Skullduggery at the Vatican: The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi and the Secrets Beneath the Holy See People disappear all the time. Sometimes they leave voluntarily. Sometimes they become victims of […]
When Your Lover Wants Your Heart, Along with the Rest of Your Organs
When Your Lover Wants Your Heart, Along with the Rest of Your Organs An old warning gets recycled every time someone falls for a stranger online: if it sounds too […]
The Price of Disobedience at the Church of Sacrifice: Midnight Axe Murders
The Price of Disobedience at the Church of Sacrifice: Midnight Axe Murders In the winter dark of Cajun country, an axe moved from cabin to cabin along the railroad, as […]
A Fascination with Darkness: The Girl Who Said Satan Told Her to Pull the Trigger
A Fascination with Darkness: The Girl Who Said Satan Told Her to Pull the Trigger by M.P. Pellicer | Noir Notebook Some obsessions start small — a favorite movie, a […]
The Business of Stolen Body Parts: Inside America’s Black Market for Human Remains
The Business of Stolen Body Parts: Inside America’s Black Market for Human Remains by M.P. Pellicer | Noir Notebook Somewhere in Denver, a thief cracked open the back of a […]
Sacred Grounds Desecrated: How Murderers and Rapists Found Rest Among America’s Fallen Heroes
Sacred Grounds Desecrated: How Murderers and Rapists Found Rest Among America’s Fallen Heroes by M. P. Pellicer | Noir Notebook Once, society refused to let killers and rapists share the […]
Buried Without a Name: Two John Does, Two Forgotten Lives, and the Decades-Long Search for the Truth
Buried Without a Name: Two John Does, Two Forgotten Lives, and the Decades-Long Search for the Truth by M.P. Pellicer | Noir Notebook Two unidentified young men entered anonymous graves […]
The Unsolved Murder of JonBenét Ramsey: Suspects, False Confessions, and the Secrets Buried by Time
The Unsolved Murder of JonBenét Ramsey: Suspects, False Confessions, and the Secrets Buried by Time by M.P. Pellicer | Noir Notebook A ransom note, a child found dead in her […]
My Boyfriend the Killer: Women Who Loved Monsters and Ignored the Blood on Their Hands
My Boyfriend the Killer: Women Who Loved Monsters and Ignored the Blood on Their Hands by M.P. Pellicer | Noir Notebook They dated charming writers, poets, and smooth-talking strangers—unaware or […]
Portals of the Damned: Three Canvas Curses
Portals of the Damned: Three Canvas Curses by M.P. Pellicer | Noir Notebook Artists often admit that their most haunting creations derive from forces outside themselves. They leave us to […]
Secrets and Sins at Fall River
Secrets and Sins at Fall River by M.P. Pellicer | Noir Notebook Most historical accounts favor the notorious 1892 axe murders of Fall River, Massachusetts, attributing the grim deeds to […]
Fatal Attractions: The Dark Rituals of Suicide Shrines
Fatal Attractions: The Dark Rituals of Suicide Shrines by M.P. Pellicer | Noir Notebook The siren song of certain landmarks holds a grim, inexplicable power. In September 2017, 41-year-old Aaron […]
Visions from the Crawlspace: The Cursed Canvas of John Wayne Gacy
Visions from the Crawlspace: The Cursed Canvas of John Wayne Gacy by M.P. Pellicer | Noir Notebook If eyes serve as windows to the soul, then paintings act as a […]
The Shadow of the Murder Castle: The Malignant Curse of H.H. Holmes
The Shadow of the Murder Castle: The Malignant Curse of H.H. Holmes by M.P. Pellicer | Noir Notebook The name Herman Webster Mudgett has largely faded into the fog of […]
The Pitmaster of Baltimore: Joe Metheny’s Secret Ingredient
The Pitmaster of Baltimore: Joe Metheny’s Secret Ingredient by M.P. Pellicer | Noir Notebook On December 19, 1996, police finally shackled Joe Roy Metheny, charging the man with the brutal […]
The Sorbonne Serpent: The Chilling Afterlife of the Kobe Cannibal
The Sorbonne Serpent: The Chilling Afterlife of the Kobe Cannibal by M.P. Pellicer | Noir Notebook Born of wealth and bred in shadow, Issei Sagawa entered the world in 1949 […]
Paint, Blood, and Prophecy: When Fortune Turns Fatal
Paint, Blood, and Prophecy: When Fortune Turns Fatal by M.P. Pellicer | Noir Notebook In 2005, someone hunted down Ha “Jade” Smith and her daughter, Anita, and slaughtered them inside […]
The Architecture of Evil: Renovating the Bundy Boyhood Home
The Architecture of Evil: Renovating the Bundy Boyhood Home by M.P. Pellicer | Noir Notebook In 2016, the childhood sanctuary of a monster—located in the quiet North End of Tacoma—was […]
The Four P Killer: Stanley Baker, Robert Salem, and the Occult Shadows of the Zodiac
The Four P Killer: Stanley Baker, Robert Salem and the Occult Shadows of the Zodiac by M.P. Pellicer | Noir Notebook In the sweltering summer of 1970, 22-year-old James Michael […]
A Case with Unanswered Questions
A Case with Unanswered Questions by M.P. Pellicer | Noir Notebook Usually, a murder conviction marks the end of the investigation. But some cases linger with unanswered questions. From July 1979 to […]