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Oct 9, 2024 | 
havenmagazines.com | Tanya Smith |Mikita Brottman |Wright Thompson |Howard Blum
NEVER SAW ME COMING By Tanya Smith Tanya Smith, a former tech-savvy prodigy turned high-profile criminal, tells the story of her transformation and her daring fight against a lengthy prison sentence. Even knowing she was a criminal, I found myself em- pathizing with her story - the challenges of overcoming stereotypes and offers a distinctive insight into her life and decisions, making her a unique and compelling voice in the true crime genre.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
airmail.news | Howard Blum
Part VIII of a series. Read Part I here, Part II here, Part III here, Part IV here, Part V here, Part VI here, and Part VII here. Ever try dodging a bullet? That’s a challenge, all right. But suppose you need to dodge five bullets. And each of the five shooters has a long gun aimed straight at your heart. Oh, and you’re strapped tight to a chair, to boot. But that’s how things could roll in Idaho in a death penalty case. Don’t like the odds?
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | Howard Blum
Howard Blum, a former New York Times reporter, is the author of “When the Night Comes Falling: A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders,” out this week. Even the murder house is gone. The three-story house on King Road in Moscow, Idaho, has been demolished.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
benningtonbanner.com | Howard Blum
Even the murder house is gone. The three-story house on King Road in Moscow, Idaho, has been demolished. Just a stone’s throw from the University of Idaho campus, it was the residence where four students — Ethan Chapin, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Madison Mogen — were brutally murdered by a knife-wielding intruder in the pre-dawn darkness on Nov. 13, 2022. But then about a year later, on orders from the university, the bulldozers arrived.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Howard Blum |David Grann |Bill Maher
Maher calls out idiocy wherever he sees it, with a comedic delivery that veers between a stiletto and a sledgehammer. The comedian argues that the arts of moderation and common sense must be reinvigorated. Some people are born snarky, some become snarky, and some have snarkiness thrust upon them. Judging from this book, Maher—host of HBO’s Real Time program and author of The New New Rules and When You Ride Alone, You Ride With bin Laden—is all three.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
dailymail.co.uk | Howard Blum
I am standing at 1122 King Road in Moscow, Idaho, staring at the vacant lot where the murder house once stood. The drab, gray three-story home was demolished in December on orders from the University of Idaho on the belief that its destruction would exorcise the demons still swirling in this tiny college town after November 13, 2022.
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Jun 22, 2024 | 
nypost.com | Howard Blum
On the morning of Nov. 13, 2022, four University of Idaho students were found dead, hacked to death, in their off-campus house. No one understood why, or who was responsible. Then, nearly a month later, the FBI began zeroing in on a suspect: Bryan Kohberger, a 28-year-old graduate student in criminology at a nearby university. Only now Kohberger, accompanied by his father, was driving home to Pennsylvania for the Christmas break.
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
airmail.news | Adam Kirsch |Howard Blum |Kate Wills |Trevor Cheney
NIMBY FOR THE 1 PERCENT PICKET YOUR BATTLES A SCOUNDREL IN THE COURT (NOT THAT ONE!) CHANGING OF THE GUARD FAST TIMES IN MAGIC CITY THE MIGHTY QUINN HOLLYWOOD NOIR BUT, WAIT, THERE’S MORE! Issue No. 250 The View from Here Blocking traffic. Throwing soup at the Mona Lisa. Lighting oneself on fire. Radical acts of protest are guaranteed to make headlines. But do they work?
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
airmail.news | Howard Blum
Part VII of a series. Read Part I here, Part II here, Part III here, Part IV here, Part V here, and Part VI here. Every doctor takes the pledge: Do no harm. It’s damn good advice for any trial lawyer too. Go into the courtroom and say the wrong thing, or maybe don’t say the right thing; come in too hard-charging, or too deferential—screw up, and your client pays the price. Especially when it’s a capital case. And if it’s a death-penalty case in Idaho, the stakes are even higher.
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Feb 16, 2024 | 
airmail.news | Howard Blum
Beverly Hills Spy: The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack Pearl Harbor by Ronald Drabkin All spy stories are fundamentally tales of betrayal, but even in that amoral world, a particularly disreputable niche is reserved for the double agent. This is the operative who, as a British aristocrat once put it in a condemning speech to Parliament, is both “hunting with the hounds and running with the fox.” That is, his loyalties are all over the place, sheer anarchy.
