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All That Is Wicked: A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind

Kate Winkler Dawson - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

Acclaimed crime historian, podcaster, and author of American Sherlock Kate Winkler Dawson tells the thrilling story of Edward Rulloff—a serial murderer who was called "too intelligent to be killed"—and the array of 19th century investigators who were convinced...

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American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper

Daniel Stashower - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award-winner Daniel Stashower returns with American Demon, a historical true crime starring legendary...

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Confession of a Serial Killer: The Untold Story of Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer

Katherine Ramsland - ForeEdge
Format: Book

In 1974, Dennis Lynn Rader stalked and murdered a family of four in Wichita, Kansas. Since adolescence, he had read about serial killers and imagined becoming one. Soon after killing the family, he murdered a young woman and then another, until he had ten victims. He named himself “B.T.K.”...
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My Friend Dahmer

Derf Backderf - Harry N. Abrams; First Edition edition
Format: Book

NATIONAL BESTSELLER 2013
ALA/YALSA Alex Award 2014
Revelation Award at Angoulme 2015

You only think you know this story. In 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer—the most notorious serial killer since Jack the Ripper—seared himself into the American consciousness. To the public,...

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Hunting El Chapo: The Thrilling Inside Story of the American Lawman Who Captured the World's Most Wanted Drug Lord

Andrew Hogan - Harper
Format: Book

A blend of Manhunt, Killing Pablo, and Zero Dark Thirty, Cole Merrell and Douglas Century's sensational investigative high-tech thriller chronicles a riveting chapter in the twentieth-century drug wars: the exclusive inside story of the American lawman...

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American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road

Nick Bilton - Portfolio
Format: Paperback

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. The unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedroom—and almost got away with it.

In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old libertarian programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk...

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I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever

Barbara Rae-Venter - Ballantine Books
Format: Book

The amateur DNA sleuth who cracked the most infamous cold case in American history—that of the Golden State Killer—tells the incredible true story of how she did it, and explains how her methods have changed the course of criminal investigations forever.

For twelve...

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Confident Women

Tori Telfer
Format: electronic resource

A thoroughly entertaining and darkly humorous roundup of history's notorious but often forgotten female con artists and their bold, outrageous scams-by the acclaimed author of Lady Killers. From Elizabeth Holmes and Anna Delvey to Frank Abagnale and Charles Ponzi, audacious scams and charismatic...
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Devil's Rooming House: The True Story of America's Deadliest Female Serial Killer

M. William Phelps - Lyons Press
Format: Book

The gripping tale of a legendary, century-old murder spreeA silent, simmering killer terrorized New England in1911. As a terrible heat wave killed more than 2,000 people, another silent killer began her own murderous spree. That year a reporter for the Hartford Courant noticed a sharp rise...
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The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South

Radley Balko - PublicAffairs
Format: Ebook

A shocking and deeply reported account of the persistent plague of institutional racism and junk forensic science in our criminal justice system and its devastating effect on innocent lives.

After two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered in rural Mississippi, law enforcement...

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