Welcome to Vintage Crime Vault
If you’re as much a fan of old time true crime as we are, this is the place to be: a website devoted to historical misdeeds. We’ll talk about cases from the past, review books and films, and keep you updated about the progress of our forthcoming book, “Madeline Gets Life.”
Dan Williams, Author
Veteran journalist and educator
Dan Williams got his start in Oklahoma journalism at the Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise and later worked for United Press International in Oklahoma City and Tulsa. Across a varied career, Williams has worked in Munich for the U.S. broadcaster Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, in Atlanta for CNN International, and in Washington, D.C., for China Global Television News. He taught journalism for ten years at universities in Alabama, Vermont, and Xi’an, China, where he spent a year as a Fulbright Scholar. He is a writing coach and speaks to journalism classes on writing, editing and research.
M.J. Van Deventer, Author
Longtime Oklahoma writer and editor
M.J. Van Deventer is an inductee of the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame and the author or co-author of seven books on interior design. She met Madeline Webb while working her first newspaper job as lifestyle editor at the News-Press in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Van Deventer also worked for the Tulsa Tribune, the Tulsa World, the Daily Oklahoman, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and the Muskogee Phoenix; she was editor of Oklahoma Home & Lifestyle Magazine and publications director at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. She taught journalism at the University of Central Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University as an adjunct and is a frequent public speaker for civic groups.
