Crime Magazine is about true crime: organized crime, celebrity crime, serial killers, corruption, sex crimes, capital punishment, prisons, assassinations, justice issues, crime books, crime films and crime studies.
Gary Boynton is a true-crime writer, researcher and teacher. He lives on an island near Seattle. He has a B.A. in abnormal psychology from the University of Puget Sound, and has completed numerous classes in police science, criminal investigation, criminology and forensics. He has worked as a probation and parole officer, private investigator and paralegal. After a year of law school, he completed the Nonfiction Writer's Program at the University of Washington
Gary has had more than a dozen articles, including cover stories, published in Detective Files, True Police Cases, Detective Dragnet, Headquarters Detective, Startling Detective and Detective Cases Magazines.
In 1998, he assisted noted crime author Gregg Olsen in researching If Loving You is Wrong: The Shocking True Story of Mary Kay Letourneau, the schoolteacher imprisoned for her sexual involvement with one of her teenage students. Crime author Ann Rule called the book " wonderfully researched…A must read for both true-crime aficionados and students of abnormal psychology."
At Discover U in Seattle and at two national Police Writers Association conferences, Gary has taught "Making Crime Pay: How to Research, Write and Sell True Crime Stories."
He is currently assisting Gregg Olsen with several book and TV projects, and is working on two books of his own.
His email is: gboynton364@aol.com
Gary Boynton
Too Many Hit Men
by Gary Boynton
February 5, 1997 would have been Steve Ver Woert's 44th birthday, but he didn't make it to work on time that day at his job at a cellular phone company in Redmond, Wash., home to software giant Microsoft and many other high-tech firms. When the usually reliable Ver Woert still hadn't made it to work by midday, a co-worker was sent to find out why. When she arrived at Ver Woert's fifth-wheel-type trailer in nearby Bothell's Lake Pleasant RV Park, she found blood just outside the front door and called the Bothell police.
Patrol Officers Lawson and Seuberlich responded to the call and entered the stylish trailer through its unlocked front door. After passing through the kitchen, they found Ver Woert's body lying facedown in a pool of blood in the living room. They checked to make sure that he was dead, then carefully left the trailer, so as not to disturb any possible evidence, before calling in to report what they had found.
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Gothic Murders
by Gary Boynton
On Jan. 4, 1997, two boys were playing in a park in Bellevue, Wash., an upscale suburb east of Seattle, when they spotted what they thought was a pile of clothes concealed by shrubs about five feet off a trail. When the boys returned to the park the next morning they soon realized what they had seen was a body. They ran home; one of their mothers called the Bellevue Police Department.
At 11:30 a.m., Bellevue detectives responded to the scene, where they found the body of a young woman, dressed in blue jeans, a white T-shirt and "waffle-stomper" boots. Although she did not appear disheveled, as if she had been involved in a struggle, there was a cord wrapped around her neck, with which she obviously had been strangled.
Identification on the body indicated that the victim was Kimberly Wilson, age 20, and that she lived only a few blocks from the park.
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