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The Man with the Candy by Jack Olsen (1974)
Posted on April 20, 2011 | 2 CommentsBoys were going missing in the The Heights section of Houston, Texas. Although police told their parents they were runaways, it would soon be learned they were the victim of one of America's most prolific serial killers -
Charmer by Jack Olsen (November 1995)
Posted on April 26, 2010 | 1 CommentGeorge Waterfield Russell, Jr. was a real ladies' man. Charming the ladies at Mercer Island night clubs. When they begin dying, police began to look at the ladies' man as a lady killer. -
The Misbegotten Son: The True Story of Arthur J. Shawcross by Jack Olsen (September 1993)
Posted on February 1, 2010 | 3 CommentsWhat makes a boy from a seemingly average upbringing become a child killer and later a serial killer of prostitutes -
I: The Creation of a Serial Killer by Jack Olsen (August 2003)
Posted on January 19, 2010 | 1 CommentKeith Jesperson makes the proclamation from his jail cell that people are imprisoned because they aren't smart.... -
Predator by Jack Olsen (February 1992)
Posted on January 11, 2010 | 1 CommentIt Could Happen To You Review by Kim Cantrell Steve Titus was 31-years-old when Port of Seattle officer Ronald A. Parker decided that he looked good as a suspect in... -
Son: A Psychopath and His Victims by Jack Olsen (April 1985)
Posted on November 23, 2009 | No CommentsAlthough his sexual deviance was evident in his teenage years, not until the age of 34 would he would begin a reign of terror on the women of Spokane, Washington -
Doc: The Rape of the Town of Lovell by Jack Olsen (April 1990)
Posted on November 15, 2009 | No CommentsThey weren't sure what happened but when they were, they were afraid to tell -
Cold Kill by Jack Olsen (November 1988)
Posted on October 20, 2009 | No CommentsDavid West grew up with cold parents. Cindy Ray had parents that loved her. But it would be her parents who died, and his who befriended the woman who ordered their death




