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True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers

Every week host Dan Zupansky will interview the true crime authors that have written about the most shocking killers of all time.

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True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers
CONFLICTING LOYALTIES-Aiden Gabor from 2023-11-20T12:49:57

A memoir of a double life as a Mafia enforcer and a DOJ informant taking down corrupt cops and politicians.
Aiden Gabor was still a teenager when Department of Justice agents approached him wi...

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MY LIFE OF CRIME-Erin Moriarty from 2023-11-13T11:40:58

Erin Moriarty, a CBS News journalist for three decades, has been a correspondent on "48 Hours...

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CONVICTING A MURDERER-Brenda Schuler and Shawn Rech from 2023-11-06T11:16:51

CONVICTING A MURDERER unveils the shocking truth behind one of the most controversial criminal cases in history.
In Netflix's MAKING A MURDERER docuseries, which ha...

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THE ASSASSINS OF YOUTH from 2023-10-30T12:04:01

On Halloween morning, 1984, 17 year-old Scott Christopher Dove left home in his car heading to classes at high school and disappeared. 8 days later his abandoned car was discovered behind the psych...

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MONSTERS ON THE LOOSE-Richard Carrico from 2023-10-23T07:00:03

In 1931, San Diego’s idyllic image as a beach town with peaceful suburbs concealed a harrowing reality: a series of unsolved crimes targeting women, fueling fear and vulnerability. MONSTERS O...

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Listen Now: MrBallen's Medical Mysteries from 2023-10-17T07:00:03

Follow MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries wherever you get your podcasts. You can binge the first 8 episodes, early and ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the Amazon Music app today. The hum...

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BTK: Dr. Katherine Ramsland from 2023-10-16T21:30:01

In August 2023, BTK once again made headlines worldwide when he was named the prime suspect in an Oklahoma teen’s 1976 disappearance and a Missouri woman’s killing in 1990. The investigation...

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MURDER IN A SUNDOWN TOWN-Alexandra Kitty from 2023-10-09T12:04:47

In Murder in a Sundown Town, author Alexandra Kitty looks at the shocking 1968 homicide of Carol Jenkins, a sweet and resilient 21-year-old woman stabbed in the heart on her first day on the job se...

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WHILE IDAHO SLEPT-J. Reuben Appelman from 2023-10-02T11:48:03

Just after 4:00 am on November 13, 2022, four University of Idaho students were viciously stabbed to death in an off-campus house. The killings would shake the small blue-collar college town of Mos...

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RUSSIAN CANNIBALS-Nico Claux from 2023-09-25T12:20:48

Almost one third of Russian serial killers have committed cannibalism during their murder spree, but not much is known about their crimes outside of the Federation.
This book follows the stori...

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Listen Now: 48 Hours from 2023-09-25T07:00:02

One of television's most popular true-crime series is now adapted for your ears with the “48 Hours” podcast. Every week, award-winning CBS News correspondents investigate the most intriguing crime ...

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Listen Now-Even The Rich: Viva Selena! from 2023-09-20T15:12:56

Selena Quintanilla was a force of nature. But when a loyal friend betrayed her, she met a fate she never deserved. Even the Rich is a podcast from Wondery that tells you the stories of the crazy li...

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MURDER OUTSIDE THE BACK DOOR-John Tommasi from 2023-09-18T11:19:53

Greed, arrogance and lust led Robert Anderson to kill his wife of nearly twenty years. He was a pillar of the community. He owned four Service Master franchises, he was a Kiwanis member and former ...

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MARY&BILL: An Ohio Cold Case-Justin Glanville from 2023-09-11T11:45:16

In 1970, Mary Petry and Bill Sproat, two university students in love, were murdered in a Columbus, Ohio apartment. The crime was so brutal it drew comparisons to the Manson murders of the previous ...

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I AM ABIGAIL-Jamie Collins and Abigail Alvarado from 2023-09-05T11:54:27

My name is Abigail Alvarado. When I was nine, Child Protective Services removed me and my siblings from my mother’s home—a known crack house—due to neglect. After an extended stay at a children’s s...

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I AM A KILLER-Danny Tipping and Ned Parker from 2023-09-04T11:06:12


What goes through the mind of a killer when they commit murder? Based on the massively successful Netflix documentary series of the same name, this book features ten of the most compelling ca...

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GRIM PARADISE-Rod Sadler from 2023-08-28T11:36:25

When widow Frances Lacey was murdered in July 1960 on Mackinac Island, only a few meager clues were found by police, and the case soon turned cold. But more than sixty years later, will those same ...

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THE COMBAT ZONE-Jan Brogan from 2023-08-21T11:38:33

At the end of the 1976 football season, more than forty Harvard athletes went to Boston's Combat Zone to celebrate. In the city's adult entertainment district, drugs and prostitution ran rampant, v...

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DEER CREEK DRIVE-Beverly Lowry from 2023-08-14T11:05:45

The stunning true story of a murder that rocked the Mississippi Delta and forever shaped one author’s life and perception of home.
In 1948, in the most stubbornly Dixiefied corner of the Jim C...

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THE CRATER LAKE MURDERS-Monty Orrick from 2023-08-14T10:50:04

When two General Motors executives drove into Crater Lake National Park in July 1952, no one could predict they would be dead within an hour—not even their killers. It was a crime of opportunity, a...

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MURDER BY THE BATHHOUSE DOOR-John Tommasi from 2023-08-07T11:08:54

They watched the 1996 movie Scream over and over again. One of the boys was truly infatuated with the movie and wanted to be part of it. He along with two friends, lured two teenage girls to a loca...

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BOSTON TABLOID-Don Stradley from 2023-07-31T11:52:31

The disappearance of a twenty-one-year-old woman from a Massachusetts suburb became one of the most discussed crimes of the twentieth century. The discussion intensified when the public learned tha...

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SMALL JUSTICE-Jim Ridings from 2023-07-24T13:22:48

Stephen B. Small died in one of the most horrific ways a person can die -- being buried alive. He was one of the richest men in Kankakee, Illinois, in 1987, which made him the target of a desperate...

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BAD HENRY-Ron Chepsiuk from 2023-07-18T14:15:35

Henry Louis Wallace terrorized Charlotte, North Carolina, from May 1992 to March 1994.Wallace preyed on lower economic class Black women between 17 and 35 years old. He knew most of his victims, so...

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BEHOLD THE MONSTER-Jillian Lauren from 2023-07-17T11:30:02

Jillian Lauren had no idea what she was getting into when she wrote her first letter to prolific serial killer Samuel Little. All she knew was her research had led her to believe he was good for fa...

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Listen Now: Suspect "Five Shots in the Dark" from 2023-07-17T07:30:02

Leon Benson spent 24 years in an Indiana state prison for the 1998 murder of a young man named Kasey Schoen. His conviction hinged on the testimony of two eyewitnesses – but what if their memories ...

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JUST IN THE NICK OF TIME-David B. Savitz from 2023-07-10T12:05:10

A 19-year-old accused of killing his parents is diagnosed with an unusual psychiatric disorder and spends a torturous six years in the Colorado judicial and mental health systems before his case ex...

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LAST CHILD SEEN-Maureen Boyle from 2023-07-03T12:08:35

On an unseasonably warm winter evening in Pennsylvania, 15-year-old Patty Desmond sneaked out through the basement of her house. She had a history of running away, and that, combined with an argume...

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LITTLE, CRAZY CHILDREN-James Renner from 2023-06-26T12:51:06

In September of 1990, in the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights, sixteen-year-old Lisa Pruett, a poetry lover and member of a church youth group, was on her way to a midnight tryst with her boyfrie...

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COAL COUNTRY KILLING-Steve Jackson from 2023-06-19T12:07:20

Coal Country Killing: A Culture, A Union, And The Murders That Changed It All, revolves around the cold-blooded 1969 assassination of United Mineworkers of America “reform candidate” Jock Yablonski...

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THE MAN WITH THE KILLER SMILE-Mitchel P. Roth from 2023-06-13T13:24:43

On a cold, windy December night in 1926, hell was unleashed on a tenant farm near Farwell, the last Texas town before the New Mexico border. Prone to the bottle and fits of rage, the burly man with...

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BLOOD ON THE TRACKS-Rod Kackley from 2023-06-12T10:55:58

Discover the dark side of human nature with Blood on the Tracks.
This true crime book takes you on a journey through the most heinous murder cases in history, including unsolved mysteries that...

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AMERICAN AUTOPSY-Dr. Michael Baden from 2023-06-05T12:46:44

Dr. Michael Baden has been involved in some of the most high-profile civil rights and police brutality cases in U.S. history, from the government’s 1976 re-investigation of the assassination of Mar...

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WHITE SMOKE-Patrick Strudwick from 2023-05-29T08:00:03

When the body of a young, gay, Black man, Gemmel Moore, was pulled out of the West Hollywood apartment of Ed Buck-a white, millionaire donor to the Democratic Party-the coroner called it an acciden...

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THE DELPHI MURDERS-Nic Edwards from 2023-05-23T08:00:04

On February 13, 2017, two Indiana teenagers, Abigail Williams, 13, and Liberty German, 14, went for a walk in the woods near the abandoned Monon High Bridge. They never returned home. Their bodies ...

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INTRODUCING AMERICAN SCANDAL: The "Kids For Cash" Kickback Scheme from 2023-05-22T08:00:02

In the early 2000s, residents of northeastern Pennsylvania started to notice an alarming trend – children were being sent away to jail in high numbers, and for crimes so mild they might normally re...

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DETAILS ARE UNPRINTABLE-Allan Levine from 2023-05-16T11:16:35

The narrative of Details Are Unprintable primarily unfolds over a seven-month period from October 1943 to April 1944—from the moment the body of twenty-two-year old Patricia Burton Lonergan is disc...

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INTRODUCING: MORBID from 2023-05-15T08:00:02

It’s all a lighthearted nightmare on the MORBID podcast. Hosted by Alaina Urquhart and Ash Kelley, Morbid is a full dose of true crime with a splash of comedy. Join us all month long as we celebrat...

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DEADLY CALIFORNIA-David Kulczyk from 2023-05-08T20:39:37

David Kulczyk’s eighth book, Deadly California is another tome of off the wall murders, accidents and robberies gone wrong that have happened in California. With true crime tales stretching from 19...

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TREMORS IN THE BLOOD-Amit Katwala from 2023-05-01T11:41:01

Late one evening in the summer of 1922, Henry Wilkens burst through the doors of the emergency room covered in his wife’s blood. But was he a grieving husband, or a ruthless killer who conspired wi...

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PRECIOUS FEW CLUES-Marla Bernard from 2023-04-24T09:15:36

On an unseasonably warm April evening in 2001, the headless body of a tiny girl was found discarded in a makeshift dump site in the woods on the southeast side of Kansas City, Missouri.One long nig...

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KORESH-Stephan Talty from 2023-04-17T11:19:59

No other event in the last fifty years is shrouded in myth like the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas. Today, we remember this moment for the 76 people, including 20 children, who d...

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THE CIGAR-Frank Dimatteo and Michael Benson from 2023-04-10T11:49:11

From real-life "Mafia Survivor" Frank Dimatteo, the gripping account of the life and crimes of the most feared mafia boss of all time: Carmine “Lilo” Galante, the prime mover behind the legendary F...

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SEVENTY TIMES SEVEN-Alex Mar from 2023-04-03T10:48:28

On a spring afternoon in 1985 in Gary, Indiana, a fifteen-year-old girl kills an elderly woman in a violent home invasion. In a city with a history of racial tensions and white flight, the girl, Pa...

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UNEXPECTED-Chris Thomas from 2023-03-28T11:59:32

Chris Thomas is not yet thirty years old when he finds himself managing the immense pressure, eccentric personalities, and extenuating circumstances of an international story, where one small misst...

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DEATH BY TALONS-Tiddy Smith from 2023-03-21T11:59:07

On December 9, 2001, Kathleen Peterson was found dead at the bottom of a staircase in her Durham, NC home. Her scalp was laced with deep incisions, and her blood was strewn from outside to i...

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JonBenet's SECRET SANTA, MY MURDERER-M'Linda Kula from 2023-03-14T19:50:58

M'Linda Kula is very familiar with this SECRET SANTA and the many links that tie him to JonBenet Ramsey. Each link is carefully explained within this book, to lead from one connection to the next b...

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THE ANGEL MAKERS-Patti McCracken from 2023-03-13T12:32:55

The Angel Makers is a true-crime story like no other—a 1920s midwife who may have been the century’s most prolific killer leading a murder ring of women responsible for the deaths of at least 160 m...

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SICARIUS: Sondra London from 2023-03-06T14:30:51

From his cell on Death Row in Florida, confessed serial killer Danny Rolling started writing and illustrating this novel about the Daggerman Sicarius in 1999, seven years before his 2006 execution ...

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LOU AND JONBENET-John Wesley Anderson from 2023-02-27T18:53:13

On Christmas Night 1996, six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was murdered in her family’s home in Boulder, Colorado. A ransom note was found in the home, but it was hours before her father, John, found he...

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ERIE'S BACKYARD STRANGLER-Justin Dombrowski from 2023-02-20T16:14:19

On a cold morning in December 1960, 60-year-old Laura Mutch was found strangled behind a house in downtown Erie....At a time when the Gem City was at its peak, including a triumphant run for the co...

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THE BEST NEW TRUE CRIME STORIES: Crimes of Famous and Infamous Criminals-Mitzi Szereto from 2023-02-14T00:01:12

Actors, musicians, TV personalities, and other public figures in the spotlight aren’t always who they appear to be. You might be surprised by just how many have led nefarious, double lives, and hav...

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THE REAL-LIFE MURDER CLUBS-Nicola Stow from 2023-02-08T12:16:05

What happens when ordinary people, in real-life murder clubs, set out to investigate crimes, both recent and cold cases?The Netflix hit Don’t F**k with Cats was based on the 2012 Montreal murder of...

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THE KILLING SPREE-Anita Paddock from 2023-02-06T13:24:09

John Edward Swindler never learned to read or write and instead became a bona fide criminal at the age of fifteen. His crimes quickly advanced from car theft to arson. At three hundred pounds, with...

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BUTCHER'S WORK-Harold Schechter from 2023-01-30T12:24:04

A Civil War veteran who perpetrated one of the most ghastly mass slaughters in the annals of U.S. crime. A nineteenth-century female serial killer whose victims included three husbands and six of h...

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TRIAL LAWYER-Richard Zitrin from 2023-01-24T12:13:57

Internationally known legal ethics professor Richard Zitrin's work as a trial lawyer placed him on the front lines of fighting systemic racism, pervasive elitism, and injustice against individuals ...

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Wondery Presents: Frozen Head from 2023-01-23T09:00:01

Hosted by Ash Kelley and Alaina Urquhart from the hit show Morbid.When 90-year-old Laurence Pilgeram drops dead on the sidewalk outside his condo, you might think that’s the end of his story. But, ...

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NEVER FORGIVE, NEVER FORGET-Rod Kackley from 2023-01-17T12:29:19

No body means no crime, which makes this the perfect murder.
Doug Stewart even has an ironclad alibi. He's been seen hundreds of miles away when his lovely wife, Venus, vanishes....

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HIDDEN DEMONS-Margery B. Metzger from 2023-01-16T12:48:35

On January 7, 1994, residents of the Berkshire Hills woke up to a typical snowy winter day in the majestic woods of Western Massachusetts. The quaint New England towns, the idyllic scenery and the ...

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COLD BLOODED MURDER-Brad Hunter from 2023-01-03T11:45:21

Murder is the most vile crime known to man. It can be triggered by love or money or sex. Those are the three big ticket items for homicide. But people are strange. They will kill for the most obscu...

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MURDER IN THE FOX VALLEY-Jim Ridings from 2023-01-02T12:22:10

The western suburbs of Chicago were being terrorized by a serial rapist and murderer in the 1970s and 1980s. Bruce Lindahl was a psychotic rapist and killer who preyed on girls and young women for ...

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ROOTED IN DECEPTION-Laura Churchill Duke from 2022-12-21T12:26:37

From the award-winning author of Two Crows Sorrow comes another historical true crime story about secret identities, deception, and murder.
At the turn of the century, an ex-convict from Irela...

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Wondery Presents Suspect Season 2: Vanished In The Snow from 2022-12-19T08:00:03

For more than three and a half decades, the disappearance of 12-year-old Jonelle Matthews was a mystery – a riddle neither authorities nor her family members could solve. The residents of her clois...

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THE FOREVER WITNESS-Edward Humes from 2022-12-01T12:55:07

A relentless detective and an amateur genealogist solve a haunting cold case—and launch a crime-fighting revolution that tests the fragile line between justice and privacy.
In November 1987, ...

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RUSSIAN SERIAL KILLERS VOLUME 1-Nico Claux from 2022-11-28T12:24:11

Much is known about American and European serial killers, but did you know that more than 150 homicidal maniacs have plagued the former Soviet Union during the last 100 years? Nicknamed “The Night ...

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INSIDE THE MIND OF JOHN WAYNE GACY-Brad Hunter from 2022-11-21T12:01:53

Brad Hunter has spent over thirty years writing about some of America's most horrific crimes. In this new book he enters the mind of John Wayne Gacy, the real-life 'Killer Clown', often said to be ...

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THEIR BLOODY LIES AND PERSECUTION OF DAVID CAMM-Gary M. Dunn from 2022-11-16T11:42:17

Although featured nationally on 48 Hours, Dateline, and the Oxygen Network, the detailed, complete, and totally unbelievable story of the case of DAVID CAMM has never been fully revealed as police,...

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SARGE!-Debra DiMaggio from 2022-11-14T13:57:38

“SARGE!” is a fascinating memoir by the late Chicago Police Detective Sergeant John A. DiMaggio, one of the most decorated officers on the force during a career that spanned the years 1957 to 1991....

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KILL. BURY. FORGET.-Rod Kackley from 2022-11-08T12:43:04

January 14, 1927 — A.J. Mathis, a wealthy, elderly chicken rancher, is missing. One of the last of the cowboy sheriffs, Jim McDonald, is convinced A.J. is dead. Murdered. And McDonald says he knows...

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BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD-Marla Bernard from 2022-11-07T12:45:07

In the early hours of March 22, 1989, two friends – career criminals with violent felony convictions - drove around the eastern Kansas City area in a stolen car committing a series of crimes. The w...

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Amazon Music Presents COLD: The Search for Sheree from 2022-11-01T14:00:02

Sheree Warren left her job in Salt Lake City on a mild October evening in 1985. She told a coworker she was headed to meet her estranged husband, Charles Warren, at a car dealership. But she never ...

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STRANGLED-LaDonna Humphrey and Alecia Lockhart from 2022-10-31T10:53:57

LaDonna Humphrey gains a new ally in her effort to find justice in the 1994 unsolved murder case of Melissa Ann Witt when Alecia Lockhart reveals a dark and troubling secret from her past. Togethe...

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EXTREME PUNISHMENT-Steven B. Epstein from 2022-10-24T11:15:50

A devoted father. One of the most accomplished criminal law scholars in the country. Someone wanted him dead. But why?
On the morning of July 18, 2014, 41-year-old Florida State law professor ...

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SILENT SILHOUETTE....WHO KILLED DEBORAH SUE-George Jared from 2022-10-17T11:58:52

Deborah Sue Williamson was a newly married young woman living in Lubbock Texas on Aug. 24, 1975. One night while her husband was away at work, she was brutally stabbed 17 times in the carport of th...

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EXPOSED-Dr. Mark Hewitt from 2022-10-10T13:31:30

The solution to the Zodiac serial killer case is as clear as it is controversial. One man, a letter writer, bomb maker, and code creator, was living in the area at the time of the Zodiac murders, h...

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22 MURDERS-Part 2-Paul Palango from 2022-04-19T13:34:24

A shocking exposé of the deadliest killing spree in Canadian history, and how police tragically failed its victims and survivors.
As news broke of a killer rampaging across the tiny community ...

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22 MURDERS-Part 1-Paul Palango from 2022-04-15T22:22:31

A shocking exposé of the deadliest killing spree in Canadian history, and how police tragically failed its victims and survivors.
As news broke of a killer rampaging across the tiny community ...

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THE GIRL I NEVER KNEW-LaDonna Humphrey from 2022-04-12T13:37:23

For over two decades the identity of Melissa Witt’s murderer has been hidden among the dense trees and thorny undergrowth rooted deeply in the uneven ground of a remote mountaintop in the Ozark Nat...

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HELL'S HALF-ACRE-Susan Jonusas from 2022-04-08T23:29:10

A suspense filled tale of murder on the American frontier—shedding new light on a family of serial killers in Kansas, whose horrifying crimes gripped the attention of a nation still reeling from wa...

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RIPPLE-Jim Cosgrove from 2022-04-02T20:24:53

For nine years, South Carolina officials struggled to identify “the boy in the woods,” a young man whose body had been discovered just south of Myrtle Beach in a fishing village called Murrells Inl...

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VAMPIRES, GATORS AND WACKOS-Frank Stanfield from 2022-03-29T22:34:25

From a teen vampire cult that killed one member’s parents to naked people who tell cops, “nothing to see here,” Frank Stanfield has seen it all in thirty years as a newspaper editor and reporter, m...

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SEX AND THE SERIAL KILLER-William Steel from 2022-03-25T12:20:22

In the early 1980s, William Steel's life took a turn towards the macabre when he quite literally ran into Robert Durst in midtown Manhattan. Steel was attending a school for locksmithing and securi...

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SHIP OF BLOOD-Charles Oldham from 2022-03-19T20:45:32

ON AN OCTOBER NIGHT IN 1905, a horrifying scene was found on a wooden vessel off the coast of Cape Fear, North Carolina. Onboard the Harry A. Berwind, one crewman lay dead, his blood streaming down...

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MURDER AT TEAL'S POND-David Bushman and Mark T. Givens from 2022-03-16T23:07:59

A brilliantly researched reinvestigation into the nearly forgotten century-old murder that inspired one of the most seductive mysteries in the history of television and film. In 1908, Hazel Drew wa...

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RIDING WITH EVIL-Ken Croke from 2022-03-12T01:45:01

Sons of Anarchy meets The Departed in this fast-paced, high-wire act memoir from former ATF agent Ken Croke, the first federal agent in history to go undercover and successfully infiltrate the infa...

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SHADOWMAN-Ron Franscell from 2022-03-01T13:34:25

The pulse-pounding account of the first time in history that the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit created a psychological profile to catch a serial killer
On June 25, 1973, a seven-year-old girl ...

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BONE DEEP-Charles Bosworth Jr. and Joel J. Schwartz from 2022-02-26T02:40:06

THE TRUE STORY BEHIND NBC’S MARQUEE MINI-SERIES "THE THING ABOUT PAM" STARRING RENEE ZELLWEGER AS PAM HUPP AND JOSH DUHAMEL AS JOEL SCHWARTZ, PREMIERING FEBRUARY 2022.
The explosive, first-eve...

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PUT THE MONEY IN MY PURSE-Judith A. Yates from 2022-02-24T12:45:43

Drawing on media reports, interviews and court records, this book recounts the stories of women bank robbers in the United States, from the time of the Revolutionary War to the present. Ranging fro...

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THE MURDER OF THORA CHAMBERLAIN-Rod Kackley from 2022-02-18T23:37:26

November 2, 1945: On her way to a high school football game with friends, a fourteen-year-old girl vanishes after driving away with a man who says he needs a babysitter. The FBI unleashes its top k...

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MURDER OF A MAFIA DAUGHTER: Expanded and Updated 20th Anniversary Edition-Cathy Scott from 2022-02-12T15:15:49

In this Expanded 20th Anniversary Edition of Murder of a Mafia Daughter, seasoned crime writer Cathy Scott provides in-depth new details of serial killer Robert Durst's arrest, trial, and convictio...

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BATH MASSACRE: New Edition-Arnie Bernstein from 2022-02-10T13:06:56

The new edition of this Michigan Notable Book includes a new introduction and stories from interviews with two additional survivors, Myrna (Gates) Coulter and Ralph Witchell, which took place after...

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WHEN A KILLER CALLS-John Douglas from 2022-01-31T15:38:01

On May 31, 1985, two days before her high school graduation, Shari Smith was abducted from the driveway of her family home in South Carolina. Based on the crime scene and the abductor’s repeated an...

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AMERICAN INJUSTICE-David Rudolf from 2022-01-27T20:28:53

In the past thirty years alone, more than 2,800 innocent American prisoners – their combined sentences surpassing 25,000 years – have been exonerated and freed after being condemned for crimes they...

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DARK ROSES-Michael Benson from 2022-01-25T21:52:14

Thirteen new insomnia inducing murder stories from True Crime master Michael Benson, including: Monster of the Low Country, Born to Raise Hell, The Hollywood Ripper, The Murder of Craig Rideout, Ca...

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THE BEST NEW TRUE CRIME STORIES: PARTNERS IN CRIME-Mitzi Szereto from 2022-01-20T12:03:18

Dive Deep Into the Crime Stories of Criminal Couples
From harrowing heists to murderous mayhem, this collection of true crime stories will have you on the edge of your seat as you discover exa...

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BEYOND KILLER FICTION-Sondra London from 2022-01-13T12:10:26

25 years on, Florida's first serial killer GJ Schaefer returns with a new expanded volume of illustrated killer fiction, featuring the stories used to convict him of double murder in 1973. The ex-c...

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TAKING DOWN BACKPAGE-Maggy Krell from 2022-01-10T13:39:57

For almost a decade, Backpage.com was the world’s largest sex trafficking operation. Seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day, in 800 cities throughout the world, Backpage ran thousands of listin...

