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Last Entry: October 13, 2008 at 19:54:00

Caught on YouTube: A Crime in Progress? UPDATED

Posted on April 01, 2008
**SEE UPDATE AT BOTTOM OF POST** An early morning tip sent via my contact form led me to an odd YouTube video. It appears to show a young man who is obsessed with a woman of roughly the same age. While there are no names attached to the video, it looks as though he (or someone with access to his tapes) is posting footage made while stalking...

"Lets just go buck wild!!!" -- Alleged Interstate Shooter Slade Woodson

Posted on March 28, 2008
Police in Virginia have arrested 19-year-old Slade Woodson of Afton, VA in connection with a series of random shootings that recently took place along I-64 in Waynesboro. Random bullets fired by one, possibly two shooter(s) struck six vehicles on the Interstate Wednesday night and Thursday morning, injuring two...

The Governor's Other Hooker?

Posted on March 28, 2008
"With Second Girl Allegations, Spitzer Gets Closer to 'GOD'." The link above takes you to a post I wrote for Radar Magazine's "Fresh Intelligence" about the newest Madam/escort linked to former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer. A quote from the post:Though he's saying it isn't so, former NY Gov...

GUEST POST: More About CrimeJunkies.com

Posted on March 27, 2008
The webmaster/creator of CrimeJunkies.com prefers to remain anonymous. This person is a former Court TV producer whom I first 'met' (via phone, hence the quotes) when she was working for a popular legal talk show on that network. Our guest blogger has, in her own words, "covered all the major crime news and high-profile trials in the past few years including Natalee Holloway, Scott Peterson,

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Dan Cooper's Parachute

Posted on March 26, 2008
He said his name was Dan Cooper. Someone mistakenly reported the name as "D.B. Cooper" later and it stuck. But the name he gave was Dan. He said he had a bomb, and to the flight crew on the Northwest Orient flight from Portland to Seattle, it looked like he was telling the truth...

John List Dead at 82

Posted on March 24, 2008
Family annihilator John Emil List died on Friday. List was serving a life sentence for his crimes in the New Jersey State Prison. He'd been moved to a medical facility in Trenton, NJ shortly before his death at the age of 82. John List spent Nov. 9, 1971 murdering his family...

Shooter on the loose in Iowa City

Posted on March 24, 2008
The University of Iowa in Iowa City has put out the following text message for students and faculty on campus:An active shooter is reported to be in the Iowa City Area. He is a white male in his mid 40s driving a 1998 Tan Toyota Sienna Minivan, Iowa License plate 501-BLO...

Seattle John Doe: Who the Hell is this Guy?

Posted on March 22, 2008
The balding, blue-eyed man is medium height, weighs about 170. His age is a mystery. He could be 40, he could be in his early 50s. In every photo he wears the same expression, and it's hard to dismiss the impression that he's smirking. He is holding onto a secret, something he'll never willingly tell another...

True Crime Sites of Interest

Posted on March 21, 2008
In spite of the abiding interest in the subject matter, new true crime-related sites don't pop up all that often -- at least in my experience. And believe me, I look for them. Generally, the ones I hear about come through my e-mail or a random link from another site...

Maine Gothic: A Boy and His Mother

Posted on March 19, 2008
Even Maine's most famous horror novelist couldn't make this up. Well... he could, but it'd probably be too disturbing, depressing, and tawdry for him to bother. Just before midnight on Sunday, Matthew Audet, age 22, called police in Lewiston, Maine. He told them his 47-year-old mother Debra wasn't breathing...

Accused Rapist Shawn Wuertley: Background Check, Anyone?

Posted on March 18, 2008
Some people can't get jobs if they have bad credit. Then there's accused rapist Shawn Wuertley, age 29 (link goes to his MySpace page). Wuertley was arrested today in Panama City Beach, Florida for false imprisonment, rape and attempted felony murder...

OPEN THREAD: Continuing Discussion of the Murder of Meredith Kercher

Posted on March 18, 2008
I must admit I'm not fond of open threads. Essentially, it's like letting a bunch of strangers take over a blog post, and I guess I'm territorial enough to be bothered by that. But I can't deny that some readers love them. I'll never be able to put up with the anarchy of a generalized open thread, where people can theoretically discuss whatever is on their minds, but certain subjects covered by

NYC Crane Collapse: Criminal Negligence?

Posted on March 15, 2008
After monitoring the news for a bit, I decided to address this disaster in this blog. I am, in part, plagiarizing myself, as some of this post will mirror an update I appended to the entry about twisters near Atlanta (I live in the Atlanta area) at Random Lunatic News...

The Spitzer Scandal UPDATED

Posted on March 13, 2008
CHECK THE BOTTOM OF THIS POST FOR AN UPDATE, ADDED 3/13/08. This entry was originally published 3/10, and has been updated for today to keep it at the top of the index page. If you haven't already heard, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer (D) has some 'splainin' to do...

Murder at the University of Arkansas: Takatak and the Insubstantial Pageant

Posted on March 10, 2008
From the Northwest Arkansas Times:What began as a welfare check Sunday morning led to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol arresting a Fayetteville man suspected of killing a University of Arkansas student. Zachariah Marcyniuk, 28, faces a charge of first-degree murder for the death of Katherine Wood, 24...

The Ultimate True Crime Tale: Jack the Ripper

Posted on March 09, 2008
In May this year a major exhibition will open at the Museum in Docklands, London -- "Jack the Ripper and the East End." From the museum webpage about the exhibition:From police files and photographs to letters from the public and the supposed Ripper himself, examine, for the first time, surviving documents and artefacts from the investigation and follow the crimes as they unfolded...

