Download or read book Seven Days of Rage written by Paul LaRosa and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This true-crime original hardcover, published with the hit CBS news program "48 Hours," reveals the shocking story behind the Craigslist Killer.

Download or read book A Date with Death written by Michele R. McPhee and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a luxury Boston hotel on April 14, 2009, police discovered the body of a beautiful young woman—her head battered, a bullet through her heart. Within hours, the story exploded, making headlines across the nation. The victim, a masseuse named Julissa Brisman, had advertised her erotic services on popular classified ads Web site Craigslist. A twenty-two-year-old medical student named Philip Markoff was her last-known client... The Boston Police Homicide Unit followed a digital trail that led to Markoff's home, where investigators found a gun, prepaid cell phones, plastic handcuffs, and other evidence linking Markoff to Brisman. They also uncovered a stash of women's undergarments, raising even more questions about their suspect: How many other women did Markoff meet before Brisman? And what happened to them? This is the true story of one woman's DATE WITH DEATH.

Download or read book The Craigslist Killer written by Reagan Martin and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-05-27 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summit County, Ohio--a quiet midsize city that isn't really known for anything. In 2011, all of this changed when Summit resident Richard Beasley used Craigslist to create a job that didn't actually exist--it was all part of his plan to lure men in. It also examines how he convinced a 16 year old teen to help murder his victims. Through gripping, page-turning, narrative this book tells the story of one of the most notorious Internet killers.

Download or read book The Craigslist Killer written by Aaron Patterson and published by StoneHouse Ink. This book was released on 2014-04-02 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY Bestseller Top #10 Amazon Bestseller #1 Bestseller in Thriller #1 Bestseller in Mystery/Thriller #1 Bestseller in Hard-Boiled Thriller #1 Barnes & Noble Bestseller "I would recommend this book to anyone who likes James Patterson or books like his. I can't wait for the next book to come out." --Sandra Labella, Amazon reviewer Fans of Lee Child, James Patterson and Dean Koontz will love this exciting mystery thriller from New York Times bestselling author Aaron Patterson as intrigue and conspiracy drips off each page. *Note: This is a fun and sort of silly story. It is not for everyone, but if you want a fun short story to pass some time you will like The Craigslist Killer. I dare you! Three friends make a bet that turns out to be deadly. Online dating is not the norm, but for Bill, it is a way to make some quick cash. Take a girl out; get a second date and a kiss goodnight—nothing to it. However, some hearts should not be broken, some women should be left alone, and some dares should be passed up. The Craigslist Killer is a Digital Short from the mind of bestselling author Aaron Patterson. Digital Shorts are perfect for the quick read on a bus ride home or if you just are bored to tears. Aaron lives in Boise Idaho and is the author of the WJA series as well as Airel, a teen thriller. He is never bored. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Known for Hard-Boiled Thrillers like SWEET DREAMS (Book 1 in the WJA Series) and holding the #1 spot in Hard-Boiled Thrillers for over a year and a half, Aaron finished up the series with DREAM ON (Book 2 in the WJA Series) and IN YOUR DREAM (Book 3 in the WJA Series). Aaron is an educator for Indie publishing and is the Co-Founder of StoneHouse University and speaks all over the country on subjects like eBooks, Amazon and the Future of publishing. Visit Aaron's blog at TheWorstBookEver.blogspot.com Follow Aaron on twitter at twitter.com/Mstersmith Join Aaron on facebook too!

Download or read book When Evil Rules written by Michele R. McPhee and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-08-04 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true crime story of a notorious arsonist and murderer who kept a Cape Cod town in fear thanks to crooked cops. The Cape Cod beach town of Falmouth seemed like a lovely place to visit. But those who lived there year-round knew its other, darker side… Local businessman and infamous bully Melvin Reine had started setting the homes of his so-called enemies on fire. Few of his victims—or even the police—ever dared to implicate him. Because those who did would pay the price… Mysterious events kept creeping up in Falmouth. The disappearance of Melvin’s wife, a dead man found in a cranberry bog, a teenager slated to testify against Melvin who boarded a ferry, never to be seen again—was Melvin somehow responsible? Only one police officer, John Busby, had the guts to press him for answers. One day he found himself on the wrong end of a sawed-off shotgun…but managed to survive the attack. This is the shocking true story about what can happen to an all-American town when evil rules.

