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Happy Like Murderers

Gordon Burn · 336 pages

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

Harold Schechter · 281 pages

On a warm spring day in 1928, a kindly, white-haired man appeared at the Budd family home in New York City, and soon persuaded Mr. and Mrs. Budd to let him take their adorable little girl, Grace, on an outing. The Budds never guessed that they had entrusted their child to a monster. After a relentless six-year search and nationwide press coverage, the mystery of Grace Budd's disappearance was solv

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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 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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Bogeyman - He Was Every Parent's Nightmare

Steve Jackson · 248 pages

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Journey Into Darkness

John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker · 384 pages

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The Saga of the Bloody Benders

Rick Geary

In graphic novel format, tells the story of a family of serial killers who owned a small general store and inn in Labette County, Kansas, from 1872 to 1873.

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Bitter Blood: A True Story of Southern Family Pride, Madness, and Multiple Murder

Jerry Bledsoe · 520 pages

NC writer Jerry Bledsoe masterfully writes about some horrific murders that happened with one family in KY and Winston-Salem, NC. Murder, incest and politics, this true crime story has it all.

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The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers

Brian Lane, Wilfred Gregg · 376 pages

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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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John Wayne Gacy: Defending a Monster

Sam L. Amirante, Dan Broderick

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Cries in the Desert

John Glatt · 288 pages

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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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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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Ed Gein: Psycho

Paul Anthony Woods · 162 pages

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Monster: My True Story

Aileen Wuornos, Christopher Berry-Dee · 238 pages

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