Cosa Nostra News

Who's the babe? You can read all about her on my sister site, Requiem for an Editor , which is actually my first blog. It evolved into this blog, which, of course, focuses on Cosa Nostra in America, as well as in Canada -- all three Mafias in fact (Cosa Nostra, the Ndrangheta and the Camorra) and related organized crime groups across the globe. Requiem is where I write about everything else. The "everything else" category includes stories on Evelyn McHale -- read why she is called the most beautiful suicide case ever -- and " Revenge Porn ," the key promulgator of which is T or , an anonymizing web browser that provides a safe way for you to enter and navigate the “dark net." Hey, what else do you think I would write about?

A beautiful young woman, found dead in her car in a public parking lot. Cosa Nostra News was born out of a previous blog; I started writing a lot of mob stories when the idea hit me to devote a blog exclusively to the Mafia. There are a lot of benefits to having a niche-focused blog instead of one that is all over the place. I basically left the earlier blog alone, Requiem for an Editor, and began focusing exclusively on this one. But every once in a while I check on it. It still has legs. Even without any fresh content since Jan. 8, 2011 (I did make an occasional post since then, but I only mean three or four, at the most.) There is one story I wrote on that blog that has still been generating an awful lot of page views, so much so that Google sent me a message about "an increase in the volume" of readership activity. I checked it out; the blog is still producing hits, one story in particular, which is up to 100 comments as of right now. I find it interesting how...