It was planned to look like a suicide. But even in the best-laid plans, evidence is left behind… Jocelyn Branham Earnest was found dead on the floor of her living room in Forest, Virginia. By her side was a gun and a suicide note...

In September, 2008, Roanoke, Texas, police discovered a house of horrors: poisoned pudding, a bathtub set up for electrocution, a bloody butcher knife, and a hank of chopped-off hair. The worst was yet to come… Days before, sevent...

A LOVING FATHERA typical morning in the Atlanta suburbs: Businessman Rusty Sneiderman drops his beloved son off at the Dunwoody Prep nursery. In the parking lot, a minivan pulls up next to his car. The driver pulls out a gun--and shoo...

She posted it online: "Just to let everyone know, my mother was murdered." But those simple words written by sixteen-year-old Rachelle Waterman couldn't begin to describe the horror of the crime: Her mother's body locked in ...

Their friendship would kill her… Weaver and fiber artist Edith “Pen” Meyer knew her friend Sandy Merritt’s relationship with a married man was wrong. She had even urged Sandy to take out a restraining order against Kenneth C...

Would you kill for love? True-crime master Ron Franscell tells the grisly story of Alice and Gerald Uden, a loving couple who murdered at least four people, and live happily ever after--while cops try for decades to piece together a p...

Finalist, 2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year AwardHelen Garner won a 2015 Windham Campbell Prize for her outstanding contribution to international literature.'Grabbed me by the throat in the same way that the podcast series "Serial&q...

In 2007, Dr. Martin MacNeill-a doctor, lawyer, and Mormon bishop-discovered his wife of thirty years dead in the bathtub of their Pleasant Grove, Utah, home, her face bearing the scars of a facelift he had persuaded her to undergo jus...

In nineteenth-century Austin, Texas, a ruthless murderer terrorized the city in what would soon become a story more shocking than any fiction.In the late 1800s, just as Austin was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpo...

Can Modern DNA Science Crack this Cold Case?The 1978 murder of actor and American icon Bob Crane remains one of the most high-profile unsolved celebrity murders of all time. Thirty-eight years after his brutal murder in Scottsdale, Ar...

"You want to know what happened? Ask Anne."—serial killer William Devin Howell A monster was on a killing spree. In just nine months, seven people went missing; all of their bodies eventually discovered in a wooded lot beh...

They thought about their evil fantasy for months. Then wound up like clockwork toys ... they acted. In April 1997, pretty, 22-year-old Jacine Gielinski stopped her car at a red light in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She had no idea tha...

On a snowy winter evening in 1982, 21-year-old Mary Brown accepted a ride from a handsome stranger in the resort town of Breckenridge, Colorado. The trip ended with her brutally beaten and raped. Mary survived, but her predator's viol...

Learn the terrifying truth behind the world's deadliest serial killers... Serial killers haunt our dreams and inspire the terrifying villains of TV shows and horror movies. But how much do you really know about the minds behind the...

The ultimate collection of fascinating facts, stories, and trivia from the most infamous cold cases from around the world. From England’s Jack the Ripper and the Axeman of New Orleans to lesser-known cases like Detroit's ...

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The New York Times bestseller – now in paperback, with a new afterword“A must-read for those who care about justice and integrity in our public institutions.” ―Alan M. Dershowitz, Esq.The Definitive Story of One of the Most In...

A USA Today Top 10 Best Book of Winter 2014 "Equals Truman Capote's In Cold Blood as a nonfiction novel of crime."—Gerald Bartell, San Francisco Chronicle In the summer of 1998, Walter Kirn—then an aspiring novelist stru...

Losing a young daughter to murder is the worst nightmare that a mother could possibly imagine, but what if the killer was her son? Charity Lee was thrust into this unimaginable situation when her 13-year-old son Paris murdered her bel...

MONEY, MURDER, AND MACHIAVELLIAN MAYHEM ... CONTAINS A NEW EPILOGUEMafia Prince is the first person account of one of the most brutal eras in Mafia history-"Little Nicky" Scarfo's reign as boss of the Philadelphia family in...

Anthony Raimondi was born into a world that most people would never venture into or experience or be part of. He was born into the world of organized crime. In this book, he tells of rampant corruption, payoffs, and bribes and of trea...

The reporters said it was a sexy story-church, money, greed, adultery, blood, a defenseless child with profound disabilities, and a good man who never saw it coming, all the elements that garnered column inches and high ratings. The m...

"Complex and challenging... push[es] the boundaries of writing about trauma." ―The New York Times"A True Crime Masterpiece" – Vogue Entertainment Weekly "Must" List and Best Books of the Year So FarRe...

The true story of Theresa Knorr, the twisted child abuser who murdered her daughters—with the help of her sons—told by a former New York Times reporter.   In June 1985, Theresa Cross Knorr dumped her daughter Sheila&...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OPENING IN THEATERS EVERYWHERE "This book is a public service." — MICHELLE MALKIN, founder of Twitchy and author of Culture of Corruption"Every American needs to read Gosnell."  �...

The Marshalls were the model family of Tom's River, New Jersey, living the American dream of all that money could buy. Rob Marshall was the big breadwinner, king of the country club set. Maria Marshall was his stunningly beautiful wif...

Sarah Pender was an attractive, outgoing, intelligent woman with great potential. But the straight and narrow had no appeal for this depraved young woman dubbed "the female Charles Manson", who knew how to get what she wante...

It was a crime that shocked the country. On March 12, 2011, two young saleswomen were found brutally attacked inside a lululemon athletica store in one of the nation's wealthiest suburbs. Thirty-year-old Jayna Murray was dead-slashed,...

The basis for the FX true crime series American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace, from creator Ryan Murphy and starring Edgar Ramirez, Penelope Cruz, Darren Criss, and Ricky MartinTwo months before Gianni Versace was m...

APopSugarBest True Crime Book of 2020 "The twists and turns read like a page-turning thriller, but Losing Jonis all fact. This is true crime at the highest of levels. Scary, heartbreaking and completely insightful." --Bra...