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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Stranger Beside Me comes a true crime story of a serial killer who was sentenced to die-yet lived to murder again....and again.... After committing his first grisly crime, Harvey Louis Carignan beat a death sentence and continued to manipulate, rape, and bludgeon women to death, using want ads to lure his young female victims. And time after time, justice was thwarted by a killer whose twisted legal genius was matched only by his sick savagery. Complete with the testimony of the officers who put him behind bars and the women who barely escaped with their lives, The Want-Ad Killer is one of the most shattering and thought-provoking true-crime stories of our time.

For decades, evidence of the 1978 murder of Gwendolyn Elaine Fogle lay in the evidence room at the Walterboro Police Department. Investigators periodically revisited the case over the years, but it remained the department's top cold case for thirty-seven years. Special Agent Lieutenant Rita Shuler worked on the case shortly after she joined the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED), and she couldn't let it go, not even after her retirement in 2001. In May 2015, Lieutenant Shuler teamed up with new investigator Corporal Gean Johnson, and together they uncovered key evidence that had been overlooked. With new advancements in DNA and fingerprint technology, they brought the case to its end in just four months. Join Shuler as she details the gruesome history of this finally solved case.

To most Hoosiers, John Dillinger is the very picture of an Indiana fugitive, but the state has seen many fascinating criminal characters on the run. In Tippecanoe County, two Lafayette youths murdered the sheriff's deputies transporting them to prison. The gun-toting Elwood gun girl walked from the headlines into legend. One fugitive passed himself off as a small-town cop while on the run, and a well-spoken Indiana killer became the first fugitive captured as a direct result of the TV show America's Most Wanted. Veteran true crime author Andrew E. Stoner examines not only the trail of destruction criminals have left in their wake but also their lives on the run.

Faulkner County native Red Hall was a serial killer who confessed to murdering at least twenty-four people. Most of his victims were motorists who picked him up as he hitchhiked around the United States. In the closing months of World War II, he beat his wife to death and went on a killing spree across the state. His signature smile lured his victims to their doom, and even after his capture, he maintained a friendly manner, being described by one lawman as a pleasant conversationalist. Author Janie Nesbitt Jones chronicles his life for the first time and explores reasons why he became Arkansas's Hitchhike Killer.

Denville in the 1950s was an idyllic place to live, yet a dark chapter in the era's history has remained uncovered. During the summer of 1953, a wealthy traveler with a secret rap sheet as a convicted sex offender arrived in town to continue his misdeeds. A group of thirteen local boys ranging in age from fourteen to twenty-two took it upon themselves to teach the man a lesson and drive him out of town. What resulted was his brutal death and the largest number of people ever indicted for murder in the nation at the time. The harrowing trial and its aftermath revealed a town forced to grapple with how to protect its youth and come to terms with the gruesome incident. Local historian Peter Zablocki covers the crime and a small town's path to redemption.

On a warm night in September 1985, teenagers Kimberly Dowell and Ethan Dixon were brutally murdered in Westside Park in Muncie, Indiana. Their killer has never been charged. Early on, police focused on a family member of one of the teens as a primary suspect. The investigation even ruled out fantastic scenarios, including a theory that the perpetrator was a Dungeons & Dragons devotee. The case grew cold. Only decades later did a dogged police investigator narrow the scope to a suspect whose name has never been publicly revealed until now. Keith Roysdon and Douglas Walker, authors of Wicked Muncie and Muncie Murder & Mayhem, have followed the investigation into the Westside Park murders for decades and, for the first time, report the complete and untold story.

In 1974, the brutal murder of Anita Fagiani Andrews, a fifty-one-year-old former beauty queen and mother of two, shook the small working-class town of Napa. Detectives, criminalists and forensic experts raced to identify who'd struck Anita down in her own bar, but despite their efforts, the case went cold. Decades passed, during which the town grew into a world-renowned wine region and tourist destination, but the case remained an open question. After thirty-seven years, thanks to DNA evidence, the killer--imprisoned for a different murder--was finally found and brought to justice. Join author and retired judge Raymond A. Guadagni as he tells the story of the shocking murder, the investigation and the subsequent trial over which he presided in 2011.

On Christmas Eve 1881, a horrible crime shook the small town of Ashland, Kentucky, and captivated the entire nation. Three children were brutally murdered and their house set ablaze. Nothing in the small town's past had prepared it for what followed. Three men were convicted of the crimes, and two were sentenced to death. But the murderers were protected by the governor's untrained militia, which would eventually turn their guns on Ashland's innocent citizens. Join author H.E. Joe Castle as he adds to the work of J.M. Huff and discover this incredible, captivating true story of one of the darkest chapters in the history of Kentucky.

