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The Crooked Door
The Crooked Door It is bright and sunny in Paddington today. The suburb is its usual buzz of noise and activity. This is where I live with my mother, in a small terrace house on a quiet side street lined by trees. Inside our home however the atmosphere is different. It is always solemn and silent inside our dismal rooms. My mother and I live alone, for I have never met my father. I do not even know what he looks like, although people quietly tell me, when I am away from my mother, that I am the spitting image of him. There are no photos of him anywhere in the house. I know this because I have looked when my mother is out shopping. She rarely goes anywhere else. My mother says he is gone and good riddance to him! My mother is a plain speaking, dour woman, straight up and down, as they say around here. However, there is one thing that she always says that I find curious, and to tell the truth, a bit creepy. She always tells me, ‘Now stay away from that crooked door, or you will end up with him.’ And she stares straight at me with her big eyes that really frighten me. ‘Now always be a good boy,’ she would say, ‘and be aware of that crooked door.’
By Paul Doherty4 years ago in Criminal
Story of Elisa Lam's Death
In 2013, the most recent film of Elisa Lam came from grainy lift surveillance camera film from the Cecil Hotel. The 21-year-old seems unhinged and neurotic in the four minutes of film—squeezing different buttons, looking anxiously out of the entryways, and stowing away against the mass of the unmoving lift from what seems, by all accounts, to be an inconspicuous individual. The recording has since become notorious, circulating around the web that February after the police originally delivered it to the general population, requesting tips on account of Lam's vanishing. Scores of web detectives bounced looking into it of the missing young lady, and speculations of paranormal movement, a compromising off-camera figure, and video control immediately started to spread on the web. It didn't help that the Canadian vacationer, who was most recently seen on January 31, 2013 during the Los Angeles leg of her West Coast trip, turned out to remain in the infamous Cecil Hotel, a ghetto-ville milestone broadly covered in murkiness and wrongdoing. The principal period of Joe Berlinger's new Netflix series Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel attempts to demythologize the Cecil, and in doing as such, coherently work through and demystify the lamentable instance of Elisa Lam.
By Your Advice4 years ago in Criminal
The Murder of Samuel Olson
Being born and raised in the Houston area, when I heard about this case, it caught my attention immediately. Being in law school and wanting to do criminal law also brought it to my attention. I followed everything about it that could possibly be known.
By Catherine MacKenzie4 years ago in Criminal
Brandon Embry: Left for dead
For any of you who enjoy true crime stories, I urge you to check out Still a Mystery on the ID channel. It features stories about people who died under mysterious circumstances. Last week, Discovery's Still a Mystery aired a segment called North Carolina Unsolved. The show featured two stories from North Carolina. I had the opportunity to share my thoughts about Brandon Embry's death. And none of my thoughts include suicide or thoughts of self-harm.
By Marc Hoover4 years ago in Criminal
The Brutal Murder of The Black Dahlia
Introduction: The 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short, more commonly known as The Black Dahlia has remained unsolved for 74 years, and haunted the streets of Las Angeles ever since. This homicide was brutal, as well as very disturbing. Even today, with all of the sick people in the world, and all of the true crime stories that I have researched and covered, this one actually caused me to have to take a couple of weeks off from writing. Of course, that is in part because I looked at the crime scene photos, many of which can be found on google. I would not recommend looking at the photos or even reading about this case in depth if you have a weak stomach or if you are easily disturbed by torture or mutilation. I will list sources at the end of this article, and you can use them to look further into this case if you wish, however, as far as the crime scene photos go, you will have to look them up on your own. I will not be posting them. Go to google images, type in "The Black Dahlia" and many pictures of Elizabeth Short will flood your screen, and pictures of her crime scene will be scattered among the pictures of the beautiful young girl prior to her horrific death.
By Crazy-Inker4 years ago in Criminal
The Murder of Deanna Cremin
The Unsolved Murder of Deanna Cremin: The murder of Deanna Cremin has haunted the town of Somerville Massachusetts for almost 27 years. Someone brutally murdered this beautiful teenage girl and has been walking around free for the better part of three decades since. Someone somewhere knows exactly what happened to this young girl, and they are still enjoying all the freedoms and opportunities that were so carelessly and brutally ripped away from Deanna Cremin.
By Crazy-Inker4 years ago in Criminal
On November 15, 2005 Steven Avery Was Arrested For The Murder of Teresa Halbach
I thought that it would be interesting to do a hypothetical list of questions that Steven Avery's attorneys Steven Glynn and Walt Kelly would likely have asked both Denis Vogel and Tom Kocourek. Perhaps if readers understand the wealth of information that had been uncovered by Kelly and Glynn up to and including Kusche's aka "The Pencil" deposition it would help them to recognize just how "concerned" Manitowoc County Sheriff's Officers as well as the Manitowoc County District Attorneys (current and former for both agencies) truly were at the end of October 2005.
By SunshineChristina4 years ago in Criminal
Haiti and the Economics of Kidnapping
Has the astronomical rise of kidnappings in Haiti brought much discussion on the need for radical change? Not really. Instead, conversations on Haiti seem to remain in a never-ending cycle of doom and gloom. In Haiti and the Economics of Kidnapping, I seek not only to speak of the events that contribute to and condition the current socio-political climate but also the incentives that perpetuate the rise of kidnappings and the inability of national institutions to function as they ought to.
By Jerry Jacques4 years ago in Criminal
