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By day, Sam Smithers was a deacon of his church in Tampa, Florida. But by night, he was a serial killer who picked up prostitutes and brutally murdered them. This is the story of one man’s twisted, double life.

In the late 1990s in Poughkeepsie, New York, the bodies of prostitutes were piling up. Lt. Bill Siegrist knew a serial killer was preying on the women. Determined to stop any further killing, Siegrist followed a trail that led him to Kendall Francois, a middle school monitor with the nickname Stinky, because of his slovenly hygiene. When Francois was finally arrested for his crimes, police found seven bodies in the attic and crawl space of his house, with one woman still missing.

When two General Motors executives drove into Crater Lake National Park in July 1952, no one could have predicted they would be dead within an hour-not even their killers. It was a crime of opportunity, a botched robbery during the middle of summer in a crowded national park. When Albert Jones and Charles Culhane were found shot to death two days later, the story became a national obsession. The FBI used every resource and available agent but, as time wore on, the investigation ran out of steam. A lack of evidence worked to the killers' advantage. They had committed a perfect crime. The FBI tried hard to solve the case. Their 2,000+ page report details a staggeringly complex, multi-agency effort: 200 ballistics tests, 1,000 interviews, 466 license plate identifications. The man-hours were beyond calculation and yielded valuable information. Buried within the individual reports of the FBI, Oregon State Police, and local other agencies were many clues to the nature and identity of the perpetrators. The FBI file had rarely been seen by anyone outside the bureau until December 2015 when the author received it on two discs, satisfying a Freedom of Information Act request submitted three years before. This book summarizes all that information and adds to the research: the FBI file, Oregon State Police reports, fresh research and interviews, county records, rare firsthand accounts, reaction from one victim's family, and an obscure college thesis that first named the killer. The Crater Lake Murders tells the true narrative: four men with nothing in common until the day they met-an encounter from which only two of them walked away. The details of the double murder remained a deadly secret kept and held by an unlucky few for seventy years. Add to this the personal account of a man to whom the killer once confessed. On the day he died in 1966, the confessor reminded his wife about "the things that nobody talks about," and as a final wish, implored her to contact the local sheriff with the information, which she did. The details of that report have never been revealed. Until now.

A Recommended Read from: The Los Angeles Times * Town and Country * The Seattle Times * Publishers Weekly * Lit Hub * Crime Reads * AlmaFrom the author of The Real Lolita and editor of Unspeakable Acts, the astonishing story of a murderer who conned the people around him--including conservative thinker William F. Buckley--into helping set him freeIn the 1960s, Edgar Smith, in prison and sentenced to death for the murder of teenager Victoria Zielinski, struck up a correspondence with William F. Buckley, the founder of National Review. Buckley, who refused to believe that a man who supported the neoconservative movement could have committed such a heinous crime, began to advocate not only for Smith's life to be spared but also for his sentence to be overturned.So begins a bizarre and tragic tale of mid-century America. Sarah Weinman's Scoundrel leads us through the twists of fate and fortune that brought Smith to freedom, book deals, fame, and eventually to attempting murder again. In Smith, Weinman has uncovered a psychopath who slipped his way into public acclaim and acceptance before crashing down to earth once again.From the people Smith deceived--Buckley, the book editor who published his work, friends from back home, and the women who loved him--to Americans who were willing to buy into his lies, Weinman explores who in our world is accorded innocence, and how the public becomes complicit in the stories we tell one another.Scoundrel shows, with clear eyes and sympathy for all those who entered Smith's orbit, how and why he was able to manipulate, obfuscate, and make a mockery of both well-meaning people and the American criminal justice system. It tells a forgotten part of American history at the nexus of justice, prison reform, and civil rights, and exposes how one man's ill-conceived plan to set another man free came at the great expense of Edgar Smith's victims. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

From historical accounts to modern cases, explore the captivating psychology behind these killer women, unraveling their motives and unveiling the dark complexities of human behavior.

Little Falls, MinnesotaThanksgiving 2012When two teenage cousins break into a residence on Elm Street, a true-life horror story unfolds. Little do they know that the retired homeowner has set a sinister trap to catch whoever was burgling his home.More than twenty-four hours after the two teenagers lose their lives, investigator Jeremy Luberts responds to a suspicious activity complaint at that same Elm Street residence, beginning a case that will forever alter his life and embroil his community and the nation in a debate over just how far people can go to protect themselves in their own homes.

12 Disturbing True Crime Stories of Murder and MayhemVolume 10 of the True Crime Case Histories Series (2022)Readers Love This Series - Over 7,000 Five-Star Ratings on Amazon & GoodreadsTrue crime is not for everyone. But chances are, if you've picked up this book, you already know that. Actual true crime is not like watching an episode of CSI. Even television true crime documentaries can skim over the sticky details. Real true crime can be unsettling for many people. However, I do my best not to leave out any details in my books. My intention isn't to shock but rather to give the reader a glimpse into the killer's mind. I don't begin to think that I can understand the mind of a diabolical monster, but I can guarantee that curiosity will keep us turning pages and endlessly searching for answers. Each story in my books requires hours of tedious research. I search through court records, old newspaper articles, police records, autopsy reports, and first-hand accounts. Although I may occasionally change a character's name or fictionalize bits of dialogue, these crimes really happened to real people. Sadly, this is the world in which we live. A sampling of the stories includes: A Sad Holiday Season - In the north of England, a sixteen-year-old girl disappeared after Christmas shopping with her friend. A massive manhunt led police to a serial killer who lived just blocks away from her home. Pretty in Pink - A teenage girl showed up at the door of a farmhouse bruised, bloody, and unable to remember how she got there. Investigators dug through the clues to uncover a bizarre love triangle and a gruesome murder. A Perfect Holiday - After her partner is sent to prison for molesting her eldest daughter, a mother will do anything to keep her two youngest children from being taken by social services. The Christmas Tree Farm Murders - An elderly couple in southwest Washington disappeared hours before they were due to host a Christmas party at their home. It took detectives twenty-seven years to bring the killer to justice. They Got in the Way - A single mother of two young children would do absolutely anything to spend more time meeting sex partners online. Even the unthinkable. The Girl Scout - When a seven-year-old girl disappears from her upstairs bedroom in the middle of the night, a small community realizes they have a devious predator in their midst. Plus many more disturbing stories. The stories in this volume are terrifying and represent human behavior at its absolute worst. Pure evil. However, these things really happen in the world and we shouldn't ignore that fact. We may never understand what goes on in a killer's mind, but at least we can be better informed. We may never really understand what goes on inside the mind of a killer, but at least by studying the case histories and knowing their backstory, we might gain insight into what makes them tick. With any luck, we can learn from the past. Scroll up to get your copy True Crime Case Histories Volume 11 is due out February 2023 and will feature 12 more short stories of; True Crime, Murder & Mayhem, Serial Killer Biographies, and True Murder Case Files. Included in this volume: John Taylor, Leanne Tiernan, Mary Rowles, Alice Jenkins, Ricky Riffe, John Riffe, Ed and Minnie Maurin, Lianne Smith, Martin Smith, David Alan Westerfield, Danielle van Dam, Brooke Crews, William Hoehn, Savanna Greywind, Dee Casteel, Alan Bryant, Mike Irvine, William Rhodes, Art Venecia, Bessie Fischer, Frank Jarvis Atwood, Vicki Lynne Hoskinson, Louise Porton, Christopher Hightower, Ernest, Alice, and Emily Brendel, Rob Petrick, Janine Sutphen, Ezra McCandless, Alex Woodworth