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Jim Fisher True Crime: The Alexander Hilton St. Andrews Poison Case
In 2011, Alexander D. Hilton, a 20-year-old rich kid from Princeton, Massachusetts attended St. Andrews University in Fife, Scotland. ...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: Why Some Readers Find the Fantasy Story Appealing
From the earliest myths and legends, through different cultures, fantasy has been with us. Think of the Arabian Nights stories, the Ar...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: The Early History of Fingerprints
The ancient Chinese had recognized the potential of fingerprints, sealing their documents with thumbprints by way of a "signature." An...
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https://jimfishertruecrime.blogspot.com/2014/12/writing-quote-sj-perelman-on-humor.html
Jim Fisher True Crime: Humorist S.J. Perelman on Being Funny in Person
If people expect me to be funny, they are in for a rude shock. I figure my job ends when I leave the typewriter and get out of the swivel c...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: The Jerry Sandusky and The O.J. Simpson Trials: A Contrast in Style and...
Compared to the 1995 O. J. Simpson double-murder trial, a mind-numbing TV soap opera that dragged on for nine months and ended in an a...
https://jimfishertruecrime.blogspot.com/2012/06/who-dismembered-jaren-lockhart-ongoing.html
Jim Fisher True Crime: The Jaren Lockhart Murder Case
Jaren Lockhart lived with her fiancee at the Capri Motel in New Orleans and worked as an exotic dancer at the Temptations Strip Club i...
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https://jimfishertruecrime.blogspot.com/2012/01/fbi-crime-laboratory-dark-years.html
Jim Fisher True Crime: The FBI Crime Lab:The Dark Years
Until the mid-1990s all of the forensic scientists working in the FBI Crime Lab had at least three years experience in the field as or...
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https://jimfishertruecrime.blogspot.com/2021/06/when-cure-can-be-worse-than-malady.html
Jim Fisher True Crime: When the Cure Can be Worse than the Malady
Unusual [exactly how unusual?] but serious side effects with pramipexole [used to treat restless leg syndrome] include impulse-control disor...
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https://jimfishertruecrime.blogspot.com/2013/12/annybelkis-terrero-wife-from-hell.html
Jim Fisher True Crime: The Annybelkis Terrero Murder-For-Hire Case
Neil Logan, a 57-year-old aircraft mechanic from Boynton Beach, Florida made the mistake of his life when in June 2013, following a br...
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https://jimfishertruecrime.blogspot.com/2014/01/criminal-justice-quote-vigilante-judges.html
Jim Fisher True Crime: Vigilante Judges
At times, judges abandon their neutrality and step into the adversarial void, acting like prosecutors, forcing defendants either to take a ...
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https://jimfishertruecrime.blogspot.com/2015/01/writing-quote-jd-salingers-relationship.html
Jim Fisher True Crime: J.D. Salinger's Relationship With His Fans
The most intense relationship anybody can have with a writer is by reading their work, alone, in silence. Yet readers seek writers in searc...
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https://jimfishertruecrime.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-high-cost-of-cops-shooting-people.html
Jim Fisher True Crime: The High Cost of Cops Shooting People in Wheelchairs
On January 4, 2011, Randal Dunkin, a 55-year-old mentally ill man who had been born with polio and was confined to a wheelchair, was c...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: The Jon Lang Murder Case
After a party on the night of June 18, 1993, 35-year-old Jon Lang's wife Debbie died in the couple's swimming pool. The drowning took ...
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https://jimfishertruecrime.blogspot.com/2012/02/murder-will-out-thanks-to-dna.html
Jim Fisher True Crime: The Catherine Walsh Murder Case: The Power of DNA Evidence
A man kills a woman, does not get caught, and moves on with his life. Then one day 32 years later cops knock on his door, put him in h...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: The Infamous Bell, California Public Corruption Case
The Los Angeles Times in July 2010 exposed public corruption in Bell, one of the poorer suburban communities in Los Angeles County. I...
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https://jimfishertruecrime.blogspot.com/2012/02/albert-hamilton-one-of-americas-first.html
Jim Fisher True Crime: Albert Hamilton: Courtroom Charlatan
In 1908, Albert Hamilton self-published a brochure about himself called, That Man From Auburn. In this piece of self-advertisement, ...
