Law-abiding Citizen Uses Gun to Save Innocent Lives
Excerpt from the Preface of Guns and Self-Defense: 23 Inspirational True Crime Stories of Survival with FirearmsBy Robert A. Waters and Sim WatersOn June 2, 2017, in Ada, Oklahoma, David Cash Freeman...
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The Flag that Wouldn't BurnBy Robert A. WatersIt was just another afternoon in April, just another spring day and another baseball game. The Chicago Cubs, losers extraordinaire for decades, faced the...
View ArticleWhy Does Anyone Need an AR-15?
VIDEO shows store owner using “assault weapon” to save his lifeBy Robert A. WatersMore firepowerHardcore. That’s how cops described a gang of violent thieves who terrorized Milwaukee business owners...
View ArticleReleased Juvenile Slayer Kills Again
“The Sweetest Little Person…and a Time Bomb.”By Robert A. Waters On June 10, 1992, ninety-year-old Mary Haddon perished when a young teen bludgeoned her to death. Her quiet neighborhood on Chapel Hill...
View ArticleThe Lost Son
The Bible has hundreds, if not thousands, of great stories. There's Samson, whose lust for a wicked woman caused his horrific downfall. There's the beautiful teen Salome, whose wanton dance for her...
View ArticleThe Dari Mart Murder
"We were all into evil..."By Robert A. WatersOn April 10, 1994, just before 11:00 p.m., four teens entered the Dari Mart convenience store on Royal Avenue in Eugene, Oregon. Michael James Hayward, 19,...
View ArticleThe Greenwood Park Mall Shooting
Elisha DickenThe Kill KitBy Robert A. WatersOn the afternoon of July 18, 2022, Jonathan Douglas Sapirman put in place his plan to slaughter dozens of innocents. He lived less than a half mile from his...
View ArticleA Murder in Redlands
The Girl He KilledBy Robert A. WatersOn the evening of August 19, 1952, sixteen-year-old Kathryn Knodel sat in her Redlands, California home watching television. Her stepfather, Erwin Knodel, was at...
View ArticleRichard Allen's Defense Team Releases Statement in the Delphi Murder Case
I don't know whether Richard Allen is guilty or innocent of the murders of Liberty German and Abigail Williams. But I do think the defense should have as much right to speak publicly about the case as...
View ArticleExecution Date Set for Mississippi Killer Thomas Edwin Loden, Jr.
The StrangerWritten by Robert A. WatersNote: Some content in this story is graphic. Just a warning!On June 22, 2000, at 10:30 p.m., sixteen-year-old Leesa Marie Gray left Comer's Restaurant in Dorsey,...
View ArticleA Serial Killer in Jacksonville?
The VanishingsBy Robert A. WatersJacksonville, Florida. 1974. With a population of slightly more than 500,000 souls, murders were not rare, but the abduction and killing of pre-teen children was almost...
View ArticleThe Hidden Life of Nursery Rhymes
Secrets Kept from ChildrenBy Robert A. WatersBaa, baa black sheep, have you any wool?Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full.One for my master, one for the dame,One for the little boy who lives down the...
View ArticleThe Sad Life of John Stith Pemberton, Inventor of Coca-Cola
A Pain with no EndBy Robert A. WatersWhat would it be like to become severely wounded during the last battle of a war that had already ended? Wounded so badly that the chronic pain lasts a lifetime....
View ArticleThe Paperboy Murder
Joseph "Joey" DidierWhy was this fiend walking the streets?By Robert A. WatersJoey's last words hung in the air like a nightmare: "Please don't hang me." Robert Lower kidnapped Joseph "Joey" Didier at...
View ArticleEl Paso Mall Shooter Taken Down by Concealed Carry Holder
Investigation Continues on Shooting at Cielo Vista Mall(News release published by El Paso Police Department - February 15, 2023)El Paso, Texas - The El Paso Police Department continues the...
View ArticleStudent Attacks Teacher's Aide at Florida School (VIDEO)
GRAPHIC VIDEO - Be forewarnedOn February 21, 2023, Brendan J. Depa allegedly assaulted Joan Naydich, teacher's aide at Matanzas High School in Palm Coast, Florida. Depa, who stands six-feet-six inches...
View ArticleAll the Pretty Little Girls
Mary ProulxKiller of ChildrenThe May 6, 1936 edition of the Boston Globe reported that "James H. Folsom, confessed slayer of 12-year-old Annie K. Knights of Fairfield and 7-year-old Mary Proulx of...
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Book ReviewDeaf RowA Mystery Novel by Ron FranscellReview by Robert A. WatersBy the second paragraph of Deaf Row, I was invested. When retired Denver detective Woodrow “Mountain” Bell visits a nursing...
View ArticleCase of the Doll-like Corpse
Murder of a “Government Girl”By Robert A. WatersBy October, 1944, the momentum in World War II had begun to shift to the Allies. Yet, with hundreds of American soldiers still dying every day, the...
View ArticleEngineer in 1890 Train Derailment is Immortalized in Song
Story of the Folk Song “Engine One-Forty-Three”By Robert A. WatersTrains have always thrilled the hearts of songwriters. “Wabash Cannonball,” “Casey Jones,” “Wreck of the Old ’97,” “Folsom Prison...
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