Celebrity Crime
New:
Money, Power, Sex and a Murdered
Banker by Marilyn Z. Tomlins
(04/12/09).
French billionaire banker Édouard
Stern, wearing a latex bodysuit, was shot dead in his luxury Geneva
penthouse by his mistress, Cécile Brossard, for reneging on the $1 million
he gave her.
Updated:
Richard Nixon's Greatest Cover-Up: His Ties to the
Assassination of President Kennedy
by
Don Fulsom. (10/15/03;
updated 03.22.09)
Nixon's ties to the
assassination of President Kennedy run deep, from his association with Jack
Ruby, his ties to Jimmy Hoffa and the Mafia, and his connection to CIA operative
E. Howard Hunt. On a tape recorded in Nixon's White House office in 1972 he told
two top aides that the Warren Commission Report pulled off "the greatest hoax
that has ever been perpetuated." No one knew that better than he did.
New:
The Cons-Boutboul Case by
Anthony Davis
(02/09/09).
The murder trial of
Elisabeth Cons-Boutboul drew together the Paris smart set, the horse-racing
fraternity, the underworld and the Roman Catholic Church. It was a case of lies,
cynicism, make-believe and manipulation and as such has gone down in French
legal history as one of the most enigmatic.
New:
Did Jack Ruby Know Lee Harvey Oswald? by
Don Fulsom (02/01/09).
There's no hard evidence that he did, but numerous people say they saw Oswald at Ruby's club, The Carousel, weeks before the JFK
assassination.
Updated:
Blowing Smoke From the Grave: E. Howard Hunt and the JFK
Assassination by Don Fulsom.
(06/06/07; ;updated 01/25/09)
Howard St. John Hunt, the son of
super-spook E. Howard Hunt is now peddling a story that his father rejected an
offer to take part in plot by rogue CIA agents to kill President Kennedy. Isn't
it about time a congressional committee finds out what the CIA's role was in the
assassination?
Traitor in the White House
by Don Fulsom.
(12/30/08)
How Richard Nixon gained the Oval Office by playing politics with peace.
The JFK and RFK Assassinations and the "Manchurian Candidate"
Theory by Mel Ayton
(10/01/08).
The assassins of the Kennedy brothers acted in
cold blood, not under mind control.
Batterer-in-Chief by
Don Fulsom (07/10/08).
Former President
Richard Nixon beat his wife, Pat, before, during, and after their White House
years. Along the way, he sucker-punched a long list of aides and others who
miffed him.
Updated:
The Attempted Assassination of George
Wallace by Denise Noe.
(09/14/03; updated 09/19/07)
Arthur Bremer tried to fill the void in his miserable
life by taking the life of Gov. George Wallace in 1972. He failed on both
counts.
Blowing Smoke From the Grave: E. Howard Hunt and the JFK
Assassination by Don Fulsom.
(06/06/07)
Howard St. John Hunt, the son of
super-spook E. Howard Hunt is now peddling a story that his father rejected an
offer to take part in plot by rogue CIA agents to kill President Kennedy. Isn't
it about time a congressional committee finds out what the CIA's role was in the
assassination?
Updated:
The Great Prevaricator by
Lona Manning.
(Updated 05/29/07)
Edgar Smith,
with William F. Buckley Jr. blithely playing his stooge, wrote his way to
freedom from the Death House in Trenton State Prison in 1971, becoming the most
famous death-row prisoner of his time. Fourteen and-a-half years earlier, Smith
-- at age 23 -- had bludgeoned to death 15-year-old Vickie Zielinski in Mahwah,
N.J. Less than five years after his release from prison, Smith kidnapped a
petite but scrappy young mother who miraculously managed to escape from Smith's
car with a knife stuck in her side.
What Watergate Was All About by
Don Fulsom.
(04/15/2007)
In the early years of the Nixon presidency, billionaire Howard Hughes bribed Nixon with
$100,000 in cash. When Hughes's secret lobbyist Larry O'Brien became Democratic
Party chairman, Nixon had O'Brien's phone at the Watergate tapped to find out if
he knew about the bribe.
The
Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping by Lona
Manning. (3/04/07)
More than seven decades after his execution for committing "the crime of the
century," Bruno Richard Hauptmann still has his defenders and sympathizers.
