Crimes Criminals category: 7162 books
by M. William Phelps, Melissa Schickel
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Fighting for her life . . .
A few days before her 26th birthday, Melissa Schickel returned to her Indianapolis home and went to bed. An hour later, she was yanked from her dreams into terror. An intruder held her down, brutally beating and stabbing her.
Melissa fought fiercely. The assailant...
by M. William Phelps
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Phelps shows how the ugliest crimes can take place in the quietest of suburbs. --Library Journal
When librarian Martha Gail Fulton was gunned down in a Michigan parking lot on a quiet evening, there were two obvious suspects--Gail's husband George, a former military officer . . . and George's...
by Cyril H. Wecht, M.D., J.D.
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Final Exams features four fascinating true crime cases from the files of Cyril H. Wecht, M.D., J.D., one of America’s most respected forensic pathologists. Coauthored by crime writer Dawna Kaufmann, Final Exams explores both the technical and the human side of murder.
From the...
Dead and Gone
Classic Crimes of North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
An absorbing collection of ten famous murder stories of North Carolina, spanning the years 1808 to 1914.
“An interesting job of reporting....A book that rates a place on the bedside table.”-Charlotte Observer
by Greg King
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
The first comprehensive biography of Sharon Tate: Hollywood star, wife of Roman Polanski, victim of Charles Manson, and symbol of the death of the 1960s.
It began as a home invasion by the “Manson family” in the early hours of August 9, 1969. It ended in a killing spree that left seven...
God of the Rodeo
The Quest for Redemption in Louisiana's Angola Prison
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Never before had Daniel Bergner seen a spectacle as bizarre as the one he had come to watch that Sunday in October. Murderers, rapists, and armed robbers were competing in the annual rodeo at Angola, the grim maximum-security penitentiary in Louisiana. The convicts, sentenced to life without parole,...
Dead Man Running: An insider's story on one of the world's most feared outlaw motorcycle gangs ... The Bandidos
An insider's story on one of the world's most feared outlaw motorcycle gangs ... The Bandidos
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
A first hand account of perhaps the most powerful and influential crime group currently operating in Australia and North America. It is the first time ever that an insider has told the true and chilling story of the bike gangs that dominate the drug and illegal weapons trade. They'll come after me....
The Darkest Night
Two Sisters, a Brutal Murder, and the Loss of Innocence in a Small Town
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Casper, Wyoming: 1973. Eleven-year-old Amy Burridge rides with her eighteen-year-old sister, Becky, to the grocery store. When they finish their shopping, Becky's car gets a flat tire. Two men politely offer them a ride home. But they were anything but Good Samaritans. The girls would suffer unspeakable...
If I Die...
A True Story of Obsessive Love, Uncontrollable Greed, and Murder
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
He'd been shot in the head, decapitated, and set on fire. Who could have turned on the real-estate ace with such bloodthirsty fury? Even before the remains were found, circumstantial evidence was building against Rudin's 52-year-old wife, Margaret, who stood to inherit a handsome share of her husband's...
by Gregg Olsen, Rebecca Morris
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2014
With Photos!
New York Times bestselling authors Gregg Olsen and Rebecca Morris take a new look at Utah’s most notorious crimes, including Megan Huntsman, the Utah mother who hid seven dead infants in a garage; a cold case that was finally solved by a child’s Lego; the rogue Fundamentalist...
Blood Brother
33 Reasons My Brother Scott Peterson Is Guilty
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
What happens if, after being given up for adoption in childhood, you reestablish contact with your biological family -- only to discover that your newfound brother is a killer?
Anne Bird, the sister of Scott Peterson, knows firsthand.
Soon after her birth in 1965, Anne was given up for...
by Jack Olsen
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
A classic from “the dean of true crime” (The Washington Post)—now with a new foreword—this 1983 masterpiece tells the incredible story of a Spokane, Washington serial rapist who was exposed as the handsome, privileged son of one of the city’s most elite families.
For more than two...
American Justice
A True Crime Collection
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Three shocking tales of violence, intrigue, and the search for truth from a two-time Edgar Award finalist and Ann Rule’s “favorite true-crime writer.”
In this riveting collection, prize-winning investigative journalist James Neff examines the Dr. Sam Sheppard murder mystery; the terrifying...
by Victor Kiethman
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
A history of serial killers prior to the 20th Century, with details of their grotesque and hideous crimes. This was an era before forensics when it was easier for the murderer to kill many victims before eventually being caught and executed. This book covers the time from 1404 right through to the...