Jul 26, 2011
Charles Whitman’s killing rampage from the Tower at the University of Texas on August 1, 1966 led to the creation of S.W.A.T. teams in every major city across the United States. During the 90-minute siege, the former Marine sharpshooter gunned down almost 50 innocent...
Jul 18, 2011
An excerpt from Peter Manso’s recently published book Reasonable Doubt: The Fashion Writer, Cape Cod, and the Trial of Chris McCowen.
by Peter Manso
Introduction
The American murder trial as a metaphor for the nation as a whole has become, in recent years, almost a cliché....
Jul 11, 2011
New Orleans Howard Johnson Hotel Jan. 7, 1973
Mark Essex’s killing rampage in downtown New Orleans on New Year’s Eve of 1972 represented a viral black rage in the age of “Black Power.”
by Denise Noe
New Year’s Eve 1972: The horror begins
Mark Essex...
May 23, 2011
Dorothea Puente (Photo LA Times)
Serial killer Dorothea Puente was charming and incorrigible.
by Mark Pulham
Charles Willgues, a retired carpenter, had been out that Wednesday afternoon to a hardware store to buy a glass cutter. Now, he sat at the bar of the Monte...
May 16, 2011
Kathleen Marshall
Andrew Fitzherbert was convicted and sentenced to life in prison on the basis of DNA evidence alone. His case shows that it is often not the technology or the science but the supervising biologist’s subjective interpretation of the results that is the...
Mar 6, 2011
Crime Scene Photo
In woods not far from Philadelphia, the body of a young boy was found in a box in 1957. An autopsy showed the 4-to-6-year-old child had died from a blow to his head and had sustained numerous bruises. A widespread, prolonged investigation failed...
Nov 22, 2010
Robert Diaz (photo from San Quentin warden's office)
Robert Diaz, the nurse who killed by injecting elderly patients with Lidocaine, evades the lethal injection execution awaiting him by dying at age 72.
by Ronnie D. Smith
Over the years I had thought how ironic it would...
Nov 22, 2010
Updated Jan 8, 2013
Rodney Alcala
A registered sex-offender, Rodney Alcala got his 15-minutes of fame as a successful contestant on "The Dating Game" in 1978. Before that appearance, he had already been convicted of raping an 8-year-old girl and had murdered four women...
Nov 13, 2010
JonBenet Ramsey
On this page you will find: 1) The resignation letter of Det. Steve Thomas; 2) Letters 1 and 2 from Fleet White calling for an independent prosecutor; 3) The complete autopsy report.
Resignation Letter of Det. Steve Thomas
August 6,...
Nov 8, 2010
An excerpt from Dan Zupansky’s true crime book Trophy Kill: The Shall We Dance Murder which Prohyptikon Publishing-Toronto released in April 2010. All rights reserved. www.TrophyKill.tv
By Dan Zupansky
Winnipeg in the province of Manitoba is a cosmopolitan city with a rich...
