True Crime Stories

As a true crime book reader I first learned of the case of Jeffrey Gorton through the author Tom Henderson. There are several authors that do cases in regional areas. Ann Rule was known to concentrate many of her cases in the upper northwest of the United States area. Kathryn Casey reports on a lot of cases in the Texas area. Tom Henderson does cases in the Michigan area. The interesting thing about the crimes that Gorton committed is that they show that criminals have no way of knowing just what advances can be made in forensics that can come back and bite them. It also shows that there are cases that investigators never give up on and there is no statute of limitations on murder. Fifty-five year old Margarette Eby was murdered in her Flint Michigan home on November 9, 1986. She had been raped and left with her throat cut nearly to the point of decapitation. Investigators saved semen samples from the scene, as well as a latent fingerprint but until there were advances i...

I am almost certain that the first time I heard about this case would have been back in the late 1980's. It was featured on the show "Unsolved Mysteries" and I was an avid viewer at that time.  However, in 1989 when it was aired on the television show it probably did not catch my interest because it was still a mysterious missing persons case. Then, several years ago I found the book Darker Than Night  by Tom Henderson.  If you do not know him as an author, I highly recommend him.  If you know anything about true crime authors you know that many of the stories from Ann Rule came from the California and the upper northwestern area of the country.  Kathryn Casey (another of my favorites) writes many of her stories out of Texas and the deep south.  Henderson does a lot of cases, mainly in Michigan, but the plain states.  As you will often hear me say about cases I do not rely on one source because of course everything you see or read is almost always bi...