Originally published on robinjarossi.com 13 11 17 Thank you to our hosts at the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences at Salford University on Saturday. Ian Cummins invited me along to take part in the all-day event on the subject of True Crime: Fiction Is Far More True than Any Journalism….
BBC documentary talks to geo-profiler Kim Rossmo about Nude Murders
Originally posted on robinjarossi.com 6 11 17 The BBC producers of the new documentary about the 1960s Nude Killer have asked me to put them in touch with an investigative expert I know. Dr Kim Rossmo is a former detective inspector with Vancouver police. It was his most recent work…
Wantage Betjeman Literary Festival
Originally posted on robinjarossi.com 31 10 17 I met an interesting group of readers when I went to speak to the Wantage Betjeman Literary Festival, which concluded over the weekend. Among those asking me questions about the Nude Murders case were a couple of retired police officers and a former…
Catching a Serial Killer by Stephen Fulcher
Originally posted on robinjarossi.com 13 9 17 This book will leave you wondering at the injustice dished out to a detective trying to bring a vile killer to justice. You may remember Stephen Fulcher’s story from recent headlines. He was the detective superintendent who breached Police and Criminal Evidence rules…
The Ripper’s London and how it’s changed
Originally posted on robinjarossi.com on 11 7 17 London is special. Beautiful, ugly, intimate, sprawling. The capital fed my interest in writing about the 60s’ Nude Murders, to explore how the place has evolved. I was a child at the time and my memories are vivid of a Highbury still…
Ripper book featured in Mirror
Originally posted on robinjarossi.com 17 7 17 This is a double-page spread devoted to The Hunt for the 60s’ Ripper that was featured in the Daily Mirror. The early reviews on Amazon were also encouraging, including this one from an Amazon Top 500 reviewer: ‘This new book, which caught my…
Reopening Swinging London’s Nude Murders case
This was originally posted on robinjarossi.com on 2 7 17 It started as a suggestion for a new true crime magazine. Working as a freelance journalist at Mirror special projects, I wondered if there was a case we could cover that had not been written about a thousand times already….
Voice of a Killer Special: The Colonel
I was lucky to holiday in Burgundy this summer. Every afternoon I ignored the heatwave and pool outside, however. I was watching killers being interviewed on my laptop. This was homework for the new series of Voice of a Killer Special, on which I am a contributor. This CBS Reality…
Written in Blood: Karin Slaughter
I became a fan of author Karin Slaughter when I was a judge for the Crime Writers’ Association Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award a couple of years ago. This is for the year’s best thriller and her entry in 2015 was Cop Town. The story is set in Atlanta in…
Dark Son promo
An industry promo for Dark Son: The Hunt for a Serial Killer is doing the rounds. It’s a good insight into the forthcoming BBC documentary. This will be a fascinating investigation into Harold Jones’s child murders in Wales in 1921 and his potential links to the unsolved 1960s Nude Murders…