A Well Read Colton Harris-Moore
I was fortunate to get an invite to tape an episode of "Well Read" with Terry Tazioli. Taz (as I heard someone call him) is the host of this new PBS show that focuses, as you could guess, on books....
View ArticleTRAVELING THE HIGHWAY OF TEARS
In a remote and eerily beautiful region of British Columbia, dozens of women and girls have gone missing or been found murdered. The only connection between most of these unsolved cases is that they...
View ArticleHIGHWAY OF TEARS on the Air
Mention the phrase "serial killer" and you naturally get some attention. I did a couple of media appearances in the last two days about "The Vanishing," my feature in the latest issue of Outside...
View ArticleMore Highway of Tears on the Radio
Here's the interview I did with Canandian Broadcast Co North's morning show: CBC Daybreak North Show. It airs in all of the communities along the Yellowhead, aka, Highway 16, the Highway of Tears....
View ArticleBAREFOOT BANDIT Movie Update
This has been in the works for awhile now, but Robert Zemeckis and 20th Century Fox have officially come to an agreement for Zemeckis to get involved in the film adaptation of The Barefoot Bandit....
View ArticleAmerican Named in Highway of Tears Serial Killer Case
Bobby Jack Fowler, an Oregon man who died in prison in 2006 while serving a 16-year sentence for kidnapping and attempted rape, was named as the killer behind a nearly 40-year-old cold case that's...
View ArticleMajor Success in Highway of Tears Serial Killer Case
Bobby Jack Fowler circa 1972 Good police work by the persistent Mounties in the Vancouver forensics lab resulted in the oldest DNA offender hit in INTERPOL history and the solving of a terrible crime...
View ArticleHIGHWAY OF TEARS TV
British Columbia's tragic tale of missing and murdered women along its "Highway of Tears" is getting its highest profile attention this Saturday when CBS 48 Hours airs a full hour on the story. I've...
View ArticleTHE BAREFOOT BANDIT, NAUGHTY & NICE FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Just received this from my publisher in time for the first gifting season since The Barefoot Bandit was released, making it a cheap ($3 eBook and $10 hardcover!) stocking stuffer for the readers on...
View ArticleANOTHER SHOE DROPS FOR BAREFOOT BANDIT
Almost three years to the day after a stolen plane nearly crashed the 2010 Winter Olympics, Colton Harris-Moore has been charged with the crime. Well, re-charged… On February 10, 2010, with security...
View ArticleLET'S PLAY DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
Answer: Colton Harris-Moore Question: Who cannot be charged (again) for the theft of the Cirrus SR22 from Anacortes airport? Oops goes the prosecutor… Not only did the Barefoot Bandit plead guilty to...
View ArticleAnother Quick Colton Harris-Moore Update
According to San Juan County prosecutor Randy Gaylord, the victims of the Anacortes plane theft (which Colton Harris-Moore pleaded guilty to once but is now being charged with a second time by Skagit...
View ArticleHUFFPOST LIVE
I'll be appearing on Huffpost Live -- today at 1:30 PM EST (10:30 AM PST) -- for a segment on "Criminals We Love." The panel will be discussing the Mountain Man of Utah, the Hermit of Maine, and...
View ArticleWILD LIFE
A Spirit Bear, or kermode, hunts salmon in a rainforest stream. Photo: Bob Friel While I've been off the outlaw (and outcast) trail for a little while to work on a couple upcoming projects, I've also...
View ArticleBAREFOOT BANDIT / COLTON HARRIS-MOORE MEMORABILIA
We’ve had plaster casts of bare footprints left after a chase on Orcas Island. We’ve had his mom trying to sell a confidential list of crime victims eligible for restitution. We’ve even had former...
View ArticleSITTIN' ON DE DOCK OF EBAY...
Just got a note from our friends helping man's best friends down in Raymond, Washington. Ebay said they had to rejigger the auction of a framed collection of Colton Harris-Moore's donation to Vetter's...
View ArticleHIGHWAY OF TEARS SERIAL KILLER UPDATE
The trial of the young Canadian psychopath I first wrote about in my Highway of Tears story for Outside Magazine’s TheVanishing and for CBS 48 Hours, is finally over. It’s been a bizarre, creepy and...
View ArticleSERIAL KILLER LEGEBOKOFF FOUND GUILTY
After three months of trial; 93 witnesses for the prosecution; and three hours of chilling, remorseless testimony in his own defense that only succeeded in damning him as a heartless psychopath, Cody...
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Latest Barefoot Bandit / Colton Harris-Moore “News” Long time no write! I didn’t want to comment on the latest spate of news stories about Colton and 20th Century Fox, but since almost all of them...
View ArticleHIGHWAY OF TEARS UPDATE
After years of a whole lot of nothing happening to improve conditions along a deadly stretch of Canada’s Yellowhead Highway, aka “16,” and notoriously known as The Highway of Tears, it looks like...
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SKULLDUGGERY It occurred to me that I might want to explain the macabre change in my blog background. No, I haven’t gone Goth (again), and it wasn’t because we’ve just emerged from the rainiest,...
View ArticleBAD NEWS FOR THE BAREFOOT BANDIT
Colton Harris-Moore has been in custody since July 11, 2010, when Bahamian police captured him after shooting out the engines on his getaway boat during a nighttime chase. In those 69 months, Colton...
View ArticleA Little Better News for the Barefoot Bandit. Plus: Big Discounts for You in...
Colton Harris-Moore, retired airplane pirate and future serial entrepreneur, is continuing his quest to raise the cash necessary to cryogenically preserve his dying mother, Pam Kohler. Donations so...
View ArticleRCMP Admits They're Getting Nowhere on Highway of Tears
Ten years ago, under immense pressure from the communities along Canada's Highway 16, the RCMP created E-Pana, a special police unit dedicated to solving murders along this infamous stretch of British...
View ArticleMORE TEARS ALONG THE HIGHWAY OF TEARS
Very sad to hear of the passing of a friend I met while reporting on Canada's Highway of Tears. Ray Michalko was a former RCMP officer who quit the force after getting transferred to Vancouver where...
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