Product Description: Retirees Tom and Jackie Hawks were delighted when attractive, personable Skylar Deleon and his pregnant wife, Jennifer, offered cash to purchase their yacht, the Well Deserved. But a trial voyage turned into a nightmare. The Hawkses were never seen again, while the Deleons claimed the older couple had signed over control of their assets to them...read more

JOURNEY TO THE KILLING GROUND It was an age of innocence -- an era of carhops, poodle skirts, and hula hoops. It was also a time of terror. In 1958, a man named Harvey Glatman sped along the Santa Ana freeway out of L.A., headed to the desert with his "date" huddled in the passenger seat beside him. In his pockets Harvey had a gun and a length of rope. Drunk on power, arousal, and rage, Harvey also had a plan. And beneath the desert stars, by the light of the moon, he carried out his ordeal of unimaginable cruelty -- using his body, a camera, and his rope.... Months later, after one of his inhuman attacks went awry, Harvey's torture killings were described to a shocked and silent California courtroom. For decades, these infamous deeds would inspire television and movie plots. But until now, there has been no definitive account of the forces that drove one of America's most legendary serial killers. And never before has it been explained why, for Harvey Glatman, his crimes weren't about killing, raping, and torturing at all -- they were all about the rope.

Product Description: Reprinted Edition"Page-turning excitement. . .riveting, fast-paced true crime." --M. William PhelpsOn a chilly November afternoon in 1998, a tearful 36-year-old man walked into the Humboldt County Sheriff's Department in Eureka, CA, and confessed to something horrible...read more

Product Description: Prosecuting attorney in the Manson trial, Vincent Bugliosi held a unique insider's position in one of the most baffling and horrifying cases of the twentieth century: the cold-blooded Tate-LaBianca murders carried out by Charles Manson and four of his followers...read more

Product Description: “After all, this is my mother we’re talking about. As her daughter, I belonged to her; as my mother, she also belongs to me. I don’t have her anymore, but I still have her story.” In 1950s Los Angeles, Anne Ford was the epitome of the California golden girl, a former beauty queen and model-turned-fashion designer whose success and charm were legendary...read more

An account of the murder of wealthy California attorney Larry McNabney details the search for his wife Elisa, a black widow and fugitive killer with a lengthy criminal history who looted his law firm's client accounts.

Product Description: Welcome to the terrifying, tormented world of Michael and Suzan Carson, American killers who created their own brand of Islamic Jihad and roamed the California highways in the 1980s, executing "witches." At the top of their list was President Ronald Wilson Reagan who, according to their ghastly cult, bore the mark of the Beast - 666...read more

Describes how respected California attorney and horse enthusiast Larry Mcnabney was seduced and eventually murdered by his beautiful, unstable, and thrill-seeking wife Elisa and her partner in crime, her female lover, Sarah Dutra. Original.

Desribes the killings of Thomas and Jackie Hawks, a retired probation officer and his wife, allegedly at the hands of Skylar Deleon, a former child actor, and his co-conspirator, his wife Jennifer, who plotted to steal their life savings and throw them overboard from their own yacht. Original.

Describes the murder of Dr. Felix Polk, a psychologist, the arrest of his wife, Susan, for the crime, and the trial in which Susan argued that her marriage involved manipulation and psychological abuse, and the killing had been in self-defense.

Product Description: On June 22,1986, Stan Howard was stabbed in his bed, his ten-year-old daughter Rachel sleeping in the next room. Unable to fully process the tragedy, Rachel coped the only way she knew how by trying to pretend the murder never happened...read more

Product Description: This singular book follows a mad, tumultuous landscape without remorse or pity, the high and low life of Hollywood/LA. Gilmore obsesses on a relentless panorama of sex, violence and death in five new chronicles of So Cal sickness: *the sex-and-drug soaked Wonderland murders featuring porn legend John Holmes *Sexpot Starlet Barbara Payton's hellbent descent into the gutters of Tinseltown *the Hollywood Hooker who landed in San Quentin's gas chamber, the Ice Blonde Murderess Barbara Graham For those already steeped in the canon of John Gilmore's work, this is the long-awaited true-crime capstone to a celebrated collection of works, a blood-and-semen-soaked noir trail of all-night diners, nightclubs and cheap motels...read more

Investigates the bizarre case of Robert Durst, a powerful New York City businessman and heir to a vast real-estate empire, who became a cross-dressing fugitive from justice and prime suspect in the murders of at least three people, including a prominent female journalist and his first wife. Reissue.

Product Description: "Living Victims, Stolen Lives: Parents of Murdered Children Speak to America" is a gripping and instructive sketch of the intense psychic pain, anger, and frustration experienced by parents of murdered children. Drawing on intimate interviews with parents enduring murdered-child grief and the insights of professionals counseling them, this unique book gives a deeply moving psychological, emotional, and spiritual portrait of people immersed in epic tragedy and loss...read more

The prosecutor of the Tate-LaBianca trials presents a perceptive study of Charles Manson, his followers, and the murders

Product Description: Accused serial killers - Charlie Chitat Ng and Leonard Lake - purportedly committed some of the grisliest crimes in the annals of criminal history. They allegedly kidnapped their victims, tortured them physically and mentally, wiped out entire families - including babies - yet Charlie "the Cheetah" Ng, many believe, has defied justice by cheating the death penalty...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

In their own words, the Goldman family explains what happens when a beloved son and brother is murdered, when grief becomes a public spectacle, and when lives continue to be shattered during the course of two lengthy trials. Reprint.

A portrait of rapist and murderer Phillip Jablonski is based on San Quentin Death Row letters and transcripts of Jablonski's taped records of his crimes, which claimed the lives of four women. Original.

An incest survivor shares recovered memories that expose her father as a serial killer who brutally murdered at least nine people in his garage, including struggling Hollywood actress Elizabeth Short, known as the 'Black Dahlia,' and the author's own infant son. Reissue.

An in-depth account of Betty Broderick's killing of her ex-husband and his new wife describes the crime and the resulting trial, painting a disturbing portrait of divorce in America and its victims. Reprint.