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Her orange and white striped jump suit beneath long, blonde, flowing locks suggests a children's entertainer, a professional party host for a gathering of eight-year olds. In a different setting, we could expect to hear the screams of joy and laughter, the party poppers going off, the moms and dads enjoying a glass of wine in the middle class kitchen of their middle class homes, bi-fold doors open to the gardens where the children have been placed to avoid the slightest risk of custard pie foam on the couch.Thank God it isn't raining, smile the benevolent hosts, trying and failing to fix an ironic grin on their faces. Truly, in their hearts, they thank God it is not raining.That Lori Vallow does look like a children's entertainer, dressed in bright hoops that extend even to her sneakers, is of course the properly ironic matter here. Painfully ironic. Because Vallow is suspected of one of the worst crimes a mother could possibly commit, although the charges, while hardly throw-away, are of a slightly less serious nature. Clearly, unspoken words tell that the public believe that she is guilty of something far more horrific.A mother betraying her children. More than that? The words are on everybody's lips, sympathy settles in the hearts of very, very few.But what if she's innocent?

Tiffany Cole spied on an elderly couple plotting a way to kill them and take their money. Teresa Lewis used a combination of sex and money to manipulate two men into killing both her husband and stepson in order to gain gain $250,000 in a life insurance scheme. Brenda Spencer predated the killings at Columbine and Parkland as she went on a shooting spree at the school directly in front of her home. Kimberly Saenz hated her job as a nurse and proceeded to dispose of patients she didn't like. Nikki Reynolds was a troubled teen who eventually had a murderous run-in with her adoptive mother who loved her so much...

Elizabeth catches her husband in the act of infidelity with a younger woman. In a blind rage, she flees her husband and tries to sort out her feelings alone in a nearby hotel. She encounters a lurking shadow in the hotel mirror but chalks it up to heightened stress.. She beings to find out sordid information about her husband and the shadow begins telling her that she needs to kill him...Will she listen to the voice or will her sanity prevail?

History is riddled with individuals who have done rather atrocious things. Mass murders, ritualistic deaths, and desecration of bodies - it was easier to get away with things before the connectedness of the modern world. Still, people begin to notice when large numbers of other people go missing. And even in an age before technology, the ones responsible were often found. This is the case with the following story. Even in towns as large as Barcelona, people begin to notice things. And they begin to wonder what is happening. People still talk about "la vampire" of Barcelona as though it is a myth, but there is truth behind the narrative. And here is the tale of the woman who inspired a local legend.

Daniel and Rachel are a married couple who are seeking to cope after the accidental death of their daughter, Kayleigh. The couple barely speak anymore and blame one another for the Kayleigh's death. But soon Rachel begins hearing a voice in the home...a voice that she is convinced is that of her dead daughter...only she can hear it and soon Kayleigh tells her something that she doesn't want to hear...a horrifying secret....but is the voice real or just a figment of her imagination?

Emily, an employee of a bakery, has been dreaming about finding her real life Prince Charming since she was a child. Now, her younger sister, Katie, is getting married, but Katie's simple idea of a wedding is not what the romantic Emily had in mind for her little sister. To make matters worse, Abraham, the bakery's owner, has assigned his headstrong son, John to shadow Emily. As Emily and John butt heads over how the store should be run, Emily meets Gideon, who seems to be her ideal Prince Charming. Not amused by Gideon's saccharine courtship, John bets Emily that she will lose interest in Gideon after one month. Emily accepts his challenge, but soon starts to see that he may have a point about Gideon and that under his blunt persona there is more to John than she thought. When Emily faces a life obstacle, it's John who comes through for her. As she begins to rethink her ideas of love, she discovers that she just may have been waiting for the wrong Prince Charming.

The mass murder by Mary Ann Holder is one such case that rocked the entire country with its appalling and gruesome violence. Mary Ann Holder shot herself after shooting and killing five people including her two sons, a niece, a nephew and the girlfriend of her son. The incident occurred on November 20, 2011 in the town of Pleasant Garden in Guilford County, North Carolina.

Robin was violated by a group of hayseeds in the Louisiana backwoods. The police are doing nothing so she solicits the services of a voodoo witch, the mysterious Madam Porcelain, in order to help her gain revenge. The witch summons a werewolf that Robin can use as a weapon to gain her own personal vengeance but even that comes at a personal cost.

