Thank whatever gods may be that this is finally over. The weeks I spent slugging through this I couldn't stop thinking that I could be reading something else! To begin with, let's give the devil his due...Robert Graysmith knows a LOT about the Zodiac killer. Probably more than anyone. He has pour...
This book was written before they "caught" the suspect who killed himself and they suspiciously closed the case. The good aspect of this book pertains to the multiple details regarding the case. They bad aspect of this book is that the author frequently goes off on tangents in which whole chapte...
first appeared in book form in a thin leaflet in tan-colored wrappers in 1843 for 12½ cents. —THE PROSE ROMANCES OF EDGAR A. POE IT was a crisp night. A tall, good-looking young man walked into the HOJ and admitted strangling a woman in a hotel room. “I want you to hang me,” he said matter-o...
They had to. The rodents had been scurrying inside the quarantined Brentwood Mail Facility. Though rodents don’t die from anthrax, they can carry it. For weeks Hazmat crews had been snaring the rats and cleansing them with an HEPA system. And they did it on a sunny day because the burning rays of...
Horan pronounced Betty Lou DOS. and, after Little had taken as many pictures from as many angles as possible, ordered her body to the morgue. Sergeant Cunningham had Deputy J. R. Wilson go to Val ejo General Hospital to take pictures of David, but when he arrived he learned the boy had been DOA. ...
The new Sansome Hook and Ladder Company spent more than $5,000 for theirs. In the evening Broderick One’s angel-wing doors were opened to the coolness. Sawyer, who had just turned eighteen, and Fred Kohler, Broderick’s partner and chief engineer of all the volunteer companies, arms folded, leaned...
Oktober 1969 Es ist nicht ganz einfach, seinen Wagen am Fuße eines der steilen Hügel von San Francisco zu parken. Der stämmige Mann lenkte die Räder an den Straßenrand, zog die Handbremse an, schloss den Wagen ab und stieg schnaufend den Hügel hinauf, um einen Bus ins Theaterviertel zu erwischen....