Category: True Crime

By Alexandre Dumas

ISBN-10: 1620119056

ISBN-13: 9781620119051

There are lots of dreadful -- and maybe scurrilous -- rumors concerning the Borgia kinfolk of renaissance Italy, and Alexandre Dumas (author of "The 3 Musketeers" and plenty of different interval classics) finds one attainable fact in all its gruesome glory. Dumas minces no phrases in describing the violent acts of a violent time.

By Joe McGinniss

ISBN-10: 0451165667

ISBN-13: 9780451165664

Fatal Vision is the electrifying actual tale of Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald, the good-looking, Princeton-educated health practitioner convicted of savagely slaying his younger pregnant spouse and babies, murders he vehemently denies committing.
Bestselling writer Joe McGinnis chronicles each element of this frightening and complicated crime, and probes the existence and psyche of the magnetic, all-American Jeffrey MacDonald, a golden boy who appeared destined to have all of it. the result's a penetration to the guts of darknes that enshrouded probably the most advanced felony circumstances ever to trap the eye of the yank public. it really is haunting, stunningly suspenseful—a paintings that no reader may be capable of put out of your mind.
With eight pages of dramatic pictures and a distinct epilogue through the author

By Geoffrey Howse

ISBN-10: 1783408685

ISBN-13: 9781783408689

Geoffrey Howse explores the darker and sinister part of South Yorkshire's prior during this different choice of crimes and foul deeds, taken from Victorian to trendy times.Read a couple of capturing and 'mob rule' in Doncaster, sensational homicide in Darfield, Mexborough, and Attercliffe; exchange outrages in Sheffield and Rotherham, road theft at Wentworth, embezzlement in Barnsley and arson at Thorne.Unusual situations contain a Doncaster elopement and theft, burglaries by way of women in Rotherham, the stunning killing of a police constable at Swinton and 'coal' riots and lawlessness in Wath-upon-Dearne and Hoyland. A dramatic occasion in Thurnscoe , a Wombwell stabbing affray and a number of lengthy forgotten tragedies and crimes also are explored in a few element.

By Gary L. Stewart, Susan Mustafa

ISBN-10: 0062313185

ISBN-13: 9780062313188

Quickly after his birthmother contacted him for the 1st time on the age of thirty-nine, adoptee Gary L. Stewart made up our minds to go looking for his organic father. His quest could lead him to a scary fact and strength him to reassess every thing he suggestion he knew approximately himself and his world.

Written with award-winning writer and journalist Susan Mustafa, the main harmful Animal of All tells the tale of Stewart's decade-long hunt. whereas combing via govt files and information stories and monitoring down kin and pals, Stewart turns up a number of clues—including forensic evidence—that conclusively determine his father because the Zodiac Killer, essentially the most infamous and elusive serial murderers in history.

For a long time, the Zodiac Killer has captivated America's mind's eye. His skill to avert catch whereas taunting professionals made him notorious. The vicious specificity of his crimes terrified Californians ahead of the Manson murders and after, and stunned a tradition enamored with the beliefs of the dawning Age of Aquarius. To at the present time, his ciphers have baffled detectives and beginner sleuths, and his id is still one of many 20th century's nice unsolved mysteries.

The most deadly Animal of All finds the identify of the Zodiac for the first actual time. Mustafa and Stewart build a chilling mental profile of Stewart's father: as a boy with demanding fixations, a annoyed highbrow with pretensions to excessive tradition, and an irrelevant suitor after which jilted lover not able to technique his rage. eventually, all of the questions that experience surrounded the case for nearly fifty years are replied during this riveting narrative. the result's a unique paintings of precise crime at its finest—a compelling, unimaginable precise tale instructed with the pacing of a page-turning novel—as good as a sensational and strong memoir.

By Deanne Stillman

ISBN-10: 1568586914

ISBN-13: 9781568586915

By Marilee Strong

ISBN-10: 0470227664

ISBN-13: 9780470227664

ISBN-10: 0787996394

ISBN-13: 9780787996390

In keeping with 5 years of investigative reporting and learn into forensic psychology and criminology, Erased provides an unique profile of a common and formerly unrecognized form of homicide: no longer a “hot-blooded,” spur-of-the-moment crime of ardour, as household murder is usually considered, yet a cold-blooded, conscientiously deliberate and methodically completed type of “erasure.” those crimes are usually devoted via males without legal list or historical past of violence whatever, males best sensible and infrequently profitable lives until eventually the instant they kill the ladies, and occasionally childrens, they claimed to like. a shocking quantity pass directly to kill a moment or perhaps 3rd spouse or female friend, usually in just a similar way.In greater than fifty chilling case reviews, Marilee powerful examines the unusual and intricate psychology that drives those killers—from the homicide a century in the past that encouraged the unconventional An American Tragedy to Scott Peterson, Mark Hacking, Jeffrey MacDonald, Ira Einhorn, Charles Stuart, Robert Durst, Michael White, Barton Corbin, etc. Erased additionally appears to be like at how those males manage the criminal method and make the most loopholes in lacking folks systems and loss of life research, exposing how effortless it may be to break out with homicide.

