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1994 Archive
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Depraved: The Shocking True Story of Americas First Serial Killer by Harold Schechter (1994)
Posted on June 27, 2011 | 1 CommentAmerica's first documented serial killer was handsome and charasmatic in public, but behind the closed doors of his Chicago suburban castle, he was very, very cruel and manipulative. He was, simply put, depraved. -
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 -
The Bone Garden: The Sacramento Boarding House Murders by William P. Wood (1994)
Posted on April 13, 2011 | 1 CommentDorothea Puente looked like anybody's sweet little old grandma. Instead she was a (former) hooker, forger, thief, and serial killer -
Fatal Seduction by Rena Vicini (July 1994)
Posted on December 29, 2010 | No CommentsLiz Turpin wanted a life full of excitement and marriage didn't fit that bill, so she seduced her lesbian friend into finding a hitman that could fix the problem. -
Mother Love, Deadly Love: The Texas Cheerleader Murder Plot by Anne Mcdonald Maier (January 1994)
Posted on July 28, 2010 | 7 CommentsThe self-centered, gold-digging Wanda Holloway lived vicariously through her daughter, Shanna. And she wanted to be a cheerleader, even if she had to kill to be one -
Till Murder Do Us Part by Ernest Volkman and John Cummings (January 1994)
Posted on November 17, 2009 | No CommentsJustice began when two brave little girls exposed the dark secrets of their stepfather Robert Fioretti with a school principal who cared enough to believed them -
You Belong to Me and Other True Cases: Volume 2 by Ann Rule (September 1994)
Posted on September 14, 2006 | No CommentsAnn Rule is one of my favorite true crime authors, but I'm sad to report that this is the first of her books that I did more skimming than reading -
Deadly White Female by Clifford L. Linedecker (April 1994)
Posted on September 2, 2006 | 1 CommentClifford Linedecker is again peddling his tabloid style true crime with this story of a desperate divorcee and a conning prostitute