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"As an uncle, I want to say I hope Oscar will start on his healing process as he walks down the path of restoration. As a family we are ready to support and guide Oscar as he serves his sentence." - Arnold Pistorius. RESTORATION (also referred to as 8RESTORATION) is the 8th and final narrative in the Oscar Pistorius Murder Trial eBook Series. Written over the first three weeks of December 2014, before and after the state's successful application for Appeal, the authors examine a brand new narrative theme. RESTORATION, in sum, seeks to interrogate hope in the face of #B$. How do we maintain ...

Written between Halloween and Thanksgiving, the authors of #RS take the narrative of the Oscar Trial back to Reeva Steenkamp. At the same time #RS became available the media have started a new tune...of how Oscar might rebuild his life and find love again. And just two days before #RS was published, a few days shy of Oscar's 28th birthday (in jail) John Carlin's book on Oscar (Chase Your Shadow) was also published. Yet despite exclusive access to Oscar and the Pistorius family, Carlin's book does not offer a view on the legitimacy of Oscar's actions. #RS does. This 7th book in the series ...

WHITE HORSE covers the three days of unprecedented testimony in the Oscar Pistorius sentencing phase, witnessed first-hand by Nick van der Leek, who was accredited for the trial. Besides ground-breaking analysis and insights not only beyond the media narrative, but going much further than the court’s “intruder” narrative as well, the author – with a background in law – was also part of a “secret meeting” with the prosecution, regarding a “rogue witness”. The authors interrogate defense and prosecution witnesses in-depth; once again this is at a level of investigative ...

True Crime maestros Nick van der Leek and Lisa Wilson have had repeated requests from their fans to write about O.J. “The Juice” Simpson. For some time the authors themselves felt all there is to know about the trial, the “Dream Team” and the luckless prosecutors was already out there. But with O.J. himself up for parole in 2017, and with a ground-breaking new true crime TV anthology doing the rounds, van der Leek and Wilson have finally turned their scalpels and surgical analysis to THIS trial. They’ve since admitted to being astounded at the audacities and mendacities buried ...

“…where does the urge to kill come from and how do we get it if we don’t have it?...” The first narrative in The Day After Christmas Trilogy focuses on the events immediately following the discovery of JonBenét Ramsey’s small blonde six year old corpse. In this narrative the bestselling authors of The Craven Silence Trilogy attempt to prove the seemingly impossible. Three prime errors in the JonBenét Ramsey canon are examined, interrogated and if these popular true crime maestros are to be believed, rectified. The implications of these amendments to the canon are profound, hence...

"[Jodi Arias] is just a case like any other case in Maricopa County.” - Jennifer Willmott, Jodi's defense attorney Except it isn’t. We haven’t seen the level of brazen mendacity in this case in any other case. Remember, Jodi was on the stand for an unprecedented 18 days. We haven’t seen the level of fabricating evidence and fakery in any other case. We haven’t seen an orgy of evidence (photos, letters, blood, audio recordings) to this extent in any other case. And perhaps more pertinent than anything else, we haven’t seen a chameleon of Jodi Arias’ calibre in any other case. ...

WHITE HORSE II continues to investigate deep into the dark matter of the Oscar behind the Great Pretender. In this narrative the authors provide additional detail of Nick van der Leek's "secret meeting" with the prosecution, and additional information released after the fact. The authors also deconstruct the ITV Interview, and unsurprisingly, uncover some peculiarities not only in Oscar's additional narrative [his third version now] but in the documentary itself. Besides following a money trail, the authors present an even more horrifying backstory to never-before seen crime footage of ...

Nick van der Leek returns for another leg of his journey through the grotesque and Kafkaesque underbelly of the Oscar Pistorius pantomime. This time he takes readers on a detour on his way to covering Oscar’s “Date With Destiny” on July 6th, Pretoria from inside the courtroom. It’s a path you won’t see coming, and one that will leave you stirring uncomfortably in your chair is it unfolds. White Horse III examines the darkest spaces of the narcissistic mind, and showcases the agony that betrayal brings. Yet, we are all partially to blame. Our persistence in the belief that ...

THE APPEAL is the 10th book by True Crime maestro's Lisa Wilson and Nick van der Leek. Along with extended interviews with Judge Chris Greenland, THE APPEAL is the first book to include detailed, firsthand conversations with both Reeva's parents and Tania Koen, the Steenkamp's family lawyer. For the first time freelance photojournalist Nick van der Leek literally rubs shoulders with Barry Roux and Gerrie Nel, and the media circus in the court room. California based True Crime blogger Lisa Wilson is also present at the verdict, and both authors provide not one but two very clear views of the...

OBSCENITY is the 5th and penultimate narrative in the Jodi Arias series recounting a crime and a criminal that shocked America and the world. How and why has the horror of this case captured millions of imaginations for so long? And with the case now over, is there still more to learn? True Crime maestro Lisa Wilson and freelance photojournalist Nick van der Leek are back to explore – brace yourselves – the reeking bowels of our humanity. Lurking bravely in the trenches of our sordid souls, they examine controversial topics such as sexual and societal taboos. From gluttony to lust, envy...

