Hoblin, Paul.
Summary: Discusses the criminal case surrounding the Boston Strangler and whether law enforcement caught and convicted the wrong man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Pub. 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.1523 HOBEstep, Richard
Summary: "In the United States, it is a fact that victims of murder are more likely to be killed by someone they know than by a stranger. Family, Friends, and Neighbors discusses the cases, main players, and consequences of 34 murderous rampages dating from the Victorian Era to the present day. From famous cases such as the ax-wielding Lizzie Borden and the money-obsessed Menendez brothers to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Visible Ink Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 ESTLevin, Jack
Contents: Conversing with the devil -- Gaining a sadistic thrill -- Silencing the lambs -- Looking more innocent than an innocent man -- Killing without a care -- Hating enough to kill -- Hiding domestic violence? -- Fighting the culture of silence -- Killing for company -- Planning and plotting to kill -- Motivating mindless murder -- Teaming up to kill -- Threatening to kill -- Victimizing the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 LEVOwen, Erika
Summary: Owen looks at women from the past who weren't afraid to break the law or challenge gender norms. From pirates to madams, gamblers to bootleggers, and serial killers to outlaws, these women used rebellious and whose criminal acts solidify their place in history. -- adapted from back cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiller Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1092 OWEPhilbin, Tom
Summary: I, Monster is a collection of deranged thoughts and deeds from the vilest of the vile: Jeffrey Dahmar, John Wayne Gacy, H.H. Holmes, Gary Ridgway, David Berkowitz, Aileen Wuornos, Ted bundy and other notorious serial killers. For fans of crime stories who look for realism, this book is like no other--back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 PHIFleming, Candace
Summary: How did two teenagers brutally murder an innocent child ... and why? And how did their brilliant lawyer save them from the death penalty in 1920s Chicago? Written by a prolific master of narrative nonfiction, this is a compulsively readable true-crime story based on an event dubbed the "crime of the century." In 1924, eighteen-year-old college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb made a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.152 FLEPhilbin, Tom
Summary: The Killer Book of Serial Killers is the ultimate resource (and gift) for any true crime fan and student of the bizarre world of serial killers. Filled with stories, trivia, quizzes, quotes, photos, and odd facts about the world's most notorious murderers, this is the perfect bathroom reader for anyone fascinated with serial killers. The stories and trivia cover such killers as: John Wayne Gacy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Inc 2009
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Ramsland, Katherine M.
Summary: "No two stories about the capture of a serial killer are the same. Sometimes, the killers make crucial mistakes; other times, investigators get lucky. And the process of profiling, hunting, and apprehending these predators has changed radically over time, particularly in the field of criminal forensics, which has exploded in the last ten to 15 years. Laser ablation, video spectral analysis,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2020
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Summary: Historical in scope and international in breadth, this collection of true-crime stories chronicles 15 of the most infamous “extreme killers” who ever lived—those with the largest number of confirmed kills, in many cases more than 50. The subjects range from 15th-century French child killer Gilles de Rais, purportedly the model for the folk legend of “Bluebeard,” to Henry Lee Lucas and Otis...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling, an imprint of Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 NEWMonroe, Jana
Summary: An agent in the world-renowned FBI Behavioral Sciences Unit who consulted on more than 850 homicide cases, crossing paths with some of the world's most infamous serial killers, and the real-life model for The Silence of the Lambs's Clarice Starling, shares her incredible story for the first time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MONROE, JANA MONDouglas, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2001
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.15 DOUBala, Suruthi
Summary: The co-hosts of the smash hit true crime podcast Redhanded dissect the stories of killers in a way that challenges perceptions and asks the hard questions about society, gender, poverty, culture and even our politics to find out what makes a killer tick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 BALBauerlein, Valerie
Summary: "Power, privilege, and blood-this is the definitive and thrilling true story of Alex Murdaugh's violent downfall, from a veteran Wall Street Journal reporter who has become an authority on the case"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 364.1523 RULTipping, Danny
Summary: "What goes through the mind of a killer when they commit murder? Based on the massively successful Netflix documentary series of the same name, this book features ten of the most compelling cases from the series and is full of exclusive never-seen-before material. In each of the cases the inmate speaks openly about themselves and reflects on their life and their crimes. To gain a complete...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 TIPKirn, Walter
Summary: The true story of a young novelist who meets and befriends an eccentric, privileged New Yorker when he delivers a crippled hunting dog to him from an animal shelter, and later discovers that his friend was a serial imposter and brutal double-murderer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 KIROlsen, Gregg
Summary: "From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of If You Tell comes the chilling, unputdownable story of Sharon Nelson, the minister's wife whose two husbands mysteriously ended up dead. Colorado, 1976. When Reverend Mike Fuller and his beautiful wife Sharon arrive in the sleepy town of Rocky Ford, local residents think something's off about the new couple. The God-fearing minister is gruff...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2024
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 OLSLarkin, Deborah Holt
Summary: "Deborah Larkin was only ten years old when the quiet calm of her California suburb was shattered. Thirty miles north, on a quiet November night in Santa Barbara, a pregnant nurse named Olga Duncan disappeared from her apartment. The mystery deepens when it is discovered that Olga's mother in-law--a deeply manipulative and deceptive woman--had been doing everything in her power to separate Olga...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 LARFranscell, Ron
Summary: "The pulse-pounding story of the first time in history that the FBI Behavioral Unit created a profile to catch a serial killer. On June 25, 1973, a seven-year-old girl went missing from the Montana campground where her family was vacationing. Somebody hadslit open the back of her tent and snatched her from under their noses. None of them saw or heard anything. Susie Jaeger had vanished into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.88 FRAFreeman, Jim R.
Summary: As told by the three FBI agents who led the chase, this is the story of how the FBI broke its own rules, blasting away the layers of bureaucratic constraints that had plagued earlier efforts, to catch the notorious Unabomber and end his 16-year trail of terrorism.--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: History Pub. Co. 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 FREMcElhinney, Ann
Summary: In 2013 Dr Kermit Gosnell was convicted of killing four people, including three babies, but is thought to have killed hundreds, perhaps thousands more in a 30-year killing spree. Gosnell is currently serving three life sentences (without the possibility of parole) for murdering babies and patients at his "House of Horrors" abortion clinic. This book--now a major movie starring Dean Cain (Lois &...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Publishing, a division of Salem Media Group 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.152 MCEFigliuzzi, Frank
Summary: "From the FBI's former assistant director, a shocking journey to the dark side of America's highways, revealing the FBI Highway Serial Killings Initiative's hunt for the long-haul truckers behind an astonishing 850 murders--and counting"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2024
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 FIGChaudry, Rabia
Summary: "In early 2000, Adnan Syed was convicted and sentenced to life plus thirty years for the murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee, a high school senior in Baltimore, Maryland. Syed has maintained his innocence, and Rabia Chaudry, a family friend, has always believed him. By 2013, after almost all appeals had been exhausted, Rabia contacted Sarah Koenig, a producer at This American Life, in hopes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016