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New Case, New Blog Item

New Case, New Blog Item

Latest update on our newest true crime project: the 1938 murder of Reverend Charles Lee, a second cousin of Robert E. Lee, on St. Simons Island, Ga., as he prepared his Sunday sermon, a killing that generated national headlines (...

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Events & Appearances

Stay up-to-date on my upcoming events as I promote both Drifting into Darkness and Met Her on the Mountain.

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Met Her on the Mountain

Met Her on the Mountain

In the interest of due journalistic diligence for this piece for the North Carolina Assembly ( My 50-Year Obsession with an Unsolved Mountain Murder), I visited Richard Johnson earlier this week at the Nash Correctional Institute in eastern North Carolina, a trip not...

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Ted and Dale Rosengarten

Ted and Dale Rosengarten

Last month my wife and I traveled to the Spoleto music festival in Charleston. S.C., in part to celebrate our wedding anniversary (43). While there, we also met with my collaborators in our latest, cold case, nonfiction project: “Murder in the Rectory.” For now, I’ll...

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True Crime: An Immersive Theatrical Experience

True Crime: An Immersive Theatrical Experience

There are few things I like more than setting my feet on the soil of Madison County, especially after a long absence. A part of me will always be there. I’m recently back from an eventful, long weekend in Hot Springs, Marshall and Mars Hill, where the leaves were near...

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Pinsky appears on Oxygen Sat. 4/29 at 9 pm

As I hoped, I got a decent amount of screen time last night on CNBC's "Blood & Money" episode on the Hood murders in the 1990s, which I covered for the LA Times. The episode will be rebroadcast Sat., April 29, on the Oxygen network, at 9 p.m. Eastern, 8 Central. I am...

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Law & Order, Blood & Money – and Me: Dun-Dun

As you may remember, I posted a blog item here last August about a quick trip I made to Southern California. There I taped an interview for a new true crime streaming and cable series. It’s called Blood & Money, and it’s from Dick Wolf Entertainment, the creators...

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An Intriguing Development

Recently, I was contacted by two students from Shepherd University in West Virginia, Devin Mattei and Hailey Knotts. They informed me that their English 102 class is focusing on true crime this semester, and the students have been given the task of following one case...

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Looking At the Origins of Modern True Crime Writing

Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century Truman Capote’s groundbreaking, nonfiction classic, In Cold Blood—a gripping account of the 1959 slaughter of a wealthy Kansas farm family— instantly established the writer’s...

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My Latest Book Tour

Follow along on my latest book tour as I attend the annual Decatur Book Festival in Decatur, Georgia and return to Troy University for a speaking session.

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A Return to Madison County

I went back to Madison County for the rededication of the Anderson Rosenwald School in the Long Ridge neighborhood, just outside Mars Hill.

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The Writer as Sleuth

Here, I discuss that rarified category of true crime books that I call “The Writer as Sleuth.” That is, where the author feels compelled to actively engage with the story – to do rather than simply describe.

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