Your favorite true crime documentary or book? (criminal, job, case)

[SoCal_Native]

For convenience, I copied the names of all the books in this thread and a couple other TC threads (so I'll have a list to refer to when I go to the library):

Rites Of Burial by Tom Jackman.
1. Helter Skelter – Vincent Bugliosi
1. The Innocent Man by John Grisham
10. Careless Whispers – Carlton Stowers
2. Fatal Vision – Joe McGinniss
2. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote.
3. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
3. The Onion Field by Joe Wambaugh
4. Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi
4. The Stranger Beside Me – Ann Rule
5. Fatal Vision by Joe McGinniss.
5. Murder in Little Egypt – Darcy O’Brien
6. Bitter Blood – Jerry Bledsloe
7. Small Sacrifices – Ann Rule
8. Shot in the Heart - Mikhail Gilmore
9. Echoes in the Darkness – Joseph Wambaugh
A Date With Death is another by Michele McPhee
A Deadly Silence
A Death in White Bear Lake" by Barry Siegel.
A KILLING IN GREENWICH written by Mark Furman.
A Little Girl Is Missing aka The Murder Of A Little Girl, Sam Roen
A Night to Remember.
A Perfect Storm
A Serial Killer In Nazi Berlin
A Sniper In The Tower by Gary Lavergne.
All She Wanted" by Aphrodite Jones.
Alligator Candy by Thomas Kushner
Amazon.com: Abandoned Prayers: Murder, the Amish, and Little Boy Blue (Audible Audio Edition): Gregg Olsen, Jeffrey Kafer: Books
And Never Let Her Go
And not sure if you would put this in the True Crime category although it is a crime and it is true:
And the Sea Will Tell by Vincent Bugliosi
And The Sea Will Tell, Vincent Bugliosi
And The Sea Will Tell, Vincent Bugliosi
Animal-cruelty charges dropped against Burlington County cop - Philly.com
anyone who looked at her cross-eyed. Jeff, in comparison, was just kind of friendless and quiet. I remember from reading Lionel Dahmer's book that he never knew about the animal dissections. Even Derf
Backderf's book, My Friend Dahmer,
Before He Wakes which is another one by Jerry Bledsloe
Bind, Torture, Kill
Bitter Blood by Jerry Bledsloe
BITTER BLOOD by Jerry Bledsoe
Bitter Blood murders
Bitter Harvest,
Black Mass by Richard Lehrer and Gerard O'Neill
Blind Eye: The Terrifying Story Of A Doctor Who Got Away With Murder by James B Stewart (I have the paperback which was updated from the hardback) (I think this one was made into a TV movie. It is about Dr Michael Swango)
Blood and Money by Thomas Thompson
Blood and Money" by Tommy Thompson.
Blood Stain, Peter Lalor
Bloodland, Kevin McAuliffe
born or bred", Martin Bryant
Boss of Bosses
Bringing Adam Home, Les Standiford
Brutal, by Kevin Weeks. This particular book, whose author was Whitey Bulgar's right-hand man and henchman for many years, gives a good insight as to who Whitey Bulgar was, and what he was really like.
Careless Whispers.
Casino
Cause of Death by Cyril Wecht
Crazy for you by Michael Fleeman
Cries Unheard by Gitta Sereny and Mary Bell
Cruel Doubt"
Darcy O'Brien's Murder in Little Egypt.
Darcy O'Brien's Two of a Kind
Dave Cullen's Columbine
Dead by Sunset"
Dead Center, Shiya Ribowsky
Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of Forensic Anthropologists by William Maples.
Deadly Game by Catherine Crier
Death Of Innocence by Mamie Till-Mobley
Delivered from Evil and
Devil in the Darkness about Israel Keyes
Devil in the Darkness,"
Devil in the White City by Eric Larsen
Disco Bloodbath, James St. James
Double Jeopardy" by Bob Hill
Dummy, Ernest Tidyman
Echoes In The Darkness
Echoes in the Darkness, by Joseph Wambaugh
Ernest Tidyman's Dummy?
Evidence of Love
Executioner's Song by Mailer
Family Skeleton by Yaw, Mackey and Carmichael
Fatal Vision.
Foxcatcher, by Mark Schultz. An excellent book and an excellent movie, to boot.
From Cradle To Grave: The Short Lives and Strange Deaths of Marybeth Tinning's 9 Children by Joyce Eggington (I have the hardback)
