Crime Expert BURL BARER. Edgar Award Winner and NYT Bestselling Author

HEAD SHOT + FATAL BEAUTY + MOM SAID KILL == TRIO OF TRUE CRIME

"Burl Barer writes true crime so realistically, it jumps off the page!" -- Jack Olsen

HEAD SHOT, the new updated edition, is getting great reviews from people who know good true crime when they read it, and is available right now in paperback and all ebook formats!

 

 

Meanwhile, the full untold story of Rhonda
Glove and Jimmy Joste is told in depth in FATAL BEAUTY. Get it in paperback or as an instant downlaod. Rhonda is beautiful; Jimmy is rich and good looking. He's dead; she's in prison for murder.

Wait, there's more:

 

 

Barbara Opel promised her 13 year old daughter a brand new dirt bike if the kid would murder her mom's employer.  The kid never got the dirt bike, but you can get MOM SAID KILL on your Kindle or Nook, or for your Ipad or Iphone, right now!

BROKEN DOLL, another true crime thriller from Pinnacle True Crime also awaits you, as does my true crime classic, MURDER IN THE FAMILY 

While you're at it, pick up NOBODY'S PERFECT, my short story collection, for only 99cents on Kindle or Nook.

Rhonda Glover case on Investigation Discovery's SCORNED:Love Kills

I.D.'s excellent series, SCORNED: Love Kills, features an exceptionally accurate adaptation of the strange case of Rhonda Glover, the beautiful but deranged woman whose picture adornes the cover of my best-selling true crime book, FATAL BEAUTY.

 "Edgar award-winning author Burl Barer succeeds once again in engaging the most discerning true crime readers, captivating and compelling them with a writing style and journalistic force that has no equal. Fatal Beauty is a soon-to-be true crime classic." -- Dan Zupanski, author of TROPHY KILL: The Shall We Dance Murders. 
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 "Fatal Beauty is excellent true crime -- excellent investigation, excellent story-telling, and exceptionally thought provoking."   

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Rhonda Glover is as crazy as she is beautiful and deadly. Burl Barer is as brilliant an investigative journalist as you're going to find anywhere.  Disturbing and heartbreaking, FATAL BEAUTY will certainly keep you from being envious of the looks and wealth of others -- you never know what their lives are like behind their eyes and behind closed doors. 

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If you already have FATAL BEAUTY, don't overlook the brand new edition of HEAD SHOT -- updated with new information about the killers who are now out of prison!

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Listen to Burl Barer's TRUE CRIME CLASSICS every Thursday 10am PT/1pm ET on HereWomenTalk.com 

True Crime Uncensored airs LIVE every Saturday 2pm PT/5pm ET on OutlawRadio.tv

TRUE CRIMES TV is every Tuesday 7pm on the AMERICAN HORRORS Network on Filmon.com

12-Step Non-Medical Rehabs Kill Thousands While Making Millions.

The “Recovery” industry is killing thousands while making millions. Most 12-Step rehabs provide no medical diagnosis or medical treatment for what is a proven medical condition.  No honest treatment center has a treatment plan in place before you arrive. That is a medical impossibility and a violation of the most basic of medical ethics.

Only a medical doctor can diagnose a chronic medical illness. Addiction is no exception, yet every year thousands of Americans are told that they have the disease of addiction or alcoholism by people with no medical credentials whatsoever. This unethical and perhaps illegal diagnosis is based on nothing more than behavioral symptoms.

There are numerous medical conditions other than addiction and/or alcoholism that have heavy drinking or drug use as behavioral symptoms.  It requires a comprehensive medical diagnosis to determine what true medical issues are present, and what the appropriate treatment is for the individual patient. Despite this obvious fact, people are still being sent, often against their will, to so-called “treatment centers” where they are told that they have a disease, but are denied any comprehensive medical evaluation or professional medical care.  This is a multi-million dollar “Rehab Racket” that is costing lives and making con men rich.    NEVER send anyone to a rehab that evaluates your insurance but does not offer complete medical diagnosis prior to forming a treatment plan.

REMEMBER: If they have a treatment plan in place for you before you arrive, DON'T GO TO REHAB!   It is impossible to form a treatment plan for any medical condition without a medical diagnosis.

 If all you do is make someone stop drugging or drinking but don't diagnose the medical reason why they were doing so, you may be responsible for their death. The real first step is CALL A DOCTOR, preferably an addiction medicine specialist.

Don't let some old drunk practice medicine without a license.Only a medical doctor can diagnose medical conditions. 

12-Step and other "recovery" programs can be excellent life-enhancing support groups, but they don't treat any medical condition.  If you or someone you love is having issues with alcohol or drugs, the real first step is to contact an addiction medicine specialist.  

