Small Town Noir: One town’s criminal treasures
I wish I could remember who pointed this out on Twitter: Small Town Noir. A wonderland of strange stories and mug shots, from back in the day. On the back of Ha...
Tag: Crime
“Thank God toddlers don’t carry guns.” On the roots of violence.
My latest at the New York Times looks at the work of child psychologist Richard Tremblay, who finds that violent criminals don’t become violent — they jus...
When The Rope Breaks at a Hanging
In 1876, the courts of Dayton, Ohio, ordered the execution of a 19-year-old who had murdered an admired citizen. Things went well enough, for such an affair, un...
Aglitter in the Net: Golden Age of Serial Murder, Flatworms, etc.
Stuff I won’t get to at length: Ian Leslie considers the decline of serial killing: Christopher Beam, who also wrote the piece I linked to about cash and ...