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OUT OF CONTROL
June 26, 2010. A Pennsylvania State Trooper, heading home from work, witnesses a car speeding and crashing into trees. Stopping to help, he finds that the driver, Michael Ballard, is alive-and drenched in blood. When asked what happened, the man answers: "I just killed everybody."
OUT OF HIS MIND
Not far from the accident, police make a gruesome discovery in the home of Michael's ex-girlfriend, Denise Mehri. Four bodies are found,...
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Fifty-five-year-old Dr. Harold "Fred" Shipman has a noble dedication to his profession, winning the trust of his patients with ingratiating charm and an old-school bedside manner. In fact, he even made house calls-but his unsuspecting patients has no idea of the evil that lurked behind the friendly facade of the kindly doctor...
After thirty years of practice, Dr. Shipman's true nature was finally exposed-that of a calculating killer who delivered...
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Carlton Stowers, the two-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling master of true crime, is back. Scream at the Sky is his masterful chronicle of one man's murderous career, and another man's sworn promise to deliver justice and closure to the people of Texas.
Wichita Falls, Texas, was home to a hundred thousand people in the last months of 1984. That winter was harsh, as the normally arid Texas plains gave way to ominous dark clouds...
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Se cumplen treinta años de la tragedia de Waco, Texas, que culminó el 19 de abril de 1993 tras cincuenta y un días de asedio policial. Ese día, el complejo de Mount Carmel, donde se habían atrincherado los más de cien fieles seguidores de la secta de la Rama Davidiana armados hasta los dientes, acabó pasto de las llamas, y setenta y seis davidianos perdieron la vida, entre ellos veinte niños y el temible líder del culto, Vernon Howell, rebautizado...
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Was the Mafia involved in the 1972 disappearance of the plane carrying Congressmen Hale Boggs and Nick Begich, or was it just a simple case of bad weather? Who murdered the postmistress in Ruby? How did the Alaska State Troopers use cutting-edge science to find Sophie Sergie's killer? How does crime differ from one part of Alaska to another? Alaska has always had a high rate of violent crime. From the gold rush to the building of the Trans-Alaska...
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Janeen Snyder was only fourteen when she moved in with Michael Thornton, his wife, and teenage daughter. Michael was a successful entrepreneur and family man with eight beauty salons and a six-figure income-but two years later, he gave it all up to run away with Janeen. At last, on the road with his new young lover, Michael could indulge his darkest, wildest obsessions ...
They worked together as a team, luring girls into their twisted world of violence,...
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A true story of mass murder in a Chicago suburb.
Successful businessman, community benefactor, good friend and neighbor- and perverted mass murderer. Over a period of three-years, John Wayne Gacy, Jr. sexually tortured and murdered 33 boys. His friends and neighbors in his unassuming Illinois community never suspected a thing. Gacy was a Jekyll-and-Hyde figure,...
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A fascinating look into dimensions of murder that are often overlooked and undeveloped. Spree killing, in particular, is a crime that researchers have vacillated over in the past two decades or so, most notably when the FBI's 2005 consortium on Serial Homicide seemed to walk back from the concept because of the implications of the term "cooling off period." The author draws the reader into consideration of such classifications, both the spree killer...
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AUTHORITIES OPENED THE DOOR ON ONE MAN'S HIDDEN LIFE...
Mike DeBardeleben was known as the Mall Passer for the way he passed off fake money at local shopping centers. But, when U.S. Secret Service agents finally arrested him, they were met with more than just phony bills. They found that their counterfeiter led a shocking double life...
ONLY TO DISCOVER A HOUSE OF HORRORS. DeBardeleben's home was littered with drugs, bondage gear, and a collection...
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The Man Who Talks to Serial Killers World-renowned investigative criminologist Christopher Berry-Dee has gained the trust of infamous serial killers throughout the world, entering their prison cells to discuss their horrific crimes and alarming lack of remorse. With over twenty-five years and hundreds of hours of audio and video interviews, he collects ten chilling true crime stories from the murderers themselves, describing some of the worst crimes...
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After over twenty-five years interviewing the most dangerous contemporary serial killers, bestselling true crime author Christopher Berry-Dee explores the darkest corners of these thrill-killers' minds in Talking with Serial Killers: The Sinister Study of Stalkers. As law-enforcement authorities, including the FBI's elite Behavioral Science Unit, will confirm, the majority of sexual psychopaths gain most of their perverse thrills from the stalking...
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The Orlando Shootings left behind them a trail of mental and emotional devastation for a nation already so divided. On the 16th of June of 2016, Omar Mateen, a young American man walked into a gay nightclub named Pulse in Orlando, where he opened fire on the crowd. Forty-nine people lost their lives and fifty-three more were injured. In the aftermath, Mateen was shot by law enforcement as he refused to give himself in or hand over his weapon over...
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Three true-crime books in one volume, featuring cases ranging from Texas to Georgia to Alaska, from New York Times authors.
Included in this three-in-one volume are:
Bogeyman by author Steve Jackson
For years he stalked elementary schools and playgrounds looking for young girls from low-income neighborhoods to abduct, rape and murder. They were "throwaway kids" to him, hardly missed, soon forgotten, except by those who loved them. He was every...
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The nearest police car arrived at White House Farm at about 3:45am on 7 August 1985 with the call sign, Charlie Alpha 7. On the way, they had overtaken a Citroen saloon driving at 25 mph. When the officers arrived, there was no one waiting for them despite their expectations. Three or four minutes later, the Citroen pulled up and out of it came Jeremy Bamber.
Earlier that evening, Bamber has called the police explaining that his father had called...
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Neighbors knew him as the quiet, unemployed landscaper who tended his mother's beautiful garden. None of them ever suspected that the foul odors coming from his garage was the stench of death hanging over a blood-soaked wheelbarrow, or that the truck he used to carry fresh soil and flower bulbs in became a hearse once night fell...
By night, he reaped a bloody...
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Bestselling true-crime author Christopher Berry-Dee's latest book tackles the heavy crime of people who randomly kill large numbers of others (spree killers) and those who set out to do so in specific places or situations (mass killers). As such killings become more frequent, the ready availability and ease of obtaining firearms and weak backgrounds checks in the United States inevitably lends to many of these cases, but there have been other recent...
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Bestselling author Christopher Berry-Dee returns with a companion volume that delves even deeper into the evil world of psychopaths and their hideous crimes. In Talking with Psychopaths: Beyond Evil, criminologist Berry-Dee combines sections on killers whom he has known, interviewed, or corresponded with, with studies of psychopathic serial killers from the past, including Peter Kurten, the Dusseldorf Monster; John Christie, a murderer and necrophile;...
19) Shadows of Evil
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Claiming he'd been sent by God to confess, truck driver Wayne Adam Ford walked into the Humbolt County Sheriff's Office and admitted to them that he was a serial killer. After police found a gruesome piece of evidence in Ford's pocket, he told them that he had to be stopped before he killed again, before he murdered his ex-wife, and made his beloved three-year-old son an orphan. Authorities arrested the long-haul trucker and listened in horror to...
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Reverend Norman Sirnic and his wife Karen were found in their bloodstained bed with their heads smashed in, while her husband and daughters were away, pediatric neurologist Claudia Benton received 19 fatal blows to the head. Joseph Konvicka, a grandmother of six, who loved to garden, was found dead in her home from a blow to the head.
Angel Maturino Resendez is described by most who know him as a quiet, polite, soft-spoken man, a loving husband and...
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