Someone pounding on the car windows tore her out of her sleep. Angie* had tired out and left the pub early. She and her buddies had driven there in her friend’s car, but Angie didn’t want them all to leave just because of her. So her friend gave...
A dead man drinking a cocktail The blood drained from my upper body. Dr. X stood before me, a cocktail in one hand, very much alive. But Rick had told me he’d died earlier in the year. Without question, one of the most awkward social situations...
When bargeman Charles Humphreys and his mate leaned over the gunwale to hook the floating parcel and pull it aboard, the last thing they expected to find inside was a dead baby. Humphreys had been navigating his barge upstream on the River...
Betrayed by her boots When she pulled the trigger, the last thing Nancy Clem thought about was her boots. In 1868, she and an accomplice murdered Jacob and Nancy Jane Young in a riverside park northwest of Indianapolis. They’d owed the couple...
A daring jump The night lights of Vienna swayed 12,500 feet beneath him as Gerald Blanchard perched at the airplane hatch. Once the Schönbrunn Palace came into sight, he signaled the pilot to slow down. Then Blanchard adjusted his parachute one last...
What would you do if you had clues to a murder no one else knew about? And what if you knew the authorities wouldn’t believe you? Would you still try to preserve your information? Even worse, if the case involved the murder of a U.S. president, your...
A new clue on a bullet With his scalpel, the doctor carefully traced the wound track through the dead man’s body. It entered the man’s left chest and traveled downward. The bullet had passed the third rib, sliced through the right side of the...
Historians are a bit like detectives. They sift through evidence, weigh it, and try to leave no stone unturned. But when they publish their results, they’re a bit like lawyers. They need to be objective enough to gain the credibility of the judge...
An Interview with Author Kim Murphy Every once in a while, a book comes along that shifts the tectonic plates in my understanding of history. I used to practice law and was the prosecutor for parole revocation hearings in a ten-country region...
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