On Nov 24, 2004, William Avery Jr went to Detroit FBI agent William Beachum and stated that he wanted to discuss the 1991 murder of Marsha Blakely. Avery Jr told the agent that he changed his life, gave up drugs and wanted to come clean and clear his conscious now that he […]
Prison Stories
Shakim’s Hood- These Dudes Ain’t My Friends
” I feel like a Black Republican…. money I got coming in….can’t turn my back on the hood…I got too much love for them….can’t clean up my act up for good….got too much thug in him….probably be back in the hood…I’m like fuck it then”……”Black Republican”……..Nas featuring Jay-Z…. I been locked up out here in […]
Street Lit & True Crime
Message 2 The Streets
For the last two decades author Terrance Mcclurge has defied a thirty year federal sentence by taking a negative situation, and like a true Alchemist, he turntables it into a positive & productive situation. He has also become a real example to those at-risk youth all across America’s ghettos similar to those in Chicago that […]
Publications
The Corporation- The Rise of the Cuban Mafia
In April 1961, about 1,500 Cuban exiles trained and backed by the CIA set out to invade and overthrow the Fidel Castro regime. The Bay of Pigs operation, as it has since become notoriously known, was, of course, an unmitigated disaster—those exiles who weren’t killed by well-prepared pro-Castro forces were rounded up and imprisoned until […]
The Wild True Stories Behind Some of the Most Epic Crime Movies Ever
The critical acclaim and popularity of podcasts like My Favorite Murder and the first season of Serial, and TV shows like Making a Murderer, The Jinx, and OJ: Made in America speak to the public’s gigantic appetite for true crime. Cinema, too, mines real crime to tell compelling stories often, and has since as early […]
New Documentary on John Gotti
Almost 16 years after his 2002 death due to complications caused by throat cancer, John Gotti remains a Mafia icon. From Growing Up Gotti in the mid 2000s to the upcoming John Travolta biopic to A&E’s Gotti: Godfather & Son docu-series, which premieres May 8 at the IFC Center in New York City, true-crime […]
