On the 13th October, 1972, a plane going from Uruguay to Chile carrying a rugby team crashed in the Andes, leaving the survivors to try to survive for weeks, unsure if anyone was or could come to rescue them. Intense cold, hunger, thirst and despair gripped the team, as they resorted to eating the dead …
Judge Belvin Perry Jr was nicknamed the Velvet Hammer during his time as chief judge in Florida, so called because he had the soft ease of velvet in the court room, but also served justice hard like a hammer. In this book, co-written with Amy Mitchell, he talks about his varied life experiences, from growing …
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Stephane Breitwieser is the most prolific art thief of all time, taking art works and historical objects from museums all over Europe with the help of his girlfriend in broad daylight, amassing a collection worth over $2 billion. All of which he kept for his own enjoyment in his attic bedroom in his mother's house. …
When Paul Pringle got a tip about an overdose at a fancy hotel and the involvement of a medical man, he thought the story would be a quick one to complete. But the man at the hotel was Dean of Medicine at USC, Carmen Puliafito, and the University had it's fingers in a lot of …
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Murderers, Mind hunters, and my quest to decipher the criminal mind. A Killer By Design is a memoir of the woman who was instrumental in the creation of the "mindhunters" methodologies of criminal profiling. Burgess was a forensic nurse who studied victimology and violent sexual crime, and her work was breaking into new ground when …
Liza, along with her younger sister, grew up spending Summers in Provincetown, where their mother would go to work and hope to catch the eye of a wealthy man. Liza's father was almost totally absent, and her mother was most likely a narcissist, but definitely abusive. Because of this, Liza was drawn to a woman …
Continue reading The Babysitter: My Summers With A Serial Killer by Liza Rodman and Jennifer Jordan
The Steamclock, Gastown It's been just over a year that's we've lived here in Vancouver (we arrived 28th September, but we sort of like to use Canadian Thanksgiving as our one year marker because it feels right). I wanted to share my favourite local places so far, but I'm sure that there will be many …
As someone who loves to read the odd True Crime book and listens to My Favorite Murder, I have of course read Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. Aware that he stated that his book was all true, and was explosive in it's time leading to a film adaptation as well, I was aware that Capote …
I used to say that I'm not really a podcast person. I get why a lot of people aren't into them. But I realised that listening to podcasts is a lot like curling up with a cocoa next to the wireless and listening to the Lone Ranger. Some things have a cozy, timeless feel. And …
Penned by the author of the bestselling The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, this book is the story of another Victorian crime which was notorious in it's time, The Plaistow Tragedy of 1895. Two boys, 12 and 13 years old, told neighbors and friends that their mother had gone to Liverpool and proceeded to attend cricket …
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