Martin C. (1962) wordt beschouwd als een van de gevaarlijkste misdadigers van Nederland. Begin jaren ’90 maakt hij als serieverkrachter Amsterdam onveilig. Twee maanden na het uitzitten van een lange celstraf ontvoert en doodt Martin C. de 13-jarige scholiere Sybine Jansons. Door zijn sluwheid en fouten bij het onderzoek blijft C. nog maanden op vrije voeten en verkracht hij opnieuw enkele vrouwen. Voor de doodslag op Sybine en twee verkrachtingen kreeg de Amsterdammer zeventieneneenhalf jaar cel en tbs met dwangverpleging. Tijdens zijn behandeling in een tbs-kliniek legde Martin C. via een datingsite voor delinquenten opnieuw contact met vrouwen. In De Vrouwenjager brengt auteur Cees Koring de levens samen van Martin C., enkele van zijn slachtoffers, onder wie het schoolmeisje Sybine en rechercheur en co-auteur Marcel Tiehuis. Met indringende interviews en exclusief onderzoeksmateriaal reconstrueert Koring een serie huiveringwekkende misdrijven. Cees Koring werkte bijna 40 jaar bij dagblad De Telegraaf, waarvan de helft als misdaadverslaggever. Van zijn hand verschenen honderden artikelen die landelijk en ook internationaal aandacht trokken, zoals de kindermoorden van Michel Stocks, de Zaanse paskamermoord en de ontvoeringen van Gerrit Jan Heijn en Maup Caransa. Het werk van Koring was in vele opzichten riskant. De journalist werd in 1990 in zijn woning in Amsterdam door criminelen overvallen en zwaar mishandeld. Cees Koring schreef enkele bestsellers. Co-auteur Marcel Tiehuis onderzocht in zijn lange carrière als rechercheur tientallen zware misdrijven en moordzaken.

De plaats van het misdrijf is een spannend geschreven en goed gedocumenteerde reeks verhalen over moord en doodslag in Nederland. Auteur Cees Koring beschrijft en bezocht locaties waar mensen stierven en lang vergeten zijn. Wie weet bijvoorbeeld waar en waarom de boer Keesje Schreurs uit Zeeland in een beerput verdween? En welke gruwelijke geheimen behielden een villa in Baarn en een huis aan de Kramatweg in Amsterdam? In De plaats van het misdrijf beschrijft de auteur ook hoe een moordenaar sliep met de doden die hij maakte, hoe Amsterdam reageerde op de eerste dood door racistisch geweld in 1983 en hoe een bewaker van Bijlmerbajes werd ontmaskerd als een coole moordenaar.Duik in dit boek in enkele van de meest aansprekende Nederlandse strafzaken.Cees Koring werkte bijna 40 jaar bij dagblad De Telegraaf, waarvan de helft als misdaadverslaggever. Van zijn hand verschenen honderden artikelen die landelijk en ook internationaal aandacht trokken, zoals de kindermoorden van Michel Stocks, de Zaanse paskamermoord en de ontvoeringen van Gerrit Jan Heijn en Maup Caransa. Het werk van Koring was in vele opzichten riskant. De journalist werd in 1990 in zijn woning in Amsterdam door criminelen overvallen en zwaar mishandeld.

Explore Boise's Bloody History! Shortly after the nearby discovery of gold in 1862, outlaws and ruffians from all over began to congregate in newly platted Boise City. One of the city's only recorded pistol duels settled a dispute between a covetous husband and the lover of a young damsel--both happened to be lawyers. After getting busted running a long con, the King of Boise's Underworld was sent to the penitentiary. What could be called the area's first mass shooting occurred when an Alaskan gold miner sought revenge against the young woman who stood him up. A local postmaster found himself in a notorious case of a love triangle gone wrong. And, a death cult returned the mummy of one of its followers to Boise. Authors Mark Iverson and Jeff Wade go beyond the traditional histories to gain an appreciation for the lives often willfully removed from history's pages and thus forgotten.

From the early days of piracy to twentieth-century mob massacres, the state has been plagued with some of the worst crimes in history. This book begins with a general overview of crime in the state and then focuses on its headline stories.

Includes Lee Shelton's murder of Billy Lyons, the kidnapping of millionaire Robert Greenlease's son, and many more.

Includes Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance, the Bath School Massacre, the Purple Gang of Detroit, and many more.

The harsh discipline of Puritan life bred the hard-bitten and hard-working people of Massachusetts, but did it also breed a unique type of criminal? This book explores the headline crimes of the state to find an answer.

