Sam L. Amirante is a retired judge and lawyer. His first case was The People of the State of Illinois v. John Wayne Gacy. He was later appointed associate judge of the circuit court of Cook County...

Jack Ballentine became a Phoenix police officer in 1978 and quickly rose to the top as one of the world’s most successful undercover operatives. His specialty: posing as an undercover hit man....

AJ Benza was the host of "High Stakes Poker," which enjoyed its fifth season as GSN’s highest-rated show. Benza also provides TV color commentary for "Fatal Femmes Fighting,"...

Thomas Alan Berg has devoted forty years of his life to the public schools. Tom discovered his innate love for education while serving the American Government as a Peace Corps Volunteer in...

Mark Bowden is the bestselling author of Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War, as well as The Best Game Ever, Bringing the Heat, Killing Pablo, and Guests of the Ayatollah. He reported at The...

Danny Broderick founded the firm of The Law Offices of Daniel J. Broderick. During his twenty years of private practice, Mr. Broderick represented thousands of persons charged with felony and...

For much of her life, Deirdre Marie Capone made every effort to hide the fact that she was a Capone…a name that brought so much heartache to her family. Now, Deirdre tells us what life was like...

After majoring in philosophy at Harvard, Tom Cathcart pursued the usual philosophical career. He was a probation officer, worked with street gangs in Chicago, did similar work with doctors for...

Robert Gleason was born in Michigan City, Indiana. He has an AB in English literature from Indiana University, a master’s degree in English from the University of Wisconsin and he attended the...

Thomas Greanias is the founder and CEO of Atlantis Interactive, Inc., an entertainment company that has created some of the Web’s most groundbreaking entertainment, including the popular...

Todd Harra has been a mortician for five years. He is a fourth-generation undertaker and has been writing novels since graduation. Todd appeared in the Men of Mortuaries calendar as "Mr....

Author and former newsman, George Harrell was an executive for a newspaper group in Glasgow, Scotland when he was recruited by the Philadelphia Inquirer. Since then, George has worked for the New...

Tom Jokinen is a radio producer and video-journalist who has worked on Morningside, Counterspin with Avi Lewis and Definitely Not the Opera as well as many other CBC shows. In 2006 he took a job...

After majoring in philosophy at Harvard, Daniel Klein pursued the usual philosophical career. He wrote jokes for various comedians, including Flip Wilson and Lily Tomlin, designed stunts for...

A rare Nevada native, Wendy Mazaros spent her early years “playing out in the desert with my brothers, chasing lizards, catching snakes, and digging caves”. At fifteen, she fell into the arms...

Kenneth McKenzie first became interested in the death-care industry at the age of twelve. He has been a funeral director for 22 years. Kenneth completed Mortuary College in 1988, worked for a...

Frank Meeink became a SkinHead at 13. by 18 he was roaming the country as a SkinHead leader and Neo-Nazi recruiter, with gangs that would beat people indiscriminately. In Illinois he had his own...

Chef Rick Moonen graduated first in his class from the Culinary Institute of America in 1978. He apprenticed and worked at some of the finest restaurants in New York. In February 2005, Chef Moonen...

Gary Noesner retired from the FBI in 2003 following a 30 year career as an investigator, instructor, and negotiator. A significant focus of his career was directed toward investigating Middle East...

Wayne Pacelle is the president and chief executive officer of The Humane Society of the United States. Pacelle took office June 1, 2004 after serving for nearly 10 years as the organization's...

Stewart Pearce was the Master of Voice at Shakespeare's Globe for ten years. Stewart has also coached such household names as Vanessa Redgrave and Diana, Princess of Wales to name a few. Stewart...

Paul David Pope was born in New York and raised in Florida's Palm Beach County, where he attended Pope John Paul Catholic High School. He then attended the Royal Academy of the Dramatic Arts in...

Jim Rawles has been an enthusiastic survivalist since his teenage years. He is now a survivalist author and lecturer and the editor of www.SurvivalBlog.com. He is a former U.S. Army intelligence...

New York Times bestselling author Alexandra Robbins, 27, is a journalist who was formerly on the Washington, DC staff of The New Yorker magazine. She has written for a variety of publications,...

Dr. Roger Roots is a nationally recognized criminologist, legal scholar and civil liberties activist. He is active in libertarian politics, and in the promotion of a freer, fairer and more just...

Julia Scheeres is the author of the New York Times bestseller Jesus Land, a memoir about her relationship with her adopted black brother David. The brother and sister grew up in a small Indiana...

Raised in a geologically idyllic rural community along the Wisconsin River, Joe Schoenmann moved to Las Vegas in 1997 to get a taste of city reporting after covering the mostly incorruptible...

Ellen E. Schultz is an investigative reporter who has covered the so-called retirement crisis for more than a decade. Her reporting has led to Congressional hearings, proposed legislation, and...

A onetime actor/comedian and the youngest writer to work for comedy legend Bob Hope, Tom Shadyac’s writing/directing career was launched in 1994 with the Jim Carrey smash hit Ace Ventura: Pet...

Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer is a Bronze Star Medal recipient who is a CIA-trained senior intelligence operations officer and reserve Army lieutenant colonel with more than twenty-two years of experience...