Jaycee Dugard

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Florida

A Memoir

The woman abducted at age 11 by a man and woman who subsequently held her hostage and sexually abused her for 18 years discusses her life. Reprint.

A Stolen Life

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Truman Capote

An account of the senseless murder of a Kansas farm family and the search for the killers

In Cold Blood

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#paperback #nonfiction #historical #history #truecrime #crime 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

An account of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 relates the stories of two men who shaped the history of the event--architect Daniel H. Burnham, who coordinated its construction, and serial killer Herman Mudgett.

The Devil in the White City

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Rabia Chaudry

New Jersey

The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial

Now a major docuseries With intimate details and newly-uncovered evidence Adnan's Story goes beyond what the hit podcast Serial covered in its investigation of Adnan Syed's case. Now a New York Times bestseller “The first letter I received after being arrested in 1999 was from Rabia...As someone connected to me, my family, my community, my lawyers, and my investigation, there is no one better to help tell my story, and no one that I trust more to tell it, than Rabia.” —Adnan Syed On February 28, 2000, Adnan Syed was convicted and sentenced to life plus thirty years for the murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee, a high school senior in Baltimore, Maryland. Adnan has always maintained his innocence. Rabia Chaudry, a family friend, believes he was wrongly convicted and has fought for his release. But by 2013, after appeals were exhausted, things looked bleak. Rabia contacted Sarah Koenig, a journalist and producer at This American Life, hoping that she would bring possibly shed new light on the case. Koenig’s investigation turned into Serial, the international phenomenon and Peabody Award-winning podcast. Adnan’s Story reexamines the investigation that led to Adnan’s arrest, covers new evidence and possibilities that have since come to light, reviews the court successes that have breathed new life to Adnan’s case, and in this new edition, reveals how she achieved success in the courts when Adnan was granted a retrial in March 2018. Woven with personal reflections from Adnan himself, including new never-before-seen letters he penned from prison, this in-depth book offers new insight into the story that captivated millions.

Adnan's Story

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Gregg Olsen

A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood

An Amazon Charts, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post bestseller. #1 New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen's shocking and empowering true-crime story of three sisters determined to survive their mother's house of horrors. After more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek hear the word mom, it claws like an eagle's talons, triggering memories that have been their secret since childhood. Until now. For years, behind the closed doors of their farmhouse in Raymond, Washington, their sadistic mother, Shelly, subjected her girls to unimaginable abuse, degradation, torture, and psychic terrors. Through it all, Nikki, Sami, and Tori developed a defiant bond that made them far less vulnerable than Shelly imagined. Even as others were drawn into their mother's dark and perverse web, the sisters found the strength and courage to escape an escalating nightmare that culminated in multiple murders. Harrowing and heartrending, If You Tell is a survivor's story of absolute evil--and the freedom and justice that Nikki, Sami, and Tori risked their lives to fight for. Sisters forever, victims no more, they found a light in the darkness that made them the resilient women they are today--loving, loved, and moving on.

If You Tell

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Erik Larson

I couldn’t put this book down!
Combines history, fiction, suspense, murder, architecture.
The true story of the 1893 World's Fair and a serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims to their deaths.
Good condition. Read, but not abused.
No rips, tears, missing pages.
There is a light stain on the side (see pics).
Normal shelf, corner, edge, page, spine wear may exist.
First Vintage Books edition, February 2004.
National Book Award finalist edition.
Dimensions:
5.25” x 8” x 1”
Synopsis:
Author Eric Larson tells the parallel stories of Daniel Burnham, the main architect of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, and serial killer Henry H. Holmes. Features the challenges Burnham faced in creating the hugely successful White City, and looks at how Holmes used the opportunities afforded by the fair to lure victims to their deaths.

