Serial Killers

The true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death....

Billy Jensen goes to Columbus, Ohio, where he examines the unsolved cases of 18 dead and missing women whom he suspects were the victims of serial killers on the loose and operating under cover of the opioid epidemic in America's heartland....

For his victims, for their families and for the investigators tasked with finding him, the senselessness and brutality of the Golden State Killer's acts were matched only by the powerlessness they felt at failing to uncover his identity....

John Wayne Gacy raped, tortured, and murdered 33 boys and young men, burying most of them in the crawlspace under his Chicago home. Karen Conti was in high school at the time watching the bodies being removed on the television news.

Lindsey's twenty-one-year law enforcement career was motivated by the horrifying crimes against young women and girls that impacted her and ignited her pursuit of justice for victims....

A masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer - the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California for over a decade....

In the pantheon of serial killers, Belle Gunness stands alone. She was the rarest of female psychopaths, a woman who engaged in wholesale slaughter, partly out of greed but mostly for the sheer joy of it....

What you are about to hear are my first three books. The stories in this collection will make you realize just how fragile the human mind can be....

This Ultimate True Crime Case Collection contains disturbing accounts of some of the most brutal and bizarre true crime stories in history. Often told from the killer’s perspective, Green’s riveting narratives draw the listener into the real-life horror experienced by the victims....

In The Killer Across the Table, John E. Douglas, legendary FBI criminal profiler, number one New York Times best-selling author, and inspiration for Netflix’s Mindhunter, delves into the lives and crimes of four of the most disturbing and complex predatory killers....

Prosecuting attorney in the Manson trial Vincent Bugliosi held a unique insider's position in one of the most baffling and horrifying cases of the 20th century....

From the detective who found the Golden State Killer, a memoir of investigating America’s toughest cold cases and the rewards–and toll–of a life solving crime....

For decades, cold-case homicide detective J. Warner Wallace investigated the causes behind deaths and murders, chasing one lead after another for months as he attempted to solve the case....

This Ultimate True Crime Case Collection contains disturbing accounts of some of the most brutal and bizarre true crime stories in history. Told from the killer’s perspective, Green’s riveting narratives draw the listener into the real-live horror experienced by the victims....

On May 31, 1985, two days before her high school graduation, Shari Smith was abducted from the driveway of her family home in South Carolina....

In the most extraordinary journey Ann Rule has ever undertaken, she has spent more than two decades researching the story of the Green River Killer....

The Serial Killer's Apprentice tells the story of Corll and his accomplices in its fullest form to date. It also explores the concept of "mur-dar" (the predator's instinct for exploitable kids) and how tales like Henley's can aid with early intervention.

In 1873 the people of Labette County, Kansas made a grisly discovery. Buried by a trailside cabin beneath an orchard of young apple trees were the remains of countless bodies. Below the cabin itself was a cellar stained with blood....

Worshippers stream out of an Midwestern synagogue after sabbath services, unaware that only a hundred yards away, an expert marksman and avowed racist, antisemite and member of the Ku Klux Klan, patiently awaits, his hunting rifle at the ready....

In this collection, you'll find 36 true crime stories from the last 100 years, many of which you may never have heard of....

Bill James applies his analytical acumen to crack an unsolved century-old mystery surrounding one of the deadliest serial killers in American history....

A true-crime collection culled from the crime files of the New York Times best-selling series, Notorious USA....

From the FBI’s former assistant director, a shocking journey to the dark side of America’s highways, revealing the FBI Highway Serial Killings Initiative’s hunt for the long-haul truckers behind an astonishing 850 murders–and counting.

After his first grisly crime, Harvey Louis Carignan beat a death sentence and continued to manipulate, rape, and bludgeon women to death - using want ads to lure his young female victims....

This A-Z encyclopedia of 150 serial killers is the ideal reference audiobook. Included are the most famous true crime serial killers....

Looking deeper than the victims and suspects themselves, this journal explores the conspiracies behind one of the world's most intriguing of true tales, with reports of the day right up to the findings of 21st century journalists and sleuths.

While Burnham overcame politics, infighting, personality clashes and Chicago's infamous weather to transform the swamps of Jackson Park into the greatest show on Earth, Holmes built his own edifice just west of the fairground. He called it the World's Fair Hotel. In reality, it was a torture palace, a gas chamber, a crematorium. These two disparate but driven men are brought to life in this mesmerizing, murderous tale of the legendary Fair that transformed America and set it on course for the twentieth century.

Step into the hidden world of organized crime with The Men Behind Mob Wives: Salvatore “Sammy The Bull” Gravano. This gripping eBook takes you behind the headlines and into the heart of the Mafia, offering a compelling look at the life of one of its most notorious figures. Known as King Rat, Sammy became world famous thanks to his daughter’s role on the VH1 reality TV show, Mob Wives, where Karen Gravano bared it all for viewers about being the daughter of an infamous mob boss turned rat and helped take down the infamous John Gotti. Join us as we unravel the untold stories of ...

