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Precious Victims by Don Weber and Charles Bosworth Jr. (1993)
Posted on February 23, 2012 | No CommentsIn June 1986, Paula Sims claimed a masked gunman abducted her daughter. Three years and a new daughter later, she'd make the same claim. Can lightening really strike one family twice? -
A Murder in West Covina: Chronicle of the Finch-Tregoff case by James Linder Jones M.D. (August 2011)
Posted on February 21, 2012 | No CommentsBarbara Jean Finch wanted a divorce from her cheating husband. Dr. Bernard Finch wanted to keep everything: assets, wife, and girlfriend. Since they both couldn't have what they wanted, someone was going to die. -
Beyond Reason: The True Story of a Shocking Double Murder, a Brilliant and Beautiful Virginia Socialite, and a Deadly Psychotic Obsession by Ken Englade (June 2004)
Posted on February 17, 2012 | No CommentsThe double homicide of the Haysoms rocked the community of Boonsboro, outside of Lynchburg, Virginia, but the identity of their killers would be even more stunning. -
Such Good Boys: The True Story of a Mother, Two Sons, and a Horrifying Murder by Tina Dirmann (October 2005)
Posted on February 15, 2012 | 2 CommentsWhen family members, friends, neighbors, and school officials ignore the obvious troubles of two kids with a paranoid schizophrenic mother, why are they outraged when those same kids feel that murder is the only path to freedom? -
The Doctors Wife: A True Story of Marriage, Deception, and Two Gruesome Deaths by John Glatt (March 2007)
Posted on February 13, 2012 | No CommentsIt was fine and dandy for Bart Corbin to have his own affair but when his wife Jennifer took an online lover and told him she wanted a divorce, Bart decided if he couldn't have her then no one could. -
A Deadly Affair: The Shocking True Story of a High Profile Love Triangle and Gruesome Death by Tom Henderson (June 2007)
Posted on February 6, 2012 | No CommentsMick and Leann Fletcher had just returned from a lesson at the firing range when he called 911 and said his wife had committed suicide after an afternoon rendezvous. But what police uncovered would point more toward murder than suicide. -
Bad Apples: Inside the Teacher/Student Sex Scandal Epidemic by Rebecca Morris (February 2012)
Posted on February 3, 2012 | No CommentsTeenage boys having sex with their female teachers may seem like a harmless initiation into manhood, but the truth is these relationships can be even more dangerous than those between girls and their male teachers. -
The Last Time We Saw Her by Robert Scott (January 2011)
Posted on February 1, 2012 | No CommentsWhen Brooke Wilberger disappeared from Corvallis, Oregon, in May 2004, the search for the teenage college student would uncover a budding sex offender, a parking lot pervert, and other colorful characters and end up in Albuquerque, New Mexico. -
Buried Memories: The Bloody Crimes and Execution of the Texas Black Widow by Irene Pence (April 2008)
Posted on January 30, 2012 | No CommentsBetty Lou Beets was quite a character. Seven marriages, six husbands, domestic violence, attempted murder charges, public lewdness in a topless bar, and, as icing on the cake, murder - times two! -
Her Deadly Web: The True Story of a Former Nurse and The Strange and Suspicious Deaths of Her Two Husbands by Diane Fanning (January 2012)
Posted on January 26, 2012 | 1 CommentWhen Raynellas first husband died, some people questioned the circumstances even if he did have terminal cancer. When her second husband died of a suicide, police took a harder look and what they found was a woman who was not whom she appeared to be.