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By day, Gary Heidnik was a man of God with money, charisma, and a growing congregation. But behind closed doors, he was building a torture chamber by hand and filling it with women.

Ladd Hamilton's vivid storytelling brings to life the infamous murder of popular Lewiston merchant Lloyd Magruder in the Bitterroot Mountains during the 1860s Idaho-Montana gold rush.

In 1808, when the United States was in its infancy, and before Maine became a state, the murder of Cumberland County Deputy Sheriff Ebenezer Parker saw two men jailed and tried for the capital offense. In the end, one man was acquitted, one was convicted, and an execution took place. Widespread apathy for the victim - amid rising sympathies for the condemned - had spawned the birth of a mystery, and a mythical legend, which has endured for over two centuries until a Historian’s Inquiry sought to solve an “ultimate cold case.” This is the story of two men – forever linked in history ...

Unsolved Crimes, Lost Lives, and the Search for Justice in the Shadows of Appalachia On a cold Christmas Eve in 1945, a fire consumed the Sodder family home in rural West Virginia. Five children vanished without a trace. What followed was not just a tragedy—but a mystery that refused to die. From the smoldering ruins of that night to the blood-stained back roads of the 1980s Redhead Murders, Names for the Nameless journeys through some of America’s most haunting unsolved cases. In the heart of Appalachia, victims were silenced, erased, and buried without names—but not forgotten. This ...

Married to Murder: 'The Lonely Hearts' Killers is a comprehensive exploration of one of America’s most notorious killer couples—Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck. This true crime account spans their troubled childhoods, psychological profiles, manipulative schemes, cross-country killing spree, trial, execution, and cultural legacy. Through in-depth narrative and psychological analysis, the book investigates how two deeply damaged individuals found each other and embarked on a destructive path, leaving behind a legacy of fraud, betrayal, and murder. Raymond Fernandez’s early life, ...

Go inside the investigation, unlike anything you have ever read…because no investigator has ever given access to a cold case like this. This Journal encompasses a decade of a cold case detective’s life investigating a double unsolved homicide. A mother and her five-year-old daughter were brutally murdered in 1994 in a small Pennsylvania city. See what it is like to be a cold case investigator. Take a journey through the detective’s eyes, seeing the evidence as he sees it. Feel the pressures of being the sole investigator trying to solve a high-profile case. Take this decade long ...

They loved. They lied. They killed. And the truth is more twisted than fiction. Two real murders. Two unforgettable women. One chilling true crime collection. In this gripping true crime anthology, bestselling author Rod Kackley takes you deep inside two harrowing cases—where love, trust, and cold-blooded murder collide. Story One: He’s Dead, Now What? One woman. One gun. Two dead men. Goidsargi Estibaliz Carranza Zabala—“Esti” to her friends—was the soft-spoken woman serving gelato in a cozy Vienna ice cream shop. But behind her quiet smile was a dark secret: murder. Killing ...

November 22, 1963—a date seared into the collective memory—marked a decisive moment that fundamentally shifted the course of history. Yet, John F. Kennedy’s assassination remains shrouded in mystery. What exactly transpired on that devastating day in Dallas and in the months leading up to it? What were the essential components needed to pull off the crime of the century? Who emerged victorious and who suffered defeat, both in the immediate aftermath and in the decades that ensued? And how did the perpetrators ensure they would not face consequences?

That Day in Dallas: Lee Harvey Oswald Did Not Kill JFK is best described as a prosecution by Robert K. Tanenbaum of those corrupt, unscrupulous government and unelected agency officials, who from inception with predetermined outcomes, deceitfully engaged in insecure, phony pretense probes regarding the assassination in Dealey Plaza. Those responsible are prosecuted while those who speak truth to power are exonerated.

Caroline Fraser grew up in the shadow of Ted Bundy, the most notorious serial murderer of women in American history, surrounded by his hunting grounds and mountain body dumps, in the brooding landscape of the Pacific Northwest. But in the 1970s and ’80s, Bundy was just one perpetrator amid an uncanny explosion of serial rape and murder across the region. Why so many? Why so weirdly and nightmarishly gruesome? Why the senseless rise and then sudden fall of an epidemic of serial killing?

Plainfield, Wisconsin was a place of silence—where everyone knew everyone, and secrets stayed buried. But when police entered the Gein farmhouse in 1957, they stepped into a waking nightmare: masks made of human skin, furniture stitched from corpses, body parts preserved like trophies. The friendly handyman with the soft voice and shy smile had been hiding hell in his home.

