True Crime Stories

Oftentimes names make it to my list from other lists.  For example I may find a list of women on death row and that leads me to other names of people and crimes.  The downfall I suppose of now trying to go through my list one by one is that I am going to find those names one after another.  I believe I came across this name, James Marlow, based on his association with white supremacy, just as the last case I blogged about.  The difference here is that James Marlow's crimes did not have anything to do with those associations.   James Marlow and Cynthia Coffman are considered to be a serial killing couple. I suppose they qualify to be called serial killers.  In general to be defined as a serial killer one has to commit at least three murders, generally for nothing more than personal gratification and span within a period of a month or more. Oftentimes serial killers have significant "cooling off" periods but that is not always necessarily true.  Bundy,...

This case proved one of the reasons that I do not do a lot of cases about serial killers, there is just always so much information and years to span through.  It is not that I mind having a lot of information per se, but the more information there is, the more opportunity to have contradictions, which makes finding the truth harder.  This case was made even harder than that by the face that it took place in England, where the laws are much different than those here in the United States. I oftentimes avoid doing those cases for that reason.  However, keeping in the promise to myself to work down my list of cases, a list that is nearly 700 names long now although I do cross off the ones that I research, it was the next case to look into. In 1987 sixteen year old Heather West seemingly disappeared.  For the next seven years rumors would fly as to what happened to her, both inside the West home and in the community.  Finally it seems the rumors made it to the poli...