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Dead But Not Forgotten: The True Story of a Cheating Husband, His Stunning Mistress, and a Murder Case Gone Cold by Amber Hunt (August 2010)
Posted on June 13, 2011 | No CommentsIn July 1993, Barbara George was murdered. Almost 20 years later, her husband Michael was accussed of the crime. Would a Judge and jury agree with investigators? -
Shake the Devil Off: A True Story of the Murder that Rocked New Orleans by Ethan Brown (September 2009)
Posted on June 8, 2011 | No CommentsWhy did Zachery Bowen murder and dismember his girlfriend, Addie Hall? Was he suffering from post-war PTSD? The stress of living in post-Katrina New Orleans? Or maybe he was just a guy that couldn't take any more. -
The Killer Book of Infamous Murders by Tom Philbin and Michael Philbin (March 2011)
Posted on June 6, 2011 | No CommentsBrothers Tom and Michael Philbin explore some of America's most infamous murders. But don't think there just rehashing what you already know, because they offer plenty of new tidbits of information. Plus a lot of "extras" that'll test your knowledge of true crime. -
The Man In The Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter by Mark Seal (June 2011)
Posted on June 1, 2011 | No CommentsNot missing persons or backyard skeletal remains could take down the man known as Clark Rockefeller. Instead it would be a mere child that would lead to the fall of a conman. -
Hunting Evil: The Startling True Story of a Man-Woman Team Alleged to be Brutal Serial Rapists by Carlton Smith (October 2000)
Posted on May 30, 2011 | 2 CommentsNo woman was safe from this serial raping duo in California...not even their own daughters. -
We Have Your Husband: One Woman’s Terrifying Story of a Kidnapping in Mexico by Jayne Garcia Valseca with Mark Ebner (May 2011)
Posted on May 25, 2011 | No CommentsWhen Mexican radicals kidnapped Eduardo Garcia Valseca in beautiful San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico, they didn't know they were unleasing the furor of a loving wife who was no stranger to fighting for survival. -
Once Upon a Time: A True Story of Memory, Murder and the Law by Harry Maclean (July 1994)
Posted on May 23, 2011 | No CommentsWhen 9-year-old Susan Nason was murdered in 1969, no one knew it would take 20 years to solve the case. Or that it was be a daughter's recovered memories that led to her father's arrest for the crime -
Almost Midnight: An American Story of Murder and Redemption by Michael Cuneo (April 2004)
Posted on May 18, 2011 | 2 CommentsDarrell Mease killed three people, but he believed he would be spared the death penalty, proclaiming God as his law. Would divine intervention save a mass murderer -
Seeds of Evil by Carlton Smith (September 1997)
Posted on May 16, 2011 | No CommentsGreedy Little Bastard Review by Kim Cantrell Easter Sunday 1992 would come to a fatal close for the Ewell family of Fresno, California. Moments after their arrival home from a... -
We’re Going to Win This Thing: The Shocking Frame-up of a Mafia Crime Buster by Lin DeVecchio and Charles Brandt (February 2011)
Posted on May 11, 2011 | No CommentsLin DeVecchio was a celebrated mob buster in the 1970s and 80s. But in 2006, he would find himself the target of the very system he defended.