On July 23, 1991, Milwaukee chemist Lionel Dahmer discovered - along with the rest of the world - that his son Jeffrey was a murderer who, over a period of many years, had carried out some of the most ghastly crimes ever committed. As the trial progressed, and the crimes of his son were graphically detailed, Lionel began to place himself in the dock beside his son. In the torturous weeks following Jeff's conviction, he continued his descent towards that harrowing point at which the line of his o...
Eleven women went missing over the spring and summer of 1988 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, an old fishing port known as the Whaling City, where Moby Dick, Frederick Douglass, textile mills, and heroin-dealing represent just a few of the many threads in the community’s diverse fabric. In Shallow Graves, investigative reporter Maureen Boyle tells the story of a case that has haunted New England for forty years. The Crimes: The skeletal remains of nine of the women, aged nineteen to thirty-six,...
This shocking, but thought-provoking, analysis of some of the world's worst serial killers looks at their early years in an effort to understand - why? Why do human beings turn into killing machines? Are they born to kill or are they trained to kill? Is there really a 'demon seed' within certain individuals that ensures they are destined to commit serial homicide from conception? The authors have spoken with killers all over the world in a quest to understand what makes them go bad. They were, a...
In 2001, Robert Durst, heir to a two-billion-dollar fortune, was arrested for shoplifting. He was also on the run from a murder indictment-and suspected in the disappearance of his wife, Kathie. What transpired between Kathie's disappearance and the routine arrest was a 19-year, cross-country mystery of multiple identities that raised some baffling questions about one of the country's most prominent men.
There's DNA to Prove It (Psychic Chronicles, #2)
by Jacqueline Lunger
Man with the Killer Smile Volume 13 (North Texas Crime and Criminal Justice)
by Mitchel P. Roth
On a cold, windy December night in 1926, hell was unleashed on a tenant farm near Farwell, the last Texas town before the New Mexico border. Prone to the bottle and fits of rage, the burly man with the smiling blue eyes was in no mood to quarrel with his third wife over his bootleg whisky and sexual abuse of his stepdaughter. He went from room to room in the house, killing his wife and each child with primitive cutting tools and his bare hands. By the time he concluded his bloody work, he had ta...
Missing: The Oregon City Girls
by Linda O'Neal, Philip Tennyson, and Rick Watson
When local police and federal agents fail to find two girls, a frustrated Pond family turns to one of their own: Linda O'Neal. O'Neal, step-grandmother to Ashley Pond and a private invenstigator, is sent on a wild chase after clues and suspects. But after stake-outs and fact-finding, her hunches all lead to one culprit -- a supsect police aren't looking at. Now, O'Neal must do whateaver it takes to bring the perpetrator to justice and find the truth behind two missing girls.