Once again, it is my pleasure to host the Carnival of True Crime Blogs. If you haven't browsed around the True Crime Blogs before, now would be an excellent time to start, as the blogroll includes some of today's best bloggers, with a passion for informing others about the dangers that lurk around the corner. And special thanks to our community carnival image maker- Harding from TO Crime, for the lovely display you see here.
Historic Crime Blogger Laura James may be on a small hiatus from her blog, but she kindly left us enough reading material to keep us on our toes. May I suggest taking a look at her recent interview, Clews Interviews True Crime Author Glenn Puit? As always, Laura does an excellent job, and makes for a interesting read.
Trench from the Trenchcoat Chronicles looks into the possible motive behind Robin Kittrell's recent appearance at school, where Kittrell showed up with an arsenal of weapons.
The Girls at Southern Sass have put out a welcome mat for hate mail, in their post "GO Ahead, Bring on the Hate Mail" Of course, leave it to the girls to point out that the ones really deserving of hate mail are all these "parents" who have made headlines by molesting, beating or murdering their children lately.
Slabtown Chronicle has presented a most interesting case of murders who almost committed the perfect crime. However, not even the blood of an innocent man is enough to keep some marriages together, and apparently someone forgot to inform the murdering soon to be ex husband that nothing burns like the wrath of a woman scorned.
The Year Around, a newer member of the Crime Blogs, presents us with the unkind tale of a woman, a man, and a murder of a bailiff.
Coquette and prostitute–called an ‘unmoral woman’ by her doctor, a ‘little demon’ by French detectives, and ‘that serpent’ by her lover–was Gabrielle Bompard really an unwitting accomplice to a murder, or did she use her feminine wiles to accomplish the death of her victim? While the case provides a fascinating example of one of the first effective uses of forensic anthropology, the question of Gabrielle’s complicity is more difficult to answer.
Harding, of TO Crime relates a story of what happens when law enforcement lacks the ablity to deal with problems within a community, and the way that their lack of ability tends to promote vigliante amongor amoung citizens desiring to "clean up" the streets.
As in the Grand Manan case, police do not have the resources to deal with the problem. I saw an interview with an island resident who said that the drug dealer in question had been arrestedÂ… but was relegated to house arrest only. This, actually, helped the dealer to conduct his business, because his clients knew he would always be at home. But police handsÂ’ were tied. There was nothing they could do.
This is why the people took action.
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