Georgia

Mike Browne

Twenty-Five Tales of True Crime and Dark History

Murder, Madness and Mayhem: Twenty-Five Tales of True Crime and Dark History is a compilation of compelling true crime stories from all corners of the world. Inspired by the popular Canadian podcast, Dark Poutine, host Mike Browne chronicles some of his all-time favourite dark tales that haven't been covered on his show. While some stories will be familiar, and others more obscure, twenty-two of these stories will be all new to fans of the podcast. The book's four sections include Murders with a Twist, Perpetual Puzzles, The Madness of Crowds and Notable Disasters. In Murder with a Twist, we learn about a man who was willing to kill to possess a human voice and two women who played a game coldly dispatching innocents in an elder care home to prove their love to one another. Perpetual Puzzles includes a story about an archaeological find of the century that turns out to be something far more sinister and a northern spree killing by two teens that sparked a multi-province manhunt in Canada in the summer of 2019. The Madness of Crowds delves into the bizarre world of murderous cults, including the story of cult leader Marshall Applewhite and his band of space travellers and a dark tale about post-war Nazis who got up to their old tricks in South America. The book concludes with Notable Disasters, which covers the devastating Boxing Day tsunami in the Indian Ocean on Boxing Day 2004, the Chilean mine disaster in 2010, and the deadly Grenfell Tower fire in London in June 2017. The book also includes a foreword by Alan R. Warren, bestselling true crime author and host of the House of Mystery Radio Show.

Murder, Madness and Mayhem

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On December 11, 1966, a mysterious assassin shot Henry Stockton to death, set his house on fire, and left the scene without a trace. A year later, when a woman was found brutally killed, shreds of evidence suggested a connection between the two murders.

In the Palliko-Stockton trial, prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi offered a brilliant summation that synthesized for the jury the many inferences and shades of meaning in the testimony, fitting all the pieces together in a mosaic of guilt. But will the jury be persuaded?

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Virginia

Till Death Do Us Part

Anne Rule: “SMALL SACRIFICES A True Story of Passion and Murder”.  First Signet Printing, July, 1988 ---Rare!


ISBN . 0-451-16660-4.


With 8 pages of photos.


Overall in very good condition for a used book of this vintage, with text unmarked, no writing or notes and a tight spine.


Minor signs of use – small tears at front top and bottom of front page/spine; creases at bottom of front and back pages;  watermarks at top of back page; outer edges discolored.

A True Story of Passion & Murder

Small Sacrifices 

The Night a Twisted Fantasy Became a Demented Reality

In April 1997, pretty, 22-year-old Jacine Gielinski stopped her car at a red light in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She had no idea that the two young men looking at her from the car next to hers would in that moment decide she would be their target for unspeakable horrors.

A Clockwork Murder

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#paperback #truecrime #mystery #thriller 

Nevada

A Gripping Psychological Thriller with a Shocking Twist

A debut psychological thriller that reads like a dangerous cocktail with equal parts Gillian Flynn, Chelsea Cain, and Paula Hawkins.

Girl Last Seen

#serialkillers, #truecrime, #serialkillerfiles

Ohio

The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World's Most Terrifying Murderers

An encyclopedia of the serial killer phenomenon addresses the historical, psychological, social, and cultural aspects of such criminals and their crimes, providing more than one hundred individual profiles of serial killers.

