From the monthly archives: April 2014
by Darcia Helle
In our modern, enlightened American culture, we keep our executions quietly behind closed doors. There was a time, though, in the pre-modern world, when this would have been regarded as no better than murder. Executions were public events. When […]
by Darcia Helle
Death By Crucifixion in the Roman World
According to the Greek historian Herodotus (484 BC – 425 B.C.), crucifixion seems to have originated with the ancient Persians and dates back to at least 700 B.C. The Romans […]
by Robert Emmett Murphy, Jr.
The subject of this post is the entrenchment of sexual perversion in American law and how that is reflected in the ideological make-up of the various regions of this great but threatened nation. I am talking specifically about Bestiality, […]
Independent blogger, PI and crime writer Pamela Stewart has been kind enough to interview Patrick H. Moore for Arrest Records.com. http://blog.arrestrecords.com/. In the interview, Patrick and Pamela focus on true crime, Sentencing Mitigation work and crime fiction.
Take a moment and check out the […]
by Bob Couttie
Many years ago, on another planet, I drank champagne on the French Riviera and bedded a princess. Outside the shuttered windows a clear blue Mediterranean Sea sparkled below the stuccoed wealthy villas of Cap Ferrat and the decaying remains of Victorian […]
by Yalonda Laugh and Patrick H. Moore
The Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo rape-and-school-girl serial murder case has drawn great attention both in Canada and the United States since the young husband and wife team shocked Canada by […]
by Bob Couttie
Former U.S. Marine and security and intelligence contractor Timothy Kaufman’s attempts to avoid facing trial for a double murder in Angeles City in the Philippines came to an end this week when a U.S. federal magistrate ruled that there was enough […]
by BJW Nashe
Home burglaries are always upsetting. Having one’s home broken into and one’s belongings stolen is a personal violation. It’s only natural to be angry and sad in this situation. Reasonable people, however, soon accept the fact that they have been the […]
by Krystal Zara and Patrick H. Moore
In the early hours of September 30, 1888, the rough-and-ready Eastside London town of Whitechapel found itself reeling from the grisly death of a prostitute named Elizabeth Stride. That evening “Lucky […]