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https://jimfishertruecrime.blogspot.com/2014/03/criminal-justice-quote-art-of.html
Jim Fisher True Crime: Safecracking
The first and easiest way to gain entry into a safe is, if the safe is small enough, to remove it from the premises where it can be wo...
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https://jimfishertruecrime.blogspot.com/2014/04/criminal-justice-quote-gangster-shot-in.html
Jim Fisher True Crime: Gangster Shot in Court Room
A U.S. marshal shot a defendant in a Utah federal courtroom on Monday morning, April 21, 2014 after the defendant rushed a witness as ...
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https://jimfishertruecrime.blogspot.com/2012/09/annette-morales-roriguez-and-c-section.html
Jim Fisher True Crime: Annette Morales-Rodriguez and the C-Section Murders
In October 2011, Annette Morales-Rodriguez, a 34-year-old mother of three, lived with a boyfriend who expected that she would give bir...
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https://jimfishertruecrime.blogspot.com/2013/06/criminal-justice-quote-anti-death.html
Jim Fisher True Crime: Against the Death Penalty
Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most...
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https://jimfishertruecrime.blogspot.com/2013/12/criminal-justice-quote-maryville.html
Jim Fisher True Crime: The Maryville, Missouri Rape Scandal
Two girls, 14 and 13 years old, sneaked out to join a group of older football players at a party last year [2012] in Maryville, Missou...
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https://jimfishertruecrime.blogspot.com/2018/01/thornton-p-knowles-on-jacqueline-susann.html
Jim Fisher True Crime: Jacqueline Susann: Bestselling Hack
Don Preston, the editor behind Jacqueline Susann's best-selling but numbingly vacuous novel, Valley of the Dolls (1966), said this about t...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: April 2015
Welcome to the Jim Fisher True Crime blog, a place for people interested in crime, criminal investigation, policing, law, writing, and forensic science.
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https://jimfishertruecrime.blogspot.com/2014/05/judge-cynthia-brim-18-years-of.html
Jim Fisher True Crime: Cynthia Brim: Removing a Mentally Ill Judge
Cynthia Brim, a black woman from Chicago's south side graduated from the city's Loyola University Law School in 1983. In 1994 the 38-...
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https://jimfishertruecrime.blogspot.com/2013/01/prosecutor-alex-hunters-courageous.html
Jim Fisher True Crime: Prosecutor Alex Hunter And The JonBenet Ramsey Case: A Profile In Courage
An early morning emergency call that a child had been kidnapped brought a pair of Boulder Colorado police officers to John and Patsy R...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: Criminal Justice Quote: Good Thing the Robber Assaulted Jerimiah Willey
Call it a mixed blessing--one that may have saved an Arizona convenience store employee's life. When Phoenix Circle K manager Jerimiah...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: Kevin Wallin: "Monsignor Meth"
In 1996, Father Kevin Wallin became pastor of the St. Peter's Catholic Church in Danbury, Connecticut. Six years later the 50-year-old...
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https://jimfishertruecrime.blogspot.com/2014/01/criminal-justice-quote-real-murder-is.html
Jim Fisher True Crime: In Murder, Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction
It might be thought that murder presented as fictional entertainment on cinema and television screens is frequently implausible. Yet i...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: The Amateur Sleuth in Crime Fiction
The most important apparent disadvantage you'll face with an amateur sleuth has to do with the suspension of belief--why is this amateur ...
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https://jimfishertruecrime.blogspot.com/2014/03/easy-money-three-quick-and-simple-con.html
Jim Fisher True Crime: Easy Money: Three Quick and Simple Con Games
Case l A man and a woman, both well-dressed and in their mid-forties, approached an 86-year-old woman at a busy intersection in the ...
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https://jimfishertruecrime.blogspot.com/2014/04/criminal-justice-quote-boy-in-claw.html
Jim Fisher True Crime: The Boy in the Claw Machine
A 3-year-old boy who went missing from his home was found inside a toy claw machine in a bowling alley across the street. The boy's mo...
