A murder ballad recounts the details of a true crime, often of an almost mythical nature. Many of these traditional ballads originated in England, Scotland and Scandinavia. Notable murder ballads, modern style, were written and performed by such artists as Nick Cave or Bruce Springsteen. Here is my Top Ten of Murder Ballads, both traditional and ...

Three things make a good true crime story: sex, death and lacing things with poison. The crime of forcing a woman to have a miscarriage invariably has all three of these things—plus the added ... following these crimes more morally defensible than those of, say, a serial-killer. For readers who like their crime stories sexy and laced with poison but feel bad about people ...

... , November 4th on Mission Unstoppable Radio, www.blogtalkradio.com/missionunstoppable when she is joined by author Angela Dove. Angela Dove is an award winning writer and her true crime book, No Room for Doubt.is getting rave reviews  After being approached by Jacque McDonald, the mother of murder victiom Debi Whitlock, Angela was both surprised ...

... in critical condition. A gang rape always has the added awfulness that the rapists are comfortable enough with their crime to commit it in front of others. This case is especially bad because the girl's attackers continued in ... I thought this was a Kitty Genovese situation, in which indifferent bystanders failed to help a crime victim. In fact, it's worse. CNN's Nick Valencia writes ...

... (which bounced back forcefully after its brief midcentury remission) dominates the shelves, crime comics geared to adults are experiencing a boomlet. From true-crime accounts like Rick Geary's beautiful, ... Comics has commissioned short stories from several creators behind the current crime comic renaissance, as well as several authors known for their non-genre "indie" ...

AETN International, a division of A&E Television Networks, has developed a unique integrated campaign to promote the cutting-edge, true crime series, Crime 360 via a web-based investigative game. Today, the game launched in parts of South East Asia. Developed as a guerilla marketing tool, the Crime 360 online game is non-branded and features Informer103, a