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The unspeakable crime of Andrea Yates The unspeakable crime of Andrea Yates Suzanne O'Malley On a June morning in a Houston suburb, a 911 dispatcher questioned the caller on the other end of the line: ARE YOU HAVING A DISTURBANCE? ARE YOU ILL? ARE YOU AT 942 BEACHCOMBER? ARE YOU THERE ALONE?… OL15323990W
The big girls The big girls Susanna Moore Helen is serving a life sentence at Sloatsburg women's prison for the murder of her children. Dr. Louise Forrest, a recently divorced mother of an eight-year-old boy, is the new chief of psychiatry t… OL16046448W
Precious victims Precious victims Don W. Weber In June 1986 the police in Jersey County, Illinois accepted Paula Sims's story of a masked kidnapper who snatched her baby girl Lorelei from her bassinet. Three years later her second newborn daughte… OL1737505W
The long shadow of small ghosts The long shadow of small ghosts Laura Tillman "In Cold Blood meets Adrian Nicole LeBlanc's Random Family: A harrowing, profoundly personal investigation of the causes, effects, and communal toll of a deeply troubling crime--the brutal murder of … OL20027312W
By Their Father's Hand By Their Father's Hand Monte Francis Neighbors were unaware of what went on behind the tightly closed doors of a house in Fresno, California—the home of an imposing, 300-pound Marcus Wesson, his wife, children, nieces, and grandchildren… OL276675W
When mothers kill When mothers kill Cheryl Meyer,Michelle Oberman Michelle Oberman and Cheryl L. Meyer don’t write for news magazines or prime-time investigative television shows, but the stories they tell hold the same fascination. When Mothers Kill is compelling.… OL8510247W
Bitter Harvest Bitter Harvest Ann Rule On the night of October 23/24, 1995 in Prairie Village, Kansas, a fierce, wind-driven fire devastated the luxurious mansion of Dr. Debora Green and her husband, Dr. Michael Farrar. Trapped and burned… OL892125W