Mar 6, 2011
Mata Hari
To protect its deep infiltration into French intelligence during World War I, German intelligence conned the British and French into believing that Mata Hari was its superspy.
by Robert Walsh
Dawn, Vincennes Barracks, October 15 1917.
Brought from her...
Nov 29, 2010
Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen
Dr. Hawley Crippen was small, balding, and meek, with large watery eyes that peered from behind gold-rimmed spectacles. When he fled England for Quebec in the summer of 1910 with his mistress aboard the S.S. Montrose, he was wanted for the...
Nov 1, 2010
Johann "Jack" Unterweger
With the help of future Nobel Laureate Elfriede Jelinek and other prominent Austrian literati, Jack Unterweger wrote his way out of a lifetime sentence for murder. Paroled in 1990, and now a famous crime writer himself, he embarked on a wide-ranging...
Sep 23, 2010
An excerpt from the opening chapters of Marilyn Z. Tomlins’s Die in Paris, published in the United States in September of 2010 by Raider Publishing International. The book is available at amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com and borders.com. by Marilyn Z. Tomlins In the early evening...
Jun 25, 2010
Dick Turpin
Dick Turpin’s romanticized image as the famed “Highwayman” of English lore was built on the big lie about his one-night ride from York to London on his faithful steed, Black Bess. Nor was he in any way a latter-day Robin Hood.
by Mark Pulham
“Stand and deliver...
Jun 15, 2010
Special to Crime Magazine
An excerpt from Ron Chepesiuk’s new book, Sergeant Smack, The Legendary Lives and Times of Ike Atkinson., Kingpin, and his Band of Brothers. (www.ikeatkinsonkingpin.com)
by Ron Chepesiuk
PROLOGUE
December 9, 1972—Itwas to be a routine flight,...
Apr 11, 2010
Was her death really an accident, or was there a hidden hand at work? Many still say that she was assassinated. Not long before her tragic end, she predicted in a letter to her loyal butler that she would be murdered in a car accident.
By Marilyn Z. Tomlins
The...
Jan 20, 2010
Updated Oct. 4, 2013
Tony Musulin
It’s always about the money – but was it this time? No one had heard of security van driver Tony Musulin until he drove off with $16.7 million – France’s biggest robbery ever – without having even uttered one threatening word...
Nov 17, 2009
Updated Nov. 7, 2011 and June 22, 2014
André Bamberski
For 27 years the heartbroken André Bamberski kept an eye on the fugitive serial rapist who murdered his 14-year-old daughter. Then he arranged a vigilante kidnapping to deliver the murderer to the police. ...
Oct 26, 2009
Updated March 9, 2010
Treiber Police Photo
Awaiting trial for murder, Frenchman Jean-Pierre Treiber goes on the run and makes the police look like idiots.
by Marilyn Z. Tomlins
Before the invention of television, head hunters rode on horseback into dusty towns and in...
