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Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original "Psycho"
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Include books by the same authorThe Jeffrey Dahmer Story: An American Nightmare
Don Davis · 320 pages
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
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
I: The Creation of a Serial Killer
Jack Olsen · 352 pages
In The Killer's Own Words... "I killed Taunja Bennett...I beat her to death, raped her and loved it. Yes I'm sick, but I enjoy myself too. People took the blame and I'm free.... . Look over your shoulder. I may be closer than you think."-Keith Hunter Jesperson, the Happy Face Killer In February 1990, Oregon State Police arrested John Sosnovke and Laverne Pavlinac for the vicious rape and mur
The Most Dangerous Animal of All: Searching for My Father . . . and Finding the Zodiac Killer
Gary L. Stewart, Susan D. Mustafa · 367 pages
"An explosive and historic book of true crime and an emotionally powerful and revelatory memoir of a man whose ten-year search for his biological father leads to a chilling discovery: His father is one of the most notorious--and still at large--serial killers in America. Soon after his birth mother contacted him for the first time at the age of thirty-nine, adoptee Gary L. Stewart decided to searc
The Monster of Florence
Douglas Preston, Mario Spezi · 345 pages
Marshal Guarnaccia feels out of his league when he is assigned to help track down a serial killer, especially when he assigned to work under Simonetti, a man so dedicated to achieving a conviction that he is blinded to the consequences.
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy The Shocking Inside Story
Ann Rule · 512 pages
There are actually two stories here: one describes the gradual disintegration of a seemingly normal, affable, brilliant man into a sexual psychopath so evil, so methodical in his vicious killings, that one wonders if he was at all human. The other story is that of Ann Rule herself, a decent, hard-working, middle-aged mother of four who meets and befriends a nice young man working beside her in a c
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
Lethal Marriage: The Unspeakable Crimes of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka
Nick Pron · 512 pages
The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy
Elizabeth Kendall · 224 pages
Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris
David King · 424 pages
Death in the City of Light is the gripping true story of a brutal serial killer who unleashed his own reign of terror in Nazi-occupied Paris. As decapitated heads and dismembered body parts surfaced in the Seine, Commissaire Georges-Victor Massu, head of the Brigade Criminelle, was tasked with traking down the elusive murderer in a twilight world of Gestapo, gangsters, Resistance fighters, pimps,
Journey Into Darkness
John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker · 384 pages
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Erik Larson · 464 pages
From back cover: Bringing Chicago circa 1893 to vivid life, Erik Larson's spell-binding bestseller intertwines the true tale of two men - the brilliant architect behind the legendary 1893 World's Fair, striving to secure America's place in the world; and the cunning serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims to their death. Combining meticulous research with nail-biting storytelling, Erik
Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed
Patricia Cornwell · 387 pages
"Between August and November 1888, at least seven women were murdered in London's Whitechapel area. The gruesome nature of their deaths caused panic and fear in the East End for months, and gave rise to the sobriquet that was to become shorthand for a serial killer - Jack the Ripper.". "For over a hundred years the murders have remained among the world's greatest unsolved crimes, and a wealth o
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote · 343 pages
On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues.
American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
Maureen Callahan · 285 pages
If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
Gregg Olsen · 405 pages
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
John Grisham · 360 pages
John Grisham's first work of nonfiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet. In the major league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A's, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big league glory. Six years later he was
Fred And Rose: The Full Story of Fred and Rose West and the Gloucester House of Horrors
Howard Sounes · 362 pages
Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI
Robert K. Ressler, Tom Shachtman · 289 pages