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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anthony M. DeStefano has covered organized crime for over three decades, including the crime beat for New York Newsday for the past twenty years. His books on organized crime include Gangland New York, King of the Godfathers, Mob Killer, The Big Heist, and Top Hoodlum: Frank Costello, Prime Minister of the Mafia.
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Three specifically flawed stereotypes surround our perceptions of serial killings and serial murder: (1) that the killing is almost always a White male, (2) that African-American men rarely commit serial murder and (3) that those who commit serial murder are psychologically complex and intelligent therefore able to escape capture by law enforcement. The latter stereotype tends to be biased and at worst, racist suggesting that African Americans are not sufficiently intelligent or psychologically complex enough to commit such crimes of stealth, plan their offenses and escape apprehension. African-American serial killers are less reported in the media particularly when their victims are other African-Americans. The lack of reporting, examination, and comprehension of African-American serial homicide murderers is prejudicial to the victims and potential victims.
Investigators and criminologists over the years have developed profiles for serial killers that enable law enforcement to apprehend serial killers and bring them to justice. The book argues that contemporary patterns neglect a significant portion of all serial killers, specifically, African American serial killers. The lack of accuracy and portrayal in the research and information shared by law enforcement can create an unintentional bias and can hamper the investigation and apprehension of African American serial murderers.
Precious little research exists into the examination of how profiles and typologies developed and how practical their use is in identifying and capturing killers. Through the analysis of selected case studies of African-American serial homicide offenders, the book examines how useful the profiles and typologies are for the homicide investigator by providing the first focused study of non-White serial murderers. The paper identifies and analyzes a significantly neglected population of serial murderers, African-American serial murderers, examines current profiling techniques and their ability to provide for the satisfactory and practical application to investigations, and identifies unique profiling questions that might help in the investigative processes and practices in serial murders whether committed by African-Americans or other non-White offenders. Case examples are provided to underscore the problems of current profiling methods and to illustrate the extent of African American serial homicide offending.
Just in time to thrill and delight the remaining literate members of your extended family -- a hot new release by Henry Cordes and Todd Cooper :Pathological. Praised as one of the best written true crime books since..well...since Burl Barer wrote one.
Detective Derek Mois wasn’t sure what he was dealing with when in March 2008 he walked into a home in an affluent Omaha neighborhood and was confronted with the bodies of an 11-year-old boy and the housekeeper. Both had been murdered with kitchen knives plunged into their throats. Who would do something so vile, and why? Lacking answers, Mois and other detectives working the case were stumped.Five years later, a strikingly similar crime occurred in which two more victims were brutally murdered with knives expertly thrust into their jugular veins. The modus operandi of the murders pointed Mois and a special task force in the direction of looking for a serial killer. But no one could have anticipated that path would lead to the Department of Pathology at Creighton University.
Pathological was released just this week from Wild Blue Press in paperback, ebook and no doubt an audiobook as well. You can stuff a stocking , rip a bodice or whatever form of delivery pleases your personal proclivities
Dr. Scot Bonn, former NBC executive turned sociologist whose master's thesis: Mass Deception: Moral Panic and the American Invasion of Iraq (or something like that) won him praise from scholars and highly disciplined social researchers, and rude insults from people who didn't read the book and imagined it was a partisan political tract. His life and career has endured numerous plot twists, including back injuries, trips to China and finding true love. He also became a novelist using his knowledge of true crime, media and research. His first venture into fact-based fiction is awaiting to thrill you this happy holiday season:
EVIL GUARDIAN : Charles Lundquist is chaplain at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women in Westchester County, New York, located forty-five miles northwest of Manhattan. He is also a serial killer who preys on teenage girls. Lundquist is a cold-blooded psychopath who calls his murderous alter ego the guardian because he believes that he is serving God and protecting innocent females from evil by killing them. Ironically, he loves to kill. Well everyone needs a hobby.
Hopefully one or more of these hot authors will join us Saturday live on TCU.
Mike Morford and his partner Mike Ferguson have their own very popular true crime podcast and two great books from Wild Blue Press — The Case of the Zodiac Killer, and The Case of the Golden State Killer.
I n Northern California, he was known as the East Area Rapist. In Southern California, he was called the Original Night Stalker. When his crimes all over California were finally connected, he would become known as the Golden State Killer, and by 1986, he had racked up a staggering tally of over 100 home break-ins or burglaries, 50 or more rapes, and at least 12 murders. Don’t invite him over.