Good and Goreck's POISON MIND.
Heaven Knows Who,
Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry, eternally in print
Helter Skelter, Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry
High Hopes, Gerard Sullivan & Harvey Aronson
Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets - David Simon
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets"
House of Evil"? (John Dean), The book was first released under the name of "The Indiana Torture Slaying"
House of Secrets by Lowell Cauffiel
House Of Secrets. Lowell Cauffiel
I liked "Our Guys" by Bernard Lefkowitz . It covers the Glen Ridge rape case.
I Would Find a Girl Walking by Kathy Kelly
imperfect Justice by Jeff Ashston
In Cold Blood.
Interview With A Cannibal, Gunter Stampf
Invisible Darkness: The Strange Case Of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka by Stephen Williams (I have the paperback)
Israel Keyes, "American Predator."
I've also read his book The Cases That Haunt Us, which covers Jon Benet Ramsey (on which the author was a consultant) and Jack The Ripper.
Jerry Bledsoe's Bitter Blood
John Douglas's books
Journey Into Darkness
Journey Into Darkness: John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker: 9781439199817: Amazon.com: Books
Justice In The Back Room, Selwyn Raab
Killer Clown, Terry Sullivan and Peter Maiken
Killer Clown, Terry Sullivan and Peter Maiken
Killer Couples, Richard Glyn Jones
Killing for Company, Brian Masters
King of Cons by Aaron Tonken
Laci by Sharon Rocha (don't remember author)
Ladykiller, Juliet Papa
Legally Sane by John Hahn and Harold McKenney
Little Girl Lost" by Joan Merriam. *Google Shirley
Little Girl Lost,
Little Lost Angel" by Michael Quinlan
Midnight in Peking again
Midnight in Peking, Paul French
Monster
Mostly Murder, Sidney Smith
Mother's Day by Dennis McDougal
Mother's Day" by Dennis McDougal.
Mother's Day, Dennis McDougal
Murder in Little Egypt by Darcy O'Brien
Murder In The Synagogue, T.V. LoCicero
Murder Machine by Gene Mustain and Jerry Capeci.
Murder Of A Little Girl, Samuel Roen
Murder With A Difference, Molly Lefebure
Murder With A Difference, Molly Lefebure
My Friend Dahmer, Derf Backderf
My other favorites read years ago but I remember them:
Night Stalker by Phillip Carlo
Norman Mailer's "The Executioner's Song".
Not Lost Forever, Carmina Salcido
Nothing Is Strange With You, James Jeffrey Pau
nside the Mind of Scott Peterson by Keith Ablow
Obsession
On the Farm, Stevie Cameron
One last add-on. It's not a murder but you will go UGH and there is a crime involved and it's full of celebrity names you know. You will never give to another celebrity fronted charity or fundraiser after you read this book and hear about their excesses related to their "charity" work. The author himself is a loser who went to prison:
People Who Eat Darkness by: Richard Lloyd Parry.
People Who Eat Darkness.
Perfect Murder, Perfect Town.
Perfect Victim by Christine McGuire and Carla Norton, concerning the "Girl in the Box"
Perfect Victim: The True Story of the Girl in the Box" by prosecutor Christine McGuire and Carla Norto
Phillip Markoff was another murderer who seemed to be normal on the outside
Poisoned Blood by Philip E Ginsberg
Preacher's Girl by Jim Schutze, the Life and Times of Blanche Taylor Moore
Provenance - Books by Laney Salisbury - Penguin Group (USA)
Relentless Pursuit, Kevin Flynn
Richard Levine's "Bad Blood, A Family Murder in Marin County."
Secrets in the Cellar by John Glatt - UNBELIEVABLE story!
Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the People's Temple by Deborah Layton (Reverend Jim Jones who killed more than 900 followers and a Congressman)
Serpentine by Thomas Thompson.
Seven Days of Rage by Paul La Rosa is one;
Shattered by Catherine Casey
She Wanted It All - Kathryn Casey
