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I order another bourbon, neat. This is the drink that will flip the switch. I don’t even know how I got here, to this place, to this point. Something is happening to me lately. I’m drinking too much. My sheets are soaking wet when I wake up from nightmares of decaying corpses. I order another drink and swig it, trying to forget about the latest case I can’t shake. Crime solving for me is more complex than the challenge of the hunt, or the process of piecing together a scientific puzzle. The thought of good people suffering drives me to the point of obsession.

In Blood on Her Hands, award-winning journalist Tanya Farber investigates the lives, minds and motivations of some of South Africa’s most notorious female murderers, from the poisonous nurse Daisy de Melker, to the privileged but deeply disturbed Najwa Petersen, to the mysterious Joey Haarhoff, who died before revealing the fate of her victims. Written in a style lighter than the subject matter might suggest, Blood on Her Hands will keep you listening until late at night.

The Townhouse Bar, midtown, July 1992: The piano player seems to know every song ever written, the crowd belts out the lyrics to their favorites, and a man standing nearby is drinking a Scotch and water. The man strikes the piano player as forgettable. He looks bland and inconspicuous. Not at all what you think a serial killer looks like. But that’s what he is, and tonight, he has his sights set on a gray haired man. He will not be his first victim.

Inspired by author Tori Telfer's Jezebel column “Lady Killers,” this thrilling and entertaining compendium investigates female serial killers and their crimes through the ages. When you think of serial killers throughout history, the names that come to mind are ones like Jack the Ripper...

Todos los asesinatos se parecen. Al fn y al cabo, todos ellos suponen la muerte de una persona inocente. Lo que les confere su particularidad, lo que les imprime su sello único, personalísimo, son los motivos que incitan a un individuo a cometerlos. Descubrir esos factores que llevan a una persona cualquiera a convertirse en un implacable asesino es lo que nos inquieta. Desentrañar qué motivaciones se ocultan tras actos criminales, a menudo difíciles de explicar, es el propósito de este nuevo libro de la jurista y criminóloga Paz Velasco.

In this second installment, author Evan Russell examines another roster of history’s most ruthless predators—killers whose intelligence, obsession, and emotional void allowed them to evade capture while leaving devastation in their wake.

A vivid, frightening novel collection of nine strange, dark, and mysterious stories, based on true events, from the mind behind the YouTube channel and hit MrBallen Podcast John Allen, known popularly as “MrBallen,” has been enthralling audiences with his unique brand of storytelling ever...

In Sons of Cain - a book that fills the gap between dry academic studies and sensationalized true crime - investigative historian Peter Vronsky examines our understanding of serial killing from its prehistoric anthropological evolutionary dimensions in the pre-civilization era (c. 15,000 BC) to today. Delving further back into human history and deeper into the human psyche than Serial Killers - Vronsky's 2004 book, which has been called "the definitive history of the phenomenon of serial murder" - he focuses strictly on sexual serial killers.

In 1860, a sloop drifted into New York Harbor. Not a soul on board - just blood from cabin to deck. Looted coins led to Bowery thug Albert Hicks, the ax slayer who turned his shipmates into chum. His crimes were absolutely fiendish. His execution was pure ballyhoo. It drew nearly ten thousand bloodthirsty sightseers to the city - including the enterprising showman P. T. Barnum. Refreshments were served as the most notorious and unrepentant mass murderer of the era made history as one of America’s first celebrity killers.

With makeup and an affected Elvis pout, Tucson’s Charlie Schmid was a crude parody of a bad-boy heartthrob. In 1964, he still had a hold on girls who’d follow him anywhere. He murdered three of them. It was the dawn of the free-love movement - perfect for a magnetic madman who’d also foreshadow its end a few years later in the malignant charisma of Charles Manson. The inspiration for a classic story by Joyce Carol Oates, Schmid, the most bizarre serial killer of any era, was the epitome of a narcissist flattered into believing he could get away with murder.

