#true crime book

[morbidology]

My new true crime book, On Trial for Murder, is available to purchase in the U.K. from today! You can pick up a copy on Amazon, or in all good bookstores!

The dramatic events of some of the world’s most controversial murder trials

The stakes are never higher when the charge is murder…

Explore the riveting twists and turns of some of the most notorious and controversial murder trials in history, such as the O. J. Simpson, Phil Spector, and Oscar Pistorius cases.

Each of the trials detailed in this audiobook—the latest in DK’s highly successful series of true crime investigations—dominated the world’s news media and gripped public attention.

After examining the evidence, if you had been a member of the jury, what would have been your verdict? Guilty? Or Not Guilty?

https://amzn.to/3xGMco7

[kikiswayside]

Book Review: Behold the Monster

The book is "Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer" by Jillian Lauren. The book is about a journalist and her relationship with serial killer Samuel Little. She opens the book with her past. An event so similar to what Little put his victims through that she feels a connection. Now, I am not a reviewer. But my thoughts are that this is written by someone close to many marginalization's, not part of them. My problem stems from the writing as though she understands them. It became clear in the chapter about the death of the one trans victim. While I can appreciate the chapters that are written from the point of view of the victims as an attempt to further humanize those less dead victims, it misses the mark. Those chapters try too hard to understand poverty, or addiction, or trans-ness. In short it was a book written by a white person for a very specific subset of white women. I rate this a 2 and a half out of 5.

[mowgliproductions]

Crime Lords Trail from Mumbai to Bangkok" - Now Available on Amazon and ...

[mysharona1987]

But….they never caught the guy?

[emlvi56]

YOU - "Ma'am, do you know how me and my partner are known to our colleagues back at the station?" PLAISANCE - "No?" The storekeeper has crossed her arms. KIM KITSURAGI - The lieutenant looks at you, waiting to see where this is going. DRAMA - You've got this. Just go with it, this is *elegant*. YOU - "Crime bros." (Nod at Kim.) "We're called *crime bros*, my partner and I." PLAISANCE - "You're called... *what*?" She peers at you over her glasses. "What is this, a joke, mister policeman? Do you commit *crimes* together or what?" KIM KITSURAGI - He turns away, but not before you can see a small hint of a smile -- he's struggling to not crack up. RHETORIC - Technically, that's what Crime Bros would do, yes. Commit crimes. YOU - "No, not like this, we're called crime bros because we like to *solve* crimes... as brothers in arms!"

Brushes: True Grit Texture Supply

Textures: Jeff Finley,blkmarket

Reference: jademacalla

I have an idea for another one of these book covers, but it requires drawing a coupris kineema and I’m scared.

[joytri]

Everyone who is into Dark Academia now either had a Greek mythology phrase in middle school, was and still kind of is really into poetry and philosophy, great at history and lives listening to true crime podcasts-

[salembehindbars]

To the untrained eye I may be off-putting and strange and even a loser but to the trained eye, I am a hauntingly esoteric dream girl with a poetic, mysterious aura and a hunger for knowledge.

[maureenjohnsonbooks]

Hello Tumblr friends! I just wanted to let you know that DEATH AT MORNING HOUSE, my new, stand-alone MURDER MYSTERY will be out on AUGUST 6th. Do you like MURDER? A queer ROMANCE? A MYSTERY MANSION? A SCENTED CANDLE DISASTER? All of these things are contained within.

And if you pre-order ANYWHERE IN THE US, ANY FORM OF THE BOOK, you can have a FREE SET OF COOL MAGNETIC BOOKMARKS. Seriously. Just click and submit your receipt and that’s it. FREE COOL THING. Then MURDER MYSTERY.

[codename-adler]

is this going to make sense? we shall see.

the Drake murder is also the end of the twin switcheroo. Andrew can’t pretend to be Aaron so Aaron does get murder charges and go to jail. he cannot take his place, cannot take the fall. because Andrew absolutely would, if he could. but this was the one thing, the one scenario where that became impossible. Andrew dedicated almost a decade of his life to protecting Aaron. and in an instant, from one second to the next, Aaron irreversibly chucked it all to hell. for him. Aaron finally stands on his own, for Andrew. Andrew finally gets recognition, as his own person, from the one person he always walked in the shadow of. does this make sense? do you get it? they can’t switch anymore. not interchangeable. different. but never closer. a clear break. not clean, but definite. the real first step in annulling the deal. i make my own choices and you cannot take them from me. you cannot erase them and paint them on yourself. clean slate. separation. back to point zero of the embryo splitting in two. not the same. no more.

[morbidology]

My 5th book, Killers Caught, is available to purchase in the United Kingdom and Ireland today! It’s available everywhere else on the 17th. You can get it on Amazon and all good bookstores!

They thought they had got away with murder. They were wrong.

