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 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...
Jun 2, 2014
Excerpt from the book The Framing of Mumia Abu-Jamal
by J. Patrick O'Connor
Chapter One
A Cause Celebre
Mumia Abu-Jamal has been on death row since 1982. Over the years, as a result of his prison writings, the former radio reporter who prided himself on being "the voice...
May 5, 2014
January 5, 1971 – May 3, 2014
by J. Patrick O’Connor
In the preface to his amazing book on prison reform, Facing the U.S. Prison Problem 2.3 Million Strong: an Ex-Con’s View of the Mistakes and the Solutions, Shawn Ramey Griffith wrote, “By the time many...
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 21, 2014
The Boston Marathon bombings were the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil since the World Trade Center catastrophe on September 11, 2001. That the suspected bombers are immigrants of Chechen heritage who had been nurtured for over a decade in Cambridge made it all the worse. by...
Nov 11, 2013
Crime Magazine's Choice of True Crime Books
by J. Patrick O’Connor
Duel with the Devil: The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton & Aaron Burr Teamed up to Take on American’s First Sensational Murder Mystery by Paul Collins (Crown Publishers, 2013, $26). Listeners...
Feb 27, 2013
Updated May 8, 2013
Helvetic Airways aircraft at the Brussels international airport (Photo: Associated Press)
In a daring, commado-style operation, eight masked, heavily armed gunmen pulled off a lightening quick heist of more than $50 million worth of diamonds. ...
Jan 21, 2013
Revised April 8, 2013
A month after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, President Obama called for sweeping legislation to stem “the epidemic of violence” confronting the United States. The next day, the National Rifle Association called the President’s proposal to...
Nov 28, 2012
Other Voices TV: Executing Justice from PPJC Videos on Vimeo.
A conversation with J. Patrick O'Connor author of SCAPEGOAT: The Chino Hills Murders and the Framing of Kevin Cooper.
Kevin Cooper was convicted of the brutal murders of a Chino Hills, California family and a...