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[2023]
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"It all started when journalist Jillian Lauren asked LAPD Homicide Detective Mitzi Roberts about which case Roberts was most proud of closing. "Samuel Little," Roberts answered. The now 79-year-old Little had murdered approximately 90 women over six decades and repeatedly got away with the murders due to lack of evidence (or jurisdiction); Roberts finally brought him to justice by tying him to the murders of three Los Angeles women. Surprised she...
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c2014.
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The hills that mark the border of North and South Carolina are home to a close knit community. When the remains of high spirited Heather Catterton and sweet natured Randi Saldana were found and Danny Hembree was linked to their murders, residents were forced to face an evil in their midst. M. William Phelps delves into the background of Hembree's victims, reconstructs the clues that led to Hembree's arrest, and investigates the media sensation surrounding...
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2013.
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On February 13, 1982, 21-year-old Mary Brown's battered, bloodied body was treated by emergency room doctors who couldn't believe a human being had inflicted such massive traumatic injuries on her. Her predator's violence had only just begun. Tom Luther enticed a chain of women into his murderous trap. Steve Jackson recounts the pursuit and long-awaited conviction of a charismatic, monstrous psychopath.
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2010
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In the late 1990s, Keene, a policeman's son, was busted for dealing drugs. He wound up with a sentence that put him behind bars for a minimum of 10 years, but less than a year into the sentence, he had an unexpected visitor: the prosecutor who put him in prison. The prosecutor had also convicted another man, a murderer, and he suspected there were a lot of bodies still unaccounted for. He wanted Keene to go undercover and get the killer to confess;...
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[2020]
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The Co-Ed Killer, Son of Sam, Hillside Strangler, and Dating Game Killer--in many ways, terrifying serial killers helped define the 1970s. These fascinating profiles present notorious as well as lesser-known murderers of that decade. Beyond Ted Bundy and David Berkowitz, it includes such perpetrators as Coral Eugene Watts, "The Sunday Morning Slasher," who killed 80 women; Edmund Kemper, the "Co-Ed Killer"; and Rodney Alcala, believed to have killed...