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A Killing In a Small Town

A Killing in a Small Town (1990)

A Killing In a Small Town is about the case of Candy Montgomery, a desperate housewife who becomes involved with fellow church member Allen Gore who, along with his wife, often socializes with Candy and her husband, Pat. Their children are close friends ...
Killer Dads by Mary Papenfuss

Killer Dads: The Twisted Drives that Compel Fathers to Murder Their Own Kids by Mary Papenfuss (June 2013)

For years we’ve been bombarded with stories of mothers who kill their young but it seems more stories are beginning to emerge of killer dads. In the recently released book Killer Dads: The Twisted Drives that Compel Fathers to Murder Their Own ...
Quiz: How Well Do You Know Your True Crime Books?

Quiz: How Well Do You Know Your True Crime Books?

Classics * What is the name of the 1966 book written by Truman Capote about the Clutter family murders in Olathe, Kansas in 1959? Dick and Perry Murder In The Family ...
Henry Louis Wallace

American Serial Killers: True Crime Short Stories Featuring Serial Killers from All 50 States: Part 7

What do you get when you cross a toy box, an elusive thief, a crack addict, a short tempered neighbor, and a hack-happy maniac? You get Part 7 of the American Serial Killer short stories series! NEW MEXICO: David Parker Ray As is all too common in serial ...
Bestial by Harold Schechter

Bestial: The Savage Trail of a True American Monster by Harold Schechter (September 1999)

Earle Leonard Nelson (born Earle Leonard Ferral) was born to two syphilis-infected parents and was orphaned within a couple of years of his birth. Raised by his grandmother, Earle showed signs of “arrested development” in his youth, which ...
Lauren Spierer

Missing: Lauren Spierer from Bloomington, Indiana

It’s been two years ago today since Indiana University student Lauren Spierer was reported missing. Someone, somewhere knows what happened to this beautiful young woman and could ease the suffering of her family by doing a most selfless thing by ...
Joseph Lee Kallinger

American Serial Killers: True Crime Short Stories Featuring Serial Killers from All 50 States: Part 6

This sixth segment in a ten part series profiling serial killers from across America features murderers from Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, and New Jersey. MONTANA: Wayne Nathan Nance Kris Welles didn’t know Wayne Nance very well. Nance ...

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