Serial Killer Cults

*Shortlisted for Book of the Year at the True Crime Awards 2026!* What makes ordinary people, living normal lives, abandon everything to join a cult? Emma Kenny - psychologist and true crime expert - delves into gripping true stories of cults, operating all around us. In this exhilarating and...

In the hunt for justice, FBI Agent Fallon Baxter unravels the deadliest mysteries. Believe. Obey. Survive. Welcome to Paradise where faith meets fear, and salvation is written in blood. Clean language and heart-stopping twists that keep you glued to the edge of your seat until the very last page. When FBI Agent Fallon Baxter returns to her hometown of Pine Ridge Falls to join the local field office, she expects a fresh start and a chance to mend her broken past. Instead, she’s thrust into the heart of darkness when a string of brutal murders shakes the quiet community. The victims, found ...

Eleven murders over a period of four years sent shockwaves through the Krugersdorp community and made headlines nationwide. Eventually these murders were connected to Cecilia Steyn and her cult, Electus per Deus (chosen by God). Members of the cult were willing to do anything for Cecilia - even if it meant committing murder.

Beneath the surface of everyday life in Ohio lie stories of terror, survival, and mystery. True Crime – Ohio brings together fifteen of the state’s most gripping criminal cases, from the infamous Ariel Castro kidnappings to the unsolved Torso Murders of Cleveland. Each chapter delivers an immersive, narrative-driven retelling — capturing the horror, heartbreak, and human resilience behind these shocking crimes. Whether it’s cult killings, serial killers, or chilling disappearances, Logan Carter’s storytelling drops you into the heart of each case with unflinching detail and raw ...

There are individuals who walk among us, their humanity a thin and brittle mask. They are the quiet neighbor, the charismatic leader, the smiling grandmother. Their normality is their most effective weapon, a camouflage that allows them to move through the world unseen—until the moment the mask is dropped and the abyss is revealed. This gripping collection delves into thirty of the most harrowing and unsettling accounts in modern history . From the frozen plains of Soviet Russia to the sun-baked deserts of the American border, this book is a journey into the heart of darkness, exploring ...

How does a five-foot two ex con with bad teeth and a guitar he can barely play walk out of a federal prison and, within two years, command a desert cult of teenage women willing to murder a pregnant film star on his orders? Charles Manson should never have happened. By any sane measure, he was an unremarkable career criminal. Seventeen years served before his thirty fourth birthday. Barely literate. Unable to hold a job, a marriage, or a recording deal. Yet by August 1969 his name was on every front page in America, his swastika carved forehead was the face of a generation's nightmare, and ...

What if the serial killer you’re hunting shares your blood? Ripped in Red is a chilling romantic suspense thriller set in small-town Arkansas where secrets, obsession, and murder collide. Detective Shelby Moore has spent ten years chasing the ghost of her mother’s killer, keeping a cold case murder board hidden in her basement. When new victims appear with the same haunting words left at the scene, Shelby knows the nightmare has returned—and this time it’s personal. Teamed with Scottish detective Colin MacKenzie, who came to Arkansas to escape his own past demons, Shelby finds ...

WARNING: These 25 stories are not for the faint of heart. In this raw and relentless sequel to the bestselling True Crime: GORE, Logan Carter returns with 25 more brutal cases that defy belief—but every one of them really happened. Inside this collection, you’ll encounter killers who drank blood, torturers who filmed their crimes, and predators who struck without warning. These are the stories that even seasoned true crime fans find hard to shake. From Japan’s Otaku Killer to Mexico’s death cult sisters, from basement prisons to cannibal horrors, GORE 2 pulls no punches. Each case ...

Expertly told with gritty realism and authentic detail drawn from eye-witness testimony, news reports, and the latest speculation, this gripping serial killer collection paints a morbidly fascinating picture of three infamous and heinous killers who baffled law enforcement, ruined lives, and sent whole cities into panic.

When we think of the word "criminology", we immediately think of serial killers. Literature, films and TV series have accustomed us to the image of the investigating criminologist who investigates heinous crimes committed by a highly intelligent psychopath. But the criminologist is not only concerned with this; he is also called for cases bearing an esoteric trace: the satanic murders. Here then the criminologist must provide answers to several questions: who are the Satanists? What drives them to worship the Devil? Are ritual sacrifices real? In this book we will try to provide an answer ...

