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How to Avoid Murder While Using Dating Apps
How to Avoid Murder While Using Dating Apps

Save your life with a rare true crime + self-help hybrid. True dating app murders plus DIY secret safety tips.

2023

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Karen Shelton
Karen Shelton

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Bitchy

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Writing Responsible True Crime Helps Victims, Their Families and Society

Every case offers endless opportunities to inform, make changes, and save future lives. — The current popularity of true crime ushered in by Truman Capote in 1966 as a literary genre shows no signs of waning. Unfortunately, the general public tends to lump all true crime together into one big tragic topic fueled by real-life horrors and nightmares. They mistake it for gory, disrespectful…

Bitchy

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Writing Responsible True Crime Helps Victims, Their Families and Society
Writing Responsible True Crime Helps Victims, Their Families and Society
Bitchy

4 min read


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Bouncin’ and Behavin’ Blogs

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Predators Hiding in Uniform — No Women Are Really Safe Anywhere

The misuse of power — real or fake — can destroy innocent lives — One of my very best female friends met a tall, handsome police officer while she was having lunch with a co-worker at a local diner. A casual meetup extended into intimate drinks and dinner. Their evening ended with Camille’s new male friend drugging her, beating her bloody, and raping her…

Women

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Predators Hiding In Uniform — No Women Are Really Safe Anywhere
Predators Hiding In Uniform — No Women Are Really Safe Anywhere
Women

8 min read


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Veritas True Crime

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Missouri Man Convicted At 14 Of Killing Mom Gets Parole

He served 23 years in prison for a murder he swears he didn’t commit. Hopewell, Missouri, is a charming little unincorporated rural community nestled in the Ozark foothills in Washington County, approximately 70 miles southwest of St. Louis. It features outdoor recreational activities, scenic wonders, and a small but quaint…

True Crime

8 min read

Missouri Man Convicted At 14 Of Killing Mom Gets Parole
Missouri Man Convicted At 14 Of Killing Mom Gets Parole
True Crime

8 min read


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Bitchy

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TikTokers are Romanticizing the Stay- at-Home-Girlfriend Experience

It’s a disturbing, regressive, anti-feminist fantasy trend. — When I first discovered the stay-at-home-girlfriend (SAHG) viral trend on TikTok, I thought it was a new form of entertainment. I just couldn’t look away as I watched several of the videos. I’m the last person who ever intentionally judges anyone for how they live their lives, but what I…

Bitchy

7 min read

TikTokers are Romanticizing the Stay- at-Home-Girlfriend Experience
TikTokers are Romanticizing the Stay- at-Home-Girlfriend Experience
Bitchy

7 min read


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Bitchy

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Caitlin Bernard Performed an Abortion on a 10-year-old Rape Victim

What happened next is an abomination. — Three days after the US Supreme Court issued its historic decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Dr. Caitlin Bernard, a highly respected Indianapolis obstetrician-gynecologist, took a phone call from a colleague in Ohio to ask for her help. The physician, who specialized in child abuse cases, had just examined a…

Feminism

6 min read

Caitlin Bernard Performed an Abortion on a 10-year-old Rape Victim
Caitlin Bernard Performed an Abortion on a 10-year-old Rape Victim
Feminism

6 min read


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CrimeBeat

·2 days ago

Did Sierra Halseth Know The Consequences Of Her Brutal Actions?

How does an Alpha-Gen teenager wind up committing murder? — The horrific death of 45-year-old Daniel Halseth is centered as much on the motives, mindset, and manipulations of his killers — daughter Sierra Halseth, 16, and boyfriend Aaron Guerrero, 18 — as it is on the grisly details of his murder. The shocking case became Internationally famous when the young…

Life

8 min read

Did Sierra Halseth Know The Consequences Of Her Brutal Actions?
Did Sierra Halseth Know The Consequences Of Her Brutal Actions?
Life

8 min read


4 days ago

…ey’re preoccupied staring at the hurdles, rather than jumping over them. I get it. I’ve been there. My breakthrough came after I vowed, “You know what, I’m going to stop telling people I want to write until I actually write something.”

You Don’t Need Anyone’s Permission To Start
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Sean Kernan

Hi Sean,

Hi Sean, This is great advice. For years I told people I was going to write a book. But I didn't. People would bug me constantly...have you written your book yet? I got sick of hearing about it. …

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Heroes of History

·Sep 22

No Honor Amongst Thieves

A 1850s tragedy fueled by stupidity, greed, lies, deceit and betrayal. — The Reverend George Edward Hollest, his wife Caroline, and their two teenage sons lived happily in a lovely two-story parsonage. The couple were well-liked and admired in the community for their charitable activities. The family’s residence was isolated, 100 yards from the closest neighbor on the western edge of Frimley…

History

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No Honor Amongst Thieves
No Honor Amongst Thieves
History

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Bitchy

·Sep 18

Russell Brand Has Been Accused Of Rape, Sexual Assault and Abuse

His history of bad boy behaviors has come home to haunt him. — When you’re a big-name celebrity, many parts of your life are broadcast around the globe and that includes exposing personal dirty secrets. It was recently revealed that longtime English bad boy comedian, actor, and TV presenter Russell Brand, 48, has been the subject of a multi-year investigation by a triad…

Bitchy

4 min read

Russell Brand Has Been Accused Of Rape, Sexual Assault and Abuse
Russell Brand Has Been Accused Of Rape, Sexual Assault and Abuse
Bitchy

4 min read


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Bouncin’ and Behavin’ Blogs

·Sep 16

He Became a Celebrity, But For All the Wrong Reasons

His love of shoes rivaled even Carrie Bradshaw’s on Sex and The City — People called him the Shoe Fetish Killer. He became famous on TV’s Mind Hunter and was a focus of some of the world’s most celebrated writers, including wizard writer J.K. Rowling and true crime author Ann Rule, who penned a book about him in 1994. She christened him The Lust…

True Crime

7 min read

He Became a Celebrity, But For All the Wrong Reasons
He Became a Celebrity, But For All the Wrong Reasons
True Crime

7 min read

Karen Marie Shelton

Karen Marie Shelton

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