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Welcome back to Unsolved: Serial Killers, the fourth volume with 10 more frightening cases of serial killers you’ve never heard of and the victims whose names have long been forgotten. Featuring some of the most shocking and notorious killers that are still possibly out there, prepare to take a journey from continent to continent with terrible crimes that will make your stomach turn, committed with such ferocity and utter disregard for the sanctity...
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Welcome back to Unsolved Serial Killers, the third volume with 10 more bone-chilling and nightmare-inducing cases of serial killers you've never heard of, and the victims whose names were either never discovered or have been forgotten over time. Featuring 10 more of the most shocking and notorious serial killers who were never caught, take a ride from coast to coast and relive the terrible crimes that rocked perfectly normal communities and shattered...
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The body of Anita Andrews, the owner and bartender at Fagianis Cocktail Lounge in Napa, California was found in her bar
raped, beaten, and stabbed to death in a bloody frenzy. Shed last been seen alive the night before talking to a drifter who sat at the end of the bar, playing cards and flirting with her. But the stranger, along with Anitas Cadillac, had disappeared. Unable to locate a suspect, police investigators sadly watched the case grow cold...
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The FBI estimate that there are between 25 and 50 serial killers at large in the USA at any given time. But the truth is few people kill. We occasionally say we could kill someone, but that is usually hyperbole. Most of us can imagine what it might be like to be driven to a senseless act of violence in an unendurable situation. To kill once is one thing; to kill over and over again is quite another. What drives these people who kill and kill again?...
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When a serial killer tortures, dismembers, and dumps eight women in eight weeks in Tennessee and adjacent states, Noah Bishop, head of the FBI's Special Crimes Unit, gets on the case, along with Noah's touch-telepath and seer wife, Miranda, and special agent Hollis Templeton, a profiler-in-training and medium who can self-heal and see auras. Hollis and special investigator Diana Brisco, also a medium and healer, travel to the gray time, a corridor...
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In Victorian England, 1896, Evelina Marmon gave birth to an illegitimate daughter, Doris. As was typical of the era, she sought adoption to provide a more stable upbringing for her child.
She chanced upon a newspaper advert, ‘Married couple with no family would adopt a healthy child, nice country home. Terms, £10.’ Could this home be the baby’s good fortune?
Evelina wanted to pay a more affordable ongoing fee for her daughter’s care, but...
69) Murder in plain English: from manifestos to memes : looking at murder through the words of killers
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"This is the first book to examine murder through the written word--not only the writings of the killers themselves, but also the story of murder as told in literary fiction and the crime dramas that are now a staple of film and television. The authors--a criminologist specializing in cold cases, written evidence, and forensic science, and an anthropologist who has dealt with the signs and ciphers of organized crime and street gangs in his previous...
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WITH PHOTOS A seven-year-old goes missing and his step-mother is the chief suspect. Two women, fifty years apart, make history for committing the most shocking of crimes. A father kills his three young children and his wife and impersonates a disgraced journalist. Oregon's most famous murderer explains how her jail breaks show she's ready for parole. New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen (If Loving You Is Wrong, Starvation Heights) and veteran...
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This illustrated book provides an extensively detailed look at some of the most dangerous individuals who have ever lived. Starting with examples of some of the earliest recorded psychopaths and serial killers, the authors present a carefully chosen cross-section of history's most infamous criminals. From Jack the Ripper to John Wayne Gacy and Jeffrey Dahmer, these pages contain a series of fascinating life stories which are viewed with an unflinching...
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Alyssa Locke is no stranger to dealing with danger. As team leader of the nationś number one personal security company, Troubleshooters Inc., sheś seen more than her share of action, survived plenty of close calls, and holds her own with the best of themánd against the worst of them. Guarding lives is her game, and no one plays it better. But her toughest challenge will be protecting herself from a serial killer sheś been after for yearsḱnown...
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More than forty years ago Charles Manson and his mostly female commune killed nine people, among them the pregnant actress Sharon Tate. It was the culmination of a criminal career that traces back to Mansonś childhood. Childhood friends, cellmates, and even some members of the Manson Family have provided new information about Mansonś life. It puts the killer in the context of his times, the turbulent late sixties, an era of race riots and street...
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More than a century after he stalked the streets of London's East End, Jack the Ripper continues to exert a macabre fascination on the popular imagination. After scrupulously re-examining official documents of the time, investigative journalist Paul Roland strips away decades of myth and misconceptions to reveal the identity of a brand-new suspect who has never been seriously considered until now. If you are expecting a finger to be pointed at one...
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Toni, the surviving teenager, is found deliriously wandering the muddy fields of the fens. She has been drugged and its uncertain whether shell survive. She says she saw her friend Emily being dragged away from the party. But no one knows who Emily is or even if shes still alive . . .Meanwhile the drowned body of another girl has been found on an isolated beach.And how does this all relate to the shocking disappearance of a little girl nearly a decade...
77) Jackal: a novel
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"A young Black girl goes missing in the woods outside her white Rust Belt town. But she's not the first--and she may not be the last...It's watching. Liz Rocher is coming home...reluctantly. As a Black woman, Liz doesn't exactly have fond memories of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a predominantly white town. But her best friend is getting married, so she braces herself for a weekend of awkward and passive-aggressive reunions. Liz has grown, though; she...
78) Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life As a Woman in the FBI
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For fans of Mindhunter and Criminal Minds, a chilling account of a woman facing down serial killers as one of the first female profilers of the FBI Behavioral Sciences Unit and real-life model for The Silence of the Lambs' Clarice Starling
Jana Monroe was no ordinary cop: a cofounder of, and at the time, the only female agent in-the world-renowned FBI Behavioral Sciences Unit at Quantico, over the course of her career she consulted on more than 850...
80) Taker of Lives
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Until yesterday, no one knew Florida had another serial killer on the loose. Special Agent Tesss Winnett calls this particularly elusive one" the taker of lives".