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1) Serpentine
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English
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There was no pattern to the murders, no common thread other than the fact that the victims were all vacationers, robbed of their possessions and slain in seemingly random crimes. Authorities across three continents and a dozen nations had no idea they were all looking for same man: Charles Sobhraj, a.k.a. "The Serpent." A handsome Frenchman of Vietnamese and Indian origin, Sobhraj targeted backpackers on the "hippie trail" between Europe and South...
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Recounts how Chester Burge, a dubious businessman with connections to one of the wealthiest families in Macon, Georgia, was accused of the 1960 murder of his wife, Mary--even though he was hospitalized at the time--and convicted of sodomy.
Author
Publisher
Visible Ink Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The Serial Killer Next Door describes the people, circumstances, and prosecution results of 26 mass-murder cases in the United States, England, and Australia. The criminals here all lead double lives, and the book describes how they kept their nefarious deeds a secret while appearing to be normal, upstanding citizens with careers as military pilots, police officers, landscapers, small business owners, farmers, realtors, reporters, authors, veterinary...
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The shocking true story of one of the twentieth century's most prolific female serial killers." -- book jacket.
Belle Gunness engaged in wholesale slaughter, partly out of greed but mostly for the sheer joy of it. Between 1902 and 1908 she lured a succession of unsuspecting victims to her La Porte, Indiana 'murder farm.' Some were hired hands. Others were well-to-do bachelors. All of them vanished without a trace. When their bodies were dug up,...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In the 1960s, Edgar Smith, in prison and sentenced to death for the murder of teenager Victoria Zielinski, struck up a correspondence with William F. Buckley, the founder of National Review. Buckley, who refused to believe that a man who supported the neoconservative movement could have committed such a heinous crime, began to advocate not only for Smith's life to be spared but also for his sentence to be overturned. So begins a bizarre and tragic...
Author
Publisher
Dutton, Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"These are the true confessions of an assassin. Martin Corona started out life seemingly as American as a midcentury American kid could be. He was the son of a US marine, bouncing from one warm beach base to another. But the combination of an abusive father, ill-advised medication, and some bad choices before he was even a teenager led him into a brutal, murderous outlaw life. In and out of prison, Corona, aka 'Nite Owl, ' soon came into contact with...
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