Once typecast as ‘bad’ or ‘good’ in true crime tales, women are now more likely to be presented as complex figures in them. And many more women are writing true crime themselves.
'Today a rape is more likely to be convicted than ever before,' says DPP
Here are some of the best examples of these genres from the past century that will keep you reading past your bedtime.
MISOGYNY can rear its ugly head in many forms and is based on warped hatred and discrimination against, women. New plans in parliament are being made to make cat calling and other forms of public s…
True Cases Of Women In Crime
I guess we can add "stealing my heart" to their list of crimes.
Over 100 years ago Lizzie Borden was arrested and charged with the brutal murder of her father and stepmother. See what police found at the scene and what transpired at her trial.
The Black Dahlia murder - the savage killing of 22-year-old Elizabeth Short in January of 1947 - was one of the biggest news stories of the 20th century, and continues to fascinate people to this day.
Last summer, during my interview with Hard Case Crime editor Charles Ardai , I asked him to identify his five favorite classic crime and my...
The surgeon, 38-year-old Grant William Robicheaux, and his 31-year-old girlfriend, Cerissa Laura Riley, were charged on September 11 with rape as well as drug and weapons-related offenses in connection with two alleged assaults. But investigators found hundreds of videos on Robicheaux's phone after he was arrested.
Alyssa Bustamante, 19, said she only pleaded guilty to killing Elizabeth Olten in St Martins, Missouri because she had been threatened with life in prison without parole.
I guess we can add "stealing my heart" to their list of crimes.
Melanie McGrath: Brutally detailed murder stories appeal to female readers both for the real anxieties they tap into, and for their metaphorical resonances
We speak to author Laura Elizabeth Woollett about her book examining hybristophilia and the women behind history's most evil serial killers.
The BBC radio series, Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley, also includes a look at Scottish socialite, Madeleine Smith, who was accused of poisoning her older French lover.
I guess we can add "stealing my heart" to their list of crimes.
Do you remember when you first had the inspiration to take photographs of women killed by crime? The first draw had to be when I saw a book by Luc Sante called ‘Evidence’. Sante had collected rare crime scene photography from New York in the 1920s. The images transcended the violence into an almost
An image of Maila Nurmi as Vampira taken in 1955. It is a part of a huge collection of vintage LAPD crime scene pictures unearthed by photographer Merrick Morton in 2014. Fototeka is a large photo digitation service that works in conjunction with the National Film Archive to enhance historically relevant vintage photographs. Started in 2009, the photographic archive has digitized photos that were taken as early as the 1920s. In 2014 LA photographer Merrick Morton (who also spent time as an LAPD reserve officer) was hipped to the existence of a massive collection of crime scene photos taken for the LAPD that had been long forgotten. The photos were in such bad shape that their decay posed a fire threat thanks to the instability of the cellulose nitrate-based film and negatives. Cellulose nitrate was used widely in the film industry up until the late 1940s or early 1950s when it was “retired” from use due to the dangers associated with the decomposing film. Morton and his group of film archivists spent hundreds of hours toiling to rescue the photos that had been slated for the trash pile owing to their condition. The grim collection includes pictures that chronicle crimes such as mob...
The Best Of The Worst
I guess we can add "stealing my heart" to their list of crimes.
Female gangsters are subject to arcane rules, rigorous rituals, and unbreakable commitments.
When we think about domestic abuse, most often the image that comes to mind is one of a battered woman, a bruised face, a cut lip, broken bones and blood. And while this image is a true one it often overshadows its partner in crime…emotional...
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These intriguing shots were taken at the turn of the 20th century in New South Wales, Australia. These women were photographed right after their respective charges were levied on them, their crimes…
True Stories of Women in Crime 1949 03 Cover art by George Gross
Premissa da série baseada no filme Magnatas do Crime (2019) surpreende ao funcionar bem melhor do que a obra original.
Hande Kader was an active member of the LGBT community in Turkey.
For those who crave a creepy watch, here are the best true-crime documentaries. These shows, podcasts, and films explore the dark side of human nature.
