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Well, 'In Cold Blood' by Truman Capote is considered to be a classic of the genre....and I have it on good authority that'The Executioner's Song' is very good...it's the story of murderer Gary Gilmore...and check out 'Helter Skelter,' the story of the Charles Manson killings.

Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood".

Devil's Knot by Mara Leveritt (not sure if I spelled the last name right).

in prison i read the auto biography for Jimmy Hoffa's right hand man (can't think of his name right now) forget Hoffa the movie - danny devito is a joke but devito's real life character was the real deal.

"Devil in White City"~ Erik Larson It's about a serial killer during the 1893 World's Fair

Helter Skelter..all about Charles Manson.

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June l985, while her teenage sons held their half-sister down, Theresa beat daughter Sheila, l9, and then stuffed her into a 2' X 2' storage locker. After 3 days, the knocking, kicking, and cries stopped. Faces Of Evil -- Every day, Lois Gibson is able to put power, control and a sense of justice back into the hands of victims of violent crime, heinous rapes, kidnappings and murders. Gibson, herself the victim of a violent rape, uses her skills to coax from the memories of victims the most intimate details possible and, with the stroke of a pencil, reconstructs the faces of their tormentors. Lois Gibson is a twenty-two-year veteran forensic artist with the Houston, Texas police department and affiliated with the FBI and U.S. Marshall's Service. T he Encyclopedia of Canadian Organized Crime: From Captain Kidd to Mom Boucher by Peter Edwards, Michel Auger September 14, 2004 A Perversion of Justice: A Southern Tragedy of Murder, Lies and Innocence Betrayed by Kathryn Medico , Mollye Barrows -- The accused killers were children: 12-year-old Alex King and his brother Derek, one year older, the two youngest defendants ever to stand trial for murder in Florida's history. The boys had already confessed to the brutal slaying of Terry King, their own father, who was beaten to death with a baseball bat on a November night on the outskirts of Pensacola. But in the course of the seemingly open-and-shut legal proceedings, a shadowy third player began to emerge. A convicted pedophile named Rick Chavis had befriended young Alex and was now, bizarrely, going to be tried separately for the same crime; a monstrous human predator who had seen two confused youths as perfect, easy prey. The explosive case that riveted a nation is now the true crime book of the year -- a shocking, spellbinding account of innocence destroyed, blood spilled, and ... A Perversion of Justice. Facing the Wind: A True Story of Tragedy and Reconciliation by Julie Salamon -- In the morning of Feb. 21, 1978 -- Bob Rowe, a Mill Basin, NY, stood by the bed watching his son sleep, lifted a baseball bat and smashed his head. Jennifer, 8, worried her brother was sleeping late; her father coaxed her into bed with Christopher her 12-year-old brother. With swift blows, he used the bat to kill them both. Rowe called his wife at work, urging her to hurry home. When she arrived, Rowel bashing her head in with the bat. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity, and after several years in a mental institution was released. He later remarried and had another daughter. September Sacrifice "If I'm ever late for work, call the police!” an Albuquerque, New Mexico bank teller Girly Chew, 36, told her boss. The Malaysian-born beauty lived in mortal fear of her pathologically deranged husband had had taken out a restraining order against. 17 true crime stories of in Texas in Carlton Stowers book: " Death in a Texas Desert ... and other true crime stories from the Dallas Observer. " An engrossing collection of true crime stories from a top crime writer. From the award-winning pages of the Dallas Observer, these 17 macabre tales account notorious events in history like the search for the alleged murderer Ira Robinson, the legacy of racist killer Bobby Frank Cherry and the last, angry days of George Hennard the crazed man who opened fire in Killeen's Luby's Cafeteria killing 23 patrons. American Taboo: A Murder in the Peace Corps by Philip Weiss -- On October 4, 1976, a brutal murder shocked the tiny island nation of Tonga. A young Peace Corps volunteer was stabbed 22 times; another volunteer was identified at the scene, but despite the evidence against him, Dennis Priven was never convicted of a crime. Deborah Gardner, a beautiful, free-spirited young victim; a brooding villain who carried a dive knife; an exotic, Gauginesque setting: it's surprising that the most compelling passages in American Taboo concern the inner workings of a government bureaucracy. But the Peace Corps officials did everything in their power to hush up her murder, then funded the aggressive defense that helped Priven go free. Weiss's account captures the Corps' initial spirit of idealism found itself besieged by political and financial pressures. Was Dennis Priven an evil genius who planned the murder-and his defense-to ensure he would escape punishment? Or was he, as a psychiatrist hired by the Peace Corps contended, a budding schizophrenic? Weiss' answer is regrettably perfunctory: "He was a brilliant madman allowed to stay too long in the wrong spot who had lost control and then manipulated everyone around him with coldness and creativity." The Weather Underground -- The Weathermen were born of sixties protest, but took covertheir scheme to overthrow the U.S. government to violent extremes. The Underground petered out as its leaders aged during the seventies; by decade's end, most of them had turned themselves over to the authorities. Bernadine Dohrn became a (still fiery) gray-haired wife and mother. This film, rich in period captures the era. But the present-day interviews with the participants, contrasted with their radical selves, provide a look inside the organization itself. Heart Full of Lies: A True Story of Desire and Death Liysa and Chris Northon married on a moonlit beach in Hawaii. Chris, their son, Bjorn, looked like his dad, and they were raising Liysa's son by a previous marriage. 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Anything written by Ann Rule, she is a great author!

blood of the innocent ,,,about the guy damien echols ,,,sick dude but the book was well written,or the pee wee gaskins book

Anything by these authors: Ann Rule, Jack Olsen, Gregg Olsen (no relation to Jack), Carlton Stowers and Joseph Wambaugh.