Two artists that changed hip-hop forever—both in life and in death. Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G. were both murdered within a year of each other after one of the biggest and most public feuds in entertainment history. However, neither of their murders have ever been solved. Now, Emmy Award-winner Anthony Hemingway (American Crime Story:…
Who doesn’t love Unsolved Mysteries? With his deep voice, stoic manner, and popular performance as the infamous Federal Agent Eliot Ness, Robert Stack was an ideal host for stories that were strange, criminal, and creepy. Sure, the mixture of interviews and reenactments could be hammy, but the mysteries themselves… I like to think my fascination…
Unsolved murders can be frustrating—not only to those directly involved, but to the world at large. We like to think the world works under some form of justice and retributive control. Even if we don’t ascribe to it in a spiritual or religious way, humans assume a sort of karmic “reap what you sow” mentality,…
On the morning of August 4, 1892, both Abby and Andrew Borden were brutally murdered—cause of death: repeated blows to the head from a hatchet-like weapon. See also: The Rhyme and the Crime: Lizzie Borden's Forty Whacks Lizzie Borden was tried and acquitted on both counts of murder, though many believe that she was the…
He's just seven years old. He's your son. You wave goodbye to him one morning and then he disappears into the swirling English fog. Gone. Gone forever. Who Killed Little Johnny Gill? is an historical crime fiction murder mystery, based on a true story that took place in Bradford, England during the Victorian era.…
Writing The Secrets of Lizzie Borden was a fascinating experience for me. I am always drawn to the flawed and damaged figures from history, but it is the perceived villains who interest me most of all. I have been reading about unsolved mysteries and murders almost since the time I first learned to read, and…
The Short Drop by Matthew FitzSimmons is a debut novel that follows the story of Gibson Vaughn, a legendary hacker and former marine, that works to uncover the mystery behind the disappearance of childhood friend Suzanne Lombard from a Pennsylvania convenience store (Available December 1, 2015). A decade ago, fourteen-year-old Suzanne Lombard, the daughter of…
Every fan of Wolfgang Mozart has heard the story—how in the fall of 1791, the 35-year old composer, depressed, and overworked, confessed to his wife Constanze that he believed that he was slowly being poisoned. By mid-November, illness overtook the composer, marked by swollen hands and feet and with violent vomiting. Despite the efforts of…
From Magneto, to Gandalf, and now Sherlock Holmes, Sir Ian McKellen continues to tackle one great role after another. Mr. Holmes is adapted from Mitch Cullin's book A Slight Trick of the Mind and finds the 93 year old sleuth retired and passing the time by beekeeping. As reported by Deadline, McKellen did all his…
On June 8, 1870, in the middle of composing the twelve part serial The Mystery of Edwin Drood, the story came to a jarring standstill when, after a long day's work on what would become his last set of characters, Charles Dickens suffered a stroke and passed away the following day. Chapman & Hall went…
