Crimes Criminals category: 7162 books
Careless Whispers
The Award-Winning True Account of the Horrific Lake Waco Murders
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2001
When the bodies of three teenagers were found on the shores of Lake Waco, Texas in July, 1982, even seasoned lawmen were taken aback by the savage mutilation and degradation they had been subjected to. Yet only 52 days after the gruesome triple-murder was discovered, frustrated authorities suspended...
The Black Hand
The Epic War Between a Brilliant Detective and the Deadliest Secret Society in American History
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
“Gripping . . . A valuable recounting of a lurid and little-known episode in American history.” — Washington Post
Beginning in the summer of 1903, an insidious crime wave stirred New York City, then the entire country, into panic. The children of Italian immigrants were being kidnapped...
My Brother Moochie
Regaining Dignity in the Midst of Crime, Poverty, and Racism in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
A rare first-person account that combines a journalist’s skilled reporting with the raw emotion of a younger brother’s heartfelt testimony of what his family endured after his eldest brother killed a man and was sentenced to life in prison.
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At the age of nine, Issac J. Bailey saw his hero,...
The Texarkana Moonlight Murders
The Unsolved Case of the 1946 Phantom Killer
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
In 1946, years before the phrase “serial murder” was coined, a masked killer terrorized the town of Texarkana on the Texas-Arkansas border. Striking five times within a ten-week period, always at night, the prowler claimed six lives and left three other victims wounded. Survivors told police that...
by Harold Schechter
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
The truth behind the twisted crimes that inspired the films Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs...
From “America’s principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers” (The Boston Book Review) comes the definitive account of Ed Gein, a mild-mannered...
Down Inside
Thirty Years in Canada's Prison Service
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
A compelling personal memoir and a scathing indictment of bureaucratic indifference and agenda-driven government policies.
In his thirty years in the Canadian prison system, Robert Clark rose from student volunteer to deputy warden. He worked with some of Canada’s most dangerous and notorious...
by Steven Carley
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
This book acts as a long drawn out project which over time reveals pertinent information among certain perpetrators. Serial killers and mass murderers alike tend to be white males. They are usually young but not all, just some are so young the average age drops substantially. Serial killing is often...
Murder City
The Untold Story of Canada's Serial Killer Capital, 1959-1984
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Like the mythic cities of Gotham or Gomorrah, London, Ontario was for many years an unrivalled breeding ground of depravity and villainy, the difference being that its monsters were all too real.
In its coming to inherit the unwanted distinction of being the serial killer capital of not just...
To Alcatraz, Death Row, and Back
Memories of an East LA Outlaw
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
When Ernie López was a boy selling newspapers in Depression-era Los Angeles, his father beat him when he failed to bring home the expected eighty to ninety cents a day. When the beatings became unbearable, he took to petty stealing to make up the difference. As his thefts succeeded, Ernie's sense of...
by James Moore
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
In the Tudor age the murder rate was five times higher than it is today. Now, in this unique true crime guide, the Tudor Murder Files reveals just how bloody and brutal this fascinating era really was.
From the dark days of Henry VIII to the turbulent times of Shakespeare, James Moore’s new book...
The Daughters of Juarez
A True Story of Serial Murder South of the Border
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Despite the fact that Juarez is a Mexican border city just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas, most Americans are unaware that for more than twelve years this city has been the center of an epidemic of horrific crimes against women and girls, consisting of kidnappings, rape, mutilation, and...
In Love and Murder
Crimes of Passion That Shocked the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
Love is patient. Love is kind. Love is…deadly? For the people in this book, that’s certainly the case. They acted out of love and performed some of the most hideous acts of passion in the history of romance.
This short book follows several cases of deadly passion, from the celebrated French...
Murder in Linn County, Oregon
The True Story of the Legendary Plainview Killings
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
This true crime account of a Prohibition liquor raid gone wrong illuminates “a dark and violent stretch in Linn County history” (Corvallis Gazette-Times).
On June 21, 1922, Linn County sheriff Charles Kendall and Reverend Roy Healy drove out to the town of Plainview to arrest a moonshining...
by Nicholas Connell, Ruth Stratton
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2003
In spite of its small size and rural character Hertfordshire has been the location for some of the most infamous and fiendish murders in the history of England. Spanning four centuries, Hertfordshire Murders contains accounts of many of these crimes. Famous cases are re-examined with the help of previously...