CLEWS The Historic True Crime Blog
By Laura James, Esquire (c) 2005, 2006 WELCOME to my study of historic true crime. Take a seat, please. They're high-backed and cushioned, as cozy as a first-class Pullman. My chair rests at the intersection of history, journalism, law, and murder, and true crime connoisseur that you are, you'll recognize familiar tales. But I want to tell you some stories you haven't heard before... THIS WEBSITE IS COPYRIGHTED. YOU SHALL NOT COPY MY WORK FOR USE ON ANY OTHER WEBSITE WITHOUT WRITTEN PERMISSION.
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- Vehicular Homicide Circa 1907: The First Drunk Driving Case in the West
Time makes love go, love makes time go. --Inscription above the clock at the World-Famous Marksheffel Garage, Colorado Springs In the 1870s, railroad men planned to construct a town centered around Pikes Peak, the height of the Rocky Mountains, and... - Genre Book News & A Bad Review
If one examines the murders which have given the greatest amount of pleasure to the British public, the murders whose story is known in its general outline to almost everyone and which have been made into novels and re-hashed over... - A Hard Death for the Lonely Hearts Killers
The folks over at the Daily Perspective mark today as the anniversary of the executions of the lonely hearts killers. Which ones, you ask? The year was 1951:Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez, commonly known as the Lonely Hearts killers, were... - The Grant Media Craze
The Detroit News, the publication at the epicenter of the true crime case of the week, namely the murder of Tara Grant by her husband Stephen Grant of Washington Township, Macomb County, Michigan, is wondering why the story received so... - The Atlanta Child Killer: Postscript or Rewrite?
Will the story of the Atlanta Child Killer get a shocking new ending? Well, we're about to be handed an epilogue in the form of DNA testing. This week, an Atlanta judge ordered that tests be conducted on human hair... - An Interview with the Hero Who Put a Serial Killer Back in Prison
Serial killer Coral Eugene Watts confessed to murdering eleven women in Texas and is a suspect in dozens of other murders and attempted murders in several US states and Ontario. Thanks to a putrid excuse of a prosecution -- Texas... - Peaches n Sugar
Guest Post by Lona Manning (A Clews note: Once Anna Nicole died, all the crime historians scratched their heads for a moment and then noted a precedent for her bizarre life and death. Clews came up with a comparison to... - Max Meyer's Invitation to Join the KKK
I never thought I'd read a cute story about the most infamous terrorist organization in the USA, the Ku Klux Klan (which thankfully has never gone global) -- but lo and behold, in a quirky old biography, I read one.... - Clews Interviews True Crime Author Tom Smith
What chiefly makes crime worth reading about, either as fiction or fact, is the human element, the strange problems it presents in human conduct, the revelations it makes of the dark recesses of the human heart. --Edmund L. Pearson, “The... - Old True Crime Cases in the News, on TV, and at the Picture Show
True Crime Author: 'I'm afraid of the Zodiac case' Next week, Hollywood's $80+million retelling of the Zodiac's murder spree will hit theaters. From a recent article in the San Jose Mercury-News: I'm afraid of the case,'' admitted San Francisco true-crime... - Links in the Theme
Photos from the Peterson Case No one will buy the house where that immature coward betrayed Laci Peterson, according to The Modesto Bee: Sale of Former Peterson House Fizzles. The link includes a slide show of the murder house. A... - Genre News
True Crime Carnival This week's roundup of some of the best true crime posts online can be found on Lilo's blog. Book Deal, Warp Speed True crime author Diane Fanning didn't wait for the ink to dry on the astronaut... - Anna Nicole
Anna Nicole Smith is dead at age 39. I couldn't help but think of Dr. Zeo Zoe Wilkins, the Anna Nicole Smith of the '20s, who married an old man, inherited all his riches, but died at age 38 --... - Startled out of Caution: From the Case Files of Mary Sullivan, Police Woman
Guest Post by Lona Manning (A Clews note: Freelance writer Lona Manning is a frequent contributor to, among other publications, the online Crime Magazine. Lona came across an autobiography of one of the pioneering police women in the New York... - Genre News
Mass Lynching in the Crescent City A new book by Tom Smith, The Crescent City Lynchings, explores the infamous 1890 murder of New Orleans police chief David Hennessy and the subsequent lynching of 11 Italians and Italian-Americans accused in the...
