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The Rough Guide To True Crime
Dec. 30, 2013An excerpt from The Rough Guide To True Crime by Cathy Scott, featuring Pablo Escobar, the Lucchese Family, and the hunt for Jimmy Hoffa’s body. by Cathy ScottOrganized CrimeDrugs,...
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Stealing the Crown Jewels
Jan. 6, 2014“Colonel” Thomas Blood, who stole the Crown Jewels of England in May, 1671.The theft of the Crown Jewels in 1671 was the crime of its age, but King Charles II inexplicably pardoned the...
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The Real Lady Macbeth: Countess Erzsébet Báthory
Jan. 13, 2014Countess Erzsébet Báthoryby David RobbLady Macbeth is perhaps the most famous fictional female villainess in all of literature, but in 1606, while William Shakespeare was creating her...
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The Meredith Kercher Case
Jan. 20, 2014Meredith KercherIn absentia, Amanda Knox is being tried for the third time in the death of her roommate, Meredith Kercher, in Perugia, Italy in 2007. Knox and her co-defendant, Raffaele...
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Ban the Booze: Prohibition in the Rockies
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...
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The Ultimate Cold Case: The Murder of the Black Dahlia
Jan. 3, 2014Elizabeth ShortWhen the severed, mutilated corpse of Elizabeth Short was discovered in a vacant lot in Los Angeles on January 15, 1947, the search for the murderer of the “Black Dahlia”...
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A Blonde in Babylon: The Death of Thelma Todd
Feb. 10, 2014Screen star Thelma Todd’s untimely death in 1935 set off wild speculation about the cause of her demise. Was she murdered or was she the unfortunate victim of carbon monoxide poisoning?by...
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No More Laughs for the Fat Man: The Case of Fatty Arbuckle
When Fatty Arbuckle was charged with manslaughter in the death of Virginia Rappe in 1921 he was the highest paid actor in Hollywood. The tabloid press went after him with a vengeance. Eleven years...
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The Birth of Forensic Ballistics
The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in 1929 would usher in the use of forensic ballistics to solve gun crimes. by Dr. Peter L. PlatteborzeMost of us have sat mesmerized in front of a TV watching how...
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A Quest For Closure: The Kansas City Firefighters Case Part 1
View the movie here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVDUVOu9dlM The tragic case that shook Kansas City, Missouri awake over 33 years ago may now have a chance to be solved. Thanks to the Kansas City...
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