This A-list selection looks in depth at 25 headline murder cases involving those who live their lives in the full beam of the media spotlight, including film starlets, TV actors, music legends, comedians, fashion moguls, movie directo...

The Dead Do Tell Tales... A pioneer in forensic anthropology, Dr. Bill Bass created the world's first laboratory dedicated to the study of human decomposition. Bill Bass's research at 'the Body Farm' has revolutionized forensic sci...

In Long Island, a farmer found a duck pond turned red with blood. On the Lower East Side, two boys playing at a pier discovered a floating human torso wrapped tightly in oilcloth. Blueberry pickers near Harlem stumbled upon neatly sev...

During his twenty-five year career with the Investigative Support Unit, Special Agent John Douglas becamea legendary figure in law enforcement, pursuing some of the most notorious and sadistic serial killers ofour time: the man who hu...

A LIFE TAKENJeanne Dominico's fiance found her body on her kitchen floor. More than forty stab wounds and blows to her head with a blunt instrument had cut her life short. What monster had struck in the heart of a peaceful New England...

A dramatic and compelling true-crime psychological thriller This incredible story shows how John Douglas tracked and participated in the hunt for one of the most notorious serial killers in U.S. history. For 31 years a man who ...

Ethically and morally, kids are works in progress. Throw in psychopathy and you've got a soul that will never be complete.' In this powerful, disturbing book, bestselling author and noted child psychologist Jonathan Kellerman shines a...

“A fascinating turn-of-the-century story of medical malpractice and murder. If you liked The Alienist, you’ll find Starvation Heights all the more gripping because this story is true.” —Michael Connelly

Describes the harrowing May 2001 attempt of twenty-six men to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, a region known as the Devil's Highway, detailing their harrowing ordeal and battle for survival against imposs...

America may have had its fill of psychos for the last forty years, but none of them has inspired so many books and films (Pyscho, The Silence of the Lambs, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) as Wisconsin's cannibalistic handyman, Ed Gein. N...

In these pages, acclaimed journalist Jon Krakauer investigates a spate of campus rapes that occurred in Missoula over a four-year period. Taking the town as a case study for a crime that is sadly prevalent throughout the nation, Kraka...

Veteran crime writer Ann Rule is uniquely qualified to chronicle the grisly career of Gary Ridgeway, the man convicted of being the 'Green River Killer,' the most prolific serial killer in American history. Not only is she one of the ...

A profile of the world's first known Internet serial killer seeks to demonstrate how mainstream Americans can become victims of cybercrime, explains the psychological factors of physically devoid online relationships, and how the case...

Throughout the late eighties and nineties, a gang of young Asian refugees cut a bloody swath through New York's Chinatown. They were the lost children of the Vietnam War, severed from their families by violence and cast adrift in a s...

The legendary FBI profiler shares his insights into the minds of killers and their crimes as he draws on some of his real-life cases of serial murder, sex crimes, celebrity killings, and hostage takings--including that of vampire murd...

It was a crime that shocked the nation, a brutal murder in Chicago in 1924 of a child, by two wealthy college students who killed solely for the thrill of the experience. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb had first met several years ea...

For 17 years, the Soviets knew every military move we made! That is how damaging the Walker family spy ring was to our national security. For the better part of two decades, John Walker, his son Michael, brother Arthur, and friend J...

Describes the life and death of twenty-year-old Tonya Hughes, killed by a hit-and-run driver in 1990, and the discovery that she had been living with a federal fugitive who had kidnapped her as a toddler, and who allegedly killed her....

Drawing on hundreds of hours of face-to-face interviews, Carlo reveals the story of Richard 'The Ice Man' Kuklinski, who became one of the most notorious and sadistic professional assassins in American history, working for such crimin...

They were held in brutal captivity--and managed to make it out alive. "This is their story." The Lost Girls are Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus--three innocent young women who were kidnapped, imprisoned, and...

Combining the drama of a true crime story with the detail of a police procedural, Finding Amy chronicles the investigation into one of the most shocking murders in recent Maine history. Twenty-five-year-old Amy St. Laurent was attract...

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In this unnerving collection drawn from her personal crime files, "America's best true-crime writer" (Kirkus Reviews) Ann Rule brilliantly dissects the convoluted love affairs that all too often end in violence. Expertly ana...

A true-crime shocker of a Southern town shattered by a brutal murder. As seen on America's Most Wanted. Crime never happened in a town like Madisonville, Kentucky. That's why the vicious slaughter of one of its beloved female citizens...

In the mid-century Manhattan of gangsters, prizefighters, showgirls, and two-fisted detectives, a double homicide occurred: dashing restaurant owner Pete McGinn and his friend Richie Glennon were shot to death in a brutal execution-st...

Hidden far from sight, deep in the thick underbrush of the North Florida woods are the ghostly graves of more than thirty unidentified bodies, some of which are thought to be children who were beaten to death at the old Florida Indust...

DIV/A harrowing, edge-of-your-seat narrative of murder and secrets, revenge and heroism in the City of Angels, GANGSTER SQUAD chronicles the true story of the secretive police unit that waged an anything-goes war to drive Mickey Cohen...

A blood-curdling compendium of truly odd crimes featuring murderous witches, mad scientists, and killer dwarves From the stomach-churning to the truly bizarre, the details of some of history's weirdest and most shocking murder cases ...

Two true-crime thrillers as seen on Discovery's Murder is Forever TV series - premiering February 2018MURDER BEYOND THE GRAVE. Stephen Small has it all-a Ferrari, fancy house, loving wife, and three boys. But the only thing he needs r...

AN UNIMAGINABLE CRIME. AN UNLIKELY PLACE. AN UNRELENTING KILLER. On December 16, 2004, a Nodaway County, Missouri, 9-1-1 operator received a frantic call from the mother of 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett. The eight-months-pregnant mo...