Blood Money or Not? You decide.

After those who have lost their lives to a murderer, a genocide, war, and natural disasters, isn’t it true that in many cases especially if it’s high profile, that we find a book written about it? I guess I’m just getting tired of all those criticizing Amber Frey for having written a book on her experience and her involvement in the Scott Peterson trial. I’m wondering why she is being singled out here.

Have we forgotten about Michael Fleeman, the author of five books based on True Crime stories – one of which is written about the murder of Laci Peterson?

Have we forgotten about Brad Knight, the author of Laci Peterson : The Whole Story which also came out as an e-book as well?

Have we failed to acknowledge Roger Young, the director of the movie, “Perfect Husband – The Laci Peterson Story” among the producers and all those involved that made it possible?

What about Clifford L. Linedecker? It was he who was responsible for The Murder of Laci Peterson: The Inside Story of What Really Happened amongst several other “True Crime Story” books including the Civil War!! How many lives were lost there? How much money did he make off of them?

What about the publishers of all these books? Shouldn’t they too be among the “guilty” of those financially gaining off of the death of others?

I bet you all forgot about Aphrodite Jones as well. She is a True Crime author.

“The first step to fighting crime is to try to understand it. In my books, I provide a psychological profile that will allow us to get inside the minds of the killers and analyze the victims upon which they prey. I ask my audience to read between the lines, to examine the statements of killers, cops, lawyers, and victims, so they might better recognize the warning signs that can lead to needless brutality.”

Remember Michael Peterson? He murdered his wife too, and Aphrodite Jones covered his trial and conviction in the book, “A Perfect Husband”. And as we speak, this woman is writing a book that covers the entire Scott Peterson trial. It should be out soon.

Now, here we have twenty-six pages of True Crime Story authors and their books! And you and I both know that there’s more out there that are not covered on this site!

Shall we say another one with blood on her hands to be the famous Ann Rule?

Ann Rule

“Ann Rule is regarded by many as the foremost true crime writer in America, and the author responsible for the genre as it exists today. She came to her career with a solid background in law enforcement and the criminal justice system. Both her grandfather and her uncle were Michigan sheriffs, her cousin was a Prosecuting Attorney and another uncle was the Medical Examiner. Raised in that environment, she grew up wanting to work in law enforcement herself. She is a former Seattle Policewoman, former caseworker for the Washington State Department of Public Assistance, former student intern at the Oregon State Training School for Girls.

Ann has been a full-time true crime writer since 1969. Over the past 30 years, she has published 20 books and 1400 articles, mostly on criminal cases.

Ann’s books deal with three areas: the victims’ stories; the detectives and prosecutors and how they solve their cases with old fashioned police work and modern forensic science, and the killers’ lives. She tries to
go back to the killers’ early childhood, and even back into their family histories to find some of the genesis of their behavior. She spends many months researching her books, beginning with the trial and with many subsequent visits to the locale where the crimes occurred. Once she has finished her research, she returns to her office to write her books.

Ann is active in support groups for victims of violent crimes and their families, in the Y.W.C.A.’s program to help battered and abused women, and in Childhelp and Childhaven, support groups for children.

Ann’s hobbies often take a backseat to her writing, but she has many interests. She loves animals and has two dogs and five cats at last count. She loves to garden, and collects “way too many things,” including: antique bottles and pill boxes, miniature cars, cobalt blue glass, police
paraphernalia, wind chimes, and teddy bears. She is still working on her dollhouse, a rather unusual one–a house of ill repute. She tries to walk two or three miles every morning before she starts writing, and loves to beach comb and go to second-hand stores.”

Feel free to read the rest of her biography.

The amount of books published just on Amazon.com alone under the category, TRUE CRIME is never ending – page after page! These books wouldn’t be out there if people didn’t like to read them. Should the readers be just as “guilty” for contributing and encouraging all these “greedy and insensitive” authors?

And this is not even the tip of the iceberg!

Remember the Holocaust? How many died? There’s a lot of debate regarding how
many Jewish people died during this tragedy. Everybody gives a different number all the way from 74,000 deaths to 8 million according to the author of this website.
We all know how much printed material and films came out of this genocide. And I don’t want to hear that books were published and movies were made for educational purposes. While that is true, why wouldn’t a book written about Laci Peterson be educational? If anything, couldn’t women get something out of it? Why belittle her death and write it off as a book for “fun”, but a book on the Holocaust — an educational read? What? That doesn’t make any sense!

Full Metal Jacket

More than 38 million people died in WWII. I would be here all day long just covering all the books and movies released following this war. Not just this war, but what about all the other wars in history. What about all the books and movies made as a result of them? I saw the movie, “Saving Private Ryan” and “Full Metal Jacket”. Does that make me a supporter of those who make “profit off dead people”? Am I just as bad as Amber Frey?

And last but not least, from watching CNN tonight, I discovered a book that just came out “intended to educate American people” on Al Qaida. More blood money?

And, surely enough, we can’t forget the infamous….

I wonder if you get my point now? Several people dead; several people made money. Everything is education whether it be attributed to the death of millions or just one person. That’s why we watch the news. Information is knowledge. While there are many sickos out there who “get off” on reading about the gruesome details and viewing graphic pictures of those who died in the hands of a murderer, I’d like to believe that most of us don’t.

Just wait until the books and movies start coming out about the recent Earthquake/Tsunami disaster in Asia….

With that being said, can we try to cut a little slack for Ms Frey?