Criminal

He kind of started opening up these cases like that. And was your head just exploding?

He said, I want to look at Nathaniel Hawthorne.

In 1849, he started working on a book about a woman who was known to be good at sewing and very charitable, who has an affair with a minister. She becomes pregnant and is publicly condemned for adultery.

He published The Scarlet Letter in 1850, 18 years after Sarah Cornell's death.

When you then read The Scarlet Letter and read Hester Prynne and see the parallels between Sarah Maria Cornell and Hester Prynne, it seems really clear that she was at least a very large inspiration, if not the main inspiration, for The Scarlet Letter.

As early as March 26th, one day after the kidnapper had released his daughter, the kidnapper had released Denise, reporters began to compare her to the fictional character in the 2012 crime novel by Gillian Flynn. The movie version was released in 2014 with Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike.

In Gone Girl, a man is the primary suspect in the disappearance of his wife. It then comes out that the wife staged her own disappearance and made her husband look guilty in order to get back at him for cheating on her.

At one point, an FBI agent asked Denise's lawyer, have you ever watched the movie Gone Girl? It'll explain a lot.

It wasn't just a popular narrative in the press. At one point, an FBI agent asked Denise's lawyer, have you ever watched the movie Gone Girl? It'll explain a lot.

Their conclusions were based off of fictional stories. They want to say our case was too strange to be believed.

As early as March 26th, one day after the kidnapper had released Denise, reporters began to compare her to the fictional character in the 2012 crime novel by Gillian Flynn.

In Gone Girl, a man is the primary suspect in the disappearance of his wife. It then comes out that the wife staged her own disappearance and made her husband look guilty in order to get back at him for cheating on her.

It wasn't just a popular narrative in the press. At one point, an FBI agent asked Denise's lawyer, have you ever watched the movie Gone Girl? It'll explain a lot.

They want to say our case was too strange to be believed.

I think it's unbelievable that they're basing the thing off a movie, a novel. That's shocking to me.

Even people Denise thought were her friends were sharing stories on Facebook with headlines like, Real Life Gone Girl Allegedly Staged Her Own Insane Fake Kidnapping.

He also told Misty that his car had been stolen very close to the time when a woman named Denise Huskins had been kidnapped, and that the Vallejo police had dismissed it as a Gone Girl hoax.

My face, my name was Gone Girl, you know?

And supposedly I was replicating something I didn't know anything about.

But when I did watch the movie, I mean, before that I would kind of go back and forth. I should have done this. I should have fought back. So then I'd have bruises.

So they would believe me. And I just kept battling with myself about it until I watched that movie.

I realized it didn't matter what I did or said if I had more gruesome injuries because she hit herself in the face with a hammer.

She was very dramatic when she's released, and I was told I was too calm.

So it was clear that they had decided before I was even released that they didn't believe me.

And so it didn't matter how I acted.

You can also find a link to Chris Fabricant's book, Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System.

In it, she writes, As a prosecutor, I never had the luxury of wearing sociological blinders, and I never wanted to. Race prominently stands at every intersection in America.

It shapes our legal policy, our charging decisions.

I think there is power in people seeing themselves in moments that are real.

And I think there's power and fertile soil based on that experience to be the nation we say we are on paper and to have our legal system really be that justice system.

So I hope that people are able to experience it and read it. And there are moments of extraordinary triumph and extraordinary acts of humanity and beauty that makes you feel good. And there are moments that make you feel aware. And both are necessary for us to go into this eyes wide open and walking the walk and talking the talk of justice.

In it, she writes, as a prosecutor, I never had the luxury of wearing sociological blinders, and I never wanted to.

Race prominently stands at every intersection in America. It shapes our legal policy, our charging decisions.

I think there is power in people seeing themselves in moments that are real.

And I think there's power and fertile soil based on that experience to be the nation we say we are on paper and to have our legal system really be that justice system.

So I hope that people are able to experience it and read it. And there are moments of extraordinary triumph and extraordinary acts of humanity and beauty that makes you feel good.

For more information, check out Paula Uruburu's book, American Eve.

You can learn more about Evelyn Nesbitt and Paula Uribeiru's book American Eve.

In 1979, a children's book was published called Masquerade.

The title page reads, to solve the hidden riddle you must use your eyes and find the hare in every picture that may point you to the prize.

The book was created by a British artist named Kit Williams.

The back cover of the book had a photo of the actual gold hare pendant that was hidden somewhere in Britain for the reader to find.

It's five and a half inches long, hanging from a chain.

The title page reads, to solve the hidden riddle you must use your eyes and find the hare in every picture that may point you to the prize.

I thought I must have some way in which once they open that book, they look and they look again and they look again to really get them involved. And the puzzle was really a device to do that, to make them really look at the pictures.

It must really be a real wonderful bit of treasure.

It's five and a half inches long, hanging from a chain. He said, I felt I was doing something for my own childhood.

And inscribed on the ceramic casket are the words, I am the keeper of the jewel of Masquerade, which lies waiting safe inside me for you or eternity.

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David Grann's book is The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder.

David Grann says it's possible some were as young as six years old.

David Gran says that Captain Cheap was starting to feel like he was losing control over the men on the island.

David Gran says the story of The Wager went on to inspire Herman Melville, who called it a remarkable and most interesting narrative.

David Gran's book is The Wager, a tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder.

I read a lot. I do. I'm a very avid reader. And I do read crime. I read a lot of crime Devil in the White City. And I mean, you know, all those kinds of things.

Peter Norton is an associate professor of history at the University of Virginia.

Peter Norton says that in the 1920s, traffic engineers began to organize city streets.

He'd tried for a while to be a traveling preacher. He wrote a book called *The Truth*, which copied all of John Humphrey Noyes' ideas.

Some call it sound escaping. It was very kind of Jane Eyre-esque, I thought.

And it struck me that many, many literary ghost stories that you read begin... I'm going to tell you something that's quite unbelievable, but I really want you to know this really, really happened to me.

And it struck me, well, what they would do in TV if they told a ghost story is just put a camera in someone's face and the person would tell you, this really happened to me.

asked to buy a $7,500 first edition of The Grapes of Wrath.

The publication of Charles Darwin's *The Origin Of Species* in 1859 and so there was there was a great sort of crisis of belief in mid-Victorian England amongst philosophers and intellectuals and and religious people and people decided to look more closely into claims of the supernatural what we today call typically the paranormal

We've got a link to it on our website.

He was a hard driver of men, a racist, hopefully disdainful of the miners who are working for them.

He was in a large way responsible, if not for making conditions bad, for not doing anything to make conditions better.

So he knew full what life was like on those coal mines and on those coal camps, and that was perfectly fine with him.

Scott Martell describes it as an underground bunker, which was meant to be a safe place for the camp's pregnant women to give birth.

The sheriff expressed a quote, growing sense of helplessness in maintaining the peace.

Sarah Kaminsky's book is Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger's Life.

Sarah Kaminsky's book is Adolfo Kaminsky, a forger's life.