Bonus stories, photos, videos, and original artwork related to CHAINED BIRDS, can be found on the author's website at https://carlajeanconti. com (scan the QR code at right). For alerts on new CHAINED BIRDS bonus material and to learn of future book releases by Carla Conti, sign up for the author's newsletter on her blog. For more news about the author, and to discover more great true crime books, subscribe to the WildBlue Press newsletter at … [Read more...]
LOU AND JONBENET Netflix documentary
I am excited to announce, that on Monday, November 25, 2024, Netflix will be releasing a new documentary based in part on my book, published by WildBlue Press, LOU AND JONBENET, A Legendary Lawman's Quest to Solve the Murder of a Child Beauty Queen. This three-episode documentary, titled Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey, was directed by Joe Berlinger, who is well-known for his award-winning true crime docuseries and documentaries. This is … [Read more...]
Photo Gallery – The ‘Baby Doll’ Serial Killer
COPYRIGHT NOTICE The images on this page are copyrighted and are specifically for use in "The 'Baby Doll' Serial Killer," B.R. Bates, 2024. Any other use of these photos is strictly prohibited. This is a supplemental photo gallery in support of the book THE 'BABY DOLL' SERIAL KILLER: The John Eric Armstrong Homicides by B.R. Bates with Gerald Cliff, PhD. Monica Johnson For their encounter, Monica Johnson suggested to her … [Read more...]
An Exclusive Inside Look into the Robert Telles Murder Trial in “THE LAST STORY: The Murder of an Investigative Journalist in Las Vegas” by Arthur Kane
Kane delivers a compelling story... [that] skillfully leads readers through [Jeff German's] homicide investigation that reveals a surprise suspect charged with the killing of a journalist who made plenty of enemies for his exposes of crime and corruption in America's fabled Sin City." -BRIAN ROSS, Chief Investigative Reporter, Law & Crime Network, former correspondent at NBC News, former investigative reporter at ABC News and author of The … [Read more...]
One Year Later in Lewiston
We've reached the one-year anniversary of the tragic Lewiston, Maine shootings on October 25, 2023, and the fallout continues in a steady drumbeat of proposed laws, official investigation reports, political elections, and legal action. The solemn occasion will be marked by a commemoration event at the Colisee on October 25, 2024 honoring victims, survivors, first responders, medical personnel and all those who have banded … [Read more...]
In LOU AND JONBENÉT, Author John Wesley Anderson Reveals the Inside Story of the Failed Police Investigation Into the Kidnapping and Murder of JonBenét Ramsey
On Christmas Night 1996, six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was murdered in her family's home in Boulder, Colorado. A ransom note was found in the home, but it was hours before her father, John, found her body in the basement. She had been strangled with a garrote and her skull was fractured. The media sensationalized the tragic death of the "child beauty queen" and public speculation and rumors ran rampant. What followed was one of the most … [Read more...]
Why Tell This Tragic Story?
Since writing the book, The Lewiston Shootings: An All-American Tragedy, I've been asked a number of times why I chose to write about this horrible event. I've also been questioned on social media for doing so and it's been suggested that I've capitalized on others' pain to profit for myself. The emphasis on my motivations for writing the book, rather than on the issues raised about why it happened and what can be done to prevent it from … [Read more...]
Lewiston Commission Final Report: “Several Opportunities Might Have Changed the Course of Events” (But Don’t Ask For Solutions)
After nine months of subpoenaing witnesses and documents and listening to a wide range of testimony during sixteen public hearings, the Independent Commission To Investigate the Facts of the Tragedy in Lewiston issued its final report on August 20th. The 215-page report, while substantive in details that led to the failure to stop Robert Card II from killing eighteen Mainers on October 25, 2023, did not make any recommendations on how to fix … [Read more...]
NEW AUDIOBOOK AVAILABLE NOW! In THE LEWISTON SHOOTINGS, Robert Conlin Chronicles The Personal Stories Of A Deeply Scarred Community
Never again could anyone say, "It will never happen here." Because it did. October 25, 2023 was just an ordinary night in Lewiston, a small, working class city of 37,000 in central Maine. Friends and families had gathered to do what they loved to do with the people they wanted to be with at a bowling alley called Just-in-Time Recreation Center and Schemengees, a popular sports bar and restaurant. They felt immune from the violent crime … [Read more...]
In Memory of Elizabeth Short, Otherwise Known as “Black Dhalia”
July 29, 2024 marked the centenary of Elizabeth Short's birth. Born in Boston, Beth, as she often preferred to be called, was the middle child of Cleo and Phoebe Short. She had four sisters: Virginia, Dorothea, Elnora, and Muriel. In 1930, Cleo's miniature golf course business tanked. He positioned his car close to a bridge to create the appearance of suicide. A houseful of women has its comforts, but Cleo's abandonment appears to have profoundly … [Read more...]
