It Never Ends

Many people have told me they don't read true crime but they'll read mine. Luckily, they usually tell me later that they loved it and didn't know about books "like that." There are, in fact, many fine writers in the True Crime genre. Several of them are collected at In Cold Blog. From Erin Moriarty who is familiar to you from decades of reporting for CBS News, including 48 Hours Mystery, to Paula Uruburu who made a big splash re-examining the 1906 Evelyn Nesbit "girl in the red velvet swing" case. Regular contributors are also criminal justice professionals, survivors, victim family members, advocates and others.


Today they let me mingle among them. My guest piece, with photos, is up. Oh yeah, the piece gives you something to say if you have caught the True Crime bug. Please click on over and it would be nice if you leave a comment, too. Thanks! http://incoldblogger.blogspot.com/2010/05/it-never-ends.html

A Sudden Shot on Investigation Discovery!

Here is the crew in town, visiting crime scenes, interviewing detectives, hearing the survivor's stories.

The show is called Wicked Attraction. The episode airs in the fall. Watch this space for details or visit A Sudden Shot on FaceBook.

Hidden Ugliness in Crime

So you lose your loved one to a serial killer. Maybe it was even your child. You might like to attend the trial and face down the monster. Oh, wait, your employer, a large corporation with plenty of padding, can't spare you for even a day. Maybe you can at least go the day he is sentenced. You need to be present for this moment. You need it.

So you get docked a day's pay.

Hey, CEOs and Boards of Directors, one day you might find yourself in the line of fire. Then you will know first hand how important it is to see who did it and what a jury decides to do with him. We are all in this together, folks. If we got each other's backs once in awhile, would the bottom line really suffer?

Doing these books, going far beyond the headlines, has shown me that victims of crimes pay forever, in countless ways. Can't an HR director draft a rule for the handbook that says "If you've been a victim of crime, we think you've suffered plenty. Attend the sentencing. We got it covered." All these companies that tout what great corporate citizens they are, I'd love to see it in their soft focus ads how often they fire victims of crime while recovering from their wounds or push them into foreclosure because they got docked when they couldn't keep themselves away from seeing their child's killer condemned by society and formally declared to be unfit for society.