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Hi, I am new to the group and I was hoping to meet other people that love to read non-fiction crime books like I do. I was born in 1986, I live in the Tulsa, Oklahoma area and graduated from Northeastern State U. in Okla. I write a blog about local murders that have happened and a facebook group so I can share information. Although my articles get about 1,000 readers, I don't get any people that discuss books or anything like that so I am hoping I do on here. I am also thinking about writing 3 books but i am not 100 percent sure I can make the time yet.

THESE ARE My top 5 True crime books in no particular order:
Hunting a psychopath/east area rapist by Richard Shelby
Most Wanted pursuing Whitey Bulger by Thomas Foley
Brutal my life in the whitey bulger gang by kevin weeks
Chasing the Devil-Green river killer by David Reichert
Mafia Prince by Phil Leonetti

Ah, welcome Eric! Tell us which crimes you are thinking about writing books about!!!

Thank you. So I've downloaded 2,000 pages of Christopher Watts case and it has like many text messages and just so much material that someone could write a complete book. I love details and I find that the best books (to me) have them so I think it could work even with the two books that have already been written.

I was thinking about writing a book about the most mysteries crimes in Oklahoma which would be about 35 of them. So people from Oklahoma could pick it up and have the stories all right there.

The other would be a personal account of opiate epidemic and criminal doctors but I as much as i would like to write about these doctors I am not sure it is what I want to do.

These are just my brainstorming ideas that I have enough material for. I have been kind of practicing doing the research and writing articles, I am not sure if I can post a link here but I will try. Here is one of the articles I've wrote about a Tulsa homicide.

Eric wrote: "I was thinking about writing a book about the most mysteries crimes in Oklahoma which would be about 35 of them. So people from Oklahoma could pick it up and have the stories all right there."

And us! We would be all over a book like that! As far as Christopher Watts goes, I'm sure there is a lot more we haven't heard about that guy yet.

I personally would LOVE to read more about the criminal doctors of the opioid epidemic. In a country where almost everyone has been touched in some way by that plague, I can't believe there wouldn't be a lot of interest in a book like that.

Eric wrote: "THESE ARE My top 5 True crime books in no particular order:
Hunting A Psychopath: The East Area Rapist / Original Night Stalker Investigation by Richard Shelby
Most Wanted: Pursuing Whitey Bulger, the Murderous Mob Chief the FBI Secretly Protected by Thomas Foley
Brutal: The Untold Story of My Life Inside Whitey Bulger's Irish Mob by kevin weeks
Chasing the Devil: My Twenty-Year Quest to Capture the Green River Killer by David Reichert
Mafia Prince: Inside America's Most Violent Crime Family and the Bloody Fall of La Cosa Nostra by Phil Leonetti "

Reposting to add links

Thank You

Eric wrote: "Thank You"

Also, I think a book about "the most mysteries crimes in Oklahoma" would be well received.

Fish, I wish I knew more about more the legal aspects about writing. I certainly don't want one of the doctors to sue me if I tell all about what his operations were like. I was thinking about just changing the name but damn I would hate to have to do that, but I don't want to get into legal troubles. I am for sure going to start on the book for Oklahoma crimes. I think it will take me about 6 months. It takes me about 6 straight hours to research and write one of my basic blog articles and the more deeper homicide articles it takes 15-20 hours. I think a lot of true crime reader will like it because it will be fresh and very detailed about crime in a state people never heard about.

Eric wrote: "I am for sure going to start on the book for Oklahoma crimes. I think it will take me about 6 months...."

There are a few books like that out there, I like them because sometimes I can't concentrate on a whole book. I just want the bare bones of a case.

for example: Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder
Milwaukee Mayhem: Murder and Mystery in the Cream City's First Century

Eric wrote: "Fish, I wish I knew more about more the legal aspects about writing. I certainly don't want one of the doctors to sue me if I tell all about what his operations were like. I was thinking about just..."

That's a tough one. If you change the names and details, the story might lose its punch, but a guy that that can afford any attorney he wants. But maybe you need to wait until they are well and truly convicted -- see Hangman: Life and Crimes of Serial Killer & Police Officer Gerard Schaefer for an example of what comes of it when a convicted criminal tries to sue you for defamation for what has been shown in court that he totally did. Another way to handle it is to say "the scuttlebutt about this guy -- unproven, but dang interesting -- is (fill in the blank)." Or the old "I don't personally know this, but" gambit: "I was told by (phony name) that after Dr. Bumblebutt killed her relative (another phony name) by giving her opioids on top of her prescribed methadone, knowing she was buying heroin off the street, that she could not get the police interested in investigating. This, if true, is a sorry state of affairs. I did find the grave and she showed me the ME's report, so that part of the story is fact."