by JHowatt | Aug 25, 2023 | Crime Writing
Bill Bonin: “An Arch Evil Person” or Just an Ordinary- Guy? August 22, 2023. An article in Wikipedia written by a prosecutor at his first trial described Bill Bonin as “The most arch-evil person who ever existed.” (Freeway Killer’s Story: Ghastly Tale of Horror. The... 
by JHowatt | Aug 4, 2023 | Crime Writing
William George Bonin: Just an Ordinary Guy July 27, 2023. A casual dinner party for my tennis friends seemed an unlikely place to begin my true crime series, “The Scariest Thing About Serial Killers.” But that’s how it happened. All of my guests had left but one – a... 
by JHowatt | Mar 29, 2023 | Crime Writing
From a Turtle Poem to True Crime: A Writer’s Journey March 26, 2023. My love affair with books began before I could walk. The best part of the day was when my father would read to me. He’d help me turn the pages of a cloth book with buttons to button, shoelaces to... 
by JHowatt | Dec 21, 2022 | Crime Writing
Quiche for an Informant and a Killer’s Best Friend December 2022. Why is it that something as ordinary and familiar as a Quiche baked in a Rosenthal dish could bring back a flood of memories? Making a quiche in that Rosenthal dish wasn’t on my mind this chilly... 
by JHowatt | Oct 27, 2022 | Crime Writing, Life Style, News
Pick a Dream. Any Dream. Then Do It. October 10, 2022. Camarillo, California. Why is it that the day a dream finally happens is a day like all the rest? I fixed the dogs their breakfast of Farmer’s Dog mixed with kibble, then I headed outside past the fire pit and... 
by JHowatt | Oct 13, 2022 | Crime Writing
An American Story: Lena and Wilhelm Open the Golden Browne Bakery My last two blogs told the stories of two women: my mother, Katherine, and my mother-in-law, Adria. Kay Gaffney taught seventh and eighth grade for fifty years, then spent one year at the San Diego...