Join me on a downtown walking tour! I am now available to lead walking tours for groups of 6 people of more around Downtown LA! They’re usually on a weekend afternoon, last about 2 hours, and cover an easy 1 mile or so route. Bookings can be made for other times and days too…. find more details here
My recent piece for the BBC about the discovery of the resting place of actress Elsa Lanchester (famous for playing The Bride of Frankenstein) is here.
Also, my latest for SFGate is about America’s first Bonnie & Clyde – robbers Alexander Mackay and Lucille Walker – whose gang terrorized LA in the early 1930s. Mackay ended up in San Quentin, condemned to death after a failed escape, and he decided to get help. Being a British subject (born in Scotland), he wrote King Edward VIII for help…
https://www.sfgate.com/california/article/california-crime-couple-bonnie-clyde-21069355.php
It was great fun meeting SpookyFoodie at her Spooky’s Restaurant Club in The Wolves in downtown LA. The place was packed with lovely people. Here are some pics…
The HAUNTED HISTORY & TRUE CRIMES of LA Walking Tour is here!
I am now available to lead walking tours for groups of 6 people of more around Downtown LA! They’re usually on a weekend afternoon, last about 2 hours, and cover an easy 1 mile or so route. Bookings can be made for other times and days too…. find more details here
Recently I appeared on LAist 89.3FM to talk about six undiscovered and unusual museums in LA – including the Museum of Death in Hollywood! You can read my article about it here and hopefully you can hear my 4 minute interview too here:
Those of you who have come here in relation to my award-winning true crime book The Alaskan Blonde: Sex, Secrets, and the Hollywood Story that Shocked America, which reexamines a scandalous 1953 murder in Fairbanks, Alaska, can go to its dedicated website to find out more….
The Cecil Hotel in downtown LA is infamous for murders and suicides – plus the “Night Stalker” stayed here, and tourist Elisa Lam was found dead in the roof water tank. I wrote about the Cecil Hotel recently celebrating its 100th birthday, and how one man is trying to make a difference…. https://www.sfgate.com/la/article/cecil-hotel-la-priest-20059489.php
Hear me talk about ghosts, crimes and other strange stories in the Dark City podcast, follow my “Daily Deaths” on Facebook, Instagram and get a SIGNED COPY of any of my books, plus FREE SHIPPING IN THE USA by emailing me at jbartlett2000@gmail.com – payment is by PayPal or Venmo – my ID is my email address jbartlett2000@gmail.com
My articles for CrimeReads are about crime on the Titanic, several Halloween nights when trick-or-treat turned deadly in LA., the 1929 murder of LA vintner Frank Baumgarteker (his body was never found but the case was investigated for years), the love triangle murder that entangled the San Diego “Xmas Tree King”, and about Lucille Parker and Alexander Mackay, two young lovers who committed dozens of robberies in LA in the early 1930s: she was called “the red-haired bandit queen”!
Also, you can see me with Zak Bagans on the Cecil Hotel and Hotel Barclay episodes of Ghost Adventures on Discovery+, and about the Cecil Hotel in the “Uncanny Curses” episode of the latest season of The UnXplained, hosted by William Shatner on History. 
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