Download or read book Social Media Monsters Internet Killers written by RJ Parker and published by RJ PARKER PUBLISHING, INC.. This book was released on 2014-09-14 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stalkers, rapists, and murderers.... These criminals have all discovered uncharted territory through the open door of the internet, and the victims are piling up in their deadly playground. Murder. Kidnapping. Cannibalism. Suicide. All of these themes can be found in this collection of true stories about killers who have used the internet to locate, lure, stalk, or exploit their victims. These monsters are identified as people who are motivated by a psychological factor: some murderers are triggered by anger or jealousy, others kill as a way to seek attention, and some are merely in it for the thrill of the kill. Who is really on the other end of that Facebook friend request, or behind that dating profile, or posting that item for sale on Craigslist? How can you be safe if you plan to meet up with a stranger you met online? What precautions should you take? In this book, we have detailed more than thirty chilling true stories of killers that have used the internet to locate, stalk, lure, or exploit their victims. Facebook, Craigslist, MySpace, chat rooms, dating sites-it does not matter where you are online; killers are lurking in the shadows. They lurk in suicide chat rooms, search for escorts on Craigslist, and create fake social media profiles to fool and gain the trust of their victims. Someone you have been talking to for months or even years could be a completely different person from what you envisioned.

Download or read book I The Creation of a Serial Killer written by Jack Olsen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-08-18 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains several autobiographical writing of serial killer Keith Hunter Jesperson.

Download or read book The Want Ad Killer written by Ann Rule and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1983-09-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Stranger Beside Me comes a true crime story of a serial killer who was sentenced to die—yet lived to murder again....and again.... After committing his first grisly crime, Harvey Louis Carignan beat a death sentence and continued to manipulate, rape, and bludgeon women to death, using want ads to lure his young female victims. And time after time, justice was thwarted by a killer whose twisted legal genius was matched only by his sick savagery. Complete with the testimony of the officers who put him behind bars and the women who barely escaped with their lives, The Want-Ad Killer is one of the most shattering and thought-provoking true-crime stories of our time.

Download or read book Heartless written by Michele McPhee and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-06-03 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the brutal slayings of Rachel Entwistle and her nine-month-old daughter, Lillian Rose, and the arrest of Rachel's husband, Englishman Neil Entwistle, who allegedly killed them because of his dire financial situation.

Download or read book My Son The Killer written by Brian Whitney and published by WildBlue Press. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate look at the internet killer featured in the Netflix true crime documentary Don’t F**k with Cats—written with the murderer’s mother. In 2012, male escort and porn actor Luka Magnotta found a gruesome path to fame. He videotaped himself murdering and dismembering Chinese student Jun Lin before posting the video online. After mailing Jun’s hands and feet to elementary schools, Luca led Interpol on a manhunt that ended in Berlin. They arrested him at an Internet café where he was reading news stories about himself. Now with a legion of twisted fans, Magnotta was brought back to Canada, convicted of first-degree murder, and sentenced to prison. During this time, Anna Yourkin, his estranged mother, troubled by Magnotta’s abused childhood and her role in it, reconnected with her killer son. With exclusive interviews, Magnotta has given award-winning journalist Brian Whitney an intimate look inside the mind of this “social media” killer. Joining Whitney to tell this unique true crime story is Anna Yourkin, who provides exclusive photos.

