Mystery novel fiend Sarah of GalleyCat fame recently introduced me to the joy of true crime blogs. Tragically there's no blog out there by John Marr, the auteur behind brilliant true crime zine Murder Can Be Fun. But there are people like ultra-intense Steve Huff, recently picked by Rolling Stone as an A-list crime blogger for his CrimeBlog. And there are the gallows-humor-loving guys who write CrimeRant, a great source of breaking news and weirdness in the world of crime.
My favorite recent post on CrimeRant was about a psychology student named Jay who has spent the last several years tattooing images of famous murderers on various parts of his body. He's got one of John Wayne Gacy – the "upstanding citizen" who killed boys and buried them in the crawl space under his house – and this lovely one of H. H. Holmes, whose bizarre house of death is the subject of the book The Devil in the White City. Next up for the Tulsa, Oklahoma-based Jay is a portrait of Albert Fish, the child killer who liked to jam needles into his cock and eat his victims' dead bodies.
True Crime Tattoos [Crimerant]
