Crimes category: 7162 books
The Laughing Gorilla
The True Story of the Hunt for One of America's First Serial Killers
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
During the 1920s, in more than a dozen cities, over four years, and across two continents, women were being butchered. Eyewitneses claim the perpetrator was a hulking Bible-carrying brute who lumbered on all fours, and laughed maniacally with each new slaughter.
The crimes haunted San Francisco...
True Life Crime
Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Murder, crime, weapons….Simply thinking about such things is enough to send shivers of terror into our hearts. Even the words are dark and scary.We all like to imagine that we are safe, that the world is a rational and reasonable place. But who knows what the person standing next to you is really capable...
World Serial Killers
They kill for the thrill
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
World Serial Killers investigates the fiendish crimes of butchers like Fritz Haarman selling human meat on the streets of Hanover, Germany, Edinburgh body-snatchers Burke and Hare and Alberto De Salvo, the notorious Boston Strangler. Read the accounts of deranged real-life monsters such as Charles...
The Killer Strain
Anthrax and a Government Exposed
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
A lethal germ is unleashed in the U.S. mail. A chain of letters spreads terror from Florida to Washington, D.C., from New York to Connecticut, from the halls of Congress to the assembly lines of the U.S. Postal Service. Five people die, and ten thousand more line up for antibiotics to protect against...
by David Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
The search for Caylee made front-page headlines when news broke of two-year-old Caylee Anthony's disappearance from her home in Orlando Florida in mid-July 2008.
Caylee’s own mother, Casey Anthony stepped into the national spotlight after the suspicious disappearance of her daughter. As her...
Deadly Little Secrets
The Minister, His Mistress, and a Heartless Texas Murder
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Ann Rule says, "Kathryn Casey is one of the best true crime writers today"—high praise indeed from the author of a host of nonfiction New York Times bestsellers including Green River and The Stranger Beside Me, the story of serial killer Ted Bundy. With Deadly Little Secrets, Casey once...
Deliver Us
Three Decades of Murder and Redemption in the Infamous I-45/Texas Killing Fields
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Critically acclaimed author Kathryn Casey delivers a riveting account of the brutal murders of young women in the I-45/Texas Killing Fields—a chilling true story that has already helped police uncover evidence that may link suspected serial killer William Lewis Reece to some of the heinous crimes
Over...
Suddenly Gone
The Kansas Murders of Serial Killer Richard Grissom
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
First, legal secretary Teri Maness is found murdered in her Witchita town house in the summer of 1989. Two weeks later, Joan Butler disappears from her Overland Park apartment. Days later, roommates Christine Rusch and Theresa Brown of Lenexa are reported missing. Without a trace, they were suddenly...
To Hatred Turned
Everything Is Bigger in Texas, Including the Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
“Englade (Beyond Reason) here treats a complex Dallas murder case with a master’s touch . . . [A] web of blackmail and hired killers” (Publishers Weekly).
Reporter Ken Englade explores the complex case of Rozanne Gailiunas, a woman in Texas who, in 1983, was the victim of a grisly, unsolved...
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...