Discover the vital clues, the crucial evidence, the lucky breaks, the chases, the painstaking detective work, and the unlikely heroes that led to the capture of some of the world’s most notorious murderers and serial killers, such as “The Good Nurse” poisoner Charles Cullen, finally detected by a young colleague; “Night Stalker” Richard Ramirez, spotted by a 13-year-old boy; “ Son of Sam”, unmasked by a parking ticket; John Wayne Gacy, connected to his final victim by a stray receipt; and, Rodney Alcala, spotted on a TV game show...

Killers Caught reveals the remarkable circumstances leading to the downfall of these deadly individuals, as well as the stories of how many more of crime’s most notorious and prolific murderers were finally brought to justice.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Killers-Caught-Stories-Extraordinary-Murder/dp/0241645581

[niroke]

The way people talk about the Lord of the Flies pisses me off. The analysis around the novel is just so bad. Humans are not inherently evil!! It wasn't that without a governing body civilization collapses, it was that they were little rich boys trying to emulate what they perceived to be the way the world worked. The novel was written right after WW2 and the sentiments of the era greatly shaped the story of the novel. Jack was violent because he was raised to be violent not because he was an inherently violent person. They also were there for months! It wasn't like all of the issues happened immediately, the kids were young and lost hope so they followed the person with the most charisma.

[mysharona1987]

New York librarians hearing the Eric Adams news:

[rosekasa]

idk if this is too niche but friends who remind you to take a break from depressing content are friends that are absolutely irreplaceable

[jenwaynecleaver]

I am not a serial killer

[rising-psyche]

"Without knowing why, he will wonder and invent. His ability to deal with his emotional reactions to trauma and threat when he is alone is still very uncertain, and his understanding of it, of his body, of how it works and what can be done with it, is minuscule. "His knowledge of his own physiology and anatomy is scanty and is mixed with strange speculations about the inside of his body". Jeff Dahmer's own imaginings about the inside of people's bodies began with the hernia operation and the intrusion into his own. The atmosphere in the hospital cannot help but be frightening, because it is so strange. Add to this the anxiety of the parents and the prodding of strange men, the sense that something terrible, unknown and unspoken, is about to happen, and the imperative that in the face of all this he must be passive and compliant, and the child is overwhelmed. "He has fantasies about what has happened to him that far exceed the actual facts," writes a learned pediatrician, and he is even more convinced that "the injury will continue to grow and make him totally different from anyone else in the world." Both of these observations seem to apply with peculiar accuracy to the case of Jeff Dahmer. And there is a third, slightly frightening in its prophetic implications: "He may open up the fear by pretending that he is performing the operation on another child." The memory of the fear and fantasies that preceded the operation may then be repressed, with the result that the unconscious memories begin to infect the growing child's perceptions of the world and people, and each new experience carries the threat of a repetition of the old. This is a heavily concealed reaction, of course; one would not suggest that Dahmer thought that everyone he met was a surgeon in disguise, but since he never wanted to see or be touched by that surgeon again, he would assume that everyone was implicitly dangerous — his responses would be profoundly influenced by the experience. Emotional shock may not be expressed openly for some time... Just as physical shock can result in death, emotional shock can result in a lifetime of misery. It is often very difficult to see the connections between an adult’s unusual behavior and the surgery he underwent as a child, but in Dahmer’s case the path from cause to effect is surprisingly clear. The story of a four-year-old boy who underwent a meatotomy (to widen the urethral opening) without anesthesia shows some parallels. From then on, his play consisted of cutting people and cutting off his own face, hands, and penis, all clearly stemming from the fear of castration that the operation generated. Jeff Dahmer’s operation involved opening his abdomen with very deep incisions, feeling inside, exploring inside himself, at a time when his ability to rely on his mother, with his own insecurities and nervousness, was already in jeopardy. He later asked her if his penis had been removed (so he told Dr. Becker), and the postoperative pain would be exactly as if it had been. The fear of castration is not only, or even primarily, sexual, and here we must come to the most revealing inference. When Dahmer was cut open by the surgeon, in his mind he had lost control of his own body once and for all, and his crimes in adulthood were a belated attempt to reassert himself and regain control. They expressed a desperate desire to regain that power which, unconsciously, he thought the surgeon's scalpel had removed". (The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer, Brian Masters)

Note: Dahmer had double hernia surgery shortly before his 4th birthday. Jeff has been described more than once as a happy and outgoing child before the surgery performed by his parents, lending credit to the argument that this episode was quite traumatic and turned him into a quiet and melancholic child. In his crimes, Jeffrey also opened up to his victims and was always curious to know what they were like on the inside, possibly recreating the scenario of his childhood with other people. He felt invaded and powerless, something that continued for most of his life as he became a person without reaction to most situations. This operation changed everything, along with other factors.

[brethilach]

euughh just saw someone say that Celegorm kidnapping Lúthien to force her into marriage was "out of character" and just. I understand the urge to smooth the edges off your blorbo's flaws or whatever but if you've gotten to the point where you genuinely believe the author's portrayal of his own character isn't in line with canon then I think you just misunderstood what you read