True Crime category: 7770 books
by Richard O Jones
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Although it wasn't yet summer, the temperature climbed into triple digits on June 3, 1925, and Lloyd Russell could not sleep that night. He lived with his mother and his brother's family in a modest three room bungalow on Progress Avenue in a neighborhood call Prospect Hill. Despite the bountiful...
The Devil's Gentleman
Privilege, Poison, and the Trial That Ushered in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
From renowned true-crime historian Harold Schechter, whom The Boston Book Review hails as “America’s principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers,” comes the riveting exploration of a notorious, sensational New York City murder in the 1890s, the fascinating forensic science of an...
Chris & Nancy
The True Story of the Benoit Murder-Suicide and Pro Wrestling's Cocktail of Death
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
The Benoit murder-suicide in 2007 was one of the most shocking stories of the year, and a seminal event in the history of wrestling. It laid bare the devastating prevalence of steroids and its effects on users.
In order to tackle the whole story, dig up the facts, and connect the dots, Irvin...
by Dennis McDougal
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The true story of Theresa Knorr, the twisted child abuser who murdered her daughters—with the help of her sons—told by a former New York Times reporter.
In June 1985, Theresa Cross Knorr dumped her daughter Sheila’s body in California’s desolate High Sierra. She had beaten Sheila unconscious...
by Richard O Jones
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
George said that he was taking his mother to a train in the fall of 1883 when they were overcome by two robbers at the end of the lane at the edge of his farm. In the course of the robbery, he claimed, the robbers killed his mother, and buried her in a ravine on George's property. He fetched a shovel...
Casino
Love and Honor in Las Vegas
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
The true story behind the Martin Scorsese film: A “riveting . . . account of how organized crime looted the casinos they controlled” (Kirkus Reviews).
Focusing on Chicago bookie Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal and his partner, Anthony Spilotro, and drawing on extensive, in-depth interviews,...
Wealthy Men Only
The True Story of a Lonely Millionaire, a Gorgeous Younger Woman, and the Love Triangle that Ended in Murder
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Wealthy Men Only
Stella Sands
Nanette Johnston's personal ad made it clear: "I know how to take care of my man if he knows how to take care of me." Newport Beach millionaire Bill MacLaughlin made the fatal mistake of responding.
Within months, the gorgeous 28-year-old...
The Hillside Stranglers
The Inside Story of the Killing Spree That Terrorized Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The riveting true crime account of the Hillside Stranglers and the horrific serial killings they unleashed on 1970s Los Angeles.
For weeks that fall, the body count of sexually violated, brutally murdered young women escalated. With increasing alarm, Los Angeles newspapers headlined the deeds...
Fly, Colton, Fly
The True Story of the Barefoot Bandit
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Exclusive to this edition—a new update on the conviction and sentencing of the Barefoot Bandit
Colton Harris-Moore. A teenage outlaw wanted in nine states for more than eighty crimes. For two years he outran authorities - often barefoot. At every step of the way, a frenzied public cheered...
Die for Me
The Terrifying True Story of the Charles Ng/Leonard Lake Torture Murders
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
A chilling chapter in California crime history: the story of two notorious serial killers and the sensational trial that horrified the nation.
In 1985, two men were caught shoplifting in San Francisco. Charles Ng escaped, but Leonard Lake aroused suspicion—he was carrying someone else’s...
The Westies
Inside New York's Irish Mob
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
From a New York Times–bestselling author: A true story of Irish gangsters in Manhattan—“A harrowing account of big city crime” (Library Journal).
It’s men like Jimmy Coonan and Mickey Featherstone who gave Hell’s Kitchen its name. In the mid-1970s, these two longtime friends take...
While She Slept
A Husband, a Wife, a Brutal Murder
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2005
When Jill Cahill was leaving to return home after visiting with her family for a week, she turned to her sister with a grin, and said: "If Jeff kills me, you can have all my things." A few days later, she was in a coma in a Syracuse hospital, her skull shattered by a savage beating inflicted...
by John Edward Fletcher PhD
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
At the conclusion of the Civil War, Wilkes County, North Carolina, was the site of the nation's first nationally publicized crime of passion. In the wake of a tumultuous love affair and a mysterious chain of events, Tom Dooley was tried, convicted and hanged for the murder of Laura Foster. This notorious...
True Crime: Ohio
The State's Most Notorious Criminal Cases
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Includes the Torso Murderer, responsible for 12 homicides in Cleveland, investigated by Eliot Ness and more.