True Crime Stories

As a true crime book reader I first learned of the case of Jeffrey Gorton through the author Tom Henderson. There are several authors that do cases in regional areas. Ann Rule was known to concentrate many of her cases in the upper northwest of the United States area. Kathryn Casey reports on a lot of cases in the Texas area. Tom Henderson does cases in the Michigan area. The interesting thing about the crimes that Gorton committed is that they show that criminals have no way of knowing just what advances can be made in forensics that can come back and bite them. It also shows that there are cases that investigators never give up on and there is no statute of limitations on murder. Fifty-five year old Margarette Eby was murdered in her Flint Michigan home on November 9, 1986. She had been raped and left with her throat cut nearly to the point of decapitation. Investigators saved semen samples from the scene, as well as a latent fingerprint but until there were advances i...

Quite often you hear of cases of deaths that were "unnatural" and untimely that have been ruled accidents or suicides and there is a family member somewhere that comes out fighting that ruling.  Most generally it is a parent doing the fighting.  I have a saying "No bad people die."  It seems that more often than not when someone dies everyone seems to forget any faults they had.  Maybe this is because we have been conditioned to "not speak ill about the dead."  I do not believe in making things up but I also believe in being honest.  I am not saying that in all the cases that I have heard where a family member is fighting a cause of death ruling they are wrong, but there have been many cases in which I have.  As the mother of now grown children I obviously hope I never feel the pain of losing a child but I also hope that I would be realistic if something were to happen. Obviously as parents we are supposed to always fight for our children. We tell them...