Mark David Chapman: No Parole
For the eighth time, the Board of Parole of the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision has denied release to Mark David […]
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From a poem by anti-Nazi theologian Pastor Martin Niemoller: First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak [...]
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I don’t have an answer. It seems pretty clear at this point that no one else does, either. I just [...]
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My friend Stephen Hunter is the Pulitzer Prize-winning former film critic for The Washington Post and bestselling author of the Bob [...]
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One more thought about gun control and the Constitution. Among the staunchest legal defenders of the Second Ammendment is Supreme [...]
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This latest time, it was a community college in Oregon, but as we’ve seen so many times already, it could [...]
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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s initial punishment to Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Rice for admittedly beating his finance unconscious: two-game suspension. [...]
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On the morning of June 28, 2007, we awoke to learn that a man had died in Tennessee overnight. And, [...]
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Jeni Schmidt Cosgrove is a dear friend whom we met under some of the most tragic circumstances possible. In our [...]
Just a Thought
With the acknowledgement that ISIS - the Islamic terrorist group so extreme that it has been rejected by al Qaeda - having recruited more than […]
Robert Hansen: Good Riddance
Word came yesterday that Robert Hansen, known as "the Butcher Baker," had passed away at age 75 at a hospital in Anchorage, Alaska. He was […]
Confirmation Bias Redux
Every reasonable and compassionate person must be affected by the August 9 fatal shooting of Michael Brown in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Missouri, […]
Victims of Suicide II
This is a variation and update of a column I wrote last year when two prominent radio hosts and motivational speakers committed suicide. Unfortunately, it […]
Criminal Arrogance
We have written about the Cameron Todd Willingham case before. We devoted several chapters to it in Law & Disorder, out this month in paperback, and […]
Siren Song
Detective Jeff Majewski of the Westport, Massachusetts Police Department is an admired and intrepid law enforcement agent, and so was his dog, Siren. Overnight last […]
Assessing Violent Behavior: What Does It Take?
In response to our recent column about Terry Wayne Davis, the 44-year-old Illinois man who will either be tried or committed for allegedly having sex […]
Who Is the Real Beast Here?
Through the twisted legal logic that often accompanies strange cases, 44-year-old Terry Wayne Davis has been declared "not sexually dangerous" by an Illinois court-appointed psychologist […]
A Kinder, Gentler Klan?
I don't know about you, but notwithstanding the sympathetic portrayals in Birth of a Nation and Gone With the Wind, I've always thought of the Ku Klux […]
We Can't Ignore the Monsters
This past Monday, July 7, The New York Times ran an op-ed by my close friend Peter Ross Range, entitled, "Should Germans Read 'Mein Kampf'?"
Since the […]
In the Shadow of Slenderman
A number of our readers have questioned the ruling that Morgan Geyser - one of the two 12-year-old Wisconsin girls accused of repeatedly stabbing their […]
Guess Who's Not Coming to Dinner
Paul Kenneth Bernardo, known as the "Scarborough Rapist," is one of the worst serial sexual predators Canada has ever produced. Between 1987 and 1992, this […]
In Memory of Stephanie
As with several other relationships, we met Peggy and Gene Schmidt and their daughter Jeni under terrible circumstances. We were researching and writing about the […]
The Mystery of Evil
Families of Elliot Rodger's first three victims - his two roommates and the young man who happened to be visiting at the time - have […]
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