Diane and Michael made a promise to each other when they were kids. If they were both single by the time they reached 30 then they would get married. But Michael left for the Wild West...They would continue to write each other but sometimes the letters never arrived. Michael learned from a mutual friend that Diane had gotten married, he blocked her from his mind...unwilling but accepting. He would make a fortune in the Gold Rush But then the finds out that Diane remains unmarried and that his brother got her confused with another woman. Shall he reach out again to his teenage love? Will she forgive him for not writing back all of these years?

The scene is a peaceful suburban setting in an area where trouble rarely calls. Excitement fills the air as a big community event ensues, but in one house there is a studious babysitter quietly reading her books while the radio plays softly and the children in their charge sleeps peacefully upstairs. Nothing seems out of the ordinary until the sitter meets a terrifying and untimely end at the hands of a deranged, usually masked, villain. It's become something of a trope in horror movies over the decades, with gargantuan figures, such as Michael Myers from the infamous Halloween franchise, preying upon unsuspecting teenagers in unfamiliar locations at the dead of night. But for one teenage girl and her family, this nightmare would become a reality.

California in the 1970s. Serial Killer central. Over a hundred bodies turned up, murdered, mutilated, assaulted in less than a decade. And at least two thirds of them were the result of just one man - compulsive killer Randy Kraft.It is believed that there were at least three serial killers operating in the south western state at that time, possibly more, but Kraft was by far the most prolific. On the night of May 14th, 1983 Sgt Michael Howard was on late night patrol. He and his partner were cruising the highway when they noticed a Toyota Celica driving erratically. It was trying to stay in its lane, but failing badly.Sgt Howard put on the patrol car's red and blue flashing lights, but the Celica did not pull over. It continued on its way for several more minutes before finally easing to one side, so close to the barrier that the passenger door could not be opened. Howard got out of the patrol car and approached the stopped vehicle, and as he did so the driver's side door opened, and out stepped a moustachioed man in his thirties. The policeman immediately realised this was going to be no routine case of driving under the influence because the suspect was displaying some very strange behaviour. But had Howard known then what he came to understand later, he would not have been surprised by the oddities with which he was now confronted. Because the man lurching before him was Randy Stephen Kraft. And he was acting under that part of his personality which came to the fore when compulsion became his driving force. A compulsion to kill.

Still grieving the loss of her hippie mother, Maggie leaves San Francisco for the Amish town of Lancaster. She goes to see the house she's inherited-from an individual she's never met. Maggie hopes to sell the home as she needs the money...and satisfy her own curiosity. She has her own suspicions, that somehow this piece of land belongs to someone on her birth father's side...A man she's never met and knew very little of. Rather than the quaint town she expected, she finds Lancaster to be a place of many shadows-big enough to hold a century of secrets, passions, and betrayals. It also comes with a handsome and enigmatic farmer who takes an instant liking to Maggie. Maggie rummages throughout the home and the town, learning as much about herself as the people in it. In doing so, she finds the Amish town may be just where she belongs.

A DETECTIVE'S NIGHTMARE There he was sitting emotionless and quiet for the past six years in a Los Angeles courtroom, without ever uttering a word in his defense. Lonnie Franklin Jr. also didn't have much of a reaction when he was sentenced to death for the murders of a teenage girl and nine women. Better known by his moniker, Grim Sleeper, a name given to him by the L.A. Weekly in 2008, Lonnie Franklin Jr preyed on drug addicts and prostitutes in a crime spree dating back three decades in Los Angeles. One of the longest operating serial killers in history, the Grim Sleeper targeted poor black women from 1985 until 1988. The killings stopped abruptly and no one was apprehended by the police...Until he began again.

An anthology of paranormal horror...Evelyn Dawson is in therapy..She describes an experience of mental torture and brainwashing at the hands of a real life witch which prompts Dr. Heather Stone to do some investigating on her own. Believing that Evelyn is a victim of a cult, Dr. Stone's investigation leads her to the outer realms of the paranormal where her reasoning and clinical training do her little good as she confronts the forces of darkness.

The murder of Jeanne Clery shocked anyone who read the story. A young and beautiful college student away from home for the first time falling prey to a random and violent stranger. The stuff of every parent's nightmare. But Clery's parents were determined to do something about her death, to not have her daughter simply be another forgotten statistic. Their daughter's death would usher in the Clery Act which would be implemented around college campuses around the nation. But even with these precautions in place, could their daughter's murder been prevented?

