As most of you probably know by now, I like to do things differently here at In Cold Blog. That's why I want you to help make the list of the contenders for the first Annual In Cold Blog Capote Awards to honor the best in true crime.

I have compiled a starting point of numerous topics in various realms of true crime, but I need your help. Please feel free to add any true crime books, films, documentaries, blogs, blogger descriptions, magazine articles, music, etc., that were released in 2007 that you deem worthy of being nominated for an inaugural Capote.

There is no way I can stay abreast of all the new releases in the different media so I need you to help me fill in the gaps. So, take a look at the preliminary ballot below the fold and help make it complete.

Also, as creator of the Capotes, I recuse myself from any nominations for the awards.

Remember, this is only the preliminary ballot. The actual voting will be done by you, the reader, in a week or two.

***UPDATE - 1/3/08***
I want to add a category for Best True Crime Magazine Article and also for the True Crime Book Hall of Fame. Please help me out with titles for both of these categories if you can -- Thanks, Corey.

ICB’s 2007 CAPOTES

Best True Crime Book
Adams, Sam, PRECIOUS BLOOD
Armold, Chris, A VULGAR DISPLAY OF POWER
Bass, Bill and, Jefferson, Jon, BEYOND THE BODY FARM
Bugliosi, Vincent, RECLAIMING HISTORY
Butcher, Lee, LOVE ME OR I'LL KILL YOU
Craughwell, Thomas J., STEALING LINCOLN'S BODY
Crier, Catherine, FINAL ANALYSIS
Davidson, Peter, MURDER AT HOLY CROSS
Douglas, John and, Dodd, Johnny, INSIDE THE MIND OF BTK
Fleeman, Michael, KILLER BODIES
Franscell, Ron, FALL
Gado, Mark, DEATH ROW WOMEN
Glatt, John, THE DOCTOR'S WIFE
Hudson, Dale, ALL I WANT TO DO IS KILL
Jackson, Jenna and, Van Sant, Peter, PERFECTLY EXECUTED
Johnson, Sheila, BLOOD LUST
Jones, Aphrodite, THE MICHAEL JACKSON CONSPIRACY
LaRosa, Paul, NIGHTMARE IN NAPA
Latus, Janine IF I AM MISSING OR DEAD
Leake, John, ENTERING HADES
McGinniss, Joe, NEVER ENOUGH
Michaud, Stephen G. and, Price, Debbie M., THE DEVIL'S RIGHT-HAND MAN
Mladinich, Robert and;, Benson, Michael, LETHAL EMBRACE
Phelps, M. William, BECAUSE YOU LOVED ME
Reavill, Gil, AFTERMATH, INC.
Rodriguez, Teresa, DAUGHERS OF JUAREZ
Rosen, Fred, THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD
Rosen, Fred, WHEN SATAN WORE A CROSS
Rule, Ann, TOO LATE TO SAY GOODBYE
Schechter, Harold, THE DEVIL'S GENTLEMAN
Scott, Robert, KILLER DAD
Swingle, Morley, SCOUNDRELS TO THE HOOSEGOW
Wenzl, Roy, BIND, TORTURE, KILL

Best True Crime Blog
1947 project
The Anti-MOVE/Mumia Blog
Berwyn Police Blotter
Black and Missing but not forgotten
Bonnie's Blog of Crime
The Cellar Blog
The Cellar Forum
CLEWS
Coalition of Crime Bloggers
craigscrimelist
Crime In Charlotte, NC
Crime Interrupted
Crime Rant
Crime Scene Blog
CrimeNe.ws
CrimeShadows News
Criminal Conduct
Dreamin' Demon
Home Sweet Home
The Homicide Report (L.A. Times)
In Cold Blog
L.A. Crime Scene Blog
Las Vegas and the Mob
Lost in Lima Ohio
Malefactor's Register
Michelle Says So
Missing & Murdered Children
MyCrimeSpace
News of Doom 2.0
Our Wildest Dream: A True Crime Blog of Filmmaking
Parents Behaving Badly
Perverted Primates
Psycho For Love
Sarcastic Crime
Tased and Confused
True Crime Blog UK
True Crime Blogroll
True Crime Weblog
Teachers Behaving Badly
The Trenchcoat Chronicles
Until Death Do Us Part
When a Child Goes Missing
The Year 'Round

Best True Crime Documentary
Albert Fish
Christmas Family Tragedy, A
Crazy Love
Lake of Fire
Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair, The
Sacco and Vanzetti
Sicko
Trials of Darryl Hunt, The
Villisca: Living with a Mystery

Best Film Based on a True Crime
Alpha Dog
American Gangster
Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The
Borderland
Borderline Cult
Breach
Chapter 27
Chicago Massacre: Richard Speck
Curse of the Zodiac
Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield
Karla
Killing Of John Lennon, The
Lonely Hearts
Redacted
Stuck
Valley of the Heart's Delight
Zodiac

Best Music Based on a True Crime
A Christmas Family Tragedy Soundtrack

Slayer - "Jihad" from their album Christ Illusion 2007 Reissue

Best True Crime Television Program
20/20 (ABC)
48 Hours Mystery (CBS)
America’s Most Wanted (Fox)
American Justice (A&E)
Body Of Evidence (CourtTV)
Captured (Oxygen)
City Confidential (A&E)
Cold Case Files (A&E)
COPS (Fox)
Dateline NBC (NBC)
Dominick Dunne (CourtTV)
First 48, The (A&E)
Forensic Files (CourtTV)
LA Forensics (CourtTV)
Murder by the Book (CourtTV)
Mycase.com (CourtTV)
Notorious (Biography)
Psychic Detectives (CourtTV)
Snapped (Oxygen)
Staircase Murders, The (USA Miniseries)
‘Til Death Do Us Part (CourtTV)
To Catch A Predator (NBC)

Best True Crime Blogger
Davis, Carol Anne (ICB)
Ditmars, John (ICB)
Foy, Joseph (ICB)
Franscell, Ron (ICB)
Gray, Michelle (ICB, Criminal Conduct)
Gribben, Mark (Malefactor Register)
Hammer, Jules (ICB, The Cellar)
Huff, Steve (Crimeblog.us, ICB)
James, Laura (Clews, ICB)
Kahan, Andy (ICB)
Karem, Brian (ICB)
Lavergne, Gary (ICB)
Leovy, Jill (L.A. Times' The Homicide Report)
LiLo
Lohr, David (Crime Library, ICB)
Long, Steven (ICB)
McDougal, Dennis (ICB)
Olsen, Gregg (Crime Rant, ICB)
Pendergast, Donna (ICB)
Phelps, M. William (Crime Rant, ICB)
Read, Simon (ICB)
Rosen, Fred (ICB)
Semander, Harriett (ICB)
Semander, John (ICB)
Stinski, Mike (ICB)
Stowers, Carlton (ICB)
Trench (Trenchcoat Chronicles)

True Crime Book Hall of Fame
Bugliosi, Vincent, and Gentry, Curt, HELTER SKELTER
Capote, Truman, IN COLD BLOOD
Cartwright, Gary, BLOOD WILL TELL
Lavergne, Gary, A SNIPER IN THE TOWER
McDougal, Dennis, ANGEL OF DARKNESS
McGinnis, Joe, FATAL VISION
Graysmith, ZODIAC
O'Brien, Darcy, TWO OF A KIND: THE HILLSIDE STRANGLERS
Olsen, Jack, SON
Rule, Anne, A STRANGER BESIDE ME
Thompson, Tommy, BLOOD AND MONEY