Murder category: 3028 books
The Butcher Baker
The Search for Alaskan Serial Killer Robert Hansen
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
Beautiful Alaska--a peaceful, natural land where you know your neighbors and don't have to lock your doors. For most people, it's the perfect place to experience nature; for Robert Hansen, it was the perfect place for murder.
Between 1980 and 1983, Hansen went on a murderous rampage killing...
Pizza Bomber
The Untold Story of America's Most Shocking Bank Robbery
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
The bizarre, true story of a robbery gone wrong and the explosive murder that shocked the nation—as seen on Netflix’s docuseries Evil Genius.
For the first time, two of the people who followed the story from the beginning—Jerry Clark, the lead FBI Special Agent who cracked what became...
by Carla René
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
In 1949, the UK's most prolific serial killer was convinced he could get by with murder forever. No forensic evidence, no conviction.
But he was wrong.
Based on a true story, and edited by Bram-Stoker nominated horror writer, Robert W. Walker, find out how a 69-year-old infirming grandmother...
by Aphrodite Jones
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
From a New York Times–bestselling author: A searing account of cold-blooded murder as told by “one of the chief practitioners of the true crime genre” (The Baltimore Sun).
Michael Peterson was a decorated war veteran and bestselling novelist. His wife, Kathleen, was a high-powered executive...
Blood Echoes
The Infamous Alday Mass Murder and Its Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Edgar Award Finalist: A true-crime account of a vicious massacre and the legal battles that followed.
It was not a clever killing. On May 5, 1973, three men escaped from a Maryland prison and disappeared. Joined by a fifteen-year-old brother, they surfaced in Georgia, where they were spotted...
by Gilles Tetreault
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
The One Who Got Away is a remarkable personal account from the original intended target of convicted murderer, Mark Twitchell. On October 3 2008, computer company contractor Gilles Tetreault logged onto a dating website, looking for companionship. There he met what he thought was a pretty, young blonde...
Seven Million
A Cop, a Priest, a Soldier for the IRA, and the Still-Unsolved Rochester Brink's Heist
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
On a freezing night in January 1993, masked gunmen walked through the laughably lax security at the Rochester Brink’s depot, tied up the guards, and unhurriedly made off with $7.4 million in one of the FBI’s top-five armored car heists in history. Suspicion quickly fell on a retired Rochester...
A Deadly Secret
The Bizarre and Chilling Story of Robert Durst
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
**Even as he awaits trial, accused murderer Robert Durst can’t seem to stay out of the headlines. The subject of the HBO documentary The Jinx and the upcoming Lifetime movie The Lost Wife of Robert Durst, his story is as captivating as it is horrifying.
Here, from the first reporter to access...
A Death in Canaan
A Classic Case of Good and Evil in a Small New England Town
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
A “riveting” true crime classic: The trial of Connecticut teen Peter Reilly, accused of killing his mother, and the community that defended him (People).
In the sleepy hamlet of Canaan, Connecticut, Barbara Gibbons stood out. She and her eighteen-year-old son, Peter Reilly, lived in a drab...
Twisted Confessions
The True Story Behind the Kitty Genovese and Barbara Kralik Murder Trials
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
It didnt seem possible. Kitty Genovese had been viciously stabbed to death in Kew Gardens on March 13, 1964, while her neighbors heard her screams from their apartment windows and looked on passivelyEveryone from coast to coast, it seemed, including President Lyndon Johnson, was weighing in on the...
Reasonable Doubt
A Shocking Story of Lust and Murder in the American Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1989
A mother and her three young children are found hacked to death in their beds. The apparent weapons, an ax and butcher knife, are found nearby. A month later the husband and father, who was away on a business trip when the bodies were found, is accused of the killings. Police believe he methodically...
Afraid of the Dark
The True Story of a Reckless Husband, his Stunning Wife, and the Murder that Shattered a Family
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Detroit mortgage broker Mark Unger adored his wife Florence and their two young sons. But after a decade of marriage and increasing financial trouble, Mark's life began to slowly unravel. He became addicted to pain killers and gambling, and ended up spending five months in rehab.
Forced to...
by Michael Benson
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
**Case Featured On 20/20
Anti-Freeze For A Husband**
It looked like a suicide. A man's corpse on the bathroom floor--next to a half-empty glass of anti-freeze. But fingerprints on the glass belonged to the deceased's wife, Stacey Castor. And a turkey baster in the garbage had police...
Reflections on Green River
The Letters of, and Conversations with, Ted Bundy
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Reflections on Green River is a collection of documents related to the interviews that took place with Ted Bundy in 1984, 1988 while he was in prison in Florida by Washington State officials. It is a more complete collection of documents than has been previously published by others.
Washington...