The True Crime File Serial Killers, Famous Kidnappings, Great Cons, Survivors Their Stories, Forensics, Oddities

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Introduction
Killers
	Charles Manson and His “Family”: To Helter Skelter and Back
	Dee Dee Blanchard: Munchausen to Murder
	A Bombing in Birmingham
	Ted Bundy: Escape Artist (and Serial Killer)
	The Murder of Stanford White
	Jeffrey Dahmer: The Milwaukee Cannibal
	The Women of Juárez: Missing and Murdered
	Richard Ramirez: The Night Stalker
	Belle Gunness: Mistress of Murder Farm
	The Bitch of Buchenwald
	Joseph DeAngelo: The Golden State Killer
	Ed Kemper: A Matricidal Monster
	John List and the Annihilation of the List Family
	Terri Hoffman: Conscious Development’s Trail of Death
	John Wayne Gacy: The Killer Clown
	The Real Amityville Horror Murders
	David Berkowitz: Son of Sam
	Tillie Klimek: The Psychic Serial Killer
	H. H. Holmes and the Murder Castle
	Dean Corll: The Houston Candy Man
	Michael and Suzan Bear Carson: The San Francisco Witch Killers
	Gary Ridgway: The Green River Killer
	Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield
	Nannie Doss: The Giggling Granny
	Pedro Alonso López: The Monster of the Andes
	John Hinckley, Jr.: Gunning for the Gipper
	The Bear Brook Murders
	Betty Broderick: Love Triangle Turned Deadly
	The Zodiac Killer
	Roch Thériault: The Ant Hill Kids Cult
	Alexander Pichushkin: The Chessboard Killer
	The Poisonous Blanche Taylor Moore
	The Murder of Tupac Shakur
	The Murder of Lana Clarkson
	Robert Chambers: The Preppy Murderer
	The Real Hannibal Lector
	The Murder of Kim Wall
	The Drowning of Natalie Wood
	Martin Bryant: The Port Arthur Massacre
	Leopold and Loed: The Übermensch Murderers
	The Sydney River McDonald’s Murders
	Albert Desalvo: The Boston Strangler and the Green Man
	Andreas Lubitz: Murder By Pilot
	Charles Starkweather: Mick and Maybe Mallory
	Stella Nickell: The Excedrin Murders
	Daytime Drama: The Murder of Scott Amedure
	Oscar Pistorius and the Murder of Reeva Steenkamp
	Philip Markoff: The Craigslist Killer
	Gordon Cummins: The Blackout Ripper
	Edward Joseph Leonski: The Brownout Strangler
	Who Killed JonBenét?
	Betty Lou Beets
	Heavenly Creatures: The Parker-Hulme Murders
	Adam Walsh and America’s Most Wanted
Survivors
	Jaycee Lee Dugard
	The Abductions of Shin Sang-Ok and Choi Eun-Hee
	Erica Pratt: Super Seven-Year-Old
	Patty Hearst and the SLA
	Mary Vincent Has Her Day in Court
	Jackie Nink Pflug: Super Survivor
	El Fusilado and the Firing Squad
	Baby Bump-Off: An Attempted Womb Snatching
	Kelly Herron: “Not Today, Motherfucker!”
