True Crime category: 7770 books
Cemetery John
The Undiscovered Mastermind of the Lindbergh Kidnapping
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
In this meticulous and authoritative account of the trial and the times of the Lindbergh kidnapping, Robert Zorn clears away decades of ungrounded speculation surrounding the case. Inspired by his father's relationship with the actual accomplices--including the mastermind--he presents the clearest...
by Michael Bunting
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
The true story of a young police officer’s imprisonment for a crime he did not commit. It was Michael Bunting's life ambition to follow in his father's footsteps and become a police officer. But six years after his family watch him pass out and begin his life's dream, he is serving a sentence for...
The Mad Chopper
How the Justice System Let a Mutilator Free, This Time to Kill
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The author of the true crime “masterpiece” Lobster Boy traces a brutal killer’s history across two decades of slipping past the legal system (The Guardian).
When police in Tampa, Florida, arrested Larry Singleton in 1997 for brutally murdering prostitute Roxanne Hayes, they soon realized...
Manifest Injustice
The True Story of a Convicted Murderer and the Lawyers Who Fought for His Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
In this remarkable legal page-turner, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Barry Siegel recounts the dramatic, decades-long saga of Bill Macumber, imprisoned for thirty-eight years for a double homicide he denies committing. In the spring of 1962, a school bus full of students stumbled across a mysterious...
House of Evil
The Indiana Torture Slaying
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2008
***Please note: This ebook edition does not contain the photos found in the print edition.***
In the heart of Indianapolis in the mid 1960's, through a twist of fate and fortune, a pretty young girl came to live with a thirty-seven-year-old mother and her seven children. What began as a temporary...
Green River, Running Red
The Real Story of the Green River Killer--America's Deadliest Serial Murderer
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2004
In the most extraordinary book Ann Rule has ever undertaken, America's master of true crime has spent more than two decades researching the story of the Green River Killer, who murdered more than forty-nine young women. The quest to discover the most prolific serial killer in American history has...
Black Dahlia Avenger II
Presenting the Follow-Up Investigation and Further Evidence Linking Dr. George Hill Hodel to Los Angeles' Black Dahlia and Other 1940s Lone Woman Murders
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
SEQUEL TO NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER BLACK DAHLIA AVENGER
Five New Investigative Chapters added to this 2014 edition: Chapter 23-LAPD Historical Society—The New Evidence Chapter 24-Odor Mortis—The Smell of Death Chapter 25-The KMEX-Univision Interviews Chapter 26-Murder as a Fine...
Crime Scenes
Revealing the Science Behind the Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
In the fight against crime, science and technology now play the leading role in many of the big police investigations making news headlines. All criminals leave a little of themselves behind at the scene of their crimes and that is their undoing once CSIs start uncovering trails of clues hidden in blood...
Almost Perfect
The True Story of the Crawford Family Murders
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
On July 2, 1970, tourists in Australia spotted a smashed car, teetering precariously on a cliff edge, overlooking the raging ocean below. It seemed the car would fall into the water at any moment, but the car lingered as did a mystery, revealed when police traced the license plate to the Crawford...
by Arthur Jay Harris
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
A TWO-BOOK SERIES
Six-year-old Adam Walsh disappeared from the toy department of a Sears in Hollywood, Florida, in 1981. Two weeks later and 125 miles away, a child’s severed head was found and identified as Adam. His parents, Reve and John Walsh, deeply grieved and dedicated their lives...
Devil Among Us
How Canada Failed to Stop a Pedophile
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
Peter Whitmore could be the poster boy for Canada’s revolving door justice system. The notorious pedophile had already established a horrendous criminal record before he shocked the nation with a sadistic con job in 2006 that saw him kidnap two young Prairie boys from their unsuspecting families....
Never Seen Again
A Ruthless Lawyer, His Beautiful Wife, and the Murder that Tore a Family Apart
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2008
Perry March was a brilliant attorney working for one of the top law firms in Nashville, Tennessee. When he married Janet Levine, a painter whose beauty was as striking as her art, he seemed to have it all. But their marriage began to deteriorate, and soon he and Janet did nothing but fight—often...
by Lindy Cameron
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
A country GP found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time when an angry patient went looking for someone with whom he could share his pain.
Dr Andrew Taylor was working an ordinary Saturday morning shift when he was shot repeatedly by an armed and deluded man who simply needed to show...
by John Allin
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
More than 35 years after one of Australia's most baffling and brazen child abductions, journalist John Allin returned to Adelaide to talk with Greg and Christine Gordon.
In this compelling and deeply personal story, Allin tells how a simple but precious gift kept their daughter Kirste's disappearance...