True Crime Stories

After trying unsuccessfully to find a case in which drew my interest I finally came across this one on my list. One of the interesting things about it is that Anthony Shore was executed just two weeks ago. He was the first to be executed in 2018 in Texas, let alone the United States. A little over a week later, on January 30 th Texas executed William Earl Rayford. Then while I was doing the research for this case I was basically on “death watch” as once again Texas was visiting their death chamber as they were preparing to execute John Battaglia. Texas has three more executions scheduled for this year and even they are all carried through, at six, while Texas will again have executed more than any other state, it will still be a “slow” year for them. Counting the three scheduled later in the year in Texas, a total of eleven more people are scheduled for execution this year (2018). Most of the time when someone is scheduled to be executed their family does one of t...

If you are like me and "all about" true crime then you know of the crimes that put Charles Manson in prison.  You will also know, especially if you have ever seen an interview Manson has given in prison, that technically he did not murder anyone as he is fast and ready to point that out to everyone.  It was the prosecutions theory that Manson had brainwashed the young adults who seemingly idolized him and he had convinced them to commit murder on his behalf.  I think most people agree that Charles Manson was, and seems to continue to be, evil.  The only reason that he is still alive, although in prison, is simply because after he was sentenced to death the Supreme Court decided it was unconstitutional and his sentence was converted to life in prison.  I have no doubt Manson will die there, but I am also convinced that he is right at home there.  Eddie Lee Sexton was just as evil, if not more, as Manson but he is not as well known.  This man did not jus...