Crime Library

Crime Library was a website documenting major crimes, criminals, trials, forensics, and criminal profiling from books. It was founded in 1998 and was most recently owned by truTV, a cable TV network that is part of Time Warner's Turner Broadcasting System. In August 2014, Crime Library was no longer being updated. In February 2015 the site was taken offline.

Content

Crime Library contained an extensive collection of crime related articles, which were separated into categories: Serial Killers, Notorious Murders, Criminal Mind, Terrorists & Spies and Gangsters & Outlaws. Each category was then broken down into further subcategories. For example, within Serial Killers were the subcategories Most Notorious, Sexual Predators, Truly Weird & Shocking, Unsolved Cases, Partners in Crime and Killers from History. Crime Library also featured photo galleries. These may have had anywhere from 10 to upwards of 100 slides. Some photo galleries were focused on a specific case, while others were lists of crimes linked by a theme (e.g., "Baby for Sale," cases where a person was arrested for allegedly attempting to sell his or her child), or collections of unusual booking photos.

High-profile crimes in the United States were prominent on Crime Library, but the site also contained information about historically notorious characters from various countries, including United Kingdom, Australia and France.

All articles on Crime Library were written exclusively for Crime Library by dozens of commissioned writers, many of them true-crime authors, including Chuck Hustmyre,^[1] Katherine Ramsland,^[2] Gary C. King^[3] and Anthony Bruno.^[4]

Crime Library maintained social media features where readers could interact and discuss criminal cases, including a Facebook page, a Twitter account and message boards.

History

Crime Library was founded by Marilyn J. Bardsley in January 1998. Court TV, later truTV, purchased Crime Library in 2001, the same year The Smoking Gun was acquired by Court TV.^[5] Originally "The Crime Library," the name of the site was shortened to Crime Library in 2003 to accompany a redesign that changed the site's color scheme and layout.

Crime Library was managed by Editor-in-Chief Andy Brooks and Managing Editors Nastacia Leshchinskaya and Cora Van Olson.

As of August 2014, Crime Library was no longer providing updates on their website. As of 2015, the site is no longer accessible, but its content can be read at the Wayback archive of the site.

References

↑ "Crime writer teaches new fiction writing leisure class". lsureveille.com.
↑ Michael J. Connor (3 November 2014). "The academic legacy of Rulloff, Ithaca's famed 19th Century killer". The Ithaca Voice.
↑ "Dayton Leroy Rogers, Serial Killer With Bizarre Foot Fetish, Could Escape Execution". The Huffington Post.
↑ "'Side-Stepping A Wiretap' - A Tale of the Telling of James 'Whitey' Bulger!". thesop.org.
↑ Greenman, Catherine. "TECHNOLOGY BRIEFING: E-COMMERCE; COURTTV BUYS 2 WEB SITES". New York Times. Retrieved 3 February 2012.

External links

Turner Broadcasting System

North American television

TBS Europe

Boing	Africa France Italy³ Spain⁴

Boomerang	Central & Eastern Europe Europe, Middle East and Africa France Germany Italy Netherlands Nordic Portugal UK & Ireland

Cartoon Network	Arabic Central & Eastern Europe Cyprus & Africa France Germany Italy Netherlands Nordic Poland Portugal CIS and Southeastern Europe Turkey UK & Ireland

Turner Classic Movies	Nordic UK & Ireland

TNT	Film Glitz Serie

NonStop Television	Luxe.tv Mezzo TV TNT

Others	Cartoonito CNN International CNN Türk TruTV (UK and Ireland) Toonami (France)

TBS Asia Pacific

Cartoon Network	Australia and New Zealand China (on demand) India Japan Pakistan Philippines Southeast Asia South Korea Taiwan

CNN	CNN-IBN CNN International Asia Pacific CNN International South Asia Indonesia⁶ Philippines ⁷

HBO	Cinemax HBO HBO Family HBO Hits HBO Signature Screen Red

Others	Boomerang Australia and New Zealand Boomerang Southeast Asia Boomerang South Korea China Entertainment Television Imagine TV Lumiere Movies Oh!K Pogo Real Toonami TruTV Turner Classic Movies WB Channel Warner Channel World Heritage Channel

TBS Latin America

TV production/distribution

Internet assets

Former

^Note 1 Owned by the NBA, operated by Turner.
^Note 2 Operated by the Meredith Corporation under a local marketing agreement.
^Note 3 Joint venture with Mediaset.
^Note 4 Joint venture with Mediaset España Comunicación.
^Note 5 Assets now owned by WWE, Inc. through WCW, Inc.
^Note 6 Co-owned by Trans Media.

^Note 7 Co-owned with Nine Media Corporation and Radio Philippines Network through a brand licensing agreement.

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Monday, November 09, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.