On September 21, 1986, in Portland, Oregon, Randall Kelly Blighton drove his children to their mother's home in Beaverton after the weekend visitation. He was in his twenties, a truck salesman who had just divorced and heading back toward Portland via the Sunset Highway. Around 8.30 pm on that…
Pakistan's famous social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch has posted many videos and photos of herself on social media. She is also known as 'Pakistan's Kim Kardashian'. Thousands watched her posts, although the contents became more risque by her country's standards. In July 2016, she was killed when she was twenty-six…
It begins with the details of the crime scene, which occurred on Valentine's Day, 2013. Then it follows with the narration based on the court testimony of witnesses and is in line with each individual's interpretation and perception of events. The book later shifted to Reeva's life in her modelling…
This book consists of 42 of Malaysia's most prominent cases that have been widely discussed among the locals and some probably well-known worldwide. The book begins with crimes from the colonial era that remain unresolved, and up to the publication year of this book - the mysterious epidemic that killed…
On 7th November 1843, Harriet Monckton was found murdered in the privy behind the chapel she had regularly attended in Bromley, Kent (based on a true story). The first part introduces the background of several main characters who knew Harriet and possibly her secret as well. The story was told…
This is one of the hardest book reviews that I ever wrote so far. Even editing this page after sitting in my notes for a couple of weeks, I still feel sad to read and write about it. I don't think I will ever forget this book. This book leads…
My expectation for this book will be a story mainly focusing on Ted Bundy's life and also some of the key characters such as his family, Meg Anders (his ex-fiancee) and Carol Ann Boone (his ex-wife). Unfortunately, those important people were briefly included in the story once in a while,…
A true crime story about the murder of Anne Marie Fahey after having dinner with a man whom she had been having a secret affair with for more than two years. On June 27, 1996, she had dinner with Thomas Capano, a forty-seven-year-old wealthy and one of the most politically…
Going through the table of content of the book already made me feel unbelievable that there are so many sick people in this world. You thought some stories are fictional because there are too sick to be true but this book is telling you that those sick people are real.…
This book tells the true story of some of the cases handled by Neal Smither and his crew who works as a crime scene cleaner that specialises in after-death situations: cleaning up blood and the smells left by decaying bodies. This book was not what I expected. It was rather…