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True Crime Tuesday- I'LL BE GONE IN THE DARK
TRUE CRIME TUESDAY - by Janelle JansonI’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
I feel like I have been waiting my entire life for this true crime book to be published. Michelle spent six obsessive years writing about an unsolved spree of horrific crimes in the 1970s and 1980s, which included 13 confirmed murders, over 50 rapes, and more than 100 burglaries across California, the Golden State. And it was Michelle who coined the phrase Golden State Killer to link all of his...
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True Crime Tuesday: THE WEST MEMPHIS THREE
Crime Summary:
In 1994, three teenage boys were arrested for the murder of three eight-year-old boys in West Memphis, Arkansas. The boys went missing on May 5, 1993 and were found dead in a muddy creek the following day, naked and hogtied with signs of mutilation. Two lead law enforcement officers stated the crime presented “cult overtones”, playing on the fears of satanic panic, which was prevalent in the 1990s.
Victims:
Neighborhood friends and eight-year-old boys, Steve Edward Branch, Christopher Mark Byers, and James Michael...
5 True Crime Audiobooks to Keep You Up All Night
By: Ashley aka @bookishmommy
Audiobooks were always hit and miss for me UNTIL I discovered true crime audiobooks. I mean, what took me so long? I'm a huge true crime podcast fan and I love all the true crime documentaries (hello, Gayle Hinman???).
I host a monthly true crime book club over on Instagram (we use #bookishtruecrime to document our monthly selections) and I've been doing a hybrid of reading/listening and lemme tell ya, it's been the best thing ever.
If you've been iffy about audiobooks but you want...
BOOK REVIEW: Side by Side Reviews of TRUE CRIME by Samantha Kolesnik
"I seriously can't recommend this novella enough. Horror fans need this. It's a brutal and unflinching story about psychotic siblings that will leave you gasping for air and wanting to look away. But you won't look away because you can't. This book demands your attention in a way that the best books do." @gowsy33
Full review HERE
5/5
"Samantha Kolesnik's debut hurts like unrelenting thumb pressure on a fresh bruise. An ugly, dark account of severe victimhood informing a young girl's lasting identity. Readers will endure...
Mindi Joins the Murderinos and Possibly More Podcast Cults!
Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered "My Favorite Murder" hosts Karen Kilgariff & Georgina HardstarkI have to have been the biggest podcast holdout in America. Every person I know either loves 15 different podcasts or has their own podcast. Podcasts are everywhere, and I fought tooth and nail to avoid them. I'm just not someone who is easily able to concentrate on a person speaking for an hour. Eventually, I gave in and tried so hard for my friends to...
