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Murder Over the Holidays

December 18th, 2006 · No Comments

While researching The Restless Sleep I became obsessed with murder statistics. I’d look through reports of unsolved murders to see what patterns I could find. For instance, which neighborhoods in New York have the highest number of unsolved murders? Morrisania (Bronx), East New York (Brooklyn), and Inwood (Manhattan). Because I had researched New York’s Potter’s […]

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Race Issues in New York

November 27th, 2006 · No Comments

My numbers are rough because I don’t have access to all the information I need to be able to say these are hard numbers, but they are pretty good. In New York you’re twice as likely to be murdered if you’re black. (That’s the figure that’s rough.) However, for the United States overall in 2005, […]

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Information

October 29th, 2006 · No Comments

This is a picture of the front of the 42nd Street branch of the New York Public Library, where you no longer have to go to get certain information (although it’s a beautiful place, and you might want to go there anyway). I guess I’m old enough that it still amazes me how much information […]

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Tags: Homicide Facts · New Websites, Books and other Resources · Practical Info for Families and Friends of Victims

Hell Hath No Fury Myth

October 17th, 2006 · No Comments

Once again I heard the phrase, “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” In reality, men seem to have a harder time handling rejection. Although there are indications that homicide by strangers is increasing and homicide by intimates is decreasing, (why, I wonder? What does it mean?) here are the facts. From the U.S. […]

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