http://markgribben.com Crime. Justice. Law. Writing. Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:52:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Updates to this website will resume very shortly. I appreciate everyone’s patience — forces outside my control have slowed down my ability to research and write. Mark http://markgribben.com/?p=377 Let’s think about time for a moment. The exercise is worth it because in 1968 a man’s freedom depended on just how accurately we tell time. As I write this there are four clocks in my immediate vicinity. The analog clock on the wall says it is about 2:14 p.m. My ... http://markgribben.com/?p=376 Back in January I was interviewed on camera for a Biography Channel show on “Murder, Inc.” It’s airing on Saturday, June 21, 2008 on the Biography Channel at 9 p.m. ET (US) and again on Sunday, June 22 at 1 a.m. It should be a good show even though I’m ... http://markgribben.com/?p=373 In 1989, Bostonian Charles Stuart called 911 and reported that he and his pregnant wife had been shot by an unidentified black gunman. Carol Stuart died from her gunshot wound; the child she was carrying lived 17 days before he was disconnected from life support by order of his father. Shortly ... http://markgribben.com/?p=372 Three men walk up a cold muddy trail lined by tall pines. It’s an icy northern California morning in January, but the chill in the air isn’t the reason that one of the three is shaking so badly he can barely walk. The young man, an Oregon-bound college student, spent the ... http://markgribben.com/?p=371 Richard Widmark, who created a villain in his first movie role who was so repellent and frightening that the actor became a star overnight, died Monday at his home in Roxbury, Conn. He was 93. As Tommy Udo, a giggling, psychopathic killer in the 1947 gangster film “Kiss of Death,” Mr. ... http://markgribben.com/?p=369 It’s not unusual that after more than 30 years in prison Charles “Zeke” Goldblum would still be asserting that he is innocent of killing George Wilhelm. One would expect Zeke, a former attorney and up-and-coming young activist in Pittsburgh politics, to spend every waking moment trying to get out of the ... http://markgribben.com/?p=368 The supernatural figures into more than a few crimes that are chronicled in The Malefactor’s Register, although most, if not all, can be laid at the feet of killers who are very much of this world. For more articles where otherworldly powers factor in otherwise “normal” murder, see: Daddy’s Little Girl Slay for ... http://markgribben.com/?p=366 Samuel L. Smithers was probably on his way to becoming a serial slayer when he was tripped up by a landlord who happened to stumble across his killing fields. At the very least, Smithers was a killer who tossed away his victims like so much dirty tissue when he ... http://markgribben.com/?p=365 A few years ago I wrote an article for The Crime Library about Christian Brando, the oldest child of actor Marlon Brando. Christian’s trial for the murder of his sister’s lover was the warm-up for the OJ Simpson case that followed not too much later. Christian ended up serving 5 years ... http://markgribben.com/?p=364