
TRUE CRIME BOOKS BLOG
FROM AUTHOR HARRY N. MACLEAN
Ken McElroy–Back To Skidmore
I’m heading back to Skidmore this weekend. David Dunbar, the former sheriff of Skidmore who resigned after McElroy pulled a shotgun on...
Del Clement A Hero
A recent post suggested that Del Clement was a hero for his role in shooting Ken McElroy. That debate is a fascinating and endless one,...
James Ford Seale and the Supreme Court
James Ford Seale will again take his case before the United States Supreme Court. You will recall that Seale was convicted of kidnapping...
AP Writer Typlifed Irresponsible Writing About Ken McElroy’s Murder
A story came out today that AP writer Jules Loh had died. The story held out Loh’s work as some of the best ever, and noted that his...
McElroy Prosecutor Defeated in Primary
David Baird was a few months out of law school when he was appointed country prosecutor in Nodaway County, Missouri. A few months later,...
Mississippi — Stereotypes and The New Yorker
One of the reasons I let my subscription to the New Yorker lapse several years ago was the increasingly snarky tone of their content. The...
Emmett Till — Facts Are Facts
In an article in the February issue of American Way Magazine, the author writes that Emmett Till was murdered at the Bryant grocery store...
The William Saroyan Prize Nomination.
Last Saturday morning I was checking my e-mail when I got a note informing me that “The Past Is Never Dead” had been selected as...
Debate over Del Clement continues…
The debate over Del Clement continues. Loved ones often have a hard time seeing the truth of the ones they love. I spent three years in...
James Ford Seale — Round Two
James Ford Seale –Round Two on the Statute of Limitations Issue The federal appellate process can be long and tangled. On March 13 the...
A Lawyer Goes to Prison
I just returned from three weeks on Ocean Isle Beach, one of the barrier islands not far from Wilmington, North Carolina. I went there to...
The Past Is Never Dead–Is It?
The title of my new book seems suddenly to have become quite popular. Frances Ford Coppola recently used it in describing one of his...
AP, James Ford Seale and Harry MacLean
I was pleased to see the AP piece on “The Past Is Never Dead” (finally) came out yesterday. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2009/dec/2...
James Ford Seale — An FBI Informant?
James Ford Seale, convicted two years ago in the kidnapping and murder of two black youths in Southwest Mississippi in 1964, was known...
Court Turns Down James Ford Seale
On November 1, the Supreme Court issued a decision declining to hear the appeal of James Ford Seale on the question of whether the...
Book Tour in the South
Well, not the whole South, but I did TV, radio and print in Jackson, Oxford and Memphis. In the old days, an escort picked you up at the...
New reviews and interviews for “The Past is Never Dead”
More reviews have been published for The Past is Never Dead. I welcome your reviews and comments! Crime Rant Bookpage In Cold Blog Coming...
Interview — The Past Is Never Dead
I’m excited about a new interview true crime writer Gregg Olsen just published on the book at his site for “The Past is Never Dead”:...