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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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...
View ArticleReview 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleReview: 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,...
View ArticleReal 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....
View ArticleFlorida: 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...
View ArticleDrunk 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....
View ArticleForgotten 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...
View ArticleBigfoot 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...
View ArticleBurglar 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View Article"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,...
View ArticleWho 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,...
View ArticleRhesus 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...
View ArticleThe 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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