Obsessed with True Crime discussion
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Chit chat 2022-2023
Lady ♥ Belleza wrote: "Their lives mattered and he was working tirelessly to find out who killed them."And he didn't give up for 20 years!!!
Yesterday, when I stumbled across the fact that Rudy Giuliani is a member of the Lucchese crime family, I gave him a shelf of his own.
There is now a shelf for cookbooks related to true crime.
Honest to Pete, has everyone everywhere forgotten how to drive? I was heading back to the office yesterday after an appointment and when it was way too late to get out of the left turn lane at a large intersection, I saw that I couldn't turn onto Michigan St. because it was blocked off by 2 firetrucks, 2 ambulances and 5 police cars. As I sat there wondering how to proceed, another firetruck cut past me and I could see the medevac helicopter coming. In the middle of the scrum of police cars was a ring of people standing around what had to be a badly injured person. I figured out how to turn around and go back another way, and it was time for the local news so I turned it on and heard them talking, not about this, but about a truck vs. motorcycle crash from the day before. The cyclist had just died. They commented that this had happened right after another fatal crash a few blocks from where I was driving, on the same road. Today they finally talked about the crash I'd witnessed, which proved to be another truck vs. motorcycle deal. The two people in the truck dudn't get a scratch and of course, they recently repealed the helmet law here so most people on bikes are not wearing any protection. I turned in the company car to drive home and I saw so much flagrant stupidity going on that it made me wonder how anyone gets home alive these days. One guy did an illegal U-turn in the middle of the main drag, in heavy traffic, for instance. EDIT: I found a news article on yesterday's crash. The cyclist was headed north in the southbound lane, squeezing through the lines of cars, and he was hit by the truck which probably never saw him. It didn't say whether he had a helmet on, but it did say the two drivers were a year apart in age and both from the same small town so they very, very likely knew each other.
Everyone's gone completely stupid if you ask me.
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Pierre Chanal now has his own shelf. I surprisingly found 5 books on him. Unfortunately, all but one of them is in French...
Rather suddenly there are SIX books about Thomas Bunday in the GR database, so he now has his own shelf. I also feel bound to point out that the ones with photos of the perp on the cover all managed to use photos of the wrong guy, either the actor who played him in an online documentary or "the Son of Sal," Salvatore Perrone, a different killer from the far end of the United States. This rather casts doubt on the quality of the rest of the books' contents...
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"You're going to have to give me a name, there are a lot of killer nurses out there."
Lady ♥ Belleza wrote: "I met this guy last night and we were talking about serial killers, and talking about 'favorite' serial killers. He says, "I have a favorite, it's that nurse..." (mentions state that I can't rememb..."Heh heh heh
Hey Everyone, I just joined the group. I was a member of another crime group but they closed it down so I decided to search out for a new one and found this interesting group. I'm a writer of horror but am looking to start writing some crime novels and I'm a reader of crime and into true crime so I think I will fit in here nicely. Looking forward to conversing with you all!
Justin wrote: "Hey Everyone, I just joined the group. I was a member of another crime group but they closed it down so I decided to search out for a new one and found this interesting group. I'm a writer of horro..."Welcome!!!
Sharon Marshall now has her own shelf because there is a second book on her.
Justin wrote: "Hey Everyone, I just joined the group. I was a member of another crime group but they closed it down so I decided to search out for a new one and found this interesting group. I'm a writer of horro..."Welcome Justin. Let us know when you get your true crime book written. Do you have a project in mind yet?
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Welcome! Yeah not to brag (but I am) but I think this is the only active TC group here. Although if I'm wrong it's just cause I haven't checked lately. ;-)
Well, I'm going to settle in and wait for the new members to start pouring in...
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Wilton Earle's smiley Final Truth : The Autobiography of a Serial Killer is available free on Kindle Unlimited at the moment. It's a hideous story well worth seeking out if you want the grimmest of the grim in true crime.
I read Earle's book on Gaskins and it is at the top tier of my 400+ true crime reads.
I read this one today and it was a true page turner.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Vampire Next Door- J.T. Hunter.
You said a mouthful in messages 171 and 172!
It dawned on me that we needed a shelf for (ex) military killers and, I guess, military victims. I am not about to put all 59 books about Jeff Dahmer on that shelf (for instance) but he is represented. Feel free to add any titles you are aware of.
Our Collected Crime Tales shelf just passed 3,000 titles.Also, the last time I looked, a few months ago, there were no books to be had on Samuel Little. Now there are so many that he has his own shelf.
Ditto Mia Zapata.