The Serial Killer Files

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Illinois

Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter

The legendary FBI criminal profiler, number-one New York Times bestselling author, and inspiration for the hit Netflix show Mindhunter delves deep into the lives and crimes of four of the most disturbing and complex predatory killers, offering never-before-revealed details about his profiling process, and divulging the strategies used to crack some of America’s most challenging cases. The FBI’s pioneer of criminal profiling, former special agent John Douglas, has studied and interviewed many of America’s most notorious killers—including Charles Manson, ”Son of Sam Killer” David Berkowitz and ”BTK Strangler” Dennis Rader—trained FBI agents and investigators around and the world, and helped educate the country about these deadly predators and how they operate, and has become a legend in popular culture, fictionalized in The Silence of the Lambs and the hit television shows Criminal Minds and Mindhunter. Twenty years after his famous memoir, the man who literally wrote the book on FBI criminal profiling opens his case files once again. In this riveting work of true crime, he spotlights four of the most diabolical criminals he’s confronted, interviewed and learned from. Going deep into each man’s life and crimes, he outlines the factors that led them to murder and how he used his interrogation skills to expose their means, motives, and true evil. Like the hit Netflix show, The Killer Across the Table is centered around Douglas’ unique interrogation and profiling process. With his longtime collaborator Mark Olshaker, Douglas recounts the chilling encounters with these four killers as he experienced them—revealing for the first time his profile methods in detail. Going step by step through his interviews, Douglas explains how he connects each killer’s crimes to the specific conversation, and contrasts these encounters with those of other deadly criminals to show what he learns from each one. In the process, he returns to other famous cases, killers and interviews that have shaped his career, describing how the knowledge he gained from those exchanges helped prepare him for these. A glimpse into the mind of a man who has pierced the heart of human darkness, The Killer Across the Table unlocks the ultimate mystery of depravity and the techniques and approaches that have countered evil in the name of justice.

The Killer Across the Table 

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Trade paperback, read once, gently, in excellent condition.

Texas

Retrying Leopold and Loeb A Neuropsychological Perspective 

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SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND SUBJECT. #truecrime #nonfiction #annrule #signed

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Colorado

The Strange Death of Ronda Reynolds and Her Mother's Unceasing Quest for the Truth

The best-selling queen of true crime examines the death of a woman whose suicide may not be what it seems, in a riveting, detailed account of a fascinating case. 150,000 first printing.

In the Still of the Night *SIGNED*

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Signed by author 

Victims of Justice

Michael Cannell

The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber, and the Invention of Criminal Profiling

Long before the specter of terrorism haunted the public imagination, a serial bomber stalked the streets of 1950s New York. InIncendiary,Michael Cannell recounts the thrilling race to catch him that would give birth to a new science called criminal profiling.

Grand Central, Penn Station, Radio City Music Hall--for almost two decades, no place was safe from the man who signed his anonymous letters "FP" and left his lethal devices in phone booths, storage lockers, even tucked into the plush seats of movie theaters. His victims were left cruelly maimed. Tabloids called him "the greatest individual menace New York City ever faced."

In desperation, Police Captain Howard Finney sought the help of a little known psychiatrist, Dr. James Brussel, whose expertise was the criminal mind. Examining crime scene evidence and the strange wording in the bomber's letters, he compiled a portrait of the suspect down to the cut of his jacket. But how to put a name to the description? Seymour Berkson--a handsome New York socialite, protégé of William Randolph Hearst, and publisher of the tabloidThe Journal-American--joined in pursuit of the Mad Bomber. The three men hatched a brilliant scheme to catch him at his own game. Together, they would capture a monster and change the face of American law enforcement.

Incendiary

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New York

The Survivors

Jesse Walker

For those who are open minded like thinkers, this book puts the readers down a rabbit hole of common and some not so common conspiracy theories in the United States. 

Arizona

A Conspiracy Theory

A history of America's demons 1693: Cotton Mather suggests that the spirits attacking Salem are allied with the colony's human enemies. At their "Cheef Witch-meetings," he writes, "there has been present some French canadians, and some Indian Sagamores, to concert the methods of ruining New England." 1835: A gunman tries to kill Andrew Jackson. The president accuses a senator of plotting the assassination. Jackson's critics counter that the shooting was arranged by the president himself to gain public support. 1868: An article in the New-York Tribune declares that the Democrats have engineered malaria outbreaks in the nation's capital, pumping "the air, and the water, and the whisky of Washington full of poison." 1967: President Lyndon Johnson asks his cabinet if the Communists are behind the country's urban riots. The attorney general tells him that the evidence isn't there, but Johnson isn't convinced. Conspiracy theories aren't just a feature of the fringe. They've been a potent force across the political spectrum, at the center as well as the extremes, from the colonial era to the present. In The United States of Paranoia, Jesse Walker explores this rich history, arguing that conspiracy stories should be read not just as claims to be either believed or debunked but also as folklore. When a tale takes hold, it reveals something true about the anxieties and experiences of those who believe and repeat it, even if the story says nothing true about the objects of the theory itself. In a story that stretches from the seventeenth century to today, Walker lays out five conspiracy narratives that recur in American politics and popular culture. With intensive research and a deadpan sense of humor, The United States of Paranoia combines the rigor of real history with the punch of pulp fiction.

