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The Killer Book of Serial Killers is the ultimate resource (and gift) for any true crime fan and student of the bizarre world of serial killers. Filled with stories, trivia, quizzes, quotes, photos, and odd facts about the world's most notorious murderers, this is the perfect bathroom reader for anyone fascinated with serial killers.
The stories and trivia cover such killers as:
John Wayne Gacy
Ted Bundy
The BTK Killer
Jack the Ripper
The Green...
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"Learn why serial killers kill through their own words -- including Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, the BTK Killer, Aileen Wuornos, and more than 70 others. In this one-of-a-kind book, author Mary Brett corresponded with some of America's most evil convicted serial killers and asked just one question: WHY? Their return letters give an insightful look into the dark mind of each killer. The reader also will be able to scrutinize direct quotes, unedited,...
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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 recently the FX television series American Horror Story. But the full story of gruesome murders, sympathetic victims, accused innocents, public panic, the New Orleans Mafia, and a mysterious killer has never been written. Until now. The Axeman repeatedly broke...
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Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is called in to help the local police find a suspected serial killer who seems to choose his victims at random, but the case becomes more personal when a colleague is taken by the murderer, leading Veteren and the police on a chase to find their friend before it is too late.
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A Son's Worst Fears...
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. The furniture was gone. Within hours, police realized that Jerry's live-in housekeeper, Barbara Opel, had robbed him and fled. But where was Jerry?
A Mother's Worst Crime...
The next morning, Barbara Opel's 11-year-old son led...
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From Hollywood's Black Dahlia to the Arkansas Bluebeard: an anthology of true crime profiles by "the grand dame of mystery" (Ed Gorman). Whether venturing into a blood-spattered farm in Texas, down a lonely mountain road in Alabama, or into the deceptively sunny Ohio suburbs, acclaimed mystery writer Craig Rice lends her hard-boiled style and a wicked irony to this gallery of real-life murders. Among them ... A saintly middle-aged widow bludgeoned...
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Twenty years after killing Alton Turner Blackwood, the serial killer who murdered his parents and sisters, homicide detective John Calvino fears for the safety of his wife and three children when someone begins recreating Blackwood's murders of two decades ago.
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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 clues finally solve the mystery? On July 24, 1960, the quaint charm and serenity of Mackinac, nestled between Michigan's Upper and Lower Peninsulas, was shattered by Lacey's brutal death. Despite a massive manhunt and thousands of pages of police reports,...
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AUTHORITIES OPENED THE DOOR ON ONE MAN'S HIDDEN LIFE...
Mike DeBardeleben was known as the Mall Passer for the way he passed off fake money at local shopping centers. But, when U.S. Secret Service agents finally arrested him, they were met with more than just phony bills. They found that their counterfeiter led a shocking double life...
ONLY TO DISCOVER A HOUSE OF HORRORS. DeBardeleben's home was littered with drugs, bondage gear, and a collection...
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"Travel around the world and inside the minds of monsters in this true crime anthology featuring sixteen astonishing serial killer exposès. 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 in the latter part of the twentieth century-but such assumptions are far from the truth. Serial killers have been...
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New York Times -bestselling author: "In the art of true-crime reportage, Jerry Bledsoe is the best in the country ... Before He Wakes has the suspense of a novel" ( The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ). Barbara Stager was known as a devoted mother, loving wife, and dedicated church leader in her Durham, North Carolina, community. When she "accidentally" shot her husband, popular high school coach, Russ, the police were inclined to believe her-until...
12) 1st to die
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Four friends--homicide inspector Lindsay Boxer, medical examiner Claire Washburn, assistant district attorney Jill Bernhardt, and crime reporter Cindy Thomas--team up to track down a killer who has been stalking newlyweds in San Francisco, but their investigation goes terribly wrong.
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The shocking true crime story of child murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, Great Britain's most horrific serial killers. During the early 1960s, just as Beatlemania was exploding throughout the United Kingdom, a pair of psychopathic British killers began preying on the very young, innocent, and helpless of Greater Manchester. Between 1963 and 1965, Ian Brady and his lover and partner, Myra Hindley, were responsible for the abduction, rape, torture,...
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New York police detective Jacob Kanon searches for the killer of his daughter and her boyfriend, who were murdered while on vacation in Rome. Since then, young couples in other European cities have been found dead with little to connect the murders except a postcard to the local newspaper. Kanon teams up with the Swedish reporter Dessie Larsson, who has just received a postcard in Stockholm, and they think they know where to find the next victims....
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The shocking true story of the Russian serial killer who brutally murdered more than fifty victims--and evaded capture for over a decade. By the time he was brought to trial in 1992, Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo had killed more than fifty women and children, often sexually abusing them and leaving their bodies mutilated beyond recognition. Although he was initially arrested in 1984, the police lacked enough evidence to pin the unsolved murders...
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In this "true story that reads like a novel," the #1 New York Times -bestselling author reveals the facts behind a notorious Southern murder case ( Library Journal ). When North Carolina farmer Stuart Taylor died after a sudden illness, his forty-six-year-old fiancée, Velma Barfield, was overcome with grief. Taylor's family grieved with her-until the autopsy revealed traces of arsenic poisoning. Turned over to the authorities by her own son, Velma...
17) The last surgeon
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Former trauma surgeon Dr. Nick Garrity, suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder after witnessing a suicide bombing in Afghanistan and currently offering medical assistance to the homeless in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, helps nurse Jillian Coates investigate the suspicious suicide of her sister, and, together, they discover links between the woman's death, a CIA cover-up, a professional assassin, and Nick himself.
18) Body Parts
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On a chilly November afternoon in 1998, a tearful 36-year-old man walked into the Humboldt County Sheriff's Department in Eureka, CA, and confessed to something horrible. "I hurt some people," he said. Inside his pocket was the ghastly proof of his statement. But there was more to Wayne Adam Ford than the trail of mangled victims he left behind. More, even, than the twisted predator inside, which drove him to increasingly perverse sexual appetites....
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The chilling true story of female serial killer Aileen Wuornos, whose violent crimes shocked the nation-and inspired the Academy Award–winning film Monster. When police in Florida's Volusia County were called to investigate the murder of Richard Mallory, whose gunshot-ridden body had been found in the woods just north of Daytona Beach in December 1989, their search led them to a string of dead ends before the trail went cold six months later....
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