Schwartz, the defense attorney who fought for justice on behalf of Russel Faria, and New York Times bestselling author Charles Bosworth Jr.On December 27th, 2011, Russell Faria returned to his Troy, Missouri, home after his weekly game night with friends to an unthinkable, grisly scene: His wife, Betsy, lay dead, a knife still lodged in her neck. She’d been stabbed fifty-five times. First responders concluded that Betsy was dead for hours when Russ discovered her. No blood was found implicating Russ, and surveillance video, receipts, and friends’ testimony all supported his alibi. Yet incredibly, police and the prosecuting attorney ignored the evidence. In their minds, Russ was guilty. But prominent defense attorney Joel J. Schwartz quickly recognized the real killer. The motive was clear. Days before her murder, the terminally ill Betsy replaced her husband with her friend, Pamela Hupp, as her life insurance beneficiary. Still, despite the prosecution’s flimsy case and Hupp’s transparent lies, Russ was convicted—leaving Hupp free to kill again. Bone Deep takes readers through the perfect storm of miscalculations and missteps that led to an innocent man’s conviction—and recounts Schwartz’s successful battle to have that conviction overturned. Written with Russ Faria’s cooperation, and filled with chilling new revelations and previously undisclosed evidence, this is the story of what can happen when police, prosecutor, judge, and jury all fail in their duty to protect the innocent—and let a killer get away with murder.

    It can be slipped into a drink, smeared onto the tip of an arrow or the handle of a door, even filtered through the air we breathe. But how exactly do these poisons work to break our bodies down, and what can we learn from the damage they inflict?In a blend of popular science, medical history, and true crime, Dr. Neil Bradbury explores the morbidly captivating method of murder from a cellular level. Alongside real-life accounts of murderers and their crimes—some notorious, some forgotten, some still unsolved—are the stories of the poisons involved: eleven molecules of death that work their way through the human body and, paradoxically, illuminate the way in which our bodies function.Drawn from historical records and current news headlines, A Taste for Poison weaves together the tales of spurned lovers, shady scientists, medical professionals and political assassins to show how the precise systems of the body can be impaired to lethal effect through the use of poison. From the deadly origins of the gin & tonic cocktail to the arsenic-laced wallpaper in Napoleon’s bedroom.

    Benjamin Gilmer began working at the Cane Creek clinic in rural North Carolina, he was following in the footsteps of a man with the same last name. His predecessor, Dr. Vince Gilmer, was beloved by his patients and community--right up until the shocking moment when he strangled his ailing father and then returned to the clinic for a regular day of work after the murder. He'd been in prison for nearly a decade by the time Benjamin arrived, but Vince's patients would still tell Benjamin they couldn't believe the other Dr. Gilmer was capable of such violence. The more Benjamin looked into Vince's case, the more he knew that something was wrong.Vince knew, too. He complained from the time he was arrested of his SSRI brain, referring to withdrawal from his anti-depressant medication. When Benjamin visited Vince in prison, he met a man who was obviously fighting his own mind, constantly twitching and veering off into nonsensical tangents. Enlisting This American Life journalist Sarah Koenig, Benjamin resolved to get Vince the help he needed. But time and again, the pair would come up against a prison system that cared little about the mental health of its inmates--despite an estimated one third of them suffering from an untreated mental illness.In The Other Dr. Gilmer, Dr. Benjamin Gilmer tells of how a caring man was overcome by a perfect storm of rare health conditions, leading to an unimaginable crime. Rather than get treatment, Vince Gilmer was sentenced to life in prison--a life made all the worse by his untrustworthy brain and prison and government officials who dismissed his situation. A large percentage of imprisoned Americans are suffering from mental illness when they commit their crimes and continue to suffer, untreated, in prison. In a country with the highest incarceration rates in the world, Dr. Benjamin Gilmer argues that some crimes need to be healed rather than punished.

