Criminal Law Stories

In the 1960's there a serial killer terrorized the San Francisco area. He killed at least seven people and threatened to kill many more. The actual number of his victims is still a mystery. He left cryptic messages for the police and communicated with the major papers. He called police to report his own crimes. He did just about everything possible to get caught leaving a trail of clues that all who worked on his case thought surely would trip him up. He was never identified. This is his story.

A millionaire Real Estate developer claws her way into Washington politics. But during her increasing obsession for political office she hatches a devious plan. Something in her brain told her that anything that got in her way had to be removed. This story is all about the lust for public office. It sounds, and is, crazy but it is the story about how one politician went from running from public office to becoming the most notorious outlaws ever to be known in the DC area. Her name still strikes fear in the hearts of those who knew her.

October 19, 1987. The stock market crashes killing the money mad 80's in a single afternoon. Four days later, Diane Pikel, beautiful, glamorous, and rich is on her way to her summer home and another argument with her estranged husband, Joe. Before the week is out, her body will be found 250 miles away at the bottom of a drainage ditch along the New York State thruway. Who had killed her? The answer would send a chill from lower Manhattan all the way out to Long Island's trendy beach community.. The Hampton's.

It was Texas. Home of big oil and big money. And the home of tough talking millionaires who played by there own rules and answered to no one. And the toughest of the tough were the Davis family. It was the trials(s) that rocked the Lone Star State. The State had three eyewitnesses but no murder weapon and no forensics. The man with the millions thought he could beat the rap with his millions. So could the multi millionaire get away with murder?

Either this was a horrendous crime or it was a horrendous accident. And a mystery that kept Rhode Island and the rest of the country guessing for years. It was huge news throughout the nation. It was the high society trial(s) of the century. It was like something out of a Hollywood screen play only this was real life. The time is December 21st 1980. The place is Newport Rhode Island.

The quiet resort town of Telluride Colorado nestles in the Great Rocky Mountains. Very wealthy people live there as it is one of the best kept secrets among the rich and famous. It is known for it's lack of crime. The kind of place where people leave their keys in their car and their houses unlocked. But on the morning of August 6th 1990, the quiet solitude was broken by the 911 call from a little girl by the name of Benta Schoen. The little girl said she had just awoken to find her mother dead in her bedroom from an apparent gunshot wound to the head. The girl then heads to a neighbor's house for help. When the neighbor arrives back at the expansive log house the girl lives in she finds Eva Schoen dead in her bedroom, having been dead quite some time.

It's 1958 in El Monte California, 14 miles east of Los Angeles. It is a dusty honky tonk suburb home to displaced Okeys and Pachucos. Geneva Hilliker Ellroy and her young son James moved there from Los Angeles in early '58. The house where they lived still stands there today. Gene tried to convince young James, who was 10 at the time, that it was not a skunk town but she did not convince him of that. She said I want you to live in a house, you have always lived in an apartment. Jame's relationship with his mother as what some would consider perverted. Here's this good looking Redhead walking around the house half naked most of the time and James lusted after her thru his adolescent immature sex drive. In a strange way, James got his wish of wanting his mother dead, for whom he lusted for and hated.

Should you ever find yourself in a Police station being questioned by Police with regard to a crime that has been committed, any crime that has been committed, DO NOT TALK TO THE COPS!!! It is amazing to me that people when being questioned by the Police think they can talk their way out of anything. The absolute first thing out of your mouth is "I want an Attorney" and that should be the only thing out of your mouth.

The story begins in Miami Florida in 1964. The rich and famous sip martinis from their beach side cabanas and at night listen to the tunes of Guy Lombardo. Jacques and Candy Mossler were from Houston and rich beyond their wildest dreams. Jacques had made a small fortune in the automobile finance industry and then turned that fortune into a $33 million dollar fortune by investing in banks that specialized in consumer credit after the war when everyone wanted a new a new automobile and a houseful of furniture. To say he was a brilliant financial businessman would be quite an understatement. He owned banks in Chicago and New York and had recently opened a new branch in Miami.

The time.. February 1984. The place.. Miami Florida. At the time Miami was awash in drugs and violence. But at the same time it is a magnet for beautiful people. A very beautiful 20 year old model named Rosario Gonzales suddenly vanishes into thin air while working as a cigarette girl during the Miami Gran Prix. A week later a very attractive 20 year old Miss Florida contestant named Elizabeth Kenyon leaves school one afternoon and disappears into thin air. Beth's Parents contact police and offer a $50,000 reward for her safe return. Two days later police find Beth Kenyon's car at the Miami Airport parked in a location that she couldn't have gotten into.. and the license plates are in the trunk.