True Mystery

In True Courage, multiple Christy Award winner Dee Henderson sends FBI Special Agent Luke Falcon on a desperate race to save lives. Just before fresh leads on an elusive serial killer pre-empt another date with Caroline Lane, she calls Luke to tell him her sister and family are missing. As day blurs into night, the specter of foul play soon tests the reality of the couple's faith in God and their love for one another.

In the summer of 1967, 19-year-old Brenda Joyce Holland disappeared. She was a mountain girl who had come to Manteo to work in the outdoor drama The Lost Colony. Her body was found five days later, floating in the sound. This riveting narrative, built on unique access to the state investigative file and multiple interviews with insiders, searches for the truth of her unsolved murder. This island odyssey of discovery includes seances, a suicide, and a supposed shallow grave. Journalist John Railey cuts through the myths and mistakes to finally arrive at the long-hidden truth.

💀 Dark secrets lurk in the wilderness. For decades, the Appalachian Trail has called to adventurers, but not everyone who enters the woods makes it out. True Crime on the Appalachian Trail uncovers 15 shocking stories of murder, disappearances, and survival in the vast, unforgiving terrain of America’s most famous trail. From chilling unsolved mysteries to real-life horror, these true crime tales will haunt your next hike. If you’re drawn to the unknown, the eerie, and the tragic, this book is your perfect companion—just don’t read it alone in the woods. 📖 Perfect for fans of:...

Greed, arrogance and lust led Robert Anderson to kill his wife of nearly twenty years. He was a pillar of the community. He owned four Service Master franchises, he was a Kiwanis member and former President, and a former teacher and Athletic Director at Salem High School. The combination of his love for money and infatuation with a younger girl led him to the brutal beating of his wife and subsequent attempt to frame an employee and former student. The death of his wife in Lawrence Mass, was considered an extreme act of rage and was initially attributed to the violence that was pervasive in...

The Headlines Told You What Happened. These Stories Explore the Chilling Why... and the Terrifying What If. You’ve read the news clippings, seen the grainy photos. But behind every infamous crime lies a story far darker and more complex than any headline can reveal. From the masterful pen of Logan Carter comes TRUE CRIME: RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES, a harrowing collection of 30 fictionalized short stories, each plunging into the heart of real-life tragedies that shocked the world. Step beyond the yellow tape and into meticulously crafted narratives inspired by cases that continue to haunt ...

For nearly a century, the Murdaugh family stood as a pillar of legal authority and privilege in South Carolina's Lowcountry. But in 2021, the shocking double homicide of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh shattered that legacy and exposed a web of corruption, deceit, and murder. The Murdaugh Murders delves deep into the rise and fall of this once-revered dynasty. Through meticulous research and exclusive interviews, this book uncovers the family's entanglement in financial crimes, drug abuse, and a series of suspicious deaths that span decades. From the fatal boat crash involving Paul Murdaugh to the...

This book offers therapists an integrated approach to adding a polyvagal foundation to their work with clients. With clear explanations of the organizing principles of Polyvagal theory, this complex theory is translated into clinician and client-friendly language. Using a unique autonomic mapping process designed to effectively track autonomic response patterns, this book presents practical ways to work with clients' experiences of connection.

When Phillip is abducted, his family's hidden secrets and the town's dark mysteries come to light. Josie must confront the prejudices of their small community and uncover the sinister truth to bring her son home. A tale of courage and resilience, this story dives deep into family bonds and the shadows lurking in a seemingly peaceful town.

Florida: Where sunshine meets the strange, and crime is stranger than fiction. From chainsaw massacres and cocaine cowboys to missing millionaires and spontaneous human combustion, Florida has been home to some of the most bizarre, brutal, and baffling true crime cases in history. Inside True Crime: Florida, you’ll uncover: 🔪 The Miami Chainsaw Murders – A nightclub owner, his girlfriend, and his bodyguard found dismembered in their mansion in one of the most gruesome crime scenes ever recorded. 🔪 The Death of Carl Tanzler’s Mummified Bride – A Key West doctor stole the body ...

Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summer crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix’s children’s school. Josie has been listening to Alix’s podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her series. She is, she tells Alix, on the cusp of great changes in her life.