In California, call (800) 444-1838  or to find the medical professional near you who specializes in addiction medicine, click this link, or cut and paste into your browser.  http://www.healthline.com/doctors/addiction-medicine-specialist 

My Life Is a Guaranteed Best Seller. You write it and I'll give you 10 Percent.

Someone says that to me about once a week, and my standard response to  their life story is "How does it end?"  In truth, most unknown people's lives are quite interesting, especially to your grand kids.  Even if you can't spell, and are a dreadful writer, I strongly urge you to write your life story and set it aside for your kids and grandkids. People love to know where they came from, and your personal history gives your children and your children's children a true sense of relative identity.

Being a true crime author in addition to writing the new adventures of Leslie Charteris' THE SAINT, I am also contacted by people who want me to use my considerable influence in helping solve a crime, or get some sort of "justice" for someone-- primarily them.

The most frequent requests come from the decidely irrational or outright dishonest. They take their OPINION of a matter of fact. Just the other day someone wrote me about their sister-in-law kidnapping her daughter. A quick search on the name revealed abslutely nothing about the child being missing, kidnapped or any efforts by law enforcement to find the child because the child was not kidnapped -- she was simply put in the care of a relative because the person writing me was wacko. What was actually a legal decision regarding custody was mis-represented to me as a kidnapping.  Being an investigative journalist, I have a fairly high BS detector. So, before you ask me to "take on your case" please remember that I'm not a lawyer. I am an author and investigator. Now, if you know of a real grisly sex/greed motivated murder where there was a n investigation and a conviction, please tell  me. I am looking for a good case now for my next true crime book! 

 

Cathy Scott, brilliant true crime author, joins Howard Lapides and me on TRUE CRIME UNCENSORED sunday 7am ET on http://errorfm.com

Hart Fisher is our guest Thursday on TRUE CRIME CLASSICS, then Hart and I will be on Susan Murphy Milano's show immediately following at 11am ET http://herewomentalk.com

Hart Fisher is our guest Thursday on TRUE CRIME CLASSICS, then Hart and I will be on Susan Murphy Milano's show immediately following at 11am ET http://herewomentalk.com

HEAD SHOT -- Detective Robert Yerbury is one of America's Best.

Detective Bob Yerbury is one of the most famous homicide detectives in America, and is featured prominently in my book HEAD SHOT. 

 

 

 

Among the other notable homicide cases Tacoma police detective Bob Yerbury has investigated:
# Jonathan Perkins, 30. The Fort Lewis Army sergeant was fatally shot in his bed Dec. 29, 1987. His wife and her lover were convicted in the murder-for-hire case. The wife had promised to split the proceeds of her husband’s insurance policy with the gunman.
# Kathleen Daneker, 40. She died of cyanide poisoning Feb. 11, 1991, two days after taking a Sudafed capsule to relieve a sinus headache. The investigation later revealed that she was one of two people who died after they took altered capsules.
# Joseph Meling of Tumwater was convicted in federal court of tampering with medicine bottles in stores to mask his scheme to kill his wife. She lived, but Daneker and a Lacey man died.
# Robert Carl Henry, 33. A masked gunman fatally shot the businessman on Sept. 11, 1995, in the parking lot of North Coast Electric Co. For more than five years, Yerbury worked the case and traced a distinctive shotgun through a chain of owners. The last was Larry Shandola, who was convicted in Henry’s slaying.
# Julie Ann Maroni, 27. She was fatally shot July 8, 1998, during an attempted carjacking in a South Tacoma motel parking lot. Three men were convicted in the slaying. Information developed during the investigation led to convictions in a double homicide in Seattle. Duane Seraile, one of the men convicted and sentenced to life in prison in Maroni’s death, also was convicted in the 1997 slayings in Seattle.

Yerbury can’t say exactly how many killings he’s been the lead investigator on, but when he testifies in court he says he’s been to about 500 homicide scenes in his years as a detective. He has only a handful of unsolved cases, most notably the 1998 slaying of Linda Tran and her two children and the fiery explosion that destroyed their Salishan house.
“That one is just kind of haunting,” he said. “It’s a very good family, very good people.”
In the criminal justice community, Yerbury is praised for his thoroughness and determination.
“Bob doesn’t give up,” said Jim Bridston, a retired Tacoma police detective who was Yerbury’s partner for six years in the homicide unit. “He will follow whatever he can follow as far as he can follow it.”
Prosecutors and fellow detectives can cite many murder cases that ended in convictions thanks to Yerbury’s hard work. For example, in 1991 two suspected gang members were gunned down in a car near Lincoln High School. Though not the lead detective, Yerbury carefully examined the window of the victims’ car, knowing the suspects might claim self-defense. He determined the window was rolled up high enough that no one in the car could get a hand out the window to point a gun at someone.
“He took apart the door so he could see where that window had been,” retired Pierce County Prosecutor Gerry Horne recalled. “We were able to rule out self-defense.”
Chief Don Ramsdell said Yerbury quietly goes about his investigations and doesn’t seek the credit for what he does.
“He gives that to all the people he works with,” Ramsdell said. “People respect him for his knowledge and the way he goes about his work.”

