In this episode of Jim Harold’s Crime Scene, Jim sits down with author Lori Hellis to discuss her book Children of Darkness and Light: Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell: A Story of Murderous Faith. During her legal career, Lori worked both as a prosecutor and a public defender representing adults and juveniles in criminal matters;…
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“The Triad region ranks high in national murder statistics, but crime stories are always more interesting than numbers.” This week Jim talks with author Cathy Pickens about her latest book, True Crime Stories of the Triad. Cathy is a renaissance woman: author, lawyer, college professor (professor emerita in the McColl School of Business), crime fiction…
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Join Jim on this week’s Crime Scene as he speaks with author Sara Jordan-Heintz about The Incredible Life & Mysterious Death of Dorothy Kilgallen. Dorothy was known as a panelist on the game show “What’s My Line?” and was popular for her “Voice of Broadway” column with the Hearst papers. She was an investigative journalist,…
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Jim speaks with Wall Street Journal author Valerie Bauerlein about her research and book, The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty. Valerie tells us the true story of Alex Murdaugh’s violent downfall– the journey through Alex’s life, the night of the murders, and the investigation that culminated in…
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Today on Jim Harold’s Crime Scene, Jim interviews author B.R. Bates about her book The ‘Baby Doll’ Serial Killer: The John Eric Armstrong Homicides. John Eric Armstrong was considered sweet and unassuming, after all, he was nicknamed “Opie”. B.R. discusses the gripping story of this chameleon of a serial killer through his crimes in Detroit,…
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Author, storyteller, adoption advocate, and rock-wife (married to Weezer’s Scott Shriner) Jillian Lauren joins us this week on Jim Harold’s Crime Scene to talk about her book Behold the Monster: Confronting America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer. She discusses her unusual relationship with the psychopath, Samuel Little, while giving us insight about what led her to…
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We speak with Matt Murphy, a former senior deputy district attorney and current ABC News Legal Analyst, about his new book, The Book of Murder: A Prosecutor’s Journey Through Love and Death. Matt discusses cases from his career and how he found peace seeking justice for victims and their families. You can purchase his book…
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On this week’s Crime Scene, we have a fascinating discussion with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Rick Jervis about his book, The Devil Behind the Badge: The Horrifying Twelve Days of the Border Patrol Serial Killer. It delves into the true-crime story of a U.S. Border Patrol agent turned serial killer, the four sex workers whom he…
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Today we speak with J. Reuben Appelman, the author of the acclaimed true-crime memoir, The Kill Jar, as he tells the inside story of the “University of Idaho Murders,” where in November of 2022, four University of Idaho students were viciously stabbed to death in an off-campus house in Moscow, Idaho. You can purchase his new book While Idaho…
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Join us this week on Crime Scene as we discuss one of the most mysterious and bizarre unsolved cases of this century. Writer, filmmaker, and investigative journalist, Jake Anderson, talks with us about his new book The Vanishing at Smokestack Hollow: A Missing Family, a Desperate Plan, an Unsolved Mystery. What happened to the Jamison Family?…
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