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...

In October 2014, after Chris Regan failed to arrive at his new job, his ex-girlfriend filed a missing-person report. Something was off. It was not like Chris, a devoted father, avid hiker, and all-around great guy, not to show up. Whe...

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 ...

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...

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...

I'll be watching you.Walking home on a dark night, you hear footsteps coming up behind you. As they get closer, your heart pounds harder. Who is closing in with dangerous intent—a total stranger? Or someone you know and trust? The a...

America's #1 true-crime writer fulfills a murder victim's desperate plea with this shattering New York Times bestseller."If anything ever happens to me...find Ann Rule and ask her to write my story." In perhaps the first tru...

An idyllic Hawaiian wedding held the promise of a wonderful future for handsome, athletic Chris Northon, an airline pilot, a confirmed bachelor-turned-devoted family man; and Liysa, an acclaimed surf photographer, loving mother, and a...

In 1985, thirty-tw0-year-old David Brown seemed to have it all. A computer genius with a million-dollar business, he was married for the fifth time, most recently to Linda, a twenty-three-year-old beauty and the mother of his new-bor...

When young women begin mysteriously disappearing in Oregon, Police Lieutenant James Stovall leads a relentless search for a killer. With little evidence available, and the public screaming for answers, he must find a remorseless, brut...

As a young man, Randall Woodfield had it all; he was a star athlete with good looks, and an award-winning student. Working in the swinging West Coast bar scene, he had more than his share of women. But he wanted more than just sex. An...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ann Rule, "America's best true-crime writer" (Kirkus Reviews), her unforgettable classic account of the horrifying murders in the Pacific Northwest and her shock when she discovered ...

After his first grisly crime, Harvey Louis Carignan beat a death sentence and continued to manipulate, rape, and bludgeon women to death-using want ads to lure his young female victims. And time after time, justice was thwarted by a k...

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...

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...

On June 24, 2012, Dr. Shane Truman Todd, a young American engineer, was found hanging in his Singapore apartment, just a week before his scheduled return to the United States. Although Shane had repeatedly expressed apprehension about...

Nestled deep in the north Georgia woodlands are the ruins of an estate appropriately and ironically named Corpsewood. The conservative residents of the small towns nearby all know of the two men who came from Chicago to live among the...