Robin Lyons
Dressed to Kill
Here you have another heated divorce with a mother and father battling for custody. The father’s new wife decides it’s a good plan to...
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Robin Lyons
Internationally Selling Mystery Author
My hard-hitting, true crime posts aim to inform you and provide me with story inspiration. Have a look and see what you think.
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Robin Lyons
- Jun 16
Three hero-dad stories for Father’s Day
Dad vs Carjacker It’s every parent’s nightmare to have their vehicle stolen with their children inside the vehicle. It was the holiday...
Robin Lyons
- Jun 9
No Random Act
Unless you live in the community where this crime occurred, it’s doubtful your local news covered it. Although the crime was indeed...
Robin Lyons
- Jun 2
Ghost Email Murders
How does someone hire a killer? In this true crime, two men (brothers-in-law), were shooting guns at trees and targets and talking. One...
Robin Lyons
- May 26
Life Behind Bars
Before the well-known Columbine High School shooting, there were other equally horrific school shootings. This true crime happened one...
Robin Lyons
- May 19
Can't Stay Away
A 21-year-old man working as an unarmed special police officer lived in a home with a grandmother (not his relative), a mother and her...
Robin Lyons
- May 12
Three hero-mom stories for Mother’s Day
Mom vs Mountain Lion Where I live, we have wild rabbits, skunks, possum, fox, deer, coyote, bobcats, rarely seen mountain lions, and...
Robin Lyons
- May 5
Web of Corruption
In this case, he couldn't be a corrupt public employee without corrupting other people. This true crime is about a web of corruption at...
Robin Lyons
- Apr 28
A Murderous Plot
Staying connected with high school friends on social media provided the 48-year-old mother in this true crime with the resource she...
Robin Lyons
- Apr 21
Protective Mother
High school can be a fun experience for teenagers, attending sports events with friends, school sponsored dances, dating. But it can also...
Robin Lyons
- Apr 14
Dog Stories
This week, I’m flipping the norm and sharing some positive dog stories in honor of Roxy and Comet, my two fictional dogs in the Marshal...
Robin Lyons
- Mar 31
Social Media Privacy
At the time of this post, there has been talk on mainstream news about a TikTok ban imposed by the United States government. And as much...
Robin Lyons
- Mar 24
Worth More Dead
The foster couple’s marriage was on shaky ground when they accepted a teenage foster girl. They’d had other foster children—the wife was...
Robin Lyons
- Mar 17
End of Story
This story (a.k.a. true crime) didn’t end how the ex-husband of the victim had intended it to end. He and his girlfriend met with a man...
Robin Lyons
- Mar 11
Shotgun Thugs
Early in the day, before the crimes happened in this true crime case, the primary perpetrator in the crime stopped by a friend’s home to...
Robin Lyons
- Mar 4
Mental and Physical Scars
After working in public education for almost thirty years, one observation I’ll share is that often schools promoted teachers to...
Robin Lyons
- Feb 25
Cold and Callous
When a husband threatened his wife that he would not allow her to leave him she filed for a domestic violence protection order and left...
Robin Lyons
- Feb 18
Top Secret
This true crime may sound like a Tom Clancy novel, but it’s not. A couple thought they could outsmart the FBI. They were wrong. He sent a...
Robin Lyons
- Feb 11
Insatiable Greed
This true crime angered me on so many levels. In my research of true crimes, I’ve read about some disgusting people—some cold-hearted and...
Robin Lyons
- Feb 4
The Bad Apple
It’s a shame that we can’t fully trust the people we hire to perform work in our homes. Of course, there are more trustworthy contractors...
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