Examining the world of solved and unsolved cases.
DISCOVERY: At 5:30pm on April 7, 2011, a motorist travelling along US Highway 12 just outside Morton, Lewis County, Washington pulled over to take a break. While parked some 100 yards near a logging road in the Peterman Hill area, they noticed partial skeletal remains several hundred yards off the road. AUTOPSY: Upon the remains
EARLY LIFE: Jennifer Hillier-Penney grew up in the small Newfoundland town of St. Lunaire-Griquet, located on the province’s Great Northern Peninsula. One of seven children – which included her brothers, Glen and Gary, and a sister named Yvonne – she experienced a childhood filled with large amounts of love. While in high school, Jennifer met
EARLY LIFE: Carl J. Holland Jr. was born on September 30, 1959. Growing up, he was one of three siblings, which included a sister named Rhonda and a brother. According to Rhonda, Carl was a good brother who was always there for her whenever she needed his help. At the time of his disappearance, he was
DISCOVERY: On April 13, 1992, a local sheriff and workers from the State Highway Department came upon the decomposed body of a woman in a ditch along the southbound side of I-90. The body was located near mile marker 5, approximately five miles south of the border between Wyoming and Montana. AUTOPSY: Upon Jane Doe’s
This reviewer has read numerous true crime books, primarily non-fiction. Oftentimes, they can be filled with over-dramatizations or they try to sensationalize the events covered. Not only does this tend to take away from the book itself, but it makes light of the events and the crimes – often murders – that occurred. That’s something
