True Crime Stories

I do not do a lot of cases about serial killers.  I am not sure why actually. Maybe it has something to do with I like the part where I gather facts about cases that are less well known.  But, as I said the other day I am working my way down my long list of names and he happened to be the next one.  In fairness I have skipped two on the list but only because they are cases in which trials have been delayed recently so the case has not met it's full conclusion. As is the case with many serial killers, Glen Rogers had a nickname.  Well, actually he had two... "The Cross Country Killer" and "The Casanova Killer." So many talk about how good looking Ted Bundy was but I never saw the attraction. But now, Glen Rogers, yeah, he was a good looking man.  Then again, he kind of had that 80's hair band kind of look and since I would like nothing more than to have remained in that era maybe that is the attraction I find.   Glen Rogers was born and raised in Ohio an...

I recently read the book "Outrage" by Vincent Bugliosi and as usual struggle with trying to keep the thoughts of a book out of my true crime blog.  However, in this case, unlike many others, I have little to argue with Bugliosi.  I have to say that his thoughts much mirrored what I already believed, as well as I learned more things that I simply had to agree with him on.  I will try my best to not compare the two here but after 17 years  and this book being the freshest in my mind that may be difficult. When this trial was going on in 1995 I was a young 23 mother of two and my interest in true crime, as well as the process of the justice system was limited. There really was very little that I could recall about the details prior to reading Buliosi's book.  Of course we all remember the verdict being read, even today you still hear it being repeated (how embarrassed do you think that clerk is how she stumbled over his name when she knew millions watched, let ...