TRUE CRIME True Crime is an authoritative and compelling history of the world's most shocking crimes, infamous murderers and villains from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present. Unfolding in a page-by-page, tabloid format, True Crime traces the development of gangsterism; the growth of police forces from the Bow Street Runners to Scotland Yard and the FBI; and the rise of drug-barons, latter-day cannibalism and mass terrorist attacks. The infamous and the forgotten rub shoulders in these shocking tales. There is also in depth commentary on the most notorious men and women in the history of crime: Burke and Hare, Jack the Ripper, Lizzie Borden, Al Capone, Myra Hindley and lan Brady, Jeffrey Dahmer and Robert Pickton; and specia features on September 11, 2001 and killers who commit suicide. Illustrated with over 450 photographs, True Crime exposes some of the most evil events in criminal history. Recognized worldwide as one of the leading authorities on Jack the Ripper, Martin Fido is a university lecturer whose career has included positions at the Universities of Oxford, Leeds, Michigan, the West Indies and, most recently, Boston. His books include the Murder Guide to London and The Krays: Unfinished Business. A regular broadcaster in the UK and North America, David Southwell has spent over 15 years researching in the fields of conspiracies, parapolitics and international crime, the last seven of those working as a political insider. His books include The History of Organized Crime, Conspiracy Files and Secrets & Lies. Crime ISBN: 978-1-86200-782-6 Front Jacket photographs: Getty Images (Robert William Pickton), Corbis Sygma/Daytona Beach News (Aileen Wuornos), Corbis/Bettmann (Ted Bundy) Spine photograph: Corbis (John Allen Muhammad) Back Jacket photographs: Corbis Sygma (Mohammed Atta), Corbis/Reuters (Jeffery Dahmer), Corbis/Reuters (Scott Peterson)