The Mind Detective
Joni E. Johnston, Psy.D.A forensic psychologist, private investigator and crime writer explores the psychology of the criminal mind.
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The Psychology of Strangulation
Aaron Romo had been thrown out of a bar in the city of Orange. A woman he had approached slapped him, the bouncers put him on the sidewalk, and the fight that followed left him with two black eyes. It was the early morning of March 17, 2023...
Michael Thompson Walked Through His House Collecting Family Photographs. Then He Arranged Them Around His Wife’s Body.
The ambulance reached Pinewood Road at 5:49 on Saturday morning, August 9, 2025. The call had come in ten minutes earlier, a man saying he had come downstairs and found his wife not breathing.
The paramedic, Owen Brown, was taken to the sm...
Suzanne Mericle, Murder, and the Psychology of Romantic Obsession
David Barron had a way of leaving. His first wife, Beth, said it plainly from the witness stand: when an argument started, David removed himself. His sons described it the same way. So did his ex-girlfriend before Suzanne Mericle. Not avoid...
Haeven Watson Searched “Dorm Rape Porn.”
All three women are identified here by the pseudonyms used in open court and in the trial coverage. None of the three has been publicly named.
“Jane” had a friend over on the night of September 23, 2024. They stayed up in her apartment at...
Bradley Cadenhead: The Boy Who Became 764
In April 2018, Bradley Cadenhead’s father opened his bedroom door and found him on the floor.
He was twelve, curled into himself, crying, saying things that didn’t hold together, with shallow cuts running up both arms.
His father started...
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