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"He's the most prolific, enigmatic, and dangerous offender the State of California has ever known... yet he remains unidentified and unpunished to this day. With over one hundred burglaries, fifty rapes, and possibly a dozen murders, the 'East Area Rapist'/'Golden State Killer'/'Original Night Stalker' was truly one of history's most vile and heinous criminals. He seemed to appear out of nowhere in the mid-1970s near Sacramento, California, where he began a series of rapes and murders that left police baffled and communities on-edge. He couldn't be tracked, he couldn't be found, and he couldn't be stopped. Over a ten-year period, towns like Modesto, Davis, Concord, San Ramon, San Jose, Danville, Fremont, Walnut Creek, Goleta, Ventura, Dana Point, Irvine, and the neighborhoods of Sacramento were all violated by this monster. He left behind thousands of clues spread throughout over a dozen jurisdictions but still somehow outmaneuvered efforts to capture him at every turn. This book culls together information from every source possible to present a comprehensive rundown of each and every attack. Evidence is explained, myths are debunked, and viable leads are presented. Other cases which might be related like the Visalia Ransacker, the Ripon Court shooting, the Maggiore murders, and the Eva Davidson Taylor murder are explored. Never before has such a detailed and thorough chronological volume been published about this case. Going over the nuances and evidence with such granularity is a worthwhile exercise. This case is solvable, and the offender is probably still alive. The clues to his identity are in here. Because, as they say...The Devil is in the details"--Page 4 of cover.

"Most people who grew up in Bowling Green, Kentucky have heard of the so-called Murder Mansion on Cemetery Road. However, many people don't know the reason it was given that macabre title so many years ago. The Cemetery Road Murders is the true story about the seventy-year old murders, the real cast of characters involved, and the courtroom dramas that followed"--publisher's website.

In the nineteenth century, the art of photography revolutionized police methods of criminal identification as detectives made collections of criminal portraits in "Rogues Galleries." In this engaging collection, J. D. Chandler presents portraits of thirteen infamous criminals from Portland, illuminating the history of crime in that city. Some of them straddled the law and rose to positions of great power, like James Lappeus, Portland's first police chief; Senator John Mitchell; and Tom Johnson, the notorious Black vice-king of Portland. Some were career criminals like Dutch Pete Stroff, who created a regional crime empire based in Portland, and Little Dutch Herman, who ran a murder-for-hire ring from his nightclub, The Wigwam. Others were brutal opportunists, like Portland's most notorious woman of the nineteenth century, Carrie Bradley; mob-enforcer turned serial killer, Douglas Franklin Wright; and Alvin "Bud" Brown, Portland's forgotten serial killer. All of them lived in Portland and left their bloody mark on the city.

Comes with QR codes that take the reader to behind-the-scenes documents, videos, trial audio and text message threads.

In 2008, bipolar disorder sufferer Rhonda Smith was found murdered in the church where she volunteered.

"The remarkable new account of an essential piece of American mythology--the trial of Lizzie Borden--based on twenty years of research and recently unearthed evidence. The Trial of Lizzie Borden tells the true story of one of the most sensational murder trials in American history. When Andrew and Abby Borden were brutally hacked to death in Fall River, Massachusetts, in August 1892, the arrest of the couple's younger daughter Lizzie turned the case into international news and her trial into a spectacle unparalleled in American history. Reporters flocked to the scene. Well-known columnists took up conspicuous seats in the courtroom. The defendant was relentlessly scrutinized for signs of guilt or innocence. Everyone--rich and poor, suffragists and social conservatives, legal scholars and laypeople--had an opinion about Lizzie Borden's guilt or innocence. Was she a cold-blooded murderess or an unjustly persecuted lady? Did she or didn't she? The popular fascination with the Borden murders and its central enigmatic character has endured for more than one hundred years. Immortalized in rhyme, told and retold in every conceivable genre, the murders have secured a place in the American pantheon of mythic horror, but one typically wrenched from its historical moment. In contrast, Cara Robertson explores the stories Lizzie Borden's culture wanted and expected to hear and how those stories influenced the debate inside and outside of the courtroom. Based on transcripts of the Borden legal proceedings, contemporary newspaper accounts, unpublished local accounts, and recently unearthed letters from Lizzie herself, The Trial of Lizzie Borden offers a window onto America in the Gilded Age, showcasing its most deeply held convictions and its most troubling social anxieties"--

A true story of madness, moonshine and murder in rural Georgia during the Great Depression.

Ex-Army Ranger and sniper, Ben Miller, is the chief suspect in the murder of his wife and her lover in a small town in West Virginia. Ben calls his friend and sniper partner, Hank Murdoch, living in California. Hank agrees to come to Fairmont to help, but when he arrives, Ben has gone to ground in the West Virginia Mountains. Murdoch joins the Sheriff's investigation as a silent, unofficial partner. As evidence against Ben mounts, he secretly contacts Hank and the two of them using their military training, unearth important clues and discover the unimaginable truth behind the killings. Take the Shot is a novel about murder, friendship, love and revenge. As the investigation comes together piece by piece it becomes clear there will be no justice unless Ben and Hank take it into their own hands.