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BTK: CONFESSION OF A SERIAL KILLER-Dr. Katherine Ramsland from 2022-01-06T12:07:28

In 1974, Dennis Lynn Rader stalked and murdered a family of four in Wichita, Kansas. Since adolescence, he had read about serial killers and imagined becoming one. Soon after killing the family, he...

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FORGOTTEN CALIFORNIA MURDERS-David Kulczyk from 2021-12-31T17:28:12

Forgotten California Murders 1915 to 1968 chronicles homicides that happened so long ago they have been forgotten even by the families of the killers and the victims. Their crimes are no less shock...

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AMERICAN SCANDAL from 2021-12-20T09:00:02

American Scandal is a podcast from Wondery that explores the darker stories that have shaped the United States. From the Unabomber to Bernie Madoff, these are stories that reveal the underbelly of ...

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MURDER CAPITAL OF THE WORLD-Emerson Murray from 2021-12-18T01:17:46

Over 25 people murdered in just over two and a half years. What was happening in the small coastal town of Santa Cruz between October 1970 and Feburary 1973?
John Linley Frazier’s home invasio...

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THE MURDER OF MARY TAKAHASHI-Rod Kackley from 2021-12-14T19:56:22

A woman’s dead body is tossed off a cruise ship. It’s homicide on the high seas, a story of murder and greed, a true crime story you’ll never forget. Why are you always killed by the one you love? ...

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BUTCHER OF HANOVER-Alan R. Warren from 2021-12-09T16:32:45

Butcher of Hanover focuses on the serial killer of at least 27 young men and boys in Germany in the post-World War 1 era. At the center of this murder case were Fritz Haarmann and Hans Grans, who w...

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THE VANISHED from 2021-12-06T09:00:02

Few things are more devastating than a loved one going missing. On The Vanished podcast from Wondery, host Marissa Jones tells stories of missing persons that have gone overlooked by mainstream med...

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IMMUNITY FOR MURDER-David M Beers from 2021-12-03T22:34:34

In the small city of Binghamton in upstate New York, 23-year-old Veronica Taft, a single mother with four small children, all under the age of five, was convicted of Murder and Manslaughter for the...

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THE WVU COED MURDERS-Geoffrey Fuller and Sarah James McLaughlin from 2021-11-25T23:13:51

Some said that the killer couldn't be a local. Others claimed that he was the wealthy son of a prominent Morgantown family. Whispers spread that Mared and Karen were sacrificed by a satanic cult or...

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THE JFK ASSASSINATION DISSECTED-Cyril Wecht and Dawna Kaufmann from 2021-11-24T22:30:29

Since President John F. Kennedy's 1963 murder in Dallas, medical examiner and lawyer Dr. Cyril Wecht was initially inclined to accept the official theory that one person alone was responsible for t...

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THE SHRINK NEXT DOOR from 2021-11-22T09:00:17

Veteran journalist Joe Nocera’s neighbor in the Hamptons was a therapist named Ike. Ike counted celebrities and Manhattan elites as his patients. He’d host star-studded parties at his eccentric vac...

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THE WOLFPACK-Peter Edwards from 2021-11-20T05:19:35

A man watching the Cup on a restaurant patio is shot dead on a busy Sunday afternoon in Toronto. Another dies in a sidewalk ambush just outside a bus-tling college campus. Two men in a Vancouver...

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KLAN OF DEVILS-Stanley Nelson from 2021-11-16T21:15:53

In the summer of 1965, several Ku Klux Klan members riding in a pickup truck shot two Black deputies on patrol in Washington Parish, Louisiana. Deputy Oneal Moore, the driver of the patrol car and ...

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EYES OF A MONSTER-Ron Peterson Jr. from 2021-11-09T20:40:32

Schoolteacher Olivia Dare Christian was murdered in her Hampton, Virginia apartment in 1981. Her killer left few clues and the murder went unsolved. Three decades later, in 2011, next-generation de...

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THE KILLER PSYCHE from 2021-11-08T09:00:03

Killer Psyche is a new weekly true crime podcast from Wondery that explores the minds behind infamous killers and criminals. They cover high-profile cases that have shocked the world, and host Cand...

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MONSTER-David McGrath from 2021-11-06T20:52:42

In an incredible 6-year investigation, True crime writer and investigative journalist David McGrath tells the unbelievable story of one of the most prolific predators in American history. Wayne Cha...

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WHAT EVIL LURKS-Donna Fielder from 2021-10-28T17:07:13

Laura Smither, twelve, was taken from the road in front of her home in the small suburban Texas town of Friendswood. Sandra Sappaugh barely escaped with her life when she was abducted from a Waffle...

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JANE DOE # 9-HOW I SURVIVED R. KELLY-Lizzette Martinez from 2021-10-27T13:31:01

In January of 1995, 17-year-old Lizzette Martinez met Grammy-winning musician and record producer R. KELLY at Aventura Mall in Florida where he was performing. At first, it seemed that her hopes of...

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Introducing: SHADOW OF TRUTH from 2021-10-27T08:00:04

It’s one of the most haunting murder cases you’ll ever hear about, and it takes place in a small town in Israel. Tair Rada was only 13-years-old when her body was found inside a locked bathroom sta...

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SERIAL SLAUGHTER ZODIAC KILLER-Anne Penn from 2021-10-21T22:00:55

Serial Slaughter is the story of the infamous Zodiac Killer. The killer roamed California, especially Northern California for decades. He announced himself with dramatic flair corresponding with La...

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THE FLAT TIRE MURDERS-Michael P. Burns from 2021-10-20T14:55:27

South Florida in the 1970s was one of the nation's most dangerous locations. Behind the image of sun and surf, young women were the victims of a brutal killer. In the mid-1970s, over a dozen young ...

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IF YOU CAN'T QUIT CRYIN', YOU CAN'T COME HERE NO MORE-Betty Frizzell from 2021-10-12T22:06:20

On May 12, 2013, 48-year-old Vicky Isaac of rural Puxico, Missouri―a woman with a history of learning disabilities, traumatic brain injuries, and drug addiction― loaded a .22 caliber handgun and sh...

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Introducing: Over My Dead Body: Season 3-Fox Lake from 2021-10-11T08:00:07

A small town cop known as “GI Joe” is gunned down in a swamp in the summer of 2015 and quickly becomes a martyr in the national media. But when a dogged investigator and his team set out to get jus...

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MYSTERY AT THE BLUE SEA COTTAGE-James Stewart from 2021-10-08T16:36:38

Set in Jazz Age San Diego against the backdrop of yellow journalism, notorious Hollywood scandals, Prohibition corruption and a lively culture war, Mystery At The Blue Sea Cottage tells the intrigu...

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BRINGING DOWN CULLOTTA-David Bowman from 2021-10-05T16:30:08

In October of 1977, David Bowman moved to Las Vegas as a 16 year old kid with his parents and older brother. Bowman chronicles his journey through the streets of Las Vegas for the next 3 years. Bri...

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TED BUNDY: Examining The Unconfirmed Survivor Stories-Erin Banks from 2021-09-29T12:27:37

“Ted Bundy: Examining The Unconfirmed Survivor Stories,” is the first publication to collate the known and frequently discussed stories of those individuals who shared their encounters with Ted Bun...

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INTRODUCING THIS IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING from 2021-09-28T08:00:09

What would you do if a singular moment changed your life forever? This is Actually Happening is a weekly podcast from Wondery that features extraordinary life-changing stories told by the people wh...

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WATCH ME DIE-Bill Kimberlin from 2021-09-23T18:54:40

Bill Kimberlin, Psy.D, invites the reader on an extensive and unbiased journey inside Ohio’s death row in WATCH ME DIE: Last Words From Death Row.
You will see how these inmates think as Kimbe...

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DEEP IN THE WOODS-Bryan Johnston from 2021-09-22T13:56:14

In 1935, nine-year-old George Weyerhaeuser, heir to one of the wealthiest families in America, is snatched off the streets two blocks from his home. The boy is kept manacled in a pit, chained to a ...

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DEFENDING A SERIAL KILLER-Jim Potts from 2021-09-15T16:56:11

The Fifth and Sixth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States guarantee the right against self-incrimination, the right to remain silent, and the right to counsel.
A crime wave swept...

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THE WHEELS OF JUSTICE-Renee Fehr from 2021-09-08T12:47:34

“The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine.”

Renee Fehr knew that Gregory Houser killed her sister Sheryl. There was not a single doubt in her mind. Yet for 27 years ...

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REDHANDED-Suruthi Bala and Hannah Maguire from 2021-09-03T15:49:07

Based off Hannah Maguire and Suruthi Bala's popular podcast of the same name, RedHanded explores real-life true crime cases to help answer once and for all if a killer is born or made.
After m...

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16 MINUTES-Diane Marger Moore from 2021-09-01T16:54:22

From The Author Of INCONVENIENCE GONE

On the early morning of March 6, 1993, an intense fire broke out in a tiny nursery. Sixteen minutes later, firefighters had extinguished the blaze, ...

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Introducing: SUSPECT from 2021-08-31T08:34:05

An apartment complex hosts a big Halloween party with themed rooms and costumed partygoers. By the end of the night one of the party’s hosts is murdered. And the partygoers are the main suspects in...

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THE BEST NEW TRUE CRIME STORIES: Passion, Obsession and Revenge-Mitzi Szereto from 2021-08-27T13:58:15

Obsession, Unrequited Love, Jealousy, Revenge, and Violence Collide in this Page-Turning Anthology. How can someone you hold dear become someone you fear? This riveting anthology explores the quest...

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THE EAST RIVER RIPPER-George R. Dekle Sr. from 2021-08-24T15:39:47

Shortly after NYPD Chief of Detectives Thomas Byrnes publicly criticized the London police for failing to capture Jack the Ripper, he received a letter purportedly from Jack himself saying New York...

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THE IOWA MURDERS-Rod Kackley from 2021-08-20T16:13:07

Someone you know or even love is the person who will kill you. Usually, that’s true.
But that is not what happened in 2018 to two college students in Iowa.

Two young women who had e...

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Introducing-Dr. Death Season 3: Miracle Man from 2021-08-17T08:00:08

Paolo is a smart and handsome surgeon, renowned for his ability to perform surgeries that transform his patients’ lives. When television producer Benita covers him for a story, he’ll transform her ...

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SOLVING THE WEST GEORGIA MURDER OF GWENDOLYN MOORE-Clay Bryant from 2021-08-16T19:43:14

On a sultry August morning in 1970, the battered body of a young woman was hoisted from a dry well just outside Hogansville, Georgia. Author and investigator Clay Bryant was there, witnessing the m...

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SCRAPPED-Lisa Peebles and John O'Brien from 2021-08-10T18:17:47

Criminal defense lawyer Lisa Peebles was taken aback by a secretly recorded phone call and police interrogation video that surfaced in a 20-year-old kidnapping case. They held the stench of a cover...

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TERROR TOWN, U.S.A.-John Ferak from 2021-08-05T14:43:55

From the author of WRECKING CREW, John Ferak returns to discuss his incredible book TERROR TOWN U.S.A.
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DANNY ROLLING SERIAL KILLER-Sondra London from 2021-07-30T13:41:39

Criminologist Anthony Meoli said Sondra London broke ground in publishing the confessions of serial killer Danny Rolling. But only part of that story could be told in 1996.
Now in this unique ...

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RAGING ON-Paula May from 2021-07-29T16:27:49

From the author of FIRST DEGREE RAGE: The True Story of ‘The Assassin,’ An Obsession, and Murder comes the ongoing and chilling true crime saga of L. C. Underwood, the obsessively jealous police of...

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Introducing The Grand Scheme: Snatching Sinatra from 2021-07-27T08:00:19

Introducing The Grand Scheme: Snatching Sinatra



Hosted and narrated by John Stamos, The Grand Scheme: Snatching Sinatra is a complicated, nuanced story of one imperfect man ...

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COLD BLOODED-Anita Paddock from 2021-07-19T23:48:50

On a cold January morning in 1981, a knock on an apartment door began what would become one of the bloodiest crime sprees in Arkansas history. In the coming days the bodies of newlyweds Larry and J...

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BOMBSHELL-Mike Rothmiller from 2021-07-15T20:06:11

‘Bobby called. He’s coming to California. He wants to see me.’

Drawing on secret police files, Marilyn Monroe's private diary and never before published first-hand testimony, this book p...

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KILLER PSYCHE from 2021-07-13T13:00:48

When a shocking crime occurs, people ask “WHY?” Was it about power, ego, or revenge? On KILLER PSYCHE, retired FBI criminal profiler Candice DeLong draws on her decades of experience to reveal why ...

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COUPLE FOUND SLAIN-Mikita Brottman from 2021-07-07T12:20:54

On February 21, 1992, 22-year-old Brian Bechtold walked into a police station in Port St. Joe, Florida and confessed that he’d shot and killed his parents in their family home in Silver Spring, Mar...

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SEATTLE'S JUNGLE KILLER-Mike Ciesynski from 2021-07-02T12:53:32

Seattle's Jungle Killer takes you inside a world where depravity and evil are met by some of the best homicide detectives in the Seattle Police Department. One of them, author and retired detective...

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GRILLING DAHMER-Robyn Maharaj from 2021-06-30T03:35

In the late hours of July 22, 1991, Detective Patrick "Pat" Kennedy of the Milwaukee Police Department was asked to respond to a possible homicide. Little did he know that he would soon be delving ...

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THE MURDER OF BIGGIE SMALLS-Cathy Scott from 2021-06-24T07:30:09

In this second edition of The Murder of Biggie Smalls, Cathy Scott delves behind the scenes to pore over police records, coroner reports, FBI files, and interviews Biggie’s mother, Voletta Wallace,...

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VICTIM F-Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn from 2021-06-15T10:49:48

In March 2015, Denise Huskins and her boyfriend Aaron Quinn awoke from a sound sleep into a nightmare. Armed men bound and drugged them, then abducted Denise. Warned not to call the police or Denis...

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THE GHOST-Maureen Boyle from 2021-06-10T19:52:31

Police Chief Greg Adams was out on patrol. Christmas was coming to Saxonburg, Pennsylvania—a quaint borough of just 1,300—in three short weeks. The winter air was crisp. Colored lights sparkled on ...

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ROCHESTER'S MOST STARTLING CRIMES-Michael Benson from 2021-06-09T07:30:13

Rochester, N.Y., is known for many things, great food, lilacs, innovative supermarkets, minor league baseball, and—unfortunately—crime. This heavily-illustrated book covers some of the most spectac...

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Introducing: THE DEVIL WITHIN from 2021-06-08T12:11:02

It’s a case that has haunted Jefferson Township, New Jersey, for more than 30 years. On a snowy January night, 14-year-old Tommy Sullivan did the unthinkable: he murdered his mother in cold blood, ...

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RAZOR WIRE WILDERNESS--Stephanie Dickinson from 2021-06-04T18:34:19

Longtime author Stephanie Dickinson straddles the lines of true crime and memoir in “Razor Wire Wilderness,” (June 1, 2021, Kallisto Gaia Press) as she examines the lives of those affected by viole...

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COLD BLOODED-Frank Stanfield from 2021-05-27T16:28:44

Investigators and Central Florida residents were horrified when 16-year-old vampire cult leader Rod Ferrell was arrested and charged with bludgeoning a cult member's parents. When they realized the...

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HARRY-Steve Daniels from 2021-05-19T12:11:36

Long before the era of young people committing mass murder became a too-common event, sixteen-year-old Harry Hebard made world news when he killed all five members of his family in Kennedy-era Gree...

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THE DENVILLE 13-Peter Zablocki from 2021-05-13T23:06:48

Denville in the 1950s was an idyllic place to live, yet a dark chapter in the era's history has remained uncovered. During the summer of 1953, a wealthy traveler with a secret rap sheet as a convic...

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DEATH ON OCEAN BOULEVARD-Caitlin Rother from 2021-05-12T16:58:58

I got a girl, hung herself in the guest house."
The call came on the morning of July 13, 2011, from the historic Spreckels Mansion, a lavish beachfront property in Coronado, California, owned ...

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FLIGHT 7 IS MISSING-Ken H. Fortenberry from 2021-05-05T20:19

Dubbed by The New York Times as one of the "most vexing and unexplained" mysteries in aviation history, the crash of Pan American World Airways Flight 7 in November 1957 resulted in 44 deaths and r...

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THE NEW MENENDEZ DEFENDERS-Robert Rand from 2021-04-28T01:45:37

Interest in the Menendez brothers’ case has exploded in the last few months. Over 770 million views on TikTok.
The groundswell began in 2017 with the TV premieres of several documentaries and...

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MURDER LOST TO TIME-Joseph A. Lapello from 2021-04-23T18:35:26

The year is 1917. Less than two decades into the new century and already the Great War is occurring in the muddy fields of France. Soon there will be the Spanish Influenza which will kill many more...

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Introducing IN GOD WE LUST from 2021-04-20T11:04:42

A woman named Becki is lounging by the pool at the Fontainebleau Hotel when she decides to proposition a strapping pool attendant. Go on a date with her...and her husband. What begins as an unconve...

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THE NAPA MURDER OF ANITA FAGIANI ANDREWS-Raymond A. Guadagni from 2021-04-13T11:26:27

In 1974, the brutal murder of Anita Fagiani Andrews, a fifty-one-year-old former beauty queen and mother of two, shook the small working-class town of Napa. Detectives, criminalists and forensic ex...

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AT ANY COST-Selim Algar from 2021-04-09T18:06

Wealthy, beautiful, and brilliant, Shele Danishefsky had fulfillment at her fingertips. Having conquered Wall Street, she was eager to build a family with her much younger husband, promising Ivy Le...

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GAZING INTO THE ABYSS-Steve Daniels from 2021-04-06T21:03:44

Law enforcement professionals and criminologists long have been challenged to arrive at a consensus over the most accurate ways to classify serial killers. With predators as diverse as the lesser-k...

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Introducing MY FUGITIVE from 2021-04-05T07:00:11

Nina Gilden Seavey was twelve on May 5, 1970, the day an Air Force building in St. Louis burned to the ground. Her dad represented a young man accused of the crime: Howard Mechanic. Facing serious ...

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THE ENIGMA OF TED BUNDY-Kevin Sullivan from 2021-04-01T00:29:50

If you want a view into the world that lies behind the Ted Bundy murders, this last work in a series of six books on Bundy, is definitely for you. For within these pages you’ll read of the many que...

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Introducing: SPY AFFAIR from 2021-03-30T22:17

A charismatic Russian woman arrives in the US on a mission to improve relations between the two countries, and she soon makes some powerful friends. But who is Maria Butina? And who is she working ...

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THE GOSPEL OF BLOOD-Nico Claux from 2021-03-28T23:29

The Gospel of Blood is the autobiography of Nico Claux, a French morgue attendant whose morbid obsessions led him to grave robbery, cannibalism and murder in the early 1990s. It is a bone-chilling ...

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THE ARKANSAS HITCHHIKE KILLER-Janie Nesbitt Jones from 2021-03-27T00:00

Faulkner County native Red Hall was a serial killer who confessed to murdering at least twenty-four people. Most of his victims were motorists who picked him up as he hitchhiked around the United S...

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Introducing: MAN-Slaughter from 2021-03-17T08:00:14

MAN-Slaughter tells intertwining stories about how one gunshot on a cold Wisconsin night in 1970 dramatically changed multiple lives. A bullet brutally tore through decorated law enforcement vetera...

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'THE SON OF SAM' AND ME-Carl Denaro from 2021-03-13T15:37:23

In 1976, a killer who called himself ‘The Son of Sam’ shot and killed a half dozen people and wounded as many more in New York City. During his crime spree, the madman left bizarre letters mocking ...

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MANIAC-Harold Schechter from 2021-03-12T11:13:59

Harold Schechter, Amazon Charts bestselling author of Hell’s Princess, unearths a nearly forgotten true crime of obsession and revenge, and one of the first—and worst—mass murders in American histo...

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THE BABYSITTER-Liza Rodman and Jennifer Jordan from 2021-03-09T23:01:56

Growing up on Cape Cod in the 1960s, Liza Rodman was a lonely little girl. During the summers, while her mother worked days in a local motel and danced most nights in the Provincetown bars, her bab...

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COLD CASE STORY-Stephanie Kane from 2021-03-05T13:54:05

Cold Case Story is based on the brutal murder of a housewife in the Denver suburbs in 1973. A college student back then, Stephanie Kane was more than a witness to this terrible crime. For nearly th...

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COLD CASE STORY-Stephanie Kane from 2021-03-05T13:54:05

Cold Case Story is based on the brutal murder of a housewife in the Denver suburbs in 1973. A college student back then, Stephanie Kane was more than a witness to this terrible crime. For nearly th...

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OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF SERIAL KILLERS-Mary Brett from 2021-02-24T15:18:11

WHY DO SERIAL KILLERS KILL?

OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF SERIAL KILLERS? by author Mary Brett is as close as you will ever come to discovering the answer ... and in the killer’s own words!
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THE WICKED KING WICKER-Michael Benson from 2021-02-19T17:13:43

There was a time when New York City was dying a fast death. The slums were warzones, the government bankrupt and sputtering. Mobsters disassembled one another nightly and dropped hefty bags of mixe...

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THE WESTSIDE PARK MURDERS-Keith Roysdon from 2021-02-17T16:07:43

On a warm night in September 1985, teenagers Kimberly Dowell and Ethan Dixon were brutally murdered in Westside Park in Muncie, Indiana. Their killer has never been charged. Early on, police focuse...

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AMERICAN SERIAL KILLERS-Peter Vronsky from 2021-02-10T16:31:53

Fans of Mindhunter and true crime podcasts will devour these chilling stories of serial killers from the American "Golden Age" (1950-2000).
With books like Serial Killers, Female Serial Kille...

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SATIN PUMPS-Steve Kosareff from 2021-02-04T21:09:16

It was the midcentury murder that fascinated a nation and kept it glued for two years to radio, television and newspapers through three trials.

Did the handsome, wealthy doctor and his b...

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WILDER INTENTIONS-C.J. Wynn from 2021-01-29T12:56:26

ANGILA WAS STABBED 44 TIMES.
THIS WAS PERSONAL.
On a November morning in 2015, Christopher Jackson waited for his fiancée, Angila Wilder, to pick him up from work as she always did. But t...

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TRUE CRIME CHRONICLES-Volume 2-Mike Rothmiller from 2021-01-28T14:34:44

They were all subjects of true crime newspaper reporting in the 1800s. And now these stories and that of many others are brought together in their original form in a two-volume set: TRUE CRIME CHRO...

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Wondery Presents: THE APOLOGY LINE from 2021-01-19T09:00:17

If you could call a number and say you’re sorry, and no one would know…what would you apologize for? For fifteen years, you could call a number in Manhattan and do just that. This is the story of t...

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BAD MEDICINE-Charlotte Bismuth from 2021-01-18T21:01:15

In 2010, a brave whistleblower alerted the police to Dr. Stan Li’s corrupt pain management clinic in Queens, New York. Li spent years supplying more than seventy patients a day with oxycodone and ,...

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THE RICHARD STREICHER JR. MURDER-Gregory Fournier from 2021-01-15T14:11:22

During the depths of the Great Depression in Ypsilanti, Michigan, a seven-year-old boy is found frozen to death under the Frog Island footbridge in Depot Town after being reported missing the night...

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THE SNOW KILLINGS-Marney Rich Keenan from 2021-01-15T13:09:46

Over 13 months in 1976-1977, four children were abducted in the Detroit suburbs, each of them held for days before their still-warm bodies were dumped in the snow near public roadsides. The Oakland...

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THE MURDER OF KELSEY BERRETH-Rod Kackley from 2021-01-13T00:50:17

A successful young mother, Kelsey Berreth, vanishes on Thanksgiving Day 2018. The FBI is afraid they’ll have to do a deal with the devil to find her. Kelsey, a pilot so good she taught the military...

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Introducing The Vanished from 2021-01-07T08:30:12

On the evening of October 6, 2019, Rosemary Rodriguez went to dinner with her boyfriend and her mother. On the way home, they dropped Rosemary's mother off and headed to her boyfriend's home. Accor...

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THE WOMAN WHO STOLE VERMEER-Anthony M. Amore from 2021-01-06T13:18:17

The extraordinary life and crimes of heiress-turned-revolutionary Rose Dugdale, who in 1974 became the only woman to pull off a major art heist.

In the world of crime, there exists an un...

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TRUE CRIME CHRONICLES-Mike Rothmiller from 2020-12-30T22:41:21

What do Wyatt Earp, Belle Gunness, Big Foot the Renegade, Billy the Kid, and Dr. H.H. Holmes, and The Black Hand have in common?
They were all subjects of true crime newspaper reporting in the...

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FRED ROSEN TRUE CRIME RETROSPECTIVE-IN MEMORY OF from 2020-12-25T14:39:15

*This interview was recorded in 2019. The late, great Fred Rosen passed away Dec. 2020.
Fred Rosen is a former columnist for the Arts and Leisure Section of The New York Times. He is also one ...

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TRIAL BY FIRE-Scott James from 2020-12-16T08:30:11

All it took for a hundred people to die during a show by the hair metal band Great White was a sudden burst from four giant sparklers that ignited the acoustical foam lining the Station nightclub. ...

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TERROR IN YPSILANTI-Gregory A. Fournier from 2020-12-10T01:18:54

Between the summers of 1967 through 1969, before the term serial killer was coined, a predatory killer stalked the campuses of Eastern Michigan University and the University of Michigan seeking pre...

