"All I ever wanted was to love women, and in turn to be loved by them back. Their behavior towards me has only earned my hatred, and rightfully so! I am the true victim in all of this. I am the good guy. Humanity struck at me first by condemning me to experience so much suffering. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. I didn’t start this war… I wasn’t the one who struck first… But I will finish it by striking back. I will punish everyone. … [Read more...]
MURDER IN THE FAMILY, a New York Times Bestselling True Crime Classic by Burl Barer
The Updated eBook-only Version of Edgar Award Winning Author's Shocking Story of Murder and Brutality " ... where for the first time an FBI profiler was allowed to testify and the controversial, pre-DNA science of allotyping was presented to a jury." On March 15th, 1987 police in Anchorage, Alaska arrived at a horrific scene of carnage. In a modest downtown apartment, they found Nancy Newman's brutally beaten corpse sprawled across her … [Read more...]
Author Moved To Tears Writing His True Crime Classic MURDER IN THE FAMILY
On March 15th, 1987 police in Anchorage, Alaska arrived at a horrific scene of carnage. ... ... In a modest downtown apartment, they found Nancy Newman's brutally beaten corpse sprawled across her bed. In other rooms were the bodies of her eight-year-old daughter, Melissa, and her three-year-old, Angie, whose throat was slit from ear to ear. Both Nancy and Melissa had been sexually assaulted. After an intense investigation, the police … [Read more...]
Burl Barer’s MURDER IN THE FAMILY Cover Contest
Help Us Finalize A New Cover For Burl Barer's True Crime Book MURDER IN THE FAMILY Please vote on the cover for Edgar Award Winner Burl Barer's updated edition of his August 2000 New York Times bestselling true crime classic, MURDER IN THE FAMILY, that you think works best for the synopsis below. The synopsis: On March 15th, 1987 police in Anchorage, Alaska arrived at a horrific scene of carnage. In a modest downtown apartment, they … [Read more...]
John Ferak’s FAILURE OF JUSTICE Cover Contest
Help Us Finalize A Cover For John Ferak's New True Crime Book FAILURE OF JUSTICE Please vote on the cover for the John Ferak's true crime book, FAILURE OF JUSTICE: A Brutal Murder, An Obsessed Cop, Six Wrongful Convictions that you think works best for the synopsis below. The synopsis: Feb. 5, 1985 marked one of the coldest nights on record that winter in small-town rural Nebraska. That chilly evening, tenants in one downtown … [Read more...]
Monte Francis on the Cases Behind His New True Crime Book ICE AND BONE
I began reporting on crimes and murder trials as a TV reporter for the NBC affiliate in Fresno, California, KSEE in 1999. During the five years I spent in California’s Central Valley, I had the opportunity to cover a number of high-profile cases. Among them was the trial of Scott Peterson, who was ultimately convicted of murdering his pregnant wife Laci in 2004. Two years prior, I covered the trial of Cary Stayner, the hotel handyman responsible … [Read more...]
Monte Francis: Journalist, writer and award-winning television news reporter
Meet this talented new WildBlue Press true crime author Monte Francis is a journalist and writer based in San Francisco, California. A native of Mentor, Ohio, he has received four Emmy Awards for his television news reports and several awards, including Reporter of the Year, from the Associated Press Television and Radio Association. He has covered several high-profile murder cases and his first book, By Their Father's Hand: The True … [Read more...]
Las Vegas Underworld Story Roars To Life In True Crime Thriller REPEAT OFFENDER
NOW AN AWARD-WINNING MOTION PICTURE! Find out more here! "An action-packed, fast-paced true crime thriller from a real-life 'Sin City' cop depicting his battle with a notorious, and dangerous, Las Vegas criminal."--Steve Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of BOGEYMAN and MONSTER. Book synopsis for REPEAT OFFENDER: Sin City's Most Notorious Criminal and the Cop Who Caught Him: Millions in stolen property, revolting sex … [Read more...]
VAMPIRE Author Talks About “Why I Write True Crime”
Occasionally, folks will ask me why I write true crime. And without missing a beat, I always tell them that before I composed my first sentence describing the murder and mayhem that is such an ever-present reality on our planet, I’d been a student of these strange happenings for over three decades. You see, the first true crime book I ever read was Charles Franklin’s, The World’s Worst Murderers. It was 1965, I was ten years old, and I became … [Read more...]