Download or read book Craigslist Confessional written by Helena Dea Bala and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Touching.” —The New York Times For fans of Humans of New York and PostSecret, a collection of raw, urgent, and heartfelt stories, shared anonymously. Helena Dea Bala was an exhausted and isolated DC lobbyist, suffocating under the weight of her student loan debt, when she decided to split her lunch with a man who often panhandled near her office. They chatted effortlessly as they ate; there were no half-truths or white lies, and no fear of judgment. Helena felt connected and unburdened in a way she hadn’t in years. Inspired, she posted an ad on Craigslist promising to listen, anonymously and for free, to whatever the speaker felt he or she couldn’t tell anyone else. Emails from people desperate to connect flooded her inbox, and she listened. Within months, Helena quit her job, deferred her loans, and dove into listening full time. The forty first-person confessions in this book are vivid, intimate, and real; they range from devastating traumas, to lost loves, to reflections on hard choices. Some accounts are quotidian, like that of one increasingly estranged husband: “I want to feel that we’re not just roommates—that we’re not just waiting for the kids to grow up so that we can move on.” Others are deeply disconcerting, like that of a sex addict employed by a religious organization and several are heartening, like that of a mother who dares to hope that her daughter, born with life-threatening heart defects, will one day walk down the aisle: “Sometimes you need to have the audacity to believe that it will all be okay, that it is okay to have the same kinds of dreams as everyone else.” In its complex portrayal of the common human experience, Craigslist Confessional challenges us to explore the depths of our vulnerability and expand the borders of our empathy.

Download or read book Partners and Strangers written by Michael Don and published by Carnegie-Mellon University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dark, enigmatic, and sometimes comic, the stories in Partners and Strangers unite intimate anxieties with public dangers. Its characters embody grief, deviance, and the repressed: In "Yoav Feinsten's Last Year at Home," a teenager's pain over his father's death becomes unpredictably intertwined with an obsession with a cable man. In "A Home for an Eggplant," the specter of a Craigslist killer provides a backdrop for a couple's struggle with fertility. In "The Best Delivery Service," the narrator and his sister, living together after their parents' disappearance, obsessively order items through a hotline that promises delivery of anything one can imagine. The collection highlights a contemporary age characterized by loneliness and alienation. "How does Michael Don do it? The more absurd his situations--an eggplant on Craigslist, or a company that delivers anything from soft-shell crabs to the greatest mysteries of your life--the more real they feel. The more palpably real his characters' yearnings--inhabiting bodies and lives full of urges they can scarcely understand much less control--the more beautiful absurdity he unearths. Again and again, Don shows us how hard it is for us to know each other, how harder still it is to know ourselves, yet how startlingly a story just a few pages long can snap us into insight."--Alex Shakar, author of Luminarium

Download or read book Double Cross written by James Patterson and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2007-11-13 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex Cross faces two crazed killers in this chilling, suspenseful blockbuster from James Patterson, "the man who can't miss" (Time). A spate of elaborate murders in Washington D.C. have the whole East Coast on edge. They are like nothing Alex Cross and his new girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, have ever seen. With each murder, the case becomes increasingly complex. There's only one thing Alex knows: the killer adores an audience. As victims are made into gruesome spectacles citywide, inducing a media hysteria, it becomes clear to Alex that the man he's after is a genius of terror-and he's after fame. The killer has the whole city by its strings-and he'll stop at nothing to become the most terrifying star that Washington D.C. has ever seen.

Download or read book 1996 written by Ben Oakley and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death finds a way.In a decade of mass paranoia, a rising digital age, and the race to the end of the second millennium of Human history, it was the rise and fall of the serial killer that struck fear into communities across the world.The Butcher of Mons. Peter Tobin. Sean Vincent Gillis. Charles Cullen. Altemio Sanchez. Alexander Pichushkin. Anatoly Onoprienki. The Snowtown Murders: The Bodies in the Barrels. Luis Garavito. John Edward Robinson. Herb Baumeister: And the Haunting of Fox Hollow Farm. Andrew Urdiales. Alexander Komin. The Long Island Serial Killer: The Craigslist Killer. Mikhail Popkov. Kendall Francois. Alexander Spesivtsev. Marc Dutroux. Gary Ridgway. Ahmad Suradji. Lonnie David Franklin Jr. The Texas Killing Fields. Robert Pickton. David Parker Ray.The above and hundreds more are connected by just one year; 1996.The book contains details on various murders and true crime, including encyclopedic information on over 100 serial killers who were active in 1996 alone. There are also another 200 events that have been added to the 1996 timeline for reference and cultural significance.It's not only serial killers that infested 1996 like a plague. You'll also find snippets and facts on unsolved murders, cold cases, mysterious disappearances, mass murders, spree killers, conspiracies, and the last execution by hanging in the United States.If 1978 was a masterpiece of murder, and 1987 was its big brother, then 1996 is the huge bombastic ending the trilogy deserves.(Book is written in British English, with American English used only in the descriptions of American locations and American quotes.)