There are scary places everywhere, but most people don’t want to know about them. They avoid them. They pretend they don’t exist. They act brave. But we know they’re there. This book is for those brave souls who not only that scary places surround us, but venture further by seeking them out. If you’d like to know more about South Carolina’s scary places, plan on visiting them, or want to make a road trip you might not return from, then this book is for you. About the editor- Dr. David Powers is an adventurer, philosopher, and pioneer and lives a life of constant experimentation. ...

Strap in for a thrilling journey into the world of true crime podcasting with the brand-new eBook, "Unraveled." This groundbreaking guide promises to equip you with everything you need to know about creating a captivating and successful true crime podcast. Unraveled delves into the allure of true crime podcasting in its opening chapter, offering comprehensive analyses of popular podcasts and successful podcasters. You'll gain priceless insights into securing, creating, and offering content that resonates with true crime enthusiasts. Purposefully formulate your unique podcast concept and ...

Elmer Wayne Henley, Jr. was only fourteen when he first became entangled with serial rapist and murderer Dean Corll in 1971. Fellow Houston, Texas, teenager David Brooks had already been ensnared by the charming older man, bribed with cash to help lure boys to Corll's home. Corll baited Henley with the same deal he'd given Brooks: $200 for each boy they could bring him.

John Wayne Gacy raped, tortured, and murdered 33 boys and young men, burying most of them in the crawlspace under his Chicago home. Karen Conti was in high school at the time watching the bodies being removed on the television news. Fourteen years pass. Through a twist of fate, Conti, now a young and inexperienced attorney, is called upon to handle Gacy’s final death row appeals. The serial killer soon becomes her most famous, difficult, and haunting client.

The Death Row journals of serial killer Joseph Edward Duncan III, written between 2010 and 2021. In his journals, Duncan relates previously unknown details of his crimes, his thoughts on society and the influences in his life that caused him to become a killer, and chronicles his life in prison. These journals have now been curated and presented for the first time as four volumes in complete chronological order.

The Death Row journals of serial killer Joseph Edward Duncan III, written between 2010 and 2021. In his journals, Duncan relates previously unknown details of his crimes, his thoughts on society and the influences in his life that caused him to become a killer, and chronicles his life in prison. These journals have now been curated and presented for the first time as four volumes in complete chronological order.

New Canaan Connecticut is dubbed the next station to heaven. It boasted education, wealth, power, and affluence. With John Rice within this perfect landscape of House Beautiful homes, speckled with a feel of Norman Rockwell Americana it drove home the lesson that no place on earth is safe. Even more so it remains the community's ultimate stain on its image. Many famous people of great notoriety have had their homes in New Canaan, this is part of the town's narrative. Some are legends but none is greater than the John Rice, Mary Mount murders. The Rice tale is riddled with paradox and horror...

Undetected by the FBI for three decades until the turn of the twenty-first century, a handful of elusive, transient long-haul trucker serial killers had been murdering hundreds of sex workers and hitchhikers along major US highways. This was not the first time innocent victims were attacked along major US interstate thoroughfares. Nearly lost to history was a similar pattern of carnage that occurred in the late nineteenth century.

What effects does the presence of a serial killer have on the collective health of a community? What strategies do people adopt to manage the fear and anxiety that accompany news of a serial killer's predations? And why do citizens and the media respond as they do to serial killers, who usually account for only a small portion of the homicides in the communities in which they are active? Killer Among Us examines serial murder from this fresh perspective: an exploration of the ways people react when a killer is at large in their community. Drawing on 19th-century tabloid accounts of the ...

A wire-tense powerful novel about revenge. The three protagonists are introduced as students who commit an act of barbarism but, due to their well-to-do family backgrounds are not punished. The book moves forward in time to when these students are l successful and respectable family men who every year enjoy a hunting trip to a secret cabin in the northern woods. Revealed there as cold-blooded psychopath predators, skilled hunters fearing nothing and totally at home in the woods, they kidnap, hunt down and brutally kill humans. Until, this year they discover they have become the prey, and in...

A fun homage to the cult classic film, "Ed Gein, the Musical" and a unique bio about America's most deranged killer Ed Gein, from former Deputy Coroner and acclaimed author Donna Francart. ED GEIN, THE MUSICAL - A Novel is a based on the cult classic film, "Ed Gein, the Musical". This unprecedented & remarkable book gives a unique perspective of the film while also delving into the depravity of this unsavory character. (Pub Date July 26th, 2023 - Renegade Press) "Ed Gein, the Musical" Trailer/Preview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3hkFaOI4H8 ABOUT THE AUTHOR Donna Francart, is a former ...

Widowed Blanche Taylor Moore was about to lose her second spouse to symptoms that mysteriously mirrored those that killed her first husband—as well as her previous boyfriend. When an investigation reveals arsenic poisoning, the hideous truth about the wife and mother comes to light. Did the abuse Blanche suffered as a child at the hands of her alcoholic father turn her into a murderer she became?