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For more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated ten sadistic murders. Then in 1986 he disappeared, eluding capture by multiple police forces and some of the best detectives in the area. Three decades later, true crime journalist Michelle McNamara was determined to find the violent psychopath she called "the Golden State Killer." Michelle pored...

What is it like to learn that your ordinary, loving father is a serial killer? In 2005, Kerri Rawson heard a knock on the door of her apartment. When she opened it, an FBI agent informed her that her father had been arrested for murdering ten people, including two children. It was then that she learned her father was the notorious serial killer known as BTK, a name he'd given himself that described the horrific way he committed his crimes: bind, torture,...

FBI behavioral psychologist Daniel Clark has been made famous by his arguments that religion is one of society's greatest antagonists. What Daniel doesn't know is that his obsessive pursuit of a serial killer known only as "Eve" will end in his own death at Eve's hand. Twenty minutes later Daniel is resuscitated, only to be haunted by those twenty missing minutes of life. It soon becomes painfully clear that the only way to stop Eve is to recover...

The crime scenes are horrifying. The victims are all arranged with deliberate care--posed to appear alive despite their agonizing deaths. Chattanooga grief counselor Audrey Sherrod moolights for the local police and it's clear to her and to Special Agent J.D. Cass that these murders are the work of a deranged serial killer. Initially, the victims are linked only by their physical appearance, but later, a link to horrifying crimes that took place...

A deranged man's pursuit of women he considers sinful explodes into a nightmare of terror for City Horticulturist Wendy Coleman. Although she rationalizes otherwise, he makes her feel somewhat responsible for the terror raining down on her. As the Apostle's net tightens, Detective Shawn Flannery and Wendy devise a plan that leads to a showdown with the Apostle's evil forces, a showdown that's risks Wendy's life even more.

Después del caso De Sena, Stacie Scott se encuentra con su fiel Frank Berrimow que tiene que resolver un caso intricado de asesinato. Stacie tendrá que lidiar con ella misma y recuperarse rápidamente de los desechos que la historia con Sam le había dejado dentro. Un brutal asesino conmociona las calles de New York con una serie de delitos que alteran al departamento de policía y a una entera ciudad. El Fiscal del Distrito Douglas confiará de...

Our hero, Duffy, has returned to Philadelphia from his European vacation with Anne. No sooner does he sits at his desk at the Tribune when he is called up from the police reserves and is again knee-deep in the murders of the newest serial killer. When that killer is found dead, he thinks that is the end of his time in the PPD. But, it is not, and he is dragged into more murders with his partner, Wojack. The murders run the gamete from sexual sadists...

We have all felt it at one time or another, the anger towards a rude customer who aggressively demands the attention of a customer service representative, using foul language, name-calling and threats to get what they want. Our understanding, compassion or fear of the consequences keeps us from pursuing a more aggressive method of satisfying the situation, while maintaining a false concern for their needs, despite their verbal assault. Tommy Thorpe,...

"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...

I met Andrea Altiery in 1981; the first thing she asked was, "Do you like the rock band Aerosmith?" I responded, "Yes." She smiled and slapped me on my left shoulder telling me, "Dream on my friend." Later that year Andrea was taken from us by the most notorious serial killer to ever hunt in the state of Alaska. Get ready to collectively ride an emotional ride through urban Alaska while looking through a steamy window for lost love; love that's...