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Women in Crime Ink is an American daily crime aggregated blog

Blog

A blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...

founded on March 10, 2008 as "a well of thoughts on crime and media issues from women criminal justice professionals and authors." The site offers original content and coverage of crime

Crime

Crime is the breach of rules or laws for which some governing authority can ultimately prescribe a conviction...

, media

Mass media

Mass media refers collectively to all media technologies which are intended to reach a large audience via mass communication. Broadcast media transmit their information electronically and comprise of television, film and radio, movies, CDs, DVDs and some other gadgets like cameras or video consoles...

, books, literature

Literature

Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...

, high-profile criminal cases and crime news.

Contributors

Women in Crime Ink has featured commentary and analyses of crime and media events by journalists, criminal justice professionals and TV personalities, including: Pulitzer prize

Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...

-winning science writer Deborah Blum

Deborah Blum

Deborah Blum is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York....

; legal analyst Anne Bremner

Anne Bremner

Anne Melani Bremner is a Seattle, Washington-based trial attorney. She has performed legal work on a number of high-profile cases, including in the murder of Meredith Kercher in Italy as legal counsel and a spokesperson for the Friends of Amanda Knox, and as the lawyer for the family of Rebecca...

; criminal profiler

Offender profiling

Offender profiling, also known as criminal profiling, is a behavioral and investigative tool that is intended to help investigators to profile unknown criminal subjects or offenders. Offender profiling is also known as criminal profiling, criminal personality profiling, criminological profiling,...

Pat Brown

Pat Brown (criminal profiler)

-Biography:Brown was born in New Jersey and moved with her family to Virginia at age 9. She has lived in Maryland since 1982.-Education:In 1981, she graduated with a liberal arts degree from the University of the State of New York...

; forensics

Forensics

Forensic science is the application of a broad spectrum of sciences to answer questions of interest to a legal system. This may be in relation to a crime or a civil action...

specialist Andrea Campbell; true crime author

Author

An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...

and novelist Kathryn Casey

Kathryn Casey

Kathryn Casey is a true crime writer, novelist and journalist. Author Ann Rule has called Casey "one of the best in the true crime genre."-Early life and education:Born in Wisconsin, Casey settled in Texas with her family in 1980...

(Sarah Armstrong Mystery series

Sarah Armstrong Mystery series

The Sarah Armstrong Mystery series is a fictional series created by true crime author-turned-novelist Kathryn Casey, first published by St. Martin's Minotaur in 2008. Booklist magazine named the first novel, Singularity, one of the top ten Best Crime Novel Debuts of 2009.- Overview :The series...

); Emmy award-winning TV news magazine producer

Television producer

The primary role of a television Producer is to allow all aspects of video production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking...

Lisa R. Cohen

Lisa R. Cohen is an Emmy award-winning television news magazine producer with more than 20 years of network news experience at ABC News and CBS News...

; TV journalist and host Diane Dimond

Diane Dimond

Diane Dimond is a television journalist, reporter and host. She is best known for her work as a correspondent on Hard Copy, Extra, and Entertainment Tonight.-Career:...

; former police officer and commentator Stacy Dittrich

Stacy Dittrich

Stacy Dittrich is an American mystery novelist, true crime author, former police detective from Ohio, law enforcement media analyst, and speaker.-Career:...

; true crime author and mystery novelist Diane Fanning

Diane Fanning

-Early life and education:Fanning was born Diane Lynn Butcher in Baltimore, Maryland. She attended Perry Hall High School, then Lynchburg College in Virginia, where she majored in chemistry.-Career:...

; legal analyst Susan Filan

Susan Filan

Susan F. Filan is Senior Legal Analyst for MSNBC, former prosecutor for the State of Connecticut, and a trial lawyer.-Early career:...

; body language expert Dr. Lillian Glass

Lillian Glass

Lillian Glass is an American communication and body language expert, media commentator and author. The books she has written incluce Toxic People, He Says She Says, and a body language book, I Know What You're Thinking. She has a monthly body language column in Cosmopolitan Magazine...

