Another case I came across while researching my book involved five Newark boys who went missing in 1978.
In 2008, one of the murderers visited a brother of one of the victims. “He said he’d become a born-again Christian and so he had to tell the truth.” That stood out for me. [...]

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“A 19th-century murder confession scrawled on the back of a piece of window molding nailed to a bedroom wall went unseen by human eyes for almost 100 years.” So begins a great article by Jennifer Wilson from The Gazette in Colorado Springs about a wonderful old case. The message, which is now on [...]

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I’ve always felt drawn to the oldest cases. In fact I’m looking back into a 1920 case that I came across while I was writing The Restless Sleep that’s been haunting me. But a few cases came to my attention recently, and one of them stood out because it started with a missing [...]

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An arrest was recently made for the Spetember 9, 1976 murder of Robert Lozano. A quote from Mark Harvey, the Baldwin Park Police detective assigned to the case, from the San Gabriel Valley Tribune article:  “The original case file was in a large safe in back of the department’s record section. “It took us a full day [...]

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