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Killing for Company

"I worshiped the art and the act of death, over and over." Author: Brian Masters I heard about the case of Dennis Nilsen for the first time through an episode of Bailey Sarian’s Murder, Mystery, and Makeup. Nielsen lured twelve men to their deaths and then kept, slept, and posed with their corpses until finally he disposed of them – at first through fire and then through dismemberment and flushing their flesh down the toilet. He was caught because of the plumbing problems in his boarding house; when the plumber discovered human flesh clogging the drains, it was over for Nielson, [...]

2026-03-21T19:00:55-07:00March 21st, 2026|Tags: , , , , , , |

My Time to Stand

Killer or Victim or Both? Author: Gypsy-Rose Blanchard The story of Gypsy-Rose Blanchard has created a cultural awareness (and many fictional accounts) of Munchausen by proxy: a syndrome where a caretaker fabricates an illness for the person under their care to get fame or attention. At the age of 23, Gypsy rebelled, conspiring with a secret boyfriend she made online to murder her mother and escape the cycle of abuse. The case led to many allegations (and lots of spinoff media, from Gillian Flynn’s Sharp Objects to the Hulu series “The Act.”) Gypsy claimed that her mother abused her, that her [...]

2026-01-28T18:06:51-07:00January 28th, 2026|Tags: , , |

Man No One Believed, The

A Historically Important But Boring Reading Author: Joshua Sharpe True crime has been my guilty pleasure for the last several years. I started with the classic: the formidable Ann Rule. From there, I grew to read any and everything and even branched out into the world of podcasts with Bailey Sariaen’s addicting Murder, Mystery, and Makeup. When Book of the Month listed The Man No One Believed as one of its August picks, highlighting the explosive nature of true crime researching in freeing a man unjustly held for 15 years, I knew I had to read it. The surprisingly slim Man [...]

2026-01-26T20:11:16-07:00January 26th, 2026|Tags: , , , , , , , |
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