I understand and totally get how the story about my case can be fodder for many jokes and I can even laugh at myself most of the time. But unless you took a deep, intimate interest in the issues presented in the Cannibal Cop case, chances are you haven’t really thought about how this case relates to everyone in society. The issue of thought crimes is one reason I wanted to write this book. Maybe a more important reason for me, personally, is the … [Read more...]
Brandon L. Garrett Is Now Helping To Free “Making A Murderer’s” Brendan Dassey
Read On About WildBlue Press Author John Ferak's Connection To The Case WildBlue Press author John Ferak has done extensive work on the Steven Avery case featured in Netflix's "Making A Murderer." Both Avery's case and the case of his nephew, Brendan Dassey, are well know to all who have seen the series. Recently, more connections between Ferak's other work and that of the "Making A Murderer" cases have presented themselves. Earlier this … [Read more...]
WildBlue Author John Ferak Revisits Details Of The Steven Avery Case
WildBlue Press author John Ferak writing for USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin has revisited details behind the evidence-planting theory raised at The Making A Murderer Steven Avery's trial, along with his lawyer Kathleen Zellner's court transcripts. Ferak is fast becoming a nationally recognized journalist on the topic of wrongful convictions, evidence planting, and DNA exonerations from his WildBlue Press books FAILURE OF JUSTICE and BODY OF … [Read more...]
Margo Nash: Tough On Crime
Back in the day, say 1992 or so, when Massachusetts was changing all of its juvenile laws every time there was a horrendous newsworthy homicide, Wayne Budd was advising Governor Bill Weld (his predecessor at the U.S. Attorney’s office). He was the one, according to Fox Butterfield of the New York Times, who advised Weld to appoint an African American District Attorney to Suffolk County. This was an effort to head off any rioting like what … [Read more...]
Author Denise Wallace On Crime Beat To Discuss DADDY’S LITTLE SECRET
Author Denise Wallace was recently featured on the #1 crime show of all internet radio, Crime Beat with host Ron Chepesuik. Wallace discussed her true crime book, DADDY'S LITTLE SECRET: A Daughter's Quest To Solve Her Father's Brutal Murder, which was released by WildBlue Press on July 26st, 2016. DADDY'S LITTLE SECRET is Wallace's own story of how upon her father’s murder, she learns of his secret double-life. She had looked the other way about … [Read more...]
Alaska Dispatch Calls Monte Francis’s ICE AND BONE “Exceptional Journalistic Work”
Alaska Dispatch News just deemed ICE AND BONE: Tracking An Alaskan Serial Killer by Monte Francis "exceptional journalistic work"! ICE AND BONE is the true account of serial killer Joshua Wade, who was set loose to kill again after the prosecution failed to stop him. Read the full review here! "A tremendous amount of exceptional journalistic work went into this, and the book that emerges is richly detailed and deeply sensitive toward the … [Read more...]
THE POLITICS OF MURDER’s Margo Nash On When Writing Stirs Up Controversy
Here is something that writers don’t think enough about. If you write a true crime book, the people who were hurt so deeply by the crime are most likely still around. They’ve been trying to put the trauma behind them, sometimes for years and your book will open all the wounds for them again. That’s a heavy burden to bear as the writer. If you are retelling a story that has already been solved, let’s say the Oklahoma Bombing case, it may be … [Read more...]
Attorney Margo Nash Sheds Light On One of Boston’s Most Controversial Murder Cases In True Crime THE POLITICS OF MURDER
On a hot night in July 1995, Janet Downing, a 42-year-old mother of four, was brutally stabbed 98 times in her home in Somerville, a city two miles northwest of Boston. Within hours, a suspect was identified: 15-year-old Eddie O’Brien, the best friend of one of Janet’s sons. But why Eddie? He had no prior history of criminal behavior. He was not mentally ill. He had neither motive nor opportunity to commit the crime. … [Read more...]
THE POLITICS OF MURDER Receives Great Review By The Somerville News Weekly
WildBlue's new true crime book, THE POLITICS OF MURDER: The Power And Ambition Behind "The Altar Boy Murder Case" by Margo Nash, just received an excellent review by Victoria Hewlett in The Somerville News Weekly. Read the full review here: https://thesomervillenewsweekly.wordpress.com/2016/11/14/the-politics-of-murder-was-the-convicted-teenager-eddie-obrien-and-in-one-of-bostons-most-infamous-murder-trials-actually-innocent/ This book is the … [Read more...]
True Crime Author Margo Nash On Her Writing Process For THE POLITICS OF MURDER
Once I’d committed to writing the story of Eddie O’Brien’s arrest, legal journey and trial, I sat down at the computer and wondered exactly how one organizes a book. Should I start with an outline? I realized I had no idea how to organize a book. I didn’t know anyone who had written a book who I could ask. Finally I decided that perhaps I should just start writing and see where that took me. I knew I wanted to start with the day of Janet … [Read more...]
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