SHIRLEY, MA– On Monday, January 9, 2017 a “riot” broke out at the maximum-security prison in Shirley, MA, the Souza Baranowski Correctional Center (SBCC). Roughly 48 inmates refused to lock down in their cells after returning from an afternoon in the prison’s gym. They were told that they were not going to be able to ...
The setting is Massachusetts. It’s early in the 1990s, and a circle of lawmakers and politicians are working together to politically capitalize on a brand new public sensation: fear-mongering around so-called “super-predators”, or young sadistic teenagers with the capacity to commit unthinkably heinous crimes. Struck with sensationalized images and stories of city gang violence, people ...
Here is something that writers don’t think enough about. If you write a true crime book, the people who were hurt so deeply by the crime are most likely still around. They’ve been trying to put the trauma behind them, sometimes for years and your book will open all the wounds for them again. That’s ...
When the public becomes fixated on something, we all know how quickly facts get left behind for popular rumors, prominent special-interest agendas and ideologies. Sometimes, public opinion is just plain wrong. That’s just what happened to Eddie O’Brien according to Margo Nash, former bar counsel of the 1995 case of a 15-year-old boy that was ...
Once I’d committed to writing the story of Eddie O’Brien’s arrest, legal journey and trial, I sat down at the computer and wondered exactly how one organizes a book. Should I start with an outline? I realized I had no idea how to organize a book. I didn’t know anyone who had written a book ...
On Thursday, August 25,2016 A former New Hampshire state trooper pleaded guilty to three charges of simple assault. He and a trooper from Massachusetts were caught on camera beating and kneeing a man they were arresting. He received a sentence of 12 months that was deferred and suspended. Meaning Trooper Andrew Monaco will not go ...
Last week New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie vetoed a bill that would have increased the sales of smart guns, guns that would only be able to be fired by authorized owners. This is the second time Christie vetoed legislation of a gun bill. In January he rejected a bill and sent it back to ...
