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Deranged: The Shocking True Story of America's Most Fiendish Killer

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Ed Gein: Psycho

Paul Anthony Woods · 162 pages

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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.

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Happy Like Murderers

Gordon Burn · 336 pages

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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

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The Shoemaker

Flora Rheta Schreiber

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Bogeyman - He Was Every Parent's Nightmare

Steve Jackson · 248 pages

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Cannibal: The True Story Behind the Maneater of Rotenburg

Lois Jones · 215 pages

The true story of the maneater of Rotenburg--and his willing victimGerman native Armin Meiwes killed and ate a man who answered his ad on a cannibal website. Now, Cannibal discloses for the first time the true story of this real-life Hannibal Lecter--and his willing victim. And with details never before divulged to the public, it takes readers step-by-step through the unspeakable crime that fascin

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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

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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

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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

Jon Krakauer · 399 pages

Jon Krakauer's literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. In UNDER THE BANNER OF HEAVEN, he shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of religious belief within our own borders. At the core of his book is an appalling double murder committed by two Mormon fundamentalist brothers, Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they receive

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The Complete History of Jack the Ripper

Philip Sugden · 541 pages

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The night stalker

Philip Carlo · 528 pages

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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

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John Wayne Gacy: Defending a Monster

Sam L. Amirante, Dan Broderick

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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.

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Cries in the Desert

John Glatt · 288 pages

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Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit

John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker · 389 pages

Discover the classic, behind-the-scenes chronicle of John E. Douglas’ twenty-five-year career in the FBI Investigative Support Unit, where he used psychological profiling to delve into the minds of the country’s most notorious serial killers and criminals—the basis for the upcoming Netflix original series. In chilling detail, the legendary Mindhunter takes us behind the scenes of some of his mo

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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

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The Daughters of Juárez: A True Story of Serial Murder South of the Border

Teresa Rodriguez, Diana Montane, Lisa Pulitzer · 316 pages

For more than twelve years the Mexican border city of Juárez has been the center of an epidemic of horrific crimes against women and girls: kidnappings, rape, mutilation, and murder, with most of the victims conforming to a specific profile--young, slender, and poor. Speculation that the killer or killers are American citizens has led the U.S. government to send in criminal profilers from the FBI

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