by Hank Nuwer | Sep 25, 2026 | Alaska Tales, True Crime
Last Frontier Tales Death of a Bully By Hank Nuwer, Cordova Times Norman E. Smith was a big and brawny Alaska businessman who liked to throw his considerable weight around. He was born in Veazio, Maine, on February 28, 1873. A few newspaper articles about the...
by Hank Nuwer | Sep 23, 2026 | Creative Writing, True Crime
What a two days. This is another scam I’ve been hit with. Some person unknown is impersonating an editor at a legitimate publishing house and sending form letters out like hot cakes to authors such as myself. The apparent hope of the scammer is that an author...
by Hank Nuwer | Sep 22, 2026 | True Crime
The number 737 437-1943 is a scam run by someone calling himself “Md Nadim” through XE. The scam starts when the victim tries to cancel a subscription–that does not belong to CNN, People, or any other entity. Disclaimer: The Xe Scumbag...
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,...
