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Do you like true crime stories? You should love these tales then Originally authentic police files, True American Crime Stories are from the 1920s through to the 1950s - the era of gangster, molls and prohibition. Almost (but not quite), lost in the mists of time, these tales romp along with plenty of action and recreate the atmosphere of this exciting and dangerous era using the vernacular of the times. You may not have heard much about some of these bad guys, but they were real, ruthless hoodlums and all had their "15 minutes of fame", leaving trails of death and mayhem behind them. Most ...

Bizarre! Shocking! Horrific! Depraved! 18 Shocking True Crime Murder Cases From Around The World, including; You're Not Well, Mr. Blackwell: A deeply delusional young man concocts a fantasy life for himself. Those who oppose him are in grave danger. Girl in a Box: A box sits on the platform, awaiting the Chicago-bound train. It’s giving off an oppressive odor, a hint to what’s inside. My Father, the Serial Killer: As a boy, Matt learned that his dad had once shot a man by accident. He could forgive that. He could not forgive what followed. Hell House: He was an innocent child, betrayed ...

UNCLE JIMMY - THE KILLER FROM THE MOUNTAINS George "Uncle Jimmy" Barrett’s appearance was deceptive. Grey-haired and bespectacled, he looked more like a schoolteacher or accountant perhaps. In fact, George was an expert car thief and brutal killer - he even shot his mother and sister! His path was destined to cross with that of Special Agent Nelson B. Klein of the relatively newly formed FBI who were keeping a close eye on the man known as "Uncle Jimmy". The meeting was violent and brief with Klein becoming the first federal agent to be shot to death in the line of duty, and Barrett ...

Bizarre! Shocking! Horrific! Depraved! 18 Shocking True Crime Murder Cases From Around The World, including; The Roommate: KC seemed like the perfect roommate. Then he developed a crush on his landlady and things got awkward. Then they got deadly. Road Trip to Hell: Her last relationship had ended in disaster but this one was different. Jennifer thought she’d found the love of her life. How wrong she was. The Grudge: A bitter ex-cop with a longstanding beef against his meddling neighbor. Tonight he’s paying a visit…with a shotgun. Little Miss Nobody: An eight-year-old murder of a ...

In this gruesome true crime anthology, you will hear about twelve true crime stories that baffled investigators and continue to draw interest among the public due to their shocking details. From tragic cases of spousal murder to tragic cases of child murder, this true crime book will surely keep your attention. Follow the course of these true murder cases and learn how the investigators worked tirelessly to put these monsters behind bars.

18 Shocking True Crime Cases of Women Who Kill, including, Kelly Cochran: Convicted of two savage murders, Cochran may well be a serial killer. But did she really feed one of her victims to unsuspecting neighbors? Larissa Schuster: Larissa wanted her husband to disappear. And with her knowledge of biochemistry, she knew exactly how to make it happen. Inessa Tarverdiyeva: Nursery school teacher by day, home-invading serial killer by night, Tarverdiyeva turned murder into an activity for the whole family to participate in. Karla Faye Tucker: A controversial case from Texas. Nobody doubted ...

22 Shocking True Crime Cases of Kids Who Kill, including; Joshua Davies: An extremely callous young man, Davis battered his 15-year-old girlfriend to death on a dare. Esmie Tseng Overachiever Esmie is fed-up with her mother’s unrealistic demands. The answer to her problem is in the knife drawer. Andrew Wurst: His classmates called him ‘Satan.’ Andrew Wurst was determined to live up to that billing. Daniel Petric: His parents took away his favorite video game and Daniel is far from happy about it. Now the game is for real and so are the bullets. John Odgren: A horror-obsessed nerd ...

Do you like true crime stories? What about real crime committed by women? You may not have heard much about some of these bad women, but they were real and ruthless All had their "15 minutes of fame" leaving trails of death and mayhem behind them Their escapades were daring and reckless and many paid the ultimate price in the end • Radiant Jade – Mat Hari of the East Traitor to her native China, assassin and spy for the Japanese, Radiant Jade was the daughter of a Manchu prince and the mistress of murder and intrigue so sinister that 300 million Chinese thought she was the devil ...

ALSO AVAILABLE AS PART OF A BOX SET 5 True Crime Gangster Stories from the Roaring Twenties Do you like true crime stories? Public Enemies – True Crime Gangster Stories from the Roaring Twenties From the era of gangsters, molls and prohibition, almost (but not quite), lost in the mists of time, these tales romp along with plenty of action and recreate the atmosphere of this exciting and dangerous era using the vernacular of the times. You’ll have heard of most of these notorious criminals, but possibly not so much about one or two of them. All of them were real, ruthless hoodlums, ...