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Wondery Presents: DEATH OF A STARLET from 2020-12-08T09:00:12

Nineteen eighty was going to be Dorothy Stratten’s year. Playboy’s Hugh Hefner thought it might even be her decade. She was just 20 years old, the girl next door with the shy smile and whispery voi...

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MY DADDY IS A HERO-Lena Derhally from 2020-12-05T11:57:44

A husband. A father. A killer. Chris Watts was a family man. Everybody, including his family, believed that. Yet, on August 13, 2018, he murdered Shanann, his pregnant wife, and two young daughters...

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BEHIND THE HORROR-Dr. Lee Mellor from 2020-11-25T15:26:15

Uncover the twisted tales that inspired the big screen's greatest screams.
Which case of demonic possession inspired The Exorcist? What horrifying front-page story generated the idea for A Nig...

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THE KILLER'S SHADOW-John Douglas and Mark Olshaker from 2020-11-18T14:08:39

The legendary FBI criminal profiler and international bestselling author of Mindhunter and The Killer Across the Table returns with this timely, relevant book that goes to the heart of extremism an...

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REQUIEM FOR A FEMALE SERIAL KILLER-Phyllis Chesler from 2020-11-12T16:29:51

This psychological crime thriller takes us inside the mind of a unique female serial killer, a prostitute who murdered seven adult men-a case with which the author was intimately involved. The issu...

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Wondery Presents DO NO HARM from 2020-11-10T08:30:12

Wondery (Dr. Death, Dirty John, The Shrink Next Door) and NBC News (Dateline, The Thing About Pam, Motive for Murder) present Do No Harm.

The Bright family was thrust into a medical and ...

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IF I CANT HAVE YOU-UPDATE-Rebecca Morris from 2020-11-04T19:56:44

Every once in a great while a genuine murder mystery unfolds before the eyes of the American public. The tragic story of Susan Powell and her murdered boys, Charlie and Braden, is the only case tha...

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MURDER TIMES SIX-Alan R. Warren from 2020-10-30T02:34:08

It was a crime unlike anything seen in British Columbia. The horror of the "Wells Gray Murders" almost forty years ago transcends decades.

On August 2, 1982, three generations of a famil...

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INTRODUCING: DR. DEATH SEASON 2 from 2020-10-27T07:30:03

If someone you love is diagnosed with cancer you want them to get the best treatment from the best doctors. In 2013, patients in Michigan thought Farid Fata was that doctor. Between his prestigious...

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THE MAKING OF A SERIAL KILLER-Sondra London from 2020-10-22T10:51:42

The True Story of the 1990 Gainesville Student Murders in the Killer's Own Words. 2nd Edition. Murder confessions & drawings done on Death Row in Florida during the early 1990's. The man convicted ...

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THE AGE OF ZODIAC-Michael Benson from 2020-10-17T11:21:06

You probably know part of the Zodiac story. The guy killed five, wounded two, wrote letters in code, and drew tremendous press. There was a great movie about the case. But true crime veteran Michae...

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THE CORPSEWOOD MANOR MURDERS IN NORTH GEORGIA-Amy Petulla from 2020-10-14T14:02:17

Author Amy Petulla uncovers the curious case that left two men dead and the incredible story still surrounded by controversy, speculation and myth.

In 1982, Tony West and Avery Brock mad...

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FRANCIS "TWO GUN" CROWLEY'S KILLINGS IN NEW YORK AND LONG ISLAND-Jerry Aylward from 2020-10-06T18:34:11

On a May morning in 1931, Nassau County police officer Fred Hirsch was gunned down by the notorious New York City gangster Francis Crowley. Nicknamed "Two Gun" for tricking and murdering cops with ...

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Wondery Presents CLICK BAIT With BACHELOR NATION from 2020-10-01T11:19:57

Everyone loves a good bit of gossip. Go inside the juiciest stories on Click Bait with Bachelor Nation.
Hosts Tayshia Adams, Hannah Ann Sluss and Joe Amabile, know what it's like to live in t...

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FURIOUS HOURS-Casey Cep from 2020-09-28T23:41:05

Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members for insurance money in the 1970s. With the help of a savvy lawyer, he escaped justice for years until a ...

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KILLING WOMEN-Rod Sadler from 2020-09-25T18:46:24

Will A Serial Killer Soon Walk The Streets Again?
Don Miller was quiet and reserved. As a former youth pastor, he seemed a devout Christian. No one would have ever suspected that the recent gr...

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KILLER CULTS-Joyce and Stephen Singular from 2020-09-16T11:15:38

What's scarier than a murderer? Someone with the charisma to compel others to kill for them . . . or to kill themselves. Meet these cult leaders--and get an inside look at their beliefs and how the...

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"Wondery Presents Even The Rich: The Kennedys" from 2020-09-15T07:30:03

On July 19th, 1969, Senator Edward Kennedy, scion of the greatest political dynasty in modern America, drove his Oldsmobile into a pond. He escaped. But his passenger, a woman named Mary Jo Kopechn...

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THE ATLANTA RIPPER-Jeffery Wells from 2020-09-12T04:32:57

An examination of the unsolved mystery of the Jack the Ripper-style serial killer who terrified early 20th century Atlanta, Georgia.

As Atlanta finished rebuilding after the Civil War, a...

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THE FIRST CELEBRITY SERIAL KILLER IN SOUTHWEST OHIO-Richard O. Jones from 2020-09-10T23:06:50

Just before Christmas 1902, Alfred Knapp strangled his wife in her sleep. He put her body in a box and sent the box floating down the Great Miami River, telling everyone that Hannah had left him. W...

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THE JERSEY SHORE THRILL KILLER-John E. O'Rourke from 2020-09-09T11:38:33

Beachgoers usually dread riptides and rainy days, but from 1974 to 1983, a different fear gripped the New Jersey Shore: young women were disappearing. Their abductor was Richard Biegenwald, a man r...

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TRUE from 2020-09-08T07:30:09

“TRUE - A podcast that features the strange, unique, and often wacky side of criminality. These are the stories that will make you wonder if they came from Hollywood - or if Hollywood took it from ...

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TO KILL OR BE KILLED-Joni Ankerson from 2020-09-04T01:20:04

Obviously, I knew better than to take a life — but that was before. Before him.
The day we met in October of 1997, I was working at the District Court in Traverse City, Michigan as a Deputy Cl...

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THE BAD BOYS OF BUTLER COUNTY-Sarah Sexton Miller from 2020-09-02T01:00:53

In the 1890s, a "band of robbers" terrorized Butler County, running illegal beer joints, bilking the railroad, robbing businesses and the elderly, and murdering anyone who got in their way.
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END GAME-GOLDEN STATE KILLER-Anne Penn from 2020-08-28T00:52:49

End Game of The Most Dangerous Game GOLDEN STATE KILLER takes you through the journey of trying to find a serial cat burglar, a serial rapist and a serial killer. After a lifetime of tracing and tr...

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SEATTLE'S FORGOTTEN SERIAL KILLER-Cloyd Steiger from 2020-08-18T21:30:16

In 1969, the body of a young woman was discovered in the woods of Renton, rocking the communities along Puget Sound. Three more brutal murders followed, drawing the attention of multiple police age...

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THE BUNDY MURDERS-Part 2-Kevin M. Sullivan from 2020-08-11T20:25:17

In this revised, updated and expanded edition, the author explores the life of Theodore Bundy, one of the more infamous--and flamboyant--American serial killers on record. Bundy's story is a comple...

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THE BUNDY MURDERS-Part 1-Kevin M. Sullivan from 2020-08-05T20:34:27

In this revised, updated and expanded edition, the author explores the life of Theodore Bundy, one of the more infamous--and flamboyant--American serial killers on record. Bundy's story is a comple...

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THE WORLD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SERIAL KILLERS-Susan Hall from 2020-07-31T20:00:18

The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers is the most comprehensive set of its kind in the history of true crime publishing. Written and compiled by Susan Hall, the four-volume set has more than 160...

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The Sneak S2 from 2020-07-29T07:30:19

The Sneak: Murders at Whiskey Creek follows a world champion surfer as he pulls off the biggest jewel heist in American history. Things turn deadly as he is implicated in two murders afterwards. In...

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HELL IN THE HEARTLAND-Jax Miller from 2020-07-27T19:26:06

S-Town meets I'll Be Gone in the Dark in this stranger-than-fiction cold case from rural Oklahoma that has stumped authorities for two decades, concerning the disappearance of two teenage girls and...

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TIL DEATH DO US-Patrick Gallagher from 2020-07-24T15:29:25

In August 1945, Gladys Lincoln of Sacramento contacted prosperous Dr. W. D. Broadhurst of Caldwell, Idaho, and rekindled a romance from twenty years earlier. After many passionate letter exchanges ...

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RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES-Harold Schechter from 2020-07-17T22:40:22

Bestselling true-crime master Harold Schechter explores the real-life headline-making psychos, serial murderers, thrill-hungry couples, and lady-killers who inspired a century of classic films.
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ONCE UPON A TIME...IN THE VALLEY from 2020-07-14T08:49:41

In the roaring 1980s X world, Traci Lords reigned supreme. No one questioned her right to sovereignty. Only, it turned out, the biggest star in Adult, wasn’t one. As America would discover in July ...

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THE BEST NEW TRUE CRIME STORIES-Mitzi Szereto from 2020-07-13T22:18:55

#1 New Release in Forensic Psychology ? Small Town Charm With Deadly Consequences

A collection of non-fiction accounts by international writers and experts on small town true crime shows...

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HOW TO CATCH A KILLER-Katherine Ramsland from 2020-07-10T22:55:49

There are two parts to every crime story: how they did it and why they got caught.This book is about the second part, and how it changes the way we catch serial killers.

No two stories ...

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WANNA'BE COP KILLER-Dan Zupansky from 2020-07-06T06:35:43

Gabriel Wortman was a 51-year-old Denturist with a successful practice where he worked with his common-law partner. They were staying in the tiny seaside community of Portapique, Nova Scotia, Canad...

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Wondery Presents GURU:The Dark Side of Enlightenment from 2020-07-01T07:30:22

When we face challenges in life, we seek answers from people we believe can help us. When tragedy strikes an exclusive retreat with a self-help superstar, many people are left to wonder: how far is...

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OPERATION JACKNAP-Jack Teich from 2020-06-26T15:09:47

Two hundred FBI agents and Nassau County police officers combined forces to form a dragnet, hunt for his kidnappers, and rescue him.

Teich lay handcuffed and chained to the walls of a cl...

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BOY MISSING-Rebecca Morris from 2020-06-19T12:52:25

It's one of the most shocking unsolved missing-child cases in the world. Where is Kyron Horman? Why hasn't the woman who police suspect is responsible for his 2010 disappearance-Kyron's stepmother-...

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MURDER IN HOLLYWOODLAND-by Wondery from 2020-06-17T07:30:09

It's February 2nd 1922, and all of Hollywood is about to wake up and learn that William Desmond Taylor, the most famous film director in town, was murdered in his home last night. The investigation...

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EVIL AT LAKE SEMINOLE-Steven B. Epstein from 2020-06-16T18:12:33

Did Mike accidentally drown in a Florida lake?
Or was his disappearance the result of a sinister plot to kill him?

The crisp, predawn hours of December 16, 2000, began much as they ...

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TORTURED WITH LOVE-J.T. Hunter from 2020-06-10T22:46:41

What is the price of passion? What is the power of love?
Meet Martha Beck, a young nurse dedicated to healing others, until her own hurting heart lured her down a darker path. Loneliness led h...

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MOSQUITO POINT ROAD-Michael Benson from 2020-06-04T18:54:27

A compilation of six fascinating historical true crime stories, all geographically attached or close to the author’s childhood home. There’s Killer of the Cloth, The Baby in the Convent, Mosquito P...

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HUNTING WHITEY-Dave Wedge from 2020-05-28T17:44:03

For the first time, Boston reporters Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge draw on exclusive interviews and exhaustive investigative reportage to tell the complete story of Whitey Bulger, one of the most no...

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INTRODUCING HOPE IN DARKNESS from 2020-05-27T13:41:38

In June 2016, American Joshua Holt traveled to Venezuela to get married. As part of a crackdown on crime under the government of Nicolás Maduro, he and his wife were suddenly rounded up and taken...

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CAITLIN ROTHER TRUE CRIME RETROSPECTIVE-Caitlin Rother from 2020-05-26T22:48:11

In the late 1980s, Caitlin Rother wrote for the Berkshire Eagle and the Springfield Union-News in Massachusetts. She returned to California and went to work as a reporter for the Los Angeles Daily ...

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KIDNAPPED BY A CLIENT-Sharon Muse from 2020-05-19T19:56:05

“He promised to kill me when he got out. I believed him. If I wanted justice, I had to fight both him and the courts...maybe kill him first. If I didn’t do something, I was going to die.”

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THE DOCTOR, THE HITMAN, AND THE MOTORCYCLE GANG-Annie McCormick from 2020-05-14T18:23:31

THE DOCTOR, THE HITMAN, AND THE MOTORCYCLE GANG: The True Story of One of New Jersey’s Most Notorious Murder for Hire Plots is the true story of the murder of April Kauffman, a beloved and vivaciou...

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JOHN WAYNE GACY: HUNTING A PREDATOR-John Borowski from 2020-05-05T22:46:29

On December 21, 1978, John Wayne Gacy was arrested. Upon an initial search of the crawlspace beneath his ranch house in Norwood Park Township, Illinois, the authorities discovered the remains of se...

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MAYBE YOU DIE-Nancy Lee from 2020-05-02T01:12:25

Nina, a new graduate from fashion design in college, gladly accepts the offer to have her palm read as a graduation gift. Smiling, the palm reader tells Nina that she has a long lifeline, as she tr...

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LOSING JON-David Parrish from 2020-04-29T22:25:01

David Parrish was in disbelief when he learned that nineteen-year-old Jon Bowie’s body had been found hanged from a backstop at the local high school’s baseball field and the death declared a suici...

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A TANGLED WEB-Leslie Rule from 2020-04-24T16:53:25

It was a bleak November in 2012 when Cari Lea Farver vanished from Omaha, Nebraska. Cari, thirty-seven, was a devoted mother, reliable employee, and loyal friend—not the type to shirk responsibilit...

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AMERICAN SCANDAL by WONDERY from 2020-04-22T08:00:06

Wondery Presents American Scandal
Join Lindsay Graham, the host of Wondery’s show American Scandal as he dives deep into the heart of the most shocking moments of fraud and deception in Americ...

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FIRST DEGREE RAGE-Paula May from 2020-04-14T21:07:47

Terrifying things are happening to Kay Weden, a forty-something single mom and high school teacher in Salisbury, North Carolina. Despite having no known enemies, Kay’s home, car, and peace of mind ...

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KILLER FICTION-Sondra London from 2020-04-11T00:48:30

At a high school dance in 1964, 17 year-old Sondra London met a bright, handsome, well mannered Catholic boy, 18 year-old Gerard John Schaefer. They hung out all the time and soon fell in love. But...

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THE TRUE STORY OF THE 1966 HENDERSONVILLE TRIPLE MURDERS-Terrance Ryerson Neal from 2020-04-03T17:12:42

The story raced across the news wires in 1966. Residents jumped in their cars and drove to Lake Summit to see the gruesome crime scene.

On a late, hot July summer night in 1966, in a sm...

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STEPHEN AND JOYCE SINGULAR TRUE CRIME RETROSPECTIVE from 2020-03-26T17:35:50

Stephen Singular is the author of 25 non-fiction books, many of them about high-profile criminal cases. His first book in 1987 was Talked to Death: The Life & Murder of Alan Berg, which became the ...

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JOE EXOTIC by WONDERY from 2020-03-24T07:34:08

Joe Exotic devoted his life to raising and breeding lions, tigers, and other exotic animals at his Oklahoma zoo. He croons ballads, shoots guns, and puts it all on YouTube. But he’s also made a lot...

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THE "SUPREME GENTLEMAN" KILLER-Brian Whitney from 2020-03-23T14:16:47

Elliot Rodger considered himself to be intelligent, refined, handsome, fashionable and charming. He spent years trying to be cool so women would like him. He thought if he just wore expensive and f...

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THE BODY SNATCHER'S WIFE-Barbra Reifel from 2020-03-18T21:10:54

As seen on ID Discovery’s The Devil You Know, Who the (Bleep) Did I Marry?, and Tabloid

The shocking true story of how Barbra’s picket fence turned to prison bars, trapped in her twisted...

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EVEN THE RICH-WONDERY from 2020-03-17T07:30:06

Celebrities, royals, heirs and heiresses—you may think you know them, you may think you envy them, but you have no idea what really goes on behind the scenes. Wondery’s new series Even the Rich pul...

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BEAST OF NEW CASTLE-Larry Sells and Margie Porter from 2020-03-16T16:54:44

"'No witnesses, no problems.' Thompson’s mantra was supposed to be reassuring to the smaller man, but Percy felt the shadow of his own death coming. There was one witness. Him. And he cowered, wond...

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THE TRIALS OF ALBERT STROEBEL-Chad Reimer from 2020-03-12T18:25:38

In April, 1893, John Marshall, an immigrant and successful farmer on Sumas Prairie in British Columbia, was found dead lying sprawled across the veranda of his farmhouse. The farmer's face was a me...

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DOOMSDAY CULTS-Alan R. Warren from 2020-03-06T13:50:03

Jim Jones convinced his 1000 followers they would all have to commit suicide since he was going to die. Shoko Asahara convinced his followers to release a weapon of mass destruction, the deadly sar...

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THE DATING GAME KILLER from 2020-03-05T13:00:39

In 1978, Rodney Alcala won a date on the popular TV show, The Dating Game. What no one knew was that he was a prolific serial killer in the middle of a cross-country murder spree. In this six-part ...

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GONE AT MIDNIGHT-Jake Anderson from 2020-03-04T15:18:22

21 year-old Vancouver student Elisa Lam was last heard from on January 31, 2013, after she checked into downtown L.A.’s Cecil Hotel—a 600-room building with a nine-decade history of scandal and tra...

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A CROSSING OF PATHS-THE HILLSIDE STRANGLER CASE-Ron Crisp from 2020-02-28T20:04:53

Ron Crisp invites the reader to follow him through his investigation of the Leslie Barry murder; the trial of Art Anzures for the murder; the evidence that led him to his 3 suspects; how his invest...

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MICHAEL BENSON TRUE CRIME RETROSPECTIVE-Michael Benson from 2020-02-24T18:06:01

Michael Benson is one of today's most popular true-crime writers. His books--including Betrayal In Blood, Murder In Connecticut, Killer Twins, The Burn Farm, Mommy Deadliest, A Killer's Touch, Evil...

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AMERICAN SHERLOCK-Kate Winkler Dawson from 2020-02-19T20:58:58

Berkeley, California, 1933. In a lab filled with curiosities–beakers, microscopes, Bunsen burners, and hundreds upon hundreds of books–sat an investigator who would go on to crack at least two thou...

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EVIL DESIRES-Dean T. Olson from 2020-02-18T17:39:37

Sexual predators exist in our society and their evil desire leads them to commit heinous, brutal crimes with little concern for their victims or the toll it takes on the community. Violent sociopat...

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DIANE FANNING TRUE CRIME RETROSPECTIVE-Diane Fanning from 2020-02-13T20:26:16

Diane Fanning is the author of fourteen true crime books published by St. Martin's Press and Berkley Books including the Edgar Award nominated Written in Blood, about Michael Peterson of Netflix's ...

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WONDERY PRESENTS DYING FOR SEX from 2020-02-12T11:39:38

When host Nikki Boyer’s best friend Molly is diagnosed with Stage IV breast cancer, she decides to do something bold. She leaves an unhappy marriage and embarks on a series of sexual adventures to ...

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DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND-Nova West from 2020-02-11T20:48:01

A young pregnant mother is killed, and a small town demands justice, a conviction, someone to blame. When an unlikely suspect is convicted, it raises a question: Is this the culprit, a scapegoat, o...

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18 TINY DEATHS-Bruce Goldfarb from 2020-02-07T01:17:54

The story of a woman whose ambition and accomplishments far exceeded the expectations of her time, 18 Tiny Deaths follows the transformation of a young, wealthy socialite into the mother of modern ...

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THE GARDEN STATE PARKWAY MURDERS-Christian Barth from 2020-01-29T18:35:30

In “The Garden State Parkway Murders,” true crime writer and attorney Christian Barth dives into the harrowing story of the unsolved murders of Elizabeth Perry and Susan Davis. College friends, the...

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ARC ROAD-Tony Tiffin from 2020-01-21T23:04:46

The Gwinnett County, Georgia, Police Department was formed by tough, honorable men who were brought in to clean up the county after the sheriff made moonshining his personal business. With a low bu...

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DUCT TAPE KILLER-Phil and Sandy Hamman from 2020-01-17T00:27:28

When Piper Streyle failed to show up for work, a coworker called her home. Piper’s three-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Shaina, answered and said, “A mean man carried Mommy away.” Then the line went...

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FRED ROSEN TRUE CRIME RETROPSPECTIVE-Fred Rosen from 2020-01-14T11:29:40

Fred Rosen is a former columnist for the Arts and Leisure Section of The New York Times. He is also one of the most important and successful figures in true crime writing, and the author of several...

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BURL BARER RETROSPECTIVE-Burl Barer from 2020-01-09T22:48:25

Burl Barer definitely is a legendary figure in true crime writing and broadcasting, co-hosting the very first true crime podcast, True Crime Uncensored. He is an Edgar Award winning author and two-...

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REIGN OF INJUSTICE-David M. Beers from 2020-01-07T16:59:49

On September 12, 2001, Michele Harris went missing from a small town in upstate New York. She has never been found, and the mystery surrounding her disappearance remains. Four years after she went ...

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THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE TED BUNDY MURDERS-Kevin Sullivan from 2020-01-03T17:04:12

"Sullivan's A-to-Z coverage of Ted Bundy provides a solid guide to the people and places that define the man and the monster, including some not present in other Bundy narratives. It nicely rounds ...

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THE BEST NEW TRUE CRIME STORIES: SERIAL KILLERS-Mitzi Szereto and Mark Fryers from 2019-12-18T14:20:36

Serial killers Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, and Jeffrey Dahmer are often the first names that spring to mind. Many people assume serial killers are primarily an American phenomenon that came about i...

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INTRODUCING BLOOD TIES from 2019-12-17T12:49:18

BLOOD TIES: A scripted audio series starring Gillian Jacobs, Josh Gad, and Amy Landecker. When legendary pediatric cardiologist and businessman, Dr. Peter Richland, is killed in a plane crash two d...

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UNHOLY MESSENGER-BTK-Joyce and Stephen Singular from 2019-12-10T22:22:34

To all appearances, Dennis Rader was a model citizen in the small town of Park City, Kansas. The self-named BTK (for Bind, Torture, Kill) had terrorized Wichita for thirty-one years. In 1974, BTK c...

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HANNIBAL THE CANNIBAL-Alan R. Warren from 2019-12-03T20:52:11

Robert Maudsley casually walked into the cell of another inmate, who was sleeping on his bunk facedown. A savage rage quickly took over, and Maudsley started stabbing the back of the man’s head. Th...

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EVIL THOUGHTS: WICKED DEEDS-Dr. Kris Mohandie from 2019-11-27T22:14:49

Experience some of the most intense hostage, serial homicide, mass casualty, stalking, and violent “true-believer” cases encountered by an expert during his thirty-year police and forensic psycholo...

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THE FOREST CITY KILLER-Vanessa Brown from 2019-11-19T21:16:07

Fifty years ago, a serial killer prowled the quiet city of London, Ontario, marking it as his hunting grounds. As young women and boys were abducted, raped, and murdered, residents of the area held...

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ABOVE SUSPICION-Joe Sharkey from 2019-11-12T16:36:10

When rookie FBI agent Mark Putnam received his first assignment in 1987, it was the culmination of a lifelong dream, if not the most desirable location. Pikeville, Kentucky, is high in Appalachian ...

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TANTAMOUNT-Blaine Pardoe and Victoria Hester from 2019-11-06T00:29:33

this is tantamount to my

insensititivity to people

especially women.

I will admit the others

when you catch me if you can!

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THE MENENDEZ MURDERS-Robert Rand from 2019-10-30T23:30:42

A successful entertainment executive making $2 million a year. His former beauty queen wife. Their two sons on the fast track to success. But it was all a façade.

The killing of José an...

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BAT MASTERSON-Fred Rosen from 2019-10-24T19:48:52

Nearly 100 years since his death, Bat Masterson still holds great influence. Remembered by many for his adventures in America’s Old West - buffalo hunter, scout, gunfighter, and even lawman as Dodg...

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MOMS OF THE MISSING-Steffen Hou from 2019-10-21T20:17:34

"Oh my God, we found a dead body." The man's voice, calling from a mountain trail in Cleveland National Forest, was frantic. "Please hurry. I'm so scared. It's a little kid." When police arrived, t...

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BLOOD BENEATH MY FEET-Joseph Scott Morgan from 2019-10-14T19:01:23

Have you ever been locked in a cooler with piles of decomposing humans for so long that you had to shave all the hair off your body in order to get rid of the smell? Joseph Scott Morgan did. Have y...

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DEAD RECKONING-Caitlin Rother from 2019-10-08T23:57:11

Tom and Jackie Hawks loved their life in retirement, sailing on their yacht, the Well Deserved. But when the birth of a new grandson called them back to Arizona, they put the boat up for sale. Skyl...

