The Watch Stands As Written: Voices From The Midwatch

By Michael Cordova | July 3, 2026

From Midnight Watch to History: The Navy’s Most Unique Tradition It’s January 1, 1926, 0300 hours aboard USS Idaho (BB 42) anchored in San Pedro Harbor, California. The night is dark, the midwatch duty, from midnight to 4 a.m., is long and lonely. A young ensign, E. V. Dockweiler, the Officer of the Deck, must enter the ship’s […]

SERIAL CITY: Detroit and the Hunt for Multiple Serial Predators

By Michael Cordova | June 30, 2026

The True Story of Detroit Being Overrun by Multiple Serial Predators at the same time. At the turn of the twenty-first century, Detroit investigators faced a nightmare few police divisions ever encounter: multiple serial predators operating at the same time, in the same city, often targeting vulnerable victims in overlapping neighborhoods. To the public, the […]

FIRST LADY OF MURDER – The Ann Rule Biography by Cathy Scott

By Michael Cordova | May 19, 2026

The Untold Story of America’s Queen of True Crime Ann Rule became America’s queen of true crime by doing what few writers could: stepping past headlines, police reports, and courtroom drama to ask the deeper question. Why? In FIRST LADY OF MURDER, acclaimed true crime author Cathy Scott turns that same investigative eye on Rule […]