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A ‘Survivor’ Producer, a Dead Wife, Four Years in a Mexican Prison
Bruce Beresford-Redman was charged with murder after the body of his spouse, Monica, was found naked and beaten in a sewer drain at a Cancun resort in 2010. But he maintains his innocence as he awaits a verdict in a Mexican prison.
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Good Kids, Bad City
Ricky Jackson and the Bridgeman brothers were convicted of murder based on the coerced testimony of a 12-year old. This is the story of their exoneration after 39 years of wrongful incarceration.
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The Secret Life of a Crime Scene Cleaner
How one Australian woman found her niche cleaning up after murders, suicides and other traumatic situations.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
E.M. Forster on the Novel and Why Aristotle Was Wrong About Character
The specialty of the novel is that the writer can talk about his characters as well as through them or can arrange for us to listen when they talk to themselves. He has access to self-communings, and from that level he can descend even deeper and peer into the subconscious.
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A Shooting on Spring Grove Avenue
A detective accuses a woman of murder; the woman says the detective is the one who should be in prison.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
Meals Behind Bars: A Reading List
Three of these pieces look at what mealtime is like on the inside, from an examination of chow hall food to stories of inmates’ ad-hoc cell-made meals to an in-depth look at a commissary food that’s both dietary supplement and currency for thousands of inmates. A fourth adds a different dimension, revealing how some of the foods on our own tables are the product of prison labor.
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A Sister’s Sleuthing Unravels a Teenage Love Triangle Murder Mystery
A twisted tale of teenage love and cold-blooded murder in Hollywood, Florida. For detectives, the killing at first glance must have seemed an all-too-common crime: another dead thug, likely felled by the same drug culture that had left him homeless and broke. Yet Savage’s life and death — as told through hundreds of pages of […]
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction
Bad News: Censorship, Fear & Genocide Memorials
“They are manufacturing fear,” Moses said, gasping. “We survivors have asked them to stop this violence. What do they want from us?”
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Missing the Signs
The story behind a murder case that gripped two countries and spurred a Canadian family to take action against domestic violence.