To hear an exclusive interview with Detective Bob Yerbury, simply click this link!

William Simon's Rave Review of CAPTURE THE SAINT! Wow!

Imagine my delight when this review of Capture the Saint by the erudite and respected William Simon showed up on Amazon.com  

"Burl Barer hits every note just right. From the narrative description to the dialogue to the interplay between characters, I cannot help but think Leslie Charteris himself would point to this with pride."

WOW -- and if that were not enough, Mr. Simon also gave five stars to my Falcon Arcaio novella!

The Silly Little Poem I wrote that went world wide! Happy Ayamiha!

Ayam-i-Ha! IT IS A HOLIDAY!

12 years ago, Gretchen Hewitt asked me to write something special for Baha'i childrens class to explain the holiday called "Ayam-i-Ha" ..so I did!  This fun conversation between two kids has now been reprinted and performed all over the world! How about that?

So, here it is

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I'm feeling quite happy,
I'm feeling quite fine.
It's Ayyam-i-Ha, 
The days outside time!

Days outside time?
That makes no sense at all!
You mean no watch on your wrist?
No clock on the wall?
How can you have days outside time
That makes no sense, no reason, no rhyme.
Besides, if I may say so, and I certainly will,
If you think there's no time, you must be quite ill.

I'm not sick in the head, nor home sick in bed,
Days outside time,
What a relief
No time for sadness, worry or grief!

You are silly as can be,
I must insist,
Days outside time can never exist!

Oh, tell me then, stand right up and speak,
what Baha'i month this is, what Baha'i day of the week? 

Is it the first day of Speech, Glory or  Splendor, Knowledge, or Questions, one or another? No, these days have no months or weeks to be in,
So these days are outside time --- does that make your head spin?

Days outside time what a strange thing to say.
Time is how we measure the length of a day.
Besides, time is important, I'm here to shout
Time is something I don't want to run out!

You can't run out of what isn't there,
If you're bald all your life, you don't miss your hair.

That makes no sense either, you're making me laugh.
But explain this much faster, cut it in half.

Ok ok, if you say so.
I'll tell you right now, and then you can go.
Ayyam-i-Ha is all about fun
And kindness, charity
And us all being one.
People are often in so much of a  hurry
Their life is a mess, a run around flurry
They have so little time to get things done,
everything is half-baked, and left most undone
But these days outside time are special as can be,
For these special days set us all free.
They remind us of love, and thinking of others,
Helping our moms, dads, sisters and brothers.
Days outside time give you time by the double
Where there is love, there's always enough time, and nothing is too much
trouble.

Say that again, I like what I heard,
Say it slowly, word by word.

"Where there is love, nothing is too much trouble, and there's always
enough time" Abdu'l-Baha

Oh, I think I finally understand.
Ayyam-i-Ha is really quite grand
Days of kindness, joy and  delight
 From the start of the day 'till the last thing at night.

You got it now, my happy new friend
Time isn't rock solid, it was made to bend
Love makes time go quickly, or slow down to a crawl,
Because where there is love, there's always enough time, and nothing is too
much trouble at all.

I'm feeling quite happy,
I'm feeling quite fine
It's Ayyam-i-Ha,
The days outside time

©2000 by Burl Barer
all rights reserved

 

HEAD SHOT IS NOW AVAILABLE!

NOW AVAILABLE 

HEAD SHOT -- the 2012 Edition, updated with more info and a snazzy new cover is available for order right now!

 

MASTERS OF TRUE CRIME -- edited by R. Barri Flowers, various "Masters of True Crime" contribute some of their favorite crimes and investigations, including Burl Barer (that's me!) This one is also available for advance order, and comes out in June, 2012.  

 What could be more exciting that a clever jewel theif caper in the manner of The Saint, The Falcon, Raffles, and other gentlemen thieves? Not much, and the satirical Falcon Arcaio adventure, THE TREASURE OF SIR THOMAS CONWAY by Burl Barer is only 99 cents right now on KINDLE
While you're at it, 99 cents also gets you my short story collection, NOBODY'S PERFECT on Kindle or Nook.