by Hank Nuwer | Aug 18, 2026 | Alaska Tales, True Crime
When the News Was the Editor By Hank Nuwer Top photo is Ken Noblit It’s an unwritten law in the newsroom. Journalists cover the news, but never become the news. But back in 1988, the editorial staff of the Fairbanks News-Miner got a huge shock. The crime reporters had...
by Hank Nuwer | Aug 6, 2026 | Humor, True Crime
Photo: Louis Kenneth Neu by Hank Nuwer One casualty of shrinking newspapers is the disappearance of wonderfully weird stories that once filled their pages. When a murderer named Louis Kenneth Neu went to the gallows in Louisiana in 1935, the Indianapolis Star reported...
by Hank Nuwer | Aug 5, 2026 | Kurt Vonnegut: The Man in the Hole, True Crime, Uncategorized
By Hank Nuwer, excerpt from “Kurt Vonnegut: The Man in the Hole. A Life of Reinvention.” In-progress bio by Hank Nuwer Preface: Was Edith Vonnegut’s death a suicide? Due to the gravity of a person leaving this life by suicide,...
by Hank Nuwer | Aug 1, 2026 | Kurt Vonnegut: The Man in the Hole, True Crime
Excerpt from a biography-in-progress by Hank Nuwer: “Poor Old Edgar Derby” “Kurt Vonnegut: The Man in the Hole. A Life of Reinvention.” by Hank Nuwer Chapter: “Poor Old Edgar Derby”. Catch an error? Suggest any changes? By all means, write...
by Hank Nuwer | Jul 22, 2026 | Creative Writing, Hazing, True Crime
By Hank Nuwer: The details and facts in this essay were taken from testimony delivered by members of KAS on October 12 and October 16, 1873, at a two-day coroner’s inquest in Ithaca, New York,. Charles Wason.. Mortimer Marcellus Leggett arrived at Cornell...
by Hank Nuwer | Jul 22, 2026 | Creative Writing, Hazing, True Crime
Carl Dingens (team photo), Row Two, Blonde hair, second from right Carl L. Dingens, Cornell 1896: Carl Louis Dingens died in Buffalo on April 30, 1927..He was born in Buffalo March 22, 1873, the son of Joseph A. and Julia G. Dingens. He attended Canisius School...
