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In Exacerbate, the Author introduces her Readers to the world of sickening violence, horrific brutality, and other mutilations as she uses several murderous characters to show the differences between victims who are not drawn into sadistic vengeance and those victims who mutilate others because they themselves have been mutilated. She will lead the Reader on an expedition into the minds of heartless killers as she examines their psychological profiles;...
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A police detective pursues a serial killer stalking the streets of a south Chicago neighborhood and learns that what first looked to be random murders are not random at all. It's urban Chicago circa 1995, and a street-savvy police detective, Kyle McNally, has the lead on a task force following the trail of an interstate serial killer. The investigation tracks McNally and his antagonist, appropriately tagged "Slugger," through a maze of suspects, political...
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This is not fiction. This is the true story of how a former New York City Police Captain of Detectives used his extensive knowledge of the deductive methods of Sherlock Holmes to provide the FBI and other agencies with break the case clues to some of the most baffling and horrific criminal cases of the last half century. Not only does the author provide break the case clues to The Unabomber, BTK Killer, and Son of Sam cases, but on the Anthrax Killer...
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Did the Mad Butcher of Cleveland also strike in Pennsylvania? From 1934 to 1938, Cleveland, Ohio, was racked by a classic battle between good and evil. On one side was the city's safety director, Eliot Ness. On the other was a nameless phantom dubbed the "Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run," who littered the inner city with the remains of decapitated and dismembered corpses. Never caught or even officially identified, the Butcher simply faded into history,...
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Get the Summary of Jack Rosewood's The Ultimate Serial Killer Trivia Book in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Ultimate Serial Killer Trivia Book" by Jack Rosewood delves into the complex world of serial killers, exploring their motivations, classifications, and historical context. The book outlines the evolution of the term "serial killer" and the FBI's definition, highlighting the shift from a three-victim...
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When it comes to female killers, the most common type of crime is mariticide or murdering their husbands. There are many motivations behind taking someone's life but killing a person so close to you is often fueled by passion, financial gain, jealousy, or betrayal. The case of Shari Tobyne is the perfect example of a woman scorned. Her husband of thirty-five years wanted to divorce her due to the financial problems she caused by mishandling the couple's...
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The unfortunate victim of a frightened city desperately in need of a scapegoat. Though Murder Has No Tongue tells the story of Frank Dolezal, the only man actually arrested and charged with the infamous "Torso Murders" in Cleveland, Ohio, during the late 1930s. Dolezal, a fifty-two-year-old Slav immigrant, came to the attention of sheriff 's investigators because of his reputation as a strange man who possessed a stockpile of butcher knives. According...
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In his 1986 book, the author Robert Graysmith speculated that Zodiac continued to kill long after a near arrest in San Francisco in 1969, but this was a divisive idea. An alternate view, apparently popular in law enforcement, was that Zodiac's murders preceded or overlapped with those of an unrelated killer hunting girls and young women in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area. The Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Murders were a core part of this theory. In both...
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For nearly three decades, a series of rapes and murders occurred around Western New York by a nameless, faceless man dubbed "The Bike Path Rapist" by local media. Authorities had his DNA and knew his tendency to use a ligature but could never capture the elusive criminal. His first known attacks were in the mid-1980s, continuing regularly through 1994. After a twelve-year gap, in September 2006, he returned by strangling and killing a 45-year-old...
91) Cold Cases
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There's nothing more chilling than an unsolved crime, particularly one involving direct harm to human life; be it murder or rape, these are the crimes whose effects extend furthest and cause most pain to humanity: how much worse when they go unsolved and, as such, unpunished? Such crimes, so-called 'cold cases', are all too common, especially...
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El crimen impregna la cultura popular y las artes, en algunos casos incluso como tema exclusivo, esta obra recoge por primera vez la incidencia de los criminales en la cultura contemporánea. El debate sobre si las manifestaciones artísticas, los videojuegos, los cómics o el cine provocan un aumento del crimen en las ciudades contemporáneas sigue abierto. Periódicamente se lanzan desde los medios de comunicación preguntas sobre si la cultura...
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Colin Pitchfork, also known as the Footpath Murderer and the Black Pad Killer was born 23 March 1961 in Bristol, England. Because Pitchfork's two murders occurred in Leicestershire, the two murders have sometimes been referred to as the Enderby Murders or the Narborough Murders. The early 20-something Pitchfork-a local baker by trade who was married and had two small sons-was tried, convicted, and sentenced to life for the rape and murder of two 15-year-old...
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'What I want is an off the shelf sex partner. I want to be able to use a woman whenever and however I want. And when I'm tired or bored I simply want to put her away.'
- Leonard Lake
· In 1984, abusive father Josef Fritzl drugged his 18-year-old daughter with ether and imprisoned her in a dungeon under his house - she wasn't to see daylight for 24 years
· Down-and-out millionaire Gary Heidnik wallpapered his hallway with $5 bills, anointed himself...
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Her dance partner said the pill was called Rapture. And indeed, it catapulted her senses to a new level-initially. Before long, a strange sensation welled up inside her like a slow rush of water. As seconds ticked by, her pulse rate rapidly increased. Believing her heart would pound right out of her body, she grasped her chest. Her mouth suddenly felt as dry as sun-bleached bone. Bile crept up her throat. She gurgled. Eyes now dilated, her vision...
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Leonard Szczesny was born in 1931 on the Polish-Russian border to a Polish family. Because in 1933 his father Josef was banished for five years of hard labor to Siberia and was not allowed to ever return to within two hundred kilometers of his village, Leonard's travels started at an early age. In 1937, with his mother Antonina and his older brother Jan, he traveled east to rejoin his father at a new place of employment. World War II broke out in...
97) Killer Twins
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The chilling true story of the Spahalski brothers, who looked alike, acted alike-and killed alike ...
Robert Bruce Spahalski and Stephen Spahalski were identical twins. Same hair, same eyes, same thirst for blood. Stephen was the first brother to kill-by viciously bashing in storeowner Ronald Ripley's head with a hammer.
Unlike Stephen, Robert didn't stop with just one victim. With the cord of an iron, Robert strangled prostitute Morraine Armstrong...
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His name is David Berkowitz. Once the notorious "Son of Sam." His former lifestyle consisted of being an arsonist, setting over 1,000 fires, a Satanist, and serial killer, who in the late 1970s brought a wave of terror to the streets of New York. After the biggest manhunt in New York's history, the headlines read, "caught," and David Berkowitz was, sentenced to 350 years behind bars. While in prison, David Berkowitz became a born-again Christian,...
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18 Shocking True Crime Stories of the World's Worst Serial Killers. Included in this volume; Dennis Nilsen: Known as the British Jeffrey Dahmer, Nilsen strangled at least a dozen young men, cluttering up his tiny apartment with their corpses.
Frank Spisak: A Nazi-obsessed cross dresser who stalked the streets of Cleveland, Ohio, gunning down anyone he encountered.
Robert Pickton: A prolific prostitute killer who dismembered his 49 victims and fed...
100) Doubts From The Past
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Two youths, Sam and Stacie, live College years in full symbiosis. Year in and year out, circumstances and ambitions change. The two main characters separate and live two parallel lives. After some time, coincidentally, their fates will cross again but the background is no longer the carefree time of the College.
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