Old Crimes
Obviously the fact that I compose this blog based on true crime stories tells you that I am fascinated by them. I am especially interested in stories I have not heard of and those that have been lost to history. Recently I have read several books that entail crimes from the late 1800's and early turn of the century crimes. I am currently reading "Psycho USA" by Harold Schecter. Prior to this I read another of his books based on a woman serial killer, Jane Topper who poison her victims in the late 1800's. Psycho USA is a book to show us that "The Good Ole Days" never really existed and that crimes ranging from Columbine to The Oklahoma City Bombing and people such as Susan Smith and Andrea Yates are not even close to being new. Schecter asked a curious question. Why is it that we can remember the Halls/Mills murder but not the LeBoeuf/Dreher crime. Why is it we can remember names like Leopold and Loeb from the early 1900's but not the names of St...