True crime

Public mass killings are becoming more common.

Since President John F.

Between 1933 and 1939, the FBI pursued an aggressive, highly publicized nationwide campaign against a succession of Depression era "e;public enemies,"e; including John Dillinger, George "e;Baby Face"e; Nelson, Charles Arthur "e;Pretty Boy"e; Floyd, George "e;Machine Gun Kelly"e; Barnes, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, and the Ma Barker Gang.

South Florida in the 1970s was one of the nation's most dangerous locations.

On November 8, 1937, a tourist from California named L.

This book is an in-depth exploration of four fascinating true crime cases from the files of Cyril H.

Largely forgotten now, Frankie Yale was an influential New York mobster of the early 20th century whose proteges included future leaders of New York's five Mafia families and Chicago's outfit.

The path of Grand Prix racing in America wound through raceways at Sebring, Riverside, Watkins Glen, Long Beach, and finally Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

For six decades, Pittsburgh-based forensic scientist Cyril Wecht has been an outspoken authority when horrible things happen to everyday people--murders, childhood deaths, tragic accidents and police brutality.

Each year, hundreds of thousands of people are reported missing in the United States alone.

On a summer day in 1898, a family in Dover, Delaware, shared a box of chocolates they received in the mail from an anonymous sender.

Over 13 months in 1976--1977, four children were abducted in the Detroit suburbs, each of them held for days before their still-warm bodies were dumped in the snow near public roadsides.

Notorious, numerous and varied, serial murderers from Australia have an eclectic record of crimes, methods and trademarks.

Some criminals become household names, while others--even those who seek recognition through their crimes--are forgotten.

When rumors about Geraldine Ferraro--the first woman vice-presidential nominee by a major party in U.

As a new attorney, Pamela Braswell was confident her career was about to skyrocket.

With the 1965 publication of In Cold Blood, Truman Capote declared he broke new literary ground.

On October 24, 1961, Massachusetts wife and mother Joan Risch vanished seemingly into thin air.

This chronicle of ten controversial mid-Victorian trials features brother versus brother, aristocrats fighting commoners, an imposter to a family's fortune, and an ex-priest suing his ex-wife, a nun.

Born in the mid-nineteenth century, Sophie Lyons was a master thief, con artist, blackmailer and smuggler.

In the early 1930s women practicing criminal law were often held in the same low regard as the clients they served.

At the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of Italian immigrants left their home country for the United States and, particularly, New York City.

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Outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare, the works of Agatha Christie stand as some of the most celebrated crime fiction of our era.

In 2010, University of Kansas officials were shocked to learn that the FBI and IRS were on campus investigating Rodney Jones, former head of the Athletics Ticket Office, for stealing Jayhawks basketball tickets and selling them to brokers.

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The shocking series of crimes committed by lovers Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez dominated the front pages in 1949.

Umberto Anastasio, better known as Albert Anastasia, was an Italian-American mobster and hitman who became one of the deadliest criminals in American history and one of the founders of the modern American Mafia in New York City.

In this revised, updated and expanded edition, the author explores the life of Theodore Bundy, one of the more infamous--and flamboyant--American serial killers on record.

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In January 1889, as London constables hunted for Jack the Ripper and theaters around the world presented theatrical renditions of the Jekyll and Hyde story, Jackson, Michigan, Police Captain Jack Boyle searched for the murderer of Mary Latimer.

In 1975, Dr.

Already part of a genre known for generating controversy, some true crime and scandal books have wielded a particular power to unsettle readers, provoke authorities and renew interest in a case.

Known as the Coastal Highway, U.

Historian Alan G.

An estimated 800,000 children are reported missing each year in the United States.

A trunk dripping blood, discovered at a railway station in Stockton in 1906, launched one of the most famous murder investigations in California history--still debated by crime historians.

Professional motorsports came to Las Vegas in the mid-1950s at a bankrupt horse track swarmed by gamblers--and soon became enmeshed with the government and organized crime.

The tragic death of 13-year-old Danny Croteau in 1972 faded from headlines and memories for 20 years until the Boston abuse scandal--a string of assaults within the Catholic Church--exploded in the early 2000s.

Frank and Jesse James, the infamous brothers from Missouri, rode with marauding Confederate guerrillas during the Civil War.

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Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Katherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly--the five known victims of Jack the Ripper--are among the most written-about women in history.

From the files of Scotland Yard's "e;Black Museum"e; (open only to police officers) come true crime stories of some of the most infamous murder cases of the 19th and 20th centuries--the Lambeth Poisoner, "e;baby farmer"e; Amelia Elizabeth Dyer, the Gentleman Vampire of Bournemouth, the Brides in the Bath Murders, the Rillington Place murders and many others.

Florence Maybrick was the first American woman to be sentenced to death in England--for murdering her husband, a crime she almost certainly did not commit.

"e;You are about to enter a world of drug smuggling, drug greed, and drug murder.

Indiana State Police Captain Matt Leach led the hunt for John Dillinger during the violent early 1930s.

"e;Big Bob"e; Bashara put on a respectable face.

Why do Americans alternately celebrate and condemn gangsters, outlaws and corrupt politicians?

On a September night in 1958, three New Orleans college students went looking for a gay man to assault.