    On December 14, 2012, a gunman killed twenty first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Ten years later, Sandy Hook has become a foundational story of how false conspiracy narratives and malicious misinformation have gained traction in society. One of the nation’s most devastating mass shootings, Sandy Hook was used to create destructive and painful myths. Driven by ideology or profit, or for no sound reason at all, some people insisted it never occurred, or was staged by the federal government as a pretext for seizing Americans’ firearms. They tormented the victims’ relatives online, accosted them on the street and at memorial events, accusing them of faking their loved ones’ murders. Some family members have been stalked and forced into hiding. A gun was fired into the home of one parent. Present at the creation of this terrible crusade was Alex Jones’s Infowars, a far-right outlet that aired noxious Sandy Hook theories to millions and raised money for the conspiracy theorists’ quest to “prove” the shooting didn’t happen. Enabled by Facebook, YouTube, and other social media companies’ failure to curb harmful content, the conspiracists’ questions grew into suspicion, suspicion grew into demands for more proof, and unanswered demands turned into rage. This pattern of denial and attack would come to characterize some Americans’ response to almost every major event, from mass shootings to the coronavirus pandemic to the 2020 presidential election, in which President Trump’s false claims of a rigged result prompted the January 6, 2021, assault on a bastion of democracy, the U.S. Capitol.The Sandy Hook families, led by the father of the youngest victim, refused to accept this. Sandy Hook is the story of their battle to preserve their loved ones’ legacies even in the face of threats to their own lives. Through exhaustive reporting, narrative storytelling, and intimate portraits, Sandy Hook is the definitive book on one of the most shocking cultural ruptures of the internet era.

    This chilling story has the ghostly unease of a nightmare.--Michael Cannell, author of Incendiary: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber and the Invention of Criminal Profiling The pulse-pounding account of the first time in history that the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit created a psychological profile to catch a serial killerOn June 25, 1973, a seven-year-old girl went missing from the Montana campground where her family was vacationing. Somebody had slit open the back of their tent and snatched her from under their noses. None of them saw or heard anything. Susie Jaeger had vanished into thin air, plucked by a shadow.The largest manhunt in Montana's history ensued, led by the FBI. As days stretched into weeks, and weeks into months, Special Agent Pete Dunbar attended a workshop at FBI Headquarters in Quantico, Virgina, led by two agents who had hatched a radical new idea: What if criminals left a psychological trail that would lead us to them? Patrick Mullany, a trained psychologist, and Howard Teten, a veteran criminologist, had created the Behavioral Science Unit to explore this new voodoo they called "criminal profiling."At Dunbar's request, Mullany and Teten built the FBI's first profile of an unknown subject: the UnSub who had snatched Susie Jaeger and, a few months later, a nineteen-year-old waitress. When a suspect was finally arrested, the profile fit him to a T...

    Join actress and activist Erika Alexander in a neo-noir, true crime drama as she searches for Tamika Huston, a 24-year-old Black woman from Spartanburg, SC who went missing in 2004. Her case became a rallying cry for other missing Black women in America and led to a growing demand to expose a system that ignores missing girls and women of color. Kevin Hart and Charlamagne Tha God’s SBH productions present their debut Audible Original Finding Tamika. In it, host Erika Alexander summons a new generation to help raise the dead, expose a hidden past, and give a dark warning for our future. In Finding Tamika, what we’ll actually discover is the awful truth that a Black girl does not have to go missing for us not to see her. No matter the cost, though, we must look for Tamika, because until she is found, we are all lost. Please Note: This content is for mature audiences only. It contains adult language and themes. Discretion is advised.

    In for Life follows the personal journey of journalist Elaine Alice Murphy as she fights to allow her friend Sean's story to be heard and help him gain his freedom.

