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True Crime Historical and Present Day Tales of Dark Misdeeds
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The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands
by Jon Billman
Through Jacob Gray's disappearance in Olympic National Park, and his father Randy Gray who left his life to search for him, we will learn about what happens when someone goes missing. Braided around the core will be the stories of the characters who fill the vacuum created by a vanished human being.
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Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
by Casey N. Cep
Documents the remarkable story of 1970s Alabama serial killer Willie Maxwell and the true-crime book on the Deep South's racial politics and justice system that consumed Harper Lee in the years after To Kill a Mockingbird. A first book.
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I Will Find You: Solving Killer Cases from My Life of Fighting Crime
by Joe Kenda
The star of Homicide Hunter, who investigated 387 murder cases during 23 years with the Colorado Springs PD, details the homicides too gruesome for TV, cases that still haunt him and the few cases where the killer got away, and divulges insights into the motivations and proclivities of nature’s most dangerous species—man.
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The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy
by Elizabeth Kendall
An updated, expanded edition of the author’s 1981 memoir detailing her six-year relationship with serial killer Ted Bundy, which was the basis for the Amazon Original docuseries, includes a new introduction and a new afterword by the author, never-before-seen photos, and a startling new chapter from the author’s daughter.
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Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found
by Gilbert King
The author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Devil in the Grove documents the mid-20th-century case of a gentle, developmentally challenged youth who was falsely accused of raping a wealthy woman, in an account that traces the efforts of a crusading journalist to uncover the virulent racism and class corruption that led to his incarceration without a trial.
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Practice to Deceive
by Ann Rule
The best-selling author of Dead by Sunset traces the murder case of Whidbey Island resident Russ Douglas, who after spending Christmas with his estranged wife and children in 2003 was found murdered in his car and whose death implicated a long list of suspects, including an aging beauty queen and her boyfriend.
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My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heiress
by Rachel DeLoache Williams
Tells the true story of Anna Delvey, a young con artist posing as a German heiress in New York City—as told by the former Vanity Fair photo editor who got seduced by her friendship and then scammed out of more than $62,000.
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The Girl on the Velvet Swing: Sex, Murder, and Madness at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
by Simon Baatz
A chronicle of the events surrounding the 1906 murder trial of millionaire Harry Thaw details the scandalous victimization of teen actress Evelyn Nesbit and Thaw's vengeance-fueled, public murder of legendary architect Stanford White, a case that tested the limits of the free press and raised awareness of the disproportionate power of Gilded Age tycoons.
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The Trial of Lizzie Borden: A True Story
by Cara Robertson
Draws on 20 years of research and recently discovered evidence in a revisionist account of the infamous Lizzie Borden trial that explores professional and public opinions while considering how Gilded Age values and fears influenced the case.
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Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men
by Harold Schechter
Provides a gripping account of one of the world’s few female serial killers who lured unsuspecting victims, including hired hands and well-to-do bachelors looking for a spouse, to her “murder farm” in Indiana between 1902 and 1908.
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The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
by Kate Summerscale
When a pair of preadolescent boys are implicated in the murder of their mother during the summer of 1895, the older is convicted and sent to the country's most infamous criminal lunatic asylum, where he embarks on a shocking new life that raises questions about period education, pulp fiction, criminality and mental illness. By the best-selling author of Queen of the White Cay.
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Manhunt: The Twelve-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
by James L. Swanson
A fascinating and vivid account of the escape of John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln's assassin, takes readers along on the intensive search from the streets of Washington, D.C., through the swamps of Maryland, into the forests of Virginia, and into the lives of the men who pursued him.
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The Black Hand: The Epic War Between a Brilliant Detective and the Deadliest Secret Society in American History
by Stephan Talty
Beginning in the summer of 1903 the children of Italian immigrants were kidnapped, and dozens of innocent victims were gunned down. Bombs tore apart tenement buildings. Judges, senators, Rockefellers, and society matrons were threatened with gruesome deaths. The perpetrators' only calling card: the symbol of a black hand. The tabloid press heated ethnic tensions to the boiling point. Joseph Petrosino, a dogged and ingenious detective, and the all-Italian police squad he assembled, raced to capture members of the secret criminal society before the country's anti-immigrant tremors exploded into catastrophe.
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Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History
by Tori Telfer
Based on her popular online series that appeared on Jezebel and The Hairpin, the author, in this first book to examine female serial killers through a feminist lens, delves into the cruel and cunning minds of 14 women who, largely forgotten by history, had a penchant for murder and mayhem.
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King Con: The Bizarre Adventures of the Jazz Age's Greatest Imposter
by Paul Willetts
A portrait of charismatic vaudeville performer and 1920s con artist Edgar LaPlante describes how he amassed millions through a fraudulent charity, his seduction of a wealthy Austrian countess and his friendships with celebrities and powerful world leaders.
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