True Crime Nonfiction

 

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1. American demon: Eliot Ness and the hunt for America's Jack the Ripper

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

2. American predator: the hunt for the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century

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Callahan, Maureen (Journalist)
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"The names of notorious serial killers are usually well-known; they echo in the news and in public consciousness. But most people have never heard of Israel Keyes, one of the most ambitious and terrifying serial killers in modern history. The FBI considered his behavior unprecedented ... He buried 'kill kits'--cash, weapons, and body-disposal tools--in remote locations across the country. Over the course of fourteen years, Keyes would fly to a city,...

3. The case of the murderous Dr. Cream: the hunt for a Victorian era serial killer

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Jobb, Dean, 1958-
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"Framed around one salacious trial in 1891 London, a ... true-crime narrative about the hunt for one of the first known serial killers, whose poisoning spree in the US, Canada, and England coincided with the birth of forensic science as well as the public's growing appetite for crime fiction such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novels"--

4. Catch and kill: lies, spies, and a conspiracy to protect predators

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Farrow, Ronan, 1987-
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Now an HBO documentary series streaming on HBO Max. 
One of the Best Books of the Year  Time * NPR * Washington Post * Bloomberg News * Chicago Tribune * Chicago Public Library * Fortune * Los Angeles Times * E! News * The Telegraph * Apple * Library Journal  In...

5. I'll be gone in the dark: one woman's obsessive search for the Golden State Killer

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McNamara, Michelle
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

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6. Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI

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Grann, David
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Wager and The Lost City of Z, “one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today."—New York Magazine • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NOW A MARTIN SCORSESE PICTURE
“A shocking whodunit…What...

7. Serial killers of the '70s: behind a notorious decade of death

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Fritsch, Jane
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Eva H. Perry Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
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Holly Springs Community - Adult Non-Fiction
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Leesville Community - Adult Non-Fiction
364.152 FRITS
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"The Co-Ed Killer, Son of Sam, Hillside Strangler, and Dating Game Killer--in many ways, terrifying serial killers helped define the 1970s. These ... profiles present notorious as well as lesser-known murderers of that decade. Beyond Ted Bundy and David Berkowitz, [the book] includes such perpetrators as Coral Eugene Watts, 'The Sunday Morning Slasher,' who killed 80 women; Edmund Kemper, the 'Co-Ed Killer'; and Rodney Alcala, believed to have killed...

8. The third rainbow girl: the long life of a double murder in Appalachia

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Eisenberg, Emma Copley
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A stunning, complex narrative about the fractured legacy of a decades-old double murder in rural West Virginia — and the writer determined to put the pieces back together.
In the early evening of June 25, 1980 in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, two middle-class outsiders named Vicki Durian, 26, and Nancy Santomero, 19, were murdered in an isolated clearing. They were hitchhiking to a festival known as the Rainbow Gathering...

9. The trial of Lizzie Borden: a true story

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Author:
Robertson, Cara
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"The remarkable new account of an essential piece of American mythology--the trial of Lizzie Borden--based on twenty years of research and recently unearthed evidence. The Trial of Lizzie Borden tells the true story of one of the most sensational murder trials in American history"--

10. The wicked boy: the mystery of a Victorian child murderer

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Author:
Summerscale, Kate, 1965-
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Athens Drive Community - Adult Non-Fiction
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