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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorManson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson
Jeff Guinn · 495 pages
Based on new interviews, this revealing account of one of the most notorious criminals in American history puts Manson in the context of his times, the turbulent end of the 60s, revealing a rock star wannabe whose killings were directly related to his musical ambitions.
Bitter Blood: A True Story of Southern Family Pride, Madness, and Multiple Murder
Jerry Bledsoe · 520 pages
NC writer Jerry Bledsoe masterfully writes about some horrific murders that happened with one family in KY and Winston-Salem, NC. Murder, incest and politics, this true crime story has it all.
Journey Into Darkness
John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker · 384 pages
Without Pity: Ann Rule's Most Dangerous Killers
Ann Rule · 433 pages
Predator
Jack Olsen · 366 pages
A true story of a serial rapist who terrorized the Pacific Northwest, an innocent man who went to jail for the crimes, and a courageous reporter who finally caught the real criminal--from the Edgar Award-winning author of Doc: The Rape of the Town of Lovell. Full-page ad in People magazine and TV commercials on Unsolved Mysteries and America's Most Wanted.
Gosnell: The Untold Story of America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer
Ann McElhinney, Phelim McAleer · 256 pages
In 2013 Dr Kermit Gosnell was convicted of killing four people, including three babies, but is thought to have killed hundreds, perhaps thousands more in a 30-year killing spree. Gosnell is currently serving three life sentences (without the possibility of parole) for murdering babies and patients at his "House of Horrors" abortion clinic. This book--now a major movie starring Dean Cain (Lois & Cl
Dead And Buried: A Shocking Account of Rape, Torture, and Murder on the California Coast
Corey Mitchell · 383 pages
Lethal Marriage: The Unspeakable Crimes of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka
Nick Pron · 512 pages
People Who Eat Darkness: The Fate of Lucie Blackman
Richard Lloyd Parry · 400 pages
An incisive and compelling account of the case of 21-year-old Lucie Blackman, who stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000 and disappeared forever. The following winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in a seaside cave. The seven months in between had seen a massive search for the missing girl, involving Japanese policemen; British private detectives; Australian d
The Evil That Men Do: FBI Profiler Roy Hazelwood's Journey into the Minds of Serial Killers
Stephen G. Michaud · 307 pages
Profiler Roy Hazelwood is the world's leading expert on the strangest, most dangerous of all aberrant offenders - the sexual criminal. In a career spent investigating and studying these macabre outlaws, Hazelwood has encountered every type, from sexual sadists to serial rapists. His cases have ranged from autoerotic deaths to staged suicides, and have included famous investigations from Toronto's
Delivered from Evil: True Stories of Ordinary People Who Faced Monstrous Mass Killers and Survived
Ron Franscell · 272 pages
Black Dahlia Avenger
Steve Hodel · 481 pages
The author, a former Los Angeles police officer, recounts how he concluded that his late father, Dr. George Hodel, was the Black Dahlia Avenger, the serial killer responsible for the death of Elizabeth Short in 1947 and other murders. More than fifty years after what has been called the most notorious unsolved murder of the 20th century, the case has finally been solved. On January 15, 1947, the b
The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders
Anthony Flacco, Jerry Clark · 285 pages
From 1926 to 1928, Gordon Stewart Northcott committed at least 20 murders on a chicken ranch outside of Los Angeles. His nephew, Sanford Clark, held captive there from the age of 13 to 15, was the sole surviving victim of the killing spree. Here, crime writer Anthony Flacco--using never-before-heard information from Sanford's son Jerry Clark--tells the real story behind the case. Forced by Northco
The Complete Jack the Ripper
Donald Rumbelow · 305 pages
Discover the theories and facts surrounding the Whitechapel murders in David Rumbelow's The Complete Jack the Ripper... It is 1888 in London's Whitechapel district, where one by one a group of prostitutes are brutally murdered. Opium smoking Inspector Fred Abberline is called upon to investigate these horrific murders and through his visions track down and trap Jack the Ripper. David Rumbelow's ca
The Michigan Murders
Edward Keyes · 363 pages
Edgar Award Finalist: The terrifying true story of savage murders, a terrorized midwestern town, and the serial killer who could have lived next door In 1967, during the time of peace, free love, and hitchhiking, nineteen-year-old Mary Terese Fleszar was last seen alive walking home to her apartment in Ypsilanti, Michigan. One month later, her naked body—stabbed over thirty times and missing
The Spider and the Fly: A Reporter, a Serial Killer, and the Meaning of Murder
Claudia Rowe · 288 pages
Killing for Company: The Case of Dennis Nilsen
Brian Masters · 352 pages
Bogeyman - He Was Every Parent's Nightmare
Steve Jackson · 248 pages
Portrait of a Monster: Joran van der Sloot, a Murder in Peru, and the Natalee Holloway Mystery
Lisa Pulitzer, Cole Thompson · 277 pages
In May 2005, Natalee Holloway disappeared from a high school trip to Aruba. Five years to the day later, 21 year old Stephany Flores Ramirez was reported missing in Lima, Peru. Implicated in both crimes was one young man, Joran van der Sloot. A 22 year old Dutchman, van der Sloot has become the subject of intense scrutiny by the media and the public in the years since 2005. He was arrested and det
Serial Killers: The Stories of Historys 50 Most Evil Murderers
Brian Innes · 208 pages
Monster: My True Story
Aileen Wuornos, Christopher Berry-Dee · 238 pages
Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters
Peter Vronsky · 490 pages
The first book of its kind-photographs included.Mothers, daughters, sisters and grandmothers-fiendish killers all.Society is conditioned to think of murderers and predators as men, but in this fascinating book, Peter Vronsky exposes and investigates the phenomenon of women who kill-and the political, economic, social, and sexual implications.From history's earliest recorded cases of homicidal fema