Today we are once again talking about murder: the taking of a human life by another person without a provable and justifiable self-defense argument. Today, most people probably get their knowledge of crime fighting and police work from television and movies: A world where either time, technology and storyline is more advanced than in reality…
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When I was in ninth grade, my mom had a man she’d been flirting with move into our house while he “got back on his feet.” He travelled all the way from Oregon to our house, carrying a couple gifts. A Oregon mascot that was green and vaguely cute. Stiff furred. A jersey again with…
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The world of stamp collecting doesn’t seem like a world of intrigue and crime, a place where people end up dead in a car in Maine. But some people think that’s exactly what happened to Massachusetts man James Arlington Cassidy Stamp collecting has been a hobby since 1840, which is when the first pre-paid stamp,…
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I’m just going to put it out there: crime is stupid and murder? That’s beyond stupid. And if you’re murdering kids or women or people who are marginalized or oppressed? I am just not good with you. I have not achieved the enlightened state that allows me to still love people who terrorize other people….
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Giant, furry cryptids tromping around our world? Uncaptured? Not discovered by scientists? Maybe? Maybe not? But how about the story of Portlock, Alaska, a whole town that allegedly up and moved after a serial killing Bigfoot’s terrorizing murder spree? So creepy. Today we explore Portlock and Bigfoot. SOURCES Dolezal, R. “Portlock: Home of a Sasquatch?” Anchorage…
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Last week we talked about Danny Paquette, a NH man who obviously had his share of troubles and how he was murdered by a single shot fired at great range one Saturday when he was working in his birthday. There are a lot of Paquettes in New Hampshire, but this one poor family had more…
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Last week, we talked about a murder that hit a little close to home for my family. It was the murder of Pamela Mason, a kid who was killed by Edward Coolidge. This week, we go into a New Hampshire family that was truly haunted by deaths and murders. The Paquettes. And we talk about…
Read MoreIt’s 1963, winter, and snowing lightly, and my mom is in a parking lot in her car. It’s an industrial parking lot where her husband’s uncle’s trucking company is located. It was once the largest trucking company in New England and my dad worked there as a mechanic and eventually a truck driver. My mom’s…
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It’s 1963, winter, and snowing lightly, and my mom is in a parking lot in her car. It’s an industrial parking lot where her husband’s uncle’s trucking company is located. It was once the largest trucking company in New England and my dad worked there as a mechanic and eventually a truck driver. My mom’s…
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Last week we started our two-part series about Leslie Spellman, a young woman on a hiking adventure whose body was found in a garden on the island where we live in Maine back in the 1970s and this week we continue that story with a little more detail. This is the story of Leslie E….
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