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In Cold Blood: A Dishonest Book

Truman Capote's ground-breaking "non-fiction" novel about the murder of a Kansas farm family.  We take the position that the book is not only flawed, but dishonest.by J.J. MaloneyThe publication of In...

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The Greenlease Kidnapping

Robert Cosgrove "Bobby" Greenlease, JrA sensation of 1953, $300,000 of the $600,000 paid in ransom has never been recovered.  Two police officers and a gangster are commonly thought to have stolen the...

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The Great Brinks Robbery

At the time, the Brinks heist in Boston was called "the crime of the century." The take of over $2.7 million was the largest in U.S. history, but it was the cold, calculating efficiency of the robbery...

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An Analysis of the 8th Circuit Opinion in the Firefighters Case

South Kansas City Blast Siteby J.J. MaloneyOn Oct. 30, 1998 the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied the appeal of five defendants convicted of causing the deaths of six Kansas City firefighters in...

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The Abbott Impact

Jan. 23, 2012Jack Henry AbbottJack Abbott sold himself to Norman Mailer as the “Super Convict.” Mailer turned the letters Abbott sent him into the best-selling book, In the Belly of the Beast, and...

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Prison Stories

Feb. 6, 2012Missouri State PenitentiaryJ. J. Maloney, the founder of Crime Magazine, spent 13 years in prison for a murder he committed during an armed robbery when he was 19 years old. Paroled in...

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Remembering Karl Menninger

Feb. 2, 2012Dr. Karl MenningerFormer convict and Kansas City Star reporter J.J. Maloney recalls his 17-year association with Dr. Karl Menninger, the avatar of prison reform.by J.J. MaloneyIn December,...

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The Execution Photos

Allen Lee Davis[Ed's Note: On Jan. 14, 2000, following the barrage of controversy created by the execution photos posted by Justice Shaw, Florida barred any further executions by electrocution, opting...

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The Firefighter Case: Part I

South Kanasa City Blast SiteFive innocent people were convicted in February 1997 in the deaths of six Kansas City firefighters in 1988.  These two stories run a total length of 20,000 words, and won...

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Who Shot Martin Luther King?

Examining some of the more recent theories of the crime, including allegations that there was a St. Louis conspiracy.by J. J. MaloneyAs 69-year-old James Earl Ray wasted away in a Tennessee prison -...

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