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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
No room for doubt a true story of the reverberations of murder	Angela Dove	A daughter's account of how one moment of violence shattered lives, made heroes, and continues to affect change in the world.On March 25, 1988, Debi Whitlock was brutally murdered in her Modesto, Cal…	OL13652474W
The Yosemite murders	Dennis McDougal	Since he was seven, Cary Stayner had dreamed of capturing women . . . and killing themThey were crimes that grabbed headlines around the world and stunned America. Four women dead, their bodies charr…	OL15103222W
Angel of darkness	Dennis McDougal	Randy Kraft was highly intelligent, politically active, loyal to his friends, committed to his work--and the killer of 67 people--more than any other serial killer known. This book offers a glimpse i…	OL15103227W
The bone garden	Wood, William P.	She looked like everyone’s grandmother: white-haired, plump, bespectacled, and kindly. Only Dorothea Montalvo Puente’s eyes, black and hard behind her glasses, hinted at the evil that lurked within. …	OL15128837W
The price of experience	Randall Sullivan	This is an epic account of the Billionaire Boys Club case, in which Joe Hunt organized a cadre of former classmates and other gifted young men for the purpose of turning large profits in financial ma…	OL15839233W
Zodiac	Robert Graysmith	A "San Francisco Chronicle" reporter provides an account of the series of unsolved murders committed in California from 1968 to the early seventies in which letters were sent to the "Chronicle," anno…	OL16051517W
Full circle	Gloria Killian	A law student who was wrongly accused of masterminding the murders of a Sacramento coin dealer and his wife tells the story of her trial, conviction, incarceration, and ultimate vindication after she…	OL17643545W
Manson	Jeff Guinn	Based on new interviews, this revealing account of one of the most notorious criminals in American history puts Manson in the context of his times, the turbulent end of the 60s, revealing a rock star…	OL17743627W
I'll Be Gone in the Dark	Michelle McNamara	For more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated ten sadistic murders. Then he disappeared, …	OL18195597W
Zebra	Clark Howard	405 p. ; 24 cm	OL18839491W
Black Dahlia, Red Rose	Piu Marie Eatwell	Los Angeles, 1947. The mutilated body of Elizabeth Short, an aspiring starlet from Massachusetts is found; her killer never would be. As the "Black Dahlia" she became a warning for "loose" women in p…	OL19726173W
One cut	Eve Porinchak	A backyard brawl turned media circus filled with gang accusations turns a small, quiet town upside-down. This new series looks at that one particular moment when a single decision - invariable a bad …	OL20060142W
Till Death Us Do Part	Vincent Bugliosi	On December 11, 1966, a mysterious assassin shot Henry Stockton to death, set his house on fire, and left the scene without a trace. A year later, when a woman was found brutally killed, shreds of ev…	OL2588973W
Zodiac Unmasked	Robert Graysmith	A former San Francisco Chronicle reporter continues his account of the series of murders committed in California beginning in 1968, in which letters were sent to the Chronicle announcing the crimes a…	OL2728911W
The Hollywood murder casebook	Michael Munn	Bloodletting and mayhem whipped up from the author's ""ten years of prying into the careers and private lives of movie stars and tracing the history of the Hollywood Star System. . ."" The murdered, …	OL2764790W
Blood Brother	Anne Bird	What happens if, after being given up for adoption in childhood, you reestablish contact with your biological family -- only to discover that your newfound brother is a killer?Anne Bird, the sister o…	OL276525W
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
Disturbed Ground	Carla Norton	Recounts the story of Dorothea Puente, a grandmotherly Sacramento woman who gained a reputation as a Good Samaritan by running a boarding house for the indigent and infirm, only to be convicted of mu…	OL3462431W
Marked for death	Brian J. Karem	A seasoned investigative reporter takes us behind the scenes of one of the most shocking cases in California history when a greedy and seductive wife brutally murders her devoted husband.Tavia Willia…	OL4328811W
How I helped O.J. get away with murder	Mike Gilbert	The print is too small and blurred to read	OL8546363W