	Jennifer Morey and the False Sense of Security
	Melissa Dohme: Happily Ever After
	Elizabeth Shoaf and the Forest Bunker
	Colleen Stan: The Girl in the Box
	Corazon Amurao Atienza
	Terry Jo Duperrault and the SInking of Bluebelle
	Escaping the Toy-Box Killer
	Natascha Kampusch
	Elizabeth Smart
	The Slender Man Attack
	The Vampire Attack
Bizarre Brutality
	Kitty Genovese and the Bystander Effect
	“Headless Body in a Topless Bar”
	Forced Sterilization
	The Black Dahlia Murder
	The Astronaut Love Triangle
	Senior Center: The Note Before the Blaze
	The Mysterious Death of Keith Warren
	Truly Crazy Love
	More Than a Punch Line: The Lorena Bobbitt Story
	A True Halloween Monster
	Fourteen Feet in the Salish Sea
	The Greyhound Bus Murder
	The Tattoo Confession
	The Man At the ATM
	Wrestling with Murder
	The Soap Maker of Correggio
	The Bennington Triangle
Con Artists
	Dead Man Walking . . . And Walking
	Mummy Issues: The Case of the Persian Princess
	The Lost Carnegie
	Anna Delvey: The Ersatz Heiress
	Linda Taylor: The “Welfare Queen”
	The Rockefeller Ringer
Thieves
	The Great Feather Heist
	Waddling Off With Dirk the Penguin
	The Bank Robber and the Bail Law
	Spumoni Gardens and the Secret Sauce
	Danger Dad: The Israeli Motorcycle Bandit
	Rusik, the Caviar-Sniffing Cat
	Mr. Rogers’s Car
	The Veggie Holdup
	The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist
	Food Fight: Culinary Crooks
	Operation Broken Glass
	The Theft of the Mona Lisa
Antics & Accidents
	Escape from Alcatraz
	The Pill-Toting Pigeon
	Gender Reveal Gone Wrong: The Sawmill Fire
	Assault with a Deadly Gator
	Knit, Purl, Spy
	The Watcher House
	The Mad Gasser of Mattoon
	The Flight Attendant Freakout
	The Hermit of North Pond
	The Hollow Nickel Case
	A Deadly Kiss
	Ming of Harlem
	The Bizarre Body Snatching of Gram Parsons
	“The Unrepentant Necrophile”
	The Morris Worm
	The Dognapping of Kid Boots Ace
Crime Through Time
	The Resurrection of Anne Greene
	The Lindbergh Baby: Questionable Kidnapping
	The Murder of Emmett Till
	Chappaquiddick: Kennedy, Kopechne, and a Car Crash
	Jolly Jane and the Death Rattle
	The Stonewall Uprising
	Johnny Gosch, Milk Cartons, and the Amber Alert
	The Murder of Dominique Dunne
	Clark County John Doe
	The Corpsewood Manor Murders
	The Murder of Marvin Gaye
	Whiskey and Cannibalism
	The Cooper Do-Nuts Uprising
	The LaLaurie Mansion
	Firsts: Isabella Goodwin, NYPD Detective
	The Suspicious Death of Marsha P. Johnson
	The Chicago Tylenol Murders
	The Osage Indian Murders
	The Bloody Benders
	The Lana Turner Affair
	Crime and Punishment: The Demis of Captain Cook
	Body Snatching
Forensic Facts
	DNA Profiling
	GINA and the Devious Defecator
	Body Farms
	A Purr-fect Match
	Familial DNA and Genetic Genealogy
	The DNA Doe Project
	What Body Part Helps Identify More Than 93 Percent of Remains
	Forensic Fingerprinting
	Tattoo Analysis
	How Scientific Is Forensic Science?
	By the Numbers: DNA Exonerations in the US
	The CSI Effect
Legal Concepts
	Pro Se Representations
	The  “Mr. Big” Technique
	Bail
	Sunshine Laws
	Operation Flagship
	The Wandering Cop
	Banning the Panic Defense
	Women Believe Women
	Community Supervision
	The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act
	McGruff the Crime Dog
Quick Facts
	The Psychopath Test
	Most Crimes Are Not Reported (And Many That Are Will Not Be Solved)
	True Crime Terms: Drug Lingo
	Unbelievable but True Crime Headlines
	Crime on Wheels
	By the Numbers: Incarceration
	Gladys Ricart and the Brides’ March
	Sex in the City: Public Parks
	Courtroom Couture: How to Dress to Impress
	Famous Footwear
	By the Numbers: Prison Labor
	Crime Rates Have Fallen—But People Don’t Think So
Recs
	True Crime By the Book
	Ripped from the Headlines
	Survivors on Screen
	Thrilling Reads
	Look But Don’t Touch: Murder Museums.
	Portraying Darkness: Serial Killer Movies
	Death on Screen: Fact and Fictionalized
	True Crime Memoirs
	Drug-Fueled Documentaries
	Forensic Forays
	True Crime Classics
Quizzes
	Behind the Headlines
	Killer Mistakes
	Does the Sentence Match the Crime
	Forensic Databases
	Where Did They Hide?
	Don’t Follow the (Cult) Leader
	Serial Killer Trophies.
	Crimes Around the World
	Celebrities in the Slammer
	Criminal Crooners
	Till Death Do Us Part
	In Their Defense
	Dead-End Jobs
	Latin Crime Terms
	Sports Edition
	Killers, Come On Down!
	Holiday Horrors
	Political Instincts
Photo Credits
Acknowledgments
Author Bio