“It’s gonna be like Doom!” On April 20, 1999, two seniors at Columbine High School unleashed the deadliest high school shooting in history — a morbid record they would hold for almost twenty years. The Shooters Eric Harris Born on April 9, 1981, Eric David Harris was the son of an Air Force pilot. Like […]
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“We might need a SWAT team.” Marvin Heemeyer’s actions on June 4, 2005 have been described in many terms, ranging from deranged to heroic. It all depends on who you ask. An Ordinary Life Everything about Marvin John Heemeyer’s first forty years of life was what you’d call ordinary. He was born in 1951 in
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When I started this true crime blog, I promised you we’d go into the mind of a serial killer. So far we’ve looked at psychopathy and sociopathy. Now it’s time to go deeper. Interview with Death In the 1980’s, psychologist and author Joel Norris was researching psychopathy and his theory that violence is a disease
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This poem was inspired by a Twitter writing prompt on “age” by the always lovely Katelyn Buxton (@KBuxtonBooks). ⬅back to the blog Cover image by Tom Hussey. Used under a Creative Commons License.
“On my own island…I am free.” Epstein knew some of the most famous, powerful, and wealthy people on earth and had a net worth estimated at one point of over a billion dollars – yet managed to stay out of the public eye for most of his life. Turns out it was for good reason.
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“I can’t say I’m normal…” Shawn Michael Grate, while not a household name like Ted Bundy, used his ladies-man charm to terrorized Central Ohio for a decade. A Mysterious Childhood Born August 8, 1976, in Marion, Ohio, Shawn Michael Grate has somewhat of a mysterious or missing childhood. The Wikipedia article on Grate says nothing
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This poem was inspired by the featured photo at the top of the page thanks to a Twitter writing prompt by the always lovely P. F. Donato (@PFDonato). ⬅back to the blog
I realize that True Crime isn’t going to interest everyone. Some people simply aren’t interested in crime stories, whether true or fictionalized. But I’ve also found that sometimes people who might’ve enjoyed the genre, unfortunately have been turned off from True Crime by sensation-seeking writers or those who glorify the violence of the crimes —
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