Tag: True Crime
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Children of Darkness and Light: Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell: A Story of Murderous Faith
“a compelling story of the destruction and vileness [the protagonists] set in motion and the efforts to finally bring them to justice.” “By the end of 2019, Chad and Lori’s swath of destruction was nearly complete, and they enjoyed their freedom, living their best island life in Kauai. The tribulation was coming soon, and once…
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The Atlas of Art Crime
“On New Year’s Day in 1984, three men dressed in overalls hung a ‘Work in Progress’ sign at the front of St. John’s Co-Cathedral in Valletta to prevent anyone from entering the church. Inside the cathedral is a breathtaking array of ornate decorative elements: intricate carvings, stunning paintings, and a whole lot of bling. Two…
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College Girl, Missing: The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight
14 years ago, Lauren Spierer, an over-served 20 year-old student at Indiana University who had been indulging in recreational drugs, walked out of her friend’s apartment building at 4 in the morning and disappeared, never to be seen again. She was barefoot, having left her shoes and cell phone at a bar. Her purse and…
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TOO GOOD A GIRL: REMEMBERING OLENE EMBERTON AND THE MYSTERY OF HER DEATH
Olene Emberton, a 17-year-old Tipton, Indiana, high school senior, was last seen alive at 11:30 p.m., Saturday, October 16, 1965, when she dropped off a friend after a movie and drove away, headed for home. It was a journey of a mere six-blocks. But Olene never made it home. 50 years later, the mystery that…
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No Place Like Murder: 20 Historic True Crimes in the Hoosier State
“True crime aficionados are fascinated by the havoc their fellow humans are capable of wreaking,” says author Janis Thornton who takes us beyond high profile crime into lesser known but equally fascinating tales. “For them, learning details of the victims’ worst nightmares is not only tantalizing; in a perverse way, it’s almost comforting because…
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Women Who Murder by Mitzi Szereto
“For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.” —Rudyard Kipling, from the poem “The Female of the Species.” “Why is that we’re always so shocked when women commit violent crimes, in particular, the crime of murder? Perhaps we’re more accustomed to seeing men as the aggressors when it comes to murder,…
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Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, The Millionaire’s Wife, and the Murder of the Century
With the grit and determination to overcome very similar hardscrabble backgrounds, Truman Capote and Ann Woodward both rose to pinnacles in New York’s glittering mid-century high society. But overcoming such comparable odds didn’t make them fast friends. Instead, Ann’s coarse description of Capote’s sexual orientation turned him into a virulent foe. Eventually, each would plummet,…
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CrimeReads: Three L.A. True Crime Stories That Went From Reality to Books to Films
CrimeReads: Three L.A. True Crime Stories That Went From Reality to Books to Films. https://crimereads.com/three-l-a-true-crime-stories-that-went-from-reality-to-books-to-films/
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Tune in Tomorrow to Hoosier History Live as I Discuss America’s Femme Fatale: The Story of Serial Killer Belle Gunness
If you have time, tune in tomorrow Saturday, October 23rd when I talk to host Nelson Price of Hoosier History Live about my new book America’s Femme Fatale: The Story of Serial Killer Belle Gunness. The show airs live from noon to 1 p.m. ET each Saturday on WICR 88.7 FM in Indianapolis. Or you…
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America’s Femme Fatale: The Story of Serial Killer Belle Gunness
A Norwegian farm girl, her family so poor, they often went hungry, is seduced by a rich landowner’s son. But despite her dreams, he has no plans to make her his wife. Abandoned, she sees only one path forward or she’ll sink into the black hole of her family’s poverty. But her first goal is…
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