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The History Press
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[2015]
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John George Haigh committed five perfect murders — by dissolving his wealthy victims in sulphuric acid. Then he tipped away the resultant soup to avoid detection on a 'no body, no murder' principle and used his victims' property to fund his luxury lifestyle of silk ties and flashy cars.
Murder number six was less than perfect. When a guest in Haigh's hotel disappeared, the police found half-dissolved body parts carelessly thrown into the yard outside...
62) Body Hunter
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The Sex Killer Next Door. 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. But everyone in Olney would soon learn the chilling truth about the man they thought they knew. His Brutal Rape-Murder Spree. In January, 1999, investigators reviewing the files of three unsolved murders dating back 15 years came across information linking Wardrip...
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25 Shocking True Crime Stories of American's Worst African American serial killers
Henry Louis Wallace: the Charlotte Strangler murdered nine women in a two-year spree that had the FBI's best profilers stumped.
Benjamin Atkins: serial strangler who terrorized Detroit, Michigan, claiming an astonishing eleven victims in just nine months.
Ahron Kee : child rapist and murderer who turned the projects of East Harlem into his personal killing ground.
Kendall...
64) Prey
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With the help of a mysterious and sexy FBI agent, he must put an end to the killer's reign of terror. What they encounter is more than either of them bargained for. Former SFPD Detective Frank Crenshaw is asked to solve a string of copycat murders. It's not going to be an easy job. When the killings are linked to his past, Frank must work fast to reveal the person responsible. Assigned to him is Sarah Coulson, a mysterious and sexy FBI agent with...
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TRACKRS: On the Cold Trail of a Serial Killer is the true account of the modern-day pursuit of a serial killer who terrorized Orange County, California in the late 1970s. The victims were young females living in apartments, alone when they were attacked. Their murders were gruesome and brutal. All had been sexually assaulted. Beginning in October of 1995, two Orange County deputy district attorneys, Michael Jacobs and Mel Jensen, focus their review...
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As a social exercise, the author of this book collects some of the most disturbing stories from 10 death row psychopaths and their feelings as a last request to be able to put their deepest emotions on paper.
All of them were executed days before they could personally deliver them, most of them in different states of the United States. The names were kept private for the participants' privacy.
67) Crime Files
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This highly illustrated true crime book gives you the inside track on the latest developments in murder and mayhem - in full color. Perfect bedtime reading from the dark side of life - grisly but fascinating. Author John Marlowe specializes in concise, yet detailed case-by-case examinations from the world of extreme human behavior. Here, he presents a carefully chosen cross-section of depraved modern criminals.
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Ripperology, the sometimes obsessive interest in studying the crimes of Jack the Ripper, is a subject of timeless interest that has suffered from confusion, exaggeration, and hyperbole for over a century. Jack the Ripper was probably the first serial killer to appear in a large metropolis at a time when the general populace was literate and the press was a force for social change. The press was also partly responsible for creating many myths surrounding...
69) Echoes of Fate
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A tragic past. A blood-thirsty killer. The strength to return.
There's something intriguing about the mysteriously private Mckinnon's family that kids in the small neighborhood of Duvall gravitate to. But when the summer of 1990 brings with it the kidnapping and brutal murder of their youngest daughter, Sherry, the kids find themselves haunted by guilt over the signs of a family hiding a dark secret.
Twenty years later, Kate has grown from a helpless...
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Victims and survivors, angels and demons, intersect along winding roads to imperfect justice. "Bare light bulbs shone against walls painted with graffiti and dried blood, the rooms reeking of a sweet pungent odour like burnt plastic …" So writes award-winning Hamilton Spectator journalist and author Jon Wells in one of four harrowing murder stories in Death's Shadow. Wells take readers up close into multiple homicide investigations, the agony of...
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The title is about how God and Jesus changed my life around, and I was brought up learning bought God and Jesus and in my teens through my late twenties. I was lost and did not know who I was. No one is perfect and I understand that, but I made a lot of mistakes in my life and I had a hard time dealing with that.
Then one day, I learned that God and Jesus never left me. I left them. They watched over me through it all. This is also a story about...
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The Making of Mace Stutzman is the saga of a boy who begins life paying a terrible price for the sins of his grandfather. His overbearing and grossly abusive mother suffers each day due to the sins of her father. Only ugly when Mace's beloved dad is not present, her influence on her son is exceedingly more powerful than her husband's. Her wrath and despising of him contort Mace into a shy, quiet, lonely introvert. Taught that laughing was a sinful...
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Dorothea Gray Johanson Montalvo Puente was a female serial killer, an extremely rare phenomenon in the annals of American crime. She took advantage of a flaw in the Social Security laws to carve a lifelong career out of exploiting elderly, ill, often-helpless people. She established herself in positions of trust in order to steal these people's only source of income, then drugged them to expedite her chicanery and, finally, murdered them. Dorothea...
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Medics and carers hold the lives of their patients in the balance. They see us at our most vulnerable, and we trust them utterly. Yet there are those who abuse this trust in the medical profession and take advantage of their position to commit the most hideous crimes.
In this gripping account, readers can discover the chilling stories of these cold-hearted killers. Some kill because of a twisted sense of mercy. Others let their monstrous egos take...
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The Man In My Dream is inspired by true events of psychological horror that conspired in a 26 year old girls life after a car accident. This fast paced and gripping thriller tells the gruesome story of the man who never left the girls dream after the accident-with a twisted ending.
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This is Clive Small's personal account of how he led the investigation into the Belanglo State Forest murders and convicted the Backpacker Murderer, Ivan Milat. He brings to this story the unique perspective from his leadership role, and many fascinating and new revelations. He tells it like it happened, and so we follow the detectives' leads and suspicions, until they get their man. Subsequently there was an attempt to link Milat with a very large...
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A police detective pursues a serial killer stalking the streets of a south Chicago neighborhood and learns that what first looked to be random murders are not random at all. It's urban Chicago circa 1995, and a street-savvy police detective, Kyle McNally, has the lead on a task force following the trail of an interstate serial killer. The investigation tracks McNally and his antagonist, appropriately tagged "Slugger," through a maze of suspects, political...
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In Exacerbate, the Author introduces her Readers to the world of sickening violence, horrific brutality, and other mutilations as she uses several murderous characters to show the differences between victims who are not drawn into sadistic vengeance and those victims who mutilate others because they themselves have been mutilated. She will lead the Reader on an expedition into the minds of heartless killers as she examines their psychological profiles;...
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All Joan could do was comfort her friend Robin in what is surely the worst moments of her life...Suspicious Circumstances. Fire rages through a home in a peaceful Boise, Idaho, subdivision in the wee hours of a foggy February morning-a man and two young children sleep inside. Robin Lee Row with her good friend Joan McHugh are helpless as they watch in shock and horror as Robin's entire family is lost in the flames. To everyone's surprise, the fire...
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En el 2013, una mujer observó horrorizada cómo de un sótano ubicado en el centro de Bilbao intentaba huir una mujer ensangrentada que buscaba desesperadamente una salida a la calle. Su llamada a la Ertzaintza destapó los crímenes de Juan Carlos Aguilar Gómez, autoproclamado como el primer monje Shaolin occidental, tres veces campeón del mundo de kung-fu y ocho de España. Sus títulos resultaron ser una ficción, así como su condición de...
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