True Crime - Historical

Author: Kathy Bingham Turner,Leon AlligoodPublisher: University of Tennessee PressPublished: 11/25/2025Pages: 232Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54dISBN: 9798895270363Review Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2026About the AuthorKathy Bingham Turner is a former corporate director of human resources for newspapers in ten states. Uncovering the complicated...

"Les Standiford's account of the decades-long attempt to solve the murder of Adam Walsh is chilling, heartbreaking, hopeful, and as relentlessly suspenseful as anything I've ever read. A triumph in every way."--Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River"The most significant missing child case since the...

Broken Circle recounts "The Chokecherry Massacre," in which three New Mexico high-school students were charged with the murder of two Navajo Indian men, causing a violent, racial street riot that prompted the governor to call out the National Guard. The tensions between whites and...

Written by the legendary crime boss Russell Bufalino's cousin, this gripping insider's account is an epic tell-all of the Pennsylvania Mafia family's origins, both personal and criminal, from its coal-mining Black Hand days in Pittston, to their national rise and control of the Teamsters...

Betrayed by the Government He Served, He Became the Mob's Most Trusted Advisor.Boston, 1950s. Fred G. Pastore was one of the IRS's most feared investigators-a relentless enforcer tasked with dismantling the Patriarca crime family, tracking illegal gambling money, and exposing tax fraud at the...

This story seems impossible. But every word is true.Convergence is the account of a vicious double homicide in 1970s Chicago and a trial that almost didn't happen. This is a different kind of true crime book. It isn't a mystery, because the killer was...

In the winter of 1722, on the eve of a major conference between the Five Nations of the Haudenosaunee (also known as the Iroquois) and Anglo-American colonists, a pair of colonial fur traders brutally assaulted a Seneca hunter near Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Though virtually forgotten...

"A must-read."--Publishers Weekly From weird history expert J. W. Ocker, an eye-popping compendium of the 30 most infamous, audacious, and dangerous cults in history.Everything you've ever wanted to know about history's most notorious cults--and the psychology of the people who join them--is packed into...

Discover the truth of what happens when true believers go too far with the shocking stories of the world's most known and horrific cults like The Order of the Solar Temple and the NXIVM Cult. Cults have been around for centuries, and many have...

Mayhem on the Eno River Visitors to the Eno River don't expect to encounter haunted houses, train wrecks or fun outings that turn into tragedy, but some of them have experienced just that. In 1771, a few of America's first rebels were hanged near...

Casper, Wyoming:1973. Eleven-year-old Amy Burridge rides with her eighteen-year-old sister, Becky, to the grocery store. When they finish their shopping, Becky's car gets a flat tire. Two men politely offer them a ride home. But they were anything but Good Samaritans. The girls would...

A city with eight million people has eight million ways to die For fifteen years, Shiya Ribowsky worked as a medicolegal investigator in New York City's medical examiner's office--the largest, most sophisticated organization of its kind in the world. Utilizing his background in medicine,...

In 1992, a store clerk was found shot to death in broad daylight at the Boot Village in St. Charles, Missouri. Nothing was stolen and there was no sexual assault. This bizarre and seemingly isolated murder was quickly connected with others in Indianapolis, Wichita,...

The New York Times and Wall Street Journal Nonfiction Bestseller that explores the gripping Dyatlov Pass incident that took the lives of nine young Russian hikers in 1959. What happened that night on Dead Mountain? In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers...

On July 3, 1972, twenty-four hippies from Clearwater, Florida, set up tents and settled in for the night at Briar Bottom, a public US Forest Service campground in western North Carolina. The impromptu campout was a pit stop for the group on their way...

The infamous LAPD archive of crime-scene photography--LosAngeles noir in its most unfiltered form.Death Scenes collects the stark black-and-white crime-scene photographs takenby LAPD detective Jack Huddleston across Southern California during themid-twentieth century. Originally created as investigative reference material by LAPD detective Jack Huddleston, these images...

In the quiet Belgian farming settlements near Green Bay, Wisconsin, whispers traveled faster than truth. At the center of it all stood Jean Philippe Soquet--a man known by many names: the Bay Settlement Bruiser, the Belgian Archfiend... and, to some, a murderer. Over four...

Throughout the seventeenth century, medical lecturers demonstrated human anatomy by dissecting a cadaver while surrounded by students. After the Revolutionary War, though, instructors realized that they needed many more cadavers to serve a growing number of medical students. Enter the "resurrectionists" - body snatchers....

Forget what you think you know about the Winter Hill Gang; this is the ruthless truth of the Boston underworld and its most ominous figure - his tragic origins, unsolved murders, and his daughter who broke the silence around him. In 2020, author Springs...

An expose of organised crime and its unholy alliance with world leaders, intelligence agencies, and law enforcement, Double Deal is a 40-year saga told with unflinching honesty by mob insider and former Chicago chief of police Michael Corbitt. Growing up poor and angry, Michael...