True Crime Stories

You know, as much as some may say I am “obsessed” with true crime and I have to admit that at some level they may be right, I have never been so obsessed that I wanted to know what it was like to commit a crime or be “famous” as some who have committed horrendous crimes have later said. Such is the case of Robert Benjamin Smith. Robert Smith's father was in the military and the family moved around quite often when he was young. The boy never had a lot of friends in school nor was he very athletic. This is often said of military children due to all of their moves to different places and schools. In 1963 when John F. Kennedy was assassinated the family lived in Baltimore and it was said that Robert begged his father to go to the funeral but it did not happen. It was said that later Robert's obsession with Kennedy manifested into an obsession with Lee Harvey Oswald. In 1965 Robert's father retired from the military and the family settled in Mesa Arizona...

I have done so many recent crimes as of late that I decided to take it back a few decades and tell an infamous story from the 1960's. I often tell myself that when I do some of these older crimes I open myself up for more inaccurate information that was published but then in the same breath I remind myself that I still tend to do this in our modern age.  This is also case that has been analyzed and analyzed more over the years and ideas have changed.  Some will argue that original assessments were correct, but I am unsure that I can agree with this.  I believe that as science and technology progresses in different areas it allows us to understand things more clearly.   For the most part Charles Whitman is vilified.  Looking at the surface of things it is hard not to point to Whitman and think of evil.  He murdered his mother and then his wife.  After calling into both of their bosses to say they were ill and would not be making it to work he rented...