"A teenage sorcerer's apprentice must solve her boss's murder in order to prove her innocence"--

IRYN MEYERS Iryn Meyers came to the United States as a mail order bride for Joe Meyers. Both lonely and desperate but for different reasons, Iran began to show a side of herself that wasn't too apparent to Joe when she detailed her wants and desires in their mail correspondence. Joe would soon find out that his supposedly sweet mail order bride from the Philippines was willing to do anything for money... even murder. Iryn Meyers is just one of numerous...

AN ANTHOLOGY OF THE MOST MURDEROUS GOLD-DIGGERS IN MODERN HISTORY LOUISE PEETE "She's an entrepreneur. A homicidal entrepreneur." Louise Peete was a convicted American murderer famous for becoming the second woman in history to be executed in the State of California. She was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a wealthy mining engineer named Jacob C. Denton in 1920. Nineteen years later, however, she would be released from prison only to...

A collection of True Crime Stories headlined by the murder of Sherri Rasmussen For 23 years, no one knew how Sherri Rasmussen had died. In February of 1986, the body of the 29 year old woman was discovered in the Van Nuys, California, apartment she shared with her husband, John Ruetten. She'd been beaten, according to the medical examiner, and shot three times in what appeared to have been some kind of struggle. Initially, the Los Angeles Police Department...

Madeleine McCann, a young child of three years old, was visiting the popular Portuguese resort town of Praia da Luiz along with her parents and younger siblings, as well as a group of her parents' close friends, when she went missing on the night of May 3rd. Madeleine's disappearance became an international sensation and various police departments in both Portugal and the United Kingdom, as well as Madeleine's parents, would conduct independent investigations...

Britt and Michelle Hall had just built their dream home. Hoping to live out a Brady Bunch existence with their three children from different marriages, the former high school sweethearts had reconnected and married But on one night in November the home would resemble a shooting gallery out of the Wild West rather than the Brady Bunch as Britt Hall would be found dead. His wife would claim that he committed suicide. Her eight-year old daughter, however,...

Lost and Forgotten Gems of Missouri History From the mining industry to the shipping industry to the Civil War, Missouri has lost a lot. Emigrants and traders have lost countless values during their travels. The Civil War caused a loss of not only citizens, but numerous valuable historic items. The host of outlaws who traversed the area have hidden loot that has never been found. Join author Craig Gaines as he details the state treasures lost to...

A penetrating look into the controversy that enshrouds one of the most complex criminal cases in US history: a former Green Beret's murder of his wife. It was a dreary winter afternoon in Ayer, Massachusetts, a quintessential New England town, the type which is romanticized in Robert Frost's poems. But on January 30, 1979, a woman's scream was heard piercing the northeast tempest wind. In an unassuming apartment building on Washington Street, Elaine...

Four chilling, true stories of murder from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and coauthor of New York Times bestseller, The Search for the Green River Killer. As an investigative journalist for the Seattle Times, Carlton Smith covered the Green River Killer case for over a decade. Smith, along with his coauthor, fellow reporter Tomas Guillen, were named Pulitzer Prize finalists for their New York Times bestseller, The Search for the Green River Killer,...

A longtime Rochester, New York, police detective tells the behind-the-scenes stories of four of his most memorable cases. Patrick Crough served more than twenty years as a Monroe County Major Crimes detective, where he investigated some of the region's most tragic crimes. They include horrifying acts, like that of a Valentine's Day killing rampage that left four people dead, as well as the case against Ed Laraby, the serial rapist who terrorized...