Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, Jack the Ripper, the Zodiac Killer, and Charles Manson
Rape, torture, and murder. Notorious villains that have inspired many investigators, journalists and authors to dig up the facts, no matter how grotesque, for readers (not for the faint-hearted).
True Crime – the inexplicable curiosity to delve deeper into the bizarre, the horrific and the encrypted criminal cases. This genre of books brings readers together for their insatiable hunger to explore the facts, interviews and legal files of some of the most notable events in criminal history.
Recently, the Toronto Star reported that an enthusiast, Russell Edwards has finally solved the age old case of Jack the Ripper. An old blood-soaked shawl found near one of the prostitutes, Catherine Eddowes, had been put up for auction recently. The Ripper-ologist had snagged it and then brought it in for forensic testing. After some investigative work, he believes that he has found proof about the identity of the legendary serial killer. Edwards has been working on the case for the last 14 years and this single piece of forensic evidence adds definitive answer to his new book about the murders.
Although, the most frightening of cases are those too close to home. Recently Global News reported that the jury for the murder trial of Luka Magnotta has been selected. The trial is to be begin on Monday September 29, 2014 at 9:30 am EST. Magnotta has been charged with the first-degree murder in connection to the May 2012 slaying and dismemberment of 33-year-old Jun Lin, a Chinese engineering student.
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Close to home: Canadian True Crime
Through the glass by Shannon Moroney
A criminal story taken from a different perspective, that of an unsuspecting wife. Shannon Moroney is a newlywed that has her world turned upside down when a police officer arrives at her door to tell her that her husband, Jason, has been arrested and charged with brutally assaulting and kidnapping of two women. In her autobiography she recounts the devastating effects of living with such a harrowing shadow cast by her husband and the healing process that she undergoes.
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Devil among us : how Canada failed to stop a pedofile by Mike McIntyre
Peter Whitmore, a notorious pedophile with a horrendous criminal record, shocked the nation when he kidnaps two young Prairie boys in 2006. Mike McIntyre tracks the movements of Peter Whitmore through legal files and interviews as he crosses Canada leaving a trail of records that question the reasoning of why the Canadian legal system allowed such an offender to slip the cracks for so long.
Post-mortem : justice at last for Yvette Budram by Jon Wells
The remains of a near-mummified skeleton is found by a jogger on a country road near the African Lion Safari theme park in Southern Ontario. The forensics experts concluded that it was a female victim, non-Caucasian and foul play had led to her death. Jon Wells takes the reader past the yellow tape into the real-life crime scene investigation, the interviews of investigators and with the killer himself.
Famous cases account legendary criminals that had made headlines for those readers itching to know more about the infamous crimes.
Finding me : a decade of darkness, a life reclaimed by Michelle Knight
As a single young mother, Michelle had been kidnapped by a local school bus driver named Ariel Castro. She would undergo unimaginable torture by her captor for the next decade. Amanda Berry joined her in 2003 and Gina DeJesus in 2004 as the three women were held together in captivity. Headlines were made around the world when they had made their escape on May 6, 2013. Finding Me is the heartbreaking detailed story of her life through imprisonment and her efforts on building a new life.
Murder, robbery, prison breaks, all these types can be found on the historical crimes list which document cases that occurred before 1970.
Blood acres: the wild ride of Benny Binion , the Texas gangster who created Vegas poker by Doug J. Swanson
This fast-paced thriller of a spectacular story follows Benny Binion on his stage of murder, money, and the making of Las Vegas. He had been a cowboy, a pioneering casino owner, a gangster, a killer, and a founder of the World Series of Poker. Binion is depicted as one of the most revered figures in the history of gambling that would come to dominate the Vegas scene. Journalist Doug J. Swanson reveals once-secret government documents to construct the story of Binion as he destroys his rivals and adversaries.
The thrill of catching killers takes a reader through the discoveries of profilers and forensics pros to help crack a case of a mind game or the slightest trace of evidence that catches a real-life killer.
Stiff : the curious lives of human cadavers by Mary Roach
The oddly compelling, often darkly humorous exploration of our bodies’ postmortem, Stiff looks into the thousand year art of cadavers. From testing France’s first guillotine to riding the NASA Space Shuttle, cadavers have found many interesting ways to research new surgical procedures over the centuries. Mary Roach uses engaging, witty and thoughtful writing to bring to light the story of our bodies after we are no longer with them.
The poisoner’s handbook : murder and the birth of forensic medicine in jazz age New York by Deborah Blum
The Jazz Age of poisoning cases chronicles the story of New York City’s first forensic scientists as they begin their chemical detective work during an era when poisons were untraceable making it the nearly perfect crime. Charles Norris and Alexander Gettler investigate a family mysteriously stricken bald, Barnum and Bailey’s Famous Blue Man, factory workers with crumbling bones, a diner serving poisoned pies and many others.
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In the descriptiion of the book “Finding Me”, there is a spelling? grammer? typo? with the word capture. It should read CAPTOR.