By Harold Schechter

ISBN-10: 0345472004

ISBN-13: 9780345472007

The Serial Killer FilesHarold SchechterTHE DEFINITIVE file ON HISTORY'S so much HEINOUS!Hollywood's make-believe maniacs like Jason, Freddy, and Hannibal Lecter cannot carry a candle to genuine existence monsters like John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and rankings of others who've terrorized, tortured, and terminated their method throughout civilization in the course of the a long time. Now, from the much-acclaimed writer of Deviant, Deranged, and wicked, comes the last word source at the serial killer phenomenon.Rigorously researched and filled with the main terrifying, up to date details, this leading edge and hugely compelling compendium covers each element of a number of murderers-from psychology to cinema, fetishism to fan golf equipment, "trophies" to buying and selling playing cards. Discover:WHO they're: these featured contain Ed Gein, the homicidal mama's boy who encouraged fiction's most renowned Psycho, Norman Bates; Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, sex-crazed killer cousins greater referred to as the Hillside Stranglers; and the Beanes, a fifteenth-century cave-dwelling extended family with an insatiable urge for food for human fleshHOW THEY KILL: They shoot, stab, and strangle. Butcher, bludgeon, and burn. Drown, dismember, and consume . . . and different equipment of bloodbath too many and immense to say here.WHY THEY DO IT: For excitement and for revenue. For famous person and for "companionship. For the satan and for dinner. For the fun of it, for the hell of it, and since "such males are monsters, who dwell . . .beyond the frontiers ofmadness.PLUS: in-depth case stories, vintage killers' nicknames, definitions of each type of deviance and derangement, and masses, a lot more.For multiple hundred profiles of deadly loners and killer undefined, Bluebeards and black widows, cannibals and copycats- this can be an integral, spine-tingling, eye-popping research into the darkish hearts and mad minds of that twisted breed of human whose crimes are the main scary . . . and interesting.

By Stewart P. Evans

ISBN-10: 0750942282

ISBN-13: 9780750942287

By Ann Rule

ISBN-10: 1416544607

ISBN-13: 9781416544609

FROM TRUE-CRIME LEGEND ANN RULE comes this riveting tale of a tender lady whose existence ended too soon—and a decided mother’s eleven-year campaign to transparent her daughter’s identify.
It was once 9 days sooner than Christmas 1998, and thirty-two-year-old Ronda Reynolds was once on the brink of shuttle from Seattle to Spokane to go to her mom and brother and grandmother ahead of the vacations. Ronda’s moment marriage used to be dissolving after lower than a yr, her profession as a pioneering woman Washington nation Trooper had ended, yet she used to be confident approximately beginning once more. "I’m really anticipating getting on with my life," she advised her mom previous the evening earlier than. "I simply desire a few days with you guys." Barb Thompson, Ronda’s mom, who had met her daughter’s moment husband just once earlier than, was once simply satisfied that Ronda used to be coming domestic.
At 6:20 that morning, Ron Reynolds referred to as 911 and informed the dispatcher his spouse used to be lifeless. She had devoted suicide, he stated, even if he hadn’t heard the gunshot and he didn’t comprehend if she had a pulse. EMTs arrived, detectives arrived, the coroner’s deputy arrived, and a postmortem used to be performed. Lewis County Coroner Terry Wilson, who neither visited the loss of life scene nor attended the post-mortem, declared the way of Ronda’s demise as "undetermined." Over the following 11 years, Coroner Wilson could switch that demeanour of loss of life from "undetermined" to "suicide," again to "undetermined"—and then again to "suicide" back.
But Barb Thompson by no means for one second believed her daughter dedicated suicide. Neither did Detective Jerry Berry or ballistics specialist Marty Hayes or legal professional Royce Ferguson or dozens of Ronda’s neighbors. For 11 grueling years, throughout the ups and downs of the felony approach and its unending delays, those humans and others helped Barb Thompson struggle to strike that painful note from her daughter’s dying certificates.
On November nine, 2009, a precedent-setting listening to was once held to figure out no matter if Coroner Wilson’s workplace have been derelict in its accountability in investigating the demise of Ronda Reynolds. Veteran true-crime author Ann Rule used to be current at that listening to, hoping to unbraid the tangled strands of conflicting statements and mishandled proof and current both sides of this haunting case and to figure out, probably, what occurred to Ronda Reynolds, within the sit back nonetheless of that tragic December evening.

By Tony Thompson

ISBN-10: 1848940548

ISBN-13: 9781848940543

Organised crime is now the country's 3rd largest undefined. The variety of gangland murders, shootings and kidnappings, besides the degrees of drug trafficking, humans smuggling and cash laundering, have all skilled out of the ordinary progress. Multi million pound drug offers and cruel turf wars have unfolded from the interior towns and now impact even the main rural groups. The daily influence of organised crime on our lives hasn't ever been greater.

In GANGS, award-winning writer Tony Thompson takes us on a gripping trip into the underworld. From Triad human traffickers in Dover and ecstasy issue proprietors in Liverpool, to Albanian vice barons in London and gun-toting teenage crack buyers in Birmingham, GANGS unearths the interior tale of up to date organised crime.

By Clifford L. Linedecker

ISBN-10: 1429938676

ISBN-13: 9781429938679

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By Judith Skillings

ISBN-10: 0060583207

ISBN-13: 9780060583200

ISBN-10: 0061379530

ISBN-13: 9780061379536

There aren't many ladies in specialist vehicle racing -- yet that did not cease Rebecca Moore from becoming a member of driving force Ian Browning's pit group. A former reporter and vintage vehicle restorer, Rebecca's love of speedy automobiles and mastery of all issues car have enticed her to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the main recognized music on this planet. operating pit lane, her innate sturdiness shields her from the scoffs and insults being tossed her method. however the bullet that whizzes previous her head, shattering the windshield of the classic race automobile in her care, cannot be as simply missed -- nor can the physique she unearths within the cockpit the day earlier than the race. once more, Rebecca's pressured to discover a killer. however the lethal secrets and techniques watching for her -- the blind, vengeful hatred that spans a long time -- threaten to make this high-speed lap Rebecca's final.