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One really can't even begin a discourse on this subject unless you recognize the greats in the industry. Ann Rule is one of the best True Crime writers out there, and I feel that I would be negligent in the creation of this page if I didn't have a section dedicated just for her books. Ann Rule Ann Rule is one of the best true crime authors out there to date, in my not so humble opinion. She's a former Seattle policewoman with 1400 published articles and nine books on homicide cases under her belt. She gives lectures to law enforcement professionals on serial murders, women who kill, and sadistic sociopathy. She served on the U.S. Government task force setting up VICAP (the FBI's Violent Criminal Apprehension Program) to track and trap serial killers. |
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I've been a HUGE True Crime fan since I was about 19 or 20. I don't know why such a morbid fascination holds me so tightly to it, but that's just the way it is. The really sick thing is that once you think you've heard it all...something else rears it's nasty putrescent little head. Even seasoned detectives, that consider themselves quite jaded from the daily job of dealing with homicide, find that they can be just as startled when really nasty people do abominable things to one another. I guess I just like being informed as to the nature of humanity's dark side, so that when I encounter it, I'm better equipped to handle it without freaking out and ending up a gibbering victim at the end of some asshole's knife. I'm all for taking back the night, so I figured I'd arm myself with the basics of the bad side of human behaviour. After all...When you're in a nasty situation, wouldn't it be better to know all the possible factors instead of just wondering what could happen? |
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The first book I ever read by her was The Stranger Beside Me. It was her chilling account of the Ted Bundy case, from a very unique angle...She worked with Bundy on a suicide hotline, and was passing aquaintences with him. It's a great read, and it really makes you think twice about just who you're next to in the grocery line at times... |
| It never fails to surprize me what human beings do to one another to get what they want. Both sexes can be equally brutal in their mad desire to have the perfect life, and the perfect relationship. Surface appearances are more often than not very decieving, especially when the couple in question seems to have the perfect life...In Dead By Sunset we find this indeed to be the case. |
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| Everything She Ever Wanted was a story about a "true southern belle" who was hell on wheels. The woman that Ann writes about in this book is one of the most devious, manipulative bitches I have ever had the misfortune to learn about. She was incredibly brutal to the people that got in her way, killing and poisoning those who sought to keep her from her "dream life". It's very hard to put down... |
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| Everybody lies about something in life, but the problems begin when the lies cover up deadly circumstances. |
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The subject of this book is a sad figure of a man who cares nothing for the wife who loves him, or the children he's fathered. Everything is a possession to him, everybody out to get him. In order to get rid of his previous wife, he bludgeons her to death, sticks her in her van in the fast lane of an Oregon highway to make it look like an "accident", then when he's brought to trial, proceeds to not only drag her ex's name through the mud, but her entire family as well. Yes, kids, it's another solid case for retroactive abortion. The Want-Ad Killer is about the monster Harvey Carignan. Harvey was a deranged madman who felt that it was his duty to kill women in the most horrendous of ways. He'd either lure them to a quiet secluded place or kidnap them. He'd violate them thoroughly (pretty much "soul killing") then bludgeon them to death or incapacitaion and unconciousness with a claw hammer. Several women lived through Harvey's attacks, and came up against him in court. He was a savage, brutal killer with absolutely no remorse for what he'd done. Ann Rule's Crime Files There are six separates stories in each volume. I'll list them under the book title, then review each one separately. When the heck am I going to get around to doing all this? I have no idea...but I'll put the reviews up here as soon as they're complete. |
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Ann Rule's Crime Files: Volume 1 - A Rose for Her Grave A Rose for Her
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Ann Rule's Crime Files: Volume 3 - A Fever in the Heart A Fever in the Heart The Highway
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Well, he decides to pull the old "I'll put her in the backseat of the car while driving to a remote location, rearrange her in the front seat, so people will think she was riding shotgun when we hit that there spot in the road that caused the accident, and they'll assume she died in a car crash" trick. Sad, but true... Murder Without
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The Search for the Green River Killer Carlton Smith & Tomas Cuillen At last count, the death toll for the Green River Killer totaled 49, and it's still growing. This book tells the story of his crimes and the young women that became his victims. The Green River Killer has still not been identified to this day. |
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Unreviewed Ann Rule books I either don't have these books, or haven't had the chance to get the reviews up here yet. Keep an eye out for new reviews!
