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2) Cruel death
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents a disturbing modern-day "Bonnie and Clyde" story of insanity, greed, sex, and murder, describing how Erika Sifrit and her Navy SEAL husband robbed, murdered, and dismembered two vacationers in Ocean City, Maryland.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
For the first time, investigative journalist M. William Phelps reveals the identity of "Raven," the serial killer who co-starred with him on Dark minds and tells the story of his intriguing bond with one of America's most disturbing killers.
Author
Publisher
Wildblue Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"When her missing boyfriend is found murdered, his body encased in cement inside a watering trough and dumped in a cattle field, a local sheriff's deputy is arrested and charged with his murder. But as New York Times bestselling author and investigative journalist M. William Phelps digs in, the truth leads to questions about her guilt. In his first full-length, original true-crime book for WildBlue Press, Phelps delivers a hard-hitting, unique reading...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mild gusts whipped around the yellow police tape surrounding a well-tended home in Clear Lake, Texas. Inside were four viciously slain young bodies: Rachael Koloroutis, Tiffany Rowell, Marcus Precella, and Adelbert Sanchez. At high school, Rachel and Tiffany had been beautiful, intelligent, and beloved. But their kindness had made them targets - because the killer who came knocking that lazy afternoon turned out to be someone they knew all too well......
6) Death trap
Author
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Phelps relates the horrifying true story of Jeff McCord, a police officer who uses his expertise to plot with his wife and carry out the murder of her ex-husband in order to secure permanent custody of their two children.
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The gripping tale of a legendary, century-old murder spree. A silent, simmering killer terrorized New England in 1911. As a terrible heat wave killed more than 2,000 people, another silent killer began her own murderous spree. That year a reporter for the Hartford Courant noticed a sharp rise in the number of obituaries for residents of a rooming house in Windsor, Connecticut, and began to suspect who was responsible: Amy Archer-Gilligan, who'd opened...
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Recounts murders from New England's history, exploring the motives behind such crimes as the 1879 murders by John Kemmler of his own daughters out of fear they would become prostitutes, and the violent rise of Boston's Mafia in 1931.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
On a December night in 2004, a 911 operator in Nodaway County, Missouri, received a frantic call from a woman who'd found her pregnant 23-year-old daughter in a pool of blood on the living room floor. Most shocking of all, the dying woman's unborn baby had been viciously ripped from her womb.
Across the border in Melvern, Kansas, Lisa Montgomery showed off a beautiful newborn she proudly claimed as her own. While some shared her excitement, others...
Author
Publisher
Pinnacle Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Describes how Jan Roseboro was savagely beaten and strangled before her body was tossed in her backyard pool and how her husband Michael was eventually convicted of the crime after his pregnant mistress came forward.
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2007
Language
English
Description
On a day like any other in Akron, Ohio, in a parking lot like so many across America, a black-clad motorcyclist rode up to an occupied vehicle and fired a gun-and didn't miss. The shock rippling through the community led to former beauty queen Cynthia George, a respected church member and devoted mother. Married to a wealthy businessman, she seemed to lead a charmed life. But did her beauty mask a heart cold enough to kill? M. William Phelps, award-winning...
12) Deadly secrets
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Describes the murder of Susan Fassett, who was gunned down on her way home from choir practice and whose killing revealed that she had been living a secret life that, once revealed, shocked the residents of her quiet town.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
In this gripping real-life murder mystery, police investigating the murder of librarian Martha Gail Fulton uncover a twisted love triangle, involving her husband and his two lovers, which resulted in the senseless death of an innocent woman.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The missing-persons case of Heather Strong, a young, beautiful suburban mother, baffled Florida detectives. When the file was handed to a veteran investigator, he knew Heather was dead. The challenge was to find her body - and whoever killed her."--Page 4 of cover.
15) The killing kind
Author
Language
English
Description
She was seventeen years old, a beautiful girl with a Hollywood smile and luminous brown eyes. Sprawled in a culvert just off the gravel road like an abandoned doll, she wore only toe socks, a sweatshirt, and a necklace. She was not the killer's first victim. Nor would she be the last. The lush, green hills that mark the border of North and South Carolina are home to a close knit community. When the savaged remains of high spirited Heather Catterton...
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
From the author who brought you the shocking true story that inspired "Arsenic and Old Lace" comes the horrific legacy of death and destruction in the gunmaking Colt family during the 19th Century, a legacy largely remembered for a lurid murder case that inspired Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Oblong Box" but one that encompassed so much more.
17) Obsessed
Author
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Describes how Sheila Davalloo, bitter after Nelson Sessler, a colleague, broke off their affair, murdered his new girlfriend, Anna Lisa Raymundo, and went on to attack her own husband.
18) Dangerous ground
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It was a bold, life-changing decision when award-winning investigative journalist M. William Phelps asked one of America's most disturbing convicted serial killers to co-star with him on TV's Dark Minds. Now Phelps reveals the identity of the man code-named "Raven"--and tells the story of their intriguing bond. For as Raven shared his insights into the minds and crimes of other killers, making the series an international sensation, he also became...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Takes readers deep into the murder of Mary Yoder, a popular wife, mother, and healer in Upstate New York -- telling a gripping tale of a family drama, a determined investigation, and a killer with the face of an angel.
The investigative journalist documents the 2015 poisoning murder of chiropractic therapist Mary Yoder and the community-dividing investigation that implicated members of the victim's own family.
Upstate New York, July 2015. Mary Yoder...
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