An anthology of both Western and Amish Romances...Lily has something she has been keeping to herself. She can't open herself up to anyone about her past because she will surely be judged...But Edward is filled with desire for her. He's willing to travel to the ends of the earth for a bride but found himself spurned....Now with Lily as his mail-order bride, he finds himself going down the same path. While beautiful, she has a penchant for telling tall tales about herself. Still, the couple cannot help but fall for each other. Will Edward commit to a woman that maybe he shouldn't trust? And what exactly is it about her past that she's keeping from him?

An anthology of thrillers... Private investigator Jake Laporte finds himself in a detective novel of his own making when his latest client is targeted for a hit. What's scary is that her husband is a rich and powerful man who is embroiled in an affair with the hottest femme fatale in Hollywood, Sarah Marquez. Jake vows to protect his client but finds himself at odds with the FBI, the Mexican mafia and a surprise figure of his past all of whom want his client dead...even if it means going through Jake. Can he save her life and his own?

More than eighty years after one of the most brutal homicides in the history of the city of Detroit, the crime continues to puzzle investigators. The night of July 3, 1929, Benny Evangelist and his wife, Santina, were slain in their home, located near the corner of St. Aubin and Mack. Their four children - 18 month old Mario, seven year old Angelina, five year old Margaret, and four year old Jeanne - had been killed, as well. It appeared that the murders had been committed by someone wielding an axe - in the master bedroom, Santina's head had been severed and Mario was found with his skull crushed. In the bedroom on the other side of the narrow hallway, the other children had been murdered in their own beds.

A True Crime anthology focused on the black widows of society. At first, the marriage seemed to be fitting of a storybook fairy tale, but relationship troubles pushed both man and woman to the edge of sanity. Unfortunately for Elisabeth Anne "Betty" Broderick's former husband and new wife, it ended in murder.In the early morning hours of November 5, 1989, the calm of a seemingly typical Sunday morning was shattered by the ringing of gunfire. The shooting occurred in the home of one of Marston Hill's most prominent medical malpractice attorneys, Daniel Broderick III. By the time police respondents arrived at the scene of the crime, there appeared to be no evidence of forced entry. However, what waited for them in the bedroom would be something that would be etched in their minds forever.The 44-year-old lawyer was lying in a pool of blood on the floor with a bullet hole in his back. His new wife, 28-year-old Linda Kolkena-Broderick, was found spread on top of the couple's bed with wounds in her head and chest, the bedsheets and pillows drenched in her blood.There was only one suspect, Daniel's ex-wife Betty Broderick.

Gabrielle had never seen anything so beautiful in her life. She stood with the breeze ruffling her auburn locks and birds chirping overhead. She faced a small but gorgeous park filled with flourishing green grass and tall trees she couldn't even name. It was like a dream - this whole experience was. After all, wasn't this the reason she had left her dirty, cramped little home in New York? Wasn't this the reason she had come all the way to Oklahoma and left everything she knew behind?"Gabrielle Nilson?"She startled, wide eyes snapping to the source of the rough voice - to be met with a tall, dark haired man in a fine suit. A smile graced her young features as recognition sparked. "Adam? Adam Bookman?"When he smiled it was dazzling and his entire face lit up. "I am."She was lost for words - and that rarely happened to Gabrielle. Even so, just looking at him sparked warmth in her chest and unimaginable relief, knowing she was safe at last. He was her link to a better life, and the man she was to marry. Perhaps being a mail order bride wasn't so terrible after all.

Hannah has a secret that is eating her alive, and knowing what she does, she couldn't think of accepting Abel's offer to marry. She was far too broken and tainted. All it took was one error in judgement and her life was ruined, not so much to the naked eye, but before Gott. And living with the horrible secret she has had to keep all to herself over the past three years since her return to her home town, it was become more and more difficult. Abel had been in love with Hannah since when they were young, growing up as best friends, he never stopped dreaming that she would one day become his wife. But life changes, people change, and it's becoming more and more obvious to him that Hannah was no longer the innocent girl he used to know. But then he was also no longer the same man. Would their flaws drive a wedge between them or will their love become the glue that binds them?

