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Crime Scene Los Angeles: These Made-in-L.A. Authors Will Give You Chills
Los Angeles has no shortage of notorious crimes, nor of great writers. When true accounts of the former are penned by the latter, the results are some fascinating reads. In any good true crime book, the place where deadly deeds occur is not merely a background for the...
Stranger with Candy: Why Did Teenager Chyrel Jolls Kidnap, and Allegedly Murder, Children?
“This is where I’m going to drown you and you’ll never see your mother or father again.” It’s been 55 years and Richard Edgington can still recall the words his kidnapper said once she had him in an isolated area near the railroad tracks. She was a stranger, a woman...
The Man Who Murdered Kitty Genovese: An Intimate Look at a Dangerous Mind
Establishing a rapport with a serial killer is not for the faint of heart. It was far and away the most daunting hurdle for me in researching my book, Kitty Genovese: A True Account of a Public Murder and its Private Consequences. The killer in question, Winston...