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A chilling and compelling look at the first and last murders of one of Britain's most notorious serial killers, the Stockwell strangler. Terrorizing the elderly population of south London, Kenneth Erskine claimed at least seven male and female victims over four months. Erskine broke into his victims' houses and sexually assaulted them before finally strangling them. Using innovative dramatic reconstruction to dissect the serial killer's mind at the...
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[2013], c2002
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In the 21st century, "we are all becoming visible...in that other, parallel world of electronic records, databases, video films, and computer memories," says Professor David Canter. "Criminals who would've been hidden in the past are also becoming visible in this virtual world-provided we know how to look for them." In this program, Canter addresses the use of data mining to track the virtual and real-world movements of criminals. Case studies include...
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On a rainy night in Edmonton, Alberta police are called to a trucking yard where the body of a 6-year-old girl laying face down in the mud rattles the most seasoned homicide detectives. Few clues are left at the crime scene, and a mysterious marking left in the soft ground is the only lead that police have to follow. The city residents are overcome with fear for their children, which prompts an immense response of tips from across the province. However,...
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[2008]
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Little Dorrit is a miniseries produced by the BBC and WGBH Boston and based on Charles Dickens' serial novel. In Episode 5, the Dorrits make their triumphant departure from the Marshalsea. Arthur knows he may never see them again. Mr Dorrit wants to leave the past, and everyone in it, behind him. He employs Mrs. General to offer instruction in etiquette to his daughters and takes his family on a tour of Europe. Amy provides for Maggy and the Plornishes...
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[2020]
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"Fans of Mindhunter and true crime podcasts will devour these chilling stories of serial killers from the so-called "surge" or epidemic years of serial murder. With books like Serial Killers, Female Serial Killers, and Sons of Cain, Peter Vronsky has established himself as the foremost expert on the history of serial killers. In this first definitive history of the worst decades of American serial murder, when the number and body count of serial killers...
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Joanna Brady mysteries volume 20
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"Driven by a compulsion that challenges his self-control, the man calling himself Charles Milton prowls the rodeo circuit, hunting young women. For years, he has been meticulous in his methods, abducting, murdering, and disposing of his victims while leaving no evidence of his crimes--or their identities--behind. Indigenous women have become his target of choice, knowing law enforcement's history of ignoring their disappearances. A cold case has just...
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[2005], c2001
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In 2001, the last piece of a serial rape/murder case that had tantalized London police for nearly 20 years finally fell into place. In this program, retired FBI profiler Robert Ressler, LAPD psychologist Kris Mohandie, and British law enforcement professionals discuss the history and techniques of criminal profiling within the context of the Railway Rapist crimes that terrorized greater London during the 1980s. In addition, the sensational case of...
10) All these bodies
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Historical Fiction - YA
If You Like One of Us is Lying, Read These!
Mystery Fiction - YA
Thrills and Chills (Halloween) - YA
If You Like One of Us is Lying, Read These!
Mystery Fiction - YA
Thrills and Chills (Halloween) - YA
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In the late 1950s in the Midwest, a serial killer has been draining their victims of blood, leaving them otherwise undisturbed in their cars and homes. When a fifteen-year-old girl is found covered in blood amidst the latest corpses, she confides only in the sheriff's son but her story is unbelievable at best.
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FBI trainee Clarice Starling is assigned to help find a missing woman and save her from 'Buffalo Bill, ' a psychopathic serial killer who skins his victims. Clarice attempts to gain a better insight into the twisted mind of the killer by talking to another psychopath, Dr. Hannibal "The Cannibal' Lecter, as he used to be a respected psychiatrist. FBI agent-in-charge Jack Crawford believes that the mind manipulator Lecter may have the answers to their...
13) Aura of night
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Krewe of Hunters volume 37
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Publisher Annotation: All book editor Megan Law wants is to bury the memory of her brutal kidnapping and move on with her life. So when her publisher asks her to spin her hellish experience into the next bestseller, Megan agrees only because it might help keep other women safe. Then a mysterious, gruesome package arrives in the mail-a reminder that the nightmare isn't over just yet. FBI investigator Ragnar Johnson is running out of time. He knows...
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[2012], c2010
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The brain may be the control center of the human nervous system as well as the chief focus of neurological research, but its link with another organ-the stomach-is a topic of increasing interest and study. This ABC News program looks at the brain's complex relationship with food and its role in America's obesity epidemic. With help from sophisticated imaging techniques, viewers go inside an obese person's brain to see how it responds to fattening...
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"In the newest entry into the Nero Award-winning Parker & Pentecost Mystery series ("my new favorite sleuthing duo"-- Sarah Weinman, The New York Times Book Review), Lillian and Will are hot on the trail of a serial killer whose murders are stranger than fiction. New York City, 1947: For years, Holly Quick has made a good living off of murder, filling up the pages of pulp detective magazines with gruesome tales of revenge. Now someone is bringing...
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Good girl's guide to murder volume 3
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2021.
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Pippa Fitz-Amobi is haunted by the two murder cases she solved, by the victims, by the attention her crime podcast garnered, and by the survivors, which is bad enough--but then it starts to feel like someone is watching her.
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