True Crime Stories

I have a system when deciding on what to blog about and/or when.  I have a list of cases or people that have caught my interest at one time or another.  Then depending on my mood at the time I will do the research on a subject, taking pages and pages of notes and then at some point I will blog about one of those that I have prepared. Most of the cases are old ones that have fascinated me throughout the years and generally I know a lot about the case.  However that never stops me from looking for more information available or another side of a case.  The Ruby Ridge Incident falls into that category.  It is a case that I have seen numerous documentaries and movies on, as well as read a lot about.  It is also one of those cases that just makes my blood boil to think about it.  What makes this case a bit different for me today is that while I am sitting here writing this now, I am still in the process of making my notes.  It is not as if starting...

On October 31, 1975 in the elite neighborhood of Belle Haven in Greenwich Connecticut the body of 15 year old Martha Moxley was found beaten under a tree in her own yard.  In 2002 the suspect was finally charged, convicted and sentenced to jail.  This case made headlines not just because it was such an old cold case but because the suspect was related to one of America's most prominent families. The Moxley family that included father, David, mother, Dorothy, and children John and Martha had moved to Belle Haven less than a year prior to Martha being killed.  David had transferred there from California when he became a senior partner in an accounting firm.  Just around the corner from their new home lived Rushton Skakel and his seven children (six boys and one girl) who were between the ages of 9 and 19.  Anne Reynolds Skakel had died in 1973 from brain cancer.  The Skakel's were notorious in their neighborhood partly because Rushton was rarely around so t...

As with many high profile cases that occurred several decades ago, the Lindbergh case has still been hotly debated as to if the correct person was charged (and in this case convicted and executed) and much speculation of the handling of the case as well as the subjects. On March 1, 1932 Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr, the 20 month old son of Charles Sr. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh was reported kidnapped from his home between 10 and 10:30 pm near Hopewell New Jersey. The family nurse, Betty Gow, had placed the child in his crib for bed around 8 and when she went back in at 10 the crib was empty.  Upon asking Charles Sr. and Anne Lindbergh if they had taken the baby and a short search, the police were notified by Oliver Whately, the caretaker around 10:25 pm. Nearly immediately the crime scene was compromised.  There were servants, media, the family lawyer and members of the police (from different branches) swarming the home.  A ransom note was found in an envelope on a ra...