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Just for You! -- Tales of True Crime

Serial killers, murderers, thieves and detectives. They're all here in this engaging collection true-crime tales.

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  • In Cold Blood

    a True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences

    Capote, Truman, 1924-1984
    Truman Capote's account of the senseless murder of a Kansas farm family and the search for their killers set the bar for true crime stories. A classic in every sense of the word.
    Book, 2012New York : Vintage International, [2012] — 364.1523 CAPOTE
  • Ted Bundy was handsome, charming, worked in a Seattle crisis clinic and was a serial killer. Imagine the author's surprise when she discovers her caring and compassionate co-worker was wanted for the brutal murder of more than 30 women.
    Book, 2018New York : Gallery Books, 2018. — 364.1523 RULE
  • Chase Darkness With Me

    How One True-crime Writer Started Solving Murders

    Jensen, Billy,
    After writing about unsolved murders for 15 years, journalist Billy Jensen had enough. He decided to try using social media to solve the murders himself.
    Book, 2019Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks, Inc., [2019] — 363.2595 JENSEN
  • Lost Girls

    An Unsolved American Mystery

    Kolker, Robert,
    Lost Girls is a portrait of the unsolved murders of five Craigslist escorts on Long Island, the underside of the Internet, and the secrets we keep without admitting to ourselves that we keep them.
    Book, 2020New York : Harper Perennial, 2020. — 364.1523 KOLKER
  • The Feather Thief

    Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century

    Johnson, Kirk W.,
    What do a 20-year-old American flautist, the British Museum of Natural Science and salmon-fly tyers have in common? Find out in this superbly told tale of theft, greed and obsession.
    Book, 2018New York, New York : Viking, [2018] — 364.1628 JOHNSON
  • The Suspicions of Mr Whicher

    the Murder at Road Hill House

    Jack Wilcher, a true-life Victorian detective, became the inspiration for many crime writers such as Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Arthur Conan Doyle. The movie is based on the book of the same name by Kate Summerscale.
    Downloadable Video, 2011[United States] : BBC Studios, 2011. — eVideo hoopla