Major Break in the Lauren Burk Murder Case

Posted on March 07, 2008
The local Fox affiliate here in Atlanta is reporting a "major break" in the investigation into the murder of Auburn University freshman Lauren Burk. A press conference will be held Saturday morning in Auburn to address any new developments in the case...

Faux Memoirist Margaret "Peggy" Seltzer: So I turned over some rocks...

Posted on March 06, 2008
I've been fascinated for a few days now with the story of author Margaret "Peggy" Seltzer and her fake memoir, Love and Consequences. Seltzer wanted others to believe that she was Margaret B. Jones, AKA "Bree," a half-white, half Native American woman who spent her youth as a foster child in South Central Los Angeles...

Lori Slesinski and Lauren Burk: Is there a connection?

Posted on March 05, 2008
Lauren A. Burk, an 18-year-old freshman at Auburn University, was murdered last night in Auburn, Alabama. Lauren, a 2007 graduate of Walton High School, came from Marietta, Georgia -- just down the road from where I live. Burk's death has been all over the news in Atlanta today...

Ivette Gonzalez Davila: Portrait of a Pathological Narcissist?

Posted on March 04, 2008
In an entry posted yesterday, The True Crime Weblog was the first publication to name Ivette Gonzalez Davila as a suspect in the murders of Army medics Randi and Tim Miller: "Fort Lewis Honor Guard Soldier Allegedly Kills Couple, Kidnaps Baby *UPDATED*" Davila titled the brief video at the beginning of this post "Video of first days" -- presumably the beginning of her training for the Fort

IF LOOKS COULD KILL, by M. William Phelps -- In Bookstores Tomorrow

Posted on March 03, 2008
Many readers of The True Crime Weblog may know M. William Phelps as one half of the writing team running the snarky, hip, and always readable true crime blog, CrimeRant.com. Most may also know that Phelps has been successfully publishing crime-centric nonfiction for nearly a decade now...

Fort Lewis Honor Guard Soldier Allegedly Kills Couple, Kidnaps Baby UPDATED

Posted on March 03, 2008
UPDATE AT BOTTOM OF POST. THIS JUST GETS STRANGER. A woman named Ivette Gonzalez Davila sits in the Pierce County, Washington jail, charged with 2 counts of 1st degree murder and kidnapping. While Davila had not been officially named on Monday afternoon as the suspect in a double homicide and babynapping that occurred in Tacoma, Washington on Saturday, the Tacoma News-Tribune reported that the

7 Shot in West Palm Beach Wendy's

Posted on March 03, 2008
WPTV in West Palm Beach, Florida and MSNBC are reporting that 7 people have been shot inside a Wendy's Restaurant at 1366 Military Trail in West Palm. MSNBC has aired footage of victims being removed from the scene, and the cable news network has reported at least 2 fatalities...

The Caffey Family Murders REVISED

Posted on March 02, 2008
Authorities in Rains County, Texas say that just before dawn on Saturday, 19-year-old Charlie James Wilkinson, Charles Allen Waid, age 20, and Bobbi Gale Johnson, 18, rampaged through the home of Penny and Terry Caffey, leaving 3 dead and Terry Caffey fighting for his life...

Deadly Ricin Discovered in Vegas Hotel UPDATED

Posted on March 02, 2008
UPDATE, 3/02/08 (Post date and time have been changed to bump this entry to the top of the blog's main page.) An article published today in the Salt Lake Tribune has new information about Roger Von Bergendorff, the man currently in a coma in a Vegas hospital after possible exposure to ricin...

Missing in Arkansas: Keaton Renee Byrd, Age 23 UPDATED

Posted on March 01, 2008
No one has seen Camden, Arkansas resident Keaton Renee Byrd, age 23, since February 28, 2008. The last time anyone spoke with Keaton was around 1:30 a.m. that morning, and she sounded fine. The last person to speak with Keaton told police that Keaton said she had to drop someone off before heading home that night...

Kevin Underwood Found Guilty of Murder

Posted on February 29, 2008
Long story short, Kevin Ray Underwood has been found guilty of Jamie Rose Bolin's horrifying murder. Nearly 2 years ago I wrote the following articles about the Underwood case for The Crime Library: "Kevin Underwood: Another Deadly Blogger?" "Added to the Blogroll of Evil: Kevin Ray Underwood...

The True Crime Weblog in the Chicago Tribune

Posted on February 26, 2008
A few days ago I spoke with Chicago Tribune Internet Critic Steve Johnson about web sleuthing, specifically as it related to Steven Kazmierczak, the young man who killed several people on the campus of Northern Illinois University before committing suicide on February 14...

Talking About Marcia Trimble UPDATED

Posted on February 26, 2008
The following are links to previous entries I've written about the murder of Marcia Trimble, one of Nashville, Tennessee's most infamous unsolved crimes. Marcia was murdered 33 years ago yesterday, on February 25, 1975: "Marcia Trimble, Meredith Harris, and Me...

Missing in Missouri: Musician Dora Magrath UPDATED

Posted on February 22, 2008
SEE UPDATES AT BOTTOM OF POST. University City, Missouri resident Dora Magrath, age 22, hasn't been seen since Thursday, February 21. Dora's mother, Linda Holtzman, told reporters in St. Louis that her daughter was headed to a coffee shop around 12:30 Thursday afternoon when she disappeared...

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