image Even aside from the murder she eventually committed, Alice Bradley Sheldon was a fascinating person with a very interesting history. “I have what every child wants, a real secret life … not a bite-the-capsule-when-they-get-you secret, nobody else’s damn secret but mine.” -Alice Bradley Sheldon the story of alice Alice Bradley Sheldon was born 24 […]
image: Fox2Now “I just fucking killed someone. I strangled them and slit their throat and stabbed them now they’re dead. I don’t know how to feel atm.” -Alyssa Bustamante in her diary about the killer Alyssa Bustamante was born on 28 January 1994 in Cole, Missouri. The beginning years of her life were difficult. Both […]
“I just don’t like Mondays… I did this because it’s a way to cheer up the day.” -Brenda Spencer, when asked by police why she committed the crime she did This is a case that fascinates me, mostly because of the young age of the shooter. What makes a sixteen-year-old girl do what she did, […]
“I want to have my fun. I need you to get my fun.” Joanna Dennehy to Gary Stretch, her accomplice This is one of those cases that is so twisted that it left me flabbergasted. If there was a person that was irredeemably evil, Joanna Dennehy just might be it. about the killer Joanna Dennehy […]
The story of Sabrina Zunich is one fraught with pain and trauma. Did she commit a terrible crime? Yes, there is no question that she did. But it’s hard not to have some compassion for the life that led her to that terrible moment. She was sent to the absolute worst place for her. Kevin […]
Much like the Krista Absalon case I covered, this one took place near my small hometown in northern New York. Shirley Winters, pictured above, was convicted, so far, of two murders. But her history is a tangled tale of darkness. about the woman Shirley Winters was born on February 27th, 1958, raised near Onondaga, New […]
see updates at the end There is little more surreal than a romance author who kills her own husband. But that is, allegedly, exactly what Nancy Crampton Brophy did. the crime On June 2, 2018, Daniel Brophy was found by students at the Oregon Culinary Institute where he was both a chef and an instructor. […]
As an author myself, one piece of advice I’ve always gotten was to write what I know. There are some authors, however, that have taken that advice to heart in dark and murderous ways. As much as I love writing, and sometimes some very dark themes, I don’t think I have the level of committment […]