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https://jimfishertruecrime.blogspot.com/2014/07/criminal-justice-quote-silicon-valley.html
Jim Fisher True Crime: Criminal Justice Quote: The Silicon Valley Sex Trade
The arrest in July 2014 of alleged prostitute Alix Tichelman in connection with the death of Google executive Forrest Timothy Hayes ha...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: The Zumba Prostitution Case
Alexis Wright co-owned and operated Purd Vida, a fitness studio in downtown Kennebunk, a seashore town of 10,000 25 miles south of Por...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: March 2023
Welcome to the Jim Fisher True Crime blog, a place for people interested in crime, criminal investigation, policing, law, writing, and forensic science.
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Jim Fisher True Crime: Police Shootings: Aurora 9 Denver 2
So far in 2011, the police in Denver, Colorado, a city of two million, have shot two people, killing both of them. In Aurora, the subur...
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https://jimfishertruecrime.blogspot.com/2020/02/law-in-authoritarian-countries.html
Jim Fisher True Crime: Law in Authoritarian Countries
The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed. And others that are o...
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https://jimfishertruecrime.blogspot.com/2013/02/shivinder-singh-grovers-tripple-murder.html
Jim Fisher True Crime: Shivinder Singh Grover's Triple Murder And Suicide
A Sikh is a follower of Sikism, a religion that originated in the Punjab region of India in the 1500s. There are about 500,000 Sikhs r...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: The History of infanticide
Infanticide has been committed throughout human history for a multiplicity of reasons--personal, political, superstitious, and strateg...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: The McDonald's "Happy Meal" Case
A McDonald's employee in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was arrested on January 29, 2014 after undercover police officers said they discover...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: Stephen King on Pulp Fiction
You can place the fiction genre into three general categories: literature, mainstream, and pulp fiction. According to Stephen King: "To con...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: The Ruby Klokow Murder Case
In 1957 21-year-old Ruby Klokow, a resident of Sheboygan, a Michigan Lake town of 50,000 in southern Wisconsin physically abused and m...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: The Intimidation Effect of Gratuitous Violence
Demonstrations of the ability to kill, including killing innocent people, is a common entry test in criminal or violent illegal organi...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: Academic Writing
According to Professor J. Scott Armstrong of the University of Pennsylvania, among academics, "obtuse writing...seems to yield higher prest...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: The Power of Juries
If the jury feels the law is unjust, we recognize the undisputed power of the jury to acquit, even if its verdict is contrary to the law as...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: Hit-and-Run in the U.S.
Since 2006 in the United States, there have been just under 700,000 hit-and-run cases every year. About 65 percent of the fatal cases invol...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: No Young Biographers
Aspiring writers find biography a less attractive form of creative nonfiction because they like to write about themselves, and unlike memoi...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: Teacher William James Vahey: The Life and Crimes of an International...
In 1970, 20-year-old William James Vahey pleaded guilty in California to child molestation. Notwithstanding the sex crime conviction h...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: Arming School Teachers: Bad Idea
What's easier--turning a law enforcement officer into a school teacher, or converting an educator into a cop? In the wake of the mass ...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: The Young Reader
Books for kids need to be very entertaining. No preaching, no hidden messages, no condescending tone, no didactic stuff. Kids are smart: do...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: Academic Writing: Pretentious and Unreadable
Writing comes in many forms and styles. The most creative authors write novels. The writers of highly readable narrative nonfiction ar...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: The House-Call Hooker Robbery Case
On May 1, 2013, a home-alone 14-year-old in Prospect Heights, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, decided to avail himself of the services ...
