Archive for 'Feature Stories'
Serial Killer’s Anonymous: Chapter 4 ‒ The Mystery of the Hobo Jungles, 1950-51
Hobocidal Maniac Lloyd Gomez Killed Nine Men in 15 Months Tap or click on a thumbnail for pop-up image gallery. Hover mouse middle, right side for arrow. October 15, 1953 San Quentin Prison, California Six hundred and thirty days after he confessed to California authorities to murdering nine men between 1950 and 1951, Lloyd […]
Posted: May 5th, 2020 under Feature Stories, Serial Killers Anonymous.
Tags: 1950s, California, Execution, Murder, Serial Killer
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Chapter 17 of “Vintage True Crime Stories V-1,” The Collins Case, Topeka, 1898
[September 7, 2018] Posted below for your consideration is Chapter 17 from the first volume of a new anthology series presented by HCD Publishing entitled, Vintage True Crime Stories: An Illustrated Anthology of Forgotten Cases of Murder & Mayhem, Volume I, 314 pages. The book will be released on Amazon Kindle this coming Monday, September […]
Posted: September 7th, 2018 under Feature Stories, New Books.
Tags: 1800s, Kansas, Patricide
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The Fate of the Bender Family, 1873
Editor’s Note: The Bloody Benders were a family of serial killers who lived and operated in Labette County, Kansas, between 1871 and 1873. Nearly a dozen travelers who stopped at their small inn were murdered, and their bodies later found buried on the Benders’ property. The family of four disappeared before they could be arrested. […]
Posted: August 10th, 2018 under Feature Stories.
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First Person Friday: Confessions of a 1950s Porn Star
Story by Tracy B (anonymous), aka “Racy Tracy” Writing from some unknown women’s prison in New Jersey or New York Article originally appeared in Expose Detective, January 1959 Editor’s Note: Although I don’t know all the laws and statutes of that era, the production, distribution, and presentation of pornographic material in the 1950s […]
Posted: July 14th, 2017 under Feature Stories, First Person Friday.
Tags: 1950s, Confession Story, New York, Sex Crimes, Women
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First Person Friday: I was a Killer’s Captive, 1954
By Mary Ruth Rombalski Bakersfield, California, February 4, 1955 Originally appeared in Front Page Detective, May 1955 Editor’s Note: In 1954, Mary Ruth Rombalski was a nineteen-year-old girl from Kentucky who, like many young girls from that era, dreamed of moving to Hollywood where she would become a movie star. After leaving her husband […]
Posted: May 12th, 2017 under Feature Stories, First Person Friday.
Tags: 1950s, California, Murder, Texas
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