Angela Blackmoore, a woman from Christchurch in New Zealand, was murdered in 1995. In 2019, Jeremy Powell confessed to the killing.
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Crime Articles
Read all of Geek Native's posts about Crime. This collection covers topics in Tabletop & RPGs, Books, and Geek Stuff.
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Pandasaurus Games’ warehouse robbed; Kickstarter exclusives stolen
In a Kickstarter update titled You’re not going to believe this, but…, Pandasaurus Games has revealed their warehouse has been broken into and games were stolen.
Dark deeds and deadly crime: Humble lures you in with a crime noir fiction deal
The Stephen King Sampler, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest and other darkly criminal books help support the non-profit ACLU at Humble Bundle.
Hardboiled Radio: A review of Golden Age radio plays
On October 30th 1938, Americans panicked. They ran screaming into the streets and many fled their cities. It was chaos.
$60, 000 Pokemon card lost in the post
Have you ever had an ebay seller swear to you that your auction win is in the mail?
$1.4m worth of rare Batman comics go missing
Rand Lawrence is the Comic Art Consignment Director at Pedigree Comics and therefore knows a thing or two about comics.
Stabbed seven times after a Magic: The Gathering fight
The St. Cloud Police department are reporting at Elia Creech, a 31-year old Magic: The Gathering player, called them after stabbing someone seven times after argueing about the game. His 20-year-old friend and he had been playing over night on Friday when a fight broke out. At first Creech used a rubber mallet as a […]
How D&D is played in US prisons
Vice Media’s Waypoint has a series on prison culture and we’re looking at D&D. Some prisoners are able to use the hobby to hold their lives together. It turns out that Dungeons & Dragons is more common in prisons in America than you might have suspected. It is likely that most lock-ups have at least […]
Short film: Manifold
Anthony Scott Burns short films teases us a with blend of crime drama and sci-fi. It could be something out of Fringe except we’re left to piece things together – even more so than usual. Time for another? Click this teleport link and you’ll be taken over to a randomly selected short film.
Real life superheroes tackle assailant in supermarket brawl
In the supermarket Tesco in Musselburgh, Scotland, Robin was attacked by a 21-year old man. Fortunately for Robin, Batman was nearby and came to his rescue. Assisting Batman was David Hasselhoff and a Smurf. As local police tweeted – you couldn’t script it. Robin assaulted, police called, collective assisted our foot chase, minor upset to […]
