Top Ten Ransom Letters of Note “Remember that this is your only chance to recover your son.” In this chilling case of upper-crust sociopathic killers who wanted to commit the “perfect murder,” Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were affluent teenage students. Inflamed with study of Nietzsche’s concept of the “superman” who was not subject to […]

The Ten Best Forensic Thrillers Ever?   Jon Jefferson is the “writer” half of the duo Jefferson Bass. The duo’s other half—the “forensic genius” half—is Dr. Bill Bass, founder of the University of Tennessee’s Body Farm. Their latest Body Farm novel, Without Mercy, is the bestselling series’ tenth installment. True confession: I’m a rule-bender from […]

    Breaking the Silence I’ve always been drawn toward difficult subjects; if a thing is shrouded in silence, I want to lift the corner of that shroud and take a look. My Austrian father’s past was obscured in just such a way; probing questions were evaded or diffused by jokes, and my mother bewailed […]