A Cook County Sheriff, from Chicago, Illinois, Sheriff Tom Dart has filed a federal lawsuit against craigslist today. Craigslist is a popular no holds barred anonymous classified advertisement site. While you can use the site to advertise a variety of things, the most traffic the site gets is the &#...

Think young children are not capable of killing people too? WRONG! I totally blame this on this child’s uneducated father. Leaving a shot gun where a kid can grab hold of it or worse not teaching them to never point guns at people? Check this article out: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/a...

Remember that scene in The Wrestler where Mickey Rourke's character buys steroids from that big muscly guy? Well that guy, named Scott Siegel, has just been arrested. For selling steroids. You know, in real life. As the Oscar-nominated indie is his only credit on IMDB, it's not clear whether Siegel ...

Yep, those were Chris Brown’s exact words that he wrote in his private facebook page. “You’ll beging to see her true colors…believe it”, is what he wrote. It’s the first time he spoke about beating Rihanna. Does this mean he is admitting to it? With Valentine̵...

Recently I read a book entitled A Slaying in the Suburbs. I thought it was a well-written account of a horrifying case in which a man murdered and then dismembered the woman he had once vowed to honor and cherish. But I was disappointed by the chilly response to the book from a Borders store in Utic...

A few years ago I vowed to never read a novel by anyone under forty. But that was a stop-gap. In the last few years I’ve hardly read any novels at all. It seems apparent that mystery lovers and true crime fans inhabit separate states. Fiction has zero appeal to most of us on this side of the borde...

Christina Raines who was just engaged to Drew Peterson, has left him, after her father, Ernie Raines demanded her to leave him. Ernie travelled to Bollingbrook, Ill…Drew’s hometown where the couple were currently living, Ernie ordered his daughter to leave Drew. Ernie tried to warn her d...

In addition to offering awards for the best true crime title of the year, the Mystery Writers of America also offers an award for the best critical works in the mystery and true crime genres. This year, five titles were nominated: African American Mystery Writers: A Historical and Thematic Study by ...

"Out of print" is the lament of many a reader. True crime books in particular seem to fall OOP faster than other nonfiction genres. On the bright side, it also means some of those books you have stacked hither and yon throughout your domicile might have some real value. Of the ten most sou...

It's been more than a month since Alabama fans got into a deadly brawl during a football party; I was beginning to wonder what was going on. From WJHG-TV7: Hartford Police Chief Ben Berry said 52-year-old Timothy Fowler had held an Alabama football party on Friday and a fight broke out during a card...