By Alan Emmins

ISBN-10: 0312532741

ISBN-13: 9780312532741

Neal Smither doesn’t disguise his paintings. The aspect of his van reads: “Crime Scene Cleaners: Homicides, Suicides and unintentional Death.” at any time when a lodge visitor completely tests out, the police officers end an research, or an unintended loss of life is pronounced, Smither’s group decide up the items after the police cruisers and ambulances have left.

Alan Emmins bargains a glimpse at this little-known element of America’s such a lot grotesque deaths. packed with info as attention-grabbing as they're gory, Mop males examines not only the general public fascination with homicide but additionally how a self-made good fortune like Smither could make a fortune simply by praying for loss of life.

By James Scott Bell

ISBN-10: 0310253314

ISBN-13: 9780310253310

ISBN-10: 0310541085

ISBN-13: 9780310541080

Homicide, betrayal, and a tribulation that feeds a media frenzy. Can one lady stand opposed to the forces that threaten to rip her relations aside? Pastor Ron Hamilton's famous person is emerging. His 8,000-strong church is flourishing. His beauty and air of secrecy make him a great speaker on relations values. And his ebook on pornography within the church has develop into an unforeseen bestseller. every thing is ideal. till a tender woman's physique is found in a seedy lodge room. the girl is a porn megastar. And the entire proof within the homicide issues to 1 guy: Ron. With the noose tightening round her husband's neck, Dallas Hamilton faces a call: think the possible irrefutable facts---or the voice of her middle. the click has already reached its verdict, and the general public echoes it. yet Dallas is set to do no matter what it takes to discover the reality. after which a dismal mystery from Dallas's previous threatens to take all of them down. because the clock ticks towards Ron's conviction and imprisonment, and an underworld of evil encircles her, Dallas needs to assemble all her belief in God to find what rather occurred in that lodge room . . . whether it ability wasting religion in her husband without end.

By Val McDermid

ISBN-10: 1781253196

ISBN-13: 9781781253199

The lifeless speak. To the appropriate listener, they let us know all approximately themselves: the place they got here from, how they lived, how they died - and who killed them. Forensic scientists can free up the mysteries of the previous and support justice to be performed utilizing the messages left by means of a corpse, a criminal offense scene or the faintest of human traces.

Forensics uncovers the secrets and techniques of forensic medication, drawing on interviews with top-level execs, ground-breaking learn and Val McDermid's personal adventure to put naked the secrets and techniques of this attention-grabbing technological know-how. And, alongside the way in which, she wonders at how maggots accrued from a corpse may also help make certain time of loss of life, how a DNA hint a millionth the dimensions of a grain of salt can be utilized to convict a killer and the way a staff of younger Argentine scientists led through a maverick American anthropologist exposed the sufferers of a genocide.

In her crime novels, Val McDermid has been fixing advanced crimes and confronting incredible evil for years. Now, she's taking a look at the folks who do it for genuine, and actual crime scenes. It's a trip that might take her to warfare zones, hearth scenes and post-mortem suites, and produce her into touch with awesome bravery and wickedness, as she strains the heritage of forensics from its earliest beginnings to the state of the art technological know-how of the fashionable day.

By Edward George, Dary Matera

ISBN-10: 0312209703

ISBN-13: 9780312209704

Edward George comprehend Charles Manson as few others ever will. Former felony counselor to the messianic killer, George enraged Manson as an agent of the state's legal justice procedure, listened to him as a depended on confessor, spoke for him as an erstwhile press agent-and-almost-connected with him as a pal. George observed Manson in a manner the general public by no means might, witnessing the tactic to his insanity, the aura that underlies his ailment, the pathetic deserted boy in the homicidal guy. in the event you learn Helter Skelter and imagine you recognize the entire tale approximately Charlie Manson, re-examine. You don't are aware of it all till you've learn Taming the Beast: Charles Manson's lifestyles at the back of Bars.