Showing posts with label murder. Show all posts
Showing posts with label murder. Show all posts
Saturday, November 2, 2024

Michigan Homegrown Terrorism of the 1930s--The Black Legion

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I like to think I am well-versed in Michigan and Detroit history, but it wasn't until I recently read Tom Stanton's Terror in the...
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Friday, October 28, 2016

The Jane Mixer Murder--John Norman Collins or Gary Earl Leiterman

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In her profoundly personal memoir, The Red Parts , Maggie Nelson gives readers a glimpse of what lies behind the curtain of American juri...
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Friday, January 30, 2015

Rise In Sex-Slayings--in the 1960s and 1970s--Prompts Creation of FBI's VICAP Data Base

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Beyond our instinct for survival and self-defense, most humans in modern society do not become killers. If we did, there would soon be n...
Friday, November 1, 2013

The Demise of Kristi Kurtz - November 1990

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My girlfriend during the years covering the Washtenaw County coed killings (1967-1969) was Kristi Kurtz. When we met up, she had just d...
Tuesday, May 28, 2013

John Norman Collins - Verdict and Sentence

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    On Friday, January 16, 1970, the people's case against John Norman Collins finally went to the jury.  They had been sequestered...
Sunday, April 14, 2013

Jenny Hilborne - Writer of Mysteries and Psychological Thrillers

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I met Jenny Hilborne at a book fair in Solana Beach in April of 2011, when we were sharing a booth and promoting our debut novels. We wer...