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Elliot Rodger considered himself to be intelligent, refined, handsome, fashionable and charming. He spent years trying to be cool so women would like him. He thought if he just wore expensive and fashionable clothing, had a better car, or if he were rich, then women would throw themselves at him. In fact, he thought himself to be "The Supreme Gentleman."
Yet, women paid no attention to him. His only conclusion was that they were genetically flawed,...
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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...
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A mother recounts her unthinkable experience after her thirteen-year-old son murders his little sister-and her struggle to emerge from devastation. Losing a young daughter to murder is the worst nightmare that a mother could possibly imagine-but what if the killer was her son? Charity Lee was thrust into this unimaginable situation when her thirteen-year-old son, Paris, murdered her beloved four-year-old daughter, Ella. Charity goes through intense...
4) Gabacho
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A young man's rebellion lands him in a Mexican prison, where theater becomes a lifeline in this memoir of angst, crime, friendship and redemption.
Richard Jewkes was in his senior year as a University of Utah theater student when he became disenchanted with his strict Mormon upbringing. Over Christmas break, he and a college friend took off for Mexico seeking adventure. If the adventure hadn't included smuggling drugs, it might have just been another...
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Raw Deal is the untold story of former New York City police officer Gil Valle, who in 2012 became known throughout the world as "The Cannibal Cop." It is part the controversial saga of a man who was imprisoned for "thought crimes," and a look into a world of dark sexuality and violence that most readers don't know exists, except maybe in their nightmares.
After Valle's arrest, media coverage exploded in a frenzy of lurid tabloid headlines and stories...
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A woman recounts her decades-long saga to bring her sister's killer to justice in a harrowing true crime story of domestic abuse and family perseverance.
From the moment it happened, Renee Fehr knew that Gregory Houser had murdered her sister Sheryl. Cruel, abusive, and increasingly violent, Greg had threatened to kill Sheryl if she tried to leave him. Yet Sheryl's death was ruled a suicide. And for twenty-seven years after her death, Greg continued...
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A firsthand look at a notorious Internet stalking campaign that the FBI described as a case "in a category by itself"-in the words of the victim herself.
After her father died in 2003, Susan Fensten turned to a genealogy message board to search for surviving relatives. Days later, she was delighted to receive an email from someone claiming to be a distant cousin. In fact, Susan had just been ensnared by a relentless sociopath.
She soon became the...