Amy Beeman

Journalist | Editor | Creative Non-Fiction Writer

United States

A generalist who has written extensively for online outlets in a variety of genres including hard news, pop culture, true crime, music, science, history, blogs, satire, and columns.

Portfolio

General Interest

Grunge.com
10/26/2021
The Truth About The Japanese Who Choose To Go Missing - Grunge

The idea of starting an entirely new life and leaving everything and everyone you know and love behind is probably something many people have thought about when life seems overwhelming. Certainly it was easier in ages past; tougher in today's ultra-connected times.

10NEWS
10/15/2019
Long after the funerals, it's tough to find people to care for cemeteries

Weather-beaten, crooked gravestones nestled in tall grass and weeds. Faded polyester flowers poke out of vases where the dead were laid to rest; at least the ones whose graves are still marked. These are the neglected and forgotten cemeteries found in virtually every town in America.

Creative Loafing: Tampa Bay
05/18/2018
Get your arcade nostalgia on at Replay Amusement Museum in Tarpon Springs

Summer is never better than when you're a kid. Those three months of sleeping late, swimming, playing, family vacations, and intermittent boredom due to lack of structure - those were the jam. Now we're bill-paying adults with time constraints. Yet we still want some of those good-time summer feels.

Newsy items — local and national

Heavy.com
09/25/2020
Proud Boys: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

The Proud Boys, an alt-right group who say they are "Western Chauvinists who refuse to apologize for the modern world." Here's a look at their whole deal.

10NEWS
02/14/2020
Big acts coming to Tampa bring big ticket prices

TAMPA, Fla. - With huge acts like Gus N' Roses, The Rolling Stones, Elton John, Janet Jackson and Justin Bieber coming to town, Tampa Bay is set to have a summer of epic concerts. But the high cost of tickets for these shows means plenty of die-hard fans may not be able to afford the price of admission.

10NEWS
11/14/2019
Florida lawmaker files bill to repeal anti-abortion laws

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - A Florida legislator filed a bill this week to roll back certain abortion laws. Orlando Rep. Anna V. Eskamani told 10News that while there is no doubt that some regulation is needed in regards to abortion access, those regulations should be based on medicine and science and not political motivations.

10NEWS
12/03/2018
Some of the rarest blood in the world is needed to save a 2-year-old Florida girl

Orlando, Fla. -- An international search is on to find some of the rarest blood in the world to help save the life of a 2-year-old South Florida girl. Zainab has neuroblastoma, an aggressive form of cancer. More than 1,000 local and national donations have been tested to match her blood; but of those, only three people have her rare blood type.

Music

Grunge.com
09/01/2021
Little Known Secrets That Rock Star Obituaries Revealed - Grunge

Rock fans love their musicians. As with any art, if it evokes emotion or intrigue, we gravitate toward not only the art but also the person or people who create it. That's why by the time we've followed an artist for a while it might feel like we know a lot about them.

Heavy.com
04/21/2020
Prince Rogers Nelson's Death: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

Prince Rogers Nelson, better known to the world as the iconic superstar Prince, died four years ago at the age of 57 from an accidental fentanyl overdose. His death on April 21, 2016, shocked the world, with fans and celebrities sharing their grief and disbelief on social media, at his home Paisley Park and in cities around world.

Heavy.com
10/16/2020
The Confessions of Mark David Chapman: Why He Killed John Lennon

Mark David Chapman shot and killed John Lennon on December 8, 1980 outside of the Dakota building where Lennon lived in Manhattan. Chapman had flown from Hawaii where he'd been living with his wife specifically to kill Lennon according to transcripts of Chapman's August 19, 2020 parole hearing published by WSB radio.

True Crime

Heavy.com
09/05/2020
Inside Dennis Rader's Childhood: What Made Him the BTK Killer?

Dennis Rader, known as the BTK killer, was convicted of 10 murders in Wichita and Park City, Kansas in 2005. The murders spanned from 1974 to 1986, in which the majority of those years he was married and raising two children, leading a boy scout troop, and being deeply involved in his church.

Heavy.com
09/30/2020
What Chris Watts' Mistress Nichol Kessinger Revealed to Police

Chris Watts had not been having an affair for very long when he killed his 34-year-old pregnant wife, Shanann Watts, and their two daughters, Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3. He'd met Nichol Kessinger where they both worked at The Anadarko Petroleum Corporation in Colorado and by late June 2018, the two began an affair.

Heavy.com
09/02/2020
Cindy Paulson: Life After Escaping Robert Hansen

Cindy Paulson was 18 when she escaped Alaskan serial killer Robert Hansen in 1983. A seasoned prostitute, even at such a young age, Paulson reluctantly agreed to go with Hansen to his house instead of the initial deal he offered, which was $200 to give him oral sex in his car, according to Paulson's interview with Alaskan State Trooper Sgt.

Grunge.com
04/24/2021
The Truth Behind The Hog Trail Murders - Grunge

Shutterstock The so-called "Hog Trail Murders" in South Central Florida are believed to be perpetuated by Daniel Conahan Jr. Conahan was ultimately sentenced to death after being convicted of just one murder, though it is suspected he killed up to 19 men in the mid 1990s, according to The Line-Up.

Offbeat

Grunge.com
04/06/2021
The Surprisingly Respectable Pirate Code Of Conduct - Grunge

The promises the pirate code required were pretty fair, but any crew member who broke the code faced stiff penalties. Things that were forbidden included stealing from "the company," for which you could expect to be abandoned at the nearest plot of land.

Creative Loafing Tampa
09/06/15
The Weekend Shift: TV's fantasy Florida

Florida is a lovely place to call home, but it's not without its discomforts. We are intimately familiar with swamp ass and sweaty underboob.

Creative Loafing: Tampa Bay
08/22/2016
One for the bartenders

Our longtime bartenders give us so much more than cold beers and cocktails.

Creative Loafing Tampa
02/07/2016
On the subject of creepy-ass white vans

On some human level we can still see eye to eye on certain indisputable things. One of those things: the innate creepiness of the white van.

Heavy.com
05/19/2020
NASA Scientists Discover Possible Evidence of a Parallel Universe

Science fiction and actual science may be aligning. That's because NASA scientists have discovered something they can't explain but that others take as a sign that they may have found evidence of a parallel universe. This discovery was made by the NASA-sponsored research group Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna, or ANITA.