But then again, with hindsight, I could probably write something similar about a dozen other prisoners I knew, and none of those men has been killing and butchering.Finally, could anyone have predicted Scripps’s killings, prevented them? I cannot see how on either count. He skipped a home leave, but he was only months away from [...]

She liked to dance and talk about sex and eat enough meat for two (at school she had been called “Spaghetti” for her lean-bodied voracity). People spotted her bobbed hair through crowds: “Sometimes I had a sense that going out with her was like going out with a rock star,” says Paley.Chadwick’s image had long [...]

I’ve been trying to get the sheriff to let me into his files because he’s got a whole cabinet of it. But he’s running for re-election and he’s worried he’ll lose face if people know he’s been collecting this information.”Not that he’d be likely to lose any credibility with the electorate of Rachel itself. The [...]

Tears began to run down my cheeks and I reached out to pick up the cold body. I held it in my arms and cried out against this inhumanity and unfairness. I cursed the gods for my treasure.”Two and a half years later, waiting to hang in Changi jail in Singapore for the murder of [...]

One can drive the 150 miles across the Nevada desert from Las Vegas and not see another living thing for hours. The new area is not yet quite to her liking: “The trouble is that wild flowers get squeezed out by the prolific grass, and they find the soil a bit rich.”The Kinniments have achieved [...]

Laizer denounces the former as “a cynical exercise in realpolitik”; as for the latter, “briefly both safe and a haven, it soon became neither.”The Iraqi Kurds had no choice but to head for Turkey. In her recent book, Martyrs, Traitors and Patriots (Zed Books, pounds 12.95), Laizer describes their tortuous journey: “It was like passing [...]