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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. -
The I-5 Killer by Ann Rule writing as Andy Stack (March 1984)
Posted on October 24, 2011 | No CommentsHandsome and athletic Randy Woodfield could have been an NFL superstar but instead gained his fame as the I-5 killer. -
Fly, Colton, Fly: The True Story of the Barefoot Bandit by Jackson Holtz (April 2011)
Posted on April 6, 2011 | 2 CommentsWhen 17-year-old Colton Harris-Moore escaped from juvenile detention and cut a path cross-county by stealing planes, breaking into stores, and identity theft, he became a modern day hero of sorts -
Serial Killers: Murder Without Mercy by Nigel Blundell (December 2010)
Posted on February 21, 2011 | No CommentsThis amazing collection of true crime short stories covers stories about Serial Killers from around the world. Includes both historical true crime and contemporary stories -
The Peyton-Allan Files by Phil Stanford (2010)
Posted on January 17, 2011 | 1 CommentIn November 1960, young lovers Beverly Allan and Larry Peyton were murdered as they parked along a deserted lovers lane. Fifty years later, the question remains - who did it? -
Killer Kids updated by Don Lasseter (December 1999)
Posted on September 13, 2010 | 1 CommentA collection of true crime short stories about kids from around the world who have committed so of the most vicious, cold-blood murders on record -
Bizarre Murderers edited by Rose G. Mandelsberg (March 1991)
Posted on August 18, 2010 | 1 CommentTwenty true crime short stories about some of the world's most bizarre murders. From authors such as Gary C. King, Bob Carlsen, Andrew Lowen, and Gary Miller. -
Dead of Night by Don Lasseter (October 1997)
Posted on July 5, 2010 | 3 CommentsHis stepmother saw in Jimmy Rode the trouble that lay ahead and tried to get him help. She would become one of the first victims of this serial killing enigma -
Bizarre Murderers II edited by Rose G. Mandelsberg (October 1993)
Posted on April 7, 2010 | 1 CommentTrue crime short story collections are my favorites, and Bizarre Murderers II didn't dissappoint -
Angel of Darkness by Dennis McDougal (May 1991)
Posted on March 8, 2010 | No CommentsMcDougal doesn't sugar coat anything in this book. His recounting of the crimes are about as straight-forward as anything I've ever read