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Category Archives: Murder
Indefensible: The Missing Truth about Steven Avery, Teresa Halbach, and Making a Murderer
I’ve changed my mind on this case. I now think that Steven Avery did it and that the compelling Netflix documentary Making a Murderer was deceitful. Wisconsin prosecutor Michael Griesbach writes in this 2016 book: Prison records corroborate the fact … Continue reading
How to Solve a Cold Case: And Everything Else You Wanted To Know About Catching Killers
Here are some highlights from this 2022 book by college professor Michael Arntfield: * People may demand diversity in their soft drink ads and sitcoms, but true crime stories still overwhelmingly cover white criminals and their white victims. * There … Continue reading
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
Jill Leovy writes in this 2015 book: * [John] Skaggs had been a homicide detective for twenty years. In that time, he had been in a thousand living rooms like this one—each with its large TV, Afrocentric knickknacks, and imponderable … Continue reading
Is this serial killer behind some of the worst murders of our time?
News: A COLD case detective starts researching a serial killer, and begins linking him to some of the most high-profile murder cases in American history. The killer’s moves and motives line up suspiciously well with these murders, and so the … Continue reading
Who Killed William Benson Wasz?
From Wikipedia: Wasz frequently sold cocaine to customers in clubs and claimed he was hired by Robert Kardashian to give or sell cocaine to O.J. Simpson and Nicole Simpson many times. It was at Los Angeles‘ famed Roxbury Club where … Continue reading
A Daughter Searches For Her Father’s Murderers
Rachel (Desert Fae) emails: Hi, I ran across the article or rather, profile of Danny Casoloro/INSLAW/Octopus on this site. Do you have contact with the guy [John Connolly] that wrote it? I ask because I’m the daughter of one of … Continue reading