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Perfect Poison: A Female Serial Killer's Deadly Medicine
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Include books by the same authorThe Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder
Charles Graeber · 320 pages
From the Author's Note... Every effort has been made to present this story accurately, through a relaying of the facts collected through police investigation reports, witness statements, transcripts, recorded wiretaps, surveillance tapes, court documents and legal depositions, and personal interviews. Some transcripts have been edited slightly for space and clarity, and some dialogue has been b
Blind Eye: The Terrifying Story of a Doctor Who Got Away with Murder
James B. Stewart · 334 pages
"Young, blond, handsome Dr. Swango seemed a godsend wherever he was hired to practice medicine. But acclaim would turn to disbelief, dismay, then horror, as the evidence mounted that he could actually be murdering his patients. Then Dr. Michael Swango would leave that hospital - only to be rehired at another. Today the FBI believes that Swango may he the most prolific serial killer in American his
The Inheritor's Powder: A Tale of Arsenic, Murder, and the New Forensic Science
Sandra Hempel · 278 pages
Explores how an infamous murder case led to the birth of modern toxicology.
Everything She Ever Wanted
Ann Rule · 555 pages
The true story of a Southern belle gone wrong presents the shocking story of a beautiful woman who tried to murder members of her own family to get what she wanted. By the author of Small Sacrifices. 100,000 first printing.
Poisoned Love
Caitlin Rother · 480 pages
Case seen on Inside Edition, Good Morning America, and 48 Hours Accident, Suicide... Or Murder?On November 6, 2000, paramedics answered a call to find Kristin Rossum, 24, sobbing. Her husband, Greg de Villers, wasn't breathing and she claimed he had overdosed on drugs after learning she was leaving him. But family and friends who knew of Greg's distaste for drugs weren't buying Kristin's story—par
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 Devil's Gentleman: Privilege, Poison, and the Trial That Ushered in the Twentieth Century
Harold Schechter · 494 pages
From renowned true-crime historian Harold Schechter, whom The Boston Book Review hails as "America's principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers," comes the riveting exploration of a notorious, sensational New York City murder in the 1890s, the fascinating forensic science of an earlier age, and the explosively dramatic trial that became a tabloid sensation at the turn of the century
Bitter Almonds: The True Story of Mothers, Daughters, and the Seattle Cyanide Murders
Gregg Olsen · 551 pages
Stella Maudine Nickell's small-time world was one of big-time dreams. In 1986, her biggest one came true when her husband died during a seizure, making her the beneficiary of a $175,000,plus insurance payoff,until authorities discovered Bruce Nickell's headache capsules had been laced with cyanide. In an attempt to cover her tracks, Stella did the unconscionable. She saw to it that a stranger woul
Black Dahlia Avenger
Steve Hodel · 481 pages
The author, a former Los Angeles police officer, recounts how he concluded that his late father, Dr. George Hodel, was the Black Dahlia Avenger, the serial killer responsible for the death of Elizabeth Short in 1947 and other murders. More than fifty years after what has been called the most notorious unsolved murder of the 20th century, the case has finally been solved. On January 15, 1947, the b
Bogeyman - He Was Every Parent's Nightmare
Steve Jackson · 248 pages
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.
Beyond Belief: The Moors Murderers. The Story of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley.
Emlyn Williams · 354 pages
The Bell Tower: The Case of Jack the Ripper Finally Solved... in San Francisco
Robert Graysmith · 552 pages
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
Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters
Peter Vronsky · 422 pages
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 Most Dangerous Animal of All: Searching for My Father . . . and Finding the Zodiac Killer
Gary L. Stewart, Susan D. Mustafa · 367 pages
"An explosive and historic book of true crime and an emotionally powerful and revelatory memoir of a man whose ten-year search for his biological father leads to a chilling discovery: His father is one of the most notorious--and still at large--serial killers in America. Soon after his birth mother contacted him for the first time at the age of thirty-nine, adoptee Gary L. Stewart decided to searc
The League of Lady Poisoners: Illustrated True Stories of Dangerous Women
Lisa Perrin · 208 pages
On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing Women
Stevie Cameron
Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson
Jeff Guinn · 495 pages
Based on new interviews, this revealing account of one of the most notorious criminals in American history puts Manson in the context of his times, the turbulent end of the 60s, revealing a rock star wannabe whose killings were directly related to his musical ambitions.