True Crime Stories

I am surprised that I have never blogged this case as it is one of the first stories I remember seeing when I started watching shows and reading things that involved true crimes decades ago. That being said the part I remembered the most was the fact that the perpetrators had apparently not found all the money they were expecting to find in the home and instead the money was found more than two decades later hidden in the wall of the home. David “Stringbean” Akeman was a man well known in the country music community. At the time of his murder in 1973 he was a regular on the popular television series “Hee Haw” but he had been around for decades. He had obtained his name because while he was an accomplished musician, known for his “old fashioned” style of banjo picking, he was also a comedian. He began going on stage dressed in a long night shirt with a pair of shorts that were held by a belt just above his knees. This made it appear that he had an especially lo...

It has been a while since I have sat down and taken the time to blog.  Every week I tell myself it needs to be done and then I always seem to fail.  I could maybe blame the summertime and being more active but in reality that probably is not a legitimate excuse.  So, once again I decided today was the day and after watching to television episodes that aired this weekend I already knew what case I wanted to talk about. Despite Dateline airing a two hour program and 20/20 having their own episode, both of which who amazing showed a lot of different evidence thankfully I knew this case would have a lot more of information out there.  It soon became one of those cases that I had to stop myself from researching and obtaining information before I became like Thomas Wolfe in a movie I recently watched about his issue with writing and writing and not knowing when to stop.   I had not heard of this case until I viewed the television shows and I found that many others...