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Top 15 Crimes

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Jim considers the following the most important and interesting crimes in American history:. 1932-1936: New York/New Jersey. The Murder of Marilyn Sheppard. 1954: Bay Village, Ohio. 1921-1927: Boston, MA. 1892: Fall River, MA. 1850: Boston, MA. John F. Kennedy Assasination. 1963: Dallas, TX. 1922-1926: New Brunswick, NJ. 1924: Boston, MA. 1921-1924: San Francisco, CA. Roland Molineux Poison Case. 1900-1904: New York City, NY. 1927: Los Angeles, CA. Mary Rogers Unsolved Murder. 1938-1841: New York City, NY.

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Amish Murder

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Welcome to the Amish Murder section of the Jim Fisher Web Site. In the history of the Amish people there has been only one individual convicted of homicide - Edward Gingerich. On March 18, 1993, Gingerich gruesomely murdered and eviscerated his wife as two of his children looked on. Who is Ed? What drove him to murder? Where is he now? Jim has investigated and answered all of these questions. Much of Ed's story is told in Jim's book Crimson Stain. This page was last updated on:. Monday, January 7, 2008.

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Forensic Science

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Jim Fisher has extensively researched the history of forensic science including the area of document examination. The Lindbergh Case: A Look Back to the Future. This is the transcript of a speech Jim wrote and delivered to the American Society of Questioned Document Examiners in August 2003, discussing the handwriting evidence in the Lindbergh Case. For more information on the handwriting evidence and its role in the trial of this famous case please see the Handwriting Evidence. Monday, January 7, 2008.

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Forensic Science

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FORENSIC LIE DETECTION: THE POLYGRAPH TECHNIQUE. Jim Fisher has extensively researched the history of forensic science. Presented here are selected, never before published articles written by Jim on the history of forensic lie detection using the polygraph technique. In this tumultuous story of the birth of the modern polygraph, the two main characters are the man who invented the polygraph and the man whom history remembers as the father of the polygraph. Find out why they are not one in the same.

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Writing

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Compiled, arranged, and edited by:. If you’re like me, you are fascinated by what writers, editors, literary agents, critics and others in the literary world have to say about writing and the writing life. Over the years I have collected thousands of quotes from literary biographies, memoirs, diaries, journals, published correspondence, author interviews, how-to books, and essays about the following aspects of the literary community: the creative process; craft. In what has become a how-to classic, Dorot...

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Murder-for-Hire

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X2026;American society and what it extracts from the body and the mind and the soul can grow very special monsters…. Most crime stories are ultimately about the doer….We are fascinated by the exact details of their crimes, but what we hope those details finally add up to is an understanding of why they did what they did….Crime writers have always known that their best subjects were completely sane. Their stories show how and why perfectly sane people do supposedly insane things. Tuesday, January 22, 2008.

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Writing

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A SUGGESTED READING LIST FOR WRITERS. Louis L’Amour, the author of classic western novels, was a self-educated man who learned many things, including how to write, from books. In his fascinating memoir, Education of a Wandering Man. He had this to say about the large, personal library he had amassed:. Judith Appelbaum, in her book, How to Get Happily Published. Notes how published writers’ journals and collections of author interviews have educated and inspired others who write:. Writers have helped me w...

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False Confessions

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Welcome to the False Confessions section of the Jim Fisher Web Site. In the late 1980's, Jim re-investigated two unrelated murders in the Pittsburgh area from the 1950's. In each case a young boy, 11 in one case 13 in the other, admitted to the murder. Both boys confessed to the same homicide detective. Both confessions were false. In his book, Fall Guys: False Confessions and the Politics of Murder. Jim explains his investigation and how, almost 40 years later, he proved their innocence.