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Smitty: My Marriage to Serial Killer Charles Schmid, the Pied Piper of Tucson unveils an unforgettable tale of love, betrayal, and survival. Diane Schmid thought she had found her Prince Charming when she met Charles Schmid, a charismatic and mysterious man who swept her off her feet as a teenager in the mid-1960s. But her fairytale quickly unraveled when her husband was arrested for multiple shocking murders that captured national attention.

Mark Lane tried the only US court case in which the jurors concluded that the CIA plotted the murder of President Kennedy, but there was always a missing piece: How did the CIA control cops and secret service agents on the ground in Dealey Plaza? How did federal authorities prevent the House Select Committee on Assassinations from discovering the truth about the complicity of the CIA? Now, Mark Lane tells all in this explosive new book.

In Chase Darkness with Me, you’ll ride shotgun as journalist Billy Jensen identifies the Halloween Mask Murderer, finds a missing girl in the California Redwoods, and investigates the only other murder in New York City on 9/11. You’ll hear intimate details of the hunts for two of the most terrifying serial killers in history: his friend Michelle’s pursuit of the Golden State Killer which is chronicled in I’ll Be Gone In The Dark which Billy helped finish after Michelle’s passing, and his own quest to find the murderer of the Allenstown 4 family.

Packed with small-town murders, cold cases, and real criminal history, True Crime in Lee County, Iowa is a gripping read that exposes the darkest stories of Southeastern Iowa. Set along the Mississippi River, this Iowa true crime collection uncovers unsolved murders, violent crimes that shocked tight-knit communities, and the kinds of cases locals still whisper about decades later. Inside, you’ll find chilling accounts of murders committed by brothers, bank robberies that rattled rural towns, and investigations that raised more questions than answers. The book also explores the lasting ...

James Keene had it all: cars, girls, houses up and down the Gold Coast. But behind his well-connected star athlete façade was a money-obsessed drug dealer desperate to make the big score to get him out of the business. When he was sentenced to prison, it seemed the only lessons he would learn would be about navigating convict society. Instead, he was offered a chance to regain his freedom in return for going undercover in the nation’s highest security prison for the criminally insane.

Rolland Comstock lived in what was described as "a Grimm Fairy tale." With his pet wolves roving the estate and a world-famous book collection to obsess over, Rolland was no ordinary country lawyer. When he was murdered, Rolland's story turned into a tragic mystery—a mystery some in the community did not want to see solved. This intimate true crime tale not only seeks to resolve the question of who killed this man but also to examine his life as well.

Between 1968 and 1969, a self-styled killer calling himself The Zodiac terrorised Northern California. He murdered young couples in lovers’ lanes, executed a taxi driver in San Francisco, and taunted police and newspapers with letters, ciphers and threats of further violence. More than fifty years later, the Zodiac Killer remains unidentified. In Murder Tales: Zodiac, best-selling true crime author H. N. Lloyd strips away the mythology that has grown around the case and returns to the evidence. Moving beyond sensationalism and internet speculation, Lloyd examines the crimes, the ...

The locked door of a dorm room is only a suggestion. The ivy-covered walls won't keep you safe. Higher education sells the promise of an idyllic, secure bubble. But what happens when the most dangerous person is the one sitting next to you in a lecture hall, or sleeping six feet away in your own room? This book rips away the academic illusion to examine twenty of the most chilling, devastating, and defining cases to ever strike student populations. From high-profile massacres to deeply unsettling cold cases, this volume reconstructs the timelines, the police response, and the lasting ...

In 1994, an aspiring young cold-case investigator in California’s East Bay, Paul Holes, puts aside trying to solve the Golden State Killer case as he waits for science to catch up. Paul returns to an old file cabinet at the back of the forensic lab to look for another cold case he can work—something with DNA. He finds one. The 1978 murder of a married mother who went for a morning jog in a nearby park. The original investigators believed that a serial killer named Phillip Hughes was responsible; they just couldn’t prove it.

In remote forests and suburban homes, behind friendly smiles and professional facades, the most horrifying crimes unfold when ordinary people reveal their capacity for extraordinary evil. This collection of twelve meticulously researched cases exposes how the darkest predators often hide in plain sight—until their masks finally slip.

