Sunday e-mail New Year's Eve
What to expect in 2024; five crime headlines from 2023
This one comes out on the very last day of 2023. I don’t know about you, but I’ll be quite happy to see the back of 2023. Whatever 2024 may bring, could it possibly be worse than the last few years we’ve had?
Well, whatever the year does bring, there’s one happy thought we can all share: Crime & Psychology will hit our inboxes every Sunday and every Wednesday (with the occasional extra here and there). Over the next few months, I have all kinds of fine material to share with you. Want a quick preview of all the excitement? You can look forward to breathless newsletters on offender profiling, online scams, monsters of the 19th century, the Marquis de Sade, jury decision-making, and some topics that will be a surprise to both you and me. I’m planning to start off the New Year with a bang – a piece about the murders in the Texas Killing Fields.
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Happy New Year to you.
Jason
This week’s bullet points: With 2024 is on its way, let’s take a quick and entirely superficial look back at five of the year’s most surprising crime headlines:
1. Fox News, December 18: Alabama man ‘high on mushrooms’ arrested with parrot on shoulder after fighting with Florida deputies.
2. Kiro 7 (Live. Local. In-depth), December 16: 2 robbery suspects in custody after another thief steals getaway car.
3. Global News, May 29: Naked man steals ambulance, crashes into Winnipeg cultural centre
4. Cleveland.com/news, March 28: Cleveland man gets prison for calling wrong number, leaving messages seeking hitman to kill son.
5. New York Post, March 13: What a mug: Woman named Iconic Facce sentenced for robbing bank to finance plastic surgery.