Deadly Motives: The Hedonistic Drive of Serial Murder There are several motives that drive serial killing as far as experts are concerned. Some are driven by missions such as ridding the world of what they perceive as a sin, or because they think they’re a higher being. Others are motivated by power or control over […]
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Is Truth Stranger Than Fiction? It might be if you read about the talented Edgar Laplante
Is Truth Stranger Than Fiction? It might be if you read about the talented Edgar Laplante It’s often said that truth is stranger than fiction. Nowhere is the validity of this tired old adage demonstrated more emphatically than in the adventures of the once world famous yet now little-known Jazz Age singing star, Edgar […]
Three Things John Grisham’s The Confession Teaches Us About Wrongful Convictions
Three Things John Grisham’s The Confession Teaches Us About Wrongful Convictions A few years before John Grisham’s The Confession was published, I wrote a 50-page brief to a United States District Court judge asking him to declare the death penalty unconstitutional. I represented a client who was facing the death penalty, and I was […]