It wasn’t until one day in 1998, strolling along Hollywood Boulevard, that I got stopped on the sidewalk by a guy named Jerry Schneiderman who had been both a…

The argument that erupted between us that evening felt like the climax of a John Hughes coming-of-age movie. Suddenly, a 100+ people listening to a speaker up…

If you're a fan of Quentin Tarantino movies or Elmore Leonard books, you'll love this darkly humorous, true crime thriller set in late-seventies Southern…

It was the faces that slayed you that year, when the only reason for a belly-laugh was a Robin Williams standup act.

Not all monsters are born that way. Sometimes, a freak accident changes their fate, and others down the line.

Behind every murder is a tragedy, but also a raw story where a victim intersects with a killer in the culmination of myriad events. Some writers take the…

"An entertaining true-crime period piece built around a chillingly odd sociopathic villain."—Kirkus Review

How an obscure song from the Hammer-of-the-Gods band grew from teenage anthem to the heart of Pasadena fiction

Up in the foothills was a wasteland of smoke. You could barely see, and breathing took concentration. Took coughing and eye-rubbing and delusion that we could…