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1) Jack the Ripper's Streets of Terror: Life During the Reign of Victorian London's Most Brutal Killer
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An exploration of the Jack the Ripper murders through the eyes of the Londoners who lived through it, including eye-witness accounts and inquest testimonies.
The shocking murders carried out by an unknown serial killer in London's East End in during the autumn of 1888 dominated the news and public imagination at the time and have continued to exert a baleful influence ever since. But what was it like to live through those terrifying weeks? No matter...
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More than a century after he stalked the streets of London's East End, Jack the Ripper continues to exert a macabre fascination on the popular imagination. After scrupulously re-examining official documents of the time, investigative journalist Paul Roland strips away decades of myth and misconceptions to reveal the identity of a brand-new suspect who has never been seriously considered until now. If you are expecting a finger to be pointed at one...
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Retired Phoenix Police Sergeant Darren Burch captivates you on another wild police ride-along with outrageously macabre and compelling stories from his thirty-year career as a rookie cop, sex crime detective, and night detective sergeant in the Phoenix Police Department's Homicide Unit in this gut-clinching, horrific, and oftentimes laugh-out-loud funny follow-up to Darren's award-winning true-crime book, Twisted But True. Darren's dark humor reemerges...
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John Wayne Gacy murdered 33 young men and boys between 1972 and 1978 in suburban Chicago. 26 bodies were found in a crawl space beneath his house and 3 others were buried in the backyard. Although the house was completely demolished during the exhumation of the bodies, on May 15, 2004 a group of paranormal investigators wired the home that was built in its place with paranormal detection and surveillance equipment. The outcome of the investigation...
5) Meadowoods
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Three small town college students plot a savage and merciless murder out of sheer boredom while filming the entire process on home video.
6) Psychotic
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The resident psychologist of an insane asylum wakes to find herself tied up in the morgue, with the full horror of insane patients escaped from their prison cells. Desperately seeking safety she aligns herself with a dangerous patient.
10) Hayride 2
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Immediately following the events of "Hayride" the survivors arrive at the hospital to recover from the previous night's massacre. Unfortunately, the seemingly invincible "Pitchfork," fueled by hatred, is also on his way to finish what he started.
13) Kill Game
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Kill Game is the story of a group of high school kids who amuse themselves by pulling pranks on unsuspecting students and teachers. They are all popular, good looking, the kids voted most likely to succeed. But at their core lies a cruelty and shallowness which comes with the territory of privilege. One night, a prank goes horribly wrong and a teenager is killed. The gang covers it up as a drowning accident but five years later, their lives are turned...
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After being left at the altar 5 years ago, ex-beauty queen Farrah Adjani has receded into her own world. She lives at home in an apartment shared by her mother and aunt, and rarely comes out of her room. She spends her time flipping through the 24-hour news cycle and feeding her obsession with Jackson Miles, a recently convicted serial killer. Everything changes when her overbearing drunk of a mother returns home from her date, flashes a ring, and...
15) Mom Said Kill
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A Son's Worst Fears...
When Jerry Heimann's son arrived at his father's home in Everett, Washington, he found his grandmother, an Alzheimer's patient, alone in the house, starving and dehydrated. His father was missing. The furniture was gone. Within hours, police realized that Jerry's live-in housekeeper, Barbara Opel, had robbed him and fled. But where was Jerry?
A Mother's Worst Crime...
The next morning, Barbara Opel's 11-year-old son led...
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The Killer Book of Serial Killers is the ultimate resource (and gift) for any true crime fan and student of the bizarre world of serial killers. Filled with stories, trivia, quizzes, quotes, photos, and odd facts about the world's most notorious murderers, this is the perfect bathroom reader for anyone fascinated with serial killers.
The stories and trivia cover such killers as:
John Wayne Gacy
Ted Bundy
The BTK Killer
Jack the Ripper
The Green...
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A deranged man's pursuit of women he considers sinful explodes into a nightmare of terror for City Horticulturist Wendy Coleman. Although she rationalizes otherwise, he makes her feel somewhat responsible for the terror raining down on her. As the Apostle's net tightens, Detective Shawn Flannery and Wendy devise a plan that leads to a showdown with the Apostle's evil forces, a showdown that's risks Wendy's life even more.
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This landmark work offers a completely new approach to the history and psychology of human violence. Its sweep is broad, its research meticulous and detailed. Wilson explores the bloodthirsty sadism of the ancient Assyrians and the mass slaughter by the armies led by Genghis Khan, Tamurlane, Ivan the Terrible, and Vlad the Impaler. He delves into modern history, exploring the genocides practiced by Stalin and Hitler. He then takes a chilling look...
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18 Shocking True Crime Stories of the World's Worst Serial Killers. Included in this volume; Dennis Nilsen: Known as the British Jeffrey Dahmer, Nilsen strangled at least a dozen young men, cluttering up his tiny apartment with their corpses.
Frank Spisak: A Nazi-obsessed cross dresser who stalked the streets of Cleveland, Ohio, gunning down anyone he encountered.
Robert Pickton: A prolific prostitute killer who dismembered his 49 victims and fed...
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Ed Gein was convicted of killing only two women. It is not his number of murders that have made this damaged man the prototype for a number of the most famous motion picture killers, such as Buffalo Bill, Norman Bates, Hannibal Lecter, Leatherface. The actions that he engaged in before and after these murders are what makes him perhaps the most interesting serial killer of all.
Samuel Little, a serial killer who fulfilled his grisly urges between...
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