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Cannibal: The True Story Behind the Maneater of Rotenburg
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Hide books by the same authorThe Jeffrey Dahmer Story: An American Nightmare
Don Davis · 320 pages
Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original "Psycho"
Harold Schechter · 274 pages
From “America’s principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers” (*The Boston Book Review*) comes the definitive account of Ed Gein, a mild-mannered Wisconsin farmhand who stunned an unsuspecting nation—and redefined the meaning of the word “psycho.” The year was 1957. The place was an ordinary farmhouse in America’s heartland, filled with extraordinary evidence of unthinkable depravity.
The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer
Brian Masters · 314 pages
Open Library won't allow me to access this book for a second episode of reading & keeps saying it's currently borrowed/being read. It won't acknowledge ME who is the one reading it! It will likely remain that way for the rest of eternity. I apologize to all I've inconvenienced thinking they'd have the opportunity to dead this while this library system has me in some cyberspace of currently reading
Buried Dreams: Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer
Tim Cahill · 353 pages
Based on exclusive interviews, meticulous research, and previously unreported material, Tim Cahill's *Buried Dreams* brings to vivid life the most prolific serial killer in history, John Wayne Gacy, Jr. Here—often in the killer's own words—is a riveting, unsettling, and unforgettable journey to the very heart of human evil. As a child, he was abused as a loathsome failure by his merciless fathe
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Nathaniel Philbrick · 320 pages
In 1819, the 238-ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage to hunt whales. Fifteen months later, the Essex was rammed and sunk by an enraged sperm whale.
Devil in The Darkness: The True Story of Serial Killer Israel Keyes
J.T. Hunter · 327 pages
He was a hard-working small business owner, an Army veteran, an attentive lover, and a doting father. But he was also something more, something sinister. A master of deception, he was a rapist, arsonist, and bank robber, and a new breed of serial killer, one who studied other killers to perfect his craft. He methodically buried kill-kits containing his tools of murder years before returning to rec
The Man With The Candy: The Story of The Houston Mass Murders
Jack Olsen · 256 pages
The mass murder of almost thirty young boys in Houston may well have been the most heinous crime of the century. How could such a series of murders go undetected for almost three years before being exposed? *The Man with the Candy* is a brilliant investigative journalist's story of the crime and the answer to that question.
The Family: The Story of Charles Manson's Dune Buggy Attack Battalion
Ed Sanders · 415 pages
"Ed Sanders gained access to every material witness to the Tate-LaBianca murders. He corresponded with Manson and visited the family many times in their quarters at the Spahn Ranch, and in Inyo County and Death Valley, their desert hideaways. He interviewed members of motorcycle gangs whose paths crossed that of Manson and his family. He covered the trial for the Los Angeles Free Press and develo
Lethal Marriage: The Unspeakable Crimes of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka
Nick Pron · 512 pages
Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China
Paul French · 280 pages
On a frigid morning in January 1937, the mutilated body of a British schoolgirl is discovered at the base of the Fox Tower. Who could commit such a crime? Peking in 1937 is a heady mix of privilege and scandal, opulence and opium dens, rumor and superstition. The Japanese are encircling the city, and the discovery of Pamela Werner's body sends a shiver through an already nervous Peking. Is it the
Bones & All
Camille DeAngelis · 304 pages
"Since she was a baby, Maren has had serious trouble accepting affection. Any time someone gets too close to her, she's overcome by the desire to eat them. Abandoned by her mother the day after her sixteenth birthday, Maren goes looking for the father she has never known, but finds much more than she bargained for along the way. Faced with a world of fellow eaters, potential enemies, and the prosp
By their Father's Hand: The True Story of the Wesson Family Massacre
Monte Francis · 285 pages
Neighbors were unaware of what went on behind the tightly closed doors of a house in Fresno, California—the home of an imposing, 300-pound Marcus Wesson, his wife, children, nieces, and grandchildren. But on March 12, 2004, gunshots were heard inside the Wesson home, and police officers responding to what they believed was a routine domestic disturbance were horrified by the senseless carnage they
Whatever Mother Says...: A True Story of a Mother, Madness and Murder
Wensley Clarkson · 265 pages
The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science
Douglas Starr
This book is a riveting true crime story that vividly recounts the birth of modern forensics. At the end of the 19th century, serial murderer Joseph Vacher, known and feared as "The Killer of Little Shepherds," terrorized the French countryside. He eluded authorities for years until he ran up against prosecutor Emile Fourquet and Dr. Alexandre Lacassagne, the era's most renowned criminologist. The
While They Slept: An Inquiry Into the Murder of a Family
Kathryn Harrison · 290 pages
From the bestselling author of The Kiss comes a riveting account of true crime-- the murder of a family in a small Midwestern town-- and the gripping exploration of its haunting aftermath. The Gilley family murders ended a lifetime of physical and mental abuse suffered by Billy and Jody at the hands of their parents. And it required each of the two survivors-- one a convicted murderer, the other s
One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway
Asne Seierstad · 530 pages
"On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside the Norwegian prime minister's office in central Oslo, killing eight people. He then proceeded to a youth camp on the wooded island of Utøya, where he killed sixty-nine more, most of them teenage members of the country's governing Labour Party. In [this book], the journalist Åsne Seierstad tells the story of this terrible day and i