    Longtime ATF agent Ken Croke had earned the right to coast to the end of a storied career, having routinely gone undercover to apprehend white supremacists, gun runners, and gang members. But after a chance encounter with an associate of the Pagan Motorcycle Gang created an opening, he transformed himself into “Slam,” a monstrous, axe-handle wielding enforcer whose duty was to protect the leadership “mother club” at all costs. He befriended the club’s most violent and criminally insane members and lived among them for two years, covertly building a case that would eventually take down the top members of the gang in a massive federal prosecution, even as he risked his marriage, his sanity, and his life. With today’s law enforcement largely moving toward the comparative safety of cyber operations, it became one of the last of its kind, a masterclass in old school tactics that marked Croke as a dying breed of undercover agent and became legendary in law enforcement.Now for the first time, Croke tells the story of his terrifying undercover life in the Pagans—the unspeakable violence, extremism, drugs, and disgusting rituals. Written with bestselling crime writer Dave Wedge and utilizing the exclusive cooperation of those who lived the case with him, as well as thousands of pages of court files and hours of surveillance tapes and photos, Croke delivers a frightening, nail-biting account of the secretive and brutal biker underworld.

    “I don’t know why I’m telling you this,” people say, spilling confessions. In fall 2002, Krouse accepts a new contract job investigating lawsuits as a private investigator. The role seems perfect for her, but she quickly realizes she has no idea what she’s doing. Then a lawyer named Grayson assigns her to investigate a sexual assault, a college student who was attacked by football players and recruits at a party a year earlier. Krouse knows she should turn the assignment down; her own history with sexual violence makes it all too personal. But she takes the job anyway, inspired by Grayson’s conviction that he could help change things forever--and maybe she could, too.Over the next five years, Krouse learns everything she can about P. I. technique, tracking down witnesses and investigating a culture of sexual assault and harassment ingrained in the university’s football program. But as the investigation grows into a national scandal and a historic civil rights case, she finds herself increasingly consumed. When the case and her life both implode at the same time, she must figure out how to help win the case without losing herself.

    

    

    Her eyes fixated on every detail of his familiar face. Under her breath she whispered, "Oh, what have you done?"Over forty years ago a mad man roamed the streets. He was known first as the East Area Rapist, then the Original Night Stalker, and later the Golden State Killer. He held much of Northern and Southern California in the palm of his hand, frozen with fear, in the 1970s and 80s. He was thought to have committed over 120 burglaries, raped 50 women, and murdered 13 people. Then, he was still.In 2016, the FBI launched a nationwide campaign to catch this predator. They shared three composite images on every news station and all over the internet. In 2018, Joseph DeAngelo was identified through the DNA he left at crime scenes in Southern California. In 2020, he pleaded guilty to 13 counts of first-degree murder and was required to admit to all of the rapes and other uncharged crimes as part of his plea deal to avoid the death penalty.But the investigators were only half right. There was another blue-eyed monster who roamed the Sacramento area as the East Area Rapist. Yes, there were two. They captured one, but the other one slipped away.How does an innocent child's life evolve into a life with a serial rapist? Easier than one might imagine. Meet Cabbagehead."Cabbagehead falls under the description of a 'page turner.'Helen LaRoe tells a story the mythologist, Joseph Campbell, would recognize: the classical tale of The Hero's Journey. If ever there was a Heroine's Journey, this is it.Cabbagehead is a compelling life story everyone needs to know. If you have followed the Original Night Stalker/East Area Rapist/Golden State Killer case, you won't want to pass up reading this riveting memoir."- Retired Sacramento County Sheriff's Detective Richard Shelby and author of Hunting a Psychopath

    Real events woven into fiction or vice versa... Imagine sitting at a table in a bar somewhere, anywhere, sipping your favourite drink. The story is told as if Dashiell sits beside you recounting the events of his life.In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, there is only one lesson to be learnt for the young graduate, Dashiell Aston, there is no such thing as justice, morals, or nobility. Only money matters.From 2008 until 2019, he went from aspiring City trader, job hopping across Europe, to operating several offshore companies laundering millions of dollars through the global art market and cryptocurrencies, establishing himself across three continents, balancing a life focused on the pursuit of money with the pure, raw, bliss of surfing the oceans’ waves.His contacts ranged from Venezuelan drug lords to multi billionaire art buyers to con artists businessmen and even African arms dealers. Faced with unforgivable betrayal, he dedicated two years of his life, all his resources, and all the skills he learned along the way towards a personal revenge worthy of the name.A raw, unhinged story of a life told like it is, inspired by real events.

