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Kyle Jacobs, songwriter and Kellie Pickler's husband, died at 49, apparently by suicide.
The apparent suicide death of Kyle Jacobs, a songwriter and the husband of country music star and former "American Idol" contestant Kellie Pickler. The 49-year-old Jacobs was discovered dead inside the couple's Nashville-area home on Friday, and the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department said that his death is being investigated as an apparent suicide.
By Elle 3 years ago in Criminal
The Prodigy Hacker by The Narrative Ninja
A fictional story about a teenage hacker named Max: Max was a typical high school student, with one exception: he was a hacker. Max loved spending his free time hacking into computer systems, taking them apart and figuring out how they worked. He spent hours poring over lines of code, always searching for the next big hack.
By The Narrative Ninja 3 years ago in Criminal
The Time Clock Conspiracy
Emma had always been fascinated by the old time clock in the town square. She remembered being entranced by its ticking and whirring as a child, and as she grew up, she found herself drawn back to it time and time again. There was something about the clock that held a mysterious power over her, and as she stood before it on this particular evening, she felt that power stronger than ever.
By AHSAN EZAZI3 years ago in Criminal
DAHMER BY RYAN MURPHY LINKS QUEERNESS TO MONSTROSITY
What happens when a true crime story about Jeffrey Dahmer is combined with the style of Murphy's brand and his straight-up pandering? I was sixteen years old and having issues with my sexuality when Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested in 1991.
By Elle 3 years ago in Criminal
HOW DO YOU PREVENT EXPLOITATION WHEN FICTIONALIZING REAL CRIME?
Character studies with a crime hook are my favourite types of thrillers. They are narratives about people's deeds, responses, behaviours, and feelings against the backdrop of a gripping mystery. They focus on characters first and crime second. Great examples include books like The Girls by Emma Cline, which features a Manson-like cult; Whisper Network by Chandler Baker, which features a #MeToo-like storyline; and Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll, which features a Columbine-like shooting.
By Elle 3 years ago in Criminal
WARREN G. HARDING: DIRECTLY OUT OF A COEN BROTHERS' MOVIE: 100 YEARS SINCE THE DEATH OF A PRESIDENT
Warren G. Harding: Straight Out of a Coen Brothers Movie 100 Years After a President's Death Did the widespread corruption and incompetence of the Harding Administration pave the way for a new century of politics? "We are the forgettable, adequate American interim presidents.
By Elle 3 years ago in Criminal
THE 1934 SMITH FAMILY MASSACRE IN DEMOPOLIS, ALABAMA: "THEY JUST WEREN'T THE KIND OF PEOPLE FOR THAT"
on "an appalling family tragedy" that turned up again in a 1944 mystery book. 1. The Death of the Smith Family, composed of Frank Clements and Elsie Hildreth, in 1934 Although the investigation revealed that the Smiths frequently left windows and doors unlocked at night, the coroner added that there was no evidence that the house had been forcedly entered.
By Elle 3 years ago in Criminal
A 19th-century sex cult's founding in upstate New York
John Humphrey Noyes was a shy and reserved young man before he discovered religion and founded his own utopian, open-marriage cult. When he was younger, John Humphrey Noyes was so agonisingly shy that he could hardly stand to be around women. He recorded in his diary, "I could face a battery of cannon with less trepidation than a room full of ladies with whom I was unfamiliar." He was the fourth of nine children born in 1811 on the frontier of Vermont to former congressman John Noyes Sr. and flame-haired Polly Hayes, whose nephew, the frail, underweight Rutherford B. Hayes, would go on to become the nation's nineteenth president. John Humphrey was a bright student who entered Dartmouth College at the age of fifteen.
By Elle 3 years ago in Criminal
MOST GLAMOROUS GANG IN LONDON HISTORY
"On Alice Diamond, Queen of Thieves, and her "girls" from The Forty Thieves, who stole their way to notoriety in the first half of the twentieth century," according to the citation. The tall, fashionable woman lingered next to a rack of fur coats in an upscale department store in London, her diamond rings glistening as her fingers caressed the most opulent sable.
By Elle 3 years ago in Criminal
THE REAL-LIFE MYSTERY BEHIND EDGAR ALLAN POE'S "THE BLACK CAT"
The bones were discovered by George Stebbins while he was tearing down a stone wall in the cellar of his house in Northfield, Massachusetts. The bones of the head, spine, arms, and legs all emerged first. The fact that the remains were crammed into a space less than three feet square suggests that the body had either been dismembered or had decomposed to a skeleton before being buried. Had Stebbins, who ran a ferry service on the Connecticut River close to the state's border with Vermont and New Hampshire, disturbed an unmarked grave? Or did the discovery have a more sinister justification?
By Elle 3 years ago in Criminal
Mexican drugs lord Rafael Caro Quintero arrested
Rafael Caro Quintero, a drug lord from Mexico, was born on October 24, 1952. He co-founded the Guadalajara Cartel, which has since disintegrated, with Miguel Angel Félix Gallardo and other drug dealers in the late 1970s. He is the brother of Miguel Caro Quintero, a fellow drug dealer who founded and oversaw the defunct Sonora Cartel. Caro Quintero established the Guadalajara Cartel in the 1970s and collaborated with Gallardo, Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, and Pedro Avilés Pérez to transport large amounts of marijuana from Mexico to the United States. In 1985, he was responsible for the abduction of Enrique "Kiki" Camarena of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), as well as Camarena's pilot Alfredo Zavala Avelar, American author John Clay Walker, and dental student Alberto Radelat. Caro Quintero fled to Costa Rica after the killings but was later apprehended and extradited back to Mexico, where he was given a 40-year murder sentence.
By Elle 3 years ago in Criminal
Porn Website Owner Michael James Pratt, Fugitive on FBI’s Most Wanted List, Captured in Spain
Michael James Pratt, the owner of a porn website and an FBI wanted man, was apprehended in Spain. One of the FBI's ten most wanted fugitives, Michael James Pratt, the owner of a porn website, has been apprehended in Spain, the agency announced on Friday.
By Elle 3 years ago in Criminal