Who needs horror stories when real life has serial killers, cults, and human soup? 20 of the world’s most disturbing real-life crimes - this isn’t fiction. It’s worse! Walk the haunted alleys of Cape Town, navigate Russia’s frozen wastelands, and venture down the shadowed river Thames - each tale expertly written for fans of true crime, murder mystery non-fiction, and gripping criminal investigations. The Iron Box Killer In 1910s Siam, the first documented serial killer in Thai history shocked a nation with his terrifying crimes. The Gatton Murders A peaceful Christmas night ...

Six murders. One house. A nightmare rewritten by time. In the predawn darkness of November 13, 1974, the DeFeo family was executed as they slept in their suburban Amityville home. The killer? Their own son — 23-year-old Ronald “Butch” DeFeo Jr. What investigators uncovered was more than a massacre. It was a story soaked in dysfunction, fear, and chilling calculation. And then came the haunting. Dead Quiet cuts through the fog of superstition and Hollywood spectacle to expose the horrifying truth behind one of America’s most infamous crimes.

In the late 1970s, a chilling wave of homemade bombings swept across America, targeting universities, airlines, and everyday people. For more than a decade, the perpetrator—dubbed the “Unabomber”—evaded capture, leaving behind chaos, riddles, and mounting terror. The Unabomber: A Decade of Fear plunges readers into this gripping saga, from the first shocking explosion to the nationwide manhunt that would eventually close in on an isolated cabin in Montana. Through meticulous research, exclusive witness interviews, and never-before-seen FBI files, this book reconstructs the cat-and-...

Most people don't want to believe that children are capable of killing their parents; however, it happens more frequently than we can imagine. So, what motivates a child to kill their own parents? Research has indicated that there are three types of children who do the unthinkable. One type is the child who has been severely abused and cannot think of another way out of their abusive home life. Another type is a severely mentally ill child, while the third is an anti-social child. The most frequent offender is the abused child. When cases have been reviewed of these abused kids who kill ...

In the late 1960s, a cryptic presence began haunting Northern California—sending letters that would become legendary. The Zodiac Killer, an elusive figure, unleashed a wave of terror by mailing taunting missives and encrypted ciphers to newspapers and law enforcement. His first note arrived in July 1969: "I am the killer of the 2 teenagers last Christmass…"—signed with a chilling crosshair symbol and accompanied by fragments of a 408-character cipher. Over the next five years, he would dispatch over 20 communications—four containing ciphers, two of which remain unsolved to this day...

In 1982, Tony West and Avery Brock made a visit to notorious Corpsewood Manor under the pretense of a celebration. They brutally murdered their hosts. Dr. Charles Scudder and companion Joey Odom built the "castle in the woods" in the Trion forest after Scudder left his position as professor at Loyola. He brought with him twelve thousand doses of LSD. Rumors of drug use and Satanism swirled around the two men. Scudder even claimed to have summoned a demon to protect the estate. The murders set the stage for a trial vibrant with local lore.

Investigative journalist Paul Palango’s 22 Murders examined in forensic detail the shooting spree committed in April 2020 by Gabriel Wortman that began in tiny Portapique Bay, Nova Scotia, and ended thirteen hours later when Wortman was shot dead by RCMP officers. The episode left numerous serious questions in its wake—most especially why was the killer able to evade police in such limited geography for an entire night and much of the following morning?

As Murderland indelibly maps the lives and careers of Bundy and his infamous peers in mayhem—the Green River Killer, the I-5 Killer, the Night Stalker, the Hillside Strangler, even Charles Manson—Fraser's Northwestern death trip begins to uncover a deeper mystery and an overlapping pattern of environmental destruction. At ground zero in Ted Bundy's Tacoma, stood one of the most poisonous lead, copper, and arsenic smelters in the world, but it was only one among many that dotted the area.

A mother and young daughter are found brutally murdered inside their own residence on September 2, 1994. Twenty-three-year-old Gail Mathews and her five-year-old daughter Tamara Berkheiser were found beaten, strangled and stabbed with their throats cut.Four years later an arrest is finally made. Those charges were dropped. In 2001, the suspect is arrested once again. Charges were dismissed for the second time. As the case grows colder by the minute, a new investigator is brought in to solve the case. But can he? In 2011, the renewed cold case investigation reveals shocking new evidence and ...