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HAUNTING HOMICIDES-Michael Benson from 2019-10-07T17:52:39

An anthology of haunting murders written by acclaimed true-crime writer Michael Benson and his “boots on the ground,” Private Investigator Donald A. Tubman. Featured stories include the murders of ...

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NORCO '80-Peter Houlahan from 2019-10-05T17:00:12

Norco ’80 tells the story of how five heavily armed young men, led by an apocalyptic born-again Christian, attempted a bank robbery that turned into one of the most violent criminal events in U.S. ...

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WHAT IF? Golden State Killer-Zodiac Solved-Anne Penn from 2019-10-03T21:24:32

Golden State Killer, East Area Rapist, Original Night Stalker, Visalia Ransacker and more. The Story of The Golden State Killer’s beginnings. Who else was he as he traveled through time? Was he, is...

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DEATH SENTENCE-Joe Sharkey from 2019-09-24T16:25:31

The true account of the man who murdered his family in their New Jersey mansion—and eluded a nationwide manhunt for eighteen years.

Until 1971, life was good for mild-mannered accountant...

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WHISPERS IN THE WILLOWS-George Jared from 2019-09-16T20:25:51

Whispers in the Willows is an anthology style, true crime book that chronicles three unsolved murders, a series of Death Row executions, and the harrowing stories of two Holocaust survivors. A 22-y...

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FROZEN TEARS-J.B. King from 2019-09-12T19:42:53

In 1977, four teenagers were kidnapped and attacked near and on Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. Only one survived. This book is written by the first responder to the call, Missouri State Highway Patro...

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RAILROADED-Christopher Jossart from 2019-09-10T22:16:14

In 1968, a budding New York City entrepreneur who provided immigrants with jobs takes a Florida vacation with his family. Meanwhile, his relative, an employee, is murdered on Long Island.

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DEACON'S CROSSBOW-David G. Brown from 2019-09-04T20:47:38

How does a high school valedictorian, former member of the famed 101st Airborne, respected church deacon, husband and father of three end up with a first-degree murder conviction and serving life w...

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CHAOS-Tom O'Neill from 2019-08-28T20:49:47

Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then eight months pregnant. With no mercy and seemingly no motiv...

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NOTORIOUS SAN FRANCISCO-Paul Drexler from 2019-08-24T00:18:03

San Francisco, a city founded in part by criminals, was once one of the most dangerous cities in America. Its Barbary coast was called “a unique criminal district that was the scene of more vicious...

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INNOCENT BLOOD-Terry Ganey from 2019-08-19T16:03:11

Like a real-life Hannibal Lecter--the psychopathic murderer from Thomas Harris' "Silence of the Lambs"--Charles Hatcher was cunning, sadistic and totally remorseless. He was a man with no conscienc...

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TRUTH AND HONOUR-Greg Marquis from 2019-08-13T16:38:16

Truth and Honour explores the 2011 murder of Saint John businessman Richard Oland, of the prominent family that owns Moosehead Breweries, the ensuing police investigation and the arrest, trial, and...

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MURDER ON BIRCHLEAF DRIVE-Steven B. Epstein from 2019-08-06T16:02:41

Was Jason the monster who bludgeoned his beautiful wife to death, leaving his toddler alone for hours to walk through her blood? If so--would he get away with it?

To the outside world, J...

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SHALLOW GRAVES-Maureen Boyle from 2019-08-01T16:04:15

Eleven women went missing over the spring and summer of 1988 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, an old fishing port known as the Whaling City, where Moby Dick, Frederick Douglass, textile mills, and he...

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1926 HOMICIDE IN AMERICA-David Kulczyk from 2019-07-26T11:25:02

1926 was the year that Americans all over the country said screw it. And screw it they did... mixing too much bootleg booze, marijuana, cocaine, and heroin, with fast cars, sex, and jazz music can ...

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IN CHAINS-Alan R. Warren from 2019-07-21T21:45:44

Human trafficking is the trade of people for forced labor or sex. It also includes the illegal extraction of human organs and tissues. And it is an extremely ruthless and dangerous industry plaguin...

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AMERICAN PREDATOR-Maureen Callahan from 2019-07-11T19:43:11

Ted Bundy. John Wayne Gacy. Jeffrey Dahmer. The names of notorious serial killers are usually well-known; they echo in the news and in public consciousness. But most people have never heard of Isra...

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SECRETS OF A MARINE'S WIFE-Shanna Hogan from 2019-07-08T19:17:38

In June 2014, 19-year-old Erin Corwin was living a quiet life in Twentynine Palms, California, expecting her first child with her husband, U.S. Marine Corporal Jon Corwin?until the day she drove of...

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MURDER WITHOUT MOTIVE-Det. Raymond Pingatore from 2019-07-05T17:29:21

The true story of the night innocence and evil crossed paths. On a summer night in 2000, Amy Shute and Jason Burgeson were set upon by five predatory youths outside a Providence, Rhode Island, club...

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RACE TO JUSTICE-Larry Sells and Margie Porter from 2019-06-27T15:43:10

Cynthia Albrecht, the executive chef of the Penske-Marlboro racing team and darling of the IndyCar circuit, went missing on October 25, 1992-the night before her divorce from Michael Albrecht becam...

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MURDER BY MILKSHAKE-Eve Lazarus from 2019-06-19T19:28:06

When forty-year-old Esther Castellani died a slow and agonizing death in 1965, the official cause was at first undetermined. The day after Esther's funeral, her husband, Rene, packed up his girlfri...

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NEEDLE WORK-Fred Rosen from 2019-06-14T01:23:10

A Michigan couple’s affair leads to two grisly murders by heroin injection in this true crime account from the acclaimed author of Lobster Boy.

When Carol Giles’s friend Nancy Billiter w...

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SUBMERGED-Janice Hisle from 2019-06-11T15:39:37

A young bride drowns in her bathtub. Her husband of four months is accused of murder. What happened in their tiny suburban bathroom—and why—was never resolved. A compelling true-crime drama, based ...

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Drinks, Dinner&Death-Alan R. Warren from 2019-06-11T04:06:50

In the middle-class neighborhood of Muswell Hill, underneath a spectacular residence located at 23 Cranley Gardens, a gruesome discovery was about to be unearthed. While working on drainage pipes o...

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TED BUNDY: The Angel of Decay-Paul Lonardo from 2019-06-04T17:38:26

It has been thirty years since Ted Bundy, arguably this country’s most notorious serial killer, was put to death in the electric chair by the state of Florida in 1989, but there continues to exist ...

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CHASING COSBY-Nicole Weisensee Egan from 2019-05-30T16:28:54

The definitive account of Bill Cosby's transition from revered father figure to convicted criminal.
Bill Cosby's decades-long career as a sweater-wearing, wholesome TV dad came to a swift and ...

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TED BUNDY'S MURDEROUS MYSTERIES-Kevin Sullivan from 2019-05-24T17:45:27

New from the author of the WildBluePress classics The Trail of Ted Bundy and The Bundy Secrets!

Ted Bundy’s Murderous Mysteries is a deep-dive into the archival record of America’s most ...

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AND EVERY WORD IS TRUE-Gary McAvoy from 2019-05-22T20:27:48

Truman Capote’s bestselling book “In Cold Blood” has captivated worldwide audiences for over fifty years. It is a gripping story about the consequences of a trivial robbery gone terribly wrong in a...

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THE KILLER ACROSS THE TABLE-Mark Olshaker from 2019-05-14T20:17:26

The FBI’s pioneer of criminal profiling, former special agent John Douglas, has studied and interviewed many of America’s most notorious killers—including Charles Manson, ”Son of Sam Killer” David...

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THE LAZARUS FILES-Matthew McGough from 2019-05-08T21:23:42

A deeply-reported, riveting account of a cold case murder in Los Angeles, unsolved until DNA evidence implicated a shocking suspect – a female detective within the LAPD’s own ranks.

On F...

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DEATH ON THE RIVER-Diane Fanning from 2019-05-02T16:22:18

In Death on the River, bestselling true crime author Diane Fanning recounts a tragic kayak accident that left one man dead—and his fiancée arrested for his murder.

A DREAM GETAWAY. A REA...

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I AM JESSICA-Jessi Toronjo and Jamie Collins from 2019-04-28T17:54:36

A SHOCKING 1989 QUADRUPLE FAMILY MURDER AND THE LITTLE GIRL LEFT BEHIND TO TELL THE STORY.

As a child, I was known as "Jessica Pelley." When I was nine, I went to a sleepover at a friend...

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Pardonable Matricide-Tobin T. Buhk from 2019-04-24T21:20:33

In January 1889, as London constables hunted for Jack the Ripper and theaters around the world presented theatrical renditions of the Jekyll and Hyde story, Jackson, Michigan, Police Captain Jack B...

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ALICE&GERALD-Ron Franscell from 2019-04-19T20:06:06

Would you kill for love? True-crime master Ron Franscell tells the grisly story of Alice and Gerald Uden, a loving couple who murdered at least four people, and live happily ever after--while cops ...

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THE HOT ONE-Carolyn Murnick from 2019-04-10T17:12:41

A true-crime, coming-of-age story with a tragic twist: a New York editor’s quest to uncover the truth about the brutal murder of her wild and seductive friend in a “riveting…and thoughtful examinat...

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THE MOORS MURDERS-Ian Brady and Myra Hindley-Alan R. Warren from 2019-04-05T20:56:26

It was in Manchester, England in 1965, when the police were called to a possible crime scene at the residence of Ian Brady and girlfriend Myra Hindley. What they found in the upstairs spare bedroom...

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DEAD IN THE WATER-Penny Farmer from 2019-03-26T17:59:23

This is a study of the brutal torture and murder of the author's brother and his longtime girlfriend 40 years ago. In July 1978, two bodies were found in the sea off the coast of Guatemala and prov...

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MURDER! 12 SHOCKING TRUE CRIME STORIES-Rod Kackley from 2019-03-20T19:28:19

Murderers. Homicidal Maniacs. Serial Killers. The police who put them behind bars. A mother kills her children one by one. A teenage girl runs away from home for Spring Break and never returns. Rum...

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UNSOLVED MURDERS: TRUE CRIME CASES UNCOVERED-Amber Hunt from 2019-03-14T16:50:42

Ever wondered who murdered JonBenét Ramsey, or who terrorized San Francisco as the Zodiac Killer? Puzzled over the notorious Black Dahlia murder, or the mysterious Long Island Serial Killer case? Listen

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YOU HAVE A VERY SOFT VOICE, SUSAN-Susan Fensten from 2019-03-05T20:56:38

This is not a typical story of Internet stalking. It is an unusual case of friendship and deception so pitiless and unyielding that it opened a door to Hell into the author’s life. This is an unfor...

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THE GRINDR SERIAL KILLER: STEPHEN PORT-Alan R. Warren from 2019-02-27T00:42:17

In today’s world where meeting people for the purpose of having sex with a simple click on your phone, a new type of gay sex called ‘Party N Play’ or ‘Chemsex’ has become all the rage in the mainst...

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ISDAL WOMAN. Life and Death.Norway's Biggest Mystery-Lauren Robinson from 2019-02-21T21:41:07

This is a true life and death mystery. A case that dates back to November 1970.
A time before cell phones, CCTV cameras, Tightened border security, DNA...
Although this strange and haunt...

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BURNED: A Story of Murder and the Crime That Wasn't-Edward Humes from 2019-02-12T18:57:07

Was a monstrous killer brought to justice or an innocent mother condemned?

On an April night in 1989, Jo Ann Parks survived a house fire that claimed the lives of her three small childre...

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UNDER THE TRESTLE-Ron Peterson Jr. from 2019-02-05T15:00

“Under The Trestle” is the true story of the most compelling murder case in Virginia history. In 1980, beautiful Gina Renee Hall, a Radford University freshman, went to a Virginia Tech nightclub on...

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FRUSTRATED WITNESS-Willis Morgan from 2019-01-31T00:00

 On July 27, 1981, six year old Adam Walsh was abducted from the Hollywood Mall in Hollywood, Florida and later found decapitated. The horror of the event would change America forever and bring abo...

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THE DEPRIVED-Steffen Hou from 2019-01-24T19:00

Thousands of Americans have been convicted and sentenced to death for crimes they never committed. Some have even been executed despite their innocence. The Deprived is a true crime book that tells...

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GITCHIE GIRL UNCOVERED-Phil and Sandy Hamman from 2019-01-17T22:00

“Please, no! Don’t make me go back to the park. I can draw you a map. I promise I can show you where everything happened.”

The lone survivor trembled as she pleaded with investigators. Listen

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NIGHTMARE IN ROCHESTER-Michael Benson from 2019-01-09T20:00

In 1971, there began in Rochester, N.Y., a series of hideous murders, cases that offered the starkest of contrast between good and evil: perfectly innocent victims, perfectly evil predators. The th...

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PATHOLOGICAL-Henry J. Cordes from 2018-12-17T19:00

A Brutal Serial Killer Was Stalking Omaha. But Who Could Kill With Such Precision?Detective Derek Mois wasn’t sure what he was dealing with when in March 2008 he walked into a home in an affluent O...

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SUMMER'S ALMOST GONE-J.T. Townsend from 2018-12-12T16:00

It was an unbelievable crime—hideous, unexpected, baffling. A crime destined to become the most notorious and obsessive cold case in Cincinnati history. On that long ago day in September on the cus...

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INNOCENCE LOST-The Crimes That Changed Australia-Amanda Howard from 2018-12-11T19:00

Some crimes are so shocking that they change a nation forever. In revealing the lives and crimes of Australia's worst murderers, rapists and kidnappers in all their horror, Innocence Lost answers t...

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SHOTS IN THE DARK-Daniel Zimmerman from 2018-12-07T16:00

On a cold, winter’s night in early 1963, mob enforcer Rocco Anthony Balliro and a pair of associates stormed a darkened apartment on the outskirts of Boston and engaged in a fierce gun battle with ...

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WARNINGS UNHEEDED-Andy Brown from 2018-12-04T00:00

The true story of Air Force men and women who struggle to prevent a mass murder and an aviation disaster, and their heroic response to both tragedies when their warnings go unheeded.

Hav...

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SAVING ANNIE-Book Two-The Investigator-Steve Jackson from 2018-11-29T20:00

In March 2009, pretty, vivacious Rhonda Casto plunged to her death from a 300-foot cliff in the Oregon woods. The only witness, Stephen Nichols, the father of her nine-month-old baby, Annie, told p...

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WRECKING CREW-Demolishing the Case Against Steven Avery-John Ferak from 2018-11-27T01:00

In 2016-17, while working for the USA TODAY NETWORK's Wisconsin Investigative Team, author John Ferak wrote dozens of articles examining the murder case again Steven Avery, who had already beat one...

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IF I CAN'T HAVE YOU-Rebecca Morris from 2018-11-20T18:00

A DEVOTED MOTHER GOES MISSING

Every once in a great while a genuine murder mystery unfolds before the public's eyes…Such is the tragic case of Susan Powell and her murdered boys, Charlie...

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THE LAST MAN STANDING-Alan R. Warren from 2018-11-15T21:00

It was a shattering death bed confession by a heartbroken mother. But would it solve the oldest cold case murder case in American jurisprudence?

In January 1994, Eileen Tessier told Jack...

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TOXIC RAGE-A.J. Flick from 2018-11-13T20:00

Brian Stidham fell in love with Tucson, Ariz., the minute he came to town. A young and talented eye surgeon, he accepted a job with an established eye surgeon to take over his pediatric patients. Listen

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THE CREEP AMONG US-Anne Penn from 2018-11-09T19:30

The Creep Among Us, the true story of the next chapter. Investigations and research which entails some of what we know a little more than five months into solving who The East Area Rapist, Original...

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MY SON, THE KILLER-The Untold Story of Luka Magnotta-Brian Whitney from 2018-11-07T23:00

BEFORE NETFLIX'S DON'T F**CK WITH CATS: Hunting an Internet Killer-Brian Whitney had an exclusive interview with Luka Magnotta for his book, My Son The Killer.
In 2012, the Canadian Press ign...

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INCONVENIENCE GONE-Diane Marger Moore from 2018-11-01T15:00

Where is Brandon Sims? The four-year-old had not been seen since July 3, 1992, when he attended a birthday party with his twenty-year-old mother, Michelle Jones. Jones was employed, confident, tale...

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WRITTEN IN BLOOD-Diane Fanning from 2018-10-30T18:30

Michael Peterson was driven to succeed.

An army brat-turned-marine, he saw combat in Vietnam, and returned a decorated soldier. An avid reader, his dreams of being an acclaimed novelist ...

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A MONSTER OF ALL TIME-J.T. Hunter from 2018-10-26T19:00

Ambitious, attractive, and full of potential, five young college students prepared for the new semester. They dreamed of beginning careers and starting families. They had a lifetime of experiences ...

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BEHIND THE MURDER CURTAIN-Bruce Sackman from 2018-10-16T00:00

When Veterans Hospital patients on the road to recovery suddenly die in increasing numbers, it’s up to VA Special Agent in Charge Bruce Sackman to find out why. His shocking discovery rips open the...

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THE KILLING GAME-Alan R. Warren from 2018-10-12T19:00

In 1968 young girls went missing in California and New York, massive searches started and soon bodies began to turn up. This is the story of Rodney Alcala, the charming, good looking photographer t...

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LITTLE SLAUGHTERHOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE-Harold Schechter from 2018-10-09T19:00

At a remote little inn not far from the Kansas homestead of Laura Ingalls Wilder lived the Bender family. These pioneers welcomed unwary visitors with jackrabbit stew and a sledgehammer to the skul...

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THE GRIM SLEEPER-Victoria Redstall from 2018-10-04T18:00

During the mid-1980s, a brutal killing spree began in Los Angeles as several women were murdered, having been sexually assaulted and shot in the chest with the same .25 calibre gun. The man respons...

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KILLER MINDS-Amanda Howard from 2018-10-02T20:00

Amanda Howard is a bestselling true crime author, fiction writer and violent crimes consultant who has written 19 books over the past 14 years including ten books on a wide range of true crime case...

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EXPOSED:THE ZODIAC REVEALED-Mark Hewitt from 2018-09-26T23:00

One question remains unanswered: Who is the Zodiac?


There have been many hypotheses about the killer’s identity, some sober and evidence-based, some wildly speculative, all touchin...

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ACCUSED-Amber Hunt and Amanda Rossmann from 2018-09-18T19:00

When Elizabeth Andes was found bound, stabbed, and strangled in her Ohio apartment in 1978, police and prosecutors decided within hours it was an open-and-shut case.


Within days, B...

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SAVING ANNIE-Steve Jackson from 2018-09-14T19:00

In March 2009, pretty, vivacious Rhonda Casto plunged to her death from a 300-foot cliff in the Oregon woods. The only witness, Stephen Nichols, the father of her nine-month-old baby, Annie, told p...

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HEARTLESS-Katherine Ramsland from 2018-09-13T21:00

THE newest installment in the New York Times bestselling series of tales of America’s most notorious criminals and the crimes that shaped the places we call home. 


This time you’ll...

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THE ALASKA MAIL-BOMB CONSPIRACY-Burl Barer from 2018-09-06T23:00

On September 14, 1991,in Anchorage, Alaska,  a very pregnant Peggy Barnett along with her 9-year old daughter drove to the post office to deliver a package to an associate, George Kerr in Chugiak, ...

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THE AXEMAN OF NEW ORLEANS-Miriam Davis from 2018-08-28T12:30

From 1910 to 1919, New Orleans suffered at the hands of its very own Jack the Ripper–style killer. The story has been the subject of websites, short stories, novels, a graphic novel, and most recen...

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THE KILL JAR-J. Reuben Appelman from 2018-08-24T17:00

J. Reuben Appelman cracks open one of America’s most notorious murder sprees while simultaneously banging the gavel on his own history with violence. A deftly-crafted true crime story with grit, se...

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SONS OF CAIN-Peter Vronsky from 2018-08-15T19:00

From the author of Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters comes an in-depth examination of sexual serial killers throughout human history, how they evolved, and why we are drawn to thei...

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TED AND ANN-Rebecca Morris from 2018-08-07T18:00

The gripping story of one of the the most fascinating cold cases of the 20th century - Was eight-year-old Ann Marie Burr serial killer Ted Bundy's first victim? She disappeared from their Tacoma, W...

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DEACON OF DEATH-Fred Rosen from 2018-08-01T23:00

Baptist deacon, family man, pillar of his Florida community . . . and serial killer of prostitutes: chilling true crime from the author ofLobster Boy.


By day, Sam Smithers was the ...

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HUNTING CHARLES MANSON- Caitlin Rother from 2018-07-26T00:00

In the late summer of 1969, the nation was transfixed by a series of gruesome murders in the hills of Los Angeles. Newspapers and television programs detailed the brutal slayings of a beautiful act...

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THE GOOD MOTHERS-Alex Perry from 2018-07-17T14:00

The Calabrian Mafia—known as the ’Ndrangheta—is one of the richest and most ruthless crime syndicates in the world, with branches stretching from America to Australia. It controls seventy percent o...

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HIS GARDEN-CONVERSATIONS WITH A SERIAL KILLER-Anne K. Howard from 2018-07-13T18:00

"You want to know what happened? Ask Anne."—serial killer William Devin Howell A monster was on a killing spree. In just nine months, seven people went missing; all of their bodies eventually disco...

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A MURDER IN MY HOMETOWN-Rebecca Morris from 2018-07-10T17:00

On a fall evening in Corvallis, Oregon in 1967, 17-year-old Dick Kitchel, a senior at the high school, disappeared after attending a party. Ten days later, his body was spotted by two children as i...

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BURNED-Frank C. Girardot Jr. from 2018-07-03T22:00

For years Lori Orr believed her Los Angeles firefighter dad was a selfless hero. When Lori’s dad was arrested and charged with four murders and countless arson fires, it was her testimony that help...

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THE GIRL ON THE VELVET SWING-Simon Baatz from 2018-06-28T19:00

In 1901 Evelyn Nesbit, a chorus girl in the musical Florodora, dined alone with the architect Stanford White in his townhouse on 24th Street in New York. Nesbit, just sixteen years old, had recentl...

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FORGOTTEN SACRAMENTO MURDERS-David Kulczyk from 2018-06-21T01:00

Forgotten Sacramento Murders 1940-1976 explores the crimes by Sacramento's Greatest Generation. The murders that shocked Sacramento two generations ago are now only remembered by a handful of peopl...

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WHEN NASHVILLE BLED-Judith A. Yates from 2018-06-12T23:00

He was evil personified. In the Spring of 1997, a serial killer held Nashville, Tennessee in an icy grip of terror. In February, he murdered two employees at a Captain D's restaurant. In March, he ...

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GOOD LITTLE SOLDIERS-Sondra London from 2018-06-03T16:00

During WWII, Lithuanian collaborator Silvestras Griekshell had been plucked from a Nazi death camp and sent on covert missions by his Allied handlers. Now during the Cold War, he'd been redeployed ...

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SHADOW ON THE MOUNTAIN-Stephen and Joyce Singular from 2018-05-29T20:00

Nancy Pfister, heir to Buttermilk Mountain, the world-renowned site of the Winter X Games, was Aspen royalty, its ambassador to the world. She lived among the rich and famous: she partied with Hunt...

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ALBERT FISH IN HIS OWN WORDS-John Borowski from 2018-05-24T21:00

On December 13, 1934, Albert Fish was apprehended by Detective William King for the kidnapping and murder of ten-year-old Grace Budd. Fish’s defense attorney obtained the services of Dr. Fredric We...

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CRAZY FOR YOU-Michael Fleeman from 2018-05-17T00:00

A LOVING FATHER

A typical morning in the Atlanta suburbs: Businessman Rusty Sneiderman drops his beloved son off at the Dunwoody Prep nursery. In the parking lot, a minivan pulls up next...

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KARLY SHEEHAN-Karen Spears Zacharias from 2018-05-15T20:30

A true recounting of the high-profile Oregon murder case that led to Karly's Law. Part memoir, part investigative journalism, this is the story Ann Rule called "A Must Read." Reminiscent of Capote'...

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BULLIED TO DEATH-Judith A. Yates from 2018-05-10T23:00

Do you think I’m pretty.
No one likes me. 
I hate my life. 
I wish I had a friend.

It was the mantra of fourteen-year-old Sherokee Harriman, who in September 2015 faced he...

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THE INFAMOUS BIRMINGHAM AXE MURDERS-Jeremy W. Gray from 2018-05-08T16:00

A reign of terror swept the streets of Birmingham in the 1920s. Criminals armed with small axes attacked immigrant merchants and interracial couples, leaving dozens dead or injured over the course ...

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THE BEAST I LOVED-Robert Davidson from 2018-05-03T15:00

Before domestic violence hot lines and safe houses were widespread, June Briand shot four bullets into her husband’s head and was sentenced to fifteen years to life. This is the shocking true story...

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EAR/ONS, GOLDEN STATE KILLER UNMASKED-Anne Penn from 2018-05-02T21:00

On March 13, 1980, In Ventura County, California, prominent attorney Lyman Robert Smith, on the verge of being appointed a Superior Court judge, and his wife Charlene were murdered in their home. A...

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GOLDEN STATE KILLER, EAR/ONS CAPTURED-DET. RICHARD SHELBY from 2018-05-01T16:00

Det. Richard Shelby was the first Sacramento detective to make a connection between a series of rapes that began in communities in East Sacramento. Law enforcement failed to stop him before he tran...