    There's just one problem though...there is no evidence at all to suggest the teens are murderers. When one of the convicted teens is sentenced to death, there is a race against time to prove the young mens' innocence.Joanne Ratcliffe and Kirsty Gordon: when two little girls disappear from a football game in Australia, the odds of ever finding them alive appear to be slim.Johnny Altinger: a computer whizz looks for love. What he finds is his own demise, with his family left to secure justice.The Pikuls: Diane Pikul seemed to have it all. Her husband was a self-made millionaire who lavished her with whatever her heart desired. To her close friends though, it seemed to be only a matter of time before Diane's "Prince Charming" killed her.

    I doubt anyone will ever match Strandings for its sheer bravura, its wry insight, and its absolute, engulfing, and brilliantly enlivening whaleheadedness'PHILIP HOARE, ALBERT AND THE WHALE'Addictive and scandalously fascinating' Caught by the RiverWhen Peter Riley was thirteen, a woman with blue hair and a comet tattoo asked him to help load the jaw of a sperm whale into the back of a Volvo 245. The encounter set Riley on a decades-long quest to make sense of what had happened.Enter the secretive world of whale scavengers. When a whale washes up on one of Britain's coasts, a fugitive community descends to claim trophies from the carcass. Some are driven by magical beliefs. Some are motivated by profit: there is a black market for everything from ambergris to whaletooth sex toys. But for others, the need goes much deeper.Join Riley on a tour of a stranded kingdom's weird outer reaches, where nothing is as it seems. Meet witches, pedlars, fetishists, conspiracy theorists and fallen aristocrats. And prepare for a final revelation, as the mystery of the comet woman tangles with the enigmatic symbol of Leviathan itself, beached on Britain's fatal shore.

    Who was the Beast of Belanglo?The Teacup Poisoner: a young English man’s curiosity for exotic substances is mistaken for a passion for chemistry. In reality, Graham Young has grown obsessed with poisoning the tea of those around him, work colleagues and family alike.The Amazon Review Killer: to say that Todd had a thin skin is an understatement. Any perceived sleight and he could respond with murder.The I-Five Killer: If Randall Woodfield had found a way to control his depraved urges there’s a good chance he would be remembered as a legendary football player. Instead, he will be forever known as the I-Five Killer, a psychotic killer who terrorised the highways before finally being brought to justice.The Sins of the Father: as a young boy Ed Edwards promised that he would grow up to be a notorious criminal. The nuns at his school didn’t disagree, but not even they could have guessed just how depraved the troubled young boy in their care would turn out to be

    From Ted Bundy to Jeffrey Dahmer, serial killers and other criminals often work alone. But when they’re in a relationship, this isn’t always the case. Acclaimed author and anthologist Mitzi Szereto brings us a collection that proves that two is better than one when it comes to murder, mischief, and mayhem.From Serial Killers to Your Average Joes. This chilling new collection of original crime stories takes you into the lawless and deadly activities of criminal couples who find more pleasure in crime than in each other. Featuring contributions from an international list of award-winning crime writers, journalists, and experts in the dark crimes field, The Best New True Crime Stories: Partners in Crime is a must-read for any true crime addict.If you enjoy true crime books such as The Perfect Father, American Predator, The Devil You Know, or The Best New True Crime Stories: Small Towns then you’ll love The Best New True Crime Stories: Partners in Crime.

    But didn’t her husband have more motive to kill her?Michael Gregsten and Valerie Storie: a couple are enjoying a romantic drive when they are brutally assaulted by an unknown assailant. The police quickly catch up with who they believe to be the culprit, but did the right man hang for this shocking attack?Russell Martin: Russell was known to up sticks and leave town for weeks at a time. But on this occasion his sister is convinced that his wife has murdered him. Is she simply being an overprotective sister, or has Russell Martin really met his end?The I-Five Killer: If Randall Woodfield had found a way to control his depraved urges there’s a good chance he would be remembered as a legendary football player. Instead, he will be forever known as the I-Five Killer, a psychotic killer who terrorised the highways before finally being brought to justice.Above the Law: a police officer stumbles across a dead body. A woman has been found executed in cold blood on a deserted highway. The crime seems motiveless, but why is the policeman so hesitant for forensic scientists to inspect his service weapon?

