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How to Write a True Crime Narrative with a Co-Author Who Has Been Dead For More Than 150 Years

How to Write a True Crime Narrative with a Co-Author Who Has Been Dead For More Than 150 Years

Kate Winkler Dawson on re-investigating the murder that inspired an American classic.

By Kate Winkler Dawson | January 7, 2025

The Journalist and the Psychopath: The Story Behind Edward Howard Rulloff's Crimes

The Journalist and the Psychopath: The Story Behind Edward Howard Rulloff's Crimes

Ham Freeman was an Upstate New York journalist with big ambitions. Edward Howard Rulloff was a nationally notorious killer.

By Kate Winkler Dawson | October 6, 2022

How the Earliest Crime Scene Investigators Identified Murder Victims

How the Earliest Crime Scene Investigators Identified Murder Victims

A hundred years ago, a 'criminalist' deciphers the story behind a murder from a single ear.

By Kate Winkler Dawson | February 11, 2020

The Most Notorious Brain <br>in the Annals of Crime

The Most Notorious Brain
in the Annals of Crime

The Story of Edward Rulloff: Serial Killer, Genius, Specimen

By Kate Winkler Dawson | May 18, 2018

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