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Best-selling author Bryan Burrough recently made a shocking discovery: The small town of Temple, Texas, where he had grown up, had harbored a dark secret. One of his high school classmates, Danny Corwin, was a vicious serial killer. In this chilling tale, Burrough raises important questions of whether serial killers can be recognized before they kill or rehabilitated after they do. It is also a story of Texas politics and power that led the good citizens of the town of Temple to enable a demon who was their worst nightmare.

This book explores thirteen bizarre “murder” stories that have taken place in Tennessee over the past two centuries. The first story related here takes place around 1798 and the last takes place in 1998. These stories span the breadth of Tennessee from the Smoky Mountains, to the Mississippi River and most points between. Some of these stories are about famous persons and others are about powerful persons. Some are about persons that are unknown to all but a few. One story is about an abused animal.

Over 300 of the world’s most notorious killers, brought together in one definitive volume. The Ultimate Guide to History’s Most Infamous Murderers 2026 Edition Some kill for power. Some for control. Others for reasons no one can fully explain. Some hide in the shadows. Others live in plain sight — neighbours, colleagues, people you might pass every day. From infamous names you recognise to chilling cases you’ve never heard before, The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers takes you inside the crimes, motives and methods of history’s most disturbing murderers — and the twisted psyches ...

Their names echo through true crime history like dark legends: John Wayne Gacy, the Zodiac Killer, Richard Ramirez, Aileen Wuornos, Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, and the Golden State Killer. Their infamous deeds have been exhaustively chronicled across every medium imaginable. But beyond these household names lies a shadow world of equally chilling cases that rarely make headlines or streaming television documentaries.

True Crime Stories You Won't Believe-Omnibus Edition s brings together three critically acclaimed volumes—Books One, Two, and Three—into a single, unflinching collection of true crime stories that dig deeper than most. From forgotten killers and overlooked trials to psychological profiles and courtroom spectacles, this is a journey through the darkest corners of criminal history. Written by forensic psychologist and author Romeo Vitelli, Ph.D., this omnibus offers a sweeping look at real-life crimes that defy easy explanation. These aren’t just tales of murder—they are explorations ...

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.

On the morning of April 28, 1908, a farm just outside La Porte, Indiana, burned to the ground. What the flames left behind was far more horrifying than anyone could have imagined.

Finding the Lost Girls follows criminalist Paul Holes — the investigator who helped unmask the Golden State Killer — as he comes out of from retirement to finish the work that haunted him. Years ago, Holes helped put photographer Joe Naso on death row for six murders. But Naso kept a list of ten, and the other cases went cold. Now, with Naso nearing ninety and his health failing, this is Holes's last chance to give the remaining victims their names back.

Don Miller was quiet and reserved. As a former youth pastor, he seemed a devout Christian. No one would have ever suspected that the recent graduate of the Michigan State University School of Criminal Justice was a serial killer. However, when Miller was arrested for the attempted murder of two teenagers in 1978, police quickly realized he was probably responsible for the disappearances of four women. Offered a still-controversial plea bargain, he led police to the bodies of the missing women. Now, after 40 years in prison, Miller has served his time.

The sand hides everything. Eventually. Far from the city lights and paved roads, there are stretches of earth that belong only to the scavengers. This is where the desperate run, where the violent thrive, and where the unlucky simply disappear. From the merciless slaughter of territorial border massacres to the blood-stained dirt of isolated arroyos where legendary lawmen met unpunished ends, this collection strips away the frontier myths to reveal the brutal reality underneath. These are not neat, tidy mysteries wrapped up with a courtroom gavel. These are raw, unflinching accounts of ...

She slept with the devil. She killed with the devil. She never stopped loving the devil. July 1963: All of England is rocking to the music of Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, and Elvis. It’s also the month when Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, two of England’s most prolific serial killers, would claim their first victim. He was a child they buried in the muddy, swampy moors near Manchester. Sleeping With The Devil: A Shocking True Crime Story of the Most Hated Woman in Britain is the tale of two bloody years in the 1960s. It was a time when British parents hugged their children a little tighter to ...

