"Anyone can become a killer under the right circumstances—even you."  It was a bold, life-changing decision when award-winning investigative journalist M. William Phelps asked one of America's most disturbing convicted ...

CON MAN In December 1989, in upstate New York, Gary C. Evans, 35, a master of disguise and career criminal who had befriended David 'Son of Sam' Berkowitz, began weaving a web of deadly lies. Evans told a female friend that Damien Cu...

After her mother's untimely death, Clara Schwartz became distant, withdrawn. Her father, a renowned DNA researcher, lived in a farmhouse outside Leesburg, Virginia, where in December 2001, he was fatally stabbed by what seemed to be a...

"A dark, true account of obsession." --Gregg Olsen"Phelps dares to tread where few others will: into the mind of a killer." --TV RageSmart, gorgeous redhead Beth Carpenter was a successful attorney in Connecticut's...

In the midst of Pennsylvania's Amish country, on a peaceful summer night in 2008, the body of 45-year-old Jan Roseboro was found at the bottom of her backyard pool. Her husband Michael, a successful businessman and a member of a promi...

From one of America’s most celebrated true crime authorities, New York Times bestselling journalist M. William Phelps, the chilling investigation into the mysterious 2015 poisoning of a woman in upstate New York and a family plu...

A tragic missing person case spirals into an unrelenting murder mystery. Intrigue, deception, and serial homicide erupt in the latest real-life thriller by New York Times bestselling investigative journalist M. William Phelps.  In ...

The Killer Book of Cold Cases is the ultimate resource for any true crime buff. Filled with stories, trivia, quizzes, quotes, photos, and odd facts about the world's most baffling cases, this is the perfect bathroom reader for anyone ...

The Killer Book of Infamous Murders is the ultimate resource and gift for any true crime fan and student of the bizarre world of murder and mayhem. Filled with stories, trivia, quizzes, quotes, photos, and odd facts about the world's ...

How does it feel to be in a high-speed car chase? What is it like to shoot someone? What do cops really think about the citizens they serve? Nearly everyone has wondered what it's like to be a police officer, but no civilian really un...

She was fifteen when she visited the therapist; still a teen when they first had sex. She was twenty-five when she married him and forty-four when she killed him. In October 2002, Susan Polk, the soft-spoken mother of three teena...

The Parable of the Knocker: The True Crime Story of a Prosecutor's Fight to Bring a Serial Killer to Justice is a non-fiction book about the investigation, prosecution, and trial of a notorious serial killer, Charles Severance. Severa...

In 1968, the battle in the skies over North Vietnam was a culmination of training, equipment, skill, and mostly luck. Both on the part of Navy Lt. Tony Nargi, his wingman, and the pilots in the MiGs. The terror in the skies would last...

The story of the man who inspired Oliver Stone's JFK. Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty, the former CIA operative known as "X," offers a history-shaking perspective on the assassination of president John F. Kennedy. His theories w...

As well as relating the story, the authors explore the circumstances that enabled such crimes to be committed. Unregulated "adoption" was a widely acknowledged problem. The Child Protection Act did not yet exist. In Mrs. Dye...

For more than twelve years, the city of Juárez, Mexico -- just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas -- has been the center of a horrific crime wave against women and girls. Consisting of kidnappings, rape, mutilation, and murder...

At Any Costunravels the twisted story of Rod Covlin, whose unrepentant greed drove him to an unspeakable act of murder and betrayal that rocked New York City. Wealthy, beautiful, and brilliant, Shele Danishefsky had fulfillment at ...

We all love our mothers, right? Our moms fed us, tucked is into our beds at night, and nursed all of our bruises, both physical and emotional when we were kids. For most of us, we have our mothers to thank for the men and women we ...

Discover the fascinating true crime stories of JonBent Ramsey, the Black Dahlia, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft, the Amber Alert case, the Cleveland Torso Murders, and more--a must-readfor murderinos, armchair detectives, a...

"I couldn't stop reading Caitlin Rother's Then No One Can Have Her. It's riveting, revealing, and insightful." --Suzy Spencer, New York Times bestselling author of WastedShe thought she had married her soulmate. But when Car...

In the tradition of her acclaimed mother, Ann Rule, author of The Stranger Beside Me, bestselling author Leslie Rule delivers a riveting true story for our time—as she exposes the trail of a sadistic sociopath, identity thief, an...

Wealthy Men OnlyStella Sands  Nanette Johnston's personal ad made it clear: "I know how to take care of my man if he knows how to take care of me." Newport Beach millionaire Bill MacLaughlin made the fatal mistake of respon...

A MONSTER PREYED UPON THE CHILDREN OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY BOSTON. HIS CRIMES WERE APPALLING -- AND YET HE WAS LITTLE MORE THAN A CHILD HIMSELF.When fourteen-year-old Jesse Pomeroy was arrested in 1874, a nightmarish reign of terror ove...

In the winter of 1873, a small band of prospectors lost their way in the frozen wilderness of the Colorado Rockies. Months later, when the snow finally melted, only one of them emerged. His name was Alfred G. Packer, though he would s...

Michelle Michaud was a suburban northern California mother and a part-time prostitute. James Daveggio was a drug abuser and violent rapist. Together, they forged one of the most perverse alliances in criminal history - and in Septembe...

It took almost 10 years for investigators to arrest two men for the brutal murders of seven workers in a fast-food restaurant in suburban Chicago. The tragic events captured headlines nationwide. When the arrests finally were made, th...

This powerful memoir introduces student Sarah Smith, whose peaceful existence was shattered one day in 1993 when an IRA bomb exploded near her college. In the aftermath of this terrorist attack, Robert Freegard, a barman she had r...

The Reverend Doctor J. Frank Norris was many things in the 1920's: a pastor who led the nation's first megachurch, a provocative publisher, and a pioneer broadcaster. With the flair of a great showman, he railed against vice and consp...

From the elegant brothel on Basin Street where Kate Townsend's body was found on her lace-hung bed, to the prison cell from which Kenneth Neu serenaded his "mystery woman," the murder history of New Orleans has been a dramat...

Illinois was in many ways born in blood. From the early days of piracy to twentieth-century mob massacres, the state has been plagued with some of the worst crimes in history. This book begins with a general overview of crime in the s...