Silent Witness: The Karla Brown Murder Case by Don Weber & Charles Bosworth
Sins of the Brother - Mark Whittaker, Les Kennedy (about Ivan Milat)
Skylights and Screen Doors" by Dean Smart
Small Sacrifices
Small Sacrifices by Ann Rule (It also wasn't a bad TV movie) Diane Downs murderer
Small Sacrifices". It was an Ann Rule
Small Sacrifices, Ann Rule
Someone Else's Daughter - Julia Shepphard (about the murder of Anita Cobby)
Son - Jack Olsen (my favorite true crime writer, and this is one of his best)
Son" - Kevin Coe's bizarre term of endearment for his mother "Bearfax"
Son" by Jack Olsen, "Coe"
Soul Murder: Persecution in the Family by Martin Shatzman.
Stolen Away, Michael Newton
Tarricone
Tears Of Rage, John Walsh with Susan Schindehette
Tears of Rage: John Walsh, Susan Schindehette: 9781439136348: Amazon.com: Books
The Algiers Motel Incident, John Hersey
The Blooding,"
'The Burning Bed', about Francine Hughes
The Burning of Bridget Cleary,
The Company She Keeps - Georgia Durante
The Corner"
The Corpse Had a Familiar Face
The Corpse Had A Familiar Face - Edna Buchanan
The Craiglist Killer
The Darker Side of Evil by Andre Turner
the Darkest Night are two of my favorites. These are by author Ron Francell
The Death Shift by Peter Elkind
The Devil Kissed Her,
The Fatal Gift of Beauty: The Trials of Amanda Knox (2012).
The Gainesville Ripper: A Summer's Madness, Five Young Victims- The Investigation, the Arrest and the Trial by Mary S. Ryzuk - scared the crap outta me!
The Ghost - Robert Harris - Books - Review - New York Times
The Gift of Fear by Gavin De Becker
The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum
The Hothouse
The Indiana Torture Slaying! by John Dean
The Killer Department, Robert Cullen
The Killer of Little Shepherds, Douglas Starr
The Last Victim: A True-Life Journey into the Mind of the Serial Killer by Jason Moss - Couldn't put it down!
The Laughing Gorilla, Robert Graysmith
The Laughing Gorilla, Robert Graysmith
The List, Chet Dettlinger
The List, Prugh and Dettlinger
The Man Who Wanted Seven Wives.
The Mayerling Murder, Victor Wolfson
The Mayerling Murder, Victor Wolfson
The Onion Field" by Joseph Wambaugh
The Only Living Witness, Stephen Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth
The Pyjama Girl Mystery, Richard Evans
The Real Bluebeard, Jean Benedetti
The Restless Sleep, Tracy Horn
The Road To Yuba City, Tracy Kidder
The Shrine Of Jeffrey Dahmer, Brian Masters
The Stranger Beside Me
The Ultimate Evil
The Ultimate Evil by Maury Terry. It's about David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam.
The Ultimate Evil by Maury Terry. Son of Sam David Berkowitz stuff you probably didn't read in the newspaper. ( large paperback) I have taken this 1987 book through 3 location moves. The pages are orangish but it's a keeper.
The Westies
The Yale Murder
Things A Killer Would Know, Paula Doneman
This Is The Zodiac Speaking" by Robert Graysmith.
To Love, Honor, and Kill by Lee Butche
Too Late to say Goodbye by Ann Rule
Twisted Confessions, Charles Skoller
Two Of A Kind.
Two Of A Kind: The Hillside Stranglers by Darcy O'Brien
Ultimate Evil" by Terry Maury
Unanswered Cries, by Thomas French
Unanswered Cries, Thomas French
Under The Banner of Heaven - Jon Krakauer
Unequal Justice, Guy Reel
Until the Twelfth of Never
Until the Twelfth of Never" by Bella Stumbo
Vanished""
Victim
Victorian Murderesses and
Wasted: The Preppy Murder
What Lisa Knew
When A Child Kills by Paul Mones.
When the Guillotine Fell, Jeremy Mercer
Where Hope Begins, Alysia Sofios
Where There Is Evil, Sandra Brown
Where There Is Evil, Sandra Brown
Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI".
Wiseguy
www.reviewingtheevidence.com | NO ONE CAN HURT HIM ANY MORE, by Carol J. Rothgeb and Scott H. Cupp
Zero At The Bone by Bryce Marshall & Paul Williams.

