Obsessed with True Crime discussion

I've been dissatisfied for a long time with the "Survivor's Memoirs" shelf because it included people who directly survived criminal assaults, the friends and families of victims, and friends and family of the criminals. From now on I am only adding books to "Survivor's Memoirs" if they were written by people who are literally survivors -- like Lisa McVey, the only person who got away from Bobby Joe Long alive -- or someone like Linda Lovelace who personally survived years of beatings, threats and being trafficked by her fake husband, Chuck Traynor.

Meanwhile, family and friends of victims, like John Walsh, and family and friends of criminals, like Lionel Dahmer, are going under "Family and Friends." There are a lot of those but they are sort of a special niche. Some people, like Cathy Wilson, obviously fit under both -- she knew her husband was a stalker and wife-beater but she had no idea he was a serial killer.

Oh, and I was startled to realize that there was no shelf devoted to illegal gambling operations. So now we have the "Gambling" shelf.

I started one for Chandra Levy, today, too, having found a third book on her case in the GR database.

Fishface wrote: "I started one for Chandra Levy, today, too, having found a third book on her case in the GR database."

The reporters who wrote Finding Chandra wrote a very good book on the subject. BUT something happened with the guy arrested and they police never really said why the conviction was overturned etc...

I met both of them (reporters) they did a lunch talk with sisters in crime when the book came out.

All that said, one more comment on the case. My friend Lisa had a dream during that time that Chandra's body was in a culvert somewhere -- I forget where) and she called the FBI. Needless to say, it was just a dream....

I enjoyed Finding Chandra: A True Washington Murder Mystery too.

I discovered another book about the Walter McMillian case, and I started a shelf for him in keeping with my ridig rule about giving a shelf to anyone who has more than one TC book written about him...

Not flebixle at all!

Blsat, I did it again! This is the cruel reality of typing with two fingers...

Why are you typing with two figners?

It's the only way I know how to do it.

I have been thinking hard about cases to add more titles to the "paranormal" shelf but I know some readers here can add more titles than I ever could. This is a pretty wide net I'm casting; it includes the memoirs of psychic detectives like Noreen Renier's A Mind For Murder: the Real-Life Files of a Psychic Investigator, cases that seems to involve unearthly beings like Sarchie's Beware the Night, occult-tinged murders like the one in The Man Who Wanted Seven Wives and cases with an occult overlay that had not that much to do with the crime itself, like Whisper to the Black Candle: Voodoo, Murder, and the Case of Anjette Lyles. Also, of course, flat-out ritual crimes like the ones in Buried Secrets: A True Story of Drug Running, Black Magic, and Human Sacrifice.

Please feel free to add any titles you are aware of!