SKINNED The Untold Shocking True Story of Serial Killer Ed Gein Beyond the myth. Beyond the movies. Beyond the nightmare. Before America knew the names of its most infamous fictional monsters, there was a quiet farm outside Plainfield, Wisconsin. There was a locked farmhouse. There was a town that thought it knew the strange but harmless man who lived at the edge of the road. And there was a discovery so disturbing that it would echo through American crime history for generations. SKINNED: THE UNTOLD SHOCKING TRUE STORY OF SERIAL KILLER ED GEIN is a chilling, meticulously researched account...

REVISED & EXPANDED SECOND EDITION — A darker, deeper, and more serious journey into America’s most bizarre true crime cases. 50 Bizarre True Crime Cases That Shocked America is a fully revised and expanded true crime anthology exploring fifty disturbing cases from across American history: unsolved murders, cold cases, strange motives, poisonings, family crimes, serial killers, disappearances, staged crime scenes, and killers who hid in plain sight. This second edition has been completely reworked for a sharper, more atmospheric, and more mature reading experience. Each chapter has been ...

The sprawling highways and quiet small towns of Texas hide a dark and brutal history. Beyond the headlines and whispered local legends lie the definitive, blood-curdling stories of the state's most horrifying crimes. True Crime - Gore in Texas is not for the faint of heart. This meticulously researched anthology rips open the case files on the Lone Star State's most infamous and psychologically disturbing criminals. From the sadistic "Candy Man" Dean Corll to the shocking acts of family annihilators and the cold, calculated slayings of cartel hitmen, these accounts detail the manhunts that ...

THE TRUE CRIME CLASSIC THAT STARTED IT ALL. NOW REISSUED. Richard W. Larsen’s expose, based on first-hand conversations with the killer himself, remains the granddaddy Bundy book of them all – even inspiring a hit miniseries, starring Mark Harmon, that riveted America for weeks. Now BUNDY: THE DELIBERATE STRANGER returns to mark the 30th anniversary of the execution of America’s most famous serial killer. Between 1974 and 1978 a series of brutal sex slayings claimed the lives of nearly forty innocent young women and left a trail of blood that stretched from Seattle, Washington to ...

The term “serial killer” was first introduced in the 1970s by FBI Agent Robert Ressler. Shortly after joining the FBI in 1970, he was recruited to join the newly developed Behavioral Science Unit where he became fascinated with the psychology behind violent offenders. He wanted to better understand the motive behind a murder – what caused the person to act out in such a way, and what similarities these individuals shared. Ressler recognized that most offenders knew their victims, but there was a certain type of killer that picked their victims at random, and often killed multiple ...

The untold story behind the hit true crime podcast The Clearing, this “engrossing and absolutely terrifying read” (San Francisco Chronicle) traces one daughter’s moving quest to understand the truth about her father, the serial killer Edward Wayne Edwards, while confronting cold cases...

Without A Trace explores the haunting mysteries of individuals who vanished without explanation between the late nineteenth century to the late 20th century, blending historical research with the emotional weight of unresolved loss. The book delves into the lives of Percy Fawcett, a British explorer who disappeared in 1925 while seeking a lost city in the Amazon with his son and a friend, sparking theories of hostile tribes or a hidden utopia; Etta Place, the enigmatic companion of outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, who vanished after 1925 in Argentina, her true identity and fate ...

With 20 custom illustrations, Medieval Torture and Execution of Modern Serial Killers explores the real life atrocities of both ancient and modern man. This shocking yet morbidly amusing book examines nine real life serial killers and discusses their crimes and motives. In each biopic, their most deplorable acts are reviewed and reckoned, for they will be the determining factors for punishment. As a thought experiment, each serial killer is placed in a primitive time where justice is carried out by way of a medieval executioner. Through documented eye-witness accounts, you will read how ...

Editorial Review THE TOY BOX is a haunting and emotionally devastating Documented Terror novel that transforms one of America’s most disturbing criminal investigations into a chilling exploration of memory, grief, and the psychological aftermath left behind long after the crime scene disappears. Rather than relying on shock or gore, Ted Lazaris builds overwhelming dread through recovered voices, roadside memorials, exhausted investigators, and families desperately trying to preserve the ordinary sounds of loved ones stolen from them forever. Cinematic, deeply human, and unforgettable in ...