''Women in Crime Ink'' is an American daily crime

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that publishes both original and aggregated content. The blog was founded on March 10, 2008, as "a well of thoughts on crime and media issues from women criminal justice professionals and authors". The site offers original content and coverage of

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, media, books,

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, high-profile criminal cases and crime news.

Contributors

''Women in Crime Ink'' has featured commentary and analyses of crime and media events by journalists, criminal justice professionals and TV personalities, including:

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-winning science journalist and author Deborah Blum; legal analyst

Anne Bremner Anne Melani Bremner (born June 4, 1958) is an Americans, American attorney and television personality. She has been a television commentator on a number of high-profile cases, including in the murder of Meredith Kercher in Italy as legal counsel ...

; criminal profiler Pat Brown;

forensics Forensic science, also known as criminalistics, is the application of science to criminal and civil laws, mainly—on the criminal side—during criminal investigation, as governed by the legal standards of admissible evidence and crimina ...

specialist Andrea Campbell; true crime

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and

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Kathryn Casey;

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award-winning TV

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Lisa R. Cohen; TV journalist and host Diane Dimond; former police officer and commentator

Stacy Dittrich Stacy Dittrich (born March 2, 1973), a former police detective from Ohio, is an American mystery novelist and true crime author. Career Dittrich, a graduate of Lexington High School, retired from the Richland County Sheriff's Department in Man ...

; true crime author and mystery novelist Diane Fanning; legal analyst

Susan Filan Susan F. Filan (née Freedman) (born August 24, 1959) is a Senior Legal Analyst for MSNBC, former prosecutor for the State of Connecticut, and a trial lawyer. Early career In 1991, she began her career as a criminal defense attorney for a legal ...

; body language expert Dr. Lillian Glass; clinical psychologist and author Michelle Golland; former prosecutor Holly Hughes; crime analyst Sheryl McCollum; prosecutor Donna Pendergast; author and professor of forensic psychology Katherine Ramsland; author, former

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and TV legal analyst

Robin Sax Robin Ann Sax (born January 1, 1972) is an author, lawyer, clinical therapist, legal analyst, radio host, an HLN contributor, and a former prosecutor for the State of California, County of Los Angeles and Riverside County District Attorney's O ...

; criminal defense attorney Katherine Scardino; true crime author and

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Cathy Scott Cathleen "Cathy" Scott (born c. 1950) is a ''Los Angeles Times'' bestselling American true crime writer and investigative journalist who penned the biographies and true crime books ''The Killing of Tupac Shakur'' and ''The Murder of Biggie Small ...

; newswoman Michelle Sigona; psychotherapist and anger counselor Gina Simmons Schneider; and investigative specialist Donna Weaver.

History

Of the six original founders — including Vanessa Leggett, a writer jailed by the U.S. Justice Department for 168 days for choosing to protect sources and notes for a book about murder victim

Doris Angleton Doris Elizabeth Angleton (''née'' McGown; (also Beck) April 11, 1951 – April 16, 1997) was an American socialite and murder victim. Her husband, Robert Angleton, had been accused of planning the crime. His brother, Roger Nicholas Angleton, wa ...

— three remain: Brown, Pendergast and Weaver. In June 2009, editor Becky Bright with ''

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'' called ''Women in Crime Ink'' "a blog worth reading". And

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's host Ira Flatow discussed the blog on the air in May 2010 with Deborah Blum. The Bishop Accountability organization cited as well as reprinted a 2008 ''Women in Crime Ink'' article about Reverend

Gilbert Gauthe Gilbert Gauthe is an American former Catholic priest who served in the Diocese of Lafayette in Louisiana from 1972 to 1983. In 1984, Gauthe became the first Catholic priest in the United States to face a widely publicized criminal trial for child s ...

and the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic diocese of Savannah. In May 2010, the social networking blog '' Betty Confidential'' republished a "Women in Crime Ink" post written by Kathryn Casey about the beating death of

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player

Yeardley Love The murder of Yeardley Love took place on May 3, 2010 in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. Love, a University of Virginia (UVA) women's lacrosse student-athlete, was found unresponsive in her Charlottesville apartment and later that day, ...

. The blog was also cited in 2008 in an ''

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'' blog for a prison story involving Susan Atkins, a Manson follower. In 2008, Scared Monkeys Radio's ''The Dana Pretzer Show'' hosted a "Women in Crime" edition featuring "The Ladies of Women in Crime Ink."

References

External links

Women in Crime Ink official blogFacebook pageWomen in Crime Ink, paperback editionMansfield News Journal article, "Italian TV crew interviews local child pageant sources," interviews author and former police officer Stacy Dittrich, a Women in Crime Ink administrator
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