Women in Crime Ink

Women in Crime Ink has featured commentary and analyses of crime and media events by journalists, criminal justice professionals and TV personalities, including: Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist and author Deborah Blum; legal analyst Anne Bremner; criminal profiler Pat Brown; forensics specialist Andrea Campbell; true crime author and novelist Kathryn Casey; Emmy award-winning TV news magazine producer Lisa R. Cohen; TV journalist and host Diane Dimond; former police officer and commentator Stacy Dittrich; true crime author and mystery novelist Diane Fanning; legal analyst Susan Filan; body language expert Dr. Lillian Glass; clinical psychologist and author Michelle Golland; former prosecutor Holly Hughes; crime analyst Sheryl McCollum; prosecutor Donna Pendergast; author and professor of forensic psychology Katherine Ramsland;[2] author, former prosecutor and TV legal analyst Robin Sax; criminal defense attorney Katherine Scardino; true crime author and journalist Cathy Scott; newswoman Michelle Sigona; psychotherapist and anger counselor Gina Simmons Schneider; and investigative specialist Donna Weaver.

[3] Of the six original founders — including Vanessa Leggett, a writer jailed by the U.S. Justice Department for 168 days for choosing to protect sources and notes for a book about murder victim Doris Angleton[4] — three remain: Brown, Pendergast and Weaver.

In June 2009, editor Becky Bright with The Wall Street Journal called Women in Crime Ink "a blog worth reading".

[6] The Bishop Accountability organization cited as well as reprinted a 2008 Women in Crime Ink article about Reverend Gilbert Gauthe and the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic diocese of Savannah.

[7] In May 2010, the social networking blog Betty Confidential republished a "Women in Crime Ink" post written by Kathryn Casey about the beating death of University of Virginia lacrosse player Yeardley Love.