Oct 28, 2010
In 2004, Denise Noe wrote "The Manson Myth" for Crime Magazine, an article debunking the charismatic image of Charles Manson propagated by Prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi in the best-selling true crime book of all time, Helter Skelter. Noe wrote that...
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...
May 16, 2016
Serbian-born Szilveszter Matuska pulled off four train wrecks in Hungary and Austria in the 1930s that killed 22 people and injured hundreds of people. He said God made him do it. Was he a revolutionary or a mad man?by Chuck Lyons“I like to see people die,” Szilveszter...
Apr 30, 2015
In a great twist of Texas-style irony, the mass murder at Luby's Cafeteria in 1991, where 23 were shot to death and 20 wounded, led not to calls for gun-control but to the passage of legislation signed by Gov. George W. Bush that eased the way for citizens to obtain concealed-...
Jan 20, 2015
(Photo AP) While protests in Muslim countries against France are increasing rapidly, the French president, government and people continue to support the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo whose editor and several members of its staff were gunned down by two Islamist terrorists...
May 12, 2014
John Gilbert ‘Jack’ Graham, smiling as he enters Colorado’s Death Row.
The bombing of United Airlines Flight 629 on November 1, 1955, that killed all 44 persons aboard was the most unusual, destructive and ultimately futile acts of mass murder in American history.
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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...
Oct 7, 2013
Private Henry Tandey, England’s most decorated World War I hero, took mercy on a wounded German soldier and let him live. On the eve of World War II, Tandey found out the life he spared was that of Corporal Adolph Hitler.
by David Robb
It was an act of mercy that led to the...
Sep 12, 2013
Sept. 12, 2013Major General Vasili BlokhinStalin’s chief executioner was Major General Vasili Blokhin. Over a 25-year-period he executed more than 50,000 “enemies of the state.” In March 1940, General Blokhin personally executed all 8,000 of the captured Polish officers on...
Jul 1, 2013
Italian Hall, December 1913
by David Robb
Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is cold in the winter, with temperatures often dipping below zero, but Christmas Eve 1913 was particularly cold. The region’s 9,000 unionized copper miners – mostly immigrants from Italy, Poland and Croatia...