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United States of True Crime is an anthology series with books devoted to the most disturbing cases in each of the 50 states. This book focuses on twenty of the most chilling crimes in California history.
True crime junkies may recognize some of the highly publicized cases, but also included are lesser-known, equally unsettling crimes.
Some of the cases included in this book:
Gerald and Charlene Gallego: Killer husband and wife duo who abducted young...
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TWENTY YEARS BEFORE SHOCKING THE WORLD IN LOS ANGELES IN 1947 AS "THE BLACK DAHLIA AVENGER" DID GEORGE HODEL TERRORIZE CALIFORNIA BY COMMITTING SOME OF ITS MOST INFAMOUS CRIMES AND SERIAL MURDERS? From the Introduction: In writing George Hill Hodel: "The Early Years," my original intent was to present all my father's suspected crimes from the 1920s and 1930s in one edition. I have found this is simply not possible as it would require a book that would...
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According to Pew Research Center, 78% of US adults are not convinced of the fairness of the death penalty and doubt its effectiveness as a deterrent to heinous crimes. .
Do you share the same views? Or do you have complete trust in the judicial process?
If you're looking to broaden your grasp of this subject matter, you've come to the right place.
You will gain insights into the legal, moral, social, and personal implications of this type of criminal...
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¿Has escuchado o leído el nombre miles de veces sin saber toda su historia? ¿Te gustaría conocer todo lo que se esconde detrás de este psicópata? ¿Hay manera de evitar a otros individuos como Ted Bundy de acuerdo a la psicología? Entonces sigue leyendo…
"El mal está sólo en tu mente y no en lo externo. La mente pura siempre ve solamente lo bueno en cada cosa, pero la mala se encarga de inventar el mal." - Goethe
Theodore Robert Bundy...
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When widow Frances Lacey was murdered in July 1960 on Mackinac Island, only a few meager clues were found by police, and the case soon turned cold. But more than sixty years later, will those same clues finally solve the mystery? On July 24, 1960, the quaint charm and serenity of Mackinac, nestled between Michigan's Upper and Lower Peninsulas, was shattered by Lacey's brutal death. Despite a massive manhunt and thousands of pages of police reports,...
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¿Te has preguntado quienes son los seres humanos más despiadados de toda la historia? ¿Quiénes han cometido los actos más crueles e innombrables hacia otros seres humanos? ¿Qué es lo que los convierte en monstruos capaces de cometer violentos crímenes? Entonces sigue leyendo..
"Estoy seguro que a cualquiera le gusta un buen crimen, siempre que no sea la víctima." - Alfred Hitchcock
No siempre hemos sabido cómo hablar de los criminales que...
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This combo consists of two true crime books, which are:
Pablo Escobar - One of the big lords of the drug cartels in Colombia is Pablo Escobar, a criminal who became a leader and expanded his influence on organized crime throughout the North and South American continents. With billions in his bank account, in cash, and in other assents, it's not easy to ignore his name and the power he gained.
In 1976, Escobar established the Medellín Cartel, which...
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The shocking true crime story of child murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, Great Britain's most horrific serial killers. During the early 1960s, just as Beatlemania was exploding throughout the United Kingdom, a pair of psychopathic British killers began preying on the very young, innocent, and helpless of Greater Manchester. Between 1963 and 1965, Ian Brady and his lover and partner, Myra Hindley, were responsible for the abduction, rape, torture,...
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Dating a psychopath is one of the most dangerous situations that women can accidentally put themselves into.
It often leads to harassment, stalking, physical abuse, and at its worst, even murder.
Thankfully, avoiding psychopathic serial killers when on the dating scene is a lot easier than you think… once you know the signs.
And this book will make you a pro at noticing the red flags of a psychopath even when you're not the one dating them.
But...
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An "excellent true-crime study" of a female serial killer given the death penalty for poisoning at least three men between 1973 and 1989 (Publishers Weekly).
Widowed Blanche Taylor Moore was about to lose her second spouse to symptoms that mysteriously mirrored those that killed her first husband-as well as her previous boyfriend. When an investigation reveals arsenic poisoning, the hideous truth about the wife and mother comes to light. Did the abuse...
11) Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI
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For fans of Mindhunter and Criminal Minds, a chilling account of a woman facing down serial killers as one of the first female profilers of the FBI Behavioral Sciences Unit and real-life model for The Silence of the Lambs' Clarice Starling
Jana Monroe was no ordinary cop: a cofounder of, and at the time, the only female agent in-the world-renowned FBI Behavioral Sciences Unit at Quantico, over the course of her career she consulted on more than 850...
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If you're a fan of true crime, you're undoubtedly familiar with the big-name cases: Ted Bundy, BTK, David Berkowitz, Christopher Watts, Diane Downs, Casey Anthony, Jeffrey Dahmer, Jodi Arias, Ed Gein, etc. The list of well-known, notorious cases throughout history is seemingly endless. Books, websites, podcasts, streaming television series, and magazines are filled with their abhorrent tales of mayhem. They're some of the most foul killers the world...
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The incredible true story of a woman who risked everything to put her brother, a murderous psychopath and one of the world's most infamous crime bosses, behind bars.
Astrid Holleeder is in hiding because she had the courage to write this book. Her brother Willem Holleeder, best known for his involvement in the 1983 kidnapping of the CEO and chairman of Heineken brewing company, is one of the most notorious criminals in contemporary history. For...
14) Serial Killers
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In a quiet town in Wichita, Kansas comes the Serial Killer that is known as Dennis Rader. He wasn't your typical murderer; no he was something more than this, a twisted and demented family man.
Jeffrey Dahmer and his cannibalistic murder spree
The Zodiac Killer who terrorized San Francisco
John Wayne Gacy, the Klown Killer
If you liked authors Jack Rosewood and Ryan Green, then you are going to be on the edge of your seat!
Delve deep into the...
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The shocking true story of the Russian serial who brutally murdered more than fifty victims-and evaded capture for over a decade.
By the time he was brought to trial in 1992, Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo had killed more than fifty women and children, often sexually abusing them and leaving their bodies mutilated beyond recognition. Although he was initially arrested in 1984, the police lacked enough evidence to pin the unsolved murders on...
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