That cold November night would change Canada forever. -
The Drag Queen Murder by Kathryn Casey (eBook True Crime Short Story)
Posted on November 4, 2011 | No CommentsSingle and straight, Patrice LeBlanc nonetheless enjoyed partying with members of Houston's gay scene. And it was there she would meet the transvestite who would forever change her life. -
Friday Fiction: The Immortals by J.T. Ellison (October 2010)
Posted on October 28, 2011 | No CommentsTaylor Jackson and the murder squad have a their work cut out for them when seven teens on a single street are found dead with pentacles carved into their abdomens. -
Murder on the High Seas: The True Story of the Joe Cool’s Tragic Final Voyage by Carol Soret Cope (March 2011)
Posted on October 26, 2011 | 2 CommentsOn a routine patrol a Coast Guard cutter spotted a “ghost ship” drifting north of Cuba. No one was on board the luxury sport fishing boat, which was out of fuel, its deck spattered with blood. -
The I-5 Killer by Ann Rule writing as Andy Stack (March 1984)
Posted on October 24, 2011 | No CommentsHandsome and athletic Randy Woodfield could have been an NFL superstar but instead gained his fame as the I-5 killer.











