True Crime Stories

If you are a regular reader of my blog you know that I do not always agree with a verdict that a jury renders and I am very open about my feelings in cases in which I just cannot be certain.  Then there are the cases that I can say I am not sure the evidence is there but my "Spidey Sense" as I call it, tells me something. This case falls into the latter category.   In June of 2012, 42 year old Wisconsin resident, Eric Koula was found guilty in the murders of his parents, Dennis and Merna, in May of 2010 as well as a charge of forgery resulting from Eric signing his father's name to a $50,000 that was cashed the day after it is believed that his parents were murdered.  Few, including Eric it seems, will argue that much of what convicted him was his own behavior throughout the case. Supporters claim the things he did were either innocent things or resulted from the panic of knowing his parents had been murdered.  Others, apparently including the jury, feel differentl...

Whether you are into true crime like myself or not, you nearly have to live under a rock to have not heard about the case in which the new Netflix docudrama Making a Murderer  is based.  I of course had heard about it and had limited myself as to what information I read until I got around to seeing the film.  In fact, I had several people contact me to see if I had viewed it yet knowing that it would be right up my alley.  So finally I sat down the other day to watch it knowing very little than the fact that someone had been convicted of a murder in which people seemed to now be clamoring about and proclaiming his innocence.  In my infinite ignorance I did not realize that it was a ten part series and I got up early one morning and began watching before my husband awoke.  I figured I would get a few in and go back to finish it later.  When he woke up I was in the middle of episode four. My husband is not always into the cases as I am but there are a fe...