A tipsy young woman seeking aid on a desolate highway disappears into the inky black night. A retired schoolteacher is stabbed to death in broad daylight. Two women are butchered after closing time in a small-town beauty parlor. The ultimate whodunits, these crimes demand the attention of LAPD detective Milo Sturgis and his collaborator on the crime beat, psychologist Alex Delaware.
A friend of Frank Clevenger, a brilliant forensic psychiatrist, desperately needs help in solving a chilling murder. One of the infant twin daughters of billionaire Darwin Bishop has been murdered in her crib. The suspected killer is her adopted brother, Billy. As Clevenger becomes convinced that Billy may be innocent, it becomes clear that the killer is circling another victim - the remaining twin. Clevenger lays a trap to reveal the killer in an unforgettable finale.
The basis of the award-winning film starring Orson Welles, Compulsion gives a shocking fictionalized account of the Leopold-Loeb murder case - in which two young graduates of the University of Chicago kidnapped and killed a child for the intellectual challenge.
A tipsy young woman seeking aid on a desolate highway disappears into the inky black night. A retired schoolteacher is stabbed to death in broad daylight. Two women are butchered after closing time in a small-town beauty parlor. These and other bizarre acts of cruelty and psychopathology are linked only by the killer's use of luxury vehicles and a baffling lack of motive.
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A young woman who disappeared into the black night; a retired school teacher stabbed to death in broad daylight and two women butchered in a beauty parlour. Three murder cases, linked only by a perplexing lack of motive. But then LAPD detective Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware are called to the scene of a bizarre "crime". A stolen car has been anonymously returned to its owner, undamaged and unblemished - except for a tiny, solitary bloodstain.
It's about time Susie got around to asking, "Do you suffer from sexual compulsion?" Susie asks you to take a little quiz to find out if your sexual thoughts are getting in the way of the rest of your life, and more. Susie also found a news story about an innocent water balloon that exposed a gay porn site in Florida. In her Try This at Home mailbag, Susie answers a woman whose lover keeps telling her her size really matters too.