[SoCal_Native]

My Dark Places: An L.A. Crime Memoir is a 1996 book. True Story of James Elroy's mother's murder in Los Angeles. Great book.

[Suburban_Guy]

Just finished "American Predator" about the serial killer Israel Keyes.

I didn't like it as much as "Devil in the Darkness."

I totally recommend "Devil in the Darkness" if you want a chilling read about this ruthless serial killer.

[markg91359]

Originally Posted by Suburban_Guy

Just finished "American Predator" about the serial killer Israel Keyes.

I didn't like it as much as "Devil in the Darkness."

I totally recommend "Devil in the Darkness" if you want a chilling read about this ruthless serial killer.

The Onion Field by Joe Wambaugh is the best crime book ever written.

[ans57]

"A New Kind Of Monster" The secret life and chilling murders of Colonel Russell Williams - By Timothy Appleby.

[Cliffie]

Originally Posted by goldengrain

Aren't sex based crimes the hardest to 'cure'? Some therapist said there is a sort of sexual imprinting that happens early in life. It's kind of a biological window. After that phase some behavior is just a part of who you are. I don't know how true that is, and you wonder where these ideas come from.

I recently read about some cop in New Jersey. Oh, I just found it. It happened years ago.
He and his girlfriend were pedophiles and he had sex with cows.
Animal-cruelty charges dropped against Burlington County cop - Philly.com

To think that these idiots are walking among us - and this guy was in a position of authority.

That's correct. They're basically impossible to cure despite decades of trying with all kinds of interventions. Most people with sexual kinks can't tell you themselves where the kink came from. Albert Fish was beaten throughout his childhood and he coped with it by enjoying it -- both experiencing and causing pain. That's called a reaction formation. He was never broken of it for the rest of his long, twisted life.


But wherefore Anatoly Slivko? He happened to be at the scene of a horrible road accident as a teenager and saw some kids in Pioneer uniforms bleeding and burning to death in the road. He says he was completely astonished to find that it turned him on. He grew up to be a Pioneer den leader and surrounded himself with boys in Pioneer uniforms. He started convincing them to pose for photos in uniform, in various positions simulating being tied up and tortured. Some of them died in the process -- maybe by accident, maybe not -- as he continued to earn accolades for his dedication to serving the public by giving kids positive activities. When it finally came out what he'd been up to, the local Communist Party leader who'd been recommending him for awards killed herself out of guilt. But how can we blame her? Nobody suspected a thing.


What makes it hardest to cure, of course, is that A) it's not precisely an illness and B) nobody wants to be cured of their sexual pleasure.

[ciceropolo]

Not an avid True Crime reader, but two recent books that I have yet to read but are on my list.


Awhile back heard author Rich Cohen speaking about The Last Pirate of New York, in a radio interview. Its about beginning of the gangster era in mid 1800s and an interesting look into Albert Hicks a thief and serial murderer and how he was caught.


Denial of Justice: Dorothy Kilgallen, Abuse of Power and the most compelling investigation of the JFK assassination by Mark Shaw. An update up to his The Reporter Who Knew Too Much regarding the death of Dorothy Kilgallen one time host of TV show What's My Line. In the course of investigating JFK assassination she had interviewed Jack Ruby and who subsequently was murdered as her investigative notes used for a book she was trying to publish about the murder were conveniently never found.

[NorahLA]

Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

I read it when it first came out. To this day, I will wake up at night and first check to see if anyone is crawling around my bed.

