PART I – THE MONSTERS WHO WALK AMONG US I have always had an interest in true-crime and the enigma of serial murder. In writing, I often find myself drawn to the serial killer as the definitive monster. Mostly, because they’re real, which makes them more terrifying than DRACULA or the zombies of THE WALKING DEAD. The difference is, that those creatures aren’t real. They can be explained away by a parent’s soothing words or extinguished by a … [Read more...]
Author Larry Sells Debates The Death Penalty
If you offend someone, you might talk it over and come to a point of forgiveness. If you steal someone’s money, it can be repaid. If you take or destroy property, there may be a way to make restitution. Violence is another matter. Wounds can heal but trauma lingers. You cannot un-rape a person and you cannot un-do an injury. Certainly, you cannot return a life that’s been taken. Our justice system staggers beneath the weight of crimes that can … [Read more...]
Margie Porter On What She Has Learned From Writing True Crime
My grandson, a college student, asked if I gain any special insights from writing about crime. He raised the age-old question, “Can people be born evil? Can life events force them to become that way?” There are no clear-cut, scientific answers, of course, but it is interesting to ponder how we become the people we are. We have all experienced our share of trauma, but if hunger, poverty, and mistreatment made people evil, wouldn’t the residents … [Read more...]
MJ Preston Discusses The Journey That Led To ACADIA EVENT
Being a writer often means having to hold down a day job. This is nothing new. When Stephen King was writing his breakout novel, CARRIE, he was holding down a job as a substitute teacher and working in an industrial laundry. I’m no different, for years I have worked a day job, first as a soldier in the Canadian military and as a truck driver. If you asked me 20 years ago if driving a truck would lead to the writing of my second novel, ACADIA … [Read more...]
Author Christian Barth on Samuel Cowell, Ted Bundy’s Abusive Grandfather: Fact Or Fiction?
From somewhere within Dante Alighieri’s Ninth Circle of Hell, encased far beneath the deepest strata of ice the Florentine bard carved especially for Judas Iscariot, the ghost of Ted Bundy has surfaced, merrily laughing. With the rating success of the true-crime docuseries Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, America’s preoccupation with the notorious serial killer has rekindled once more, enjoying a peculiar renaissance unseen since … [Read more...]
Charity Lee On Her Motivation For Telling Her Story
Once in the past … Actually most days. Ok. Every day. To be entirely honest, it is every day since I acquired working retainable memory. Every day, I awake only to find myself broken by day end. Then broken again. And again. Again. Again. Again. Again. Again. Infinitely, maddening, nightmarishly beautiful, yet again. This has happened for years. This will continue for years. This has happened over so many years, it … [Read more...]
Charity Lee On “Making Something Beautiful Come Out of My Family’s Ugliness”
Writing this book was an experience that was gut-wrenching, humbling, and ultimately rewarding. It also reminded me of many things, some I didn’t want to be reminded of. One day years ago, as I stood on my back deck, in the sunshine, watching my dog play with the cats in the grass, I had an epiphany. They are common in my life but, contrary to popular belief, epiphanies don’t always bring a peaceful understanding of an issue. Sometimes they … [Read more...]
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE TED BUNDY MURDERS Photo Gallery
The photos from Kevin's Sullivan's latest true crime book, THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE TED BUNDY MURDERS … [Read more...]
Christian Barth
I never set out to become a writer. When I graduated from college I was a directionless and unmarketable young man with a political science degree. Fresh off two stage productions, for a brief time I entertained delusional fantasies of moving to Hollywood and becoming an actor, but for the next two years what theatrical aspirations I’d secretly harbored were subsumed by the ebb and flow of what we do before we discover what we want to do with the … [Read more...]
The Author Of TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE On The Presidential Pardon of Lieutenant Lorance
Before Travesty of Justice was originally released on March 31, 2019, the case of Lieutenant Clint Lorance had largely been lost in the national media. In the four-month period from December 2018 through April 2, 2019, fifteen national television reports featured so-called “war crimes” cases, calling for presidential action. All these stories focused on either Navy SEAL Chief Eddie Gallagher, or Army Major Matt Golsteyn, who were both in the … [Read more...]
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