About Crime Magazine

With the purpose of writing about true crime in an authoritative, fact-based manner, veteran journalists J. J. Maloney and J. Patrick O’Connor launched Crime Magazine in November of 1998.  Their goal was to cover all aspects of true crime: from organized crime to serial killers, from capital punishment to prisons, from historical crimes to celebrity crime, from assassinations to government corruption, from justice issues to innocent cases, from crime films to books about crime. 

More than three million unique visitors later, Crime Magazine is recognized by crime buffs and students of crime alike as the preeminent true crime site on the Internet.  Its authoritative, well-written articles garner top placement on the Internet’s major search engines such as Google and Yahoo.

Over the years, Crime Magazine has published a wide array of articles written by more than forty professional freelance writers, making it the top Internet source for such major cases as the murder of Jon Benet Ramsey, the death of Princess Diana, and the corruption within the Nixon White House.  Lona Manning’s article, “The Shame of Lorain, Ohio,” was instrumental in exposing the wrongful convictions of two persons who were finally exonerated in 2009 after 15 years of incarceration.

J. J. Maloney’s articles on the “Firefighters Case,” won the Missouri Bar Association’s “Excellence in Legal Journalism” award in 1998.  The wrongful convictions of those five indigent defendants are at long last under review by the U.S. Justice Department.

Former UPI White House reporter Don Fulsom’s numerous Crime Magazine accounts of corruption during the administration of President Richard Nixon will be published by St. Martin’s Press in 2011 under the title Nixon’s Greatest Secrets.  His articles about the death of Michael Jackson and the affairs of Tiger Woods and Dave Letterman piqued his interest in another type of corruption.

Paris-based writer Marilyn Z. Tomlins’s 2007 Crime Magazine article entitled “Dr. Petiot Will See You Now,” about France’s most prolific serial-killer, led to the 2010 publication of her book, Die in Paris.

Mel Ayton, Crime Magazine’s expert on assassinations, has published numerous books on the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Numerous excerpts from books published by Ron Chepesiuk have premiered on Crime Magazine, including Sergeant Smack, Scarface in Paradise, The Fall of the Cali Cartel, and Superfly: The True Untold Story of Frank Lucas, American Gangster.

Publishing excerpts from new true crime books has become a dynamic way to introduce readers to the latest in true crime writing.  And Berkeley-based writer Anneli Rufus’s regular book review column, ‘Book ‘Em,” does the same with wit and criticism. 

From demystifying Charles Manson to building a relationship with him, Atlanta-based writer Denise Noe has written definitively about the lynching of Leo Frank, the murder of Emmett Till, the escapades of the “Barefoot Bandit,” the pedophile crimes committed over a span of three decades by Father John Geoghan, and the trials of Leopold and Loeb, Sam Sheppard, Scott Peterson, and the Scottsboro Boys.

With Marilyn Tomlins and Anthony Davis writing from France, Robert Walsh and Mel Ayton from England, Lona Manning and Mark Pulham from Canada, and Phillip Wearne from Belgium, Crime Magazine has an international flavor and scope that attracts readers from around the world.

Crime Magazine editor Pat O’Connor is the author of The Framing of Mumia-Abu Jamal (Lawrence Hill Books, 2008) and is currently at work on another death row innocence case, Presumed Guilty: Kevin Cooper and the Chino Hills Murders.  A former reporter and bureau manager for United Press International, Pat was editor of Cincinnati Magazine, assistant editor of TV Guide, and editor of the Kansas City New Times, an alternative weekly where he began his association with award-winning investigative reporter J. J. Maloney that led to the launching of Crime Magazine.