Updated:
Gerald Ford's Role in the JFK Assassination Cover-Up
by Don Fulsom (11/11/06;
updated 3/12/07).
Warren Commission member Congressman Gerald Ford pressed the panel to change its
description of the bullet wound in President Kennedy's back and place it higher
to make "the magic bullet" theory plausible, enabling the Warren Commission to
conclude that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone gunman. Ford was J. Edgar Hoover's
informant on the commission and did the FBI director's bidding to squelch the
investigation from naming other assassins. When a Dallas County deputy constable
heard shots coming from the nearby grassy knoll, he rushed there to find veteran
CIA asset Bernard Barker, posing as a Secret Service agent. No Secret Service
agents had been assigned to cover the grassy knoll and all accompanied President
Kennedy to the hospital.
Updated: Nixon's Greatest
Trick: Orchestrating His Own Pardon by
Don Fulsom. (08/30/04;
updated 01/14/07)
On the eve of the
release of the "smoking-gun tape," President Nixon cut a blanket pardon deal
with Vice President Ford that would put Ford in the Oval Office eight days later.
Carlos Marcello and the Assassination of President
Kennedy by Don Fulsom
(10/16/06).
New Orleans godfather Carlos Marcello – with Jimmy Hoffa
as his bagman – funded Richard Nixon's 1960 presidential bid with $500,000 in
cash stuffed in a suitcase. Later Marcello – known as the Big Daddy of the Big
Easy – would be named a key conspirator in President Kennedy's assassination.
Updated: The Murder of JonBenet Ramsey
by J.J. Maloney and J. Patrick O'Connor.
(Updated 08/30/06)
Astoundingly, this highest of high-profile murder case goes unsolved. John Mark
Karr's arrest and subsequent exoneration served only to demonstrate anew how
inept JonBenet's investigation has been from the beginning.
The Mob's
President: Richard Nixon's Secret Ties to the Mafia by
Don Fulsom.
(02/05/06)
By the time he became president in 1969, Richard Nixon had been on the giving
and receiving end of major underworld favors for more than two decades.
Watergate was just the tip of the iceberg.
9/16: Terrorists Bomb Wall Street by
Lona Manning. (01/15/06)
Long before 9/11 became the date most identified with terrorism, New York's
Wall Street District suffered through a massive bombing on September 16,
1920 that shocked the world. Italian anarchists orchestrated the bombing
five days after Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were indicted on
charges of first-degree murder.
The Bridge at
Chappaquiddick by Mel Ayton.
(10/17/05)
Ted Kennedy's reckless driving led
directly to the accidental, but wrongful death of Mary Jo Kopechne. His
bewildered behavior in the minutes and immediate hours after the accident were
those of one badly injured and in a state of shock.
Part II: Why Sirhan Sirhan Assassinated Robert Kennedy by
Mel Ayton.
(09/06/05)
From the beginning, both Sirhan's lawyers and the U.S. media sought to portray
the assassination of Robert Kennedy as the act of a deranged individual bent on
seeking fame and notoriety. But Sirhan was a political assassin. He murdered
Kennedy to advance the cause of the Palestinians.
The "Assassination" of Marilyn Monroe by
Mel Ayton. (07/24/05)
Since Marilyn Monroe died in 1962, an unabated stream of books,
articles and documentaries have attempted to link her death to then U.S. Atty.
Gen. Robert F. Kennedy -- despite the complete lack of any credible evidence.
The Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination: What Really
Happened? by Mel Ayton.
(06/12/05)
Obfuscation, manipulation, lies, greed, and distortion of the facts have
characterized this case, allowing James Earl Ray to escape full blame. The truth
of the matter is that Ray murdered King and he acted alone when he shot him. One
or both of Ray's brothers -- before and/or after the fact -- may have aided him.
The Robert Kennedy
Assassination: Unraveling the Conspiracy Theories by
Mel Ayton.
(05/08/05)
A majority of U.S. citizens continue to believe that Robert Kennedy's
assassination was part of a larger conspiracy. The fact is that Sirhan Sirhan
acted alone.
The Manson Myth by
Denise Noe. (12/12/04)
Thirty-five years after the Tate-LaBianca
murders, it's time to demystify the would-be messiah that Vincent Bugliosi
portrayed in the best-selling true-crime book of all time, Helter Skelter.
