As American women began to reject Victorian propriety, authorities feared that "oversexed" women could destroy civilization if allowed to reproduce and pass on their defects. In 1934, aided by a eugenics law, socialite Maryon...
True crime stories
- Author:Farley, Audrey ClareSummary:
- Author:Levy, StevenSummary:
The true story of Ira Einhorn, the Philadelphia antiwar crusader, environmental activist, and New Age guru with a murderous dark side. During the cultural shockwaves of the 1960s and '70s, Ira Einhorn-nicknamed the "Unicorn...
- Author:Whitney, Brian, Fehr, ReneeSummary:
Renee Fehr knew, without a single doubt, that Gregory Houser killed her sister. Yet for twenty-seven years Houser walked free. Renee wouldn't rest until he was convicted for murder.
- Author:Summerscale, KateSummary:
Early in the morning of Monday 8 July 1895, thirteen-year-old Robert Coombes and his twelve-year-old brother Nattie set out from their small, yellow-brick terraced house in East London to watch a cricket match at Lord's. Their father...
- Author:Tallant, NicolaSummary:
Joey O'Callaghan was just 18 years old when he became a ghost - the youngest ever person to be signed up to the Witness Protection Programme. Groomed into a drug gang from the age of 10, a cold-blooded assassination sickened him to...
- Author:Fanthorpe, Lionel and PatriciaSummary:
Reading of murder stimulates a powerful response. We are repelled by the horror of it, but, simultaneously, our natural curiosity is strongly aroused. We want to know who did it, and why.Most unsolved murders have no apparent motives -...
- Author:Fitton, BenjaminSummary:
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of They Walk Among Us written by Benjamin and Rosanna Fitton, read by Benjamin Fitton. A Chilling Casebook of Horrifying Hometown Crimes. How well do you really know your friends? Neighbours,...
- Author:Schroeder, AndreasSummary:
Willie Sutton was casing a bank when he noticed that the manager looked a lot like Sutton himself, so he walked into the vault, loaded up with banknotes, and calmly walked out. D.B. Cooper hijacked a plane, demanded $200,000 in payment...
- Author:Poor, NigelSummary:
An illuminating view of prison life, as told by currently and formerly incarcerated people, from the co-creators and co-hosts of the Peabody- and Pulitzer-nominated podcast Ear Hustle "A must-read for fans of the legendary podcast...
- Author:Fezzani, NadiaSummary:
Journalist Nadia Fezzani spent years probing the minds of serial killers in search of answers to unsettling questions: What went on in their heads as they prepared for their next crime? What drove them to murder not once, but habitually...
- Author:Exotic, JoeSummary:
Joe Exotic, star of the Netflix original documentary that "consumed the pop-cultural imagination" and transfixed a nation in the midst of a global crisis, opens up about his outlandish journey from Midwestern farmer to...
- Author:Patterson, JamesSummary:
From the world's #1 bestselling author comes a collection of Discovery ID true crime stories where the bonds of matrimony and love can tear you brutally apart. Til Murder Do Us Part : Kathi Spiars can't believe she's found such a good...
- Author:Bourelle, Andrew, DiLallo, Max, Patterson, JamesSummary:
In these true-crime stories in which the bonds of matrimony and love can tear you apart, "Til Murder Do Us Part" features a husband too good to be true, and "Ramp Up to Murder" involves a missing teen.
- Author:Coakley, MarkSummary:
The story of a friendship that started in law school and ended with the largest insider trading scandal in Canadian history, this eye–opening chronicle reveals for the first time how Gil Cornblum and Stan Grmovsek worked together to rip...
- Author:Glatt, JohnSummary:
One by one, three waterlogged suitcases were pulled from the Chesapeake Bay. In each were body parts of a man. In a forensics room, the truth was discovered: William McGuire had been horribly murdered and dismembered. William and his...
- Author:Coston, JohnSummary:
The twelve-year rampage of "Missoula Mauler" Wayne Nance, the serial sex killer who terrorized Montana-and the shocking end to his murder spree. To his neighbors, Wayne Nance, a furniture mover from Missoula, Montana, appeared...
- Author:Evans, WandaSummary:
When Jim Dunn got the heart-stopping call every parent dreads: "Your son has disappeared," and then saw his son's blood-splattered apartment, it set into motion a six-year nightmarish odyssey of desperate searches. Ahead...
- Author:Miles, KathrynSummary:
In May 1996, two skilled backcountry leaders, Lollie Winans and Julie Williams, entered Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park for a week-long backcountry camping trip. The free-spirited and remarkable young couple had met and fallen in...
- Author:Jessop, CarolynSummary:
Carolyn Jessop chronicles her harrowing experiences as a member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and what she learned since her subsequent escape from its tyranny.
- Author:Murphy, PaulSummary:
"Whether the crimes are lurid, shocking, or downright sad, Murphy provides an unflinching look into sides of Japan that we don't usually see." ,Brian Ashcraft, journalist and author of Arcade Mania! and Japanese Tattoos