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8 unusual facts about True Crime


Across 110th Street

and as a background song for the video game True Crime: New York City.

I Can't Live Without My Radio

The song was featured in the film Get Rich or Die Tryin', which stars rapper 50 Cent, and was also featured in the soundtrack of the video game True Crime: New York City.

N.Y. State of Mind

The song is included on the soundtrack of video games True Crime: New York City and Saints Row 2.

Raynella Dossett Leath

True crime author Diane Fanning published Her Deadly Web in 2012 about the Raynella Dossett Leath case.

Susham Bedi

More recently in the United States she has appeared on such shows as "True Crime: New York City", "Third Watch", and "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit", and in movies such as "The Guru" (2002) and "ABCD" (1999).

True Crime

True crime is a genre of non-fiction books, magazines, film and TV shows

True Crime: New York City, a 2005 video game (sequel to Streets of LA)

When Games Attack

Each puppet would pick one of two video games that were similar such as Tekken vs Virtua Fighter or Grand Theft Auto vs True Crime: Streets of LA.


Aruba: The Tragic Untold Story of Natalee Holloway and Corruption in Paradise

Aruba: The Tragic Untold Story of Natalee Holloway and Corruption in Paradise is an autobiographical true crime book by Dave Holloway about his experiences searching for his missing daughter Natalee Holloway, co-written with R. Stephanie Good and Larry Garrison.

Avery Waddell

He was the voice of the main protagonist Marcus Reed in the 2005 video game True Crime: New York City, as well as the voice of the main protagonist in the "Build a Label" mode of the 2007 video game Def Jam: Icon.

Mario Spezi

He wrote the non-fiction, true crime book, The Monster of Florence with American author Douglas Preston.

Matthew Randazzo V

Matthew Randazzo V (born March 13, 1984) is an American true crime writer and historian originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, who currently lives on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington.

Scott Lomax

Scott Lomax (born 1982) is a campaigner and true crime author who wrote about the case of the convicted murderer Jeremy Bamber, and also about the innocence of Barry George who was acquitted of the murder of Jill Dando on 1 August 2008 after a retrial ordered by the Court of Appeal.

The Breaks

The song has been featured in a few games: the 2002 game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, the 2005 game True Crime: New York City, the 2006 game Scarface: The World Is Yours and 2011 Kinect game Dance Central 2.

The Maul and the Pear Tree

The Maul and the Pear Tree: The Ratcliffe Highway Murders, 1811 is a true crime book by British historian T. A. Critchley and mystery writer P. D. James about the Ratcliff Highway murders, published in 1971.

The Monster of Florence: A True Story

The Monster of Florence: A True Story is a 2008 true crime book by American thriller writer Douglas Preston and Italian journalist Mario Spezi.

The Stranger Beside Me

The Stranger Beside Me is a 1980 autobiographical and biographical true crime book written by Ann Rule about serial killer Ted Bundy, whom she knew personally before and after his arrest for a series of murders.

Thuggish Ruggish Bone

The song was included in the soundtrack of the video game True Crime: Streets of LA; and =t he second half of Layzie Bone's verse was reused on the track "Family Scriptures" on the Mo Thugs Family debut album, Family Scriptures.


see also

Ann Rule

In 2008, the Library of America selected Rule’s story "Young Love" from the book Empty Promises for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American true crime writing, True Crime: An American Anthology.

Annette O'Toole

However, in 1995, she starred in a made for TV film on the Lifetime television network based on the true crime novel "Dead by Sunset" which was written by Ann Rule.

Arthur Ellis

Arthur Ellis Awards, are Canadian awards presented to writers of crime fiction and true crime

Behind Mansion Walls

The Millionaire's Wife, by Cathy Scott, a true crime book about Barbara Kogan and her husband's murder that is featured in the June 2012 "The Killer Inside" episode.

Bondage cover

The peak era for these was the era from roughly 1959 until 1986, when, due to the Meese Commission (a contribution by Park Dietz), and the end of a few of the publishers of Detective (or "True Crime") magazines, the main era of the bondage cover ended, though there were a few issues of Detective Dragnet in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and a brief revival from about 1994 until 2000, though even then few and far between (unlike the late 1960s, when at least 2 such covers could be seen monthly.

Burl Barer

In 2012, Barer and Don Woldman, previously teamed on Outlaw Radio's True Crime Uncensored, reunited as contributors to various true crime-related specials and discussions on Hart D. Fisher's American Horrors channel, featured as part of the basic tier of channels offered on filmon.com.

