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Murder, Mayhem, Shock, & Scandal |
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Murderland : Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
by Caroline Fraser
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Prairie Fires comes a terrifying true-crime history of serial killers in the Pacific Northwest and beyond—a gripping investigation of how a new strain of psychopath emerged out of a toxic landscape of deadly industrial violence.
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Whack Job : A History of Axe Murder
by Rachel McCarthy James
Examines the axe's foundational role in human history, from prehistoric violence, to war and executions, to newspaper headlines and popular culture.
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The Fairbanks Four : Murder, Injustice, and the Birth of a Movement
by Brian O'Donoghue
The Central Park Five meets Killers of the Flower Moon in The Fairbanks Four, the true but untold story of four young indigenous men in Fairbanks, Alaska who were wrongly convicted of murdering a white teenager, and the journalist determined to rally the community and undo the damage done by a broken justice system.
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Raised by a Serial Killer : Discovering the Truth About my Father
by April Balascio
One evening in 2009, April Balascio was searching online, as she had been every night, for unsolved murders in the towns her family had lived growing up, when she stumbled across the latest investigations into the "Sweetheart Murders" cold case. All at once, the buried memories of her father's dark history were awakened, and she knew she had to take action. She picked up the phone to call a detective and the rest is infamous true crime history.
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Ghosts of Crook County : An Oil Fortune, a Phantom Child, and the Fight for Indigenous Land
by Russell Cobb
In the early 1900s, at the dawn of the "American Century," few knew the intoxicating power of greed better than white men on the forefront of the black gold rush. When oil was discovered in Oklahoma, these counterfeit tycoons impersonated, defrauded, and murdered Native property owners to snatch up hundreds of acres of oil-rich land. Writer and fourth-generation Oklahoman Russell Cobb sets the stage for one such oilman's chicanery: Tulsa entrepreneur Charles Page's campaign for a young Muscogee boy's land in Creek County.
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The Devil at his Elbow
by Valerie Bauerlein
A veteran Wall Street Journal reporter tells the true story of Alex Murdaugh, an influential South Carolina lawyer who murdered his wife and son.
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