fact or fiction
Is it fact or merely fiction? Fact or Fiction explores the myths and beliefs we hold about copycat killers, eyewitnesses testimony, what makes a murderer and more.
Blood Money
The little black notebook should have gone straight to the police. I knew that, but for some reason I decided to keep it. That was my first mistake. It had arrived on my doorstep late at night when everyone was supposed to be asleep. If I recalled correctly it was around two at night. The dogs in the neighborhood had started barking right before I heard the loud crash in the kitchen. I had grabbed a heavy dictionary and heaved it up ready to attack the intruder. But when I cam into the kitchen there was no sign of any breakage or an intruder. The only thing was a small black notebook sitting on my counter nonchantly. I lowered the dictioary but kept it close just in case the intruder was planning to attack me from behind. My thumbs flipped through the notebook until it came to a page that seemed to have been opened many times before. The page had in big red pen three words. I read them. That was my second mistake.
By Summer Ryan5 years ago in Criminal
Next
In a world peppered with negativity, some pretty amazing events have occurred in our lives since the last time I wrote. Our little girl has turned four months old, and she is all smiles and squeals, quite unlike the colicky first seven weeks we survived. I’m pretty sure she said, “Da-Da,” but it may have just been gas. She eats, sleeps, pees, and poops a lot, and she is growing at what seems to be an exponential rate. People say over and over that you should enjoy these moments, and we are. We love all of the time we get to spend with the girls, and we are growing ever closer together. What a beautiful life.
By Vincent Maertz5 years ago in Criminal
Kitty and the Colorado Cult.
While recuperating from a nasty automobile accident back in the mid-nineties I came across a physical manipulation therapy called Rolfing. My massage therapist at the time suggested I might try it so she gave me the number a colleague had forwarded to her of a couple who practiced Rolfing and were looking for clients. Now Rolfing has been called quackery by some and I will not vouch for it personally, but the woman and her partner who administered it were quite fascinating people, perhaps a bit too fascinating upon reflection.
By Grimm Culhane5 years ago in Criminal
The Hidden Trunk
The big red For Sale sign caught my eye as I drove past the unkempt property on Daisy Avenue. The old red brick farm house looked as though it begged for new life. I imagined the stories it had written within its walls, begging to be told. I made a mental note to call the realtor on lunch as I took the next right. The idea of a fixer upper appealed to me. This just might be the kind of therapy my own soul needed and searched for. Perhaps it was fate that led me down this wrong-turn journey on that bright and sunny day in June.
By Laura Lockridge5 years ago in Criminal
THE LITTLE BLACK BOOK OF A GRINDER
I was 16 when it happened. One day, one instance forever molded me to the man I am today. You see I was on the fast track to either a casket or the penitentiary. I grew up without a pops and mom worked way too much to keep tabs. I did my own thing since I was about 9, that’s when the color was added to the outside of my book. I began flying solo in a sense and was introduced to the streets by my cousin Jonathan a.k.a. Jon-Jon. He was a few years older than I so naturally I looked up to him. Jon-Jon was about 13 at this time if I remember he became a part of my everyday life. He was my care taker turning the pages in the evenings until mom came home from work. Jon- Jon’s mom was a junkie so Nana had custody of him for as long as I could remember. When she went down he came to live with us in our 2 bedroom apartment.
By Torry Terry5 years ago in Criminal
Cold Case Files
Dylan Blair often wonders why police refused to listen to him in the days and weeks after his father Kerry disappeared in March 2014. The seasoned fisherman could be heard regularly telling anyone who would listen that he was “living the dream in paradise” by working in a secluded bay in New Zealand’s Marlborough Sounds. The 55-year-old was also a stickler for following the rules of the sea and the first one is to always tell someone where you’re going. That’s why Dylan can’t understand why his father’s boat was found drifting about 90 nautical miles off New Plymouth – about 340km away from where he supposedly set off from.
By Monique Patterson5 years ago in Criminal
The Grandparent Bandit Diaries
The Grandparent Bandit Diaries By Michael Bonham Larson Fleeing to California, it was the late 1930s and my grandparents were running from the Indiana state police. Settling in Monterey County they began new lives with their two daughters, my mom and my aunt. It seems my beloved grandparents were wanted by the authorities in several states for illegal gambling and attempted robbery. My aunt described them to me as a kind of Robin Hood version of Bonnie and Clyde. They never actually hurt anyone, as far as she knew, and once they arrived in California they made restitution for their crimes.
By Michael Bonham Larson5 years ago in Criminal
Wicked Wednesdays:
Guilia Tofana was a woman born in Palermo, Italy in the early 17th century, roughly around 1620. Her mother Thofania, was executed in 1633 after allegedly murdering her husband Francis. With this in mind, it would become very clear why Guilia did what she did and had clear motivation for her actions.
By Robert Prescott5 years ago in Criminal
Grandfather's secret
It was a dreary day in London. The life-less clouds poured tiny droplets of misery on the already deserted streets as a young girl was making her way home from school. Her hair was soaking wet and her clothes as damp as the Pacific Ocean, 'I'm definitely going to get a cold' she thought. As she crossed the empty street, she gazed fondly at her novelty watch that her grandfather gave her on her 5th birthday. It was given to her after she had a life-saving operation 10 years ago as she almost died from pneumonia.
By Ilwad Ahmed5 years ago in Criminal