Ditto the Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs.
Bill wrote: "https://www.jillianlauren.com/behold-...This book on Little is due in July."
It is now the 10th book on the Samuel Little shelf. I wonder if it's too soon for these books to be coming out. There are so many Jane Does who may or may not be connected to him and I'm sure the work of making those connections has barely begun...
Charlie Brandt and Alex Murdaugh suddenly have their own shelves.
There are now 71 books on the Children's True Crime shelf. Only in America...
I just added a gazillion books to our library, including a whole shelf on the Delphi murders. Suddenly there are 8 or 9 books out on the case.
Thanks Fishface for this heads up & all you do to organize that massive bookshelf. There is a giveaway on one the Delphi books you guys!!!
Jenny wrote: "Thanks Fishface for this heads up & all you do to organize that massive bookshelf. There is a giveaway on one the Delphi books you guys!!!"Which one???
Hi all, new member.. I have a good friend who has a true crime YouTube channel and I’ve gotten interested in a few cases because of her - I read a description of “devil in the white city” about HH Holmes last winter and read that, and it’s snowballed from there.. yada yada yada, I’m on my third Whitey Bulger book in a row 😅 I think I’m most interested in historical and unsolved cases, and local stuff to me (Boston area, so lots!) Anyway happy to be here and maybe discover some good new stuff!
Murder & Mayhem in Boston is a quick read it covers your area.https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...
Fishface wrote: "Jenny wrote: "Thanks Fishface for this heads up & all you do to organize that massive bookshelf. There is a giveaway on one the Delphi books you guys!!!"Which one???"
Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi by
Susan Hendricks
Liz wrote: "Hi all, new member.. I have a good friend who has a true crime YouTube channel and I’ve gotten interested in a few cases because of her - I read a description of “devil in the white city” about HH ..."Welcome!!! Feel free to peruse our bookshelves, which you can see at upper R on this page (the green link that says Bookshelf) if you use the desktop version of this site rather than the app. We have shelves for Cold Cases and Unsolved among many, many others...
Jenny wrote: ".Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi bySusan Hendricks"
TY!
Bill wrote: "I read this one today and it was a true page turner.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Vampire Next Door- J.T. Hunter."
Sooooo messed up
I just noticed that Butcher, Biter, Spy: A True Story of Madness, Mutilation and Unspeakable Acts of Brutality is currently free if you have Kindle Unlimited. Books in English in Fritz Haarmann are almost as rare as hen's teeth, so...
George Floyd and Betty Broderick both have shelves now.
Ruth Pelke has her own shelf as I just found, not one, but 3 books about her case, not including the chapter in Notorious 92.
Seventy Times Seven is about Pelke and Paula Cooper. Along with Timothy Egan's A Fever in the Heartland, my best book of the year.
Bill wrote: "Seventy Times Seven is about Pelke and Paula Cooper. Along with Timothy Egan's A Fever in the Heartland, my best book of the year."I know, I'm reading Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy right now!
Here is another good one, another recent 2023 release by James Renner. I read it this morning. My 112th true crime read this year. I am retired and finished them all in one day. Here is my review of Little, Crazy Children.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Bill wrote: "Here is another good one, another recent 2023 release by James Renner. I read it this morning. My 112th true crime read this year. I am retired and finished them all in one day. Here is my review ..."
Adding to the shelves! Never heard of a Robotripping murder before!
The little, crazy children(a Crucible reference) getting high on cough syrup was also new to me. A very strange case with the murder still unsolved.
Bill wrote: "The little, crazy children(a Crucible reference) getting high on cough syrup was also new to me. A very strange case with the murder still unsolved."I've known about Robotripping since I worked in a different department at this agency where we saw a lot of substance abusers. Wonders never cease when there are drugs involved.
Aaaaand so does Jack Ruby. Because The Two Assassins is a double biography, it went on both the Lee Oswald and Jack Ruby shelves. Fun fact: one of the authors, Lucy Freeman, later wrote another true-crime book about her co-author, Renatus Hartogs, after he went to court for sexually assaulting a number of his psychiatry clients and calling it "therapy."
"Bad Driving" now has its own shelf. I'm debating whether to add Thomas Rossi to that group considering that he was good enough driver to seem like a bad driver to his victims...
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Obsessed with True Crime
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It was the part where the prostitutes were protesting, saying the police weren't taking the cases seriously because the missing were in the sex trade and Reichert was saying how that hurt him because he didn't care what they did, they were still human beings, daughters, granddaughters, sisters, etc. Their lives mattered and he was working tirelessly to find out who killed them.