Nov 30, 2009
Special to Crime Magazine
(This excerpt is from Ron Chepesiuk’s book, Gangsters of Miami, True Tales of Mobsters, Gamblers, Hitmen, Con Men and Gang Bangers from the Magic City, which Barricade Books (Barricadebook.com) published in November 2009. Available on Amazon.com. All...
Sep 6, 2016
An excerpt from . Published by Amazon eBooks; 498 pages (using Amazon Kindle eBook reader / other eBook devices can be used); Price, $6.50.by Siobhan Pat Mulcahy CHAPTER 1: INCEST, VIOLENCE, CRIMINALITY & INSANITY ADOLF HITLER once told his valet that the...
Apr 11, 2016
by J. Patrick O'Connor Love, Murder and Corruption in Lancaster County: My Story by Lisa Michelle Lambert and David Brown, Camino Books, 2016, (388 pages). There are a number of subjects contained in this heartbreaking account of Lisa Lambert's tortuous odyssey through the...
May 28, 2015
An excerpt from Volume One of Behind the Words: A Logical and Satirical Guide to the Impossible Defense of Jodi Arias. Published on April 6, 2015 and available in paperback or in Kindle at Amazon.com. by Kim Anne WhittemorePREFACEThe Jodi Arias murder trial. It should be called...
May 21, 2015
Crime Magazine's Choice of True Crime Books by J. Patrick O'Connor One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway by Asne Seierstad (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015, 530 pages). To Norwegians, the most incomprehensible thing about the mass murder in...
Apr 2, 2015
Ever since the release of Andrew Jarecki’s HBO documentary "The Jinx," which carries the subtitle of “The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst,” public attention has been focused on the long trail of crimes possibly -- and quite probably -- committed by the real-estate scion over...
Feb 5, 2015
The Netflix produced television series, "Orange is the New Black," is a comedy-drama set in a women's prison in upstate New York. While the author finds it to be an entertaining show that touches on several important issues confronting incarcerated women, she has her own ideas...
May 5, 2014
Crime Magazine's Choice of True Crime Books
by J. Patrick O’Connor
The Yoga Store Murder: The Shocking True Account of the Lululemon Athletica Killing by Dan Morse (Berkeley Books, 2013). Jayna Murray, the 30-year-old manager of the trendy lululemon athletica store in...
Apr 14, 2014
This article is adapted from Mel Ayton’s latest book, Hunting the President, an examination of plots, threats and assassination attempts against American presidents. The book was published by Regnery Publishing in April 2014.
by Mel Ayton
The history of the American...
Jan 27, 2014
Jan. 27, 2014An excerpt from Ban the Booze: Prohibition in the Rockies by Betty Alt and Sandra Wells.The authors take a brief look at the 18 years of Prohibition in Colorado. Its pages cover the purpose, problems and people involved in the “noble experiment” and the...
