I don’t mean to constantly harp on the police.  It isn’t the reason that I started here at the Complex.  In fact, my main agenda at the outset of this thing was to establish for myself a...

I lost my cat to a type of throat cancer last year.  Tough thing.  It started with rapid-fire cat sneezes, which my wife and I took to be a sinus infection of some type.  We gave it...

It’s hard to know how close a friend Brian Keith Jones was to Nelly last week.  Or if he was a friend at all.  What it is possible to glean from reports however, is that he’s a...

It’s kind of a weird thing to watch Shepard Smith when he gets sincere.  First of all, I’ve always felt that Shepard looked vaguely like Laura Palmer’s dad from Twin Peaks, so stunned contrition represents a jarring...

The Amish are an insular bunch, so when news crosses over from America’s Amish/Mennonite communties, you can be assured that it is generally going to be of a criminal bent. There are about 250,000 Americans living in...

What’s the most a criminal’s ever taken from you? Many of you just answered “none” or “not much, but that cell phone had precious memories on it.”  Some thought, “my sense of security.” A few of you...

It’s not easy for a stranger to draw the attention of the Shawnee County Sheriff’s Department by conventional means.  Namely, excessive speed.  Most motorists passing through Topeka are so relieved to be out of the Rockies, or...

To paraphrase the great Michael Keaton, “You want to get nuts, Crime Heads? Let’s get nuts.” By which I mean, of course, let’s talk true crime. Now you may be thinking, “How is non-fiction nuttier than the...

Welcome, dear friends and other suckers, to a new regular feature here at the Criminal Complex.  Yes, the Scam Artist Hall Of Fame, as demanded by none of you, will highlight those great men and women, fictional...

The Complex takes a look at tasteless jokes in the post-cannibal era. It isn’t too soon to make jokes about Jeffrey Dahmer.  Milwaukee’s favorite cannibal was arrested back in 1991.  The jokes started rolling out a couple...