Download or read book Murder in the Bayou written by Ethan Brown and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Bestseller & the Basis for the Hit Showtime Docuseries Murder in the Bayou is a New York Times bestselling chronicle of a high-stakes investigation into the murders of eight women in a troubled Southern parish that is “part murder case, part corruption exposé, and part Louisiana noir” (New York magazine). Between 2005 and 2009, the bodies of eight women were discovered in Jennings, Louisiana, a bayou town of 10,000 in the Jefferson Davis parish. The women came to be known as the Jeff Davis 8, and local law enforcement officials were quick to pursue a serial killer theory, stirring a wave of panic across Jennings’ class-divided neighborhoods. The Jeff Davis 8 had been among society’s most vulnerable—impoverished, abused, and mired with mental illness. They engaged in sex work as a means of survival. And their underworld activity frequently occurred at a decrepit motel called the Boudreaux Inn. As the cases went unsolved, the community began to look inward. Rumors of police corruption and evidence tampering, of collusion between street and shield, cast the serial killer theory into doubt. But what was really going on in the humid rooms of the Boudreaux Inn? Why were crimes going unsolved and police officers being indicted? What had the eight women known? And could anything be done do stop the bloodshed? Mixing muckraking research and immersive journalism over the course of a five-year investigation, Ethan Brown reviewed thousands of pages of previously unseen homicide files to posit what happened during each woman’s final hours delivering a true crime tale that is “mesmerizing” (Rolling Stone) and “explosive” (Huffington Post). “Brown is a man on a mission...he gives the victims more respectful attention than they probably got in real life” (The New York Times). “A must-read for true-crime fans” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), with a new afterword, Murder in the Bayou is the story of an American town buckling under the dark forces of poverty, race, and class division—and a lightning rod for justice for the daughters it lost.

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Download or read book Maximum Harm written by Michele R. McPhee and published by University Press of New England. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Maximum Harm, veteran investigative journalist Michele R. McPhee unravels the complex story behind the public facts of the Boston Marathon bombing. She examines the bombers' roots in Dagestan and Chechnya, their struggle to assimilate in America, and their growing hatred of the United States - a deepening antagonism that would prompt federal prosecutors to dub Dzhokhar Tsarnaev "America's worst nightmare." The difficulties faced by the Tsarnaev family of Cambridge, Massachusetts, are part of the public record. Circumstances less widely known are the FBI's recruitment of the older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, as a "mosque crawler" to inform on radical separatists here and in Chechnya; the tracking down and killing of radical Islamic separatists during the six months he spent in Russia - travel that raised eyebrows, since he was on several terrorist watchlists; the FBI's botched deals and broken promises with regard to his immigration; and the disenchantment, rage, and growing radicalization of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar, along with their mother, sisters, and Tamerlan's wife, Katherine. Maximum Harm is also a compelling examination of the Tsarnaev brothers' movements in the days leading up to the Boston Marathon bombing on April 15, 2013, the subsequent investigation, the Tsarnaevs' murder of MIT police officer Sean Collier, the high-speed chase and shootout that killed Tamerlan, and the manhunt in which the authorities finally captured Dzhokhar, hiding in a Watertown backyard. McPhee untangles the many threads of circumstance, coincidence, collusion, motive, and opportunity that resulted in the deadliest attack on the city of Boston to date.