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Chatting with Garry, Part II: How He Almost Killed Neil Young
If you missed yesterday’s post, I’ve been chatting with my retired cop/coroner buddy, Garry Rodgers. Today, you’ll hear about all Garry’s shenanigans, including how he almost killed Neil Young and how his possessed…
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Chatting with Retired Cop/Coroner Buddy, Garry Rodgers
While chatting with my good friend, Garry Rodgers, I invited him to the blog for a Q&A about life, writing, muscle cars, near-death of a popular singer, a venomous spider “incident,” a haunted…
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Hypnosis at Home: How To Heal Your Soul
Feeling overwhelmed and fearful is part of our new normal. When “The Kid” comes to visit, we chat outside and stay six-feet apart. It kills me. I’ve always been a hugger, but I…
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Death Surrounds Us — How One Writer Escapes
As a crime writer, a large part of my life is devoted to delving into murder, serial killers, death, and heartless, brutal crimes. With fiction, research is important for realism, but your mindset…
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Family Annihilators + Look Back at 2019
The holidays are often spent with family. My family, especially my siblings, are a nutty bunch whose thoughts run in line with mine (must be in the DNA). So, as I sat around…
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Why Would American Crows Do THAT?
In my quest to change people’s perception of American Crows (all crows, really, but mine are American Crows, the largest of the species), I like to find interesting tidbits to share that illustrate…
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Historic Crime: Stepping Back in Time
A large part of my research for Pretty Evil New England involved traveling to crime scenes, historical societies, libraries, and cemeteries. And every so often I hit the motherload, which is exactly what…
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23 Physical Abnormalities of Serial Killers
Part of my research for my true crime project includes reading studies about serial killers—both male and female murderers, even though I’m concentrating on the latter—and much of the information I’ve uncovered won’t…
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Taunton State Hospital: Spooky Research Trip
Researching true crime is a journey in and of itself. Unlike fiction, where we conduct most of our research online, true crime requires us to leave the house on a regular basis. In…
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One Writer’s Journey into True Crime
The stars aligned, angels sang, and the gates of heaven opened wide. That’s how it felt, anyway, when an amazing opportunity to write true crime came my way. In May, someone tweeted to…