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The shocking True Story of Ed Gein the Original "Psycho" Harold Schechter For those closeted souls who know nothing about Ed Gein, this is the book to read. Ed Gein is the monster that inspired movies such as "Psycho" and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre". |
| Timeline 1957, Ed Gein was influenced by his domineering mother, tales of sex change operations, and grisly Nazi wartime atrocities. He was facinated with the idea of being a woman, and so set about making a "woman" suit fashioned from the sewed together skins of his female victims. Among the more colorful things found in his house by the local authorities were lampshades and chairs made from human skin, human skulls were fastened to his bedposts, and a box of female genitalia that had been salted to preserve them. Truly riveting reading. |
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Thomas H. Cook OUT OF PRINT Judith Neely, at age 18, was the youngest person ever sentenced to Death Row. |
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| She was a very disturbed, manipulative young woman who coerced her husband into the atrocities she committed on the two unfortunate women unlucky enough to catch her interest. She even went so far to hellishly torture one of her victims by injecting them with Liquid Drano, when that didn't kill her, she used Liquid Plumr. She injected her in six different spots, then waited about a half an hour to see if the shots would kill her. They didn't, so then Neely shot her. Parts of this book actually made me ill... |
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The Shocking True Story of America's most Notorious Serial Killer Dr. Joel Norris From the back cover |
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Forced to endure unspeakable physical and emotional abuse from the time he was four years old, Henry Lee Lucas began to torture small animals for sexual pleasure at the age of ten. At fifteen, he raped a young woman in Blacksburg, Virginia and was never caught. At twenty-four, he brutally killed his own mother and was sentenced to ten years in a Michigan state prison. She was the first victim of a kiilling spree that would continue unchecked for nearly thirty years. Called the most dangerous serial killer in America, Lucas has "confessed" to 350 of the worst sex killings evcer recorded, including mutilation, necrophilism, cannibalism, and sadistic murder. Currently, he's serving two lifetime sentences in Texas for the horrific slash murders of his teenage common law wife Frieda "Becky" Powell and eighty year-old Kate Rich. And, as evidence is uncovered, the indictments for unsolved murders from Florida to California continue each year. What drove Lucas to commit such acts of inhuman savagery? How could he escape justice for nearly three decades while his victims suffered? Dr. Joel Norris, renowned forensic psychologist and national expert on serial killers, has the shocking answer in this landmark true crime study. |
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The John Wayne Gacy Murders Terry Sullivan with Peter T. Maiken Added 4.4.98 OUT OF PRINT |
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John Wayne Gacy was a sad, pathetic human being that felt a burning need to dominate and destroy those weaker and younger than himself. He sodomized, tortured and killed 33 young men and boys for his own amusement and pleasure. He gleefully led police on a wild goosechase as long as he could concerning the victims, but in the end, it was his own pride that brought him down. From the back cover Shortly before Christmas of 1978, a teenage boy dissappeared from the drugstore where he worked. He would be the final victim of John Wayne Gacy's horrifying compulsion. Then, ten days after the boy's dissappearance, detectives, finding a human bone in the crawl space of Gacy's house, dug into the lime-covered ground. With mounting horror, they pulled bone after bone from Gacy's suburban home until finally they had gathered the remains of twenty-eight more youths who had fallen prey to the killer clown. 11.24.98 Apparently, in recent news, police believe they have found another cache of Gacy's victims. |
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The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers Volume 1 Michael Newton Added 4.4.98 OUT OF PRINT |
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From the back cover Serial Killers: They murder without motive, driven by twisted sexual obsessions and an insatiable hunber for blood. Ted Bundy, Richard Speck, the Hillside Strangler, Charles Mansons's "Family" - Hunting Humans is an astonishing compendium of these and hundreds of other contemporary human monsters and their unspeakable crimes, including: Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate: The diminutive psychopath and his 14-year old sweetheart together conducted a terrifying killing spree across the American West - and eluded over 200 Nebraska National Guardsmen. Hamilton Fish: Mass-murderer, cannibal and sadomasochist, he delayed his own execution when needles he had embedded in his flesh short-circuited the electric chair. Marybeth Tinning: The "devoted mother" slew nine of her infant children between 1972 and 1985. Edward Gein: This Wisconsin ghoul's crimes inspired the films Psycho and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Henry Lee Lucas: America's most controversial killer, he crossed the continent several times with his dim-witted accomplice, Ottis Toole - and may have been responsible for as many as 300 murders. |
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A Study in the Psychology of Violence Colin Wilson and Donald Seaman Added 4.4.98 OUT OF PRINT |
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This is a fabulous sourcebook for profiles and short psychological backgrounds on the types of killers. It goes into the different classifications of murder and it also describes in some detail the profiling process in use at the FBI labs at the Marine Corps base located in Quantico, Virginia. It's actually a pretty good read, without being too dry. From the back cover Serial Killers...men or women for whom murder has become a compulsive habit. Today people are more aware than ever before of this generations-old pheonomenon, as more and more of these repulsive crimes are committed and their pattern recognised. Names like Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, Dennis Nilsen and the Skidrow Slasher, John Wayne Gacy and Pedro "Monster of the Andes" Lopez have acquired notoriety, numbering their victims handfuls, then in tens and then in hundreds. Colin Wilson and Donald Seaman have been allowed privileged access to the world's first National Centre for the Analysis if Violent Crime in Virginia, to study the methods of the FBI's renowned A team, working out of their underground headquarters, who pioneered a new techique of psychological profiling to track down these apparently "motiveless" murderers. Some serial killers dimly understand their own compulsion, some fear its fascination, others relish its frission. They scorn yet need their victims, despise yet almost welcome the efforts of those engaged in their pursuit, and set on their detection and arrest. Using high-tech data, the A team have achieved a high success rate of detection. Some of their stories are told here, alongside detailed case studies of serial killers worldwide, a short history of the sex crime and a rare, in-depth study of the psychology of the serial killer. |
