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2008 Archive
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Buried Memories: The Bloody Crimes and Execution of the Texas Black Widow by Irene Pence (April 2008)
Posted on January 30, 2012 | No CommentsBetty Lou Beets was quite a character. Seven marriages, six husbands, domestic violence, attempted murder charges, public lewdness in a topless bar, and, as icing on the cake, murder - times two! -
Deadly Divorces: Twelve True Stories of Marriages That Ended in Murder by Tammy Cohen (January 2008)
Posted on November 2, 2011 | No CommentsTwelve short stories of deadly matrimony out of the United Kingdom that'll make you look (suspiciously) at your significant other. -
Friday Fiction: A Cure For Night by Justin Peacock (September 2008)
Posted on October 1, 2010 | No CommentsThe first thing I noticed when I started reading Justin Peacock's debut novel was that it was eerily reminiscent of John Grisham novels...with some exceptions, of course -
Never Enough by Joe McGinniss (July 2008)
Posted on April 19, 2010 | 2 CommentsThe Kissels were no stranger to disfunctionality. While Nancy had her own Mommy-abandoment issues, the Kissels lived in the shadow of an overly critical father -
Luggage by Kroger: A True Crime Memoir by Gary Taylor (December 2008)
Posted on October 25, 2009 | 1 CommentCatherine Mehaffey ranked high on the hot scale which, of course, meant she was extremely crazy. Toss in the single Gary Taylor and you've got a recipe for a crazy hot disaster. -
Movie Review: Changeling (October 2008)
Posted on October 3, 2009 | 1 CommentA clear example of the longevity of corruptness of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD); something, even 80 years later, they appear to making no effort to overcome -
I’ll Be Watching You by M. William Phelps (July 2008)
Posted on July 22, 2009 | No CommentsRodriguez wasn't this serial killers only victim. Snelgrove had been convicted of murder and a vicious sexual attack turned attempted murder almost two decades earlier. In prison, Snelgrove wrote letters to his friend that stated -
Mortal Danger and Other True Crime Cases: Volume 13 by Ann Rule (November 2008)
Posted on July 7, 2009 | No CommentsKate Jewell and Doctor John Branden story; a story of how, essentially, domestic violence can hide within what appears to be the most normal of people. Jewell managed to escape the vicious Branden, but another woman wouldn't be so lucky. -
Invitation to a Murder by Gail Abbot Zimmerman (October 2008)
Posted on June 23, 2009 | No CommentsDonnah Winger was an outgoing, fun-loving, new mother when - on August 29, 1995 - she was beaten to death with a hammer in her own home as her newly adopted daughter lay in a bedroom just down the hall. -
Blood Highway by Sheila Johnson (January 2008)
Posted on May 24, 2009 | No CommentsWhen his short-lived, yet very destructive, rein of terror finally came to an end on the icy streets of Mentone, police and investigators discovered the mutlitated body of his pregnant girlfriend, Patricia Booher, in the front passenger's seat of his Lincoln.