Tag: true crime
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PREDATOR (Forward & The cast) 12.14.15
FORWARD CONTINUED: A short-lived smile touched her lips. Her voice lowered, softened. She lit a cigarette, busying her fingers, took a deep draw on it, then blew the first exhale up and away from my direction. “My friends,” she inhaled again. “My family,” she said quietly, more to herself than to me. Her eyes were […]
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PREDATOR: The Man Who Didn’t Exist
I am having a hard time with one section of the book. It is part of the murder case trial in Bradenton. Trying to pull together phone calls, testimony, trial records, and interviews to make it all more readable. It is difficult and slow. I have a lot of data to write about and to […]
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Book naming….your thoughts.
I am into naming a book for publication. It is now at over 400 pages and is about a career criminal on death row in Florida for a brutal murder of a woman he did not know. He beat her to death as she lay on the floor with duct tape holding her prisoner. He […]
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Welcome New Followers!
Hello! I have been working on several projects and must apologize to those of you who recently (within the past month or so) have decided to follow my blog here. I am excited that you are here and I want to thank you all for following me. My excuse is that I have been working […]
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PREDATOR: The Man Who Didn’t Exist…….Chapter One
The following is the first chapter from my book Predator: The Man Who Didn’t Exist. CHAPTER 1—911 Operator 143 She lay face down. At least, that is how they found the body—face down. They, being the hastily established Manatee County team of sheriff’s deputies, forensic personnel, fire department paramedics, and the county coroner’s […]
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PREDATOR: THE MAN WHO DIDN’T EXIST
Delmer Smith III was born July 19, 1971 in Detroit, Michigan to a couple who are now both deceased. He is one of several children from this union. He is light skinned, light enough to pass for being white. He is given his father’s name and the family happily pronounces him to be Delmer the […]
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Predator: The Man Who DIdn’t Exist …… update
The book, Predator, The Man Who Didn’t Exist is a complex work. Currently at 290 pages and about half way through it. The book is about a serial killer/rapist who began his criminal career at age 14 and in March of 2013 he received a death sentence for the murder of a doctor’s wife in […]
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Author Mark Coakley
Mark Coakley is a retired attorney turned true crime writer. He has two books out currently and a great blog site including a video of an interview. You can check all of that out at: http://markcoakley.wordpress.com/about-mark-coakley/
THOUGHTS OF A POET IN THE RAIN 