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Include books by the same authorUntil the Twelfth of Never: The Deadly Divorce of Dan and Betty Broderick
Bella Stumbo · 631 pages
After a nasty divorce battle, Betty Broderick killed her ex-husband and his new wife.
A Killing in Amish Country: Sex, Betrayal, and a Cold-Blooded Murder
Gregg Olsen, Rebecca Morris · 296 pages
"At just 30 years old, with dark-blonde hair and freckles, Barbara Weaver was as pretty as the women depicted on the covers of her favorite "bonnet" stories - romance novels set in Amish America. Barbara had everything she'd ever wanted: five beautiful children, a home, her faith, and a husband named Eli. But while Barbara was happy to live as the Amish have for centuries - without modern convenie
A Twisted Faith: A Minister's Obsession and the Murder That Destroyed a Church
Gregg Olsen · 352 pages
Perfect Victim: The True Story of "The Girl in the Box"
Carla Norton, Christine McGuire · 384 pages
Evil Beside Her
Kathryn Casey · 373 pages
Several months into her idyllic marriage, Linda Bergstrom notices a change in her husband, he becomes rough and demanding. Soon after, he is accused of being a local serial rapist, but the case is dropped for lack of proof. The Bergrstroms relocate from Maine to Texas where a similar pattern of rapes begins. One day going through her husband's belongings Linda uncovers his rape kit: ski mask, duct
Erased: Missing Women, Murdered Wives
Marilee Strong · 352 pages
Blind Faith
Joe McGinniss · 448 pages
The Marshalls were the model family of Tom’s River, New Jersey, living the American dream of all that money could buy. Rob Marshall was the big breadwinner, king of the country club set. Maria Marshall was his stunningly beautiful wife and the perfect mom to their three great kids. Then one night Rob, his head bloodied, reported Maria had been brutally slain. Sympathy poured in—until disquieti
Death at the Priory: Love, Sex, and Murder in Victorian England
James Ruddick · 209 pages
Details the unsolved murder of attorney Charles Bravo, a cruel man who tormented his wife Florence, in a mystery that paints a portrait of Victorian culture and one woman's fight to exist in this repressive society.
The Burning Bed
Faith McNulty · 290 pages
Recounts the tragic story of Francine Hughes, a battered wife who in desperation murdered her abusive husband, detailing their marriage, the deterioration of their relationship, the murder, and the trial that followed.
In Fear of Her Life: The true story of a violent marriage
Frances Smyth, Erin McCafferty · 288 pages
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Nicholas Pileggi · 363 pages
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The League of Lady Poisoners: Illustrated True Stories of Dangerous Women
Lisa Perrin · 208 pages
Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Next Door
Roy Wenzl, Tim Potter, Hurst Laviana, L. Kelly · 342 pages
For 31 years, an unremarkable family man stalked, killed, and terrorized the people of Wichita, Kansas. He was a devoted husband. A helpful Boy Scout dad. A reliable, conscientious employee. A dependable church president. And behind it all, the notorious serial killer BTK--a self-anointed acronym for "bind, torture, kill." Four award-winning crime reporters for The Wichita Eagle, with the enthusia
A Deadly Game: The Untold Story of the Scott Peterson Investigation
Catherine Crier · 480 pages
Filled with newsbreaking revelations – the definitive journalistic account of the Laci Peterson murder investigation . . . and of the sociopathic Scott Peterson's journey from philandering to murder to Death Row. Catherine Crier has been covering the Peterson case since Laci Peterson was first reported missing from her home on 24 December 2002. Crier, a former judge and one of television's most p
Bully: a True Story of High School Revenge
Jim Schutze · 304 pages
Bobby Kent was a bullya steroid-pumped 20-year-old who dominated his peers in their comfortable, middle-class Ft. Lauderdale beach community through psychological, physical and sexual abuse. But on a summer night in 1993, Bobby was lured to the edge of the Florida everglades with a promise of sex and drugs. . .and was never seen alive again. The tormentor had become the victim in a bizarre and br
Fred And Rose: The Full Story of Fred and Rose West and the Gloucester House of Horrors
Howard Sounes · 362 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
Echoes in the Darkness
Joseph Wambaugh · 415 pages
On June 25, 1989, the naked corpse of schoolteacher Susan Reinert was found wedged into her hatchback car in a hotel parking lot near Philadelphia's "Main Line." Her two children had vanished. The Main Line Murder Case burst upon the headlines--and wasn't resolved for seven years. Now, master crime writer Joseph Wambaugh reconstructs the case from its roots, recounting the details, drama, playe
The Misbegotten Son
Jack Olsen · 528 pages
Little Artie Shawcross bullied classmates, insulted teachers, started fires, tortured animals, and roved the woods of New York's hardscrabble North Country with imaginary friends, talking in a high squawk. He also scored top grades, excelled in sports and shared his money and toys with the children who ridiculed him. From the second grade on, he was subjected to psychiatric examination, regularly
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
A Death in White Bear Lake: The True Chronicle of an All-American Town
Barry Siegel · 544 pages
Recounts the brutal murder of four-year-old Dennis Jurgens in 1965 by his adoptive parents, and Dennis's birth mother's discovery of the truth more than twenty years later