True crime maestro Lisa Wilson and photojournalist Nick van der Leek are finally back with yet another installment in their bestselling series covering Jodi Arias. How is VANITY different to AUTHENTICITY? VANITY is perhaps the most intimate look into the lives of Jodi and Travis to date. The authors have painstakingly combed through hundreds of new communications, many provided courtesy of Beth Karas, to bring you the reader an inside look at Travis’ life, not told through Jodi, but through Travis’ own words. In Book 3 of the series, AUTHENTICITY, the importance of one-upmanship for ...

Has Oscar Transcended justice? This is the question at the heart of this narrative. The problem is stated in the initial chapters courtesy of retired high court Judge Chris Greenland. A two hour interview with the Judge is analysed here and used as a jumping off point. On September 12 Greenland tweeted: "I join the whole world in lamenting this travesty of justice. The Court failed Reeva." We lament because it is yet another failure of the courts. But what about Reeva? And if justice is not to be found when the world is watching - as it has with the biggest story in modern media history - ...

“The horror of Jodi Arias is that by murdering Travis she discovered her true self, she became the fully formed chameleon that was crawling in the shadows, and once the spotlight of the court and media fell on her, it didn’t feel like the cold light of truth, but something to warm herself under..." MENDACITY is a follow-up to the bestselling AUDACITY. Beyond Jodi’s failures it deals with the failures of Juror 17 to be honest not only towards her fellow jurors, but likely, even towards herself. MENDACITY’s interrogation of Juror 17 exposes the woman who single-handedly bungled the ...

Jodi always equated attention with love. It wasn’t so much that Jodi wanted true love with Travis, Jodi wanted Travis to adore her and make her the center of his world. She was done with playing second-fiddle to everybody else. She forced her way into other people’s lives, but even that wasn’t working effectively anymore. The day Jodi decided to finally take control, to take her life back, was the day she decided to kill Travis. OBSCURITY is the 6th and final narrative in the Jodi Arias series examining a crime that rattled America and the world. True Crime maestro Lisa Wilson and ...

They're back! In FUGITIVE the rising stars of True Crime blast their spotlight back onto the skulking figure of Oscar Pistorius. In this trailblazing narrative, Wilson and van der Leek hit home with grueling analysis and a raft of groundbreaking chapters. The most radical is a swashbuckler titled INTENTIONALITY. By establishing a pattern of Oscar's intentionality over the course of his life, using 32 individual examples, the authors juxtapose the focused, purposeful and ambitious Blade Runner with Another Oscar - the anxious, uncertain interloper we saw sniveling and retching for the first ...

The fifth Shakedown narrative addressing the Amanda Knox case examines what precisely caused Mignini to lose. Besides the prosecution dropping the ball, something was brewing in the ether that allowed the defense to successfully apply tremendous pressure. What was it? The Shakedown team exposes this "machinery", and explains just how well coordinated and cleverly orchestrated Knox's defense effort was, even down to the outfits Knox and Sollecito wore on each trial day in 2010 and 2011. The Foxy Knoxy narrative deals once and for all with the myth that her avatar was an innocent artefact of ...

What fictions do those in the dark hold onto? In this case, what was that fiction exactly? If the Juice was innocent, how could that be? What could possibly be an acceptable explanation? It certainly seemed that those who celebrated O.J.’s acquittal didn’t really care. The facts, the evidence, the law. Did any of that matter? Do they matter to you? This solid substrate is the substance of JUICE II. In JUICE doyens of true crime van der Leek and Wilson laid the groundwork leading up to the murders and the trial. In JUICE II they conduct a thoughtful interrogation of the key characters at...

Most of the legal action surrounding the unsolved JonBenét Ramsey case has nothing to do with prosecuting the case. The premise of the second book in The Day After Christmas trilogy surgically removes the peripheral noise. "What do we see? We see a case that involves a trifecta typical to the true crime genre. Sex, money and prestige underpin the triumvirate of power, and somehow this crime is a manifestation of all three. Thus far we have dabbled in the prestige but we’ve virtually not touched on sex and money. In this narrative we will deal with sex. What impact did sex have on the ...

Nobody knows who killed JonBenét Ramsey. Despite the efforts of Colorado’s legendary super sleuth Lou Smit, the JonBenét Ramsey case has – to the present date - defied demystification. Smit, who cracked over 200 cases and had a 90% success record, devoted the last years of his life to finding JonBenét’s killer. Smit died in 2010 having failed to solve this confounding case. 6 years later, despite massive media attention and widespread public scrutiny the most famous of cold cases remains unsolved. Now two rising stars of the true crime genre have put their heads together for their ...

Rumor has it Burke Ramsey killed his sister. Once again dark stormclouds have been milling in the media around the Ramsey family. If the rumors are true has the 20 year old mystery finally been solved? Are we really any closer to understanding why the six year old beauty queen was murdered, precisely where in the Ramsey home and exactly how? In this sequel to the bestsellingTHE CRAVEN SILENCE true crime maestros van der Leek and Wilson shine a light where none have dared before. The authors peel back layer upon layer of misdirection obscuring the raw eddies of child psychology. What do the ...