Kendare Blake Archives - Criminal Element

Book Review: All These Bodies by Kendare Blake

By Doreen Sheridan

September 20, 2021

All These Bodies by Kendare Blake is an edge-of-your-seat YA mystery involving 16 bloodless bodies, two teenagers, and one impossible explanation that proves the truth is as hard to believe as it is to find. In the summer of 1958, a gruesome string of murders reshaped ordinary life in the Midwest. Corpses were found entirely…

Midwestern Murders in the 1950s: Five Films Inspired by Starkweather/Fugate & Hickock/Smith

By Kendare Blake

September 17, 2021

In December 1957 and January 1958, nineteen-year-old Charlie Starkweather embarked on a killing spree through Nebraska and Wyoming. Most of the murders took place in just over a week, an eight-day rampage of shootings and stabbings that confounded authorities and terrorized the general public. With his even younger girlfriend in tow, Charlie killed eleven people,…