True Crime

On 15th October 1977, Christine Eadie and Helen Scott left the World's End pub after a fun-filled night with two men in their arms. They had their whole lives ahead of them. They had nothing to fear and everything to look forward to.Their naked...

"I can't wait for you to read this. I hope it thrills and confounds and inspires you just like it did me." -Greg Kwedar, co-writer, director, and producer of Sing Sing At Sing Sing, the infamous, Gothic maximum-security prison on the Hudson River in...

The bone-chilling breeze off Lake Michigan carries unnerving whispers of days gone by. Sinister Chicago chronicles the unknown, unusual, or otherwise unexplained events that have occurred in Chicago's short history. Author Kali Joy Cramer uncovers the sinister foundations of Chicago's urban legends and unravels...

The true story of how Sal Polisi--a member of a New York crime family and author of The Sinatra Club--turned his back on the mob and spoke out against organized crime. As a wiseguy for some of New York's biggest crime families, "Crazy SaAuthor:...

In their first non-fiction book, Professor of Psychology and Criminal Justice Mandy McNeely and Investigative Journalist and Victim Advocate Raven Rollins share an analysis of three of the coldest cases in Oklahoma from their investigations of them for their podcast, Sirens A Southern True...

SINS OF THE SOUTH exposes the mafia connection in small communities. The death of a swanky nightclub owner in southern Illinois in 1956 is ruled a suicide by local law enforcement and some state investigators...Why? Why, at the inquest, was the medical examiner who...

On June 22, 1978, Melvin Lorenz, his wife, Linda, and son, Richard, were killed near Purcell, Oklahoma. Twenty-four days later, on July 16, six employees of a Sirloin Stockade Restaurant in southwest Oklahoma City were herded into a freezer and shot to death. Hundreds...

The dramatic rise, disappearance, and near-fall of Aimee Semple McPherson, America's most famous woman evangelist. On a spring day in 1926, Aimee Semple McPherson wandered into the Pacific Ocean and vanished. Weeks later she reappeared in the desert, claiming to have been kidnapped. A...

"Genocide" may be the most powerful word in the English language. What is the significance and relevance of this formative concept today? In an extraordinarily wide-ranging collection of essays and interviews, Adam Jones, one of the world's leading genocide scholars, explores the uses and...

2020 IPPY Awards Silver Medalist, US Northeast Best Regional Nonfiction The permanent solution to a wife's chronic headache As Ted Bundy was to the 20th century, so Carlyle Harris was to the 19th. Harris was a charismatic, handsome young medical student with an insatiable...

Author: Ric ConradPublisher: Kahuna BooksPublished: 12/11/2024Pages: 318Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67dISBN: 9780988733978

On the morning of August 23, 1973, a man wearing a wig, makeup, and a pair of sunglasses walked into the main branch of Sveriges Kreditbank, a prominent bank in central Stockholm. He ripped out a submachine gun, fired it into the ceiling, and...

On August 31, 1972, Hellen Hanks, a pretty thirty-four-year-old mother of three disappeared from her place of employment at Wilcox Advertising in Valdosta, Georgia. After a brief investigation by local and state authorities, the case went cold. In the fall of 1980, a farmer...

In 1819, a young man outwitted death at the hands of John and Lavinia Fisher and sparked the hunt for Charleston's most notorious serial killers. Former homicide investigator Bruce Orr follows the story of the Fishers, from the initial police raid on their Six...

Explore the grizzly tale of Charleston's most infamous serial killers from the beginning of their reign of horror till their eventual incarceration and execution.In 1819, a young man outwitted death at the hands of John and Lavinia Fisher and sparked the hunt for Charleston's...

Six essays on the conspiracy theories and intrigues surrounding the JFK assassination by Edward Jay Epstein. Epstein, who Michael Wolff in USA Today describes as "one of the great investigative journalists of the era," was the only journalist to have interviewed the Warren Commission....

A poignant virtual ride-along like no other.Sometimes tragedy can be the most sincere teacher-something retired homicide detective Dave Sweet knows all too well. In this unorthodox police memoir, Sweet takes readers on a ride-along like no other, revealing poignant truths about life and death,...

For many locals, the Steamboat Pilot & Today's police blotter is a breakfast staple. From arguments over sweaters, to bears breaking into Subarus, to men on horseback trotting into local watering holes, we promise you Steamboat Springs is no sleepy ski town. This is...

Skid Dogs is a raw and riveting debut memoir about coming of age during the casual oppression of '90s rape culture and the passionate tumult of teenage friendships."I can't remember the last time I read a book so brave. Maybe never." --Ani DiFranco "I...

This is a true account of the skinhead cult, told by a man who was really there and still is. It is NOT about Nazism, or Neo-Nazism, and definitely not about politics; it is the story of how the ebullience of youth can be...