David J. Krajicek

David J. Krajicek has been telling crime stories for more than 30 years, as an author and a newspaperman.

A native of South Omaha, Nebraska, he comes from a long line of meatpackers and bartenders--men and women who have told a few stories of their own. Krajicek was a Columbia University journalism professor during the 1990s, but he was drawn back to his true muse: writing.

Since 1999, he has been writing The Justice Story, a weekly true crime feature that has been running in the New York Daily News for nearly a century. (His book "Murder, American Style" includes 50 stories drawn from his work on The Justice Story.)

He was a special correspondent for Court TV's Crime Library and has appeared frequently on television as a crime expert, including on "The Today Show" and Dominick Dunne's "Power, Privilege and Justice" on Court TV. He lives in the Catskill Mountains of New York.

His latest e-book is "Gotti and Me: A Crime Reporter's Close Encounters With the New York Mafia" (News Ink Books), an organized crime best-seller. His latest paperback (also available as an e-book), "True Crime: Missouri, The State's Most Notorious Criminal Cases" (Stackpole), has been a regional best-seller. And an e-book for Kindle Singles, "Death By Rock 'n' Roll" (Crimescape/RosettaBooks), has been a crime best-seller.

Music is a subject that moves him: Krajicek has spent years singing and playing trombone in The Blues Maneuver, an old-school R&B band in New York.