How I missed Janet Gleeson‘s book in 2002 I do not know. It will forever be a mystery. The book has everything I love: a historical setting with enough twists so that the plot I envisioned could come true. We are in the eighteenth century, in the United Kingdom. The year is 1755. It is […]
Archives for December 2016
Eric Haider Update
This continues the post about Eric Haider. I found some new details in an article I had not seen before. Maybe I just missed those details them but I thought I’d post it here anyway to have a more complete case description. The article about Eric Haider is from Fox West Dakota. The new (to […]
FBI DIARY by Peter M. Klismet
Peter M. Klismet’s book FBI DIARY: home grown terror starts in Colorado. On May 29, 1998 Cortez police officer Dale Dewain Claxton was filling in for another patrolman. They’d traded days so each could attend to personal affairs. It wasn’t anything unusual to do. This was done to help out a fellow officer and was quite routine. The story […]
Orange County Jane Doe
Warning: there are two graphic images below! UPDATE July 2020: IDENTIFIED The Orange County Jane Doe is identified as Anita Louise Piteau. On Wednesday, July 22, the authorities announced that they believe Anita was killed by Johnny Chrisco. Unfortunately, Chrisco passed away in 2015. He was 71 years old. Little is known about him, said Huntington […]
Nie Shubin exonerated 21 years after his execution
From KFDR: “China’s top court overturned Nie Shubin’s conviction Friday, in a landmark case that exposed deep flaws in China’s criminal justice system.” Nie Shubin was executed by firing squad in 1995 without notifying his parents. He was just 20 years old and had been detained for seven months. Nie Shubin was found guilty of the 1994 […]
The Cold Case of Thomas Chan
This year is the 15th anniversary of Thomas Chan’s murder. There is hardly anything online about this case that why we made it the Case of the Month for December 2016. On December 14, 2001 Thomas Chan (July 11, 1965 – Dec 14, 2001) was killed. Thomas was a computer expert engaged to be married. He was […]