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By Scott C. Johnson (364.163 John, CD 364.163 John)
Recounts the tale of the cunning imposter who carved a path of financial and emotional destruction. Gifted with a flair for impersonation, manipulation, and deception, the Con Queen used their skill with accents and deft psychological insight to sweep through the entertainment industry.
By Edward Humes (363.25 Hume, eBook, eAudiobook)
After 30 years, Detective Jim Scharf arrested a teenage couple's murderer—and exposed a looming battle between the pursuit of justice and the right to privacy. Anyone can submit a saliva sample to learn about their ancestry, but what happens with that information? Can and should it be used to help solve the nearly 250,000 unsolved murders in the United States?
By Leah Sottile (364.1523 Sott)
When police in Idaho perform a wellness check on J.J. Vallow and his sister, Tylee Ryan, both children are nowhere to be found. Their mother, Lori Vallow, gives a phony explanation, and when officers return the following day with a search warrant, she, too, is gone. As the police begin to close in, a larger web of mystery, murder, and fanaticism begins to unravel.
By Jesse P. Pollack & Mark Moran (364.1523 Poll)
In 1972 the crime rate in the quiet, affluent town of Springfield was at its lowest in years. That all changed when the body of sixteen-year-old Jeannette DePalma was discovered in the local woods, allegedly surrounded by strange objects. Some feared witchcraft was to blame, while others believed a serial killer was on the loose.
By Dean Jobb (364.1523 Jobb, Q 364.1523 Jobb, CD 364.1523 Jobb ,eBook, eAudiobook)
Structured around the doctor’s London murder trial in 1892, when he was finally brought to justice. Dr. Cream’s crimes marked the emergence of a new breed of killer: one who operated without motive or remorse. He preyed on vulnerable and desperate women, many of whom had turned to him for medical help.
By Kathleen Hale (364.152 Hale, eBook)
Tells the full story of Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier who attempted to stab their classmate to death in May 2014. The girls committed their crime under the influence of a figure born by the internet: the so-called "Slenderman."
By Daniel Stashower (364.1523 Stas, PLAY 364.1523 Stas, eBook, eAudiobook)
Cleveland's besieged mayor turned to his newly-appointed director of public safety: Eliot Ness, to find the sadistic killer responsible for dismembering bodies with surgical precision. American Demon reconstructs this ultimate battle of wits between a hero and a madman.
By Sarah Berman (364.153 Berm)
Explores the shocking practices of NXIVM, a cult run by Keith Raniere, detailing its rise as a personal development company and the investigation that finally revealed its dark secrets to the world.
By Barbara Rae-Venter (364.1523 Raev, eBook, eAudiobook)
Barbara Rae-Venter reveals how she went from researching her family history as a retiree to hunting for a notorious serial killer—and how she became the nation’s leading authority on investigative genetic genealogy.
By Peter Zablocki (364.1523 Zabl)
In the summer of 1953 a group of local teens took it upon themselves to teach a wealthy traveler with a secret rap sheet a lesson when he arrived in their town to continue his misdeeds.
By Rachel Rear (364.1523 Rear)
Rear works to unravel the death of her stepsister, Stephanie, a beautiful violinist and teacher who disappeared one morning.
By Michael Finkel (364.162 Fink, Q 364.162 Fink)
The story of master art thief, Stéphane Breitwieser, who carried out more than 200 heists of nearly 8 years in museums and cathedrals all over Europe. Unlike most art thieves, Breitwieser never stole for money, instead he kept his stole treasures in a secret room.
By Neil Bradbury (615.9 Brad)
In this blend of popular science, medical history, and true crime, Dr. Neil Bradbury explores the use one of the most enduring-and popular murder weapons of choice – poison – alongside real-life accounts.
By John Douglas & Mark Olshaker (364.15232 Doug, Q 364.15232 Doug, CD 361.1523 Doug)
Legendary FBI criminal profiler, John Douglas, recounts is his journey inside the mind and crimes of Larry Gene Bell, one of the most dangerous serial killers he has confronted. This case details how the profile he created combined with dedicated police work and cutting-edge forensic science ended the reign of a remorseless killer.
By Patrick Radden Keefe (364.163 Keef, Q 364.163 Keef, eBook, eAudiobook)
Rogues brings together a dozen of Keefe’s most celebrated articles from The New Yorker. They feature crime and corruption, secrets and lies, the permeable membrane separating licit and illicit worlds, the bonds of family, and the power of denial.
By David Bushman & Mark T. Givens (364.1523 Bush, CD 364.1523 Bush)
In 1908, Hazel Drew was found floating in a pond in Sand Lake, New York, beaten to death. The unsolved murder inspired rumors, speculation, ghost stories, and, almost a century later, the phenomenon of 'Twin Peaks.'
By Patricia Nell McCracken (364.1523 McCr, eBook, eAudiobook)
For more than 15 years a century ago, Aunt Suzy, a village midwife in Hungary, helped women commit dozens, may even hundreds of murders using arsenic.
By Casey Sherman (B Cost, eBook)
On Cape Cod in 1969 Tony Costa went on a rampage. Sherman profiles the serial killer and analyzes the impact the case had literary rivals Kurt Vonnegut and Norman Mailer.
By Joe Pompeo (364.1523 Pomp, CD 364.1523 Pomp, eBook, eAudiobook)
On September 16, 1922, the bodies of Reverend Edward Hall and Eleanor Mills were found beneath a crabapple tree on an abandoned farm outside of New Brunswick, New Jersey. The story shocked locals and sent the scandal ricocheting around the country, fueling the nascent tabloid industry. This double murder on a lonely lover's lane would soon become one of the most famous killings in American history—a veritable crime of the century.
By Peter J. Wosh & Patricia L. Schall (364.66 Wosh)
Murder on the Mountain tells the story of Margaret Meierhofer, the last woman executed by the State of New Jersey, who was hung - along with a farmhand drifter named Frank Lammens -- in Newark in 1881 for murdering her husband.
By Ken Croke (364.106 Crok)
Going deep undercover in the infamous Pagan motorcycle gang, a longtime ATF agent Ken Croke transformed himself into “Slam,” a monstrous, axe-handle wielding enforcer whose duty was to protect the leadership all costs. He befriended the club’s most violent members and lived among them for two years, covertly building a case against them.
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