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ABSOLUTE MADNESS-Catherine Pelonero from 2018-04-26T23:00

Absolute Madness tells the disturbing true story of Joseph Christopher, a white serial killer who targeted black males and struck fear into the residents of Buffalo and New York City in the 1980s. ...

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THE SERIAL KILLER'S APPRENTICE-James Renner from 2018-04-19T20:30

Presenting the most notorious unsolved crimes in Northeast Ohio . . . Investigative reporter James Renner reopens cold cases and delves into dark secrets that have baffled Clevelanders for years, i...

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THE FAMILY I HAD-Katie Green from 2018-04-16T17:00

On February 5th, 2007 Charity Lee Bennett was working her shift at Buffalo Wild Wings in Abilene Texas when two police officers came to inform her that her 4 year-old daughter Ella was dead and her...

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I, A SQUEALER-Lisa Espich from 2018-04-13T00:00

The year was 1965. The Beatles, Elvis Presley, and The Righteous Brothers filled the airwaves. Television shows like "The Adventures of Ozzy and Harriett" and "The Andy Griffith Show" mirrored the ...

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HELL'S PRINCESS-Harold Schechter from 2018-04-05T14:00

In the pantheon of serial killers, Belle Gunness stands alone. She was the rarest of female psychopaths, a woman who engaged in wholesale slaughter, partly out of greed but mostly for the sheer joy...

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WOMAN AT THE DEVIL'S DOOR-Sarah Beth Hopton from 2018-04-03T14:00

Discover the haunting untold true story of the woman whose crimes inspired speculation that Jack the Ripper was a woman.

On October 24, 1890, a woman was discovered on a pile of rubbish ...

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MURDER CHOSE ME-Det. Rod Demery from 2018-03-30T00:30

Investigation Discovery’s MURDER CHOSE ME, featuring legendaryShreveport, Louisiana homicide detective Rod Demery returns for its second season on Wednesday,April 4 at 10/9c, only on ID.

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BROKEN DOLL-Burl Barer from 2018-03-27T19:30

In May, 1988, in Everett, Washington, four-year-old Feather Rahier disappeared while playing outside after dinner. Her frantic cries drew Feather's mother to the dark garage that was home to Richar...

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IN PLAIN SIGHT-Kathryn Casey from 2018-03-21T15:00

JUDGE. JURY. EXECUTIONER.

On a cold January morning, the killer executed Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse in broad daylight. Eight shots fired a block from the Kaufman County Court...

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THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD-Fred Rosen from 2018-03-15T00:00

They stared into the faces of pure evil . . . and survived!

Ted Bundy . . . Jeffrey Dahmer . . .

David "Son of Sam" Berkowitz . . . Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer . . .
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LOST CONNECTIONS-Johann Hari from 2018-03-09T16:00

From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs, a radical new way of thinking about depression and anxiety.

What really cau...

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THROUGH AN UNLOCKED DOOR-Kevin Sullivan from 2018-03-08T01:00

" We never lock our doors." This is an often-heard remark expressing a commonplace American attitude or belief that, despite whatever danger might prevail in public spaces, life inside our own home...

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THE BLACK WIDOWER-Michael Fleeman from 2018-03-01T01:00

She was his second wife—to die. . . 

Coming off a failed marriage, a beautiful woman named Toni joined an online dating site, hoping to find true and lasting love. Harold Henthorn seemed...

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UNSEEN-Laura Paglin from 2018-02-27T17:00

This January, FilmRise released the chilling true crime documentary “Unseen,” from award-winning director and producer Laura Paglin. For two years, women had been disappearing from Mount Pleasant –...

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TAKING TORI-Kelly Banaski from 2018-02-20T20:00

An 18-year-old woman abused from birth and a chronic con man collide to concoct the most evil pairing since Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo. Acting on a long-time fantasy, Michael Rafferty convince...

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DEADLY BETRAYAL-Alan R. Warren from 2018-02-14T00:00

A family of three tied up, each with a gun to their head, “Where’s the money? Where’s the fucking money?” one of the intruders yelled. A petrified daughter tortured and forced to listen to her pare...

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SOLE SURVIVOR-Holly Dunn from 2018-02-12T01:00

A memoir of hope, healing, and survival, sure to resonate with fans of Jaycee Dugard’s A Stolen Life and Elizabeth Smart’s My Story.


On August 28, 1997, just as she was starting he...

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BETTER OFF DEAD-Michael Fleeman from 2018-02-09T01:00

New York Times bestselling author Michael Fleeman, strips away the pleasant veneer of the Silver Lakes neighborhood in California to tell a shocking story about a headline-grabbing crime.

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THE SHAWCROSS LETTERS-John Paul Fay and Brian Whitney from 2018-02-07T23:00

What happens when one of the most evil men in the history of America meets a man he trusts to share his darkest secrets with? How does it affect someone already on the edge of society when he is ta...

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I'M NOT GUILTY-The Case of Ted Bundy-Dr. Al Carlisle from 2018-01-31T20:00

TED BUNDY BRUTALLY MURDERED OVER 30 WOMEN


From his arrest until his execution in 1989, Ted Bundy was interviewed extensively by psychologists, journalists, and law enforcement. He ...

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SUMMARY EXECUTION-Michael Withey from 2018-01-26T22:00

On June 1, 1981, two young activists, Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes, were murdered in Seattle in what was made to appear like a gang slaying. But the victims' families and friends suspected they w...

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DEADLY DECEPTION-J.T. Hunter from 2018-01-22T01:00

WARNING: This book contains several crime scene photos that are graphic in nature and may be very disturbing to some people. Do not proceed if under the age of 18 or are disturbed by scenes of deat...

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SIDETRACKED-Richard T. Cahill Jr. from 2018-01-17T01:00

As the sun rises over the quiet city of Kingston, New York on July 12, 1988, a local transient discovers the remains of 19-year-old Anna Kithcart. She was strangled and beaten to death, with the le...

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MY BROTHER'S KEEPER-Chris Russo Blackwood from 2018-01-11T01:00

The moment he found out his brother was missing and presumed dead, Ted Kergan launched a relentless effort to bring two suspected killers—a teenaged-prostitute and her much older drifter boyfriend—...

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WITCHES IN WEST MEMPHIS-George Jared from 2018-01-03T20:00

Three 8-year-old boys vanished from their West Memphis neighborhood one sunny afternoon. A day later their mangled, nude bodies are found in a drainage ditch. Police and prosecutors believe the kil...

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THE CREEK SIDE BONES-George Jared from 2017-12-20T19:00

This real-life tragedy began on a stormy night with a knock at the front door. A friend needed help with his car. What happened to Carl, Lisa, Gregory, and Felicia that night is worse than any fict...

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THE MIND OF THE DEVIL-Dr. Al Carlisle from 2017-12-14T01:00

“He could not stop what he was doing. It was either sex or suicide.”


It’s often said that we will likely never understand how a person becomes a serial killer. However, I believe w...

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THE ZODIAC-PROFILED-Mark Hewitt from 2017-12-07T01:00

The Search Continues... Following up on the meticulously detailed research of HUNTED: The Zodiac Murders (Book 1), PROFILED: The Zodiac Examined (Book 2) goes beyond the case files to develop a com...

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MURDER ON HIS MIND-A FAMILY MEMBER SPEAKS-Anne Penn from 2017-11-23T01:00

Anne Penn brings us True Crime in this edition of Murder On HIs Mind. This second edition includes A Family Member Speaks, My Name Is Laurie. The case of the Original Night Stalker aka East Area Ra...

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VIOLENT MIND-Dr. Al Carlisle from 2017-11-16T19:00

In March 1976, Ted Bundy was convicted of the aggravated kidnapping of a young woman near Salt Lake City, Utah. Bundy had not been accused or convicted of any violent crime except this one. No one ...

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MEMBER OF THE FAMILY-Dianne Lake from 2017-11-10T01:00

In this poignant and disturbing memoir of lost innocence, coercion, survival, and healing, Dianne Lake chronicles her years with Charles Manson, revealing for the first time how she became the youn...

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DEATH IN THE AIR-Kate Winkler Dawson from 2017-11-02T00:00

A real-life thriller in the vein of The Devil in the White City, Kate Winkler Dawson's debut Death in the Air is a gripping, historical narrative of a serial killer, an environmental disaster, and ...

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TARGETED-M.William Phelps from 2017-10-31T15:00

When her missing boyfriend is found murdered, his body encased in cement inside a watering trough and dumped in a cattle field, a local sheriff’s deputy is arrested and charged with his murder. But...

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THE LAST CHICAGO BOSS-Kerrie Droban from 2017-10-25T15:00

A legend in the biker community, Peter “Big Pete” James was the most revered gangster in the Outlaw Nation. He first perfected his skills with the Hells Angels, the Outlaws’ chief rival, before per...

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DEADLY VOICES-C.L. Swinney from 2017-10-18T00:30

Serial Killer Herbert Mullin terrorized the Santa Cruz, California, area at the same time the infamous Co-Ed Killer, Edmund Kemper, was active. Unlike Kemper, Mullin killed anyone. Young, old, men,...

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THE BAYOU STRANGLER-Fred Rosen from 2017-10-12T00:00

In 1997, the bodies of young African American men began turning up in the cane fields of New Orleans suburbs. The victims-many of them transient street hustlers-had been brutally raped and strangle...

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STEVEN AVERY RETRIAL DENIED-Chad Keller and Juan Tescrue from 2017-10-06T00:30

Chad Spencer Keller, author of Beyond Avery Road: Buting and the Beast, joins us tonight for Part 2 of his interview alongside Wisconsin Political Insider using the Pseudonym of "Juan Tescrue." Ton...

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A SOCIALITE SCORNED-Kerrie Droban from 2017-10-03T15:00

The victim was Gary Triano, a Tucson real estate developer with influential friends?and enemies. After finishing a round of golf at a country club, he went to the parking lot and found a gift in hi...

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DEATH ROW ROMEO-J.T. Hunter from 2017-09-28T01:00

Three young women abducted and brutally murdered. For years, their killer remained a mystery as the cases turned cold. Then a Crime Stoppers call led to his arrest. Charming and handsome, serial ki...

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DADDY'S LITTLE SECRET-Denise Wallace from 2017-09-22T02:00

DADDY'S LITTLE SECRET:A Daughter's Quest To Solve Her Father's Brutal Murder is the poignant true crime story about a daughter who, upon her father's murder, learns of his secret double-life. She h...

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44 YEARS AND COUNTING-Ray Gray and Fred Rosen from 2017-09-20T19:00

On February 6th, 1973 in Detroit Michigan, drug dealer Ruben Bryant was shot dead. 21 year-old artist Ray Gray was convicted for the murder, the conviction based on a fixed line-up and no evidence....

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BANQUET OF CONSEQUENCES-Paul Sanders from 2017-09-16T00:00

On Christmas Eve 2007, Judy and Wayne Anderson’s daughter, Michele, and her boyfriend, Joseph McEnroe, arrived at their home for a family meal. Unbeknownst to them, their daughter was armed with a ...

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THE MIRANDA MURDERS-Matthew Rosvally from 2017-09-09T00:00

Leonard Lake was greatly influenced by a book titled The Collector where a man abducts a woman to keep forever as a sex slave. The book was fictional but when Leonard Lake met Charles Ng they discu...

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LADY KILLERS-Tori Telfer from 2017-09-07T00:00

When you think of serial killers throughout history, the names that come to mind are ones like Jack the Ripper, John Wayne Gacy, and Ted Bundy. But what about Tillie Klimek, Moulay Hassan, Kate Ben...

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BEYOND AVERY ROAD-Chad Spencer Keller from 2017-09-01T00:30

n the state of Wisconsin, after being exonerated for a wrongful conviction on September 11, 2003, Steven Avery became a very political name in a very political time. Two years later, when arrested ...

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THE GRIM SLEEPER-Christine Pelisek from 2017-08-24T01:00

In 2006, Christine Pelisek broke the story of a terrifying serial killer who went unchecked in Los Angeles for decades. Two years later, in her cover article for L.A. Weekly, Pelisek dubbed him "Th...

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ROBERT PICKTON-C.L. Swinney from 2017-08-17T00:00

Robert Pickton, inherited a pig farm outside of Vancouver worth a million dollars and used his wealth to lure skid row hookers to his farm. This serial murder investigation the biggest, longest and...

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DANGEROUS GROUND-M. William Phelps from 2017-08-09T00:00

For the first time, award-winning investigative journalist M. William Phelps reveals the identity of “Raven,” the serial killer who co-starred with him on Dark Minds—and tells the story of his intr...

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A SLAYER WAITS-Rod Sadler from 2017-08-03T00:00

September, 1955, Nealy Buchanan, a trustee at the State Prison of Southern Michigan, was denied parole. Because of his trustee status, he was assigned to pick up local trash from area farms in a pr...

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A SPECIAL KIND OF EVIL-Blaine Pardoe and Victoria Hester from 2017-07-26T20:00

The Colonial Parkway Murders –the name given eight murders that took place in the Tidewater region in the late 1980’s, two of which were on the historic Colonial Parkway, the nation’s narrowest Nat...

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ROOM 1203-O.J. SIMPSON'S LAS VEGAS CONVICTION-Det. Andy Caldwell from 2017-07-25T00:00

In 1995, NFL great and movie star, O.J. Simpson beat a murder rap for the death of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman. But in 2007 his luck with avoiding Lady Justice ran o...

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LOST COAST HIGHWAY-Gray George from 2017-07-20T00:00

On July 8, 1979, two skeletons were found off a remote highway in Mendocino County, California. The skeletons belonged to a pair of murdered teenagers. For thirty-six years, the teens’ identities r...

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MURDER ON HIS MIND SERIAL KILLER-Anne Penn from 2017-07-13T00:00

Murder on His Mind Serial Killer is the true crime story of the Original Night Stalker aka East Area Rapist who first terrorized Rancho Cordova/Sacramento areas in Northern California as a serial r...

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MONSTER-C.L. Swinney from 2017-07-06T16:00

Peter Kurten, a German who'd been sent to prison for deserting his comrades, sat in a cell contemplating what to do when he got out. He had no control within the prison walls and it drove him mad. ...

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MURDER IN THE STACKS-David DeKok from 2017-06-29T00:00

 On Nov. 28, 1969, Betsy Aardsma, a 22-year-old graduate student in English at Penn State, was stabbed to death in the stacks of Pattee Library at the university’s main campus in State College.  Fo...

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A DANGEROUS PLACE-Simon Farquhar from 2017-06-27T14:00

IN SEPTEMBER 1970, two boys met in the playground on their first day at secondary school in North London. They formed what would be described at the Old Bailey thirty years later as 'a unique and w...

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Queen City Gothic-J.T. Townsend from 2017-06-22T00:00

Losing a loved one to murder is life's ultimate tragedy. But when the killer is never captured, a family's paralyzing grief only compounds. Years pass. Pain grows. Time heals nothing. Parents, spou...

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SHE IS EVIL-Judith A. Yates from 2017-06-15T00:00

That woman is evil. She is evil!” Ejaz Ahmad was handsome, charismatic, and a self-made businessman. He arrived in the United States from Pakistan determined to fulfill his mother’s dying wish: to ...

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MY SISTER'S KEEPER-CD Newton from 2017-06-08T00:00

Cleveland Strangler's best-kept secrets revealed! A man fights for justice and closure for an ex-girlfriend, an unknown survivor, the first to report to the authorities her brutal attack, by the th...

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A CLOCKWORK MURDER-Steve Jackson from 2017-06-01T00:00

They thought about their evil fantasy for months. Then wound up like clockwork toys ... they acted. In April 1997, pretty, 22-year-old Jacine Gielinski stopped her car at a red light in Colorado Sp...

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LIST OF 10-C.L. Swinney from 2017-05-25T23:00

A narcissistic professional photographer lived a dangerous double life as a serial killer. He'd focus his rage on prostitutes mostly. It wasn't uncommon for him to bring them home then try to expla...

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BLOOD THIRST-Alan R. Warren from 2017-05-18T00:00

Known as the 'Vampire Rapist' or 'Strangler Bill' for his distinctive modus operandi, Wayne Boden would rape, strangle and bite the breasts of his victims. His murdering rampage would continue in t...

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MOMMY DEAD AND DEAREST-Erin Lee Carr from 2017-05-11T00:00

In Mommy Dead and Dearest, provocative documentarian Erin Lee Carr (HBO’s Thought Crimes: The Case of the Cannibal Cop) explores a grisly tale where nothing is quite what it seems. Following Dee De...

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THE PHARMACIST OF AUSCHWITZ-Patricia Posner from 2017-05-04T00:00

The Pharmacist of Auschwitz is the little known story of Victor Capesius, a Bayer pharmaceutical salesman from Romania who, at the age of 35, joined the Nazi SS in 1943 and quickly became the chief...

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RAW DEAL-Gil Valle and Brian Whitney from 2017-04-20T00:00

"When, if ever, does a thought cross the line and become a crime?"


RAW DEAL is the untold story of former New York City police officer Gil Valle, who in 2012 became known throughou...

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THE MAD CHOPPER-Fred Rosen from 2017-04-13T00:00

Fred Rosen follows a killer’s trail back in time 2 decades to discover how a monster slipped through the legal system


When police in Tampa, Florida, arrested Larry Singleton in 199...

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ESCAPE FROM DANNEMORA-Michael Benson from 2017-04-04T14:00

t was one of the biggest crime stories of the decade—two deadly killers, desperate and on the run. After months of planning, Ricky Matt and David Sweat cut, chopped, coerced, and connived their way...

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ABOVE SUSPICION-Alan R. Warren from 2017-03-30T18:00

Young girl’s panties started to go missing; sexual assaults began to occur, and then female bodies were found! Soon this quiet town of Tweed, Ontario, was in panic. What's even more shocking was wh...

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THE BUNDY SECRETS-Kevin Sullivan from 2017-03-23T00:00

Within the pages of THE BUNDY SECRETS:Hidden Files Of America's Worst Serial Killer is a unique, never-before-published look at the investigations undertaken to stop the depredations of America’s m...

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A NEED TO KILL-Mark Pettit from 2017-03-15T00:00

Three-time EMMY® award-winning investigative reporter Mark Pettit, returns to write the final chapter in his best-selling, and now newly updated book - A Need to Kill: The Death Row Drawings." Dram...

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PRISONER 4374-A.J. Griffiths-Jones from 2017-03-07T20:00

For more than a century, Dr. Thomas Neill Cream has been listed as a potential 'Jack the Ripper' suspect. Indeed, he was a sinister character, preying on the unfortunate souls who were forced to ma...

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HIS NAME WAS MURDER-Phil LeVota from 2017-03-02T01:00

This book tells the story of five different homicide cases from Kansas City, Missouri as told by the prosecutor who handled the cases himself, Phil LeVota. Five different stories are the five chapt...

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THE SPIDER AND THE FLY-Claudia Rowe from 2017-02-22T00:00

In this superb work of literary true crime—a spellbinding combination of memoir and psychological suspense—a female journalist chronicles her unusual connection with a convicted serial killer and h...

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WHO KILLED BOB CRANE?-John Hook from 2017-02-14T01:30

 

The 1978 murder of actor and American icon Bob Crane remains one of the most high-profile unsolved celebrity murders of all time. Thirty-eight years after his brutal murder in Scottsda...

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WOLF BOYS-Dan Slater from 2017-02-09T01:00

The story of two American teens recruited as killers for a Mexican cartel, and their pursuit by a Mexican-American detective. 

At first glance, Gabriel Cardona is the poster boy American...

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YOU GOTTA BE DIRTY-Michael Grogan from 2017-02-06T19:00

In 1964, a band of motorcyclists mysteriously appeared in Milwaukee. Over the course of the next decade, the Outlaws Motorcycle Club (OMC) became synonymous with acts of intimidation and violence. ...

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A DAUGHTER'S DEADLY DECEPTION-Jeremy Grimaldi from 2017-02-03T01:00

From the outside looking in, Jennifer Pan seemed like a model daughter living a perfect life. The ideal child, the one her immigrant parents saw, was studying to become a pharmacist at the Universi...

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POLITICS OF MURDER-Margo Nash from 2017-01-26T01:00

On a hot night in July 1995, Janet Downing, a 42-year-old mother of four, was brutally stabbed 98 times in her home in Somerville, a city two miles northwest of Boston. Within hours, a suspect was ...

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DEPRAVED-Harold Schechter from 2017-01-18T21:00

The heinous bloodlust of Dr. H.H. Holmes is notorious -- but only Harold Schechter's Depraved tells the complete story of the killer whose evil acts of torture and murder flourished within miles of...

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THE MURDER OF SONNY LISTON-Shaun Assael from 2017-01-14T18:00

 

 

On January 5, 1971, Sonny Liston was found dead in his home—of an apparent heroin overdose. But no one close to Liston believed that his death was acci­dental. Digging dee...

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POSSESSED-Kathryn Casey from 2017-01-12T01:00

The officer responding to a 911 call at one of Houston’s hippest high-rises expected the worst. After all, domestic violence situations can be unpredictable. But nothing could’ve prepared him for w...

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THE SPIRAL NOTEBOOK-Joyce and Stephen Singular from 2017-01-05T01:00

On July 20, 2012, twelve people were killed and fifty-eight wounded at a mass shooting in a movie theater in Colorado. In 1999, thirteen kids at Columbine High School were murdered by their peers. ...

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NOT JUST EVIL-David Wilson from 2016-12-21T01:00

For readers of true crime sagas like Tinseltown and Little Demon in the City of Light comes a chilling account of a murder that captivated the United States in the 1920s.


Twelve-ye...

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DID THEY REALLY DO IT?-Fred Rosen from 2016-12-15T01:00

Nine of the most controversial violent crimes in America's history are reexamined in these compelling stories of true crime. Dr. Samuel Mudd set John Wilkes Booth's broken ankle, but was he actuall...

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BETRAYAL IN BLUE-Burl Barer, Frank C. Girardot Jr. and Ken Eurell from 2016-12-08T01:00

NYPD officers Mike Dowd and Kenny Eurell knew there were two ways to get rich quick in Brooklyn's Lower East Side. You either became drug dealers, or you robbed drug dealers. They decided to do bot...

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CORPSEWOOD-Daniel Ellis from 2016-12-01T23:00

On December 12th, 1982, a strange house in the remote mountains of North West Georgia became a bloody slaughterhouse for two men and their dogs. One of the victims—an accomplished scientist and uni...

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SIMILAR TRANSACTIONS-S.R. Reynolds from 2016-11-26T14:00

Former social-worker S.R. Reynolds has never forgotten the mishandled case of fifteen-year-old Michelle Anderson, a vibrant beauty who went missing from Reynold's Knoxville, Tennessee, neighborhood...

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THE LONG SHADOW OF SMALL GHOSTS-Laura Tillman from 2016-11-17T01:00

On March 11, 2003, in Brownsville, Texas—one of America’s poorest cities—John Allen Rubio and Angela Camacho murdered their three young children. The apartment building in which the brutal crimes t...

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IN COLDER BLOOD-J.T. Hunter from 2016-11-10T02:00

Two families, mysteriously murdered under similar circumstances, just a month apart. One was memorialized in Truman Capote’s classic novel, In Cold Blood. The other was all but forgotten. Dick Hick...

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PRESUMED GUILTY-Stephen Singular from 2016-11-07T23:00

The 20th anniversary of the death of JonBenet Ramsey is in December 2016. Stephen’s 1999 book about the murder of JonBenet explored the realm of child exploitation and its connection to the crime. ...

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SUBURBAN NIGHTMARE-Emily Webb from 2016-11-04T00:00

Think nothing ever happens where you live? 

Suburban Nightmare is a collection of stories that are hard to believe, except they really happened – and all in the streets and homes of the ...

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THE KILLING SEASON-Joshua Zeman and Rachel Mills from 2016-11-02T00:00

A&E Network has set a November premiere for The Killing Season docuseries, from Oscar-winning executive producer Alex Gibney (Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief).

The eigh...

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ROUGH TRADE-Steve Jackson from 2016-10-27T00:00

One day in May 1997, a young couple on their way to work off a dirt road in the mountains of Colorado spotted a man dragging a woman’s body up a trail. The man fled, leaving behind a bloodied, dyin...

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LOVE GONE WRONG-Caitlin Rother from 2016-10-20T00:00

New York Times bestselling crime authors Caitlin Rother and Gregg Olsen have joined up to release this compilation of incredible murder cases from Florida, South Carolina and Georgia. 

I...

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CONFESSION OF A SERIAL KILLER-Katherine Ramsland from 2016-10-15T00:00

In 1974, Dennis Lynn Rader stalked and murdered a family of four in Wichita, Kansas. Since adolescence, he had read about serial killers and imagined becoming one. Soon after killing the family, he...

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BADGE 387-Robert Sberna from 2016-10-05T00:00

For nearly 40 years, Jim Simone patrolled Cleveland's 2nd District, a drug-plagued area with one of the highest violent crime rates in the U.S. Nicknamed "Supercop," Simone generated headlines and ...

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I SURVIVED TED BUNDY-Rhonda Stapley from 2016-09-29T00:00

She was an innocent Mormon girl. He was America's most notorious serial killer. When their paths crossed on a quiet autumn afternoon, he planned to kill her. But this victim had an incredible will ...

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CALIFORNIA'S DEADLIEST WOMEN-David Kulczyk from 2016-09-22T00:00

We like to think of women as nurturers, not murderers, but women do kill.California’s Deadliest Women is the definitive guide to the murderesses of the Golden State, a horrifying compendium of wome...

