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| Soliloquy for the Devil |
| Published: May 16, 2008, 3:38 pm |
| Tags: The Loudamy Files |
| [CR Note: Thomas Loudamy is an aspiring journalist who has written to hundreds of serial killers, female murderers, celebrities in prison. Thomas estimates he has received thousands of letters written by about 400 American and Canadian inmates since he started his unusual pen pal hobby in 2001. He shares letters from his files every Friday here |
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| Picture This: Lori Drew Indicted |
| Published: May 16, 2008, 10:36 am |
| Tags: Picture This |
| Since four Crime Rant readers have sent us notes about this, that must mean you want to talk about Lori Drew. Here’s a snip: LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted a Missouri woman for her alleged role in perpetrating a hoax on the online social network MySpace against a 13-year-old neighbor who committed suicide. Lori Drew |
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| Guest Post-6 Steps to Keep Employee Complaints from Escalating |
| Published: May 15, 2008, 10:02 pm |
| Tags: Business Management, Complaint Or Lawsuit, Employment Law, Human Resources, Labor And Employment Law, Practices, Risk Assessment, Employee Complaints, Employment Investigations |
| This post was contributed by Heather Johnson, who is an industry critic on the subject of how to become a nurse. She invites your feedback at heatherjohnson2323@gmail.com. Additionally, some of my own comments follow her article. Thanks Heather! 6 steps to keep Employee Complaints from Escalating If an employee is unhappy then the best thing |
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| Murder In A North Georgia Town |
| Published: May 15, 2008, 1:27 pm |
| Tags: Guest Blog |
| [CR Note: Carey Parrish is the editor and publisher of Web Digest Weekly. He’s been thinking about one of those haunting cases that grabs writers by the throat — especially when they are unsolved. We’re delighted to have him guest blog today. The accounts recalled in his story are drawn from archived newspaper reports and from |
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| If (I Said) He Did It: The OJ Case Still Producing Books |
| Published: May 14, 2008, 11:38 am |
| There's no way I, personally, would ever write a book to clear my conscience. I have other ways of doing that, which do not involve putting words on a page for public consumption. But when you're talking about the OJ Simpson case, well, all bets are off. The bar is set pretty high, and the guilt that's inner guilt, the kind that eats you alive |
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| What I Did Wasn’t All That Bad |
| Published: May 13, 2008, 11:38 am |
| Tags: Searchstring Of The Week |
| People find Crime Rant by typing in the strangest search strings. Sometimes they are ironic to the nth degree. This week some internet surfer entered the following into a search engine: how interview teaching job with blemished record They landed on Jennifer Rice: I Know What Boys Like. That’s the post about the Tacoma teacher who kidnapped |
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| Affordable Housework in South Carolina |
| Published: May 13, 2008, 11:00 am |
| Tags: General, Doug The Intern |
| Guest blog by Doug Sacrison, Crime Rant intern Uh-oh! Watch out South Carolinians. You’ve got gypsies! And where there’s gypsies, you can bet tramps and thieves aren’t far behind. Sheriffs in South Carolina are warning residents to watch out for gypsies. The “travelers” or “tinkers” are apparently roaming |
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| Elizabeth Halverson's Bench Behavior: You be the Judge |
| Published: May 10, 2008, 5:29 pm |
| Tags: General |
| Remember Oklahoma judge Donald Thompson who was caught red-faced and red-handed pleasuring himself underneath his robe with a penis pump during courtroom proceedings? Crime Rant readers were disgusted by the incident and told us so. Now here comes Elizabeth Halverson, a Nevada judge, who has rewritten the rules of court protocol to benefit |
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| Alpha Dog, Apathy, and an Alibi |
| Published: May 9, 2008, 2:52 am |
| Tags: The Loudamy Files |
| [CR Note: Thomas Loudamy is an aspiring journalist who has written to hundreds of serial killers, female murderers, celebrities in prison. Thomas estimates he has received thousands of letters written by about 400 American and Canadian inmates since he started his unusual pen pal hobby in 2001. He shares letters from his files every Friday here |
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| Fritzl, Sharpton, & Mischa Barton's Fat Thighs: Why We Care? |
| Published: May 8, 2008, 10:23 am |
| Tags: General |
| Here's my tip of the day before we get going: Never trust a guy with one of those Vincent Price/Robert Goulet/ Josef Fritzl pencil-thin mustaches. I'm not saying the Pancho Villa/Geraldo is the way to go here, but stick with me. What brings me to this observation is the fact that, with all that is wrong in our world today, what is important seems |
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| FDLS: Where Does All That Money Come From? |
| Published: May 6, 2008, 10:39 am |
| Tags: Guest Blog |
| [It seems there is daily breaking news out of Texas and the FLDS polygamy story. Lucky for Crime Rant, we have a great friend and source covering this whacky, evil story for us. Here is Stephen Singular's latest reportage from the frontlines of the war between the FDLS and the U.S. government. As you know, Stephen's book, WHEN MEN BECOME GODS, |
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| AALL Spectrum Seeks Annual Meeting Reviewers |
| Published: May 6, 2008, 3:51 am |
| Tags: Library Associations, Meetings, News |
| Publication opportunity posting from Mark Estes, AALL Spectrum Editorial Director: AALL Spectrum seeks people to write reviews of selected educational sessions at the Annual Meeting in Portland for publication in the September/October issue of Spectrum. The copy deadline for the... |
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| Survey of Library eBook Use |
| Published: May 6, 2008, 3:43 am |
| Tags: Digital Collections |
| Primary Research Group has published Library Use of E-books, 2008-09 Edition, (ISBN 1-57440-101-7; $75.00). Data in the report are based on a survey of 75 academic, public and special libraries. Librarians detail their plans on how they plan to develop... |
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| PriceWaterHouseCoopers Releases It's 2007 Securities Litigation Study |
| Published: May 6, 2008, 3:39 am |
| Tags: Think Tank Reports |
| From the report (pdf): After a two-year decline and a sluggish start to the year, total federal class actions filed in 2007 against foreign and domestic companies increased once more, reversing the previous downturn. Not surprisingly, much of the filing... |
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| CRS Report on Presidential Claims of Executive Privilege |
| Published: May 6, 2008, 3:38 am |
| Tags: Gov Docs |
| The CRS Report Presidential Claims of Executive Privilege: History, Law, Practice and Recent Developments (pdf) has been updated (dated April 16, 2008). It includes an appendix listing presidential claims of executive priviledge from the Kennedy Administration through the George W.... |
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