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Bitter Blood by Jerry Bledsoe (364.1 Bleds)
In this unrelenting real-life drama of three wealthy families connected by marriage and murder, Bledsoe recounts the shocking events, obsessive love and bitter custody battles that led toward the bloody climax that took nine lives.

Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi (364.1 Bugli)
It began August 9 and 10, 1969, when seven people were shot, stabbed and bludgeoned to death in Los Angeles. It ended when a nation watched in fascinated horror as the killers were tried and convicted. But the real questions went unanswered. How did Manson make his "family" kill for him? How could these young men and women kill again and again without human feelings of any kind? Did the murders go on even after Manson was in jail? And where are the killers today?

Midnight Assassin by Patricia L Bryan and Thomas Wolf (364.152 Bryan)
Midnight Assassin is about the ways that prejudice and fear can influence justice and how people's preconceptions inform the legal process. It is about a woman tried for a crime but punished for her character.

Anyone You Want Me To Be by John Douglas (364.15 Dougl)
A cautionary tale set in a virtual world where relationships are established without the benefit of physical contact and where mainstream Americans can be drawn down a dark path of temptation and death, Anyone You Want Me To Be is a contemporary real-life drama of high-tech crime and punishment.

Dark Dreams by Roy Hazelwood and Stephen G. Michaud (364.3 Hazel)
Profiler Roy Hazelwood is one of the world's leading experts on the strangest and most dangerous of all aberrant offenders – the sexual criminal. In Dark Dreams he reveals the twisted motive and thinking that go into the most reprehensible crimes.

Fatal Vision by Joe McGinniss (364.1 McGinn)
Fatal Vision is the electrifying true story of Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald, the handsome, Princeton-educated physician convicted of savagely slaying his young pregnant wife and two small children, murders he vehemently denies committing. Bestselling author Joe McGinnis chronicles every aspect of this horrifying and intricate crime and probes the life and psyche of the magnetic, all-American Jeffrey MacDonald, a golden boy who seemed destined to have it all.

Chasing the Devil by Sheriff David Reichert (364.152 Reich)
For 20 years, Sheriff David Reichert of King County, Washington, was a man with a single, all-consuming obsession: to capture the most notorious serial killer in American history – the monster who would become known nationwide by the name of the river he used as a dumping ground. From the earliest morning hours to the middle of the night, Reichert combed local streets and alleys, wilderness and parkland, searching for any clue that could lead him to the Green River killer.

Hunting Eric Rudolph by Henry Schuster with Charles Stone (364.152 Schuste)
The account of one of the longest manhunts in American history by two individuals who covered it from the beginning, CNN journalist Henry Schuster - who ultimately broke the story of Rudolph's capture – and former Georgia Bureau of Investigation special agent Charles Stone, who continued trying to unlock Rudolph's secrets even after his own retirement.

In Plain Sight: The Startling Truth Behind the Elizabeth Smart Investigation  by Tom Smart and Lee Benson (364.15 Smart)
This riveting inside story of the intense search for the Salt Lake City teenager who was kidnapped from her bed reveals never-before-told details of the largest investigation in Utah state history. Paced like a thriller, this true account moves between the parallel stories of the searchers and the abductor.

A Death in Texas by Dina Temple-Raston (364.15 Temple)
On June 7, 1998, a 49-year-old black man named James Byrd Jr. was chained to the bumper of a truck and dragged three miles down a country road by a trio of young white men. It didn't take long for the residents of Jasper, Texas, to learn about the murder or to worry that the name of their town would become the nation's shorthand for hate crimes. From the initial investigation through the trials and their aftermath, A Death in Texas tells the story of the infamous Byrd murder as seen through the eyes of enlightened Sheriff Billy Rowles.

(List created 11/05)