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Twisted tales of killers who almost got away with perfect murders. A man murders the first four infants he fathers with his lover, then tries again with a fifth. Two men have three things in common: each commits what seems like a perfect murder, each marries his victim's wife far too soon, each has an overdue appointment with the gallows. A man cuts up the body of his victim into little pieces and gets away with the crime until he slaughters another...
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Dorothea Gray Johanson Montalvo Puente was a female serial killer, an extremely rare phenomenon in the annals of American crime. She took advantage of a flaw in the Social Security laws to carve a lifelong career out of exploiting elderly, ill, often-helpless people. She established herself in positions of trust in order to steal these people's only source of income, then drugged them to expedite her chicanery and, finally, murdered them. Dorothea...
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Medics and carers hold the lives of their patients in the balance. They see us at our most vulnerable, and we trust them utterly. Yet there are those who abuse this trust in the medical profession and take advantage of their position to commit the most hideous crimes.
In this gripping account, readers can discover the chilling stories of these cold-hearted killers. Some kill because of a twisted sense of mercy. Others let their monstrous egos take...
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This is Clive Small's personal account of how he led the investigation into the Belanglo State Forest murders and convicted the Backpacker Murderer, Ivan Milat. He brings to this story the unique perspective from his leadership role, and many fascinating and new revelations. He tells it like it happened, and so we follow the detectives' leads and suspicions, until they get their man. Subsequently there was an attempt to link Milat with a very large...
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The Statesville Prison experience will pull you right in, if not already. It was surreal being a White male in his forties locked up in one of the most horrific prisons in the country, Statesville Penitentiary. After another blink of an eye, he's transferred to minimum-security East Moline Illinois Prison. The bus ride experience is straight out of Hollywood, except it's real. His time spent in sweet Moline doesn't last long as expected due to some...
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TRACKRS: On the Cold Trail of a Serial Killer is the true account of the modern-day pursuit of a serial killer who terrorized Orange County, California in the late 1970s. The victims were young females living in apartments, alone when they were attacked. Their murders were gruesome and brutal. All had been sexually assaulted. Beginning in October of 1995, two Orange County deputy district attorneys, Michael Jacobs and Mel Jensen, focus their review...
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A police detective pursues a serial killer stalking the streets of a south Chicago neighborhood and learns that what first looked to be random murders are not random at all. It's urban Chicago circa 1995, and a street-savvy police detective, Kyle McNally, has the lead on a task force following the trail of an interstate serial killer. The investigation tracks McNally and his antagonist, appropriately tagged "Slugger," through a maze of suspects, political...
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As a social exercise, the author of this book collects some of the most disturbing stories from 10 death row psychopaths and their feelings as a last request to be able to put their deepest emotions on paper.
All of them were executed days before they could personally deliver them, most of them in different states of the United States. The names were kept private for the participants' privacy.
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On first impressions, Ted Bundy seemed like the perfect all-American boy. He was good-looking, fun and very charming; many women found him irresistible...
But deep inside he was an evil monster who terrorised large areas of America, assaulting and murdering numerous women and adolescent girls. He used his insider knowledge of law enforcement to evade detection, escaping from imprisonment twice before his eventual capture. While he confessed to 30...
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Dopo la chiusura del caso De Sena, Stacie Scott, rampante giornalista e stimata consulente del procuratore distrettuale Douglas, è chiamata a dare ancora una volta il suo contributo nella caccia a un efferato assassino. Nella periferia di Brooklyn, infatti, è stato ritrovato un corpo orribilmente mutilato da quello che la gente e i mass media hanno soprannominato il Tagliagole, proprio per via del suo modus operandi. Tocca quindi a Stacie, affiancata...
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IN THE HANDS OF EVIL is a true Australian crime story that the brother of a murder victim was compelled to write. The author is more, at home in his workshop restoring an old classic car than at the keyboard of a computer.
But fate, intervened and placed, him in a position, where he was the only person able, to put together the facts of the death of his sister and the death of two other people, at the hands of a serial killer. The author's aim is...
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The World's Worst Crimes takes you deep into the disturbing world of psychopaths, career criminals, and serial killers. From the Woman in the Box and the Online Murderer to the Düsseldorf Vampire and the House of Horror, this book delves into every major category of crime, sifting through the evidence to present a grisly, compelling, and blood-spattered history of the worst crimes ever committed.
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In a place where murder isn't supposed to happen-rural Missouri and Southern Illinois-deputy sheriff and investigator Harry Spiller learned the hard reality: murder is all around us. It doesn't matter whether you live in a big city or small county with farms and churches-murder is swift and can happen to anyone, anywhere, and anytime. All too often, victims fall prey in places we think are safe to raise our families, where we take walks on hot summer...
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La trata de blanca es algo real. "La catastrófica vida en la prostitución" es escrito por una víctima real de ello.
Los "padrotes" (hombres que explotan mujeres) existen, acechan a sus víctimas, las amenazan con sus familiares y muchas veces hasta las embarazan a la fuerza para amenazarlas con sus propios hijos, es una realidad y se vive a diario, sin darse cuenta vecinos, están cerca de ellos. Las mujeres no son rescatadas y mueren a mano de...
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When we hear the mention of the words, serial killers, most people imagine a huge, ugly man prying on people at night to kill them. However, not only men are serial killers, as this book will show, women can also be serial killers. While there are more male serial killers than women, there are also female serial killers, and since most people don't think of women as dangerous, many people fall easily into their trap. But, what exactly drives women...
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Elisa Lam was a 21-year-old Canadian student at the University of Brish Columbia whose body was discovered in a water tank atop the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles. She had been reported missing for over a month when maintenance workers finally discovered her body when the tenants began complaining bout the water supply. Her mysterious disappearance became an Internet phenomenon, which showcased elevator security footage of Lam talking and gesturing outside....
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Albert Fish was a rapist, a child killer and a cannibal who not satisfied with the torture and murders of his young victims would write to the parents to detail all of the vile things he did to the children. One such letter in this book. Albert Fish may have been the sickest serial killer to ever live. He would keep his young victims alive for days and beat them constantly to tenderize their flesh for cooking.
John Wayne Gacy, the Killer Clown, who...
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On the night of September 15, 1956, a seven-year-old child was murdered on the deserted grounds of the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) in Toronto. The main suspect was a teenage boy seen near the crime scene on a bicycle.
Toronto police arrested Ron Moffatt, a fourteen-year-old former CNE employee who vaguely fit the description of the suspect. During a tough interrogation, Ron falsely confessed and was convicted at trial.
In truth, Ron couldn't...
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This highly illustrated true crime book gives you the inside track on the latest developments in murder and mayhem - in full color. Perfect bedtime reading from the dark side of life - grisly but fascinating. Author John Marlowe specializes in concise, yet detailed case-by-case examinations from the world of extreme human behavior. Here, he presents a carefully chosen cross-section of depraved modern criminals.
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Ripperology, the sometimes obsessive interest in studying the crimes of Jack the Ripper, is a subject of timeless interest that has suffered from confusion, exaggeration, and hyperbole for over a century. Jack the Ripper was probably the first serial killer to appear in a large metropolis at a time when the general populace was literate and the press was a force for social change. The press was also partly responsible for creating many myths surrounding...
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