The United States of Paranoia

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California Hustle 

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Samuel Fort

Large trade paperback in excellent condition except bottom back corner is curled, see second photograph for a close-up view. Pages clean and tight, minor reading/handling wear. Fascinating account of the bizarre cult founded by May Otis Blackburn in 1920s Hollywood.

Human and animal sacrifices, vanishings, the preserved corpse of a teenage cult princess, angelic encounters, a woman cooked in an oven, a mother chained to her bed for two months, resurrection experiments, refrigeration warehouses for the dead, abductions, nocturnal rituals, orgies, a breathing universe, an esoteric tome known as The Great Sixth Seal, and a post-apocalyptic world ruled by eleven queens from a hill in Hollywood... The United States witnessed an explosion of cult activity in the 1920s that today is almost inconceivable. California, in particular, was a haven for an estimated 200,000 cultists, with over 400 active cults in southern California alone. These ranged from "love cults" that conducted ritual orgies to "devil worshipping" cults that branded their members with hot irons and beheaded their enemies. Among all these, the Simi Valley's "Divine Order of the Royal Arms of the Great Eleven" was considered by many to be the most extraordinary. A death cult, the Great Eleven was founded by May Otis Blackburn, Portland, Oregon's unheralded filmmaking pioneer, and Ruth, her luscious femme fatale daughter. The cult was so bizarre that accounts of its activities "elicited expressions of amazement" from justices on the California Supreme Court in 1931, who admitted, "they have never heard anything so weird." Not until the nephew of oil magnate J.B. Dabney admitted he had been a member of the cult would the world at large learn of the existence the "divine order." Not until detectives opened a trap door in the floor of a cult couple's Venice cottage would the world be exposed to its darkest secrets. "Cult of the Great Eleven" chronicles the rise and fall of one of the twentieth century's most enigmatic cults.

Cult of the Great Eleven

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Katherine Corcoran

Interesting read into the life of journalists and corruption in Mexico and what’s happening throughout the world. Book is in good condition. Cover has some scuffs and small tears but pages are clean, free of markings, and no tears 

A Murder, a Cover-Up, and the True Cost of Silencing the Press

Former AP Mexico bureau chief Katherine Corcoran's pulsating investigation into the murder of a legendary woman journalist on the verge of exposing government corruption in Mexico.

Regina Martínez was no stranger to retaliation. A journalist out of Mexico's Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, Regina's stories for the magazine Proceso laid out the corruption and abuse underlying Mexican politics. She was barred from press conferences, and copies of Proceso often disappeared before they made the newsstands. In 2012, shortly after Proceso published an article on corruption and two Veracruz politicians, and the magazine went missing once again, she was bludgeoned to death in her bathroom. The message was clear: No journalist in Mexico was safe.

Katherine Corcoran, then leading the Associated Press coverage of Mexico, admired Regina Martínez's work. Troubled by the news of her death, Corcoran journeyed to Veracruz to find out what had happened. Regina hadn't even written the controversial article. But did she have something else that someone didn't want published? Once there, Katherine bonded with four of Regina's grief-stricken mentees, each desperate to prove who was to blame for the death of their friend. Together they battled cover-ups, narco-officials, red tape, and threats to sift through the mess of lies-and discover what got Regina killed.

A gripping look at reporters who dare to step on the deadly "third rail," where the state and organized crime have become indistinguishable, In the Mouth of the Wolf confronts how silencing the free press threatens basic protections and rule of law across the globe.

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