In August of 1973, the United States' largest mass murder was discovered in Houston, Texas.  It came as a result of Elmer Wayne Henley, a...

The day started with Phil Harris coming into the break room where everyone was drinking tea and chatting. He interrupted the fray by...

I was walking past an elementary school today and saw all the security around it. No wonder. How many school shootings will need to...

What does "ad seg" stand for? The full phraseology is “administration segregation.” The meaning of this phrase in the context of...

I was thrilled to hear that previous Body #5 was identified by DNA to be Francis Wayne Alexander and that his family is now able to...

I'm continuing to write this book of essays, along with graphics made by artist, Tony Geiger. Here's the newest! SUBTERFUGE The...

Interviewer So when you're saying that you didn't really know the people working for John, what would make you think that Michael Rossi...

During the early 1970s, John Wayne Gacy was known to be the maintenance man at an apartment building at the corner of Miami and Elston...

When myself, Alison True and Bill Dorsch started working to unearth details behind the John Wayne Gacy case, I had recently been widowed...

We are in the process, as a society, of finding out a lot of public narratives served the causes of the people in power creating them. ...

Much like the rest of us, I’m done with COVID. I want to move on and “get back to normal” – whatever that means. I feel the same way...

This weekend I was in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and it was a very thoughtful trip. We were there for my son’s birthday: every year he...

“This section of the West Side is just beyond Garfield Park, a major tourist destination. I think it’s always surprising to people when...

For each of the essays in Tender Tales of Tremendous Catastrophe, I think it's important to give the first-person backstory that each is...

With the downtime we all now have, I've set about writing a non-fiction book about a life spent interviewing and talking intimately to...

Last year, I had the pleasure and privilege of meeting with a woman by the name of Kay Weden. In 1993, she was a school teacher in...

Frank Lucas, aka the American Gangster, died last May and a true personality left this earth when he did. I researched and interviewed...

Several years ago, I produced a few programs in a series for The History Channel called Gangland. As a mother of 3, for whatever nuts...

True crime is a very rough beat at times. Almost all my interviewees have been through some form of hell and the interviews are...

My shows about murder are what go in between the commercials to sell trash bags and tampons…cynical but true, so think about that when...