From its settlement in 1634 to its important proximity to the nation's capital in the present, Maryland has served as a crossroads of America, influencing critical events, not the least of which have been numerous crimes.

Enduring mysteries from the Hoosier StateCrime and tragedy have all too often disturbed the peace and stained the memory of Indiana's bucolic countryside. The small town of Dupont was thrust into the nation's spotlight in 1947 after a series of suspicious deaths were blamed on a well-known local housekeeper--suspected serial killer Lottie Tot Lockman. On a fall day in 1976, a Benton County farmer found an unusual package in his cornfield--a corpse. Dubbed The Box Lady of Benton County, her identity remains a mystery. On September 13, 1989, Joseph Bova was killed outside of his Merrillville home when a pipe bomb rigged to his truck's ignition exploded. With no witnesses, suspects, or motive, his case remains unsolved.Author Autumn Bones explores some of Indiana's least-known unsolved cases.

The saga of The Montana Stranglers in Dakota Territory embodies the violence and vigilantism of the Old West In the early 1880s, desperate characters left over from the fur trade began robbing arriving settlers in the wilderness of Eastern Montana and Northwestern Dakota Territory. Gangs of horse thieves sprang out of camps from the Musselshell in Montana, along the Missouri into Dakota Territory, up into Mouse River-Dogden Butte country and ending at Turtle Mountain. Cattlemen and homesteaders formed vigilance committees, including Granville Stuart's Montana Stranglers, resulting in the violent death of fifty-four people from September 1883 to December 1884. They weren't all guilty and there were probably more. Author Ron Berget shares this thoroughly researched, true story of the Montana Stranglers' bloody pursuits throughout the northern plains.

Het boek 'Seriemoordenaars en kannibalen' beschrijft zes verschillende verhalen over enkele van de gevaarlijkste seriemoordenaars uit de geschiedenis. Het bevat gedetailleerde beschrijvingen van onder andere de 'Zodiac Killer', die verstoppertje speelde met de politie, de pers en de bange inwoners van Californië. De sadistische en bloeddorstige moordenaar Ted Bundy wordt ook in het boek geportretteerd, evenals de 'Killer Clown' die jongens verkrachtte, martelde en vermoordde en jarenlang aan de politie ontsnapte.

"De hemel is blauw en de lucht fris als twee vliegtuigen zich kort na elkaar in de Twin Towers van het World Trade Center in New York boren. Terwijl miljoenen mensen machteloos toekijken, begint een overlevingsstrijd van 102 minuten voor de mensen die nog opgesloten zitten."'Bloedbaden en terreur' geeft enkele van de gruwelijkste momenten uit de geschiedenis weer. Het beschrijft de aanslag op de Twin Towers van het World Trade Center in New York, het bloedbad van München in 1972, de terroristische aanslag in Mekka in 1979, het leven van Osama bin Laden en Mohamed Atta, en de man die twee decennia lang de meest gevreesde terrorist ter wereld was - Carlos.

In het midden van de 19e eeuw is Sicilië een arm eiland dat wordt gekenmerkt door totale wetteloosheid. Temidden van anarchie ontstaat een geheime broederschap van voormalige boeren en arbeiders. Deze ontwikkelen zich uiteindelijk tot het gevreesde misdaadsyndicaat Cosa Nostra. Een paar jaar later stroomden duizenden Italiaanse immigranten naar New York - en met hen kwam de Siciliaanse maffia.

Sommige misdaden zijn zo onvoorstelbaar dat iedereen met open mond staat te kijken naar wat er net is gebeurd. Maar de politie moet snel en correct optreden om de daders te pakken te krijgen. In 'Politieoperaties en criminele jacht' krijgt de lezer een uniek inzicht in het werk van de politie na enkele van 's werelds meest schokkende moorden en misdaden - de moord op John F. Kennedy, de moord op Olof Palme, de moord op Martin Luther King en de vervolging van de grote crimineel Jacques Mesrine, die erin slaagde om uit de superveilige La Santé gevangenis in Frankrijk te ontsnappen.

In the summer of 1957, a young Holmes County farmer was gunned down in cold blood. There was little to distinguish this slaying from hundreds of others throughout the United States that year except for one detail: Paul Coblentz was Amish. A committed pacifist, Coblentz would not raise a hand against his killers. As sensational crimes often do, the "Amish murder" opened a window into the private lives of the young man, his family and his community--a community that in some respects remains as enigmatic today as it was more than half a century ago.

The tragic story of the murders of three women committed over three decades by one cold-blooded man in Maine's North Woods.Jennie Cyr disappeared in 1977. Jerilyn Towers vanished in 1982. Lynn Willette never came home on a night in 19