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• Columbine survivor to serve on Denver shooter’s jury
  on Mar 27, 2015 in Columbine aurora shooting columbine shooting
  This much is fact: On July 20, 2012, a mass shooting occurred inside of a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, during a midnight screening of the film The Dark Knight Rises. A gunman, dressed in tactical clothing, set off tear gas grenades and shot int...
• Columbine survivor receives award
  on Mar 20, 2015 in Columbine Patrick Ireland
  Denver’s Craig Hospital honored financial adviser Patrick Ireland, who survived being shot twice in the head and once in the foot during the Columbine High School tragedy. Calling himself “a victor, not a victim,” Ireland accepted t...
• The tragic case of Susan Powell and her children
  on Mar 13, 2015 in Murder True crime books Unsolved Washington Joshua Powell Michael Powell murder Mysterious death Steven Powell Susan Powell true crime True crime book Utah
  Susan Powell was a Utah wife and mother who was last seen alive on December 6, 2009.  Her husband, Joshua, was named as a person of interest after only a few days of searching for Susan. Joshua was never charged with any crime related to Susan’...
• Update: blogger mom Lindsay Groce Gardner’s death ruling
  on Mar 7, 2015 in Mysterious death Texas Lindsay Groce Gardner texas update
  The Fort Worth, Texas medical examiner’s office has ruled the cause of death of Lindsay Groce Gardner and her 13-month-old daughter as hypothermia. The medical examiner feels that they were both found nude due to paradoxical undressing –...
• The Austin Yogurt Shop Murders
  on Mar 6, 2015 in Murder Texas True crime books Unsolved Amy AYres Austin Eliza Thomas Jennifer Harbison murder Sarah Harbison Yogurt shop
  I was a sophomore at the University of Texas in Austin in 1991, when 4 teenage girls girls were shot execution-style and their bodies burned in a frozen yogurt shop in a suburban area of Austin. It was a bewildering act of evil that, amazingly, is st...
• Columbine survivor reunited with class ring
  on Mar 4, 2015 in Columbine Colorado
  Click here to read about Columbine survivor Evan Todd’s class ring The post Columbine survivor reunited with class ring appeared first on .
• Where Columbine Survivors Are Now – Part II
  on Feb 27, 2015 in Murder True crime books Brian Anderson Brooks Brown Colorado Columbine Jennifer Doyle kevin harris Sean Graves
  (Editor’s note: these are both fascinating to write and exhausting at the same time. This morning I watched the library footage with sound – very difficult, and yet I don’t think I even blinked. My continued sympathies to the surviv...
• Where many Columbine survivors are today
  on Feb 21, 2015 in Murder Andrew Robinson Columbine Craig Scott Crystal Miller Mark Taylor Patrick Neville Rachel Scott survivors Val Schurr
  It’s the mass shooting that changed our culture: the mass shooting in Columbine High School in 1999. Many students and a popular teacher were killed, and the shooters killed themselves. Here’s where many of the students trapped in that bu...
• UPDATE: unsolved murder of Bob Crane
  on Feb 19, 2015 in celebrity crime Murder True crime books Unsolved bob crane murder true crime books unsolved
  UPDATE: A biography by Crane’s oldest son Robert will be released March 6, 2015 – you can pre-order it at Amazon…. Also, another new biography on Bob Crane by author Carol Ford will be released in September, 2015 Original Felony Fol...
• The murder of Jennifer Blagg, missing Abby Blagg, and Michael
  on Feb 1, 2015 in Abduction Murder Retrial Abby Blagg Colorado Jennifer Blagg Michael Blagg missing murder retrial
  A follow-up on one weird case from 2001 in Grand Junction, Colorado. Michael Blagg, a husband and father thought to be a devoutly religious man, left for work one morning and came home at the end of his day (he says) to find his wife Jennifer and dau...
