Kathleen Hale

Jul 8, 2024 | vanityfair.com | Kathleen Hale

On the weekend of September 22, 2023, 4,000 women, and some men too, descended on the Orlando World Center Marriott for the sixth annual CrimeCon, described by its founder, Kevin Balfe, as a place where victims can feel “loved.”Launched in 2017, CrimeCon brings together consumers and content creators within the true-crime genre for presentations by criminology experts, law enforcement, victims, and niche celebrities, such as renowned pedophile catcher Chris Hansen.

Jun 9, 2024 | everand.com | Sheila Flynn |Kathleen Hale |Allison Brennan |Blaine Pardoe

Ann Wolbert Burgess knew she was entering uncharted territory as she descended into the bowels of the FBI’s Quantico headquarters in the late 1970s.xFirst, she was a civilian, not an agent – a psychiatric nurse specializing in rape victimology at a time when women were still widely blamed for their own sexual assaults. Secondly, Burgess was female, a rarity within the G-men-filled halls of the Virginia complex, where former athletes and ex-military alphas were the norm.