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Tag: Crime and Criminals

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Ultimate Soap Opera: The Bizarre Case of Candy Montgomery (part 1)

By James Pylant on November 4, 2024

In this article, James Pylant writes about the bizarre “whodunnit” case of a slaying in small-town Texas... (Read More)

Photo: investigating a mystery

‘Man of Tragedy’: Charlie Dorris and His Family’s Misfortunes (part 3)

By James Pylant on October 1, 2024

In this article, James Pylant concludes his story about the “whodunnit” case of Charlie Dorris and a puzzling double slaying... (Read More)

Photo: investigating a mystery

‘Man of Tragedy’: Charlie Dorris and His Family’s Misfortunes (part 2)

By James Pylant on September 30, 2024

In this article, the plot thickens as James Pylant looks into the “whodunnit” case of Charlie Dorris and a puzzling double slaying... (Read More)

Photo: investigating a mystery

‘Man of Tragedy’: Charlie Dorris and His Family’s Misfortunes (part 1)

By James Pylant on September 24, 2024

In this article, James Pylant looks into the “whodunnit” case of Charlie Dorris, and finds a family hounded by misfortune... (Read More)

Photo: investigating a mystery

Spoiled to Death: The Rhonda Martin Case (part 2)

By James Pylant on September 10, 2024

In this article, James Pylant concludes his story about Rhonda Belle Martin, a seemingly normal Alabama wife and mother with a dark secret... (Read More)

Photo: investigating a mystery

Spoiled to Death: The Rhonda Martin Case (part 1)

By James Pylant on September 4, 2024

In this article, James Pylant tries to solve the mystery of Rhonda Belle Martin, a seemingly normal Alabama wife and mother with a secret... (Read More)

Photo caption: James Caan, Robert Duvall, and Marlon Brando clown around. Duvall and Brando had an ongoing mooning contest. New York Post (New York, New York), 14 December 2008, page 72.

How ‘The Godfather’ Movie Almost Didn’t Get Made (part 1)

By Melissa Berry on April 12, 2024

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry details how it took a deal with the real Mafia to get the gangster film “The Godfather” made... (Read More)

Illustration: political cartoon of the Osage Indian murders depicting Mollie Burkhart and William King Hale. Credit: Daily Jeffersonian (Cambridge, Ohio), 18 January 1926, page 1.

‘Killers of the Flower Moon’: Terror in the Osage Nation

By Gena Philibert-Ortega on November 27, 2023

Gena Philibert-Ortega searches old newspapers to learn more about the true story in Martin Scorsese’s recent movie "Killers of the Flower Moon.".. (Read More)

Photo: the Wolfe Tavern & Hotel, Newburyport, Massachusetts. Courtesy of James Zafris of Newburyport.

The Swindling Wolf of Wolfe Tavern

By Melissa Berry on March 31, 2023

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry writes about a brazen swindler who once stayed at her ancestor’s Wolfe Tavern & Hotel... (Read More)

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