• The murder of Jennifer Blagg, missing Abby Blagg, and Michael
  on Feb 1, 2015 in Abduction Murder Retrial Abby Blagg Colorado Jennifer Blagg Michael Blagg missing murder retrial
  A follow-up on one weird case from 2001 in Grand Junction, Colorado. Michael Blagg, a husband and father thought to be a devoutly religious man, left for work one morning and came home at the end of his day (he says) to find his wife Jennifer and dau...
• The crazy tragedy of Susan Newsom & Fritz Klenner
  on Jan 26, 2015 in Fritz Klenner Murder North Carolina Susan Newsom True crime books murder Susie Newsom Tom Lynch
  Susan Newsom was a divorcee with two young sons in the 1980s. Her divorce from Tom Lynch was bitter, and the two often fought over custody of the boys in North Carolina courtrooms. One their divorce was settled, she fell in love, inexplicably, with h...
• Widbey Island murder of Russel Douglas by a “beauty” queen
  on Jan 23, 2015 in Murder Peggy Sue Thomas Russel Douglas True crime books Washington Brenna Haslam Douglas
  In 2003, on the charming Washington island of Widbey Island, lived a rather unhappily married couple named Russel and Brenna Douglas. They had 2 children. In December of 2003, the island sheriff’s deputies found Russel dead in his SUV with a bu...
• Mysterous death of blogger mom & child in Texas
  on Jan 17, 2015 in Unsolved Mysterious death texas
  I was working on a follow-up piece on an old case, as I like to do, when I came across a new, mysterious, and tragic case in Ft. Worth, Texas. Here’s what we know so far: earlier this week, police discovered both a wrecked car, and the bodies o...
• San Antonio Quad Mom Murderer Dies in Prison, and more updates
  on Jan 11, 2015 in Murder Allen Blackthorne Sheila Bellush texas
  In 1997, a Sarasota, Florida mother of 6 was murdered in her home. Her name was Sheila Bellush, and she was the ex-wife of San Antonio millionaire Allen Blackthorne. Sheila had won custody of her two daughters with Blackthorne, and moved with her new...
• Alan Hruby is Dana Ewell for the social media age
  on Jan 2, 2015 in Uncategorized Alan Hruby Dana Ewell death penalty murder
  Since Dana Ewell, the social media age has given us Alan Hruby, who in 2014 was a freshman at the University of Oklahoma. Like Ewell, Hruby suffered from an obsession with materialism, from cars to clothes to watches to shoes. Hruby went so far as op...
• UPDATE: Alan Hruby is Dana Ewell for the social media age
  on Jan 2, 2015 in Murder Alan Hruby Dana Ewell death penalty John Hruby Katherine Hruby murder Tinker Hruby
  UPDATE: Alan’s poor father John Hruby has a $20,000 life insurance policy. John had named Alan and his late daughter Katherine as joint beneficiaries of the policy. The life insurance company doesn’t want to give Alan the $20K (good for t...
• Dana Ewell murders his own family
  on Oct 17, 2014 in Murder Carlton Smith Dana Ewell Joel Radovich monica zent murder True crime book
  In 1992, the Ewell family was living a quietly wealthy life in Fresno, California. Dale Ewell had made his fortune selling small aircraft to farmers and ranchers. He and his wife were almost finished raising their two children, son Dana and daughter...
• Dana Ewell murders his own family
  on Oct 17, 2014 in Murder Carlton Smith Dana Ewell Joel Radovich monica zent murder True crime book
  In 1992, the Ewell family was living a quietly wealthy life in Fresno, California. Dale Ewell had made his fortune selling small aircraft to farmers and ranchers. He and his wife were almost finished raising their two children, son Dana and daughter...
• Loving Listia
  on Oct 14, 2014 in Cleaning Gifts Thriftiness declutter free stuff gifts
  (Disclaimer: this is not a sponsored post – this is just me gushing about a site I love!) One of my initiatives since quitting the day job is getting the house decluttered. It’s amazing how much stuff accumulates in a year. Most of it isn...

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