Tag: D.C.

  • Author talk-October 7th

    If you have been dying to hear one of my author talks in person, and can get to Fredericksburg, VA on October 7th, you are in luck! I will be discussing my second book, Murder at the National Cathedral. A few tickets remain for the Washington Heritage Museums 2 p.m. Tea Talk. Plus, you get… →

  • D.C.’s Gunslinging Preacher

    In 1953, Reverend Genora Augustus Taylor, 44 years old, was having a rough time of his mission to convert the desperate characters in his Northwest D.C. neighborhood. His makeshift church in a former pawnshop was shut down for the rather unusual reason of only having one bathroom, so he had to preach wherever he could.… →

  • New Book-Murder at the National Cathedral

    On January 28th, my new book, Murder at the National Cathedral and Other Historic D.C. Crimes will be available for purchase! I believe I have found some interesting true crime stories from D.C.’s history that have almost been lost to time. The title takes its name from a 1944 murder that indeed happened in the… →

  • Depression-Era Lives of Crime

    While researching a case for my upcoming book on historic D.C. murders, I came across the criminal records of two suspects, William Kappel and Leo Cullen. They present a rather intriguing glimpse of Depression-Era crime (and evidence that it wasn’t hard to avoid jail time). It’s interesting that Kappel was charged with violating child labor… →

  • Slaying Over Stove Priority

    As you research historic true crimes, you come across stories that are too brief to be worked into a book chapter, but offer fascinating snapshots in time: From The Washington Evening Star, October 28 and 29, 1944: The kitchen of the Tilden Gardens Apartment Hotel saw “[a]n argument over priority on the use of a… →

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