For thirty years, I covered crime and punishment as a television reporter in Las Vegas. Naturally, organized crime cases were part of that coverage. But, along with crime and courts, I also had another, very unusual beat: atomic testing. In the mid 1980s, before the US and Russia signed a treaty banning underground nuclear detonations (above ground testing had ended in 1963) there were usually several atom bomb tests each year in … [Read more...]
WRONG NUMBERS: A Gripping True Story Of Call Girls, Hackers, And The Mob In Las Vegas
"Wrong Numbers is an intriguing and well-researched crime story detailing the intersection of big money and quick sex in the city that contains a lot of both." - Jack Sheehan, author of Skin City Was a hacker diverting phone calls meant for Las Vegas escort services? The FBI wanted to know, and so did associates of a New York Mafia family. In one of the most unusual undercover operations ever, the FBI had an agent … [Read more...]
WRONG NUMBERS Photo Gallery
Check out the photos from Glen Meek and Dennis N. Griffin's new true crime book, WRONG NUMBERS! … [Read more...]
Glen Meek
For more than thirty years I covered the sometimes mean -- but always interesting -- streets of Las Vegas as a TV investigative reporter. From the devastating explosion of the PEPCON rocket fuel factory in 1988, to the mass murder at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in October, 2017, I have been a professional eyewitness to Las Vegas history. During that time, I was honored with ten Emmy awards from the National Academy of Television Arts … [Read more...]
Boxing Champion Vinnie Curto
Although I am proud to tell people I won the WBF World Super Cruiserweight Champion in 1986, my story was somewhat of a sad one at one time. It’s also a story of a person who went through hell, several times, and came out on the other side to make something of himself. I was shot, stabbed, poisoned, and had my Cadillac blown up when I was supposed to be in it, but nothing and no one could kill me, or stop me from reaching my … [Read more...]
Katherine Ellison On “The Story That Wouldn’t Let Me Go”
The tale I tell in “Mothers & Murderers,” has haunted me for almost forty years -- and eluded me for nearly thirty. I was first entangled with its characters in the summer of 1981. At the time, I was a cub reporter, covering a San Jose, California, trial involving the contract murder of a wealthy bachelor named Howard Witkin. Ten years later, after the murder investigation took an unexpected turn, I wrote a book proposal that promptly sold … [Read more...]
Roman Martín Provides A Guide To The Mobster Life In UNDERWORLD
Have you ever fantasized about being able to do whatever you want, when you want, and to whom you want? Or perhaps you’ve dreamed about never having to take crap off anyone ever again? If so, then the Mafia could be the perfect new profession for you! For the first time in history, there is now an easy-to-follow self-help guide on how to join and rise in the most exclusive men’s club in the world—the Italian-American Mafia (aka La Cosa Nostra). … [Read more...]
TANTAMOUNT Dives Into Washington DC’s Oldest Unsolved Serial Killing Spree
In 1971 and 1972, a deadly predator stalked the streets of the nation’s capital. His targets, young girls who he kidnapped, raped, and left their remains along busy roadways in plain view. Some of his victims he held captive for days, others only a few minutes. Seven victims raging from the ages of ten to eighteen died in his hands. Then, as mysteriously as he started, the Freeway Phantom stopped. On one victim … [Read more...]
TANTAMOUNT Photo Gallery
Get a closer look at the photos from Blaine Pardoe and Victoria Hester's new true crime TANTAMOUNT … [Read more...]
MOTHERS AND MURDERERS: A True Story by Pulitzer Prize Winner Katherine Ellison
"A dark jewel" - Jacquelyn Mitchard, bestselling author of The Deep End of the Ocean Mothers & Murderers: A True Story of Love, Lies, Obsession … and Second Chances takes readers on a wild tragicomic ride from the criminal courtrooms of California’s Silicon Valley to the Himalayan mountains of Pakistan to the deserts of Ethiopia. In delightful, insightful prose, Ellison reflects on her mistakes and her triumphs as she weaves together the … [Read more...]
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