True Crime Stories

  This case has apparently been on my list for a very long time but I have to say that I do not remember hearing about it, even though it is obvious that I did at some point. In fact, my research stated that Ann Rule wrote a book called A Rose For Her Grave about it although admittedly it was apparently one of her books with several stories in in. When it comes to true crime books in reference to Ann Rule I am a bit in the minority when it comes to her. I admit that it was one of her early books that got me hooked on true crime reading and many of her books and stories are very good. However, I have always felt that as her popularity grew it affected her writing and that rather than give facts of a story she did a lot of interjecting herself and her feelings in her books. There are a few cases that she did where in my opinion she ignores the evidence collected and expressed her own conclusion, one that went against investigators. It has been said that Charles Campbell is t...

Sadly, when you follow true crime cases as I do, so many of them just seem "routine."  I have a list of names or cases that when it is time to sit down and do some research I start going through the list to refresh myself on what the particular case was about and look to find one that strikes me at that moment. It really is not as easy as it seems.  Think of it as if you are watching a movie and it just seems so unoriginal and predictable that you know the ending before you are half way through.  That is quite often the case for me with true crime cases and especially the true crime shows on television. Of course the difference with true crime cases is that they involve real people.  I should be clear in saying that while I find "excitement" or interest in the crimes themselves I am also just as interested, if not more in the legal process a case takes. I found this case, just as I have several of the last few cases, while I was researching another local case. ...