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Carnival 55 of the True Crime Blogs

This week I am honored to bring you the 55th edition of the True Crime Carnival. And while it may not be the most cheerful Christmas present you receive this year, it's bound to be one of the more interesting ones.

So, pull your mouse closer and lets get ready to read some crime blogs.

First up, I'd like to offer you a look at one of my favorite crime blogs- Crime Rant, by true crime authors M. William Phelps and Gregg Olsen. If you haven't seen their blog yet, you've been missing a lot of good reading. They have an interesting follow up to the Judith/ OJ saga in their post
Cold as Ice: Me and Judith Regan’s Office Chair


Crime Scene Blog is looking hard at the Ipswich serial murders, and the suspect that they have recently arrested for the crimes.
From his post:
My first theory, which is just a that currently, is that he may have felt in his own mind that by killing these women he was somehow saving them from a life on the streets. It has been rumored that these women had succumbed to prostitution as a way to support their drug habits.

Perhaps Stephens thought that the only way to protect these women from who he felt was their true enemy, themselves, was to kill them.


I also have a special treat for you, as I welcome Police Download Report to what I believe is their first carival. This weeks entry, Lawsuits don't bring back dead people, is sure to be a good read:
Hanif Haskeem wrote a touching personal story about a police shooting from his perspective as a friend of the victim. He’s right in that the police almost never admit their own responsibility in these tragedies.



Hott on the Trail brings us The Price One Man Paid For Marijuana In Thornton, Colorado Was Way Too High, an interesting and fatal story about a drug deal gone bad.
Tim Marx Jr. paid more than he bargained for when he handed $4,500 to a man in a black Cadillac for some marijuana. When handing over that kind of money for something as risky as drugs, you would think Tim would have known and trusted the man he handed the money too.



Bonnie’s Blog of Crime is presenting the story of Family Annihilator: Robert William Fisher, a tragic and gut wrenching story of a father turned murderer..
Robert Fisher vowed that he would never divorce, as he was a “child of divorce” himself and did not want his children going through it. But his wife, Mary, was already planning on filing for divorce. Robert, a very controlling and cruel man, was not going to stand for it.


Steve Huff at Crimeblog.us has a great write up on his post Teacher at N.J. School Hospitalized:
This morning a teacher at Garfield East Elementary School in Willingboro, NJ opened a letter. She collapsed, and had to be taken to the hospital.

Apparently (according to the AP and MSNBC) there was a powder of some sort in the letter.


LE REVUE GAUCHE, another new comer to the True Crime Carnival has offered up White Collar Crime Reporter 1 for your reading pleasure.
In Canada it is fashionable for Acccounting Companies like Ernest and Young, and KPMG to publish annual reports on corporate fraud, and the losses incurred through white collar crime.


Dr. Deborah Serani, yet another new comer shares her recent collision with the world of crime in her post I'm a Crime Victim:
Today, at one o'clock in the afternoon, two armed men tried to break into my house. A foiled home invasion.


Long time crime blogger Trench dived into Myspace to prepare for his entry to the carnival- Va. Attorney General piles on MySpace:
Another State Attorney Gerneral who doesn't get it jumps on the MySpace scarewagon. This time from the Commonwealth of Virginia…

I can't help but insist that you head over to see his take on the matter.

Home Sweet Home has a special way of reminding us that not all families are as picture perfect as they look, and she does it again with her entry this week- Police aren't talking.
The house was all decorated for Christmas. Tim and Tina Eubanks had a good life. The couple had been married for 9 years. Tim was the director of radiology at a medical center, Tina was a mother and homemaker. They had moved to the area in 2005, and had already made many friends. By all accounts the couple got on well, friends and relatives say they didn’t see anything amiss.



That's it for this weeks edition, but for those who missed last weeks carnival, please stop by Slabtown Chronicale, for Carnival 54 Where Are You?
If you would like to find out more about the carnival or submit an article for an upcoming edition please go here.







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