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An extraordinary A-to-Z reference of killers, poisons, police jargon, prison slang, forensics terms, and much more.
Immerse yourself in the fascinating world of criminology with the one and only True Crime Dictionary. Containing everything from famous crimes, cold cases, and serial killers to deadly weapons, spy lingo, and legal language, this book is sure to enthrall true crime lovers. Get an in-depth look at familiar terms and learn new ones, with...
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Most Evil II is Steve Hodel's follow-up investigation (2009-2015) into his father's potential murders and introduces new evidence and additional linkage obtained by him over the past six years. Included in that evidence, is the solving of the Zodiac's forty-five year cryptic cipher, which gives us the answer to the question asked in Most Evil, 'Were Black Dahlia Avenger and Zodiac the same serial killer?'
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Albert Fish held the genuine belief that the murders he committed were upon instruction from God. Peter Stumpp, who started practicing the "wicked arts from twelve years of age", was convinced he was a werewolf. There are many more murderous individuals like them. Supernatural Serial Killers explores the association between serial killers and the supernatural. The crimes committed by these men and women usually involved sexual deviance, cannibalism...
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A definitive compendium of Canada's mass murderers and spree killers. Rampage: a state of anger or agitation resulting in violent, reckless, and destructive behaviour. In 1989,Marc Lépine mercilessly executed 14 female students at Montreal's École Polytechnique to become Canada's most notorious mass murderer. The following year spree killer Peter John Peters roamed from London, Ontario, to Thunder Bay, leaving a trail of bloodied bodies, broken...
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Medics and carers hold the lives of their patients in the balance. They see us at our most vulnerable, and we trust them utterly. Yet there are those who abuse this trust in the medical profession and take advantage of their position to commit the most hideous crimes.
In this gripping account, readers can discover the chilling stories of these cold-hearted killers. Some kill because of a twisted sense of mercy. Others let their monstrous egos take...
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The Man In My Dream is inspired by true events of psychological horror that conspired in a 26 year old girls life after a car accident. This fast paced and gripping thriller tells the gruesome story of the man who never left the girls dream after the accident-with a twisted ending.
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Dorothea Gray Johanson Montalvo Puente was a female serial killer, an extremely rare phenomenon in the annals of American crime. She took advantage of a flaw in the Social Security laws to carve a lifelong career out of exploiting elderly, ill, often-helpless people. She established herself in positions of trust in order to steal these people's only source of income, then drugged them to expedite her chicanery and, finally, murdered them. Dorothea...
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Part I: In 1983, the author's mother gives him the papers of Leon Josephson (d. 1966) which included decades of legal research on the Duck Island murder case (1938-1966). Also included are documents concerning Josephson's encounters between 1947 and 1959 with the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). Due to a legal quirk, Leon Josephson served 9 months in a high security Federal penitentiary in Milan, Michigan but emerged a member of the...
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TRACKRS: On the Cold Trail of a Serial Killer is the true account of the modern-day pursuit of a serial killer who terrorized Orange County, California in the late 1970s. The victims were young females living in apartments, alone when they were attacked. Their murders were gruesome and brutal. All had been sexually assaulted. Beginning in October of 1995, two Orange County deputy district attorneys, Michael Jacobs and Mel Jensen, focus their review...
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In Exacerbate, the Author introduces her Readers to the world of sickening violence, horrific brutality, and other mutilations as she uses several murderous characters to show the differences between victims who are not drawn into sadistic vengeance and those victims who mutilate others because they themselves have been mutilated. She will lead the Reader on an expedition into the minds of heartless killers as she examines their psychological profiles;...
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The Statesville Prison experience will pull you right in, if not already. It was surreal being a White male in his forties locked up in one of the most horrific prisons in the country, Statesville Penitentiary. After another blink of an eye, he's transferred to minimum-security East Moline Illinois Prison. The bus ride experience is straight out of Hollywood, except it's real. His time spent in sweet Moline doesn't last long as expected due to some...
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The real story of the shocking Jeffrey Dahmer murders, as told by the Milwaukee Journal reporter who broke the story-from the dramatic scene when police first entered Dahmer's apartment to the lasting repercussions of the case today.
One night in July 1991, two policemen saw a man running handcuffed from the apartment of Jeffrey Dahmer. Investigating, they made a gruesome discovery: three human skulls in Dahmer's refrigerator and the body parts of...
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James P. Watson traveled throughout Canada, the Pacific North West, and California. He approached refined women with marriage proposals and promises of exotic travel. He ran lonely hearts ads in local newspapers. He married as many as 50 women altogether, and after extracting their money, killed at least 22, and abandoned many more. He got away with it for twenty years until one suspicious wife brought him down.
This is the story of an American Bluebeard...
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In a place where murder isn't supposed to happen-rural Missouri and Southern Illinois-deputy sheriff and investigator Harry Spiller learned the hard reality: murder is all around us. It doesn't matter whether you live in a big city or small county with farms and churches-murder is swift and can happen to anyone, anywhere, and anytime. All too often, victims fall prey in places we think are safe to raise our families, where we take walks on hot summer...
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La trata de blanca es algo real. "La catastrófica vida en la prostitución" es escrito por una víctima real de ello.
Los "padrotes" (hombres que explotan mujeres) existen, acechan a sus víctimas, las amenazan con sus familiares y muchas veces hasta las embarazan a la fuerza para amenazarlas con sus propios hijos, es una realidad y se vive a diario, sin darse cuenta vecinos, están cerca de ellos. Las mujeres no son rescatadas y mueren a mano de...
76) Strangler
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To the outside world, Anthony Allen Shore was an average guy: a twice-divorced father who drove a tow truck in suburban Houston. Handsome and charismatic, he generally kept a low profile. But in his mind he was a superstar . . .
A musical prodigy who never realized his potential, Shore found a way to outsmart society-by getting away with murder. And he wanted the whole world to know it. After brutally killing a 16-year-old girl, he called the local...
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Twisted tales of killers who almost got away with perfect murders. A man murders the first four infants he fathers with his lover, then tries again with a fifth. Two men have three things in common: each commits what seems like a perfect murder, each marries his victim's wife far too soon, each has an overdue appointment with the gallows. A man cuts up the body of his victim into little pieces and gets away with the crime until he slaughters another...
78) Jeff Davis 8: The True Story Behind the Unsolved Murder That Allegedly Inspired True Detective, S
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Jefferson Davis Parish has been described as quaint, and in many ways it certainly is. For anyone from a big city much of the area, especially out among the farms, is like a trip in a time machine. For a sleepy rural community, however, Jefferson Davis is a lot more violent than you'd expect, and these days cheap, potent rocks of cocaine are at the root of a lot of that violence.
Crack addicts are famously willing to do just about anything to subsidize...
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As a social exercise, the author of this book collects some of the most disturbing stories from 10 death row psychopaths and their feelings as a last request to be able to put their deepest emotions on paper.
All of them were executed days before they could personally deliver them, most of them in different states of the United States. The names were kept private for the participants' privacy.
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This is a story about Kurtis Camble, who has been fighting his demons his whole life. Kurtis-KC, as he is better known-has chosen to allow the streets to raise him. Deep in his heart, he wants to leave the streets and make a change, but the streets refuse to allow him to leave. When these same streets murder his son, he confronts these streets and they respond by threatening to destroy him as well.
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