An eye-opening account of the shocking murder that has been featured on 48 Hours, Forensic Files, and Investigation Discovery's Killing Time.Brian Stidham fell in love with Tucson, Arizona, the minute he came to town. A young and talented eye surgeon, he accepted a job with an established eye surgeon to take over his pediatric patients."It's a beautiful place," Stidham told a friend. "I can live right there by the mountains and go ...

A convicted murderer tells the story of the years of domestic abuse she endured that drove her to kill her police sergeant husband.The day we met in October of 1997, I was working at the District Court in Traverse City, Michigan as a Deputy Clerk. It was like most other days with arraignments, sentencings, civil case hearings and the like. People shuffling in and out, everyone taking care of their important business with court appearances, document filings, paying t...

"Scrapped captures the barren roads and fallow fields of Oswego County the way Capote captured Finney County, Kansas in In Cold Blood." —Tom Barbash, New York Times bestselling author of The Dakota WintersA convicted man. A missing teen. A buried informant file. And a justice system more interested in clo...

This true crime saga reveals the case of a missing Nashville woman, a husband on the run, and a rare cold case murder conviction.Janet March had it all: a corporate lawyer husband, two beautiful children, a promising career as an artist, and a dream house she designed herself. But behind closed doors, her husband led a destructive double life. On August 16, 1996, Janet had an appointment to finally file for divorce. But she never arrived. On the night of August 15, ...

A family tragedy propels this gripping true crime debut as a mother searches for answers in the shocking murder of her husband—and conviction of her son.In the early morning of October 18, 1986, Cherie Wier's life collapses when her teenage son takes the life of her beloved husband. For years, Cherie grapples with events preceding and following the crime, struggling to overcome the consuming grief she suffers from her loss and the difficulty she faces as she attempt...

The explosive true story of America's most corrupt police unit, the Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF), which terrorized the city of Baltimore for half a decade.When Baltimore police sergeant Wayne Jenkins said he had a monster, he meant he had found a big-time drug dealer—one that he wanted to rob. This is the story of Jenkins and the Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF), a super group of dirty detectives who exploited some of America's greatest problems: guns, drugs, toxic mascul...

Bad Things Come in Small PackagesWhen pregnant prom queen Misty Glass dies, no one suspects who's responsible: Romy, a fourteen-year-old loner with a desperate crush on Misty's boyfriend.Romy never meant for her "harmless" prank to turn deadly…Twelve years later, she's a successful artist living in the city when a crisis forces her to return to her rural hometown. There, she starts a relationship with the last man she should—who has no idea Romy is ...

As seen on Investigation Discovery: "A true crime murder mystery that will leave you gasping for breath." —Steve Jackson, New York Times–bestselling author of No Stone UnturnedFrank Rodriguez, a much-loved counselor of troubled teens, lies dead on the bedroom floor. His wife and stepdaughter are in shock, and so is the medical examiner when he performs the autopsy. Aside from being dead, Frank is in perfect health.Demanding to know the cau...

Four chilling true crime novels by a #1 New York Times–bestselling author and former Los Angeles Times reporter.Final Vows: Murder, Madness, and Twisted Justice in CaliforniaWhen Carol Montecalvo began writing to a man in prison named Dan through a program at her church, she considered it her Christian duty. She had no idea it would lead to love and marriage—and her murder . . .Deadly Pretender:

"The best explanation I have yet read for the madness that was the Beltway sniper spree can be found in the pages of [this] fascinating new book."— The AtlanticIn October of 2002, a series of sniper attacks paralyzed the Washington Beltway, turning normally placid gas stations, parking lots, restaurants, and school grounds into chaotic killing fields. After the spree, ten people were dead and several others wounded. The perpetrators were forty-one-year-old...

From the bestselling author of The Search for the Green River Killer: The account of the family tragedy that became one of California's most shocking murder cases.On a picturesque street in Sacramento County, California, three healthy saplings stand side by side. But what they symbolize are the deaths of three innocent people—two of them children. The man who took their lives, then planted trees in their honor, was their own husband and father.Heart...

Immortalized in the acclaimed documentary Dear Zachary, this brutally honest memoir chronicles a system's failure to prevent the murder of a child.In November 2001, the bullet-riddled body of a young doctor named Andrew Bagby was discovered in Keystone State Park outside Latrobe, Pennsylvania. For parents Dave and Kate, the pain was unbearable—but Andrew's murder was only the beginning of the tragedy they endured.T...