True Crime Stories

As I mentioned in my last blog I have watched several documentaries on Amazon Prime lately. One of them was called Disgraced. It was released through Showtime in 2017 and revolved around the murder of Patrick Dennehy and and how his disappearance revealed a scandal at Baylor University. Patrick Dennehy spent his freshman and sophomore years of college in New Mexico where he played on the basketball team. In the summer of 2003 he transferred to Baylor University in Waco Texas. He had been recruited by the head basketball coach, David “Dave” Bliss. Bliss had a bit of a shady past but the problem is that few people knew about it and it seems that those who did know did not talk about it. Not long after Patrick got to Baylor he was driving around in a new Chevy Tahoe. Patrick's family believed that he had gotten an athletic scholarship to go to the prestigious, Baptist college. Patrick quickly became friends with fellow teammate, Carlton Dotson who had played one season at ...

I have recently moved into a new home and in the last few days of settling in I have gotten on one of my “documentary kicks.” I am not a huge Amazon Prime Tv user but I do go back to it from time to time, this is one of those times. Often many of the stories I find on there do not necessarily rise to the level of “crime” that you generally see from me here, but they generally are crimes none the less and ones that I find interesting. Aside from this one I have at least two other blogs to research and compile based on documentaries I have watched recently. The documentary that inspired this blog was called “Facing East.” While I obviously watch true crime shows, read true crime books and write this blog, my other passion in life is genealogy and so cemeteries obviously fall into that category. Both my mother and grandmother were involved in genealogy and there are pictures of me as a small child sitting at the gravestones of ancestors. My genealogy progress is much like ...