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Review of Gosnell

Gosnell: The Untold Story of America's Most Prolific Serial KillerAnn McElhinney and Phelim McAleerRegnery Publishing, 2017Review by Robert A. WatersEnter the three-storied maze of rooms filled with...

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Suphan Cobra Escapes

Searching for Ocala's Cobraby Robert A. WatersMy hometown of Ocala sits dead-center in the middle of Florida. It's a one-time small town hoping to go big-city. Some of us would like to build a wall...

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Review of A Daughter's Deadly Deception: The Jennifer Pan Story

A Daughter's Deadly Deception: The Jennifer Pan StoryBy Jeremy GrimaldiDundurn, Toronto, Ontario, Canada: 2016Review by Robert A. WatersIn the early morning hours of November 8, 2010, Hann Pan awoke to...

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A Soldier's Sacrifice

"This just ain't our day" by Robert A. Waters On a hill overlooking Omaha Beach, a cemetery sits bearing row after row of white marble crosses and an occasional star of David.  It's the American...

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Review: Crime Buff's Guide to Outlaw Los Angeles

Crime Buff's Guide to Outlaw Los AngelesRon FranscellWildBlue Press, 2017Review by Robert A. WatersIn the city of dreams, nightmares haunt its sad streets like a plague. For everyone who makes it big,...

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Real Death Row Stories 

Bundy's Last Victim byRobert A. Waters The CNN series Death Row Stories "explores cases that pose hard questions about the U. S. capital punishment system."  In other words, it's anti-death penalty....

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Florida: Land of Sinkholes, Lightning, and other Killers

Five Reasons Not to Move to Florida by Robert A. Waters In this blog, a native Floridian will tell you what politicians won't.  Here are fivereasons you should never ever even consider moving to...

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Drunk Driver Kills Popular Singer 

The Last Ride of Johnny Horton by Robert A. Waters It was 1960.  Hank was long-dead and old-time country music was dying. Elvis, a country boy from Mississippi, had inadvertently started the trend....

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Forgotten Legend of the Wild West

Hugh Whitney's Ride into Darknessby Robert A. WatersA murderous thug was Hugh Whitney, and a desperate fugitive, too. A legend perhaps, or just another outlaw following a dark trail to oblivion.On June...

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Bigfoot Hunters and Hoaxes

StrangerthanSasquatch by Robert A. Waters At around midnight, GawainMacGregor,dressed head-to-toe in raccoon skins, wandered into a dense North Carolina forest to "connect" with Sasquatch.  At the same...

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Burglar Shoots Dog, Gets Himself Killed

Shawn Michael KingHome Invasion Goes Bad for Intruderby Robert A. WatersSummerfield, Florida sits about ten miles south of Ocala, in Marion County.  A farming community, it is unincorporated. At around...

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Shades of Fahrenheit 451 by Robert A. Waters When they've taken down all the Confederate monuments and flags, the next step for the thought-police may be a Fahrenheit 451-style CD burning. Lots of...

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A Girl Named Alie, A Dog Named Yogi

When Alie Died by Robert A. Waters On May 18, 1993, at 7:02 p.m., the Englewood, Colorado Police Department received a phone call from Marivel Berrelez who stated that her daughter was missing....

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Death of Patsy Cline by Robert A. Waters On March 5, 1963, a single-engine Piper PA-24 Comanchetook off from FairfaxAirport in Kansas City, Kansas.  Three Grand Ole Opry stars, Patsy Cline, Cowboy...

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"No indication that he was going to regress..."

 Child Predator Cheats the Chair by Robert A. Waters For twelve years, Dr. Robert Terry and his wife, Gail Louise, waited for their daughter's killer to be executed.  Enraged by the kidnapping, rape,...

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Who Murdered the Ladies of Niceville?

DNA Solves One Case, FourMore to Go by Robert A. Waters For 37 years, Okaloosa County detectives figured they knew who killedCatherine Ainsworth.  But with little evidence, their suspect walked free,...

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Rhesus Macaques vs. Humans in Florida

Monkeys from the Black Lagoon by Robert A. Waters Local lore is sometimes persistent, even if it's wrong.  Take the rhesus macaque monkeys, formerly of Silver Springs, Florida, but now spreading into...

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The Shohola Train Disaster of 1864

Rebs and Yanks Died Together by Robert A. Waters On the afternoon of July 15, 1864, Engine 171, athirty-ton wood-burning smoker, chugged along a torturous mountain trackin Pennsylvania.  Spewing...

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