Maybe the youngest son of a violent criminal named Hoggy Thompson was born a beast. Maybe rage was beaten into him. One thing was certain, by the time he reached manhood, Jerry Thompson was a savage killer. He had no conscience about rape, child molestation, or thrashing a dozen men in a prison fight. Once he got his hands on a gun, any target would do. He didn't leave witnesses. When he terrorized an entire courtroom and offered to rip … [Read more...]
HOW NOW, BUTTERFLY? A Mother’s Struggle After Her Son Murders Her 4-Year-Old Daughter
Losing a young daughter to murder is the worst nightmare that a mother could possibly imagine, but what if the killer was her son? Charity Lee was thrust into this unimaginable situation when her 13-year-old son Paris murdered her beloved 4-year-old daughter, Ella. Charity goes through intense grief at the loss of her daughter, while at the same time trying to understand why her son would have done something as horrific as this, and how she … [Read more...]
Christian Barth
Author Christian Barth I never set out to become a writer. When I graduated from college I was a directionless and unmarketable young man with a political science degree. Fresh off two stage productions, for a brief time I entertained delusional fantasies of moving to Hollywood and becoming an actor, but for the next two years what theatrical aspirations I’d secretly harbored were subsumed by the ebb and flow of what we do before we discover … [Read more...]
Charity Lee
Charity LeePhoto Credit: Ben Easter Charity Lee is the daughter of a murdered father, daughter of an acquitted mother, mother of a murdered daughter, and mother of a murderer... In 1980, her father was murdered in the family home. Her mother was subsequently charged with, tried for, and acquitted of, murder-for-hire in his death. During her youth and young adulthood, she coped with mental health and addiction issues, … [Read more...]
Ori Spado Tells About His Journey With The Mafia In THE ACCIDENTAL GANGSTER
Author Orlando (Ori) Spado honestly recounts his humble beginnings from the small town of Rome in upstate New York to becoming known as The Mob Boss of Hollywood. A candid account documenting his fall from a well-known Hollywood fixer mixing with A list celebrities to serving 62 months in Federal prison, and ultimately making a determined comeback. From The Book: A voice hollered, “Orlando Spado, this is the FBI. Open the door or we’ll … [Read more...]
Ori Spado Reminisces On His Time In Hollywood
Author Ori Spado As usual, I awoke thinking. I think constantly and often think of myself as The Thinker by Rodin, actually I had a statue of it on my desk for many years until my arrest and I do not know what happened to it after that. I guess everyone loses almost everything when they are arrested and do time. I actually think about everything I do. I think every job or scam out completely, and I always put myself in the other person’s … [Read more...]
SURVIVAL Photo Gallery
Photos from Vinnie Curto and Dennis Griffin's new book SURVIVAL … [Read more...]
New From Bestselling Author Michael Fleeman MISSING … AND PRESUMED DEAD
On a cold Southern night in 2013 under a full moon, 20-year-old Heather Elvis parked her car at a boat ramp along the Intracoastal Waterway and was never seen again. The disappearance of the beautiful, vivacious hostess at a popular Myrtle Beach, South Carolina restaurant made international headlines and triggered a sweeping high-stakes investigation that exposed a twisted web of deception, betrayal, sexual … [Read more...]
THE ACCIDENTAL GANGSTER Photo Gallery
Photos From Ori Spado's New Book THE ACCIDENTAL GANGSTER … [Read more...]
Author Glen Meek Talks About an Unlikely Intersection of Nuclear Testing and Organized Crime (Sort Of)
For thirty years, I covered crime and punishment as a television reporter in Las Vegas. Naturally, organized crime cases were part of that coverage. But, along with crime and courts, I also had another, very unusual beat: atomic testing. In the mid 1980s, before the US and Russia signed a treaty banning underground nuclear detonations (above ground testing had ended in 1963) there were usually several atom bomb tests each year in … [Read more...]
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