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ALTAMONT-Joel Selvin from 2016-09-15T00:00

In this breathtaking cultural history filled with exclusive, never-before-revealed details, celebrated rock journalist Joel Selvin tells the definitive story of the Rolling Stones’ infamous Altamon...

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THE JOLLY ROGER SOCIAL CLUB-Nick Foster from 2016-09-07T15:00

In the remote Bocas del Toro, Panama, William Dathan Holbert, aka "Wild Bill," is awaiting trial for the murder of five fellow American ex-patriots. Holbert's first victims were the Brown family, w...

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MURDERING THE PRESIDENT-Fred Rosen and Hank Garfield from 2016-09-01T00:00

Shortly after being elected president of the United States, James Garfield was shot by Charles Guiteau. But contrary to what is written in most history books, Garfield didn’t linger and die. He sur...

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FAILURE OF JUSTICE-John Ferak from 2016-08-25T00:00

Everyone felt the same way: small-town Nebraska widow Helen Wilson didn’t have an ounce of meanness inside her body. Then on February 5, 1985, one of the coldest nights on record, the unthinkable h...

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HUNTED: THE ZODIAC MURDERS-Mark Hewitt from 2016-08-18T00:00

The Zodiac occupies a special place among serial killers. Claiming the lives of at least 5 young victims and taunting the police in telephone calls and cryptic letters, he terrorized Northern Calif...

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DEVIL IN THE DARKNESS-J.T. Hunter from 2016-08-12T00:00

He was a hard-working small business owner, an Army veteran, an attentive lover, and a doting father. But he was also something more, something sinister. A master of deception, he was a rapist, ars...

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LEGACY OF DECEPTION-Stephen Singular from 2016-08-04T00:00

Legacy of Deception crashes through the wall of silence constructed by the L.A.P.D. and exposes facts that prove the case was far more sinister than meets the eye. In presenting a scenario of what ...

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JUSTICE FOR BONNIE-I.J. Schecter from 2016-07-30T00:00

When Karen Foster was told that something had happened to her eighteen-year-old daughter, Bonnie Craig, she knew what it meant. The Alaska State Troopers investigating the scene ruled it a hiking a...

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DAHMER DETECTIVE-Robyn Maharaj from 2016-07-21T00:00

In the late hours of July 22, 1991, Milwaukee, Wisconsin changed forever. Detective Patrick “Pat” Kennedy would meet a man who had altered many lives in devastating ways. Nothing could possibly hav...

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JANE DOE JANUARY-Emily Winslow from 2016-07-18T18:00

On the morning of September 12, 2013, a fugitive task force arrested Arthur Fryar at his apartment in Brooklyn. His DNA, entered in the FBI’s criminal database after a drug conviction, had been mat...

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MURDER IN THE FAMILY-Burl Barer from 2016-07-09T01:00

On March 15th, 1987 police in Anchorage, Alaska arrived at a horrific scene of carnage. In a modest downtown apartment, they found Nancy Newman's brutally beaten corpse sprawled across her bed. In ...

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MAN-EATER-Harold Schechter from 2016-07-06T20:00

In the winter of 1873, a small band of prospectors lost their way in the frozen wilderness of the Colorado Rockies. Months later, when the snow finally melted, only one of them emerged. His name wa...

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THE LYNCHING-Laurence Leamer from 2016-06-30T00:00

The New York Times bestselling author of The Kennedy Women chronicles the powerful and spellbinding true story of a brutal race-based killing in 1981 and subsequent trials that undid one of the mos...

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Gang Mom-Fred Rosen from 2016-06-23T00:00

Mary Thompson was your average mother in early 1990s Eugene, Oregon. She was a community organizer and upstanding citizen … by day. By night? She was “Gang Mom.” Living the ultimate double life, Th...

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THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF KURT COBAIN-Matthew Richer from 2016-06-21T01:00

Just days before Kurt Cobain's body was discovered on April 8, 1994, Courtney Love hired private investigator Tom Grant to locate him. In The Mysterious Death of Kurt Cobain Tom Grant takes readers...

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THE SOPHIE LANCASTER STORY-Catherine Smyth from 2016-06-18T13:00

In a park in Bacup, Lancashire, England on the night of August 11, 2007, 21 year-olds Sophie Lancaster and her boyfriend Rob Maltby were savagely attacked by five teenage boys, aged 14-17. They wer...

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TRUE CRIME ADDICT-James Renner from 2016-06-09T00:00

When an eleven year old James Renner fell in love with Amy Mihaljevic, the missing girl seen on posters all over his neighborhood, it was the beginning of a lifelong obsession with true crime. That...

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UNTYING THE KNOT-Greg Day from 2016-06-05T18:00

"On May 5, 1993, second-graders Christopher Byers, Stevie Branch, and Michael Moore disappeared from their West Memphis, Arkansas, homes. The following afternoon, their nude, beaten, and bound bodi...

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ABOMINATION-William Ramsey from 2016-05-26T00:00

With shocking insights into one of the most talked about murder cases in American history, Abomination: Devil Worship and Deception in the West Memphis Three Murders reveals the truth about the dea...

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WATCH ME DIE-Dr. Bill Kimberlin from 2016-05-19T00:00

Watch Me Die is a firsthand account of Ohio's death row and the state’s execution process unlike any other. Dr. Kimberlin, a trained clinical psychologist and professor of psychology, goes beyond t...

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THE BLOOD ON MY HANDS-Shannon O'Leary from 2016-05-12T02:00

Set in 1960s and ‘70s Australia, The Blood on My Hands is the dramatic tale of Shannon O’Leary’s childhood years. O’Leary grew up under the shadow of horrific domestic violence, sexual and physical...

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BLOOD STAIN-Peter Lalor from 2016-05-04T02:00

'There are murders and there are murders. There are bodies and there are bodies, and then there's what lies waiting behind the front door of the little brick house with its blinds drawn and air con...

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SMOOTH TALKER-Steve Jackson from 2016-04-28T00:00

One morning in July 1974, Anita Andrews, the owner and bartender at Fagiani’s Cocktail Lounge in Napa, California was found dead in her bar–raped, beaten, and stabbed to death in a bloody frenzy. S...

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ICE AND BONE-Monte Francis from 2016-04-21T00:00

On a clear, brisk night in September of 2000, 33-year-old Della Brown was found sexually assaulted and beaten to death inside a filthy, abandoned shed in seedy part of Anchorage, Alaska. She was on...

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CONVICTION-Juan Martinez from 2016-04-14T00:00

Through two trials, America watched as Juan Martinez fought relentlessly to convict Jodi Arias of Murder One for viciously stabbing her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander to death. What emerged was a st...

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GITCHIE GIRL-Phil Hamman from 2016-04-07T00:00

A terrified voice cried out in the night.

"Who are you? What do you want?

The sound of snapping twigs closed in on the five teenagers enjoying an evening around a glowing camp...

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THE TRAIL OF TED BUNDY-Kevin Sullivan from 2016-03-31T00:00

Within the pages of THE TRAIL OF TED BUNDY:Digging Up the Untold Stories, you’ll hear the voices - many for the first time - of some of Ted Bundy’s friends, as they bring to light the secrets of wh...

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REAL CRIME-James Hoare from 2016-03-23T17:00

From the notorious serial killers of the Age of Aquarius to the ruthless mob bosses of the Jazz Age and beyond, Real Crime is the first high quality true crime magazine on the newsstand. Every issu...

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THE KILLING SEASON-Alex French from 2016-03-17T00:00

THE KILLING SEASON is a true crime saga, the story of a double murder that went unsolved for more than 35 years, and a chilling portrait of a small town upended by unimaginable violence.

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A TASTE FOR MURDER-Burl Barer and Frank C. Girardot from 2016-03-10T01:00

Frank Rodriguez, a much-loved counselor of troubled teens, lies dead on the bedroom floor. His wife and step-daughter are in shock, and so is the medical examiner when he performs the autopsy. Asid...

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THE ROAD OUT OF HELL-Anthony Flacco from 2016-03-03T01:00

From 1926 to 1928, Gordon Stewart Northcott committed at least 20 murders on a chicken ranch outside of Los Angeles. His thirteen- year-old nephew, Sanford Clark, was the sole surviving victim of t...

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THE ROAD OUT OF HELL-Anthony Flacco from 2016-03-03T01:00

From 1926 to 1928, Gordon Stewart Northcott committed at least 20 murders on a chicken ranch outside of Los Angeles. His thirteen- year-old nephew, Sanford Clark, was the sole surviving victim of t...

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LETHAL INTENT-Aileen Wournos-60th-Sue Russell from 2016-03-01T01:00

Special Rebroadcast of Lethal Intent-Aileen Wournos-60th Birthday-Sue Russell-Audible Audiobook giveaway.

On November 30, 1989, in a lonely place off Florida's Interstate 95, 51-year-old...

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SKETCHCOP-Michael W. Streed from 2016-02-25T01:00

Orange Police Sergeant (Ret.) Michael W. Streed is "The SketchCop." He's a one-of-a-kind crime fighter who's frequently called into action by police departments seeking help solving their most diff...

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TOO PRETTY TO LIVE-Dennis Brooks from 2016-02-18T01:00

In this stunning true crime thriller of Facebook, catfishing, and jealousy, a double-murder begins with the click of a button.


When Bill Payne and Billie Jean Hayworth began their ...

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MAKING A MURDERER-Michael Griesbach from 2016-02-11T01:00

Netflix's documentary series Making a Murderer has captivated audiences everywhere, igniting controversy and fiery debate-especailly among true crime fans.

Michael Griesbach, a Wisconsin...

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BITTER REMAINS-Diane Fanning from 2016-02-04T01:00

The bestselling author of Under Cover of the Night recounts Laura Ackerson’s disappearance and murder in North Carolina, the discovery of her remains in Texas, and the aftermath…
 

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THE DEATH SHIFT-Peter Elkind from 2016-01-28T01:00

The case of San Antonio nurse Genene Jones, convicted in 1984 of murdering children in her care, and now suspected of having killed as many as 16 infants, made national headlines. A horrifying true...

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BLACK NIGHT, GOLD COAST-Gray George from 2016-01-21T01:00

Ventura County is famous for its beautiful weather and its pristine coastline, not its grisly murders. That all changed on the night of May 20, 2009, when three members of a wealthy Ventura County ...

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MURDER IN GROSSE POINTE PARK-Steve Miller from 2016-01-14T01:00

Investigative reporter, and author of Nobody's Women, Steve Miller makes a thoroughly researched inquiry into a murder that rocked the privileged world of Grosse Pointe, Michigan.


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A CHECKLIST FOR MURDER-Anthony Flacco from 2016-01-07T01:00

Robert Peernock appeared to have the ideal life; working as a pyrotechnics engineer and computer expert and coming home to his wife and daughter, Peernock projected the American dream. Even when he...

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DEATHBEDSIDE MANNER-Dan Zupansky from 2015-12-31T22:00

DEATHBEDSIDE MANNER-A doctor stabbed his 2 small children 46 times to punish his cheating wife.  At trial he was found Not Criminally Responsible because he was depressed and suicidal. After 6 mont...

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JACK THE RIPPER AND THE CASE FOR SCOTLAND YARD'S PRIME SUSPECT-Robert House from 2015-12-10T01:00

An investigation into the man Scotland Yard thought (but couldn't prove) was Jack the Ripper. Dozens of theories have attempted to resolve the mystery of the identity of Jack the Ripper, the world'...

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THE FORTUNE HUNTER-Suzy Spencer from 2015-12-04T01:00

Multimillionaire Steven Beard, Jr. fell hard for Celeste Martinez, a shapely, blonde waitress who served him his nightly cocktail at the local country club…as well as sexual favors. In 1995, the 70...

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GUILT BY MATRIMONY-Daleen Berry from 2015-11-26T01:00

In February 2014, Aspen socialite Nancy Pfister was murdered in her own home—brutally bludgeoned, wrapped in a sheet, and stuffed inside a locked closet. 

Fewer than twelve hours after h...

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THEN NO ONE CAN HAVE HER-Caitlin Rother from 2015-11-19T02:00

She thought she had married her soulmate. But when Carol Kennedy could no longer tolerate her husband's reckless womanizing and out-of-control spending, the artist, therapist and mother of two had ...

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DEVIL AT GENESEE JUNCTION-Michael Benson from 2015-11-12T02:00

Today you’d call Ballantyne suburban, but back then, at the start of the summer of 1966, it was country — just a cluster of houses, some of them shacks, on or near Ballantyne Road, in the Town of C...

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RAMPAGE-Lee Mellor from 2015-11-05T01:00

Rampage: a state of anger or agitation resulting in violent, reckless, and destructive behaviour. In 1989, Marc Lépine mercilessly executed 14 female students at Montreal’s École Polytechnique to b...

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MOTHER'S DAY-Dennis McDougall from 2015-10-29T00:00

In June of 1985, while her teenage sons held their half-sister down, Theresa Cross beat her nineteen-year-old daughter Sheila unconscious and then stuffed her into a 2´ x 2´ storage locker. After t...

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BREAKING POINT-Suzy Spencer from 2015-10-22T00:00

One day, Andrea Yates was a loving mother. The next, the nation was shocked by the death of her five innocent children...


The 911 call that shocked the country. "I just killed my c...

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BLOOD RUNS GREEN-Gillian O'Brien from 2015-10-14T15:00

It was the biggest funeral Chicago had seen since Lincoln’s. On May 26, 1889, four thousand mourners proceeded down Michigan Avenue, followed by a crowd forty thousand strong, in a howl of protest ...

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THE COUNTRY BOY KILLER-J.T. Hunter from 2015-10-10T01:00

From the bestselling author of The Vampire Next Door: The True Story of The Vampire Rapist, John Crutchley. J.T. Hunter tells the story of a friendly, baby-faced, Canadian boy next door. He came fr...

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MISSING: WHEN THE SON SETS-Allyn Atadero from 2015-10-01T00:00

A day celebrating the beauty of God's handiwork turns into a father's worst nightmare as the sun sets on his only son, Jaryd Atadero, lost in the Colorado Mountains. A highly publicized search brea...

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THE GREYHOUND BUS CANNIBAL KILLER-Dan Zupansky from 2015-09-25T01:00

Tim McLean left Edmonton at 12 a.m. on July 30, 2008, on board a Greyhound Bus, destined for Winnipeg. At 7 p.m. the bus left one of the scheduled stops with a new passenger, Vincent Weiguang Li. L...

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INVISIBLE DARKNESS-Stephen Williams from 2015-09-16T01:00

Invisible Darkness is the story of one of the more bizarre cases in recent memory--killings so sensational that they prompted the Canadian government, in the interests of justice, to silence its na...

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BODY DUMP-Fred Rosen from 2015-09-10T01:00

The author of the true crime classic Lobster Boy now turns his investigative skills to the chilling true story of Kendall Francois, one of the most bizarre serial sex-killers of modern times. In Oc...

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DEATH IN CALIFORNIA-David Kulczyk from 2015-08-29T01:00

With details about grim and grisly fatalities, this history of California's arcane deaths encompasses the murders and accidents that at one time shocked the West Coast. The stories of hangings, gun...

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KARLA-PACT WITH THE DEVIL-Stephen Williams from 2015-08-13T01:00

Karla picks up where Williams's first book on the case, Invisible Darkness, left her, painting her nails in her cell in solitary confinement in the gothic tower of Kingston's Prison for Women. Afte...

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CALIFORNIA JUSTICE-David Kulczyk from 2015-08-06T01:00

Introducing the victims and perpetrators responsible for California's most notorious shootouts, lynchings, and assassinations, this account shows how homemade justice is never black-and-white. In r...

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TO HELL I MUST GO-Rod Sadler from 2015-07-30T01:00

On a cool, spring day in 1897, Alfred Haney left his Williamston, Michigan home to earn a day's wage. He knew his wife's peculiar behavior had become more frequent, and he had planned on her seeing...

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DIXIE'S LAST STAND-John Ferak from 2015-07-23T01:00

The gray ranch along Third Avenue in the sleepy Midwestern town of less than 400 people was the recurring site of screaming, mad chaos and horrific domestic violence. 


Then one day...

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HOUSE OF HORRORS-Rob Sberna from 2015-07-17T01:00

To his neighbors, Anthony Sowell was a friendly and helpful former Marine. But they didn't know about his dark side -- or the gruesome secret inside his house. 


Sowell's secret lif...

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REDBONE-Ron Stodghill from 2015-07-03T01:00

Lance Herndon was at the top of his game in 1996. At age forty-one he was a self-made millionaire, the owner of Access, Inc., a successful information-systems consulting company. As a prominent mem...

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KENTUCKY BLOODBATH-Kevin Sullivan from 2015-06-26T01:00

 From the author of VAMPIRE: The Richard Chase Murders  and The Bundy Murders comes an excursion into the truly weird and the bizarre: from a medieval-esque murder in a small town museum to the jil...

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PERFECT VICTIM-Carla Norton from 2015-06-18T01:00

Hitchhiking from Eugene, Ore., through northern California in 1977, 20-year-old Colleen Stan thumbed a ride into hell. Her kidnappers a sadistic lumber mill worker, Cameron Hooker, and his battered...

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WEEP FOR THE LIVING-Anne Butler from 2015-06-11T01:00

A survivor's firsthand account of attempted murder in St. Francisville, Louisiana. A former warden of Angola Prison shoots his wife five times with a pistol, then sits down to watch her die on her ...

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FRUIT OF THE POISONOUS TREE-Richard Carson from 2015-06-05T18:00

First came the unsettling Ouija board prophesy that Robin Adams would die before her 17th birthday. When a minister was summoned to rid the house of frightening phenomena blamed on the Ouija board,...

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HUNTING A PSYCHOPATH-Richard Shelby from 2015-05-28T01:00

"Hunting a Psychopath" is a fascinating first hand account of the crimes of California's East Area Rapist Original Night Stalker couples killer. Detective Shelby was the first Sacramento detective ...

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DELIVER US-Kathryn Casey from 2015-05-21T01:00

Critically acclaimed author Kathryn Casey delivers a riveting account of the brutal murders of young women in the I-45/Texas Killing Fields

Over a three-decade span, more than twenty wom...

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FOLSOM'S 93-April Moore from 2015-05-13T01:00

From 1895 to 1937, 93 men were hanged at California's Folsom State Prison, and this book is the first to tell all of their stories, recounting long-forgotten tales of murder and swift justice, or s...

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NO STONE UNTURNED-Steve Jackson from 2015-05-07T01:00

The True Story of the World’s Premiere Forensic recreates the genesis of NecroSearch International as a small eclectic group of scientists and law enforcement who volunteered their services to help...

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ROBERT DURST: MURDER OF A MAFIA DAUGHTER-Cathy Scott from 2015-05-02T01:00

Susan Berman grew up in Las Vegas luxury as the daughter of Davie Berman, casino mogul and notorious mafia leader. After her father died she learned about his mob connections. Susan then dedicated ...

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JONESTOWN-Will Savive from 2015-04-27T01:00

November 18, 1978, was a tragically unprecedented day in U.S. history that will forever be woven into the fabric of this country. It is the day that leader of Peoples Temple (PT), James Warren Jone...

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BLUEBEARD-Valerie Ogden from 2015-04-16T01:00

Bluebeard is the story documenting the history behind the reign of terror imposed on Europe by Gilles de Rais, the infamous Bluebeard. The author brings the reader into the castles, pageants, battl...

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FOOTSTEPS IN THE SNOW-Charles Lachman from 2015-04-09T01:00

1957. Sycamore, Illinois. Christmas was three weeks away, and seven-year-old Maria Ridulph went out to play. Soon after, a figure emerged out of the falling snow. He was very friendly. Minutes late...

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FLESH COLLECTORS-Fred Rosen from 2015-04-02T01:00

Misfit Jeremiah Rodgers, 21, and racist devil worshipper Jonathan Lawrence, 23, were serving time for petty crimes when they met in a Florida penal system mental hospital. A friendship grew from th...

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THE BANK HOLIDAY MURDERS-Tom Wescott from 2015-03-26T01:00

Jack the Ripper stalked the streets of London’s East End from August through November of 1888 in what is dubbed the ‘Autumn of Terror’. However, the grisly ripping of Polly Nichols on August 31st w...

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IT'S ME-John A. Cameron from 2015-03-19T01:00

Edwards, a misguided boy, vowed to be the best criminal ever. He killed scores and scores of people of all ages over a sixty-six-year period, and was never caught (for murder). Included are some of...

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SERIAL KILLER QUARTERLY-Lee Mellor from 2015-03-12T01:00

Dr. Katherine Ramsland wades through the heavy fog surrounding the“Moors Murders”: a series of high-profile child killings committed by Scottish sadist Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. Kim Cresswell chu...

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PRETTY LITTLE KILLERS-Daleen Berry from 2015-03-05T02:00

In Pretty Little Killers, journalist Daleen Berry and investigator Geoffrey Fuller expand upon their New York Times bestselling ebook The Savage Murder of Skylar Neese to give you even more informa...

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BUSINESS OR BLOOD-Peter Edwards from 2015-02-28T02:00

     Until Vito Rizzuto went to prison in 2006 for his role in a decades-old Brooklyn triple murder, he ruled the Port of Montreal, the northern gateway to the major American drug markets. A master...

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PSYCHO KILLER SUPERSTAR-Dan Zupansky from 2015-02-20T02:00

In 2003, he began to appear in gay ographic movies, occasionally working as a dancer and escort. In 2005 he appeared as a pin-up model in an issue of Toronto's Fab magazine. In 2007, he was an unsu...

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ANGELS OF DEATH-Emily Webb from 2015-02-16T02:00

It’s hard to imagine that anyone in the healthcare industry could have murder on his or her mind.
But some do.

The nineteen cases in this book range across Europe, US and Australia,...

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CHASING THE SCREAM-Johann Hari from 2015-02-11T20:00

It is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned in the United States. On the eve of this centenary, journalist Johann Hari set off on an epic three-year, thirty-thousand-mile journey into...

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MURDER INC.-Christian Cippolini from 2015-02-05T02:00

Nothing like it before. Nothing like it since. Murder Inc. was the most unusual, brutal and extensive collection of characters the American underworld had ever produced.  Culled primarily from Broo...

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SERIAL-Susan Simpson from 2015-01-29T02:00

In 1999, the body of Hae Min Lee was found in a shallow grave in Baltimore's Leakin Park. Six weeks later, her ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, was arrested and charged with her murder. The state's case a...

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INTENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES-Donna Thomas from 2015-01-22T02:00

From the cornfields of Nebraska to the top rung as a rising star of the adult industry, Timothy John Boham had everything a young man could ask for; including a beautiful young daughter. The fall f...

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BATH MASSACRE-Arnie Bernstein from 2015-01-15T02:00

On May 18, 1927, the small town of Bath, Michigan, was forever changed when Andrew Kehoe set off a cache of explosives concealed in the basement of the local school. Thirty-eight children and six a...

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THE MURDER OF MAGGIE HUME-Victoria Hester and Blaine Pardoe from 2015-01-08T02:00

On August 16, 1982, an unidentified attacker brutalized and strangled Maggie Hume at her apartment in Battle Creek, Michigan. The daughter of a beloved local football coach, her seemingly senseless...

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THE GOOD NURSE-Charles Graeber from 2014-12-10T02:00

After his December 2003 arrest, registered nurse Charlie Cullen was quickly dubbed "The Angel of Death" by the media. But Cullen was no mercy killer, nor was he a simple monster. He was a favorite ...

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HOUSE OF SECRETS-Lowell Cauffiel from 2014-12-04T02:00

On an October night in 1993, at one of the campgrounds dotting Florida's Gulf Coast, ex-con Eddie Lee Sexton told his daughter Pixie to silence her crying baby. Incredibly, the young mother smother...

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THE VAMPIRE NEXT DOOR-J. T. HUNTER from 2014-11-27T02:00

John Crutchley seemed to be living the American Dream. Good-looking and blessed with a genius level IQ, he had a prestigious, white-collar job at a prominent government defense contractor, where he...

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UNDER COVER OF THE NIGHT-Diane Fanning from 2014-11-20T02:00

It was planned to look like a suicide.

But even in the best-laid plans, evidence is left behind…


Jocelyn Branham Earnest was found dead on the floor of her living room i...

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MURDER IN SUBURBIA-Emily Webb from 2014-11-13T02:00

Murder in Suburbia features the stories of more than 20 murder cases that have happened in the quiet streets of Australia’s suburbs and small towns.

These stories show that the most brut...

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WHY WE LOVE SERIAL KILLERS-Dr. Scott Bonn from 2014-11-06T02:00

In Why We Love Serial Killers, Drew University criminology professor Scott Bonn, PhD, simultaneously examines the public’s and media’s fascination with the monsters among us and the ways in which t...

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DEATH OF A CHEERLEADER-Kevin M. Sullivan from 2014-10-23T01:00

In this Notorious USA collection, Death of a Cheerleader, New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen and true crime journalist Kevin M. Sullivan write about notorious crimes in the Bluegrass Sta...

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MAN OVERBOARD-Burl Barer from 2014-10-14T01:00

1982: Oregon businessman Phil Champagne, age 52, dies in a tragic boating accident off Lopez Island. He is survived by one ex-wife, four adult children, an octogenarian mother, and two despondent b...

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BLOODY LIES-John Ferak from 2014-09-11T01:00

The remote farming community of Murdock, Nebraska, seemed to be the least likely setting for one of the heartland's most ruthless and bloody double murders in decades. In fact, the little town had ...

