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The media sometimes give one the impression that violence and murder has always been the preserve of men but that's not actually true at all. As this book will illustrate, all human beings - regardless of their gender - are capable of evil and the most awful crimes. There have been many chilling female serial killers in history and they come from all backgrounds and all nations. They can be just as deadly, just as dangerous, and just as gruesome as the most notorious male serial killers. There have been necrophile female serial killers, female serial killers who use axes, hammers and knives to budgeon or stab their victims, cannibal female serial killers, sadistic female serial killers, and female serial killers who have murdered all of their relatives - including the children. One might even argue that, in many cases, female serial killers sometimes have a cunning and nous that their male counterparts don't always seeem to possess. They do say the female of the species is deadlier than the male. Well, let's put that to the test. It's time to countdown the 100 deadliest female serial killers in history...

Acclaimed journalist Sullivan delivers an explosive investigation into the murder of the Notorious B.I.G., with exclusive material from the FBI investigation and his estate's wrongful death suit against the City of Los Angeles.

In the tradition of Killers of the Flower Moon, a haunting murder mystery revealing the human story behind one of the most devastating crimes of our time: the ruthless destruction of the Amazon rain forest?and anyone who stands in the wayDeep in the heart of the Amazon, the city of Rondon do Pará, Brazil, lived for decades in the shadow of land barons, or fazendeiros, who maintained control of the region through unscrupulous land grabs and egregious human rights violations. They razed and burned the jungle, expelled small-scale farmers and Indigenous tribes from their lands, and treated their farmhands as slaves?all with impunity. The only true opposition came from Rondon's small but robust farmworkers' union, led by the charismatic Dezinho, who fought to put power back into the hands of the people who called the Amazon home. But when Dezinho was assassinated in cold blood, it seemed the farmworkers' struggle had come to a violent and fruitless end.What no one anticipated was that this event would bring forth an unlikely hero: Dezinho's widow. Against great odds, and at extreme personal risk, Maria Joel, now a single mother of four young children, used her ingenuity and unwavering support from union members to bring her husband's killer to account in court. Her campaign gained unexpected momentum, helping to bring international attention to the dire situation in Rondon, from Brazil's president Lula to international celebrities and civil rights groups.Maria Joel's fight for justice had far-reaching implications: it unearthed a chilling world of corruption and lawlessness rooted in Brazil's quest to turn the largest rain forest on earth into an economic frontier. As more details came out, it began to look increasingly likely that Dezinho's killer, a reluctant and inexperienced gunman, was just one piece of a larger criminal consortium, with ties leading all the way up to one of the region's most powerful and notorious fazendeiros of all.Featuring groundbreaking revelations and exclusive interviews, this gripping work of narrative nonfiction is the culmination of journalist Heriberto Araujo's years-long investigation in the heart of the Amazon. Set against the backdrop of appalling deforestation rates and resultant superfires, Masters of the Lost Land vividly reveals the human story behind the loss of?and fierce crusade to protect?one of our greatest resources in the fight against climate change and one of the last wild places on earth.

