About The Book Coming February 14, 2023 Retired from a big-city homicide beat to a small Colorado mountain town, ex-detective Woodrow "Mountain" Bell yearns only to fade away. He's failed in so many ways as a father, a husband, friend, and cop that it might be too late for a meaningful life. When he stumbles across a long-forgotten, unsolved child murder, his first impulse is to let it lie … but he can't. He's drawn into the macabre mystery … [Read more...]
GOING UNDER
Going Under by John Madinger is a Unique and Often Humorous Look at A Life Undercover "I just want to make sure I've got this right. You hanged all three of them?" That's how it began, a case where the cops are crooks and the crooks are cops, a kidnapping where the victim is the bad guy, and the good guys must cross some lines to get him back. Welcome to the upside down and backward world of the undercover agent, where nothing is as it seems, … [Read more...]
John Madinger
WildBlue Press Author I joined the drug war in 1974 as a sheriff's deputy, then served as a narcotics agent, supervisor, and administrator and a special agent/criminal investigator with the U.S. Department of the Treasury before hitting mandatory retirement age in 2010. I spent fifteen years of that time in undercover assignments from Florida to Honolulu and worked major fraud and money laundering cases, becoming one of the country's leading … [Read more...]
THE TUSKEGEE STRANGLER: The “Nicest” Serial Killer They Ever Met
Jerry Marcus fooled them all. He was “a nice guy,” always helped at home, did well in school, an athlete, and always employed. When things went wrong, he was the first to help clean up the mess. He was the last person anyone suspected of being a serial killer.After Marcus was caught and sentenced to life in prison in the late ’70s, author Linda Lou Long spent years corresponding with him. The Tuskegee Strangler gives an inside look into … [Read more...]
TERROR TOWN, USA
During the early morning hours of July 17, 1983, fatigue became a factor for the young couple from central Illinois who spent their day under the hot sun at Marriott’s Great America amusement park north of Chicago. On their drive home, the tired teenagers pulled to the shoulder of Interstate 55 to get a restful sleep. As the teens slept inside their car under the moon and the stars, a dangerous force of evil lurked in the shadows, parking … [Read more...]
Should a Serial Killer Be Set Free?
I knew the stakes when I wrote KILLING WOMEN: The True Story of Serial Killer Don Miller's Reign of Terror. I also know that absent a change in the law, serial killer Don Miller is going to be released from prison in 2031. How could that be? A convicted serial killer, now having been in prison for forty-plus years, released to an unsuspecting public? It's important to understand that Michigan serial killer Don Miller is not in prison for murder. … [Read more...]
How Thirty Years Of Law Enforcement Resulted In KILLING WOMEN
I’ve had a lot of people ask what prompted me to begin writing. The truth is that this all started as a genealogical project many years ago. As a retired law enforcement officer, early in my career I worked for a college police department. We received our police authority from the county sheriff’s office. My dad would remind me that in 1897 (yes, 1897), my great-great grandfather was the sheriff of the same county I was … [Read more...]
KILLING WOMEN: The True Story of Serial Killer Don Miller’s Reign of Terror
Will A Serial Killer Soon Walk The Streets Again? Don Miller was quiet and reserved. As a former youth pastor, he seemed a devout Christian. No one would have ever suspected that the recent graduate of the Michigan State University School of Criminal Justice was a serial killer. However, when Miller was arrested for the attempted murder of two teenagers in 1978, police quickly realized he was probably responsible for the … [Read more...]
Book Trailer for Killing Women
True Crime Book trailer for Killing Women: The True Story of Serial Killer Don Miller's Reign of Terror by Rod Sadler. Available in ebook and paperback: wbp.bz/killingwomena Rod Sadler takes us through the twisted world of a serial killer, in a labor of love that pays respect to those lives the monster destroyed and reminding us why they should never be forgotten and he should never be free." - Dave Schrader, host of Darkness Radio and True … [Read more...]
Book Trailer for FIRST DEGREE RAGE by Paula May
Official book trailer for the true crime book, First Degree Rage by Paula May. Learn more and get your copy here: wbp.bz/fdra Available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook. "There was no brown in his eyes at all. They were just two black buttons. I looked in his eyes. All I saw was solid black against the whites. It wasn’t natural. It was… creepy, unnerving, demonic." - Detective Paula May Terrifying things are happening to Kay Weden, a … [Read more...]