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https://jimfishertruecrime.blogspot.com/2012/10/eric-dean-lewis-secret-life-of.html
Jim Fisher True Crime: Eric Dean Lewis: The Secret Life of an Elementary School Principal
Eric Dean Lewis, before settling in California in 1999, taught at elementary schools in West Palm Beach Florida and New York state. In...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: Reader's Digest
According to the writer Jefferson D. Bates, "If you want to find examples of clear, tightly edited prose, you'll look a long way to hunt do...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: The Sylvie Cachay Bathtub Murder Case
Sylvie Cachay grew up as the daughter of a Peruvian-born physician who practiced in Arlington, Virginia. She studied fashion design in...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: Involuntary Writer's Block
I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing nothing by my ...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: Writing Quote: Children's Book Illustrators' Blogs
For aspiring children's picture book illustrators, a blog is the best free tool you have to break into children's book publishing today. Wi...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: Charles Bukowski On His Schooling
I had Genius pushed at me all through school: Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Ibsen, G.B. Shaw, Chekov, all those dullards. And worse, Mark Twain, Ha...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: Unwanted Husbands, Rich Uncles, and Arsenic
In early nineteenth century England, a good way to get rid of your husband was arsenic. A medical examiner usually couldn't tell whether th...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: The Internet "Right-To-Be-Forgotten Rule" Versus Free Speech
Google has received fresh takedown requests after a European court ruled that an individual could force it to remove "irrelevant and o...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: Pioneers of Narrative Nonfiction
Narrative nonfiction involves the use of novelistic techniques--scenes, dialogue, and character development--to tell a true story . Contra...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: The Megan Huntsman Serial Infanticide Case
In 1996, 21-year-old Megan Huntsman resided with her husband Darren West and their two daughters (they would later have a third girl) ...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: Ingrid Lederhaas-Okum: The Thieving Employee
On July 1, 2013 at 8:45 in the evening, three men walked into the jewelry store inside the Borgata Hotel in Atlantic City, smashed a g...
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https://jimfishertruecrime.blogspot.com/2015/01/criminal-justice-quote-drug-drones.html
Jim Fisher True Crime: Criminal Justice Quote: Drug Drones
On January 21, 2015, police in Tijuana, Mexico said that a drone overloaded with methamphetamine crashed into a supermarket parking lo...
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https://jimfishertruecrime.blogspot.com/2012/10/steven-l-nelson-born-to-be-executed.html
Jim Fisher True Crime: Steven L. Nelson: Born to be Executed
When he was 3-years-old Steven L. Nelson set fire to his mother's bed. His father abused the boy and by the time he was ten Steven was...
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https://jimfishertruecrime.blogspot.com/2018/02/thornton-p-knowles-on-how-television.html
Jim Fisher True Crime: Thornton P. Knowles On How Television Works
A student once asked me if I knew how television worked. I said, "Sure, you simply put a bunch of idiots incapable of embarrassment in fron...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: The Henry Mapps Triple Murder Case
Reggie Tuttle and his wife Kim lived in Rye, a southern Colorado town not far from Pueblo. The 51-year-old owner of a trucking company...
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https://jimfishertruecrime.blogspot.com/2014/06/man-stabs-two-children-in-housing.html
Jim Fisher True Crime: Mayor Bill deBlasio And The Politics of Murder
A successful politician must do three things well: Raise a lot of money for himself and his family; lie convincingly to constituents; ...
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https://jimfishertruecrime.blogspot.com/2018/04/thornton-p-knowles-on-internet-worship.html
Jim Fisher True Crime: Thornton P. Knowles On Internet Worship
I can see a day when the Internet replaces God. The new Holy Trinity: Facebook, Google, and Virtual Reality. Passwords will replace prayer,...
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https://jimfishertruecrime.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-attorney-as-mouthpiece.html
Jim Fisher True Crime: The Mouthpiece
So you want to do good. Don't we all? But when you become a lawyer, you have to define good differently than you did before. As a lawyer, y...
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https://jimfishertruecrime.blogspot.com/2020/03/criminal-adaptation.html
Jim Fisher True Crime: Criminal Adaptation
The COVID-19 related shutdown of stores and shopping malls will transform some professional shoplifters into burglars. Other criminal types...
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https://jimfishertruecrime.blogspot.com/2019/09/criminologist-edwin-sutherland-on-death.html
Jim Fisher True Crime: Criminologist Edwin Sutherland On The Death Penalty
The death penalty does not fit into the system that is being developed for the treatment of criminals, which is individualization on the ba...
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https://jimfishertruecrime.blogspot.com/2015/01/criminal-justice-quote-female-cop-goes.html
Jim Fisher True Crime: Criminal Justice Quote: Female Cop Goes Nuts in New Jersey
An Irvington, New Jersey police captain was arrested early Tuesday morning January 6, 2015 after allegedly trying to run over a city c...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: Criminal Justice Quote: Airport Drug Cash
It started when police found $7.2 million stuffed in eight suitcases at a Panama airport. Investigators say they suspect the cash, whi...