    

    Investigators are easily able to identify the man thanks to his unique Rolex watch. His name was Ronald Platt. But is it just a coincidence that a man with the same name is alive and well in the nearby town?Brittany Phillips: when a young college student is found brutally murdered, her mother embarks on a years long struggle to bring the perpetrator to justice.The Watcher: a new couple believe they have just bought their dream home. But when sinister letters start arriving at their new abode threatening retribution, their lives soon become consumed by fear and paranoia. Soon to be a major motion picture.Gonzales: when a newly wed couple purchase their first home, they are over the moon. Until they discover that they have just bought the infamous Gonzales home, scene of one of the most shocking murders in Australian history.

    Berwind to life for the first time. In October 1905, North Carolina and much of the nation was captivated by the mass murder found aboard the Harry A. Berwind as it sailed the coast of Cape Fear. All four of the ship’s officers had been shot and tossed overboard, one crewman lay dead on the deck, and another was chained hand and foot. The three survivors, Henry Scott, Arthur Adams, and Robert Sawyer, had different stories. Scott claimed other sailors conspired together and restrained him when he would not cooperate; Adams and Sawyer claimed Scott pulled a gun and acted alone until they tackled and restrained him. The most inflammatory factor that captured the nation: all the murdered officers were white, and the survivors Black. Just seven years earlier, Wilmington, North Carolina witnessed a brutal white supremacist insurrection that killed dozens of Black citizens in the streets, and by 1905, Jim Crow laws were firmly in place. Predictably, all three survivors were found guilty and sentenced to hang. Yet the legal drama went on, defying all other predictions. Lasting seven years, the case reached the Supreme Court and even presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. Adams and Sawyer were eventually found innocent and freed.

    But the truth is almost too shocking to believe.Gail and Rick Brink: on a cold winter’s morning in 1987 a newly married couple fail to show up for work. Who would want Gail and Rick Brink dead. Authorities are stunned when the killer is found to be a person who the couple loved and trusted...Cindy James: it started with prank phonecalls. An unknown caller breathing down the phone. Soon the break-ins started. Cindy would come home to find her pillows slashed. When she is physically assaulted Cindy is forced to flee her home. This just seems to make her tormentor even madder...Nathan Carman: a mother and son boat trip ends in tragedy, but was it an accident or murder? The evidence points in both directions...The Freeway Phantom: six young black American women are slaughtered between 1971 and 1972 in the nation’s capital. Police work frantically to catch their killer before he strikes again, but with research into serial killings still in its infancy, they know the odds are stacked against them ever finding the culprit.

    Despite a decades-long international manhunt led by the New York Police Department's esteemed Missing Persons Bureau, the reason for Crater's disappearance remains a confounding mystery. In the early months of the investigation, evidence implicated and imperiled New York's top officials, including then-Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mayor Jimmy Walker, as well as the city's Tammany Hall political machine, lawyers and judges, and a theater mogul.Drawing on new sources, including NYPD case files and court records, and overlooked evidence discovered years later, Riegel pieces together the puzzle of what likely happened to Joseph Crater and why. To uncover the mystery, he delves into Crater's ascension into the scintillating and corrupt world of Manhattan in the Roaring Twenties and Jazz Age. In turn, the story of the judge's vanishing amid the Great Depression unfolds as a harbinger of the disappearance of his lost metropolis and its transformation into modern-day New York City.

    They were accused of scooping up £53 mill ($69 mill) worth of pure cocaine in the dead of night from the middle of the English Channel.The men were given combined sentences of 104 years in prison. But they maintain their innocence and are fighting to clear their names. Presented by Raphael Rowe, a journalist who himself spent 12 years locked up for a crime he didn’t commit, this series delves into both sides of the case, exploring each twist and turn, to piece together the real Freshwater Five story.

