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661) The Cannibal Who Collected Skulls The Chilling Case of Jeffrey Dahmer, Traumatized Child Turned
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Jeffrey Dahmer was a notorious American serial killer who murdered 17 young men and boys between 1978 and 1991. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on May 21, 1960, and committed his first murder at 18. Dahmer was known for his shocking crimes, including cannibalism, necrophilia, and preserving body parts as souvenirs. He was arrested in 1991 after one of his intended victims managed to escape and alert the police. Dahmer was eventually sentenced...
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Colin Ireland was called a serial killer "wanna-be" who bypassed his morbid daydreams in order to consciously and deliberately murder five gay males as part of a New Year's resolution to see if he could do it. His extreme planning and attempts to hide evidence made investigators' jobs more difficult. Ireland would call police stations and drop little hints, essentially taunting the police. His choice of homosexual male victims who he picked up at...
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Guy Georges was one of the most notorious serial killers ever to roam the streets of Paris. He was known as 'The Beast of the Bastille' because several of his attacks happened near the infamous prison, but the name is fitting for another reason as well, Georges enjoyed the hunt of his victims as much as the kill, much as a beast would.
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They enter their victims' homes through an open window or an unlocked door. Five real life boogeymen are profiled here led by Joseph Baldi. Between 1970 and 1972, four innocent young women lost their lives at the hands of Joseph Baldi. The murders took place in Queens, New York where Baldi was given the nicknames of "The Monster of Queens" and "The Queens Creeper". His actions would even have him on the front page of a newspaper, the title of the...
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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original "Psycho" tells you what you need to know-before or after you read Harold Schechter's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. This short summary and analysis of Deviant includes: Historical context; Chapter-by-chapter overviews; Profiles...
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A series of stories detailing mysterious disappearances and murders occurring in the 1950s-1980s... In the summer of 1951, an old fashioned Showagon arrived in Halloran Park in Cleveland, Ohio carrying a handful of travelling performers. A beloved annual summer tradition promising entertainment for all ages, the city's residents certainly considered it a show not to be missed. For one night, a park usually thought to be relatively unsafe became a...
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"Trust me, I'm a doctor" - Harold Shipman Dr. Harold Frederick Shipman was known in England as "Dr. Death." He is one of the most prolific serial killers in recorded history who, between 1974 and 1998, was suspected of killing over 215 of his patients by poisoning them with lethal injections of morphine. He was ultimately found guilty of 15 murders and sentenced to life in prison, never to be released. Shipman committed suicide while in prison on...
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The Devil in the White City features explanations of key themes, motifs, and...
669) Dying to Love
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When a party turns into a crime scene, will you be able to find the killer - before it's too late?
Sage Reynolds is a crime reporter in Atlanta. When she goes to a party with her best friend, Ruby, the unthinkable happens; someone ends up dead. The cause of death is deemed a drug overdose by police but, for Sage, something isn't adding up. Soon, Sage is faced with a series of reported cases involving women being attacked while on dates - all...
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Press coverage of the 1888 mutilation murders attributed to Jack the Ripper was of necessity filled with gaps and silences, for the killer remained unknown and Victorian journalists had little experience reporting serial murders and sex crimes. This engrossing book examines how fourteen London newspapers-dailies and weeklies, highbrow and lowbrow-presented the Ripper news, in the process revealing much about the social, political, and sexual anxieties...
671) Killer Patty Colombo
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A true crime anthology headlined by Patty Colombo. Patricia Columbo and Frank DeLuca were arrested for the brutal murders Columbo's parents and brother in Elk Grove, Illinois. Twenty-year-old Columbo had been kicked out of her parent's home two years earlier and began living with DeLuca, her thirty-six year old married boss. The pair later killed her parents under the belief that they would receive an inheritance but Patty had been written out of...
672) Final Girl
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Veronica, a teenage girl who's new to town is lured out into the woods by a group of senior boys who hunt and kill girls for sport. Little do they know, Veronica is an assassin-in-training, and killing these boys is her final test...and the hunters become the hunted.
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A New York Times–bestselling journalist traces a string of unsolved murders-and the botched investigation that let the New Bedford Highway Killer walk away. Over the course of seven months in 1988, eleven women disappeared off the streets of New Bedford, Massachusetts, a gloomy, drug-addled coastal town that was once the whaling capital of the world. Nine turned up dead. Two were never found. And the perpetrator remains unknown to this day. How...
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A horrific account of the murders, investigation, and trial of the serial killer doctor known as the "Creighton Killer." Derek Mois wasn't sure what he was dealing with when in March 2008 he walked into a home in an affluent Omaha neighborhood and was confronted with the bodies of an 11-year-old boy and the housekeeper. Both had been murdered with kitchen knives plunged into their throats. Who would do something so vile-and why? Lacking answers, Mois...
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From the bestselling author of The Search for the Green River Killer: A chilling true account of the dream husband who was every woman's nightmare. Randy Roth was handsome, hardworking, kind, and in top physical shape. But for all his charm and good looks, he was seemingly cursed with the ladies. His first marriage ended in divorce before the couple's fifth anniversary; his second wife plunged to her death during a hike; and his third wife left him...
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In the mid-1980s, someone stabbed six women to death in the Connecticut River Valley on the border between New Hampshire and Vermont. The murderer remains at large and the total number of his victims is unknown. In this brilliant work of true crime reportage, New York Times–bestselling author Philip E. Ginsburg provides fascinating insights into the groundbreaking forensic methods used to track the killer and paints indelible portraits of the lives...
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"Anyone can become a killer under the right circumstances-even you."
For the first time, award-winning investigative journalist M. William Phelps reveals the identity of "Raven," the serial killer who co-starred with him on Dark Minds-and tells the story of his intriguing bond with one of America's most disturbing killers.
In September 2011, M. William Phelps made a bold decision that would change the landscape of reality-based television-and his...
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The horrific true story of serial kidnapper, rapist, and killer Robert Hansen's reign of terror in Anchorage, Alaska. As oil boom money poured into Anchorage, the city quickly became a prime destination for the seedier elements of society: prostitutes, pimps, con men, and criminals of all breeds looking to cash in. However, something even worse lurked in their midst. To all who knew him, Robert Hansen was a typical hardworking businessman, husband,...
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Danny joined the Marines in 1967 and saw some of the worst fighting of the Vietnam War. He was continually bombarded by the enemy, never knowing if he would live or die. When his best friend was brutally murdered, he became angry, depressed, and numb. The only thing that could make him feel alive again was killing.
He came home from the war with a bad case of PTSD and couldn't adapt to normal life. To feed his need for killing, he became a hitman...
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Shocking true stories of the world's most notorious criminals from the author of Prince Andrew: Epstein, Maxwell and the Palace.
“Serial Killers & Mass Murderers” takes you into the minds of the criminals who committed the world's most notorious and horrifying crimes. Each of the sadistic murderers profiled here was once known simply as someone's neighbor, co-worker or child. What turned them into killers? In one chilling chapter after another,...
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