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 ...

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...

Heather Catterton was a beautiful, beloved seventeen-year-old when her body was found in the brush by a country road in South Carolina. Sweet-natured Randi Saldana's remains were then discovered, charred and unrecognizable, in a wo...

On the morning of May 4, 2003, a well-loved, hard-working freshman student named Katie Autry was found dead in her dormitory room at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green. She had been raped, stabbed, drenched in hairspray, and...

AND THE SEA WILL TELL, written by renowned defense attorney and author of HELTER SKELTER Vincent Bugliosi, reconstructs the events and subsequent trial of a riveting true murder mystery, and probes into the dark heart of a serpentine ...

 In the heart of Indianapolis in the mid 1960's, through a twist of fate and fortune, a pretty young girl came to live with a thirty-seven-year-old mother and her seven children. What began as a temporary childcare arrangement betwee...

After following the clues for 30 years, 'San Francisco Chronicle' employee Graysmith provides the final chapter on the Zodiac killings with hundreds of never-before-published photos and the only complete reproduction of the Zodiac let...

Based on Death Row interviews with Ramirez, an account of his murderous crime spree follows his criminal odyssey, from his first brush with the law, to his Los Angeles murders, to the investigation that brought him to justice. Reissue.

Pleasant Garden, North Carolina, is rocked by the brutal murder of Patricia Blakley, whose body turns up in the burned-out ruin of her own home, a death that reveals the dark side of Ted Kimble, the son of a local preacher, whose own ...

Examines the case of Peter Bergna, a wealthy Lake Tahoe art dealer accused of murdering his wife Rinette in an apparent motor vehicle accident, discussing the crime, the first trial that ended in a hung jury, and the second trial that...

In 1994, Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson were brutally murdered at her home in Brentwood, California. O.J. Simpson was tried for the crime in a case that captured the attention of the American people, but was ultimately acquitted...

The author of ten New York Times best sellers, including three gripping Crime Files volumes, Ann Rule has proved time and again the she is our premier chronicler of true crime. Now with brilliant insight and an unrelenting eye for cri...

Before Michael Connelly became a novelist, he was a crime reporter, covering the detectives who worked the homicide beat. In these vivid, hard-hitting pieces, Connelly leads the reader past the yellow police tape as he follows the inv...

In 1935, the Spokane police regularly extorted sex, food, and money from the reluctant hobos (many of them displaced farmers who had fled the Midwestern dust bowls), robbed dairies, and engaged in all manner of nefarious crimes, inclu...

FROM TRUE-CRIME LEGEND ANN RULE comes this riveting story of a young woman whose life ended too soon—and a determined mother's eleven-year crusade to clear her daughter's name. It was nine days before Christmas 1998, and thirty-two-...

Describes the brutal murder of wealthy Las Vegas bookie Bruce Weinstein and the search for, capture of, and conviction of his girlfriend Amy DeChant, who had killed her lover to get her hands on Weinstein's fortune and was captured wi...

The true story of the murder of fifteen year old Rachel Barber as told by court reporter Megan Norris and Rachel's mother, Elizabeth Southall. The account details the extraordinary planning of the murder by the teenage killer, Carolin...

In 1988 Ericka and Julie Ingram began making a series of accusations of sexual abuse against their father, Paul Ingram, who was a respected deputy sheriff in Olympia, Washington. At first the accusations were confined to molestations ...

Describes the case of millionaire James Sullivan, the murder of his estranged wife, Georgia debutante Lita McClinton, his escape from justice from nearly fifteen years, and his eventual arrest in Thailand after years on the run. Origi...

"Welcome To My Mortuary!" Those were the words of William Lee 'Cody' Neal, 43, to Angela Fite on July 5, 1998, after luring the pretty 28-year-old to the Denver, Colorado townhouse he'd turned into a den of torture and slaug...

There are places in the United States of America where violent acts of bloodshed have occurred.Years may pass—even centuries—but the mark of death remains.They are known as Murder Houses. From a colonial manse in New England to a ...

Frank Rodriguez, a much-loved counselor of troubled teens, lies dead on the bedroom floor. His wife and step-daughter are in shock, and so is the medical examiner when he performs the autopsy. Aside from being dead, Frank is in perf...

Renowned forensic anthropologist Bill Bass—founder of the Body Farm—tackles one of his most baffling cases ever in this real-life spellbinder In 1978, 56-year-old Leoma Patterson left a bar in Clinton, Tennessee, and was never see...

Brilliant linguist, charming professor, and renowned writer Tom Murray had a way with words. He used them to seduce. And he used them to get away with murder.Erudite Kansas City professor Tom Murray seduced, then married his starry-ey...

"Bugliosi has definitively explained the murder that recalibrated modern America." —Jim Newton, Los Angeles Times Book ReviewParkland (originally titled Four Days in November) is the exciting and definitive narrative of th...

THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED PODCAST "PARADISE"In this shocking true-crime drama, a forty-year-old double murder brings together a grieving family and two brothers―just kids when they witnessed thei...

Brian Stidham fell in love with Tucson, Ariz., the minute he came to town. A young and talented eye surgeon, he accepted a job with an established eye surgeon to take over his pediatric patients. "It's a beautiful place," St...

When Karen Foster was told that something had happened to her eighteen-year-old daughter, Bonnie Craig, she knew what it meant. The Alaska State Troopers investigating the scene ruled it a hiking accident, but for Karen, the pieces ...

A riveting true-crime tale that presents the thrilling account of a murder in 1937 China that caused an international media sensation Chronicling an incredible unsolved murder, Midnight in Peking captures the aftermath of the brutal ...

"Remarkable…a richly detailed, affecting account…Giridharadas seeks less to uplift than illuminate…Which of these men is the ''true American'' of the title? That there is no simple answer to that question is Giridharadas's ...