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TRUE DETECTIVE-Gary Sweet from 2014-08-21T01:00

For years David Elliot Penton stalked elementary schools and playgrounds looking for young girls from low-income neighborhoods to abduct, rape and murder. He thought of them as "throwaway kids"-har...

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THE INNOCENT KILLER-Michael Griesbach from 2014-08-14T01:00

The story of one of the nation's most notorious wrongful convictions, that of Steven Avery, a Wisconsin man who spent eighteen years in prison for a crime he did not commit. But two years after he ...

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THE GREAT HEIST-Jeff McArthur from 2014-08-08T01:00

On a sunny September morning in 1930, six men entered the Lincoln National Bank in Nebraska's capital city armed with revolvers and Thompson submachine guns. In eight minutes they emerged with more...

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LUCKY LUCIANO-Christian Cipollini from 2014-08-07T01:00

Charles Lucky Luciano is one of the most researched, discussed and dissected American mobsters of all time. His name has become synonymous with NY City's high drama gangland days of prohibition boo...

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CHARLES MANSON BEHIND BARS-Mark Hewitt from 2014-07-24T01:00

For the past forty years, Charles Manson has languished in prison for his participation in the Manson family murders of 1969. He is America’s icon of evil, the one who brought down the curtain on t...

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VIOLENT CRIMES IN AMERICA-Amanda Seaton from 2014-07-10T01:00

Violent crimes in America have become an epidemic within the past decade or so, with more juvenile offenders taking to the streets, homicide and murder rates have skyrocketed, as science does their...

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THE TRUE AMERICAN-Anand Giridharadas from 2014-06-19T01:00

The True American tells the story of Raisuddin Bhuiyan, a Bangladesh Air Force officer who dreams of immigrating to America and working in technology. But days after 9/11, an avowed "American terro...

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KILLER NURSE-John Foxjohn from 2014-06-05T01:00

She was hired to nurse them back to health...instead, she took their lives.

For months, the DaVita Dialysis Center in Lufkin, Texas had been baffled by the rising number of deaths and in...

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THE MAD SCULPTOR-Harold Schechter from 2014-05-22T02:00

Beekman Place, once one of the most exclusive addresses in Manhattan, had a curious way of making it into the tabloids in the 1930's: “SKYSCRAPER SLAYER,” “BEAUTY SLAIN IN BATHTUB” read the headlin...

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BOGEYMAN-Steve Jackson from 2014-05-16T01:00

"For years he stalked elementary schools, neighborhoods and playgrounds looking for young girls to abduct, rape and murder. As though invisible, he brazenly struck in broad daylight, pulling childr...

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DISTURBED GROUND-Carla Norton from 2014-05-08T01:00

The story begins with Bert, a gentle, unassuming street person who mumbled to himself and talked to trees. He wasn't an alcoholic, but he hung out at a detox center in Sacramento, where a volunteer...

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LICENSED TO LIE-Sidney Powell from 2014-04-17T01:00

A tragic suicide, a likely murder, wrongful imprisonment, and gripping courtroom scenes draw readers into this compelling story giving them a frightening perspective on justice corrupted and who sh...

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MOMMY'S A MOLE-Eve Carson from 2014-04-10T01:00

 Karen Wolfe Churgin walked her dogs on April 18, 1990, on her remote wooded property on Chebacco Road. The veterinarian spotted a white sphere obstructing a drainage ditch.  When she reached to di...

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THE SICILIAN MAFIA-A TRUE CRIME TRAVEL GUIDE-Carl Russo from 2014-04-03T01:00

The Sicilian Mafia: A True Crime Travel Guide is the first book of its kind in any language: the ultimate Cosa Nostra experience. Since 2006, author Carl Russo has photographed Mafia hotspots on th...

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A VOICE OUT OF NOWHERE-Janice Holly Booth from 2014-03-27T01:00

A Voice out of Nowhere delves deep into the mind of a psychotic killer. In this tragic true story about one young man's harrowing descent into madness and murder, A Voice out of Nowhere offers a ra...

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NOT ALL HEROES-Gary Skogen from 2014-03-20T01:00

(Aired March 12th but due to audio problems-new interview) 

Gary Skogen’s tour in Vietnam (1971–72) was the best year of his life. Living with fellow CID investigators in an isolated hoo...

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BLOOD LUST-Gary C . King from 2014-02-27T02:00

Dayton Leroy Rogers, was known in Portland, Oregon as a respected businessman and devoted husband and father. But at night he abducted women, forced them into sadistic bondage games, and thrilled i...

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I'LL TAKE CARE OF YOU-Caitlin Rother from 2014-02-21T02:00

Nanette Johnston Packard, a sexy divorcee, liked to meet men at the gym and through personal ads. Soon after she began dating millionaire Bill McLaughlin, he moved her and her kids into his bay-fro...

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FROM CRIME SCENE TO COURTROOM-Dawna Kaufmann and Dr. Cyril Wecht from 2014-02-07T02:00

In March 2009, Michael Jackson stood before the world press and announced that he would be doing a series of live concerts at London's Grand Concourse stadium, beginning in July. The shows would be...

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LOBSTER BOY-Fred Rosen from 2014-01-30T02:00

Descended from a notorious carny family, Grady Stiles Jr. traded on the deformity that gave his hands and feet the look of lobster claws, to achieve fame as the "Lobster Boy". In November 1992, nei...

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MOM SAID KILL-Burl Barer from 2014-01-23T02:00

When Jerry Heimann's son arrived at his father's home in Everett, Washington, he found his grandmother, an Alzheimer's patient, alone in the house, starving and dehydrated. His father was missing. ...

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LETHAL INTENT-Sue Russell from 2014-01-16T02:00

Sexecutioner

On November 30, 1989, in a lonely place off Florida's Interstate 95, 51-year-old Richard Mallory shuddered under the impact of four .22-caliber slugs being pumped into him b...

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MURDER IN BEVERLY HILLS-Cathy Scott from 2013-12-05T02:00

Growing up, Susan Berman's childhood was idyllic. She was Las Vegas Mob royalty, the daughter of a Mob boss who ran the Flamingo and furnished his only child with anything money could buy. But half...

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MURDER IN MISSISSIPPI-John Safran from 2013-11-28T02:00

When filming his TV series Race Relations, John Safran spent an uneasy couple of days with one of Mississippi's most notorious white supremacists. A year later, he heard that the man had been murde...

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AMERICAN SNIPER-Jim DeFelice from 2013-11-21T02:00

 American Sniper is the astonishing autobiography of SEAL Chief Chris Kyle, who is the record-holder for most kills for a sniper in U.S. military history. Kyle has more than 150 officially confirme...

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THE NAZI AND THE PSYCHIATRIST-Jack El-Hai from 2013-11-14T02:00

In 1945, after his capture at the end of the Second World War, Hermann Göring arrived at an American-run detention center in war-torn Luxembourg, accompanied by sixteen suitcases and a red hatbox. ...

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FINAL EXAMS-Cyril H. Wecht and Dawna Kaufmann from 2013-11-12T02:00

Final Exams features four fascinating true crime cases from the files of Cyril H. Wecht, M.D., J.D., one of America’s most respected forensic pathologists. 

Coauthored by crime writer Da...

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THE KENDRICK JOHNSON MURDER-Fred Rosen and Beau Webster from 2013-11-06T02:00

On January 10, 2013, Kendrick Johnson's parents reported their 17 year-old son missing. The next day at Kendrick's school, Lowndes High School in Valdosta, Georgia, in the gym students saw what the...

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PRISONER OF DREAMS-Rick Talley from 2013-10-31T01:00

An African American soldier returns home to New York City from the Vietnam War in the late 1960s. It is a time of turbulence and change and racism is very much alive in America. Times are tough for...

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ONE TO THE WOLVES-Lois Duncan from 2013-10-30T01:00

In 1992, Lois Duncan, acclaimed author of fictional suspense novels, wrote a horror story she could never have imagined writing—a true account of the murder of her own daughter, Kaitlyn Arquette. K...

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SURVIVED BY ONE-Robert E Hanlon from 2013-10-24T01:00

On November 8, 1985, 18-year-old Tom Odle brutally murdered his parents and three siblings in the small southern Illinois town of Mount Vernon, sending shockwaves throughout the nation. It remains ...

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PRO BONO-Jeff McArthur from 2013-10-17T01:00

In 1958, 19-year-old Charlie Starkweather went on a murder spree that paralyzed Nebraska, shocked the nation, and left 11 people dead. With him when he was captured was his 14-year-old ex-girlfrien...

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TRUE CRIME-Lee Gutkind from 2013-09-26T01:00

Award-winning journalists investigate the attempted assassination of Gabrielle Giffords and the unsolved lynching of Claude Neal; an identity thief finds herself confronted by one of her victims; a...

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LOST GIRLS-Robert Kolker from 2013-09-12T01:00

One late spring evening in 2010, Shannan Gilbert, after running through the oceanfront community of Oak Beach screaming for her life, went missing. No one who had heard of her disappearance thought...

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DIARY OF A MOTOR CITY HITMAN-Christian Cipollini from 2013-09-05T01:00

In february 1975 a case began to unfold like nothing the quaint Detroit suburban area of Orchard Lake had ever seen. In the hours following a near head-on collision between a mysterious sedan and a...

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EVIL SEASON-Michael Benson from 2013-08-29T01:00

Joyce Wishart was living out her life's dream, running her own art gallery in sunny Sarasota, Florida. But that dream ended in nightmare when a deranged drifter named Elton Brutus Murphy walked thr...

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DRIVEN TO KILL-Gary C. King from 2013-08-22T01:00

The true crime story of sex killer Westley Allan Dodd--his victims were too small to fight...and too young to die! Includes eyewitness execution report.
By all appearances, twenty-nine-year-ol...

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BLACK CAESAR-Ron Chepsiuk and Lewis Rice from 2013-08-08T01:00

This is the remarkable story of Frank Matthews, a charismatic drug kingpin from the late 1960s and 1970s, who organized a huge criminal enterprise before jumping bail in 1973 with $15-20 million an...

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KILLER DADS-Mary Papenfuss from 2013-08-01T01:00

No crime is as horrific, as mesmerizingly perplexing, as a child's murder at the hands of a parent. In most cases, the perpetrator is the father. A veteran journalist explores five examples of "fam...

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VINNY GORGEOUS-Tony DeStefano from 2013-07-18T01:00

A vain man of good looks, small means, and no family links to the mob, Vincent “Vinny Gorgeous” Basciano steadily worked his way up to acting boss of the Bonanno crime family, becoming its leader w...

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THE ANATOMY OF EVIL-Dr. Michael H. Stone from 2013-07-11T01:00

The crimes of Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy and other high-profile killers are so breathtakingly awful that most people would label them "evil." Renowned psychiatrist M...

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THE ANATOMY OF EVIL-Dr. Michael H. Stone from 2013-07-11T01:00

The crimes of Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy and other high-profile killers are so breathtakingly awful that most people would label them "evil." Renowned psychiatrist M...

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GANGSTERS OF BOSTON-George Hassett from 2013-07-04T01:00

This book is the first comprehensive account of three centuries of thug life in the city where America began. In chilling new detail, veteran Boston journalist George Hassett reveals the legendary ...

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SLEEP MY DARLINGS-Diane Fanning from 2013-07-02T01:00

On January 28, 2011, the Tampa Police Department received a phone call from a woman who was worried about her daughter, Julie Schenecker. A devoted Army wife and mother of two, Julie had sent her m...

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UNTIL SOMEONE GETS HURT-Tyson Wrensch from 2013-06-20T01:00

The case that captivated the Coachella Valley and San Francisco Bay area for years! 

Author Sherrie Lueder and her Literary Team, Dawn Taarud-Martinez and Kim Hansen, along with Tyson Wr...

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THE MURDER OF KENDRICK JOHNSON? -Fred Rosen and Beau Webster from 2013-06-14T01:00

Beau Webster is a Tallahassee, Florida based private investigator who is a former officer with the Fort Lauderdale Police Department. Like Travis McGee, the famous fictional private investigator cr...

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UNREPENTANT-Peter Edwards from 2013-06-13T01:00

In this explicit first-hand account, a biker who spent 46 years as a member of the Hells Angels and Satan's Choice invites bestselling author Peter Edwards into the story of life lived as we've onl...

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THE MEDIA'S PROSECUTION OF CASEY ANTHONY-Keith Long from 2013-05-30T01:00

The 2011 Casey Anthony trial became the most sensational news story of the year. Time magazine called it the social media trial of the century. The 22-year-old single mom was charged with three fel...

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THE DYNAMICS OF MURDER-R. Barri Flowers from 2013-05-23T01:00

This multifaceted probe of murder offenses, offenders, victims, and characteristics of homicide in American society breaks new ground by examining issues generally ignored or neglected among resear...

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Vanished Beauty (Fatal Sunset)-Mark Yoshimoto Nemkoff from 2013-05-16T01:00

Dead just one week into her Australian honeymoon, Tina Watson's body lay a hundred feet below the ocean's surface at the foot of the Great Barrier Reef. Across the globe, three days into a secret A...

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NOTES ON A KILLING-Kevin Flynn from 2013-05-09T01:00

Weaver and fiber artist Edith “Pen” Meyer knew her friend Sandy Merritt’s relationship with a married man was wrong. She had even urged Sandy to take out a restraining order against Kenneth Carpent...

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NAME DROPPER-Frank C. Girardot from 2013-04-25T01:00

John Sohus, a twenty-something resident of San Marino, California, was allegedly murdered in 1985 by con man Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, who has become infamous under his most-known alias, Clark...

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TAMPA BAY ORGANIZED CRIME-Paul Guzzo from 2013-04-18T01:00

In Tampa in 1948, known gangster Jimmy Velasco was gunned down by a hit man. In the ensuing weeks, when neither the Tampa Police Department nor Hillsborough made an arrest, Jimmy’s brothers took th...

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KIDNAPPED BY THE CARTEL-Karen Scioscia from 2013-04-11T01:00

A beautiful, young American woman was kidnapped and confined against her will in the putrid depths of Tijuana, Mexico. Drugged and tortured, she lived in constant fear for her life. Kidnapped by th...

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SEARCHING FOR SANDRA-Stacy Dittrich from 2013-04-04T01:00

Where was Sandra? Across the country, parents watched with growing panic as the surveillance video was replayed on the evening news: a young girl in black leggings and a Hello Kitty t-shirt, skippi...

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KATHERINE RAMSLAND-The Human Predator from 2013-03-21T01:00

From ancient Rome through the Dark Ages to the burgeoning West to the open highways of urban America, from the unconscionable exploits of French religious zealot Gilles de Rais to such all-American...

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LAW AND DISORDER-John Douglas and Mark Olshaker from 2013-03-14T01:00

For twenty-five years, John E. Douglas worked for the FBI, where he headed the elite Investigative Support Unit. The real-life model for FBI Agent Jack Crawford in "The Silence of the Lambs", he's ...

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INVESTIGATING LUST MURDER-Janet McClellan from 2013-03-13T01:00

The behavior and activities exhibited by offenders that distinguish lust murderers from among other types of serial murderers are presented through a multiple case studies analysis of the offenders...

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I, MONSTER-Tom Philbin from 2013-02-28T02:00

What goes through the dark minds of such notorious killers as Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam"), John Wayne Gacy, Dennis Rader (the "BTK Killer"), and others? In this chilli...

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DARK MINDS-INVESTIGATION DISCOVERY-M. William Phelps from 2013-02-23T02:00

Returning for another chilling season, Investigation Discovery’s DARK MINDS transports the most dangerous of all criminals right into your own home. In the series, returning on February 27, non-fic...

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FOR MEMBERS ONLY-Jerry Vairo from 2013-02-07T02:00

Seldom, if ever, has a writer been given access to a former major drug dealer in the Mafia underworld and three generations of legitimate family members that followed. After nearly two years of int...

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BRONX COLD CASE HOMICIDE-Joseph L. Giacalone from 2013-01-31T02:00

In May 2012 suspected serial killer Angel Guridy-Cabral was extradited from the Dominican Republic for the 1993 murder of his girlfriend Altagracia Valdez, 24, after new DNA technology linked him t...

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SLOW DEATH-Sheila Johnson from 2013-01-24T02:00

"Never Trust a Chained Captive." That was one of the rules David Parker Ray posted on the isolated property where he and his girlfriend Cynthia Hendy lived near New Mexico's Elephant Butte Lake. Th...

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TRUE MURDER-THIRD YEAR ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL from 2013-01-10T02:00

IT IS THE THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF TRUE MURDER AND THANKS TO THE INCREDIBLE FANS-2.5 MILLION PROGRAMS HAVE BEEN DOWNLOADED SINCE JANUARY 2010-THANK YOU VERY MUCH TRUE MURDER FANS!
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SUDDEN TERROR-Larry Crompton from 2012-12-13T02:00

The East Area Rapist would break into middle-class homes in respectable neighborhoods in the dark of night, tie up his victims and tell them over and over they were going to die.
Only he didn...

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BODY COUNT RE-RELEASE-Burl Barer from 2012-12-06T02:00

Not since the Green River Killer had the Pacific Northwest been terrorized by so savage a serial killer. By day, Robert Lee Yates, Jr., 48 was a respected father of five, a skilled helicopter pilot...

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FACING THE U.S. PRISON PROBLEM 2.3 MILLION STRONG-Shawn Grif from 2012-11-29T02:00

Shawn Griffith spent over 23 years in various Florida prisons for an armed robbery he committed in 1992 at the age of 21. He has just recently been conditionally released from prison. He documents ...

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SERIAL KILLERS UP CLOSE AND VERY PERSONAL-Victoria Redstall from 2012-11-15T02:00

Victoria Redstall is a glamorous model, actress, filmmaker, and investigative journalist who has spent years visiting high-security prisons and interviewing sadistic killers like Gary Ray Bowles an...

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THE GIRL THAT HAD NO ENEMIES AND THE MAN WHO HATED WOMEN-De from 2012-11-08T01:00

Anthony J. LaRette Jr., had been on a ten-year-long path of violence, murder, and rape.
Everyone knew Mickey, with her stellar grades and driving ambition, would eventually follow her older br...

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SERIAL KILLER GARY HILTON UPDATE-Fred Rosen from 2012-11-02T01:00

Gary Michael Hilton once sold his movie idea to Hollywood. The straight-to-video Deadly Run was about a man who captures women only to set them free on his very private and secluded Georgia land so...

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Dear Dawn-Aileen Wuornos in Her Own Words-Daphne Gottlieb from 2012-10-25T02:00

Aileen Wuornos, a hitchhiking prostitute, shot, killed, and robbed seven men in remote Florida locations. Arrested in 1991, Wuornos insisted she had acted in self-defense, but the jury condemned he...

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PSYCHO U.S.A. -Harold Schechter from 2012-10-18T01:00

 

In the horrifying annals of American crime, infamous names of brutal killers such as Bundy, Dahmer, Gacy, and Berkowitz are writ large in the imaginations of a public both horrified an...

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NOBODY'S WOMEN-Steve Miller from 2012-09-28T01:00

 
In late October 2009, Cleveland Police detectives arrived at the home of Anthony Sowell, an ex-Marine and registered sex offender—to arrest him on week-old rape charges.
But this was ...

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COLD NORTH KILLERS-Lee Mellor from 2012-09-20T01:00

 
There are more than 60 serial murderers in Canadian history. For too long awareness of serial murder in Canada has been confined to West Coast child killer Clifford Olson and the "Schoolgir...

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WALKING THE CIRCLE-PRISON CHRONICLES-J. Tony Serra from 2012-09-13T01:00

 
J. Tony Serra is the epitome of counter-cultural hero. He has spent his life defending society's marginalized citizens in the courtroom. His role in the Chol Soo Lee case was depicted in th...

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MURDER IN THE MOUNTAINS-Michael Crisp from 2012-08-30T01:00

Murder in the Mountains: The Muriel Baldridge Story revisits the slaying of Muriel Baldridge, the 17-year old high school cheerleader who was found beaten to death on the morning of June 28, 1949 i...

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HER DEADLY WEB-Diane Fanning from 2012-08-23T01:00

 
Raynella Dossett Leath said she came home one morning in 2003 and found her husband’s body in bed—covered in blood, a Colt .38 by his side. But authorities were suspicious of Raynella’s sto...

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DEADLY LITTLE SECRETS-Kathryn Casey from 2012-08-09T01:00

 
To his parishioners, minister Matt Baker seemed a pious and good man. To his wife, Kari, he was a devoted husband and caring father. Always sunny and vivacious, Kari never questioned their f...

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LOST GIRLS-Caitlin Rother from 2012-08-02T00:00

Chelsea King was a popular high school senior, an outstanding achiever determined to make a difference. Amber Dubois loved books and poured her heart into the animals she cared for. Treasured by th...

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MASTERS OF TRUE CRIME-Edited By R. Barri Flowers from 2012-07-26T01:00

 
In February 1975, 9 year-old Marcia Trimble left her house in Nashville to deliver Girl Scout cookies in the neighborhood. She never returned. After a massive but fruitless search, her body...

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VAMPIRE-THE RICHARD CHASE MURDERS-Kevin M. Sullivan from 2012-07-20T02:00

By the time Richard Trenton Chase graduated high school, everyone knew he was strange. But no one had any idea how bizarre he'd become, or what dark impulses were flowing through his troubled brain...

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DATE WITH THE DEVIL-Don Lasseter from 2012-06-28T01:00

David Mahler, a 43-year-old east coast lawyer, came to Hollywood for the celebrity lifestyle, the movie industry, and the women. At his seven-level home in the Hollywood Hills, Mahler rubbed elbows...

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OVERKILL-Lyn Riddle from 2012-06-21T01:00

Laurie Show was as compassionate as she was hard-working. The outgoing high-school junior worked part-time to pay for the home she and her divorced mother shared. Yet she always had time to tutor f...

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THE BANDIDO MASSACRE-Peter Edwards from 2012-06-14T01:00

 
On the morning of April 8, 2006, residents of the hamlet of Shedden, Ontario, woke up to the news that the bloodied bodies of eight bikers from the Bandidos gang had been found dead on a lo...

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WHEN SATAN WORE A CROSS-Fred Rosen from 2012-05-31T01:00

 
 
In 1980 in Toledo, Ohio—on one of the holiest days of the church calendar—the body of a nun was discovered in the sacristy of a hospital chapel. Seventy-one-year-old Sister Margaret...

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ROGUE MOBSTER-Mark Silverman and Scott Deitche from 2012-05-24T01:00

When the infamous gangster Whitey Bulger went on the lam in 1995, the streets of Boston became a war zone between the Mafia and the renegades, with the Winter Hill Gang looking on. Rogue Mobster: T...

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LUST FOR JUSTICE-Paulette Frankl and J. Tony Serra from 2012-05-17T00:00

The greatest counter-culture lawyer of his time. His trials have garnered him acclaim as one of the greatest criminal defense lawyers of the century. He's the white tornado in court, a semantic sam...

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THE CHARMER-Richard Muti and Charles Buckley from 2012-05-10T01:00

When prison inmate Robert Reldan's aunt died and left him an $8.9 million trust fund, Arthur and Barbara Reeve, parents of murder victim Susan Reeve, acted to deprive Reldan of the funds that could...

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THE FRANK MATTHEWS STORY-Ron Chepsiuk and Al Profit from 2012-05-03T01:00

 


In the early 1970's, Frank Matthews became America's biggest drug kingpin. His organization, headquartered in Brooklyn, stretched across more than 20 states, and he became the on...

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HEAD SHOT-Burl Barer from 2012-04-19T01:00

In the mid-to-late 1980's, a quiet neighborhood near Tacoma, Washington was terrorized by the violence of three men: Paul St. Pierre, an alcoholic psychopath; his younger brother, Chris, who had co...

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SCAPEGOAT-THE CHINO HILLS MURDERS-J. Patrick O'Conner from 2012-04-12T01:00

In June 1983, Doug and Peggy Ryen, their ten-year-old daughter and a 11-year-old house guest were brutally murdered in Chino Hills, California. Two days before, Kevin Cooper had escaped from a near...

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A KNIFE IN THE HEART-Michael Benson from 2012-04-05T01:00

Sarah Ludemann was new to love. The Pinellas, Florida, 17-year old was a late bloomer. When she fell for a boy she was blind to the world of sex, drugs and drama swirling around her. Soon, Sarah ha...

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THE MILLIONAIRE'S WIFE-Cathy Scott from 2012-03-22T01:00

 
The beloved son of Holocaust survivors, forty-nine-year-old George Kogan grew up in Puerto Rico before making his way to New York City, where he enjoyed great success as an antiques and art...

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BLOOD HIGHWAY-Sheila Johnson from 2012-03-15T01:00

On January 23, 2000, already battered by an ice storm, the rural Alabama resort town of Mentone was about to be struck by an even more terrfying freak catastrophe. Hurtling down the highway in a Li...

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POISONED LOVE-Caitlin Rother from 2012-03-08T01:00

On November 6, 2000, paramedics answered a call to find Kristin Rossum, 24, sobbing. Her husband, Greg de Villers, wasn't breathing and she claimed he had overdosed on drugs after learning she was ...

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TOURIST TRAP-Fred Shrum lll from 2012-03-01T02:00

 
On June 4, 1989, the bodies of Jo, Michelle, and Christe Rogers were found floating in the serene waters of Tampa Bay, Florida. They were stripped below the waist, bound, and tied to concre...

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SERIAL KILLER COUPLES-R. Barri Flowers from 2012-02-16T02:00

SERIAL KILLER COUPLES: Bonded by Sexual Depravity, Abduction, and Murder chronicles the true crimes of sexually motivated serial killers who are intimates. In this latest true crime book from award...

