December 2010
11 posts
“The space feels like a cave, which has always struck [Det. Michele] Deery as about right, because her job is to talk dirty online to strange men.”
—Mark Bowden’s “A Crime of Shadows,” Vanity Fair (December 2009)
What Killed Aiyana Stanley-Jones? →
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“A nighttime raid. A reality TV crew. A sleeping seven-year-old. What one tragedy can teach us about the unraveling of America’s middle class. …”
“They provide entirely different pictures of the very same woman.”
—Jeffrey Toobin, blogging in The New Yorker about the case of Rachel Yould (2010)
“But he made his name working on the story of Holloway — the 18-year-old Birmingham, Alabama, blonde who went missing during a high-school class trip to Aruba in 2005, and became the apotheosis of a golden age of dead-white-girl television.”
—Sheelah Kolhatkar’s “The News Merchant,” The Atlantic (2010)
“Edna Buchanan covered the murder for the Herald — there are policemen in Miami who say that it wouldn’t be a murder without her — and her story began with what the fried-chicken faction still regards as the classic Edna lead: ‘Gary Robinson died hungry.’”
—Calvin Trillin’s “Covering the Cops,” The New Yorker (1986)
"True Crime" from Seventeen Magazine →
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This book begins with the subtle exclamation of “Hey!” from the editors. They state: “Just so you’re not surprised: Some of these stories are very upsetting. But as you know life isn’t always a fairy tale.” Eyes roll from the Brothers Grimm — and yet the theme of interfamily violence, from the Grimm’s “The Girl Without Hands” to “She Killed Her Mom” (pg. 37), is not entirely irrelevant.
Further, from the editors: “… no matter how badly we feel or how hard our situation is, there is someone out there who knows exactly where we’re coming from.” From Jacob and Wilhelm: “‘Dear father, do with me what you will. I am your child,’ and with that she stretched forth both hands and let her father chop them off.”
