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Confession

Child-Killer Susan Smith, or, Why Alice Crimmins Makes a Lousy Role Model

By Susan Amper

March 3, 2014

Many people believe that Alice Crimmins got away with the 1965 murder of her two children. (Read my views on the Crimmins case here.) But could the Crimmins case have provided fodder for a future child killer? Alice Crimmins always maintained her innocence, but the police and much of the press believed Alice Crimmins was…

Cowboy listening to the radio

Who Was That Masked Man?

By Bill Crider

October 25, 2011

When I was a kid, I loved to listen to the radio.  I listened to whatever was on: the soap operas, the crime shows, the comedies, the variety series, and the westerns.  Of them all, The Lone Ranger was my favorite. Maybe it was the theme music.  As far as I’m concerned, there’s never been…

Mark Twain

Fingerprints 103: Mark Twain’s Prescience and Crime’s Penmen

By Dr. Lewis Preschel

June 6, 2011

The first American writer to use fingerprints in solving crime was the famous Mark Twain in his perhaps-embellished memoir about life as a steamboat pilot, titled Life on the Mississippi, published in 1883. In chapter 31, “A Thumb-print and What Came of It,” he has a character, inspired by an old “French prison-keeper” use a…

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