Mike M. joins us this Saturday to explain the origin of the universe, who killed whom, and how cool is their podcast!
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My previous true crime books for Kensington's Pinnacle True Crime imprint detailed the misdeeds of blue collar psychopaths and working class villains. The economy of America changed, and times were tough. True crime readers wanted to read about rich people doing very bad things. "Don't write another book with blue collar protagonists," advised my editor at Kensington. "Your assignment is to find rich people, good looking rich people. Lots of sex, drugs and if possible, a wood chipper."
I didn't find the wood chipper, but thanks to Suzy Spencer, I found the story of Jimmy Joste and Rhonda Glover -- a true Texas power couple of wealth, avarice, eroticism and drug fueled madness. Finding the story isn't the same as writing the book. Throwing myself into this project challenged me more than any book I've ever written until the day Michaela Hamilton, chief executive editor of Kensington Publishing Group said to me, "You're drowning in this manuscript, aren't you?"
If you ever wanted to be a true crime writer. this the show that tells you how it's done and how you can keep from drowning in your manuiscript.
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“Whatever you thought you believed about this infamous case, get ready to change your mind or be more convinced than ever. … Fascinating.”—New York Times bestselling author Steve Jackson
In 2016-17, while working for the USA TODAY NETWORK’s Wisconsin Investigative Team, author John Ferak wrote dozens of articles examining the murder case against Steven Avery, who had already beat one wrongful conviction only to be charged with the murder of Teresa Halbach in 2005. The case became the wildly successful Netflix “Making A Murderer” documentary.
In WRECKING CREW: Demolishing The Case Against Steven Avery, Ferak lays out in exacting detail the post-conviction strategy of Kathleen Zellner, the high-profile, high-octane lawyer, to free Avery. To write this book, Zellner, perhaps America’s most successful wrongful conviction attorney, gave Ferak unfettered access to the exhaustive pro bono efforts she and her small suburban Chicago law firm dedicated for a man she believes to be a victim of an unscrupulous justice system
Long time fans of our show will recall that we were all over this case long before the Netflix documentary, and I was (and remain) convinced that Avery is innocent of the latest murder charge against him. I always enjoy John Ferak's books and he is an excellent guest
In March 2009, pretty, vivacious Rhonda Casto plunged to her death from a 300-foot cliff in the Oregon woods. The only witness, Stephen Nichols, the father of her nine-month-old baby, Annie, told police investigators she slipped and fell.
Yet, Nichols’ story didn’t mesh with the facts. And some of his other actions raised suspicions as well, including just days after her death trying to collect on a million-dollar life insurance policy he’d taken out on his unemployed, 23-year-old girlfriend. What had begun with a 911 call to report an accident, quickly turned into a homicide investigation.
Author Steve Jackson joins us this Saturday to tell the tale.
Paul Guzzo is the brilliant Tampa journalist who connected Burl with Ken Eurell, leading to the best seller, BETRAYAL IN BLUE. Paul brings his historical insights and journalistic professionalism to reporting and understanding true crime in Florida.
Murder, mayhem, militias, marijuana, mafia and The Mons. A criminal history of Tampa focusing on its most infamous people and events of the past century. Historians seem to love painting a picture of Tampa's past as one of immigrants happily working side-by-side to create a utopian society that became the cigar capital of the world and later a destination hailed as one of "the nation's next best cities." While this is true to some extent, Tampa also has a dark side. Tampa's history can be divided into three dark eras - the early years of danger, where the greatest fear was the nightmarish individuals who were allowed to roam the nights in a city without a proper law enforcement organization in place; the mid-1900s when one of the most power criminal syndicates in the nation made its home in Tampa and when a another nation's revolutionary war affected the city's residents; and the late 1900s to early 2000s when Tampa became a sexual playground. Each flows effortlessly into the next, one always passing the torch to the next. Some of the names associated with these eras are well known in all corners of Tampa -Santo Trafficante, Fidel Castro and Joe Redner. While others are either less known or completely unknown - Charlie Wall, Tampa's first godfather; Robert Anderson, one of the nation's first serial killers; and Bobby Rodriguez, owner of Tampa's first GoGo bar. Whether known or unknown, good or bad, each of the individuals explored in this book had an impact on Tampa's history. These are their stories.
