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

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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

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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

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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

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Yisroel Pensack: David Brooks Punctures the Media’s Politically Correct Balloon Regarding Major Nidal Malik Hasan

David Brooks writes in The New York Times:   The most important power we have is the power to help select the lens through which we see reality.  Most people select stories that lead toward cooperation and goodness. But over the … Continue reading

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