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Include books by the same authorDead And Buried: A Shocking Account of Rape, Torture, and Murder on the California Coast
Corey Mitchell · 383 pages
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
Happy Like Murderers
Gordon Burn · 336 pages
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
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
Lethal Marriage: The Unspeakable Crimes of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka
Nick Pron · 512 pages
Journey Into Darkness
John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker · 384 pages
Chasing the Devil: My Twenty-Year Quest to Capture the Green River Killer
David Reichert · 320 pages
The riveting personal account of one sheriffs epic hunt for America's most heinous serial killer. For eight years, Sheriff David Reichert devoted days and nights to capturing the Green River Killer--the most notorious serial killer in American history. He was the first detective on the case in 1982 and doggedly pursued it as the body count climbed to 49 and it became the most infamous unsolved cas
Fred And Rose: The Full Story of Fred and Rose West and the Gloucester House of Horrors
Howard Sounes · 362 pages
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 Blooding: The True Story of the Narborough Village Murders
Joseph Wambaugh · 304 pages
Fifteen-year-old Lynda Mann's savagely raped and strangled body is found along a shady footpath near the English village of Narborough. Though a massive 150-man dragnet is launched, the case remains unsolved. Three years later the killer strikes again, raping and strangling teenager Dawn Ashforth only a stone's throw from where Lynda was so brutally murdered. But it will take four years, a scienti
Lost Girls
Caitlin Rother · 372 pages
Chelsea King was a popular high school senior, an outstanding achiever determined to make a difference. Fourteen-year-old Amber Dubois loved books and poured her heart into the animals she cared for. Treasured by their families and friends, both girls disappeared in San Diego County, just eight miles and one year apart. The community's desperate search led authorities to John Albert Gardner, a bru
Invisible Darkness
Stephen Williams · 569 pages
Invisible Darkness is the story of one of the more bizarre cases in recent memory--killings so sensational that they prompted the Canadian government, in the interests of justice, to silence its national press and to lock foreign journalists out of the courts.To all appearances, Paul and Karla Bernardo had a fairytale marriage--beautiful working-class girl weds bright upper-middle-class guy and th
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
Robert Black: The True Story of a Child Rapist and Serial Killer from the United Kingdom
C.L. Swinney · 138 pages
The Black Dahlia
James Ellroy · 364 pages
The Black Dahlia is a roman noir on an epic scale: a classic period piece that provides a startling conclusion to America's most infamous unsolved murder mystery--the murder of the beautiful young woman known as The Black Dahlia.
Infamous Lady: The True Story of Countess Erzsébet Báthory
Kimberly L. Craft · 379 pages
Reputed to be the world's worst female serial killer, Countess Bathory is also said to have been a lesbian, a vampire, and a witch who bathed in the blood of the 650 people she murdered before being walled alive in the tower of her castle. The truth, however, is finally revealed through actual letters, documents, and trial transcripts, many of which have been translated into English for the first
The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy
Elizabeth Kendall · 224 pages
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
The Spider and the Fly: A Reporter, a Serial Killer, and the Meaning of Murder
Claudia Rowe · 288 pages
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
John Wayne Gacy: Defending a Monster
Sam L. Amirante, Dan Broderick