How the Zodiac and Son of Sam Serial Murders Were Meant to Usher in the Coming of Satan.

Call them anything but closed cases. Who killed attorneys Margaret Coon and Donna Bahm? Why would someone butcher a 26-year-old bank teller? Did the mafia assassinate Senator Huey Long? What happened to the Grinch who stole shotguns? Louisiana's foremost expert on true-crime, and a thirty-year veteran investigative journalist, HL Arledge revisits those tantalizing questions, meeting the state's most colorful characters along the way. From voodoo practitioners, mobsters, and train robbers to cult leaders, psychopaths, and crooked politicians, Bayou Justice, Arledge's twice-weekly newspaper ...

A thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat from the first page to the last! A kidnapped child… A young boy is snatched in broad daylight outside his Stockholm nursery. He has vanished without a trace. A race against time… Detective Mina Dabiri calls on her close friend Vincent to...

A detective and an FBI agent hunt a spiraling madman and his growing army of followers before they become the final victims of his deadly sins. A trophy wife vanishes. A small town teeters on the edge. An FBI agent and a detective are marked for death. Detective Harper Scranton and FBI Special Agent Liam McConnell are no closer to finding the Seven Deadly Sins Killer. The man they hunt is unraveling, and every failed lead brings them deeper into despair. Determined to focus on the case, Harper insists on keeping her growing relationship with Liam strictly professional—even as danger ...

The FBI calls on former agent Jessica Blackwood to look at a puzzling crime. A wildlife officer has found the body of a popular YouTuber encased in an obelisk made of salt in a remote refuge. When the agency is tipped off to a second body, that of a TikTok star chained to the bottom of Nevada’s Pyramid Lake—her hands clasped in prayer—Jessica recruits a trusted colleague of her own: Floridian underwater investigator Sloan McPherson.

In this heart-pounding YA thriller, when an adopted teen takes a DNA test to find her biological parents, she unknowingly puts herself in the crosshairs of a serial killer. Adopted as a newborn, Tessa has always wondered who her biological parents are. After turning eighteen, she takes a DNA...

If you enjoy dark, atmospheric crime fiction, this is the perfect time to dive in: Set against the lush, sun-drenched facade of Honolulu, Ice Princess unspools a haunting tale of deadly obsession and decay, where paradise becomes a stage for madness. When a young man’s lover rejects him for another, his world shatters, and his passion turns pathologically dark. Unable to surrender his vision of her, he commits a terrible act, then preserves her body in a bathtub of ice, clinging to a frozen illusion of love. As days pass, his fixation deepens, spiraling into a dark descent where paradise ...

Obedience was their first mistake. Twenty-two-year-old Lilah is the perfect picture of compliance. Locked behind the towering iron walls of the Republic of Ophir, she lowers her gaze, wears her coarse grey shroud, and dutifully drinks the metallic Draft of Serenity every morning. In this oppressive patriarchal dystopia, the toxic elixir acts as a chemical lobotomy, trapping the women in a smiling, dead-eyed fog of absolute submission. To High Patriarch Gideon, Lilah is his compliant, voiceless "Blessed Miracle." He has no idea what is violently waking up inside her. The daily poison was ...

A city of ancient secrets. A killer enacting centuries-old vengeance. A reporter who is the final target. Disgraced investigative journalist Griffin Pike is chasing ghosts. Broke and desperate, he returns to his hometown of St. Augustine to cover a story that feels like a godsend: a bizarre, ritualistic murder at the heart of the city’s oldest monument, the Castillo de San Marcos. The victim is posed, the crime is theatrical, and the killer has a taste for history. As the bodies stack up, each murder more brutal and symbolic than the last, Griffin is pulled deep into a conspiracy that ...

SOME CASES HAUNT YOU... OTHERS HUNT. As a lowly grunt in Afghanistan's killing fields, Marine Corporal Hondo Velazquez uncovers what he believes to be ritual murders. Burned bodies. Missing children. And most chilling: the discovery of a human skull with mounted antlers—a mask worn in the ceremony of murder. Despite what his superiors demand, Hondo does what any good bloodhound would do: Hunt. And when he does, he finds himself on a trail so dark and deep that it threatens to undo the threads that hold him together. As he returns stateside, the nightmares follow. Identical killings draw ...