Hollywood is all about who you know, and your reputation with those people. Making it in Hollywood isn’t easy - or so I’ve been told. But when you have no reputation, you’re practically invisible. And that makes it easy to get away with murder.
Tag: true crime
The Hatton Garden Heist
If you’ve ever seen Snatch, or any of the Ocean’s movies, you’ll know a good heist when you see one. However, they’re not all super convoluted plots with a personal vendetta. Sometimes, a heist is just a group of people who want to see if they can pull it off.
Black Widow – Part 2
In 1924, Louise Peete was incarcerated for murder. Three of her husbands had committed suicide, she was acquitted of the murder of Joe Appel, and convicted of the murder of Jacob C. Denton, a wealthy man living in Los Angeles, California. Death followed Peete wherever she went. And she was supposed to serve a life sentence for one such death.
Black Widow – Part 1
Bad luck can follow some people around like the plague - constant, ever present, and with no cure. Some people have more than bad luck following them around. And others are harbingers of death. Louise Peete was certainly a harbinger of death. Wherever she went, someone would die.
Zippy
We all leave notes to ourselves; little reminders to job our memories, or memos for tasks to accomplish later. However, some of us leave notes that look more like confessions than reminders.
The Murder of Suzanne Capper
Everyone wants to belong somewhere. However, Suzanne Capper longed to belong with a group of people who did not care for her in the least.
Butcher of Aberdeen
Katherine Knight had known chaos all her life. And there was a good reason for that. Katherine Knight was the cause of all the chaos.
Let It Burn
On January 3rd, 2011, Detective Sergeant Debbie Harris was called to the site of a burning building in downtown Toronto. Little did she, and other investigators, know the tragedy that would be uncovered from the ashes of the blaze.
Mike the Durable
Life insurance fraud is often a very common motive for murder. It usually never quite goes the way people think it will. And in this, rather unusual and quite extraordinary case, it went terribly, horribly wrong.
The Murder of Janelle Patton – Part 2
In March of 2002, tragedy struck the Pacific community of Norfolk Island. 29-year-old Janelle Patton had been found murdered at the Cockpit Waterfall Reserve.