; clinical psychologist and author Michelle Golland; former prosecutor Holly Hughes; prosecutor Donna Pendergast; author, former prosecutor

Prosecutor

The prosecutor is the chief legal representative of the prosecution in countries with either the common law adversarial system, or the civil law inquisitorial system...

and TV legal analyst Robin Sax

Robin Sax

Robin Ann Sax is an author, legal analyst, victim advocate, radio host, and a former prosecutor for the State of California, County of Los Angeles and Riverside County District Attorney's Office.-Education:...

; criminal defense attorney Katherine Scardino; true crime author and journalist

Journalist

A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...

Cathy Scott

Cathy Scott is an American true crime writer and investigative journalist, born and raised in San Diego, United States growing up in nearby La Mesa, California...

; newswoman Michelle Sigona; psychotherapist and anger counselor Gina Simmons; and investigative specialist Donna Weaver.

History

Of the six original founders, including Vanessa Leggett, a writer jailed by the U.S. Justice Department for protecting sources for a book about murder victim Doris Angleton

Doris Angleton

Doris Angleton was a Texas socialite and murder victim. Doris Angleton's husband, Robert Angleton, had been accused of planning the crime...

, three remain. They are Brown, Pendergast and Weaver.

The blog's perspective on the world of crime has not gone unnoticed. In June 2009, editor Becky Bright with the Wall Street Journal called Women in Crime Ink "a blog worth reading." And National Public Radio's host Ira Flatow

Ira Flatow

Ira Flatow is a radio and television journalist and author who hosts National Public Radio's popular Science Friday. He is probably best known on TV for hosting Newton's Apple, a television science program for children and their families.-Biography:...

discussed the blog on the air in May 2010 with Deborah Blum. The Bishop Accountability organization cited as well as reprinted a 2008 Women in Crime Ink article about Rev. Gilbert Gauthe and the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic diocese of Savannah

Sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic diocese of Savannah

The sexual abuse scandal in Savannah diocese is a significant episode in the series of Catholic sex abuse cases in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Savannah United States of America.-Handling by bishop Frey:...

.

Also in May 2010, the social networking blog Betty Confidential

Betty Confidential

BettyConfidential.com is a national women’s destination online magazine. It has 2.5 million unique visitors a month. It's is 7, above glam.com, posh.com, Instyle.com, Elle.com and Allure.com. April 28, 2010, BettyConfidential won .Beating out Conde Nast’s Concierge.com, The Daily Beast and...

republished a Women in Crime Ink post written by Kathryn Casey about the beating death of University of Virginia

University of Virginia

The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...

lacrosse

Lacrosse

Lacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick, mainly played in the United States and Canada. It is a contact sport which requires padding. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh...

player Yeardley Love. It was also cited in 2008 in an LA Weekly
LA Weekly
LA Weekly is a free weekly tabloid-sized "alternative weekly" in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1978 by Editor/Publisher Jay Levin and a board of directors that included actor-producer Michael Douglas...

blog for a prison story involving Susan Atkins

Susan Atkins

Susan Denise Atkins was a convicted American murderer who was a member of the "Manson family", led by Charles Manson. Manson and his followers committed a series of nine murders at four locations in California, over a period of five weeks in the summer of 1969...

, a Manson

Charles Manson

Charles Milles Manson is an American criminal who led what became known as the Manson Family, a quasi-commune that arose in California in the late 1960s. He was found guilty of conspiracy to commit the Tate/LaBianca murders carried out by members of the group at his instruction...

follower.

Amazon Kindle

Amazon Kindle

The Amazon Kindle is an e-book reader developed by Amazon.com subsidiary Lab126 which uses wireless connectivity to enable users to shop for, download, browse, and read e-books, newspapers, magazines, blogs, and other digital media...

's store in February 2009 began offering the blog for subscription.

In 2008, Scared Monkeys Radio's "The Dana Pretzer Show" hosted a "Women in Crime" edition by featuring "the ladies of Women in Crime Ink."

External links

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