Carla Hughes

This case has been explored on episodes of true crime shows Dateline NBC, Snapped, Forensic Files, Stolen Voices, Buried Secrets, Scorned: Love Kills and Fatal Attraction

Cheryl Keeton

A trial that followed her 1986 murder inspired true crime writer, Ann Rule, to write her 1995 best seller, Dead By Sunset.

David Lohr

Previously, he was senior investigative crime writer for the former CourtTV’s Crime Library and Discovery Channel, where he headed the Criminal Report at Investigation Discovery and reported on true crime cases in the news.

Glenn Chandler

Chandler was inspired by true crime and real life, and even lifted the names of characters for the series from gravestones in Maryhill Cemetery in Glasgow.

Gwendolyn Graham and Cathy Wood

However, Wood's accounts and her self portrayal as a pawn of Graham were later brought into serious question by award-winning journalist Lowell Cauffiel in his 1992 true crime book, Forever and Five Days.

James Gordon Bennett, Sr.

Bennett's account of the Helen Jewett murder in the Herald was selected by The Library of America for inclusion in the 2008 anthology True Crime.

Ken Olin

The film was based on the best selling true crime novel, Dead by Sunset which was written by true crime author Ann Rule.

Maggie Siggins

She was also the recipient of the 1986 Arthur Ellis Award for "Best true crime book" for her work A Canadian Tragedy, about the involvement of former Saskatchewan politician Colin Thatcher in the murder of his wife JoAnn Wilson.

Mark Tedeschi

Tedeschi is the author of a true crime book called Eugenia, published in 2012 by Simon & Schuster, which tells the story of Eugenia Falleni, a woman of Italian and New Zealand background who lived in Australia as a man from 1898 until she was charged with the murder of her first "wife" in 1920.

Martin Fido

Aside from his many true crime books he has also written illustrated biographies of Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, Rudyard Kipling and Oscar Wilde, and books on Agatha Christie, and Sherlock Holmes.

Murder of Thomas and Jackie Hawks

This case was investigated on TV by Aphrodite Jones in her Investigation Discovery documentary TV series True Crime with Aphrodite Jones (Season 1, episode 1), and would also be explored on the same network on two other programs: Wicked Attraction (episode "Calm Before the Storm") and Deadly Sins (episode "I'd Kill For A Sex Change").

Peggy Hettrick murder case

A&E's true crime television documentary series, Investigative Reports, produced and narrated by Bill Kurtis featured a 2004 episode, Murder Illistrated, that dealt with the Peggy Hettrick case.

Ramble House

Other titles have concerned true crime (Bill Johnson’s Satan’s Den Exposed and a collection of contemporary newspaper accounts of the Jack the Ripper murders) and American historical figures (The Amorous Intrigues & Adventures of Aaron Burr and Diary and Journal of John Surratt, Conspirator).

Riverboat Gamblers

They have also appeared on the soundtracks to the videogames Tony Hawk's American Wasteland ("Hey! Hey! Hey!"), Madden NFL 07 ("On Again Off Again"), Skate 2 ("Uh Oh!"), Rock Band 3 ("Don't Bury Me... I'm Still Not Dead"), FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage, ATV Offroad Fury 4 ("True Crime") and Need for Speed: Most Wanted ("Blue Ghosts").

Sarah Armstrong Mystery series

The Sarah Armstrong Mystery series is a fictional series created by true crime author-turned-novelist Kathryn Casey, first published by St. Martin's Minotaur in 2008.

Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters

Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters is a non-fiction true crime history by Peter Vronsky, a criminal justice historian.

Sharee Miller

The trial made national headlines; Miller’s life was profiled on A&E American Justice, Investigation Discovery's Deadly Women and on the Oxygen Channel's true crime series Snapped.

Subornation of perjury

The practice of ″horse shedding the witness″ (rehearsing testimony) is an example of such perjurious criminal conduct by an attorney, which is depicted in the true-crime novel Anatomy of a Murder (1958), by Robert Traver, and in the eponymous film (Otto Preminger, 1959), about a rape-and-murder case wherein are explored the ethical and legal problems inherent to the subornation of perjury.

Vicky Binns

Binns is the voice of animation 'Susie Pugh' and has gone on to play a guest lead in Casualty for the BBC and True Crime for ITV Her recent Theatre credits include Steph in 'The Ushers' and Annie in the classic stage play Alfie directed by David Thacker.