True Crime Classics
In Cold Blood:
With the publication of this book, Capote permanently ripped
through the barrier separating crime reportage from serious
literature. As he reconstructs the 1959 murder of a Kansas farm
family and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and
execution of the killers, Capote generates suspense and empathy. MORE
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Helter Skelter:
Revealing the story behind the Manson family, conspiracy, and
investigation, a twenty-fifth anniversary edition narrates Deputy
D.A. Vincent Bugliosi's determined prosecution, the psychological
profiles on the case, and its impact on the nation. MORE
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The Stranger Beside
Me: Ted Bundy was everyone's picture of a natural
"winner" - handsome, charming, brilliant in law school,
successful with women, on the verge of a dazzling career. On
January 24, 1989 Ted Bundy was executed for the murders of three
young women; he had also confessed to taking the lives of at least
thirty-five more young women from coast to coast. This is his
story - the story of his magnetic power, his unholy compulsion,
his demonic double life, and his string of helpless victims. It
was written by a woman who thought she knew Ted Bundy, until she
began to put all the evidence together, and the whole terrifying
picture emerged from the dark depths. MORE
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Homicide:
This 1992 Edgar Award winner for
best fact crime is nothing short of a classic. David Simon, a
police reporter for the Baltimore Sun, spent the year 1988
with three homicide squads, accompanying them through all the grim
and grisly moments of their work--from first telephone call to
final piece of paperwork. The picture that emerges through a
masterful accumulation of details is that homicide detectives are
a rare breed who seem to thrive on coffee, cigarettes, and
persistence, through an endlessly exhausting parade of murder
scenes. Now an award-winning TV series. MORE
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The Onion Field:
This is the frighteningly true story of two young cops and two
young robbers whose separate destinies fatally cross one march
night in a bizarre execution in a deserted Los Angeles field.
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 Zodiac:
Horrifying in a way no fiction can be, Zodiac is the gripping
story of the serial murderer who terrorized the San Francisco
bay area from 1966 to 1978. The book contains reproductions of
the killer's communiques to the police as well as the author's
own chilling speculations on Zodiac's true identity--and his
whereabouts today. MORE
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Fatal
Vision: McGinniss explores
the psyche of an all-American killer--Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald, the
Princeton-educated doctor who was convicted of murdering his
pregnant wife and two small children. MORE
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Waste Land:
Mike Newton shines new light on the dark saga of Charles
Starkweather and his 14-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate,
who in 1958 embarked on a shocking, murderous rampage that
lasted eight days and left 11 dead bodies in its wake--including
Caril Ann's family. Utilizing first-hand interviews, court
transcripts, and death-row confessions, this account probes the
mindset of history's deadliest juvenile delinquents. Photo
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Midnight In
The Garden of Good And Evil: Forceful,
clear, gripping, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is the
best non-fiction novel since In Cold Blood and a lot more
entertaining, since Berendt's book has everything going for it -
snobbism, ruthless power, voodoo, local color, and a totally
evil estheticism. I read it till dawn. MORE
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Lindbergh:
Behn revisits the evidence and discovers new details to build a
compelling, plausible scenario that puts the child's murderer
closer to the Lindbergh case than anyone has ever dared to
suggest. Behn is the author of Kremlin Letter and Big Stick-up
at Brinks, both of which were made into films. MORE
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