True Crime Carnival This week's roundup of some of the best true crime posts online can be found on Lilo's blog.
Book Deal, Warp Speed True crime author Diane Fanning didn't wait for the ink to dry on the astronaut love triangle headlines; she's already announced that she's writing a book on the case for her longtime publisher, St. Martin's; Publishers Weekly carried news of the book deal. It's a notable trend in the genre: Established authors like Fanning and Gregg Olsen are tagging stories earlier and earlier and announcing it in the web. I wonder if it will dissuade competition? For more from Diane, see the Clews interview.
True Crime Magazine Outrage Off-duty American soldiers are among those highlighted in a new crime magazine in Japan, but the rag's exclusive focus on foreign criminals has some calling it "ignorant propaganda".
New Crime Forum The CrimeForums UK site was recently launched and provides a place to discuss all the shenanigans our cousins pull on their side of the pond.
New True Crime Blogs There are new blogs joining the True Crime Blogroll. They are --
Fred Rosen - noted true crime historian and author of more than a dozen books in the genre.
Angels That Care - a site devoted to domestic violence/missing and abused children
True Crime Blog UK - focusing on headline cases in the United Kingdom.
Professor Stone, Your Gauntlet, Sir! In a recent New York Times article about the astronaut love triangle, a professor of psychiatry made a breathtaking assertion - -
Michael Stone, a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, said he was struck by the thoroughness of Captain [Lisa] Nowak’s preparation, which he said was generally “a guy thing.”“It’s extraordinarily rare for a woman to do this type of a crime,” Professor Stone said. He said the more customary response was to try to kill the object of affection, as Jean Harris shot Herman Tarnower in 1980. “This is really close to unique in the annals of female crime,” he said.
A jealous woman always seeks some refinement of cruelty in her vengeance... before wreaking her vengeance, a woman relishes the thought of it in imagination, just as she feasts her eyes on the sight of it, when it is accomplished. A young woman of twenty-two, who had just killed her rival with a pistol bullet, gloated over her death agony, stepping back slowly from her side with a look of pleasure in her eyes, as if relishing her revenge; on her face could be read the satisfaction she felt at giving her a coffin for a bridal bed, and she might have been thought to be repeating Medea's line: Et pour lit nuptial il te faut un tombeau. (And for a bridal bed you must have a tomb).
Thanks Ling-Mei for the link.
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