[NorahLA]

Originally Posted by SoCal_Native

For convenience, I copied the names of all the books in this thread and a couple other TC threads (so I'll have a list to refer to when I go to the library):

Rites Of Burial by Tom Jackman.
1. Helter Skelter – Vincent Bugliosi
1. The Innocent Man by John Grisham
10. Careless Whispers – Carlton Stowers
2. Fatal Vision – Joe McGinniss
2. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote.
3. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
3. The Onion Field by Joe Wambaugh
4. Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi
4. The Stranger Beside Me – Ann Rule
5. Fatal Vision by Joe McGinniss.
5. Murder in Little Egypt – Darcy O’Brien
6. Bitter Blood – Jerry Bledsloe
7. Small Sacrifices – Ann Rule
8. Shot in the Heart - Mikhail Gilmore
9. Echoes in the Darkness – Joseph Wambaugh
A Date With Death is another by Michele McPhee
A Deadly Silence
A Death in White Bear Lake" by Barry Siegel.
A KILLING IN GREENWICH written by Mark Furman.
A Little Girl Is Missing aka The Murder Of A Little Girl, Sam Roen
A Night to Remember.
A Perfect Storm
A Serial Killer In Nazi Berlin
A Sniper In The Tower by Gary Lavergne.
All She Wanted" by Aphrodite Jones.
Alligator Candy by Thomas Kushner
Amazon.com: Abandoned Prayers: Murder, the Amish, and Little Boy Blue (Audible Audio Edition): Gregg Olsen, Jeffrey Kafer: Books
And Never Let Her Go
And not sure if you would put this in the True Crime category although it is a crime and it is true:
And the Sea Will Tell by Vincent Bugliosi
And The Sea Will Tell, Vincent Bugliosi
And The Sea Will Tell, Vincent Bugliosi
Animal-cruelty charges dropped against Burlington County cop - Philly.com
anyone who looked at her cross-eyed. Jeff, in comparison, was just kind of friendless and quiet. I remember from reading Lionel Dahmer's book that he never knew about the animal dissections. Even Derf
Backderf's book, My Friend Dahmer,
Before He Wakes which is another one by Jerry Bledsloe
Bind, Torture, Kill
Bitter Blood by Jerry Bledsloe
BITTER BLOOD by Jerry Bledsoe
Bitter Blood murders
Bitter Harvest,
Black Mass by Richard Lehrer and Gerard O'Neill
Blind Eye: The Terrifying Story Of A Doctor Who Got Away With Murder by James B Stewart (I have the paperback which was updated from the hardback) (I think this one was made into a TV movie. It is about Dr Michael Swango)
Blood and Money by Thomas Thompson
Blood and Money" by Tommy Thompson.
Blood Stain, Peter Lalor
Bloodland, Kevin McAuliffe
born or bred", Martin Bryant
Boss of Bosses
Bringing Adam Home, Les Standiford
Brutal, by Kevin Weeks. This particular book, whose author was Whitey Bulgar's right-hand man and henchman for many years, gives a good insight as to who Whitey Bulgar was, and what he was really like.
Careless Whispers.
Casino
Cause of Death by Cyril Wecht
Crazy for you by Michael Fleeman
Cries Unheard by Gitta Sereny and Mary Bell
Cruel Doubt"
Darcy O'Brien's Murder in Little Egypt.
Darcy O'Brien's Two of a Kind
Dave Cullen's Columbine
Dead by Sunset"
Dead Center, Shiya Ribowsky
Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of Forensic Anthropologists by William Maples.
Deadly Game by Catherine Crier
Death Of Innocence by Mamie Till-Mobley
Delivered from Evil and
Devil in the Darkness about Israel Keyes
Devil in the Darkness,"
Devil in the White City by Eric Larsen
Disco Bloodbath, James St. James
Double Jeopardy" by Bob Hill
Dummy, Ernest Tidyman
Echoes In The Darkness
Echoes in the Darkness, by Joseph Wambaugh
Ernest Tidyman's Dummy?
Evidence of Love
Executioner's Song by Mailer
Family Skeleton by Yaw, Mackey and Carmichael
Fatal Vision.
Foxcatcher, by Mark Schultz. An excellent book and an excellent movie, to boot.
From Cradle To Grave: The Short Lives and Strange Deaths of Marybeth Tinning's 9 Children by Joyce Eggington (I have the hardback)
Good and Goreck's POISON MIND.
Heaven Knows Who,
Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry, eternally in print
Helter Skelter, Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry
High Hopes, Gerard Sullivan & Harvey Aronson
Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets - David Simon
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets"
House of Evil"? (John Dean), The book was first released under the name of "The Indiana Torture Slaying"
House of Secrets by Lowell Cauffiel
House Of Secrets. Lowell Cauffiel
I liked "Our Guys" by Bernard Lefkowitz . It covers the Glen Ridge rape case.
I Would Find a Girl Walking by Kathy Kelly
imperfect Justice by Jeff Ashston
In Cold Blood.
Interview With A Cannibal, Gunter Stampf
Invisible Darkness: The Strange Case Of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka by Stephen Williams (I have the paperback)
Israel Keyes, "American Predator."
I've also read his book The Cases That Haunt Us, which covers Jon Benet Ramsey (on which the author was a consultant) and Jack The Ripper.
Jerry Bledsoe's Bitter Blood
John Douglas's books
Journey Into Darkness
Journey Into Darkness: John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker: 9781439199817: Amazon.com: Books
Justice In The Back Room, Selwyn Raab
Killer Clown, Terry Sullivan and Peter Maiken
Killer Clown, Terry Sullivan and Peter Maiken
Killer Couples, Richard Glyn Jones
Killing for Company, Brian Masters
King of Cons by Aaron Tonken
Laci by Sharon Rocha (don't remember author)
Ladykiller, Juliet Papa
Legally Sane by John Hahn and Harold McKenney
Little Girl Lost" by Joan Merriam. *Google Shirley
Little Girl Lost,
Little Lost Angel" by Michael Quinlan
Midnight in Peking again
Midnight in Peking, Paul French
Monster
Mostly Murder, Sidney Smith
Mother's Day by Dennis McDougal
Mother's Day" by Dennis McDougal.
Mother's Day, Dennis McDougal
Murder in Little Egypt by Darcy O'Brien
Murder In The Synagogue, T.V. LoCicero
Murder Machine by Gene Mustain and Jerry Capeci.
Murder Of A Little Girl, Samuel Roen
Murder With A Difference, Molly Lefebure
Murder With A Difference, Molly Lefebure
My Friend Dahmer, Derf Backderf
My other favorites read years ago but I remember them:
Night Stalker by Phillip Carlo
Norman Mailer's "The Executioner's Song".
Not Lost Forever, Carmina Salcido
Nothing Is Strange With You, James Jeffrey Pau
nside the Mind of Scott Peterson by Keith Ablow
Obsession
On the Farm, Stevie Cameron
One last add-on. It's not a murder but you will go UGH and there is a crime involved and it's full of celebrity names you know. You will never give to another celebrity fronted charity or fundraiser after you read this book and hear about their excesses related to their "charity" work. The author himself is a loser who went to prison:
People Who Eat Darkness by: Richard Lloyd Parry.
People Who Eat Darkness.
Perfect Murder, Perfect Town.
Perfect Victim by Christine McGuire and Carla Norton, concerning the "Girl in the Box"
Perfect Victim: The True Story of the Girl in the Box" by prosecutor Christine McGuire and Carla Norto
Phillip Markoff was another murderer who seemed to be normal on the outside
Poisoned Blood by Philip E Ginsberg
Preacher's Girl by Jim Schutze, the Life and Times of Blanche Taylor Moore
Provenance - Books by Laney Salisbury - Penguin Group (USA)
Relentless Pursuit, Kevin Flynn
Richard Levine's "Bad Blood, A Family Murder in Marin County."
Secrets in the Cellar by John Glatt - UNBELIEVABLE story!
Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the People's Temple by Deborah Layton (Reverend Jim Jones who killed more than 900 followers and a Congressman)
Serpentine by Thomas Thompson.
Seven Days of Rage by Paul La Rosa is one;
Shattered by Catherine Casey
She Wanted It All - Kathryn Casey
Silent Witness: The Karla Brown Murder Case by Don Weber & Charles Bosworth
Sins of the Brother - Mark Whittaker, Les Kennedy (about Ivan Milat)
Skylights and Screen Doors" by Dean Smart
