Dominick Dunne, 83, Best-Selling Crime Writer, Dies in New York City After Long Battle with Cancer

Best-selling author and former Hollywood producer Dominick Dunne, 83, died Wednesday in New York City after a long battle with cancer. Dunne wrote five best selling books and covered high society crimes for Vanity Fair magazine.

I recall seeing Dunne on cable television commenting on the most famous trials of our times -- Claus von Bulow, William Kennedy Smith, the Menendez brothers, Michael Skakel and Phil Spector. He was one of the best crime writers of all times. The fact that he personally knew many of the people he wrote about, helped to set him apart for his peers.

Ryan Holness, 28, Charged with Stabbing Wife, Serika Holness, to Death, After Concocting Twisted Carjacking Tale

Ryan Holness, 28, claimed that his wife, Serika Holness, was killed by a carjacker. It turns out that his story was a twisted tale of lies that the cops were able to poke holes through. Yesterday he was charged with her murder. This dirtbag told investigators that his wife was stabbed to death by a masked assailant early yesterday morning after the imaginary criminal forced them to drive from a New Jersey gas station into Maryland. The police said that Mrs. Holness' "heavily slashed" body was found in a field along a rural Kent County road about 6 a.m. Apparently his story as to how she got to that location raised red flags from the start. After investigators interviewed witnesses and gathered more evidence, they became convinced Ryan Holness' tale was an elaborate ruse. What a dirtbag. There is an absolutely good reason why law enforcement will look at the spouse or significant other of a deceased wife or girlfriend because the guilty party is more often than not that person.

Holness claimed that he and his 26-year-old wife stopped at a gas station on the New Jersey Turnpike after visiting her relatives in Brooklyn. He told investigators the assailant, armed with a gun and knife, ordered them to drive into Maryland, where the couple has a second home.

After stopping along a country road, Holness claimed, the attacker dragged him out of the car, bound his hands and feet and then stabbed Serika Holness several times as she tried to flee. Ryan Holness told investigators he freed himself after several hours and ran into a nearby house to call the cops.

"He didn't know how he got to Maryland....He had said he tried to get away and the man hit him in the groin," Robert Rolfe, who helped Holness call the police, told CBS 2 News. Ryan Holness was charged with first- and second-degree murder Friday night. Source: NY Daily News

According to Southern Maryland Online, state police investigators said that Holness is currently a member of the United States Navy, assigned to the Patuxent River Naval Air Station. He and his wife have a home in Lexington Park. The couple has been married since 2003. The couple has children, but they were not involved in this incident and are safe with other relatives.

What a dirtbag. I hope they lock him in prison for the rest of his life. I could go down the list of men who have killed their spouses and thought that they could outsmart law enforcement -- Scott Peterson, Phil Spector (a woman who was at his home), Gabe Watson, Chris Coleman, O.J. Simpson and so many others -- and the common thread among them all is a narcissistic behavior.