A series of brutal home invasions terrified Los Angeles in 1937. They ended in Chicago a year later with the arrest of African American teenager Robert Nixon, igniting racial tensions in an already appallingly divided city. Tortured in custody and portrayed by the press in the most lurid and flagrantly racist terms, Nixon faced an all-white jury. It would be the fastest conviction in the history of Cook County. The case against Nixon is a still-relevant examination of bigotry, suppressed rage, and the making of a murderer.

At a remote little inn not far from the Kansas homestead of Laura Ingalls Wilder lived the Bender family. These pioneers welcomed unwary visitors with jackrabbit stew and a sledgehammer to the skull. In time, their apple orchard gave up its secrets - a burial ground for their mutilated victims, each stripped of their possessions. The devilish enterprise on “Hell’s Half-Acre” would earn the Bloody Benders an undying place in the annals of American infamy. But it was the mysterious fate of eldest daughter, Kate, that would make them the stuff of mythic campfire prairie tales.

From bestselling author Ann Rule comes the engrossing true story of two beautiful, loving women, and their murder by the man in their life—handsome, charming, rich, a man marked for unlimited success—but one who would never allow any woman to leave him, no matter what the provocation. Jenn...

For weeks, the body count of sexually violated, brutally murdered young women escalated. With increasing alarm, Los Angeles newspapers headlined the deeds of a serial killer they named the Hillside Strangler. The city was held hostage by fear. Darcy O'Brien weds the narrative skill of an award-winning novelist with the detailed observations of an experienced investigator to unravel this chilling true-crime story.

In "The Butcher of Rostov," delve into the chilling biography of one of the most notorious serial killers in history, Andrei Chikatilo. Unearth the dark secrets and twisted mind of a man whose insatiable hunger for blood led to the brutal murders of over 50 innocent victims. As the audio plays, immerse yourself in the haunting landscapes of Soviet Russia, where a seemingly ordinary man concealed his monstrous nature. Trace Chikatilo's journey from a troubled childhood marked by poverty and abuse to his rise as a respected family man and Communist Party member.

Dennis Rader appeared to be the perfect neighbor: a father, church council president, and city employee. But behind closed doors, he was the BTK Killer—one of the most sadistic and methodical serial killers in American history. From 1974 to 1991, Rader murdered ten victims and vanished... only to resurface decades later in a chilling game with law enforcement. In Dennis Rader: The BTK Killer, David G. Stone delivers an in-depth account of how Rader maintained a monstrous secret life for decades.

This gripping book delves into the dark history of Dean Corll, the notorious Houston serial killer who, alongside accomplices Elmer Wayne Henley and David Brooks, lured and murdered at least 29 teenage boys in the 1970s. Based on court records, police reports, and interviews, this true story uncovers the sinister tactics behind "The Candy Man" moniker, the systemic failures in "The System That Failed to Learn," and the haunting legacy left in Houston's neighborhoods.

Hunting Shadows is a gripping true crime memoir by Jane Hamilton, one of Scotland’s most experienced and well-known crime journalists. The book chronicles her decades-long career reporting on some of the country’s most harrowing and high-profile criminal cases—with a central focus on the chilling investigation into serial killer Peter Tobin.

Ed Kemper: The Co-Ed Killer is a gripping, psychologically driven narrative that explores one of America's most disturbing criminal minds through a factual, non-sensational lens. This book avoids graphic detail while delivering an immersive, atmospheric true-crime experience rooted in deep research, court records, and historical context. From the fog-covered highways of Santa Cruz to the fractured dynamics of a troubled childhood, this book reveals how Edmund Kemper hid in plain sight—polite, articulate, and trusted by the very investigators hunting him.

True Crime – Real Criminal Cases: How Investigators, DNA, and Coincidence Unmask Evil True crimes. Real victims. And the search for clues to uncover the truth. This audiobook takes you deep into the darkest chapters of criminal history – where the line between humanity and monstrosity becomes blurred. From the icy shores of Long Island to a bloody apartment in Moscow to the quiet streets of California – every story in this audiobook is real.