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LOVE LIES-Amanda Lamb from 2012-02-08T02:00

Nancy Cooper is missing… Her husband said she went for a jog and never came home. Hundreds search for the vivacious mother of two young girls in the upscale North Carolina neighborhood.
Days l...

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THE DARKEST NIGHT-Ron Franscell from 2012-01-18T02:00

 
Casper, Wyoming:1973. 11 year-old Amy Burridge rides with her 18 year-old sister, Becky, to the grocery store. When they finish their shopping, Becky’s car gets a flat tire. Two men politel...

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IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT-Brian McDonald from 2012-01-06T02:00

 
 

Now that Joshua Komisarjevsky has been sentenced to death we revisit my interview with author Brian McDonald as we discuss In The Middle Of The Night. The affluent suburb of Ch...

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EQUAL VERDICTS-THE LEX STREET MURDERS-Antonne M Jones from 2011-12-21T02:00

On December 28, 2000, the city of Philadelphia experienced the worst mass murder in its three hundred year history. Ten people were viciously gunned down in a dilapidated crack house in the Mill Cr...

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BLOOD TRAIL-Rick Reed from 2011-12-08T02:00

On October 29, 1997, hooker Andrea "Slick" Hendrix's, beaten, naked body was discovered in a roadside ditch near Stewartsville, Indiana. With no leads for police to follow, the case eventually went...

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BROTHER'S BLOOD-Scott Cawelti from 2011-12-01T02:00

Jerry Mark was a Peace Corps volunteer, lawyer, 4-H leader, vice-president of his Cedar Falls High School senior class and certainly a most likely-to-succeed young man when he graduated in 1960. In...

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BLOODSTAINS-H.H. HOLMES-Jeff Mudgett from 2011-11-18T02:00

Bloodstains is the startling tale of one man’s search for the truth after inheriting the personal diaries belonging to his great-great-grandfather who he discovers was America’s first and most noto...

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A KILLER'S TOUCH-Michael Benson from 2011-11-10T02:00

Denise Amber Lee was a 21-year-old happily married mother of two little boys. She had her whole life ahead of her...until an intruder broke into her Florida home. Within a few short hours, she was ...

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CAMOUFLAGED KILLER-David A. Gibb from 2011-11-03T01:00

 

He was a perfect man living a perfect life...which made him a perfect killer.

Canadian Air Force Colonel Russell Williams commanded the largest Canadian Forces base in the c...

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JOHN WAYNE GACY-DEFENDING A MONSTER-Judge Sam Amirante and D from 2011-10-20T01:00

"Sam, could you do me a favor?" Thus begins a story that has now become part of America’s true crime hall of fame. It is a gory, grotesque tale befitting a Stephen King novel. It is also a David an...

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SILENT SCREAM-Yvonne Mason from 2011-10-13T01:00

It was a time of innocence, a time of hippies, flower children and the Age of Aquarius. A time when young people felt free to roam the countryside hitchhiking without fear. A time when law enforcem...

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THE SOURTOE COCKTAIL CLUB-Ron Franscell from 2011-10-05T01:00

 

Over the years, Ron Franscell's books have earned high praise from bestselling authors such as Ann Rule and Vincent Bugliosi. He is the bestselling author of The Darkest Night. His...

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THE FATAL GIFT OF BEAUTY-THE TRIALS OF AMANDA KNOX-Nina Burl from 2011-09-29T01:00

The sexually violent murder of twenty-one-year-old British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy, on the night of November 1, 2007, became an international sensation when one of Kercher’s hous...

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THE CRIME BUFF'S GUIDE TO THE OUTLAW ROCKIES-Ron Franscell from 2011-09-22T01:00

The Rocky Mountains hold a celebrated place in the "wildest" West of both myth and reality--yet this is the first-ever travel guide to the many sites associated with Colorado and Wyoming's notoriou...

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NOT CRIMINALLY RESPONSIBLE-TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE from 2011-09-15T01:00

 
In February, 2009, Guy Turcotte a cardiologist stabbed his two young children, Anne-Sophie, 3, and Olivier, 5, 46 times while they were lying in their beds. Turcotte admitted to the killing...

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GIRL.WANTED-THE CHASE FOR SARAH PENDER-Steve Miller from 2011-08-25T01:00

Sarah Pender was an attractive, outgoing, intelligent woman with great potential. But the straight and narrow had no appeal for this depraved young woman dubbed "the female Charles Manson", who kne...

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STRAIGHT FROM THE HOOD-Ron Chepsiuk and Scott Wilson from 2011-08-18T01:00

Many books have written about the black gangster. They have been, for the most part, lengthy tomes focusing on the kingpins of the gangland scene, gangsters with names like Nicky Barnes, Frank Luca...

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THE CASEY ANTHONY MURDER TRIAL ANALYSIS-Diane Fanning from 2011-08-04T01:00

A week after my interview with Diane Fanning discussing her book Mommy's Little Girl-before the Casey Anthony murder trial had commenced. It is very rare to have a book published before a trial has...

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MOMMY'S LITTLE GIRL-THE CAYLEE ANTHONY CASE-DIANE FANNING from 2011-07-28T01:00

SPECIAL ENCORE INTERVIEW-THE CASEY ANTHONY CASE-DIANE FANNING. This interview was conducted before the trial. We can listen again and hear what was known at that time now that the verdict is in and...

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MOB KILLER-Anthony M. DeStefano from 2011-07-21T01:00

 
He dissolved the bodies of some of his victims in acid and poured them down the sewer. He hung grisly souvenirs on nails in his junkyard.
 
La Costra Nostra
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THE SEX SLAVE MURDERS-R. Barri Flowers from 2011-07-14T01:00

A marriage made in hell...Barely five feet tall, sweet and innocent looking, Charlene Gallego used all of her charms to beguile pretty teenage girls and young women into the back of a van, where he...

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THE SERIAL KILLER from 2011-06-30T01:00

On Thursday, June 30 at 7:00 p.m. CST I will appear on CRIME BEAT on the ARTISTFIRST RADIO NETWORK with hosts Will Hyrb and true crime bestselling author Ron Chepesiuk. The title of the program is ...

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WATCH MOMMY DIE-Michael Benson from 2011-06-22T01:00

 
First, he bound and beat his girlfriend, a 43-year-old librarian. Then he went after her teenaged daughter - warning her, 'Scream and I will kill you both' - before knocking her unconscious....

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DEADLY DECEIT-Don Lasseter from 2011-06-16T01:00

After years of hard work, Brian and Jeannie Legg has earned a well deserved life of leisure in their picture-perfect Phoenix mansion. Until their troubled son showed up with a need for cash - and a...

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FATAL BEAUTY-Burl Barer from 2011-05-26T01:00

Jimmy Joste was a powerhouse in the oil and gas industry, but he was a weakling when it came to his gorgeous, athletic, longtime lover, Rhonda Glover. Addicted to her sexual prowess and madly in lo...

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UNREASONABLE INFERENCES-Michael Griesbach from 2011-05-19T02:00

Michael Griesbach had been a prosecutor for 22 years and thought he had seen it all. But nothing prepared him for the case of Steven Avery-a true crime story, where the good guys are sometimes the ...

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CAUGHT IN THE ACT-Jeannie McDonough and Paul Lonardo from 2011-05-13T01:00

Adam Leroy Lane was a trucker with a passion for morbid side trips. At random truck stops along the interstates in America's Northeastern states, Lane would leave his truck and, under the cover of ...

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THE KING OF THE GODFATHERS-Anthony M. DeStefano from 2011-04-28T01:00

THE LAST OF THE OLD-WORLD MOB BOSSES AND THE ULTIMATE BETRAYAL-For more than twenty years, Joseph "Big Joey" Massino ran what was called the largest criminal network in the U.S., employing over two...

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THE BUNDY MURDERS-Kevin Sullivan from 2011-04-23T01:00

Theodore Bundy was one of the more infamous, and flamboyant, American serial killers on record, and his story is a complex mix of psychopathology, criminal investigation, and the U.S. legal system....

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DELIVERED FROM EVIL-Ron Franscell from 2011-04-14T01:00

 
A 12-year-old boy cowers in his closet while a lunatic killer slaughters his family . . . a nursing student unwittingly opens her home to the serial killer on her front porch . . . an 11-ye...

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AGAINST HER WILL-Ronald J. Watkins from 2011-04-07T01:00

Richard and Victoria Tinyes feared the worst when their thirteen-year-old daughter Kelly Ann vanished from their quiet suburban community of Valley Stream, New York on March 3, 1989. But the nightm...

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THE BURN FARM-Michael Benson from 2011-03-24T01:00

Sheila LaBarre liked to troll the personal ads and homeless shelters, looking for men whom society had rejected for one reason or another - men she could easily dominate both verbally and sexually....

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LOVE HER TO DEATH-M. William Phelps from 2011-03-17T00:00

In the midst of Pennsylvania's Amish country, on a peaceful summer night in 2008, the body of 45-year-old Jan Roseboro was found at the bottom of her backyard pool. Her husband Michael, a successfu...

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NO, DADDY DON'T-Irene Pence from 2011-03-10T02:00

Mary Jean Pearle and John Battaglia's marriage seemed picture perfect from the outside. With their two young daughters, Faith and Liberty, they made their home in a wealthy Dallas suburb. John was ...

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WAGES OF SIN-Suzy Spencer from 2011-03-03T02:00

On January 11, 1995, deputies outside Austin, Texas, found a mutilated body laid across a cold campfire—head destroyed, hands cut off, skin singed by fire. In less than three days, they had the kil...

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THE LAST MEAL-Dennis Shere from 2011-02-24T02:00

It took almost 10 years for investigators to arrest two men for the brutal murders of seven workers in a fast-food restaurant in suburban Chicago. The tragic events captured headlines nationwide. W...

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CHARLES MANSON NOW-Marlin Marynick from 2011-02-15T02:00

In November 1970, Charles Manson was sentenced to death for the horrifying and cold-blooded murders of seven people near Los Angeles. His sentence was later reduced to life imprisonment after Calif...

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COLUMBINE- Dave Cullen from 2011-02-03T02:00

On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold left an indelible stamp on the American psyche. Their plan was staggering: to blow up their school, surpass Oklahoma City in horror, and leave "a la...

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THE KILLING OF LITTLE SHEPHERDS-Douglas Starr from 2011-01-27T02:00

A True Crime Story and The Birth of Forensic Science.
Starr eloquently juxtaposes the crimes of French serial killer Joseph Vacher and the achievements of famed criminologist Dr. Alexandre La...

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THE LAST SIX MINUTES-Sandra Martins-Toner from 2011-01-20T02:00

The Last Six Minutes is the true account of the random and violent murder of 16 year-old Matthew Martins, and his family's journey through the Canadian Criminal Justice System. On July 2, 2005 Matt...

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THE FRAMING OF MUMIA ABU-JAMAL and CRIME MAGAZINE-J. Patrick O'Conner from 2011-01-13T01:00

In this account of the trial of controversial death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal, O'Connor, editor and publisher of crimemagazine.com, clearly lays out his case that Abu-Jamal should receive at least...

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EVIL NEXT DOOR-Amanda Lamb from 2011-01-06T02:00

On May 21, 2002, twenty-three-year-old Raleigh, North Carolina resident Stephanie Bennett was found murdered in her apartment. Despite ample DNA evidence at the scene, investigators could find no m...

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TRUE MURDER CHRISTMAS SPECIAL!?! from 2010-12-23T02:00

It's Christmas time and the perfect opportunity to recap the first year almost of True Murder and great interviews with great authors discussing their fine books. I'll be speaking about a few thing...

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THE PROFILER-MY LIFE HUNTING SERIAL KILLERS AND PSYCHOPATHS-Pat Brown from 2010-12-04T02:00

In 1990, a young woman was strangled on a jogging path near the home of Pat Brown and her family. Brown suspected the young man who was renting a room in her house and quickly uncovered strong evid...

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BONE CRUSHER-Linda Rosencrance from 2010-11-25T02:00

When the urge took hold, serial killer Larry Bright brought women back to his home. After raping and murdering his victims, he brutally disposed of their bodies. Sometimes he built a white-hot fire...

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FREE JUAN RIVERA-Rob Warden from 2010-11-18T02:00

On Aug. 17, 1992, 11 year-old Holly Staker was baby-sitting a 5-year-old boy and his 2 1/2-year-old sister. After eating pizza, the boy went out to play. At 8 p.m., when a neighbor noticed he was s...

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SHATTERED-Kathryn Casey from 2010-11-11T02:00

In Creekstone, Texas, a small, quiet suburb of Houston, football was king...and David Temple was a prince. A former high school and college gridiron star-turned-coach, he had a fairy-tale marriage ...

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MURDER IN THE HIGH HIMALAYA-Jonathan Green from 2010-11-04T01:00

Cho Oyu Mountain lies 19 miles east of Mount Everest on the border between Tibet and Nepal. To the elite mountaineering community, it's known as the sixth highest mountain in the world. To Tibetans...

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MURDER IN THE HIGH HIMALAYA-Jonathan Green from 2010-11-04T01:00

Cho Oyu Mountain lies 19 miles east of Mount Everest on the border between Tibet and Nepal. To the elite mountaineering community, it's known as the sixth highest mountain in the world. To Tibetans...

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BLOOD AMBUSH-Sheila Johnson from 2010-10-28T01:00

For Darlene Roberts, a quiet drive home from work turned out to be the end of the road when a stranded motorist flagged her down. As soon as she stopped, Darlene was forcibly dragged from her car a...

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ON THE FARM-ROBERT WILLIAM PICKTON-Stevie Cameron from 2010-10-22T02:00

Covering the case of one of the most prolific serial killers for 8 years gave Stevie Cameron unmatched access to the entire shocking story as it unfolded. In ON THE FARM, you will read of Pickton's...

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MURDER OF A MAFIA DAUGHTER-Cathy Scott from 2010-10-15T01:00

Susan Berman was reared in the lap of Las Vegas luxury as the daughter of Davie Berman, a notorious casino mogul and mafia leader. It wasn't until college, well after her father's death that she le...

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LUGGAGE-BY KROGER-Gary Taylor from 2010-10-07T01:00

Grab a seat on the wild side of an obsessive relationship, from its erotic beginning to its violent end and the trials required to clean up the mess. Gary Taylor, a former Houston Post reporter rec...

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LUGGAGE-BY KROGER-Gary Taylor from 2010-10-07T01:00

Grab a seat on the wild side of an obsessive relationship, from its erotic beginning to its violent end and the trials required to clean up the mess. Gary Taylor, a former Houston Post reporter rec...

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MOMMY'S LITTLE GIRL-Diane Fanning from 2010-09-30T01:00

The Caylee Anthony Case:
When news broke of 3-year-old Caylee Anthony's disappearance from her home in Florida in July 2008, there was a huge outpouring of sympathy across America. The search...

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MOMMY'S LITTLE GIRL-Diane Fanning from 2010-09-30T01:00

The Caylee Anthony Case:
When news broke of 3-year-old Caylee Anthony's disappearance from her home in Florida in July 2008, there was a huge outpouring of sympathy across America. The search...

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SERGEANT SMACK-Ron Chepesiuk from 2010-09-23T01:00

True crime author Ron Chepesiuk uncovers one of the biggest hoaxes in the history of the international drug trade in Sergeant Smack: The Legendary Lives and Times of Ike Atkinson, Kingpin, and his ...

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SERGEANT SMACK-Ron Chepesiuk from 2010-09-23T01:00

True crime author Ron Chepesiuk uncovers one of the biggest hoaxes in the history of the international drug trade in Sergeant Smack: The Legendary Lives and Times of Ike Atkinson, Kingpin, and his ...

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UNDER THE BRIDGE-Rebecca Godfrey from 2010-09-18T01:00

On a moonlit night in November 1997, 14-year-old Reena Virk went to a party with some of her friends near the idyllic waters of Victoria, British Columbia. She never returned home. A week later, he...

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UNDER THE BRIDGE-Rebecca Godfrey from 2010-09-18T01:00

On a moonlit night in November 1997, 14-year-old Reena Virk went to a party with some of her friends near the idyllic waters of Victoria, British Columbia. She never returned home. A week later, he...

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TRUE CRIME BOOK REVIEWS-Kim Cantrell from 2010-09-09T00:00

Kim Cantrell has been reading true crime for 20+ years, becoming hooked after checking out a true crime story from her high school library. Her interest in the judicial system led to a career as a ...

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TRUE CRIME BOOK REVIEWS-Kim Cantrell from 2010-09-09T00:00

Kim Cantrell has been reading true crime for 20+ years, becoming hooked after checking out a true crime story from her high school library. Her interest in the judicial system led to a career as a ...

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SAVAGE SON-Corey Mitchell from 2010-07-01T01:00

It was a night of celebration for the Whitaker family. Their son Bart was graduating from college. But when Bart's brother Kevin opened the door to their house, a masked intruder shot him point bla...

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SAVAGE SON-Corey Mitchell from 2010-07-01T01:00

It was a night of celebration for the Whitaker family. Their son Bart was graduating from college. But when Bart's brother Kevin opened the door to their house, a masked intruder shot him point bla...

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Episode 24-THE MOST SHOCKING KILLER IN TRUE CRIME HISTORY-APPEALS from 2010-06-24T01:00

May 21st and the appeal for the Jack-the-Ripper-meets Hannibal Lector killer Sidney Teerhuis. Why is he the most shocking killer of all time and what does Susan Sarandon's stolen gold necklace have...

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HONEYMOON WITH A KILLER-Don Lasseter from 2010-06-17T01:00

Rebecca Salcedo had an easy smile, a sexy body, and strong appetites-she wanted the world. Bruce Cleland, she decided, would buy it for her. The shy engineer quickly fell victim to her charms, gett...

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HONEYMOON WITH A KILLER-Don Lasseter from 2010-06-17T01:00

Rebecca Salcedo had an easy smile, a sexy body, and strong appetites-she wanted the world. Bruce Cleland, she decided, would buy it for her. The shy engineer quickly fell victim to her charms, gett...

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LETHAL CHARMER-Patricia Springer from 2010-06-03T01:00

Fort Worth businessman Stephen Barbee was handsome, popular and married to a wonderful woman. There was just one problem: His ex-girlfriend, Lisa Underwood, was pregnant-and asking for money...As g...

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LETHAL CHARMER-Patricia Springer from 2010-06-03T01:00

Fort Worth businessman Stephen Barbee was handsome, popular and married to a wonderful woman. There was just one problem: His ex-girlfriend, Lisa Underwood, was pregnant-and asking for money...As g...

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RUNAWAY DEVIL-Robert Remington from 2010-05-27T01:00

In April 2006, a twelve-year-old girl named JR committed a brutal crime that terrified parents everywhere: after weeks of plotting, she and her twenty-three-year-old boyfriend stabbed to death her ...

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RUNAWAY DEVIL-Robert Remington from 2010-05-27T01:00

In April 2006, a twelve-year-old girl named JR committed a brutal crime that terrified parents everywhere: after weeks of plotting, she and her twenty-three-year-old boyfriend stabbed to death her ...

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SLOW DEATH-Jim Fielder from 2010-05-20T21:00

Beside New Mexico's Elephant Butte Lake stood a windowless trailer which owner David Parker Ray, 59, and his girlfriend Cynthia Hendy, 39, called The Toybox. A $100,000 homemade torture chamber, it...

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SLOW DEATH-Jim Fielder from 2010-05-20T21:00

Beside New Mexico's Elephant Butte Lake stood a windowless trailer which owner David Parker Ray, 59, and his girlfriend Cynthia Hendy, 39, called The Toybox. A $100,000 homemade torture chamber, it...

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BODY HUNTER-Patricia Springer from 2010-05-06T01:00

To the people of Olney, Texas, 39 year-old Faryion Wardrip was an upright citizen-a happily married man, a valued employee, and a respected Sunday school teacher. In January, 1999, investigators re...

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BODY HUNTER-Patricia Springer from 2010-05-06T01:00

To the people of Olney, Texas, 39 year-old Faryion Wardrip was an upright citizen-a happily married man, a valued employee, and a respected Sunday school teacher. In January, 1999, investigators re...

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Episode 16-RIPPER-Linda Rosencrance from 2010-04-29T01:00

Rhode Island detectives knew they had a serial killer in their midst. But the victims were women who lived and worked in a sexual underground-and whose bodies were never found. Then, prostitutes be...

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-Episode #15-BLOOD LUST-Sheila Johnson from 2010-04-22T01:00

From the time he was a teenager, Jeremy Bryan Jones had let his violent passions run wild: attacking, raping, and mutilating. Then, in Mobile County, Alabama, Jones' rampage was stopped. But no one...

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Episode #14- TROPHY KILL: THE SHALL WE DANCE MURDER-Dan Zupansky from 2010-04-15T01:00

On the eve of the release of Trophy Kill: The Shall We Dance Murder-The Trial and Revelations of a Psychopathic Killer, True Murder host Dan Zupansky opens the phone lines for questions about the b...

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BODY PARTS- Caitlin Rother from 2010-04-08T01:00

36-year-old Wayne Adam Ford walked into the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office in Northern California with a woman's severed breast in his pocket. He ended up convicted of the grisly torture and murd...

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BODY PARTS- Caitlin Rother from 2010-04-08T01:00

36-year-old Wayne Adam Ford walked into the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office in Northern California with a woman's severed breast in his pocket. He ended up convicted of the grisly torture and murd...

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# 12-Body Count-Author Burl Barer from 2010-04-01T01:00

On August 26, 1997, the half-naked body of prostitute Heather Hernandez, 20 was found in an empty lot in Spokane Washington. The same day, the decomposed corpse of prostitute Jennifer Joseph, 16, w...

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THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW-Rod Gehl from 2010-03-25T01:00

For half a year, the man who came to be known as the Abbotsford killer terrorized the valley community.
On Friday, Oct. 13, 1995, two teenage girls - Tanya Smith, 16, and Misty Cockerill, 15 -...

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THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW-Rod Gehl from 2010-03-25T01:00

For half a year, the man who came to be known as the Abbotsford killer terrorized the valley community.
On Friday, Oct. 13, 1995, two teenage girls - Tanya Smith, 16, and Misty Cockerill, 15 -...

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# 10-Lethal Intent-Aileen Wournos by Sue Russell from 2010-03-19T17:00

On November 30th, 1989,in Florida a man was shot 4 times by a naked, hard-faced blonde prostitute. He suffered a slow, agonizing death while the woman stripped him of his valuables and drove his Ca...

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CANNIBAL KILLERS-Moira Martingale from 2010-02-24T15:00

These are no ordinary killers. They are monsters who murder, mutilate and carry out the most gruesome, unimaginable act of all....eating the flesh of their victims.
CANNIBAL KILLERS - Include...

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CANNIBAL KILLERS-Moira Martingale from 2010-02-24T15:00

These are no ordinary killers. They are monsters who murder, mutilate and carry out the most gruesome, unimaginable act of all....eating the flesh of their victims.
CANNIBAL KILLERS - Include...

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TROPHY KILL-Dan Zupansky from 2010-02-11T02:00

July 1st, 2003 and the Miramax movie Shall We Dance starring Jennifer Lopez, Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon was being filmed in Winnipeg. Police were called when Susan Sarandon reported her gold n...

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TROPHY KILL-Dan Zupansky from 2010-02-11T02:00

July 1st, 2003 and the Miramax movie Shall We Dance starring Jennifer Lopez, Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon was being filmed in Winnipeg. Police were called when Susan Sarandon reported her gold n...

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True Murder-Episode 4-Nick Pron-Lethal Marriage-Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka from 2010-02-04T02:00

Paul Bernardo was a handsome and charming young man with a violent sexual nature. Then he met a pretty woman named Karla Homolka and together they abducted, raped, terrorized and murdered several v...

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THE ROUGH GUIDE TO TRUE CRIME-Cathy Scott from 2010-01-28T02:00

The Rough Guide to True Crime: Organized Crime, Serial Killers, Expert Psychological Profiles.
Cathy's book features Jeffrey Dahmer, mob hitman Richard 'The Iceman' Kuklinski, John Glover 'Th...

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THE ROUGH GUIDE TO TRUE CRIME-Cathy Scott from 2010-01-28T02:00

The Rough Guide to True Crime: Organized Crime, Serial Killers, Expert Psychological Profiles.
Cathy's book features Jeffrey Dahmer, mob hitman Richard 'The Iceman' Kuklinski, John Glover 'Th...

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DIE FOR ME-Don Lasseter from 2010-01-21T02:00

Die For Me: The Terrifying True Story Of The Charles Ng/Leonard Lake Torture Murders by Don Lasseter. Inspired by a fictional book called the Collector, Leonard Lake and Charles Ng abducted, tortur...

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DIE FOR ME-Don Lasseter from 2010-01-21T02:00

Die For Me: The Terrifying True Story Of The Charles Ng/Leonard Lake Torture Murders by Don Lasseter. Inspired by a fictional book called the Collector, Leonard Lake and Charles Ng abducted, tortur...

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BABY BE MINE-Diane Fanning from 2010-01-14T02:00

36 year-old Lisa Montgomery was a mother of 2 but still wanted to have more children. The last time pregnant she miscarried and now she was pregnant again-and desperate to have another child.
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BABY BE MINE-Diane Fanning from 2010-01-14T02:00

36 year-old Lisa Montgomery was a mother of 2 but still wanted to have more children. The last time pregnant she miscarried and now she was pregnant again-and desperate to have another child.
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