True Crime Stories

This blog will be a bit different than most.  While it does involve a crime, actually several of them actually, the death of Robert Jay Mathews was more of an event.  We have other "events" in our history.... Ruby Ridge, the siege at Waco, the Jonestown Massacre.  Now, this one does not necessarily reach to the level of those other cases but it occurred in an era of a sort of uproar in our country, one not unlike I see happening in our near future. Neo-Nazi/White Supremacist are nothing new.  They have been around for centuries.  They never truly go away but every few decades or so they start to feel as if they are everywhere.  They were big in the 1960's in all the Civil Rights Era things.  Then there was a period in the 1980's in which they seemed to be everywhere again.  It seems that something occurs in the world or the country that somehow tends to bring them out in groves.  I remember back in the 1980's seeing these types of peop...

This case was a bit odd to research.  There is a lot of information about the case but quite a bit of it is confusing for one, for two, the main focus of the case seemed to be more about Peggy Sue Thomas.  Thomas has had an interesting life to say the least.  She has been married several times and had a variety of jobs, but what made her so interesting to the public at large is that after one of her many marriages she decided to get into shape and began entering beauty pageants. At one point she was named Ms. Washington.   As I stated above so much of the information in this case is confusing and contradictory even to the point of when the murder occurred or when the body was found.  Ann Rule wrote a book called Practice to Deceive  and states that he was found on Christmas Day 2003 while other reports say it was on December 26th, also known as Boxing Day.  Regardless as to exactly when he was found, the issue is that he was found.  He was found...