Alias Curley: A Con Man’s Story of The Little Bighorn
The Crow scout called Curley famously escaped dying with Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Others created accounts of Curley’s survival, one was an impersonator who fleeced the West.
By Nathan Ward | February 11, 2025
A Brief History of Literary Forgers and Forgery
By Bradford Morrow | January 14, 2025
How to Write a True Crime Narrative with a Co-Author Who Has Been Dead For More Than 150 Years
By Kate Winkler Dawson | January 7, 2025
The Christmas Tree King Love Triangle Murder
By James T. Bartlett | December 20, 2024
A Scandal Fit for Print: William Randolph Hearst and the Death of Legendary Producer, Thomas H. Ince
In November 1924, Ince suddenly died after boarding Hearst’s yacht. Was it ill health, bad luck or perhaps plain murder?
By Nathan Smith | November 26, 2024
The Life and Times of Gaston Means, one of the Greatest Rogues in American History
Detective, swindler, accused killer, spy. Jazz Age con man Gaston Means was all of the above. And when the son of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh was kidnapped in 1932, he concocted his most audacious fraud.
By Dean Jobb | November 14, 2024
Anthony Bourdain on the Life and Legacy of a Cook: Typhoid Mary
"Mary Mallon was a cook. And her story, first and foremost, is the story of a cook."
By Anthony Bourdain | October 15, 2024
