Committed with the Uncommon

Tales of True Crimes and Strange Weapons

By: Robert Escobar

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Committed with the Uncommon brings a new approach to true crime and is written by a court-recognized weapons expert. Each of the 10 chapters focuses on acts featuring a different strange weapon. As such, there is a lack of usual suspects like guns and knives in the 67 murders and 157 assaults chronicled in the text. The crimes range in era from the 1700s to today’s headlines. In scope they vary from attacks on heads of state to muggings and almost everything in between.
The cast of real-life characters is consequently eclectic. Some culprits are current day serial killers and drug dealers, but others are fedora-era mob hitmen, literal highwaymen and one is even a Georgian era English butler. The variety in the ten chosen objects is no less impressive. A musical instrument, a prehistoric hunting tool, a once-common kitchen aid and more share the stage and provide a panoply of true crime from across time. The book also has related facts about forensics, self-defense and other miscellany sprinkled throughout.

informative but not entertaining

informative but not entertaining it was supposed to be about unusual weapons, but more about the murders might make it more interesting