Victimly Insane chronicles Frank Atwood's life path from childhood rape victim to Death Row. In this book length interview from Death Row, Frank Atwood reveals what the public and jurors have never heard about and what the lynch mob media never wanted you to read: how this sweet, rosey cheeked, silver spoon teen who went by Frankie J, arrived at perversity: At the crossroads of victim and victimizer. And, innocent of the crime that placed him on Arizona's Death Row. After each horrendous crime people always look to their God and ask why? Find some of those answers right here in VICTIMLY INSANE. VICTIMLY INSANE is the true crime, personal interview of Frankie J's journey from posh Brentwood childhood to Arizona's Death Row. In this book length interview, Frank Atwood reveals from Death Row what the public and jurors has never heard and what the lynch-mob media never wanted you to read: how this sweet; rosy cheeked, silver spoon teen who went by Frankie J., arrived at perversity; at the crossroads of victim and victimizer. Follow along with the interviewer as he describes how it feels to enter death row's haunted hallway and peer over the frenetic edge into this bizarre and complex conversation with Frank J. Atwood. Then the huge question, could he be innocent?

Joreen Sykes is the author of 4AM, a candid and vivid real-life retrospect of a mothers struggle to regain her self-control and sanity after the tragic and sudden loss of her son Marcus do to gun violence. Ms. Sykes pulls no punches and makes no apologies as she pours out her heart and shares her struggle with grief, with the hope of providing solace for others who have shared her experience and to provide insight for youth to experience through her the other side of violence.

GREG MOX was, by all accounts, a nice, quiet, intelligent "computer nerd." His loving parents adopted and raised him since he was an infant. He was never physically or sexually abused and had no prior criminal history. Yet he felt his reasons justified the horrific killing of his Mom and Dad -- as did 21 other adoptees in this book who similarly unleashed their rage and then tried to cover up the evil deed with fire.

The story concludes in Book Three of the Bar Jonah Trilogy.Considered an expert in the area of psychopathic behavior, Dr. Espy has interviewed more than 30 serial murderers throughout the world including Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, and Eddie Gein. But when he was assigned to be the lead evaluator for Montana State Prison inmate Nathaneal Bar Jonah, an already once convicted serial child molester and attempted murderer in Massachusetts, Espy encountered a parasitic personality beyond imagination: a modern-day Cronos, the Greek mythological figure who devoured his children. Weighing over 375 pounds, Bar Jonah worked as a short order cook at Hardee's, carried a stun gun, impersonated police officers, told masterful lies, wrote unbreakable codes, cooked and shared with friends strange-tasting chili and spaghetti sauces, and was thought by Montana State detectives to have murdered and cannibalized at least one victim, 10-year-old Zach Ramsay.Culled from hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with Bar Jonah, dozens of others who either knew or were involved with him, Montana State investigators and prosecutors, and Zach Ramsay's mother, Espy retells Bar Jonah's entire life-from the time before he was conceived to after his death-and those who were harmed by him in unparalleled detail and scope.

KILLERS ONLINE links 100 unique murder stories to the social media apps and classified ad sites on which the killer and victim first connected. Chapters include Facebook Fatalities, Tinder Trap, eDisHarmony, J[Dead]Date, Zooskicide, Craigslist Carnage, Plenty of [Dead] Fish, Fiend Finder, Bumble Killer Bees, Badoo Bad Boys, Grindr Graveyard, and others. The Introduction provides some background about the sites, surveyed facts and figures as to who and how many use them, what is considered sexually "normal" and "not normal" these days, and how to minimize the risks whether meeting a stranger for a date or sex hookup, or to buy or sell a car or toaster. The author ferreted out details from multiple sources in each case, including victims' and killers' photos, ages, relationships, circumstances that led to the murder, and killers' outcomes, for anyone who enjoys a bloodthirsty tale, as truth is more bizarre than fiction. Includes "300 Dating and Sex Encounter Exploitive Apps," and a Bibliography of news sources. Over 200 photos. Indexed.

The story continues in Book Two of the Bar Jonah Trilogy.Considered an expert in the area of psychopathic behavior, Dr. Espy has interviewed more than 30 serial murderers throughout the world including Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, and Eddie Gein.But when he was assigned to be the lead evaluator for Montana State Prison inmate Nathaneal Bar Jonah, an already once convicted serial child molester and attempted murderer in Massachusetts, Espy encountered a parasitic personality beyond imagination: a modern-day Cronos, the Greek mythological figure who devoured his children. Weighing over 375 pounds, Bar Jonah worked as a short order cook at Hardee's, carried a stun gun, impersonated police officers, told masterful lies, wrote unbreakable codes, cooked and shared with friends strange-tasting chili and spaghetti sauces, and was thought by Montana State detectives to have murdered and cannibalized at least one victim, 10-year-old Zach Ramsay.Culled from hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with Bar Jonah, dozens of others who either knew or were involved with him, Montana State investigators and prosecutors, and Zach Ramsay's mother, Espy retells Bar Jonah's entire life-from the time before he was conceived to after his death-and those who were harmed by him in unparalleled detail and scope.