Those of you who may have missed this Investigation Discovery show "Most Evil" that featured three killers, including David E Penton, the Investigation Discovery Show "Most Evil" Featured The Bogeyman David Penton serial child-killer from my book BOGEYMAN: He Was Every Parent's Nightmare can Watch It Here. The Penton segment starts at minute 28 and takes up the rest of the hour-long show that featured interviews with myself, Steve Jackson, and … [Read more...]
Suspense Magazine: REPEAT OFFENDER By Bradley Nickell “Fascinating As Any Novel”
Another great media review for REPEAT OFFENDER: Sin City's Most Prolific Criminal and the Cop Who Caught Him, has just rolled in. Mark P. Sadler, the author of BLOOD ON HIS HANDS, had this to say writing for Suspense Magazine: "There are some criminals out there that are habitual hard-core offenders. Nickell, a Las Vegas detective in the covert unit known as the Repeat Offender Program, or ROP, shares with us one such character, Daimon Monroe, … [Read more...]
Las Vegas Columnist Calls REPEAT OFFENDER “an impressive writing debut”
Glenn Cook, the senior editorial writer for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, had this to say Monday, April 20, about Bradley Nickell's first true crime book REPEAT OFFENDER: Sin City's Most Prolific Criminal and the Cop Who Caught Him: "Local libraries have no shortage of Southern Nevada true crime stories, many of them written by valley journalists. But the latest book in the genre comes from a writer with a far different background. Bradley … [Read more...]
NecroSearch Members Loan Expertise, Hearts, and Minds To Justice And Victims
From The Foreword of NO STONE UNTURNED: The True Story of the World's Premier Forensic Investigators by Steve Jackson In 1988, several criminalists and other scientists sat down in a Denver-area restaurant and came up with the idea of burying pigs to study changes to the environment caused by the graves and their contents. Disturbed by what they’d witnessed of outdated techniques for locating clandestine burial sites and the recovery of the … [Read more...]
The Humanity Behind the Science at NecroSearch International
Working on updates for the eBook and audiobook release of my 2002 true crime book NO STONE UNTURNED: The True Story of the World’s Premier Forensic Investigators has given me the opportunity to revisit some of the stories about NecroSearch International. How they got started. How they evolved. Their early “failures” (though as learning experiences they weren’t thought of as failures) and the success stories that put them on the map with law … [Read more...]
Smooth Talking Serial Killer Subject Of True Crime By NYT Bestseller Steve Jackson
As seen on Investigation Discovery's Epic Mysteries series-from the New York Times bestselling author who "writes with muscle and heart" (Gregg Olsen, #1 New York Times bestselling author). One morning in July 1974, Anita Andrews, the owner and bartender at Fagiani's Cocktail Lounge in Napa, California, was found dead in her bar-raped, beaten, and stabbed to death in a bloody frenzy. Meanwhile a month after Anita's … [Read more...]
Classic True Crime NO STONE UNTURNED Now An eBook And Audio Book Featuring “Where Are They Now?” Updates
The Story Of "The World's Premier Forensic Investigators" By New York Times Bestselling Author Steve Jackson Catches Up On Cases More than a dozen years have passed since my true crime book NO STONE UNTURNED was released in print. At the time, NecroSearch International, the inspirational and eclectic group of scientists and law enforcement investigators described in the book, were little known outside of the few agencies who had come into … [Read more...]
Symposium Takes True Crime Author Back To Scene From NO STONE UNTURNED
Reflections On The Ripple Effect of Violent Crime, Michele Wallace, and Serial Killer Roy Melanson In The Mountains of Colorado In March, I had the great privilege of presenting lectures to several sociology/criminology classes at Western State Colorado University in Gunnison, Colorado, and then giving the keynote speech for the 9th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium at the university. The class lectures centered on a power point … [Read more...]
Catch The WildBlue Press Author Series On Shattered Lives Radio With Donna Gore
Listen to the archived radio interviews from the WildBlue Press Author Series. Authors included Steve Jackson, John Ferak, Kevin Sullivan, Burl Barer, Caitlin Rother, Ron Franscell, Bradley Nickell and Carolina Sarassa discussing their books and writing with host Donna Gore on Shattered Lives Radio. Then find the books you'll be wanting to read at wildbluepress.com. … [Read more...]
Membership In NecroSearch International A Proud Moment In Crime Author’s Career
I wrote the first edition of NO STONE UNTURNED: The True Story of the World's Premier Forensic Investigators in 2001 and it was published a year later. I'd first met several of its members a few years earlier while working on my first true crime book, MONSTER. They'd been working with Detective Scott Richardson, then of the Lakewood Police Department, to help find the clandestine grave of murder victim Cher Elder and recover her remains. Order … [Read more...]
