The FBI profiler & co-author of the #1 New York Times–bestseller Mindhunter recounts his role in catching one of America's most notorious serial killers.Inside the Mind of BTK tells the incredible true story of how FBI profiler John Douglas tracked and participated in the hunt for one of the most notorious serial killers in US history. For thirty-one years a man who called himself BTK (Bind, Torture, Kill) terrorized the city of Wichita, ...

This dramatic and compelling true-crime psychological thriller provides an in-depth, behind-the-scenes narrative of one of the most bizarre and terrible serial killers stories in US history. For 31 years a man who called himself BTK (Bind, Torture, Kill) terrorized the city of Wichita, Kansas, strangling and sexually assaulting a series of women (and one child), taunting the police and the community with frequent letters, communications, crime scene photographs, property stolen from his vi...

This book was written for the sole purpose to encourage others to realize that no matter what condition a person gets in that God can change it and make you a respected person, give you a good family, and one of you may even he called to pastor or preach. This book also is to inspire others who work for God to be motivated from the experiences that have in God. Hopefully, to motivate the sinner to serve God the Christian to have a greater desire toward helping others to come to Christ.

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...

Greed in the Gilded Age is a Gatsby-esque tale of mystery, money, sex, and scandal.‘Millionaire’ had just entered the American lexicon and Cassie Chadwick was front page news, becoming a media sensation before mass media, even eclipsing President Roosevelt’s inauguration. Using these newspaper articles, Hazelgrove tells the story of one of the greatest cons in American history.Combining the sexuality and helplessness her gender implied, Chadwick conned at least 2 mil...

The cold case that put Speedway, Indiana, on the map. "What may be the definitive public accounting of the murder mystery that still resonates today." —Fox59The evening of November 17, 1978, should have been like any other for the four young crewmembers closing the Burger Chef at 5725 Crawfordsville Road in Speedway, Indiana. After serving customers and locking the doors for the night, the kids began their regular cleanup to ready the restaurant for the following d...

"This engrossing collection of historical Midwest murders reads like a thriller. True crime at its best. I couldn't put it down." —Susan Furlong, author of the Bone Gap Travellers novelsA modern retelling of 20 sensational true crimes, No Place Like Murder reveals the inside details behind nefarious acts that shocked the Midwest between 1869 and 1950. The stories chronicle the misdeeds, examining the perpetrators' mindsets, motives, lives, apprehensions, an...

The true story of a bizarre case in Myrtle Beach, and the trials that followed a young woman's disappearance, by the bestselling author of Better Off Dead.On a cold Southern night in 2013, under a full moon, twenty-year-old Heather Elvis parked her car at a boat ramp along the Intracoastal Waterway and was never seen again.The disappearance of the beautiful, vivacious hostess at a popular Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, restaurant made international h...

The legendary FBI criminal profiler, number-one New York Times bestselling author, and inspiration for the hit Netflix show Mindhunter delves deep into the lives and crimes of four of the most disturbing and complex predatory killers, offering never-before-revealed details about his criminal profiling process, and divulging the strategies used to crack some of America’s most challenging cases.The FBI’s pioneer of criminal profiling, former special agent John Dougl...

A former stripper turned suburban housewife is exposed as a brutal killer in this shocking true crime tale of a loving husband beheaded in Phoenix.Phoenix, Arizona, 2004. Marjorie Orbin filed a missing person's report on her husband, Jay. She claimed that the successful art dealer had left town on business after celebrating their son's birthday more than a month before. But no one believed that Jay would abandon the family he loved. Authorities suspected fo...

The New York Times bestselling coauthors uncover new information in the Colonial Parkway Murders of 1980s Virginia in this true crime investigation.For four years a killer, or killers, stalked Virginia's Tidewater region, carefully selecting victims and terrorizing the local community. Again and again, young people in the prime of their lives were targeted. But the pattern that stitched these killings together was more like a spider web of theory, intrigue...

"Vivid prose plunges the reader into the politically fraught, self-contained world of a military base" and a chilling true case of triple murder (Linda Landrigan, editor of Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine).Carlton "Butch" Smith was a troubled teenager who'd been kicked out of school for aggressive behavior. His parents lived at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, in Jacksonville, North Carolina, and when Butch was home with them, his life was fairly normal. ...