Murder category: 3028 books
Jack the Ripper
Case Closed
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
Finally solves the mystery of the Victorian serial killer who murdered and mutilated up to 11 women in London in 1888. The most famous serial killer in history. A sadistic stalker of seedy Victorian backstreets. A master criminal. The man who got away with murder - over and over again. But while literally...
Indefensible
The Missing Truth about Steven Avery, Teresa Halbach, and Making a Murderer
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
An insider exposes the shocking facts deliberately left out of the hit Netflix series Making a Murderer—and argues persuasively that Steven Avery was rightfully convicted in the 2005 killing of Teresa Halbach.
After serving eighteen years for a crime he didn’t commit, Steven Avery was freed—and...
The Serial Killers, Pure Evil
The serial killers, #1
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2015
A book about some of the world's most famous serial killers and the crimes that they committed. In this book you will read about Richard Ramirez, Ed Gein,John Wayne Gacy, Andrei Chikatilo,Gary Ridgway and Charles Starkweather and the inhuman acts that they committed. Their crimes forever changed the...
by Gera-Lind Kolanik, Wayne Klatt
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
On the night of April 7, 1990, newlyweds Nancy and Richard Langert were brutally shot in the basement of their suburban Chicago home. There were no leads. Nothing was stolen. The only clue was an illegible message Nancy left behind, written in her own blood. It was a crime that shocked the community...
The Last Stone
A Masterpiece of Criminal Interrogation
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
In the vein of classics like Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and modern hits like Richard Lloyd Parry's People Who Eat Darkness and Beverly Lowry's Who Killed These Girls? (Knopf 2016), The Last Stone is a riveting work of true crime that provides insights into the nature of American violence and the...
Injustice on the Eastern Shore
Race and the Hill Murder Trial
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Lynching rumors simmered as journalists descended on the small town of Millington, Maryland, in the spring of 1892. The frenzy focused on nine African American men and boys--some as young as fifteen--accused of murdering Dr. James Heighe Hill, who was white. Prosecutors portrayed this as retribution...
A Viable Suspect
The Story of multiple murders and how a police force's reach proved too short for Canada's most notorious cold case.
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
For more than 30 years, retired Ontario Provincial Police Sergeant Barry Ruhl has believed that a criminal with whom he had a violent encounter early in his career might be responsible for a string of unsolved murders of young women in Ontario, including the 1959 death of 12-year-old Lynne Harper. The...
I Heard You Paint Houses
Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
**Soon to be a NETFLIX film directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci and Harvey Keitel, and written by Steven Zaillian.
Updated with a 57-page Conclusion by the author that features new, independent corroboration of Frank Sheeran's revelations about the killing...
The Man Who Killed Boys
The John Wayne Gacy, Jr. Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
A true story of mass murder in a Chicago suburb.
Successful businessman, community benefactor, good friend and neighbor-- and perverted mass murderer.
Over a period of three years, John Wayne Gacy, Jr. sexually tortured and murdered 33 boys. His friends and neighbors in his unassuming...
Slow Death:
The Sickest Serial Slayer To Stalk The Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Never Trust a Chained Captive.
That was one of the rules David Parker Ray posted on the isolated property where he and his girlfriend Cynthia Hendy lived near New Mexico's Elephant Butte Lake. They called their windowless trailer The Toybox. Over the years they lured countless young women into...
by Scott Cupp, Carol J. Rothgeb
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Family Tragedy
On Sunday May 2, 1993 in Lantana, Florida, a town in the Palm Beach area, the naked body of ten-year-old Andrew "A.J." Schwarz was found floating facedown in the family's backyard swimming pool. But how could he have drowned when the water level was only four feet deep?...
While She Slept
A Husband, a Wife, a Brutal Murder
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2005
When Jill Cahill was leaving to return home after visiting with her family for a week, she turned to her sister with a grin, and said: "If Jeff kills me, you can have all my things." A few days later, she was in a coma in a Syracuse hospital, her skull shattered by a savage beating inflicted...
by Abigail Rieley
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2008
Ireland has been gripped by the story of a housewife from County Clare who, when her millionaire partner refused to marry her, googled a hitman and arranged to have him killed.
Over the course of almost two months, the story of Lyingeyes and Hire_hitman unfolded in a flurry of emails. The website,...
A Descent Into Hell
The True Story of an Altar Boy, a Cheerleader, and a Twisted Texas Murder
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Bright, attractive, and both from good families, University of Texas college student Colton Pitonyak and vibrant redhead Jennifer Cave had the world at their beckoning. Cave, an ex-cheerleader, had just landed an exciting new job, while a big-money scholarship to UT's prestigious business school lured...