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Jobb, Dean

Summary: "I the span of fifteen years, Dr. Thomas Neill Cream murdered as many as ten people in the United States, Britain, and Canada. Poison was his weapon of choice. Structured around the doctor's London murder trial in 1892, The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream exposes the blind trust given to the medical practitioners, as well as the flawed detection methods, bungled investigations, corrupt...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC JOB

Rule, Ann

Summary: Traces the serial murders of the notorious Green River Killer, profiling Gary Ridgway as a happily married man who worked for the same company for thirty years, the case's approximate 40,000 suspects, the killer's disturbing capacity for luring and hiding his victims, and the DNA breakthroughs that established his link to the killings.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2019

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.1523 RUL

Lauren, Jillian

Summary: "It all started when journalist Jillian Lauren asked LAPD Homicide Detective Mitzi Roberts about which case Roberts was most proud of closing. "Samuel Little," Roberts answered. The now 79-year-old Little had murdered approximately 90 women over six decades and repeatedly got away with the murders due to lack of evidence (or jurisdiction); Roberts finally brought him to justice by tying him to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 LAU

Dawson, Kate Winkler

Summary: "Edward Rulloff was a brilliant yet utterly amoral murderer--some have called him a "Victorian-era Hannibal Lecter"--whose crimes spanned decades and whose victims were chosen out of revenge, out of envy, and sometimes out of necessity. From his humble beginnings in upstate New York to the dazzling salons and social life he established in New York City, at every turn Rulloff used his...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.3 DAW

Miller, T. Christian

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: August, 2008. Marie, a teenager, reported being raped in her Seattle apartment by a masked man. Confronted with inconsistencies, she was charged with false reporting and branded a liar. Years later Colorado detectives discovered they were dealing with a serial rapist. Miller and Armstrong follow the tale of doubt, lies, and a hunt for justice-- and the long history of skepticism toward rape...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.15 MIL

McCracken, Patricia Nell

Summary: "The horror occurred in a rustic farming enclave in modern-day Hungary. To look at the unlikely lineup of murderesses--village wives, mothers, and daughters--was to come to the shocking realization that this could have happened anywhere, and to anyone. At the center of it all was a sharp-minded village midwife, a "smiling Buddha" known as Auntie Suzy, who distilled arsenic from flypaper and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 MCC

Fleming, Candace

Summary: How did two teenagers brutally murder an innocent child ... and why? And how did their brilliant lawyer save them from the death penalty in 1920s Chicago? Written by a prolific master of narrative nonfiction, this is a compulsively readable true-crime story based on an event dubbed the "crime of the century." In 1924, eighteen-year-old college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb made a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2022

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.152 FLE

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.152 FLE

Ramsland, Katherine M.

Summary: "No two stories about the capture of a serial killer are the same. Sometimes, the killers make crucial mistakes; other times, investigators get lucky. And the process of profiling, hunting, and apprehending these predators has changed radically over time, particularly in the field of criminal forensics, which has exploded in the last ten to 15 years. Laser ablation, video spectral analysis,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.15232 RAM

Patterson, James

Summary: Two true-crime thrillers include "Murder of Innocence," in which a global effort captures a serial predator; and "A Murderous Affair," in which a rookie FBI agent is set up by his informant.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2020

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 PAT

Appleman, J. Reuben

Summary: Enthralling. Gripping. Cinematic. Raw. A cold case murder investigation paced like a podcast, as visually stunning as a film, and as brave and personal as our darkest memoirs. J. Reuben Appelman cracks open one of America's most notorious murder sprees while simultaneously banging the gavel on his own history with violence. A deftly-crafted true crime story with grit, set amid the decaying...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 APP

Olsen, Gregg

3 holds on 2 copies

Summary: "In 1977, in an Ohio Amish community, pregnant wife and mother Ida Stutzman perished during a barn fire. The coroner's report: natural causes. Ida's husband, Eli, was never considered a suspect. But when he eventually rejected the faith and took his son, Danny, with him, murder followed. What really happened to Ida? The dubious circumstances of the tragic blaze were willfully ignored and Eli's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2024

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Douglas, John E.

Summary: "From John Douglas--the legendary FBI criminal profiler, #1 New York Times bestselling author, and inspiration for the Netflix show Mindhunter--comes a chilling journey inside the mind and crimes of Larry Gene Bell, one of the most dangerous serial killers Douglas confronted, and the desperate effort to identify and catch him. On May 31, 1985, two days before her high school graduation, Shari...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 DOU

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 DOU

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 DOU

McNamara, Michelle

Summary: "A masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer-- the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California for over a decade-- from Michelle McNamara, the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the case. For more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 MCN

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 MCN

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 364 MCN

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.15 MCN

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Crime Mur McNamara

Weinman, Sarah

Summary: In 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 WEI

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B SMITH WEI

Olsen, Gregg

2 holds on 2 copies

Summary: "After more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek hear the word mom, it claws like an eagle's talons, triggering memories that have been their secret since childhood. Until now. For years, behind the closed doors of their farmhouse in Raymond, Washington, their sadistic mother, Shelly, subjected her girls to unimaginable abuse, degradation, torture, and psychic terrors....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2019

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Belkin, Lisa

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: The multigenerational tale of three families whose paths collide one summer night in 1960 with the murder of a police officer.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 BEL

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Crime Mur Belkin

Summary: How do wrongful convictions happen, and what are the consequences for the lucky few who are acquitted, years after they are proven innocent? Fourteen exonerated inmates narrate their stories, while another exoneree's case is explored. They detail every aspect of the experience of wrongful conviction, as well as the remarkable depths of endurance sustained by each exoneree who never lost hope.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.973 CAL

Weinman, Sarah

Summary: "In 1948, Sally Horner was just eleven years old when she was kidnapped by a man claiming to be an FBI agent. Seven years later, Vladimir Nabokov published Lolita, perhaps the most seminal novel of the twentieth century. Sarah Weinman's investigation into how the two are connected is a thrilling, heartbreaking mix of literary scholarship and true-crime writing."--back cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.88 WEI

Murphy, Steve (Steven E.)

Summary: The explosive memoir of legendary DEA agents and the subject of the hit Netflix series Narcos. Readers will go deep inside the inner workings of the Search Bloc, the joint Colombian-US task force that resulted in an intensive 18-month operation that tracked Escobar.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1 MUR

Patterson, James

Summary: Two true-crime tales relate the stories of a couple who were tortured and left for dead after a home invasion, and a double homicide in Omaha, Nebraska.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PAT

Gable, Mona

Summary: "In the vein of Yellow Bird and Highway of Tears, a powerful and illuminating investigation into the disappearance of the young and pregnant Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind, highlighting the shocking epidemic of violence against Indigenous women in America and the country's deplorable inaction. In the summer of 2017, twenty-two-year-old Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind vanished. A week after the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 GAB

Patterson, James

Summary: It's impossible to resist Andrew Luster. He's rich, charming, and good-looking, and dozens of women have fallen under his spell. But Andrew is no mere womanizer. He's a predator, and it'll take a global effort to put him behind bars.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 364.1523 PAT

Grann, David

Summary: In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. Her relatives were...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2017

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Bowden, Mark

Summary: "In this unprecedented deep dive into inner-city gang life, Mark Bowden takes readers inside a Baltimore gang, offers an in-depth portrait of its notorious leader, and chronicles the 2016 FBI investigation that landed eight of its members in prison. Sandtown is one of the deadliest neighborhoods in the world; it earned Baltimore its nickname "Bodymore, Murderland," and was made notorious by...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.106 BOW

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