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41) 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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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...
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This is not fiction. This is the true story of how a former New York City Police Captain of Detectives used his extensive knowledge of the deductive methods of Sherlock Holmes to provide the FBI and other agencies with break the case clues to some of the most baffling and horrific criminal cases of the last half century. Not only does the author provide break the case clues to The Unabomber, BTK Killer, and Son of Sam cases, but on the Anthrax Killer...
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Did the Mad Butcher of Cleveland also strike in Pennsylvania? From 1934 to 1938, Cleveland, Ohio, was racked by a classic battle between good and evil. On one side was the city's safety director, Eliot Ness. On the other was a nameless phantom dubbed the "Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run," who littered the inner city with the remains of decapitated and dismembered corpses. Never caught or even officially identified, the Butcher simply faded into history,...
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Over eight bloody months in the mid-1970s, a serial rapist and murderer terrorized Columbus, Georgia, killing seven affluent, elderly white women by strangling them in their beds. In 1986, eight years after the last murder, an African American, Carlton Gary, was convicted for these crimes and sentenced to death. Though to this day many in the city doubt his guilt, he remains on death row. Award-winning reporter David Rose has followed this case for...
46) The Surrogate
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A federal judge is executed in New Orleans. An unknown assassin hangs him from a giant oak tree in Audubon Park. A female reporter happens upon the scene soon after it happens and scoops this sensational story for her newspaper. She attempts to follow up story but finds the police baffled. She meets and falls in love with an older FBI agent assigned to the case.
Michael Bannister, the antihero, is embittered and frustrated at the federal judicial...
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The captivating true story of a charming serial killer. How could a well-bred and highly esteemed young woman in early 19th-century Germany, over a period of 15 years, fatally poison at least 15 people, 9 of them members of her immediate family, without arousing suspicion? The case of an unlikely fall from innocence into narcissistic pathology.
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Journalist Nadia Fezzani spent years probing the minds of serial killers in search of answers to unsettling questions: What went on in their heads as they prepared for their next crime? What drove them to murder not once, but habitually? Were they born killers, or had they begun as normal individuals and been somehow transformed into predators? Fezzani conducted groundbreaking, uncensored interviews with multiple-murderers behind bars. The account...
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This is the frightening story that inspired the movie, "Scream"...
Ambitious, attractive, and full of potential, five young college students prepared for a new semester. They dreamed of pursuing careers and starting their own families. They had a lifetime of experiences in front of them. But, death came without warning in the dark of the night.
Brutally ending five promising lives, leaving behind three gruesome crime scenes, the Gainesville Ripper...
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Unsolved crimes that will put a chill down your spine! The crimes were brutal, but that's not the most shocking thing about them-the most shocking thing is the murderers could still roam the streets today! This bundled collection includes seven books in the Cold Case Crime series: Jeff Davis 8: The True Story Behind the Unsolved Murder That Allegedly Inspired True Detective, Season One The Martyr of El Salvador: The Assassination of Oscar Romero Annihilation...
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IN THE HANDS OF EVIL is a true Australian crime story that the brother of a murder victim was compelled to write. The author is more, at home in his workshop restoring an old classic car than at the keyboard of a computer.
But fate, intervened and placed, him in a position, where he was the only person able, to put together the facts of the death of his sister and the death of two other people, at the hands of a serial killer. The author's aim is...
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On the night of September 15, 1956, a seven-year-old child was murdered on the deserted grounds of the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) in Toronto. The main suspect was a teenage boy seen near the crime scene on a bicycle.
Toronto police arrested Ron Moffatt, a fourteen-year-old former CNE employee who vaguely fit the description of the suspect. During a tough interrogation, Ron falsely confessed and was convicted at trial.
In truth, Ron couldn't...
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The World's Worst Crimes takes you deep into the disturbing world of psychopaths, career criminals, and serial killers. From the Woman in the Box and the Online Murderer to the Düsseldorf Vampire and the House of Horror, this book delves into every major category of crime, sifting through the evidence to present a grisly, compelling, and blood-spattered history of the worst crimes ever committed.
54) Heaven's Drop
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The book begins as Jenny Walters is driving to work in a Chicago snow storm, as she is driving she is day dreaming of her childhood in Vermont and Heavens Drop which her and her brothers affectionally named. It was a hill that they sledded down. Heavens Drop takes the reader to Chicago, Vermont, Italy and France. This is a Murder/Mystery that Jenny Walters as the main character is trying to solve. Also trying to solve the mystery are local detectives,...
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"Behind the Mask: The Golden State Killer" delves into the relentless pursuit of one of America's most elusive and notorious serial killers. This gripping book explores the crimes, investigations, and the shocking revelation that led to the identification and capture of the Golden State Killer. Through meticulous research, firsthand accounts, and expert analysis, it unveils the chilling details and the face behind the mask of this decades-long enigma....
56) Tracks to Murder
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A witty and informative look at classic American murder cases. On a 6,000-mile train trip across the North American continent from New York City to the West Coast, then back to New York over a southern route, prize-winning English crime historian Jonathan Goodman visited a number of sites where notorious murders occurred-the Kingsbury Run torso murders in Cleveland; the murder by 'thrill-killers' Leopold and Loeb; the St. Valentine's Day Massacre,...
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Dopo la chiusura del caso De Sena, Stacie Scott, rampante giornalista e stimata consulente del procuratore distrettuale Douglas, è chiamata a dare ancora una volta il suo contributo nella caccia a un efferato assassino. Nella periferia di Brooklyn, infatti, è stato ritrovato un corpo orribilmente mutilato da quello che la gente e i mass media hanno soprannominato il Tagliagole, proprio per via del suo modus operandi. Tocca quindi a Stacie, affiancata...
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On first impressions, Ted Bundy seemed like the perfect all-American boy. He was good-looking, fun and very charming; many women found him irresistible...
But deep inside he was an evil monster who terrorised large areas of America, assaulting and murdering numerous women and adolescent girls. He used his insider knowledge of law enforcement to evade detection, escaping from imprisonment twice before his eventual capture. While he confessed to 30...
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Chambers of Horror is a study of the warped thinking that went into some of the world's most macabre crimes, as well as a clinical examination of the purpose-built rooms, hidden spaces and soundproof dungeons increasingly prepared for victims. From the massive 'Murder Castle' once used by Dr. H. H. Holmes to prey upon those attending the 1893...
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His name is David Berkowitz. Once the notorious "Son of Sam." His former lifestyle consisted of being an arsonist, setting over 1,000 fires, a Satanist, and serial killer, who in the late 1970s brought a wave of terror to the streets of New York. After the biggest manhunt in New York's history, the headlines read, "caught," and David Berkowitz was, sentenced to 350 years behind bars. While in prison, David Berkowitz became a born-again Christian,...
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