MJonCrime

Joined October 2023

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My 30-year law enforcement career fuels my interest in true crime writing. My writing extends my investigative mindset, offers comprehensive case overviews, and invites you, my readers, to engage in pursuing truth and resolution.

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The Confession Room
Here we go again, folks. My next attempt at True Crime poetry. “ All I heard was, “I Did It” In the interrogation room, hush, my coffee goes cold.
By MJonCrime4 days ago in Poets
Inside the Cold Case Foundation: The Volunteer Unit Taking On the Murders Time Forgot
When the Phone Stops Ringing “You know the sound of a cold case? It’s not the dramatic clicking of handcuffs the thud of the gavel or a siren wailing in the distance. It’s silence.” The Author, Matthew Jack
By MJonCrime11 days ago in Criminal
The Sentence Without a Cell
They set a place at dinner still, though years have turned the chair to stone. The phone might ring. It never will. The case grows cold. They wait until.
By MJonCrime15 days ago in Poets
Watching Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers Through a Cop’s Eyes. Content Warning.
I spent thirty years carrying a badge, chasing shadows, and cleaning up messes. Homicides, trafficking, organized crime, the kind of stuff that sticks to your shoes. I’m off the clock now, but the job never really leaves you. You still look at everything like it’s a crime scene, always asking: What’s the real story here? And what are they trying to hide?
By MJonCrime28 days ago in Criminal
Ethical True Crime Tourism: How to Visit Places of Harm Without Making More of It
Hello all, I am back. I have been traveling this beautiful country of ours, so that’s why I went dark. During my travels, I had a thought. Is it time to write a detailed article on “True Crime Tourism”? I have written a small article on this topic before. However, I think it’s time to lay out my thoughts and research in a more detailed article. So with that said, let’s do this. Let me set a picture for you all.
By MJonCrime3 months ago in Criminal
Crimes That Stopped Us Cold: Shocking Cases Rocking America and Beyond This Week
Every week I dig through the news, looking for the cases that cut through the noise—the ones that leave neighbors whispering over coffee and jurors wide-eyed in court. These aren’t just headlines. They’re snapshots of fear, betrayal, greed, and sometimes just plain madness. From small-town secrets to crimes that spark global outrage, here’s the week’s true crime digest, laid bare.
By MJonCrime4 months ago in Criminal
🔪 “Murder, Deception, and DNA: Chilling True Crime Round-Up
The ink on police reports barely dries before the internet sets them ablaze. This week, the dark side of humanity showed up in a Nevada desert, a Florida courtroom, on Gilgo Beach in Long Island, New York, and in a devastated Pennsylvania community. And the public? They can’t get enough, dissecting these stories online with outrage, morbid fascination, or hard-earned cynicism. Here’s this week's crime file.
By MJonCrime4 months ago in Criminal
Alejandro Henriquez - The Bronx Serial Killer: Guilty or Innocent? | A Deep Dive into the Crimes, the Trial, and the Mystery
The Bronx has always carried a certain edge. I felt that edge as a young Special Agent working fugitive cases in those Bronx neighborhoods. Anyone who's walked its blocks long enough knows the rhythm — kids chalking sidewalks, mothers watching from windows, men leaning on stoops while the hum of traffic and sirens fills the air. It's a place that survives, even when the world writes it off. But survival turned into suspicion in the late '80s and early '90s, when young girls started vanishing from streets that should have been safe.
By MJonCrime4 months ago in Criminal
True Crime Past Week: Murders, Heists, and Haunting Cold Cases Making Headlines
The last week of August carried a mix of blood, betrayal, and big reveals. From a new batch of true crime documentaries to cold case breaks to online predators. Even an international heist story rekindling whispers of a criminal brotherhood, these cases didn’t just fill column inches — they sparked arguments at diner counters, tables, and booths, and flooded YouTube comment threads. This digest cuts through the noise and lays out the cases as they unfolded: the suspects, the victims, the oddities, and the shadows left behind.
By MJonCrime4 months ago in Criminal
True Crime Weekly Digest: Ambush, Triple Homicide, and the Fugitive Dragnet
I don't chase headlines; I follow the footprints they leave. After three decades on the job, I learned to read what a story hides — the neighbor who remembers one detail, the stationhouse blotter that won't quit, the way a small town shuts down when two police officers don't come home. This week hands us hard facts and quieter threads: an ambush in a Utah town that cost two officers their lives, a brutal triple slaying in a high desert pocket of Los Angeles County, and a string of fugitive arrests that show how jurisdictional stitches finally hold.
By MJonCrime5 months ago in Criminal
The Hazel Drew Mystery and Its Shadow Over Twin Peaks
The Hazel Drew Mystery and the Twin Peaks Connection In July of 1908, a young woman named Hazel Drew was found dead, floating in Teal’s Pond in Sand Lake, New York. She was twenty years old, and her unexplained death sparked a frenzy of newspaper stories, community gossip, and investigative missteps that clouded the truth rather than clarified it. I’ve been around homicide cases long enough to know—when a small-town murder lasts more than a century without a conviction, it isn’t because there are no suspects. It’s because there are too many, and every one of them carries a story people don’t want retold.
By MJonCrime5 months ago in Criminal
🔪 Blood in the Headlines: A True Crime Weekly Digest
Every week, new crimes punch their way into the headlines, each one a reminder that human nature doesn’t always play by the rules. Some of these stories unfold in crowded malls or quiet suburbs, others in daycare centers or behind the glow of a livestream—but they all leave the same trail: grief, anger, changed lives, and unanswered questions. Always unanswered questions. What follows isn’t just a rundown of violence for violence’s sake. It’s a look at how communities cope under pressure, how justice stumbles forward, and how ordinary people get caught in the crossfire.
By MJonCrime5 months ago in Criminal

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The Confession Room

Inside the Cold Case Foundation: The Volunteer Unit Taking On the Murders Time Forgot

The Sentence Without a Cell

Watching Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers Through a Cop’s Eyes. Content Warning.

Ethical True Crime Tourism: How to Visit Places of Harm Without Making More of It

Crimes That Stopped Us Cold: Shocking Cases Rocking America and Beyond This Week

🔪 “Murder, Deception, and DNA: Chilling True Crime Round-Up

Alejandro Henriquez - The Bronx Serial Killer: Guilty or Innocent? | A Deep Dive into the Crimes, the Trial, and the Mystery

True Crime Past Week: Murders, Heists, and Haunting Cold Cases Making Headlines

True Crime Weekly Digest: Ambush, Triple Homicide, and the Fugitive Dragnet

The Hazel Drew Mystery and Its Shadow Over Twin Peaks

🔪 Blood in the Headlines: A True Crime Weekly Digest

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