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https://jimfishertruecrime.blogspot.com/2013/06/searching-for-jimmy-hoffa-who-cares.html
Jim Fisher True Crime: Searching for Jimmy Hoffa: Who Cares Where He Is?
In 1967, in a Chattanooga, Tennessee courtroom, a federal jury found Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa guilty of pension fraud and jury ...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: Criminal Justice Quote: The Crime of "Emotional Abuse"
Within weeks, the United Kingdom Parliament is set to consider a bill criminalizing "emotional blackmail" and related forms of emotion...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: Death by Explosion
If you [a scientist conducting experiments regarding the effects of explosions] want to stay up late worrying about lawsuits and bad p...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: The Fear Of Being Murdered By A Stranger
Before I coined the term serial killer in the mid-1970s, such murders were referred to as stranger murders to differentiate them fro...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: The FBI Indexing System
One of the most important aspects of an FBI field office is not actually in the office: indexes. At one time, these were little more t...
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https://jimfishertruecrime.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-claire-hough-murder-case-twisted.html
Jim Fisher True Crime: The Claire Hough Murder Case: A Saga of False Accusations and Suicide
In early August 1984 14-year-old Claire Hough and her best friend Kim Jamer left their homes in Rhode Island for a two-week vacation i...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: The First Autobiography
The first autobiography is considered to be St. Augustine's Confessions (c. 400), the groundbreaking exploration of the author's philosoph...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: Whackademia Quote: Overpaid University Presidents
At the 25 public universities with the highest-paid presidents, both student debt and the use of part-time adjunct faculty grew far fa...
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https://jimfishertruecrime.blogspot.com/2020/05/new-york-city-mayor-bill-de-blasio.html
Jim Fisher True Crime: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio: The Criminal's Best Friend
On April 2, 2020, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, while New Yorkers were bring told to stay at home, the mayor of New York C...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: Novelists' Strengths and Weaknesses
I read the essays George Plimpton had done for Paris Review about how Hemingway and other great ones got their paragraphs hung together, an...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: "Hooking" the Reader
Some first lines are so powerful that you absolutely have to keep on reading. This is known as a "hook." Nearly all the great writers ...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: January 2022
Welcome to the Jim Fisher True Crime blog, a place for people interested in crime, criminal investigation, policing, law, writing, and forensic science.
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Jim Fisher True Crime: The Spy Novel
At their core, spy novels are about secrets. Secrets create power. Power determines how we live. That's a formula for fiction that mat...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: A Good Story is Not Enough
You can't just come out and say what you have to say. That's what people do on airplanes, when a man plops down next to you, spills peanuts ...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: The Mysterious Andrew Steele Murder Case
Andrew Steele, in June 2014, a month after being diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease) had no cho...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: Life is Good in a Pennsylvania Prison
The Mercer Regional Correctional Facility in western Pennsylvania looks like a small college campus, with tidy brick buildings scatter...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: Word Abuse
Since when did everything look, taste, and feel "amazing?" What does "amazing" look, taste, and feel like? It's amazing how this poor word ...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: The Father Eric Freed Murder Case
Eric Freed, while living in Japan in 1979, became a Catholic priest. Twenty years later, Reverend Freed joined the greater Santa Rosa ...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: The Botched Cheye Calvo SWAT Raid
On July 28, 2008, drug traffickers in Los Angeles sent by Federal Express a box containing 32 pounds of marijuana to an address in Ber...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: Science Fiction: An Acquired Taste
Science fiction is often accused (by those who don't like it) of being unnecessarily esoteric. You can't understand the stuff, we are told,...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: A Good Question
Have we become, as American men and women, too liberated and progressive for good taste in our daily and literary use of language? Charle...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: The Master Detective
A master detective is the product of a solid formal education; deep and extended training; prolonged on-the-job monitoring by highly compet...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: Living On The Street
One-fifth of America's 1.7 homeless population suffer from untreated schizophrenia or manic depressive disorder. That amounts to 385,000 pe...
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Jim Fisher True Crime: Criminal Justice Quote: Former Pro Wrestler Kevin Nash and Son Arrested
Former WWE star Kevin Nash and his 18-year-old son, Tristen Nash, were arrested on December 24, 2014 after getting into a scuffle at t...