True crime

Who doesnt love a good homicide?

Corruption has eaten deep into the fabric of Nigeria, the worlds most populous black nation.

Married to the Devil A true life story is the astonishing story of how God set Amanda Marie Tweed free from a life of crime and drug addiction.

Long before casinos became legal in Atlantic City, New Jersey, a powerful political machine known as The Organization sanctioned and operated gambling establishments throughout the resort.

My great aunt Elois usually didn't wear her glasses, and she was not wearingthem that day in Dealey Plaza.

On 17 July 1932, on a highway near Fort Mill, SC, Rural Policeman Elliott Harris was attempting to arrest Beatrice Snipes husband Clyde for reckless driving.

A journalist for The Daily News (New York) offers a meticulous account of the Newtown massacre and its aftermath.

The unputdownable true crime story about a killer who preyed on children but was not much older than his victims.

The shocking story of one of the most notorious female serial killers in American history from ';an author who shows real mastery of the true crime genre' (NPR).

A tragic and riveting true story of teenage obsession, torture, and murder.

This memoir is an inspirational yet harrowing story of a domestic violence victim's search for the truth about her marriage.

The 4th century BC Greek painter Parrhasius murdered his model--an old man who was his slave--to achieve, so the story goes, a more lifelike depiction of nature.

During his 20-year career as a federal prosecutor, the author worked hundreds of criminal cases, from a botched attempted bank robbery to high profile death penalty cases.

In the midst of gangland activities during the Roaring Twenties, a thief plagued the New York City area by breaking into people's homes and stealing radios, possibly the costliest thing a family could own.

While many people think true crime is a new phenomenon, Americans have been obsessed with the genre for over a century, and popular culture continuously tries to cash in.

In the 1890s, Amos Lunt served as the San Quentin hangman, tying the nooses that brought the most dangerous criminals in the Wild West to their deaths.

This thrilling story memorializes one of the most dangerous--and successful--series of undercover operations conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Drawing on media reports, interviews and court records, this book recounts the stories of women bank robbers in the United States, from the time of the Revolutionary War to the present.

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.