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Sometimes the Truth is Stranger than Fiction
(Adults)
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Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Profiles the most notorious serial killers of the 1980s, including the Night Stalker, the BTK Killer, Jeffrey Dahmer, and Aileen Wuornos, revealing the facts about their crimes along with the advances in forensics that helped lead to their capture"--
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Joe Exotic, star of the Netflix original documentary that 'consumed the pop-cultural imagination' (The Atlantic) and united a nation in the midst of a global crisis, opens up about his outlandish journey from Midwestern farmer to infamous Tiger King, and finally, to federal inmate"--
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In this exploration of women, violence, and obsession, Monroe interrogates the appeal of true crime through four narratives of fixation. In a combination of personal narrative, reportage, and a sociological examination of violence and media in the 20th and 21st centuries, she explores empathy, justice, and the persistent appeal of violence.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Most people have never heard of Israel Keyes, yet he's the most ambitious and terrifying serial killer in modern history. Described by the FBI's top criminal minds as unprecedented and by one prosecutor as 'a force of pure evil,' Keyes struck all over the United States, stashing 'kill kits' in remote locations, traveling thousands of miles to hunt--Keyes had no victim profile--and, in mere hours, disposing of the bodies in another state. Then he...
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Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A book that will be the basis for a documentary on the Lifetime Movie Network revisits one of the coldest case in U.S. history?́?the murder of 7-year-old Maria Ridulph in the winter of 1957?́?which attracted the attention of the FBI and President Eisenhower, but wasn't solved until 55 years later.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In the pantheon of serial killers, Belle Gunness stands alone. She was the rarest of female psychopaths, a woman who engaged in wholesale slaughter, partly out of greed but mostly for the sheer joy of it. Between 1902 and 1908, she lured a succession of unsuspecting victims to her Indiana 'murder farm.' Some were hired hands. Others were well-to-do bachelors. All of them vanished without a trace. When their bodies were dug up, they hadn't merely...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
"Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich begins a summer job at a law firm in Louisiana, working to help defend men accused of murder ... The child of two lawyers, she is staunchly anti-death penalty. But the moment convicted murderer Ricky Langley's face flashes on the screen as she reviews old tapes ... she is overcome with the feeling of wanting him to die. Shocked by her reaction, she digs deeper and deeper into the case. Despite their vastly different...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
An award-winning scholar of white supremacy tackles her toughest research assignment yet: the unsolved murder of a black man in rural Mississippi while her grandfather was the local sheriff--a cold case that sheds new light on the hidden legacy of racial terror in America.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of SAY NOTHING and EMPIRE OF PAIN, twelve enthralling stories of skulduggery and intrigue by one of the most decorated journalists of our time "I read everything he writes. Every time he writes a book, I read it. Every time he writes an article, I read it ... he's a national treasure." - Rachel Maddow Patrick Radden Keefe has garnered prizes ranging from the National Magazine Award to the...
36) The wilderness of ruin: a tale of madness, fire, and the hunt for America's youngest serial killer
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"On December 6, 1991, the naked, bound-and-gagged bodies of ... four girls--each one shot in the head--were found in an I Can't Believe It's Yogurt! shop in Austin, Texas. Grief, shock, and horror spread out from their families and friends to overtake the city itself. Though all branches of law enforcement were brought to bear, the investigation was often misdirected and after eight years only two men (then teenagers) were tried; moreover, their...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
An investigative journalist chronicles his twenty-year obsession with the 1969 Manson murders and describes how he discovered evidence of a cover-up, carelessness from police, misconduct by prosecutors, and potential surveillance by intelligence agents.
What really happened in 1969? Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then eight months pregnant. With...
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