The real Charles Manson was a semi-literate, petty criminal – car thief, check
forger, pimp, drug dealer – so insecure about his ability to cope in the real
world that on the day of the parole that plunged him into infamy he begged
prison officials not to release him.
Sirhan Sirhan: Assassin of Modern U.S. History by
Denise Noe. (05/27/04)
Sirhan Sirhan assassinated Robert Kennedy on the first anniversary of
the Six-Day War "willfully, premeditatively, with 20 years of malice
aforethought." He also assassinated modern U.S. history.
Nick Adams: His Hollywood Life and Death by
Peter L.
Winkler. (08/15/03)
Nick Adams was far more a dreamer than "The Rebel" he would portray in his
heyday. At 18 he hitchhiked to Hollywood to become a movie star. A
quintessential self-promoter, he defied all odds in making his dream come true,
but he could never seem to get out of his own way. His death, exploited by
writers as one of Hollywood's dark mysteries, came by his own hand.
The Murder of Sal Mineo
by
Denise Noe. (05/01/03)
Residents of New York City's
crime-ridden Hell's Kitchen neighborhood predicted that Salvatore Mineo Jr. –
the slight boy who would grow up to set off "Mineo Mania" and become known as
"The Switchblade Kid" in the process –
would end up on the wrong end of a knife.
They were right, but not for the reasons they thought.
Exclusive:
Solving the JonBenet Case by
Ryan Ross. (04/14/03)
Colorado Gov. Bill Owens could crack the JonBenet case wide open by appointing a
special prosecutor to determine if John and Patsy Ramsey conspired to cover up
their daughter's tragic death. Secret forensic evidence not in the public record implicates the Ramseys in such a cover up.
The Murder of Madalyn
Murray O'Hair: America's Most Hated Woman
by Lona Manning.
(Updated 09/29/03)
When atheist Madalyn Murray
O'Hair, her son, and granddaughter mysteriously disappeared from their Austin,
Tex., home in 1995, the police didn't lift a finger to find the family that had
taken God out of America. Five years went by before a determined reporter would
unravel the mystery of her disappearance.
Left to Die:
The Barbara Payton Tragedy by John O'Dowd.
Barbara Payton reached
the pinnacle of Hollywood in 1950. Blonde and beautiful, her libido was robust,
her taste ribald; her lovers formed a who's who of Hollywood leading men from
Bob Hope, George Raft, Gary Cooper, Gregory Peck, Guy Madison to Tarzan -- with
dozens and dozens of lesser lights in between. The tabloids feasted on her
liaisons. When she flouted Hollywood's code by taking on a black lover in 1955,
her career was over at age 27. She went from making $10,000 a week at Warner
Brothers to utter destitution and ruin, turning tricks for $5 on Sunset Strip. (10/20/02)
Cold
Case: The Murder of Hogan's Hero by Denise M. Clark. There's more
than enough blame to explain why the 1978 murder of Bob Crane goes unsolved.
The Hurricane Hoax by
Lona Manning. The movie The
Hurricane portrays Rubin "Hurricane" Carter as a black man
wronged by a racist justice system. But Carter is a fraud and so was the movie,
from beginning to end.
Frank Sinatra and the Mob by
J.D.
Chandler. The recent release of Sinatra's extensive FBI file exposes his
mob connections in voluminous detail, putting to lie Ol' Blue Eyes' most
celebrated claim that he did it his way.
The Dumb-Bell
Murder, by Doris Lane. The 1927 murder of magazine editor Albert Snyder by his wife and
her lover generated more publicity than the sinking of the Titanic. A
book and a movie, Double Indemnity, and a Broadway play, Machinal,
were based on the case. But what is remembered most is a secret snapshot taken
of the electric-chair execution of "The Bloody Blonde." It remains one
of the most famous photos in tabloid history.
The
Murder of Ramon Novarro
by J.J.
Maloney. The Murder of Ramon Novarro by J.J. Maloney. Little has been
written about the 1968 murder of Novarro, and the goings-on of his killer are
even less well known.
James Earl Ray and
Martin Luther King are
in-depth articles by J.J. Maloney, who knew James Earl Ray and has researched
the King assassination over a 30-year period.
