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Angel of darkness 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
Small sacrifices Small sacrifices Ann Rule the mesmerizing story of Diane Downs, a beautiful, brillient, sociopath, who commits the ultimate evil when she shoots her three children to gain the love of a married man. Anne Rule's insight into t… OL15642789W
The Boston stranglers The Boston stranglers Susan Kelly In the only definitive book on this case, Susan Kelly investigates Albert DeSalvo's false confession to eleven murders committed in New England in the early 1960s -- and exposes the real killers. OL15861287W
The shooting salvationist The shooting salvationist David R. Stokes The Shooting Salvationist chronicles what may be the most famous story you have never heard. In the 1920's, the Reverend J. Frank Norris railed against vice and conspiracies he saw everywhere to a co… OL16116817W
The inventor and the tycoon The inventor and the tycoon Edward Ball From the National Book Award-winning author of Slaves in the Family, this book is the riveting true story of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron who buil… OL16664530W
Fatal justice Fatal justice Jerry Allen Potter This "devastating rebuttal to Fatal Vision" (Boston Phoenix) demonstrates that the jury was not privy to crucial evidence in the case of Jeffrey MacDonald, the Green Beret Captain convicted of the mu… OL1672262W
Picture Perfect Picture Perfect Shanna Hogan A devoted bachelor. Travis Alexander was a handsome, hard-working, practicing Mormon who lived in Mesa, Arizona. His good looks and easygoing manner made him popular with everyone, especially the lad… OL16805756W
Deadly Censorship Deadly Censorship James Lowell Underwood On January 15, 1903, South Carolina lieutenant governor James H. Tillman shot and killed Narciso G. Gonzales, editor of South Carolina's most powerful newspaper, the State. Blaming Gonzales's stingin… OL16813098W
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts vs. Lizzie A. Borden The Commonwealth of Massachusetts vs. Lizzie A. Borden Michael Martins xix, 554 p. : 24 cm OL18232414W
Murder in Tombstone Murder in Tombstone Steven Lubet The gunfight at the OK Corral occupies a unique place in American history. Although the event itself lasted less than a minute, it became the basis for countless stories about the Wild West. At the t… OL1938568W
Room 1219 Room 1219 Greg Merritt "Part biography, part true crime narrative, this painstakingly researched book chronicles the improbable rise and stunning fall of Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle from his early big screen success to his inv… OL19968970W
Anatomy of a confession Anatomy of a confession Gary L. Stuart Debra Milke spent twenty-three years on death row for murdering her four year-old son based solely on a confession she never gave. The two men who killed Christopher Milke are still on death row. Nei… OL20022089W
Racial Reckoning Racial Reckoning Renee C. Romano 268 pages : 24 cm OL21144385W
The Boston stranglers The Boston stranglers Kelly, Susan. "DeSalvo Is the Strangler!" declared the headlines after handyman Albert DeSalvo confessed to eleven brutal rape/murders that terrorized Boston from 1962 to 1964. The repeat sex offender boasted he h… OL2924061W
Arc of justice Arc of justice Boyle, Kevin "In the Roaring Twenties, neon lit the night, jazz played, and in northern cities glistening new skyscrapers beckoned Negroes worn down by southern terrors. They came with battered bags and hope. Oss… OL3284562W
The Guns of Meeting Street The Guns of Meeting Street T. Felder Dorn "As compelling as fiction, The Guns of Meeting Street reconstructs a series of sensational murders in the early 1940s that rocked rural Edgefield County, South Carolina, and riveted the attention of … OL3538132W
Mrs. Harris Mrs. Harris Diana Trilling Chronicles the trial of Jean Harris for the murder of her long-time lover, the author of the Scarsdale diet. OL3924195W
A Murder in Virginia A Murder in Virginia Suzanne Lebsock "Lucy Pollard is dead. Four black people are arrested. Will they escape with their lives?" "It's 1895 in Lunenburg County, Virginia, and a white woman lies in her farmyard, murdered with a meat-ax. S… OL5132334W
A Call for Justice A Call for Justice Denise Lang When the law won't work, you have to work the law... The murderer stalking the quiet town of Warwick, Rhode Island in the late summer of 1989 was an unrepentant psychopath--"a living, breathing ki… OL555312W
The devil's tickets The devil's tickets Gary M. Pomerantz Kansas City, 1929: Myrtle and Jack Bennett sit down with another couple for an evening of bridge. As the game intensifies, Myrtle complains that Jack is a "bum bridge player." For such insubordinatio… OL7976143W
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