From the monthly archives: January 2015
compiled by Patrick H. Moore
Rainey Bethea, age 27, was the last person to be publicly executed in the United States. Bethea had confessed to the rape and murder of a 70-year-old woman named Lischia Edwards, and — under Kentucky state law — […]
by JJ Rogers
I was born in Clarkston, Washington and grew up across the Snake River in Lewiston, Idaho. The two cities are located in a deep valley at the confluence of the Clearwater and Snake Rivers. They are not large cities and they […]
by Patrick H. Moore
Richard Ramirez, the world-famous Night-Stalker, died of “natural causes,” reportedly Hepatitis C or some other form of liver disease, in June of 2013. He was only 52. Few murderous crime sprees have matched that of Ramirez for sheer ferocity. During […]
by BJW Nashe
“Getting away with murder” now serves as a euphemism for avoiding the consequences of just about any kind of bad behavior. In its most literal sense, however, the phrase points to an especially troubling phenomenon — serial killings committed by psychopaths […]
commentary by Patrick H. Moore
In Aileen Wuornos’ final interview with Nick Broomfield one day before her execution, she starts out calmly enough and appears to have made her peace with dying. She believes in an afterlife and seems to have no fear of […]
by Darcia Helle
A recent article in Rolling Stone magazine titled The Entrapment of Jesse Snodgrass prompted me to write this piece. I wanted to keep my professional distance but, when I sat down to write, I found it nearly impossible […]
by Jimmy Macias
Prison gangs have been in the news. When the Aryan Brotherhood was recently suspected of having had a hand in the killing of two Texas District Attorneys, law enforcement publicly acknowledged that the power and reach of prison gangs goes […]
In this post, Karla Homolka super-sleuth Yalonda Laugh and Patrick H. Moore of All Things Crime Blog map the “up close and personal” aspects of the Homolka and Bernardo rape and murder case and focus on the incredible loyalty Karla’s family displayed in rescuing […]
by Rick Stack
Having also grown up in the Midwest (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), Jared Keever’s excellent post, The Secret at Fox Hollow Farm: Herb Baumeister Murdered and Buried 11 Gay Men on His Indiana Country Estate, reminds me of the mysterious disappearance of […]
By Robert Emmett Murphy Jr.
I hereby refute all political grandstanding regarding the Charlie Hebdo terror attack in the shortest version possible:
(1.) Islamophobia.
Two simple to understand facts should kill all anti-Muslim bigotries, but they don’t:
• One third of the human […]