On the night of June 6th, 1996, Darlie Lynn Routier made a frantic call to 911. She told the dispatcher that she and her two sons had been stabbed. Five minutes later, police arrived at Darlie’s home in Rowlett, a suburb of Dallas. Darlie’s eldest son, Devon, had already died from four knife wounds. He was just three days shy of his seventh birthday. His brother, five year old Damon, had also been attacked. Damon later died in the care of a paramedic. Darlie had a deep gash in her neck and wounds on her arms. She was immediately transported to a local hospital for emergency surgery and ...

If you enjoyed the chilling experience of In Cold Blood and were at the edge of your seat while watching Oliver Stone’s JFK, you’ll love this investigative look into all the facets of one of the top conspiracies of the 20th century and beyond. DiEugenio, who has spent decades researching the Kennedy assassination, takes both an analytical and conversational approach to his fascinating exploration of the pivotal historical events and scandals surrounding that day.

He spent a lifetime saving others. Then one death shattered everything he thought he knew. After nearly thirty years as a first responder, CJ Landry has seen more tragedy than most people can imagine. But nothing prepares him for the night a woman’s mysterious death pulls him into a spiral of unanswered questions, buried secrets, and the emotional toll of a career spent holding everyone else together. As CJ begins to look closer at the case, and at himself, he uncovers a truth darker than anything he faced in the field: you can’t rescue others when you’re the one slowly falling apart....

Influencers Who Kill will look behind the internet handles and the painted masks and dive into the minds and motives of serial killers and would-be murderers who bloodied their hands with the spotlight trained on them.

The Butcher of Aberdeen explores the chilling true crime story of Katherine Knight, delving into a life shaped by childhood trauma, violent relationships, and a relentless descent into madness. A mother living in a small country town stabs her partner to death thirty-seven times before...

Do you want to know a secret? A secret that no one else has ever seen, about one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of our time, not to mention history, that is actually real? This book will show you. It’s all about a mysterious map. A map created by a serial killer, that once unlocked, reveals the marked locations of bombs, murders, and mystery. It all started in San Francisco in the summer of 1969, when a butcher calling himself “The Zodiac”, mailed this map along with a series of codes to police and newspapers. In the decades that followed, FBI, NSA, CIA, every intelligence agency ...

The Zodiac was (and still could be) a serial killer who operated in the northern California and San Francisco Bay are in the late 1960's and early 1970's. After a string of murders and a multitude of written letters and codes which were mailed to the local newspapers and police, the murdered was never captured. Murders and attacks around the country over the last half century may have been linked to this one man, and he could still be out there. This book is not about the man. IT DOES NOT TELL HIS STORY!!! The story of the Zodiac has been told and retold hundreds of times in books, movies, ...

El amor fue su pacto. La muerte, su lenguaje. Entre los silencios helados de los páramos del norte de Inglaterra, Ian Brady y Myra Hindley forjaron una unión tan intensa como destructiva. Él, un lector obsesivo y manipulador; ella, una mujer fascinada por la inteligencia oscura y el magnetismo del mal. Juntos crearon su propio universo moral, una lógica perversa en la que el poder y la devoción se confundieron hasta borrar cualquier frontera entre amor y crueldad. En este nuevo tomo de la serie “Soy un Asesino”, ambos narran —desde la frialdad de sus propias voces— la ...

Detrás de la fachada de una casa común en Gloucester se ocultaba el infierno. Fred y Rosemary West, matrimonio ejemplar a los ojos del vecindario, construyeron entre risas y rutinas domésticas uno de los reinos de horror más espeluznantes del Reino Unido. En este nuevo tomo de la serie “Soy un Asesino”, ambos hablan desde la sombra: dos voces que se entrelazan en una confesión escalofriante sobre poder, deseo y destrucción compartida. Alejandro Luces reconstruye con maestría la psicología del mal compartido, donde el amor se convierte en cárcel y la complicidad en condena. Una ...

This is the second part to the first edition. Originally they were meant to be published together but restrictions from the publishers prevented that. Book one was over a thousand pages of material originally but due to restrictions it was forced to be broken into two parts. The first book is 480 pages in print and almost 2000 in the ebook version. This edition has the complete volume of the Zodiac letters as well as all of the restored crime scene photos and more. It also includes handwriting comparisons from different events and more. Some of this is very graphic material, so an advisory ...