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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
Journeys inside the twisted mind of a killer, Dr. Debora Green, after the cancer specialist was arrested for the arson murders of two of her three children and the attempted poisoning of her estranged husband
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Furious Hours is the stunning story of an Alabama serial killer and the true-crime book that Harper Lee worked on obsessively in the years after To Kill a Mockingbird. Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members for insurance money in the 1970s. With the help of a savvy lawyer, he escaped justice for years until a relative shot him dead at the funeral of his last victim. Despite hundreds of witnesses,...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
375 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, photographs ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The prosecutor who convicted murderess Jodi Arias for the disturbing killing of Travis Alexander, speaks for the first time about the shocking investigation and sensational trial that captivated the nation.
Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xii, 286 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Forensic Files Now, author Rebecca Reisner shares her own gripping retellings of 40 favorite cases profiled on the hit TV show along with fascinating updates adapted from her popular blog, ForensicFilesNow.com, and a foreword by Forensic Files creator Paul Dowling"--
30) Hamlet
Author
Language
English
Description
A Danish prince avenges the murder of his father, the king, by killing his uncle Claudius who murdered the king, usurped the throne, and married Hamlet's mother, Gertrude. Hamlet, considered the most complex of all Shakespeare's characters, examines the fundamental issues of justice, guilt, and death.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In Tangled Vines, bestselling true crime author John Glatt reconstructs the rise of the prestigious Murdaugh family and the shocking double murder that led to the downfall of its patriarch, Alex Murdaugh. Among the lush, tree-lined waterways of South Carolina low country, the Murdaugh name means power. A century-old, multimillion-dollar law practice has catapulted the family into incredible wealth and local celebrity-but it was an unimaginable tragedy...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"An account of the unsolved murder of two women in Shenandoah National Park, by a journalist with unprecedented access to all key elements of the case, and a story that reveals the challenges of wilderness forensics and the failures of our justice system"--
May 1996. Lollie Winans and Julie Williams entered Virginia's Shenandoah National Park for a week-long backcountry camping trip. The couple had met and fallen in love the previous summer while...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
ix, 377 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the author of Crossed Over, another masterful account of a horrible crime: the murder of four girls, countless other ruined lives, and the evolving complications of the justice system that frustrated the massive attempts--for twenty-five years now--to find and punish those who committed it. The facts are brutally straightforward. On December 6, 1991, the naked, bound-and-gagged bodies of the four girls--each one shot in the head--were found...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For decades, Indigenous women and girls have gone missing or been found murdered along an isolated stretch of highway in northwestern British Columbia. The corridor is known as the Highway of Tears, and it has come to symbolize a national crisis. Journalist Jessica McDiarmid meticulously investigates the devastating effect these tragedies have had on the families of the victims and their communities, and how systemic racism and indifference have...
Author
Series
Ann Rule's crime files volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
1993
Physical Desc
513 p. : ill. ; 17 cm.
Language
English
38) The perfect father: the true story of Chris Watts, his all-American family, and a shocking murder
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 288 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : portraits (black & white) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In The Perfect Father, New York Times bestselling author John Glatt reveals the true story of a Colorado family whose storybook life turned into a nightmare. In the early morning hours of August 13th, 2018, Shanann Watts was dropped off at her Frederick, Colorado home by a colleague after returning from a business trip. It was the last time anyone would see her alive. By the next day, Shanann and her two young daughters, Bella and Celeste, had been...
Author
Language
English
Description
When she was sixteen, Elle Johnson lived in Queens with her family; she dreamed of being best friends with her popular, cool cousin Karen from the Bronx. Coming from a family of black law enforcement officers, Elle felt that Karen would understand her in a way no one else could. Elle's father was a highly protective, at times overbearing, parole officer; her uncle, Karen's dad, was a homicide detective.
On an ordinary night, the Johnson family's...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Describes how author Truman Capote became obsessed with the true crime story of a Manhattan socialite who shot her banking heir husband in 1955, and discusses how publication of his book led to her suicide and his own scandalous downfall.