Wendy has run away from her life in New York after she was attacked by a crazy man. Thinking he is still after her, she travels out to West to become a mail order bride. But once she arrives in Arizona she finds out that her presumed husband to be has run off with a woman from his church! But there is a divorcee named Jason who sent for a mail order bride to help care for his kids even though he really doesn't want to get married again. It was his wife that ran off with Wendy's presumed husband....When Wendy and Jason compare notes, it becomes only natural that the two are what each other needs...Can Wendy take the place of Jason's ex-wife and be the woman he always wanted?

Nicholas inherits his uncle's ranch in Wyoming. He is set to marry a family friend nearby but his letter of proposal is accidentally delivered to the wrong woman. Her name is Faith and she heartily accepts his proposal...She arrives at his farm and Nicholas heartily apologizes. She refuses to leave, however. Taken aback by her brazen nature and beauty, Nicholas hesitates but soon finds himself attracted to the fiery woman...But is her own desire to marry Nicholas fueled by the need to escape from her past or is she willing to be the wife that he so achingly desires?

Catherine Rose Isenberg was an up and coming actress in the East Coast theater scene in the early 1980s. The daughter of a prominent psychologist, she graduated from the top finishing schools and a bright future was hers for the taking in whatever endeavor she choose. But on December 1st, 1984, the beautiful Caroline was viciously assaulted and murdered. Who would want to kill the mild-mannered young actress who had charmed so many theater goers with her "sweet shyness"?

An anthology of Amish Mystery and Romance stories...Sarah planned to leave her Amish community for good. After crossing paths with the Amish mafia, she leaves her place of birth to make it in the Englisch world. She finds out, however, that she cannot escape her past so easily as she meets Jake, another Amish exile and her ex-boyfriend. Fulfilling his lifelong dream to become a police detective, Jake vows to return to their Amish community and solve the murder of his father once and for all. But will it put both him and Sarah at risk?

A BEAUTIFUL MOTHER OF THREE...GONE MISSING Before twenty-nine-year old Bianca Carrasco went missing in San Antonio on May 1, 2016, she was overwhelmed by the strain of her unhappy marriage. While Bianca's family said she was trying hard to laugh through her tears, it was clear to see that things between the mother of three and her forty-year old husband, Joe Daniel, were becoming increasingly difficult. "Things were not normal in her life when she went missing - there are a lot of things happening behind the scenes that are troubling," said Jovanna Burney, Bianca's older sister, during an interview with Dateline May 23, 2016. "The situation is difficult, because we are trying not to be judgmental." What happened to Bianca Carrasco?

Some criminal cases truly divide the public, and the murder of a wealthy Irish businessman Jason Corbett was certainly one of them. He was viciously killed by his second wife Molly Corbett and her father Thomas. Even though the killers claimed that it was self-defense because Jason tried to strangle Molly, the evidence spoke a different story. It was clearly a planned killing that had a different goal - securing Molly with the life insurance money and gaining the custody of Jason's children. She met Jason while she worked as an au pair and got very attached to the youngsters. The police conducted a thorough investigation that shocked everyone involved. It was clear that the murder was personal and that Molly got rid of Jason in a most horrific way because he wanted to leave her and move back to Ireland. She couldn't allow that to happen and she probably asked her father, a retired FBI agent to help her get Jason out of the picture so she could continue to live a lavish life in a large mansion located inside of a gated community. It is unclear if Molly had any psychological issues at the time of the slaying, but she was diagnosed with bipolar depression in the past which could explain her erratic behavior that cost this innocent man his life.

Katherine has lived a life of lies. She journeys to the new frontier town pretending that she's a schoolteacher...She's articulate and persuasive, easily passing for teacher. Only wanting to get enough money so that she can move on, she doesn't expect to feel such warmth from her students...and from the local rancher named Trey. But he has his own skeletons in the closet as they both start to regain the faith they once had when they were younger...and the desire to find someone with whom they can build a life with.

Caroline and Paul have been best friends since grade school. As they've grown older, they never developed a romantic interest in one another until marriage becomes a possibility...with other people. Caroline is being courted by John who secretly wants to have them leave the Amish town and spend their lives in the Englisch world. Paul is courting Rebekah...she's the town beauty and has developed a crush on him. Hearing this, Paul only feels obligated to date Rebekah...but soon realizes that he doesn't want to be separated from Caroline. Does she feel the same way about him?

Loosely based on a true story, Laura is a woman who has been battling depression after her firefighter husband dies in a tragic accident. They were arguing before his death and were headed for a divorce...Moving away from the area, the man who tried to save Tom's life tracks Laura down and he gives her a message that her husband gave him in his dying words.