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2006 Archive
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Tacoma Confidential: A True Story of Murder, Suicide, and a Police Chief’s Secret Life by Paul LaRosa (January 2006)
Posted on August 24, 2007 | 1 CommentI really should learn to never judge a book by it's cover...but that is what I did with Tacoma Confidential -
Sleep In Heavenly Peace by M. William Phelps
Posted on May 19, 2007 | No CommentsDianne Odell who murdered four of the twelve children she would give birth to and then proceeded to carry their bodies with her around the country -
In Broad Daylight: A Murder in Skidmore, Missouri (November 2006)
Posted on January 2, 2007 | 1 Comment...the infamous murder of Ken Rex McElroy by persons unknown, but labeled a vigilante effort, in the small rural Missouri town of Skidmore -
Smoldering Embers by Joy Wellman, Susan Repogle, Lisa McVey (November 2006)
Posted on December 6, 2006 | No CommentsSmoldering Embers has to be the WORST “true crime” book ever written. While giving credit to Lisa McVey and Susan Repogle (victims of the book’s subject), this piece of work is nothing but disguised effort to toot the horn of the book’s primary author, and actual... -
Bad Boy: The True Story of Kenneth Allen McDuff, the Most Notorious Serial Killer in Texas History by Gary M. LaVergne (October 2006)
Posted on December 5, 2006 | No CommentsWriter Gary M. Lavergne in his book Bad Boy introduces his readers to Kenneth Allen McDuff, a Texas rough-neck who commit a horrendous triple murder/rape of three teenagers in 1966. McDuff received the Death Penalty for his actions. Unfortunately, the State of Texas, by 1989, felt... -
Gone Forever: A True Story of Marriage, Betrayal, and Murder by Diane Fanning (February 2006)
Posted on September 6, 2006 | No CommentsDiane Fanning just keeps getting better! In this most excellent written piece of true crime, Fanning tells the story of Richard McFarland and how he came to murder his wife, Susan. It is a very sad tale about a man with adult ADHD and other... -
Shattered Justice: A Savage Murder and the Death of Three Families’ Innocence by John Philpin (July 2006)
Posted on August 24, 2006 | No CommentsPopular, pretty twelve-year-old Stephanie Crowe was murdered in her own bed, in her own home one evening as the family slept in rooms nearby. Police quickly developed a theory that this was an inside job because all doors and windows remained locked; the “JonBenet theory,”... -
Into the Water by Diane Fanning (September 2006)
Posted on August 15, 2006 | No CommentsDiane Fanning chose an excellent crime story to write about in Marc Evonitz. An overshadowing downfall, however, was too much information being included that was not necessary. In Into the Water, Fanning includes details on numerous other crimes that I had trouble seeing the relation to... -
Dead And Buried: A Shocking Account of Rape, Torture, and Murder on the California Coast by Corey Mitchell (October 2003)
Posted on August 2, 2006 | No CommentsCorey Mitchell wrote a great story from such tragic circumstances in this, for lack of better terms, how-to-not raise your child book. The infuriating yet sad story of Rex Krebs, a victim of child abuse and neglect from both of his parents, and how such... -
Deadfall by Robert Scott (July 2006)
Posted on July 15, 2006 | No CommentsWhile well written with few misspellings or grammatical errors, Deadfall by Robert Scott leaves a lot to be desired. Despite Scott’s history of true crime writing, I found that many things included in this book were simply not explained; and whether he noted it was because...