Small Sacrifices
Small Sacrifices by Ann Rule (It also wasn't a bad TV movie) Diane Downs murderer
Small Sacrifices". It was an Ann Rule
Small Sacrifices, Ann Rule
Someone Else's Daughter - Julia Shepphard (about the murder of Anita Cobby)
Son - Jack Olsen (my favorite true crime writer, and this is one of his best)
Son" - Kevin Coe's bizarre term of endearment for his mother "Bearfax"
Son" by Jack Olsen, "Coe"
Soul Murder: Persecution in the Family by Martin Shatzman.
Stolen Away, Michael Newton
Tarricone
Tears Of Rage, John Walsh with Susan Schindehette
Tears of Rage: John Walsh, Susan Schindehette: 9781439136348: Amazon.com: Books
The Algiers Motel Incident, John Hersey
The Blooding,"
'The Burning Bed', about Francine Hughes
The Burning of Bridget Cleary,
The Company She Keeps - Georgia Durante
The Corner"
The Corpse Had a Familiar Face
The Corpse Had A Familiar Face - Edna Buchanan
The Craiglist Killer
The Darker Side of Evil by Andre Turner
the Darkest Night are two of my favorites. These are by author Ron Francell
The Death Shift by Peter Elkind
The Devil Kissed Her,
The Fatal Gift of Beauty: The Trials of Amanda Knox (2012).
The Gainesville Ripper: A Summer's Madness, Five Young Victims- The Investigation, the Arrest and the Trial by Mary S. Ryzuk - scared the crap outta me!
The Ghost - Robert Harris - Books - Review - New York Times
The Gift of Fear by Gavin De Becker
The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum
The Hothouse
The Indiana Torture Slaying! by John Dean
The Killer Department, Robert Cullen
The Killer of Little Shepherds, Douglas Starr
The Last Victim: A True-Life Journey into the Mind of the Serial Killer by Jason Moss - Couldn't put it down!
The Laughing Gorilla, Robert Graysmith
The Laughing Gorilla, Robert Graysmith
The List, Chet Dettlinger
The List, Prugh and Dettlinger
The Man Who Wanted Seven Wives.
The Mayerling Murder, Victor Wolfson
The Mayerling Murder, Victor Wolfson
The Onion Field" by Joseph Wambaugh
The Only Living Witness, Stephen Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth
The Pyjama Girl Mystery, Richard Evans
The Real Bluebeard, Jean Benedetti
The Restless Sleep, Tracy Horn
The Road To Yuba City, Tracy Kidder
The Shrine Of Jeffrey Dahmer, Brian Masters
The Stranger Beside Me
The Ultimate Evil
The Ultimate Evil by Maury Terry. It's about David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam.
The Ultimate Evil by Maury Terry. Son of Sam David Berkowitz stuff you probably didn't read in the newspaper. ( large paperback) I have taken this 1987 book through 3 location moves. The pages are orangish but it's a keeper.
The Westies
The Yale Murder
Things A Killer Would Know, Paula Doneman
This Is The Zodiac Speaking" by Robert Graysmith.
To Love, Honor, and Kill by Lee Butche
Too Late to say Goodbye by Ann Rule
Twisted Confessions, Charles Skoller
Two Of A Kind.
Two Of A Kind: The Hillside Stranglers by Darcy O'Brien
Ultimate Evil" by Terry Maury
Unanswered Cries, by Thomas French
Unanswered Cries, Thomas French
Under The Banner of Heaven - Jon Krakauer
Unequal Justice, Guy Reel
Until the Twelfth of Never
Until the Twelfth of Never" by Bella Stumbo
Vanished""
Victim
Victorian Murderesses and
Wasted: The Preppy Murder
What Lisa Knew
When A Child Kills by Paul Mones.
When the Guillotine Fell, Jeremy Mercer
Where Hope Begins, Alysia Sofios
Where There Is Evil, Sandra Brown
Where There Is Evil, Sandra Brown
Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI".
Wiseguy
www.reviewingtheevidence.com | NO ONE CAN HURT HIM ANY MORE, by Carol J. Rothgeb and Scott H. Cupp
Zero At The Bone by Bryce Marshall & Paul Williams.

Wow! I have read up to 2/3rds of these books. Maybe more. One book that always stood out to me was "A Death in Canaan". Sad and bewildering book. One of the first books I read regarding "false confession".

[NorahLA]

Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy

Beautiful book