2024 New Book & Book Tour

On March 11th, 2024 my new book ‘Victorian Southwest Michigan True Crime‘ is released. This is a collection of stories I began researching in 2021, and many of them took a considerable amount of time to piece together. They were written at a time when I was working on my…

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Victorian Southwest Michigan True Crime

My first book ‘Victorian Southwest Michigan True Crime‘ in the history genre is going to be released on March 11th, 2024 through History Press. It is a collection of true crime stories from Southwest Michigan during the Victorian era. The Victorian period is an era in world history spanning the…

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Some History of the Black Hand in Michigan

The Black Hand was a precursor to the mafia in the United States, and they primarily targeted the Italian immigrant population.  Although they committed violent crimes, such as murder, bombings and kidnapping; these actions were all just moves in a larger game, which was intended to keep the Italian communities…

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