TRUE CRIME BOOKS BLOG

I’m heading back to Skidmore this weekend. David Dunbar, the former sheriff of Skidmore who resigned after McElroy pulled a shotgun on...

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 will again take his case before the United States Supreme Court. You will recall that Seale was convicted of kidnapping...

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...

David Baird was a few months out of law school when he was appointed country prosecutor in Nodaway County, Missouri. A few months later,...

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...

In an article in the February issue of American Way Magazine, the author writes that Emmett Till was murdered at the Bryant grocery store...

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...

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 on the Statute of Limitations Issue The federal appellate process can be long and tangled. On March 13 the...

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 title of my new book seems suddenly to have become quite popular. Frances Ford Coppola recently used it in describing one of his...

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, convicted two years ago in the kidnapping and murder of two black youths in Southwest Mississippi in 1964, was known...

One week ago yesterday, the Supreme Court announced its decision not to hear Seale’s appeal on the statute of limitations issue....

On November 1, the Supreme Court issued a decision declining to hear the appeal of James Ford Seale on the question of whether the...

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...

October 5, publication day for “The Past Is Never Dead,” arrived on the heels of the NPR  “All Things Considered” interview, which played...