    The facts are not in old police reports and faded photos. They unfold before our eyes on the page.Our story begins in 2017, when two young women, best friends Danielle and Lindsey go missing in Columbus, Ohio, within weeks of each other, and their bodies are found soon thereafter.As Jensen investigates Danielle and Lindsey's cases, he comes across other missing and murdered women, and before long, he uncovers eighteen of them. All unsolved. And no one was talking about it.These are not women who were raised in the street. They got hooked on pills. The pills were taken away. They get hooked on heroin. And when the money is gone, they have to sell themselves. It happens very quick.Through his investigations and the help of experts, Jensen identifies serial killers in Cleveland and Columbus. Why there? Because it's easy. Sharks go where the swimmers are. Serial killers go where the easy prey are: Ground zero of the opioid epidemic. The heart of America.That is what happened to Danielle and Lindsey. But serial killers murdering sex workers in the 21st century will get 45 seconds on the local news, and page 3 in the local paper, and then can disappear in the wind.Jensen hunts these predators to bring peace to the victims' suffering families while putting a spotlight on a system that is leaving hundreds of thousands of bodies in its wake.

    They are in search of nothing more than a good time, but one of them suffers a fate that is almost unspeakable.Truro Murders: when a series of young women go missing, Australian police reassure the parents that their daughters have probably just run off and will return in their own time.Arlis Perry: a Stanford student is found horrifically murdered in a slaying with ritualistic overtones. Cops race against time to find the killer before he inevitably strikes again.Lindbergh Kidnapping : Charles Lindbergh became the most famous man in the world when he flew across the Atlantic. Unfortunately his spot in the limelight made him the target for a kidnapping gang who snatched his infant son for ransom.The Toy Box: Delve inside Australia’s “House of Horrors”.

    It also ushered in the era of readily available child pornography. An international team of cops works day and night to catch a network of pedophiles before they can harm another child.West Memphis Three: when three young boys are found brutally murdered in a small religious town, a trio of social misfit teenagers are found guilty of the crime. There's just one problem though...there is no evidence at all to suggest the teens are murderers. When one of the convicted teens is sentenced to death, there is a race against time to prove the young mens' innocence.The Crossbow Killer: Brett Ryan seemed to have finally turned his life around. He was just weeks away from marrying the love of his life. But the inner turmoil within his head was about to explode……again.Mia Zapata: a young woman and her band seem destined to make it to the very top, until their lead singer is found brutally murdered.Robert Wone: a man stays with some friends for the evening. The evening is pleasant enough, but for some reason ends with a brutal murder. Who really killed Robert Wone?

    Robert Guffey’s razor-sharp postings illuminate how a collage of Shaver mysteries, Discordian prankster politics and recreational conspiracy theory played out as dissociative American fugue. Jaw-dropping and essential.”—Alan Moore, author of V for Vendetta and WatchmenMind control. Satanic rituals. Unspeakable sexual perversions. Supervillains eating children’s brains. A divine mandate to keep Donald Trump in the White House, no matter what.This surreal combination of horror-movie shocks and fascist marching orders is the signature of QAnon, which emerged from the dark corners of the internet in 2017 and soon became the galvanizing force behind Trump supporters, both during Trump’s presidency and in the volatile, ongoing aftermath of the 2020 election. But despite the strange pervasiveness of QAnon, its origins remain obscure. Who is behind QAnon’s messaging, and what do they want? And why do they pair their extreme political agenda with such obviously made-up, phantasmagorical beliefs?In Operation Mindfuck, Robert Guffey argues that this is not as mysterious as QAnon’s anonymous “drops” of cryptic directives seem to be. Drawing on an encyclopedic knowledge of conspiracy theories and mixing deep-dive research, political analysis, and firsthand notes from QAnon’s underbelly, Guffey insists that we’ve seen it all before.Unraveling QAnon’s patchwork quilt of recycled material, from pulp-fiction spook stories to Hunter S. Thompson-style pranksterism to Nixon-esque dirty tricks, Guffey diagnoses QAnon as a highly engineered ploy, calibrated to capture the attention and lock-step loyalty of its audience. Will its followers ever realize that they’ve been had? Can this new American religion be dispelled as a cult like any other? The answers, Operation Mindfuck reveals, are hidden in plain sight.

