Billingsgate Shoal launches out of the gates from the first page with one of the best hooks I’ve read in a while. Charles “Doc” Adams introduces himself as a doctor and dental surgeon, with a wife and two college-aged sons. He immediately offers up a juicy tidbit: My most interesting… Read more
As the old proverb goes, “A bird in the hand is worth 34 in hair curlers.” Wait, isn’t that how it goes? If you ask Francis Gurahoo, he’d probably say so—even if his feathers are a bit ruffled at the moment. According to KRON4, Gurahoo was arrested after arriving at… Read more
Trace by investigative reporter and journalist Rachael Brown tells the story of Brown’s internationally acclaimed true crime podcast which reexamines the cold case murder of Maria James in Australia in 1980 and the potential foul-play of major institutions that disrupted progress. Maria James, a 38-year-old mother of two boys, was… Read more
“One is the loneliest number.” I can only imagine that was Long Island driver James Britt’s initial excuse when Suffolk County Police Department busted him using the HOV lane of the Long Island Expressway with no other passengers in his vehicle (you know, except for the mannequin that he dressed… Read more
Aren’t smartphones supposed to make life easier? Not so for this week’s bungling bad guys. According to KPRC News, police were tipped off to an on-going burglary at a Best Buy in Sugar Land, Texas when one of the alleged burglars butt-dialed 911. Police received a cellphone call at 3… Read more
A car chase earlier this week in the San Fernando Valley, California culminated in a shocking, albeit, wildly entertaining end. According to ABC7, a reckless driver refused to pull over when police cruisers attempted to apprehend him. Evading police from Calabasas to Laurel Canyon Boulevard, the driver was eventually stopped… Read more
A fine night was cut short when a man assaulted a bouncer in Jackson Heights, Queens. According to NY Daily News, when refused entry to El California sports bar in Jackson Heights shortly after 4 AM on February 16, the assailant was angered and a skirmish ensued. Strangely, no hands were… Read more
