RESEARCH ABOUT MURDER MENTALITY

Murder, both real and fictional, is a popular genre of entertainment in America.

An array of strong emotions are woven into case histories of real murders of the past.

Recent research shows that most people think about killing someone and are capable of
violence in certain situations.

I don’t know what you did during the year-or-so COVID-19 lockdown, but I read and wrote a lot
about death. Not just any death, but unnatural death, i.e., the premature end to life which can
happen one of three ways: murder, suicide, or accident. As research for a planned series of
books, I completed a survey of unnatural deaths that took place in New York City, New Jersey,
and Long Island between 1920 and 1970, using published newspaper accounts as my source
material.