Murder! Molly & The Mob: A 1950s Shocking True Crime Story by Rod Kackley plunges into the heart of one of America’s most chilling unsolved mysteries. Set in Joliet, Illinois—a town on the edge of Chicago’s criminal empire—this gripping narrative follows the life and sudden disappearance of Molly Zelko, a crusading journalist whose fierce editorials took aim at the mobsters and political figures behind the region's gambling dens and crime rings. As the editor and publisher of The Spectator, Molly wielded her newspaper like a weapon, targeting the web of corruption linking local ...

In 1914 collisions between motor cars and horse-drawn carriages are an everyday occurrence on the streets of Paterson, New Jersey. But when an out-of-control driver smashes into a buggy driven by Constance, Norma, and Fleurette Kopp, their lives change forever. Constance, the oldest, demands payment for the damages but quickly realizes that she is dealing with a madman.

The highways of America promise freedom—but some lead straight into darkness. From sun-scorched desert roads to shadowed backwoods interstates, these 25 chilling true crime cases prove that evil doesn’t always lurk in alleys…it cruises alongside us in the passing lane. In Murder Land: Highways, Logan Carter explores the most disturbing crimes ever to unfold on America's roadways—abductions at rest stops, disappearances on cross-country treks, and cold-blooded murders on stretches of asphalt that seem to swallow the truth. Whether you're a true crime veteran or a newcomer with nerves...

In August of 1975, Hampton, NH Police Officer Robert McLaughlin arrested Robert Cushing Sr. for disorderly conduct. The following month, McLaughlin arrested Cushing's neighbor Gladys Ring. As a result, Robert Cushing and his son Renny, attempted to get McLaughlin and another officer fired for their "heavy handed tactics." The officers were cleared of any wrongdoing but McLaughlin didn't forget and blamed Robert Cushing for his lack of advancement in the police department over the years. The resentment simmered and built while McLaughlin's stress level from previous life events and the job ...

Our world is built upon mysteries, so when somebody tells you nothing is impossible, you best believe them. Unexplainable Happenings is a thoughtfully-curated anthology series of occurrences most would deem impossible. Bone-chilling beholdings, unwilled encounters, and the unthinkable all come together to create an unusual and genuine series.

In January 1923, 20-year-old Fritzie Mann left home for a remote cottage by the sea to meet a man whose identity she had revealed to no one. The next morning, the barely clad body of the beautiful and bewitching dancer washed up on lonely Torrey Pines beach, her party dress and possessions strewn about on the sand.

A tale of terrorism, espionage, and an epic struggle for justice in an America on the verge, sparked by a massive and mysterious explosion in New York Harbor in 1916.

That year, while the Allied and Central forces waged war in Europe, a group of German saboteurs blew up Black Tom Island, a spit of land in New York Harbor within earshot of downtown Manhattan. The subsequent hail of missiles and gunpowder devastated much of lower New York City.

While attending the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, Winnifred Wylde believes she witnessed a woman being kidnapped. She tries to convince her father, an inspector with the Chicago police, to look into reports of mysterious disappearances around the White City. Inspector Wylde tries to dismiss her claims as exaggeration of an overactive imagination, but he eventually concedes to letting her go undercover as secretary to the man in question - if she takes her pistol for protection and Jude Thorpe, a policeman, for bodyguard.

In the quiet suburb of Springfield, Missouri, a routine night took a chilling turn on June 7, 1992. Missing in Missouri delves into the enigmatic disappearance of mother Sherrill Levitt, her daughter Suzie Streeter, and Suzie’s friend Stacy McCall—all last seen in Levitt’s home after attending graduation celebrations. With no signs of struggle and all personal belongings left behind, their vanishing remains one of the nation’s most haunting unsolved. This narrative goes beyond surface detail to resurrect the voices of the missing women and their families—highlighting Suzie's ...

The only thing more surprising than learning her great aunt had left her entire very large estate to her was learning Aunt Dot hadn’t passed away when she a little girl like she’d been told. Kat traveled to the coastal town of Fogpoint Harbor for the first time since the lie had been spun with the intention of upholding her end of the will’s demand before returning home. There were stipulations to the inheritance. She had to live in her aunt’s house for a year. If she didn’t, she walked away with a small percentage of the estate. It would be easy. Wouldn’t it? The old Victorian ...