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Virtual Bouchercon Panels

November 5, 2020 · by · in author, book conventions, Bouchercon, California serial killers, COVID, COVID-19, crime fiction, crime fiction author, crime thriller novels, folsom prison, giveaway, James L'Etoile, lockdown, pandemic, police, readers, sacramento serial killers, writing · 2 Comments

Bouchercon is the annual gathering of the world’s mystery writers and serves as the high point of the year for many of us in the writing community. I was especially excited when the 2020 edition of Bouchercon was slated for Sacramento, California, a place I lived and worked for many years. Not to mention the […]

Sacramento Unsolved

September 14, 2019 · by · in author, cold case, Crime, crime and punishment, crime fiction author, DNA, golden state killer, Jacobs Family Murders, James L'Etoile, killers, police, sacramento crime, sacramento serial killers, Sacramento Unsolved · Leave a comment

Another year gone and another silent anniversary without answers. Twenty-eight years have passed since the 1991 slaying of an entire family in the upscale Land Park neighborhood of Sacramento. On January 15, 1991, Marcy Jacobs didn’t show up to work as a data processing technician at the Department of Justice. A concerned co-worker called the […]

Local Police Use of Spit Mask Comes Under Fire

May 23, 2019 · by · in author, Crime, crime and punishment, crime fiction author, criminal justice, James L'Etoile, police, race baiting, race in america, sacramento crime, spit mask, use of force · 3 Comments

Sacramento is once again in the spotlight for an incident with a citizen. Fresh off the unrest from the officer-involved shooting deaths of Joseph Mann, and Stephon Clark, the media and the ever-circling attorneys feeding on the seeds of racial unrest, were quick to condemn the officers for excessive force. This time the citizen in […]