Jack the Ripper, a seaman on a cattle boat transporting live cargo into London, murdered possibly nine females, if not more, during 1888 and 1889 in the Whitechapel district of London, England. An illegitimate child, his mother an Australian by birth, Jack resided in a boarding house at Aldgate where he received £1 a week from his father, a Chief Justice of England and Wales, later Privy Councillor to Queen Victoria, and an allowance from his half-brother, who was a doctor. After botching the last murder, Jack was hidden at Hatfield House by Lord Salisbury. Discovering that Jack was connected to the House of Lords, the Home Secretary instructed the Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, London, to discontinue all further inquiries into the atrocities, resulting in Jack being banished to Australia where two of his uncles had properties in the Western districts of New South Wales. Same as what happened in England, Jack was protected from arrest for murders he committed in New South Wales, two men proclaiming their innocence on the gallows, one saying that he was dying for the sins of another. Escaping from New South Wales into Queensland, Jack ran off with a young woman from Lower Tent Hill in the Gatton district, west from Brisbane. Chased thereafter from one end of Sydney to the other in New South Wales, the 18-year-old female was located by police and returned to Queensland. Later that year, which was seven years after the last Whitechapel murder, a "Dear Boss" letter was received from Jack at the Commercial Street Police Station, London, announcing he had been abroad, that he was back in London, and that the murders would start again. Before the threat was carried out, the young woman died at Lower Tent Hill, apparently from injuries suffered during an illegal abortion, forcing Jack to abandon his activities in London and return to Australia to avenge the death of his one good friend. In 1898, on the Eve of the 2nd anniversary of the young woman's death, Jack and his accomplices lured a brother and two sisters, one of whom was the intended victim, into a paddock at Gatton where the brother was forcefully masturbated and the sisters viciously raped, the heads of all victims being pulverised with a hardwood stick as they laid dead or dying on the ground. Jack was the prime suspect until the Home Secretary instructed the Commissioner of Police, Brisbane, same as what happened in England, that Jack was not to be arrested. The attention of police then focused on an accomplice, who would have been the third hung for Jack's sins in Australia if he had not come up with an alibi. Soon after, Jack deserted from the Queensland Permanent Artillery. Instead of being arrested for desertion, the Commissioner of Police requested police in other colonies not to approach and alarm the fugitive but to observe and report Jack's whereabouts to him at Brisbane. In 1900, which was the year his parents married, Jack died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head and is buried under an alias at Sydney, the authorities denying that it was Jack, saying that the deceased was a lunatic with a similar name. Two years later, advice from the Criminal Investigation Branch, Brisbane, that the serial killer had been sighted with a young woman at Landsborough, north from Brisbane, metaphorically described Jack riding off into the sunset with his sweetheart, bringing the curtain down on Jack's life.

¿The Original Blue-Beard - The History of Gilles De Retz¿ is Thomas Wilson's 1899 biography of Gilles de Rais (1405¿1440), a French knight and lord who led the French army and was one of Joan of Arc's companion-in-arms. Rais lived an extravagant life and even dabbled in the occult before being hanged for a series of child murders in 1440 in Nantes. It is believed that Rais was the inspiration for "Bluebeard", a French folktale of a wealthy man who murders all of his wives but his last, whose brothers finally put an end to him and his terrible crimes. Contents include: ¿Gilles De Retz¿, ¿Gilles as a Soldier¿, ¿Gille¿s Life at Home in Brittany¿, ¿Gilles¿s Crimes¿, ¿Gilles¿s Trial Before the Ecclesiastical Tribunal¿, ¿The Trial Before the Civil Court¿, ¿The Execution¿, ¿Mother Goose Publications¿, ¿Bluebeard Stories¿, ¿Mystery of the Siege of Orleans¿, etc. Read & Co. History is proudly republishing this classic biography now in a brand new edition complete with an introductory biography from ¿Encyclopaedia Britannicä (1911).

With the help of a mysterious and sexy FBI agent, he must put an end to the killer's reign of terror. What they encounter is more than either of them bargained for. Former SFPD Detective Frank Crenshaw is asked to solve a string of copycat murders. It's not going to be an easy job. When the killings are linked to his past, Frank must work fast to reveal the person responsible. Assigned to him is Sarah Coulson, a mysterious and sexy FBI agent with secrets of her own. He must put an end to the killer's reign of terror. What they encounter is far more than they ever imagined.

Former Metropolitan police chief Odbald has returned to his home county of Dorset after being sacked by the Home Secretary. With his legendary sleuthing skills and uncompromising style, his assistance is regularly called upon. These eight crime stories depict the doyen of detection at his brilliant best.

A serial killer is on the loose in tiny Challis, Idaho, an all American town, an idyllic town, a cowboy town where God and country mean something and serial killers are monsters from the big city. Jackson McGregor is a big city homicide detective on vacation in Challis and is too familiar with killers but will the small town sheriff let the big city detective help in the investigation? And the bodies pile up.

Pack up your Ouija board, wine bra, and squirt guns full of holy water ... we're going on a road trip! From the hit podcast And That's Why We Drink, this is your interactive travel guide to the hosts' favorite spooky and sinister sights. The world is a scary place ... and that's why we drink!

Murder and Mayhem -- true stories of crimes in the United State's fourth corner. Everything from public hangings, husbands killing wives, wives killing husbands, and strangers coming to town. Filled with intrique and rich, true history. A great read.

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.