    

    Buckley--into helping set him freeIn the 1960s, Edgar Smith, in prison and sentenced to death for the murder of teenager Victoria Zielinski, struck up a correspondence with William F. Buckley, the founder of National Review. Buckley, who refused to believe that a man who supported the neoconservative movement could have committed such a heinous crime, began to advocate not only for Smith's life to be spared but also for his sentence to be overturned.So begins a bizarre and tragic tale of mid-century America. Sarah Weinman's Scoundrel leads us through the twists of fate and fortune that brought Smith to freedom, book deals, fame, and eventually to attempting murder again. In Smith, Weinman has uncovered a psychopath who slipped his way into public acclaim and acceptance before crashing down to earth once again.From the people Smith deceived--Buckley, the book editor who published his work, friends from back home, and the women who loved him--to Americans who were willing to buy into his lies, Weinman explores who in our world is accorded innocence, and how the public becomes complicit in the stories we tell one another.Scoundrel shows, with clear eyes and sympathy for all those who entered Smith's orbit, how and why he was able to manipulate, obfuscate, and make a mockery of both well-meaning people and the American criminal justice system. It tells a forgotten part of American history at the nexus of justice, prison reform, and civil rights, and exposes how one man's ill-conceived plan to set another man free came at the great expense of Edgar Smith's victims.

    It seems as though his rampage is only possible thanks to the incompetence of the detectives tasked with catching him.Suesan Knorr and Sheila Sanders: a female corpse is found in California. The woman had been set alight prior to her death, leading investigators on a hunt for two individuals; the victim and her murderer.Above the Law: a police officer stumbles across a dead body. A woman has been found executed in cold blood on a deserted highway. The crime seems motiveless, but why is the policeman so hesitant for forensic scientists to inspect his service weapon?Michael Dippolito : somebody wants to bring Michael Dippolito down. He’s an ex-con trying to go start a new life, but a mysterious figure won’t let him move on.The Chapais Fire Tragedy: 48 stones in a Memorial Garden is the constant reminder to the 48 lives lost in Quebec. 48 people never came home to their families that fateful night. This story not only delves into the guilty party of this fire, but also the guilt of the community and how the dealt with it all those years ago.

    The evidence they discovered exposed Frank's secret life to the world and scandalized the residents of Savannah. Of all the clues they found, none was more fascinating than Frank's enigmatic last words, uttered the moment before he was shot: "Has it come to this?"Suspicion fell at once on Frank's former paramour, Goldie Whitehead; his charming wife, Addie; and Stewart Fife, the suave young clerk of whom he was known to be insanely jealous. All the clues and evidence in this unsolved true crime are assembled here for readers to unravel the truth behind who killed Frank Richardson.

    Her husband was a self-made millionaire who lavished her with whatever her heart desired. To her close friends though, it seemed to be only a matter of time before Diane's "Prince Charming" killed her.Larry Eyler: he was gay at a time when society still regarded such individuals as deviants. Larry despised himself for being a homosexual, and eventually other gay men would bear the brunt of his self-hatred.Gay Gibson: a beautiful young woman mysteriously vanishes aboard a luxury cruise liner. Who would want to harm such a delicate flower?Stephen Hilder: skydiving is as dangerous a sport as there is. Deaths are only too common. But was Stephen Hilder’s demise just a tragic accident or something more sinister?

    He was a serial killer who targeted women and children alike, and a raging drug addict who found taking human life to be the ultimate rush.Carlos Rivera: Was Jessie just a cold-blooded murderer, or did his killing spree stem from something much deeper? A true story of how two families suffered an intolerable loss at the hands of one man. Larry Eyler: he was gay at a time when society still regarded such individuals as deviants. Larry despised himself for being a homosexual, and eventually other gay men would bear the brunt of his self-hatred.Glennon Engleman: Glennon thought that dentistry would lead to him to riches. But instead he found a much more lucrative venture; murdering his loved ones.