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By their Father's Hand: The True Story of the Wesson Family Massacre
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Include books by the same authorSmall Sacrifices: A True Story Of Passion And Murder
Ann Rule · 494 pages
the mesmerizing story of Diane Downs, a beautiful, brillient, sociopath, who commits the ultimate evil when she shoots her three children to gain the love of a married man. Anne Rule's insight into the personality of Downs is as horrifying as it is disturbing. She never confesses to shooting her children, but her conduct at the trial is sickening. She taps her foot and smiles while listening to "H
Whatever Mother Says...: A True Story of a Mother, Madness and Murder
Wensley Clarkson · 265 pages
Parents Who Killed Their Children: Filicide
R.J. Parker · 200 pages
Beyond Belief: The Moors Murderers. The Story of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley.
Emlyn Williams · 354 pages
If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
Gregg Olsen · 405 pages
Secrets in the Cellar: A true story of the Austrian incest case that shocked the world
John Glatt · 248 pages
A loving father-- a missing daughter-- and the awful truth that lay hidden just below. The true story of the Austrian incest case that shocked the world.
Shot in the Heart
Mikal Gilmore · 403 pages
Gary Gilmore, the infamous murderer immortalized by Norman Mailer in The Executioner's Song, campaigned for his own death and was executed by firing squad in 1977. Writer Mikal Gilmore is his younger brother. In Shot in the Heart, he tells the stunning story of their wildly dysfunctional family: their mother, a blacksheep daughter of unforgiving Mormon farmers; their father, a drunk, thief, a
Robert Black: The True Story of a Child Rapist and Serial Killer from the United Kingdom
C.L. Swinney · 138 pages
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
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.
Columbine
Dave Cullen · 417 pages
On April 20, 1999, two boys left an indelible stamp on the American psyche. Their goal was simple: to blow up their school, Oklahoma-City style, and to leave "a lasting impression on the world." Their bombs failed, but the ensuing shooting defined a new era of school violence-irrevocably branding every subsequent shooting "another Columbine." When we think of Columbine, we think of the Trench Coat
Dark Places
Gillian Flynn · 349 pages
Libby Day tinha apenas sete anos quando testemunhou o brutal assassinato da mãe e das duas irmãs na fazenda da família. O acusado do crime foi seu irmão mais velho, que acabou condenado à prisão perpétua. Desde aquele dia, Libby passou a viver sem rumo. Uma vida paralisada no tempo, sem amigos, família ou trabalho. Mas, vinte e quatro anos depois, quando é procurada por um grupo de pessoas conv
Pilgrim's Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier
Tom Kizzia · 322 pages
Documents the story of Robert "Papa Pilgrim" Hale and the antiestablishment family settlement in remote Alaska that was exposed as a cult-like prison where Hale brutalized and isolated his wife and fifteen children.
Journey Into Darkness
John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker · 384 pages
Lethal Marriage: The Unspeakable Crimes of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka
Nick Pron · 512 pages
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
Kate Summerscale · 384 pages
In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection, ironically destroying, in the process, the career of perhaps the greatest detective in the land, Jonathan Whicher of Scotland Yard. Whicher quickly believed the unbelievable--that someone within the family was
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
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
Fred And Rose: The Full Story of Fred and Rose West and the Gloucester House of Horrors
Howard Sounes · 362 pages
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.
Under the Bridge: The True Story of the Murder of Reena Virk
Rebecca Godfrey · 346 pages