Articles in the True Crime Category
Posted in Featured, True Crime on 20 July 2008
For years I’ve wondered what was wrong with me. Ever since I was a kid I have been obsessed with all things true crime. I wanted to be a lawyer growing up and Law & Order was my favourite television show and probably still is to this day. I never really knew why I was [...]
Posted in True Crime on 4 February 2007
There is a stigma that is eternally attached to anyone who collects true crime artifacts. Sure, I have a hard time understanding why someone would pay money for the used socks of a serial killer, but I also have a hard time understanding why someone kills and animal, guts it, mounts it to their wall and calls it “art”. Same goes for people who would pay millions for a dress some starlet wore to the Oscars, a baseball signed by a major leaguer,
Posted in True Crime on 22 January 2007
Collectors of murderabilia upset me. I am sure some of them are the nicest people in the world, but I just can not understand the fascination with having something belonging to a killer or from a crime scene in your home. It would feel to much like inviting evil into my house to purchase one of these seemingly prized possesions. Maybe it’s my Irish grandma’s superstition drilled into my head, or maybe, it’s just weird. Letters written by a killer, boards from BTK’s home , serial-killer trading cards, t-shirts, actual weapons have been for sale at some time or another. Autopsy photos, you name it, someone has tried to sell it at on
Posted in True Crime on 21 January 2007
I still have a few days worth of work on this site as well as the rest of the sites that my host deleted. I would like someone to prepare a guest post for Serial-Box. It can be anything True Crime related; books, movies, cold cases, serial killers and so on. Whoever would like to [...]