Do you like true crime stories? What about real crime committed by women? You may not have heard much about some of these bad women from the 1930s and 40s, but they were real and ruthless All had their "15 minutes of fame" leaving trails of death and mayhem behind them Their escapades were daring and reckless and many paid the ultimate price in the end • Mable Rein – Queen of the Hobos Rescued from a plane crash by tramps at the age of 6, she rose to lead an army of vagrants, thugs and looters and ransacked whole towns. Only the FBI could put a stop to her brutal rampage and greedy ...

The gripping tale chronicles the lives of Britain's most infamous husband and wife serial killers couple. Over the course of two decades, Fred and Rosemary West murdered more than a dozen young females. Most of the murders were sexually motivated and took place at the couple's house of horrors on 25 Cromwell Street in Gloucester, in South West England. Only when the killers were brought to justice did their murderous reign of rape, torture, bondage, and terror come to an end.

One case that stood out to Flowers for its sheer brutality as well as shocking aftermath was that of Karla Faye Tucker and Daniel Garrett, who used a pickaxe to hack to death two people. It began in the wee hours of June 13, 1983, in Houston, Texas, as lovers Tucker and Garrett broke into the apartment of Jerry Lynn Dean. By the time the couple left, Dean and his companion, Deborah Thornton, were dead following a vicious attack with a pickaxe and hammer.

In this frightening tale of dark fantasies, pornography, rape, and murder, British serial killers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley targeted children in the early 1960s - killing five and burying most of them in the Saddleworth Moor in Northern England - before being brought to justice. Included as a bonus is a complete true crime short, The Sunset Strip Killers, about serial killers Douglas Clark and Carol Mary Bundy, who targeted runaways and prostitutes in Hollywood, California in 1980 for rape, torture and murder.

On April 3, 1961, 38-year-old former vocalist Ella Mae Cooley was beaten to death in her home in Willow Springs, an unincorporated area located in Kern County, California. The cruelty of the crime was shocking to local residents in the normally idyllic community. A greater shock was that the murder was committed by the victim's 50-year-old husband, Donnell Clyde Cooley, a well-known big-band leader, musician, actor, host of a television variety show, and businessman. See how this tragic story of celebrity, suspicion, and homicidal rage unfolds in the historical crime of passion.

Award-winning criminologist R. Barri Flowers, best-selling author of Murder at the Pencil Factory, delivers again in the gripping historical true-crime audio short, Murder of the U.S. Attorney: Congressman Sickles' Crime of Passion in 1859.

On December 15, 1927, 12-year-old Marion Parker, daughter of a prominent banker was brazenly abducted from her junior high school in Los Angeles, California, in a bizarre ransom and revenge scheme. Two days later, the girl's dismembered remains were left behind by a brutal killer, destroying a family and unnerving the entire city. This caused pandemonium as the perpetrator managed to evade immediate capture, leading to a manhunt by authorities unlike any in recent memory.

On the morning of August 14, 1935, Virginia Seigh, an attractive 23-year-old secretary, was shot and killed as she stood in the driveway of a home in Queens, New York. Her murderer was Mrs. Etta Reisman, the 35-year-old wife of Arthur Reisman, a 42-year-old well-to-do owner of a beauty salon chain. The previous day, Reisman had confessed to his wife he had fallen in love with Miss Seigh - his secretary, who had resided with the Reismans for seven years - and wanted a separation. This did not set well with Etta, who felt totally betrayed by her husband and their house guest.

Mass Murder in the Sky: The Bombing of Flight 629 is a 7,063 word historical true crime piece about mass killer, Jack Gilbert Graham. It tells the shocking story of hatred, revenge, mass murder, terrorism, and a bizarre dynamite bomb Christmas gift that brought a plane down in the Colorado sky more than half a century ago, killing all forty-four passengers and crew, and the intense investigation that resulted in bringing the killer to justice and paying the ultimate price for his brutal crimes.

On Monday, December 4, 1933, attractive New York attorney Agnes Colonia Tufverson, 43, and Ivan Poderjay, a captain in the Yugoslav army, 10 years her junior, got married at the Little Church Around the Corner in New York City. What promised to be a storybook romance for Agnes, with a bright future of travel and adventure, turned out to be anything but for the newlywed.

On the evening of Wednesday, July 12, 1922, Los Angeles, California, was the scene of a shocking and deadly assault. The victim was an attractive 21-year-old widow named Alberta Meadows. Her death came as the result of a vicious hammer and boulder attack on a twisting dirt road at the bottom of a hill in the subdivision of Montecito Heights on the city's northeast side.