True Crime

Wednesday, October 2, 2002.

Aspen Hill, Maryland. Northgate Plaza.

5:20 PM.

Inside Michael’s craft supply store, cashier Ann Chapman rings up another customer. Then it happens. A loud crack; a gust of wind; the light in register five goes dark....

We are the people our parents warned us about" is the motto of the Bandidos, one of the world's most feared outlaw motorcycle gangs....

On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered....

Anyone can see the place where the children died. You take the Princes Highway past Geelong, and keep going west in the direction of Colac....

American Desperado is possibly the most jaw-dropping, event-filled, adrenaline-soaked criminal autobiography ever written....

The Peaky Blinders as we know them, thanks to the hit TV series, are infused with drama and dread....

After Jack the Ripper and before Son of Sam there was only one name their equal in terror....

The true story of Barbara Stager, a devoted mother, loving wife, and dedicated church leader who committed an almost perfect crime....

In January 2003, 28-year-old GCHQ translator Katharine Gun received an email from the US National Security Agency that would turn her world upside down....

In the summer of 2000, Jane Steare received the phone call every mother dreads. Her daughter Lucie Blackman - tall, blonde and 21 years old - had disappeared....

Stock market multimillionaire at 26, federal convict at 36, he partied like a rock star, lived like a king, and barely survived his rise and fall as an American entrepreneurial icon....

Frank W. Abagnale, alias Frank Williams, Robert Conrad, Frank Adams, and Robert Monjo, was one of the most daring con men, forgers, imposters, and escape artists in history....

A true-crime story that sounds like fiction, Smuggler's Blues is a psychedelic road trip through international drug smuggling, the hippie underground, and the war on weed....

Here is a gripping account of the disappearance in the Australian Outback of English tourist Peter Falconio. His girlfriend was found cut, bleeding, and wandering the highway, her hands bound....

At the core of this book is an appalling double murder committed by two Mormon fundamentalist brothers....

On a hot rainy summer night in Nassau, the Bahamas, in 1943, someone murdered Sir Harry Oakes, one of the richest men in the world, as he slept. When police found him the next morning, there were four wounds to his skull....

I first met Lindsey Rose playing pool at The Burwood Hotel in 1988. I was two years out of high school. He'd already committed three murders. None of us knew....

John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet....

Throughout John Mortimer's career, he established profound friendships with people accused of various crimes....

Welcome to Hotel Kerobokan, or Hotel K, the tongue-in-cheek nickname for Kerobokan Jail, Bali's most notorious prison.....

When Sergeant Charlie McCabe returns from fighting in Afghanistan, she hopes to leave the war behind. Instead, she comes home to a father whose gambling has put him in deep trouble with a violent loan shark....

Suzanne begins to dig into her father's life. What horrors is she about to unearth in his journals? And who is it that's out there, watching her every move? Find out....

Robert Mazur spent five years undercover infiltrating the criminal hierarchy of Colombia's drug cartels....

How could five beautiful, intelligent, and successful women believe he was their dream come true? Ask any women who ever longed for "the perfect man"....

Perhaps America's bestselling true-crime writer, Ann Rule, asks can the female really be deadlier than the male?...

Dr. Helen Morrison has profiled more than 80 serial killers around the world....

Barely five feet tall, sweet and innocent looking, Charlene Gallego used all of her charms to beguile teenage girls and young women into the back of a van, where her husband, Gerald, lay waiting....