Describes the life of America's first forensic scientist, who invented tools that are still being used today, including blood-spatter analysis, ballistics, lie-detector tests and fingerprints, and solved at least 2,000 cases over 40 years.

Traces the author's remarkable counterintuitive healing journey in the aftermath of trauma, relating how she survived a violent abduction only to endure her family's denial, an abandonment that compelled her to learn her imprisoned attacker's story.

An Olympic gold medal-winning wrestler describes the 1996 murder of his fellow champion brother by the eccentric heir to the du Pont dynasty, describing the complex relationship they shared with the increasingly unstable killer prior to the tragedy.

Journalist Tori Telfer dives into the stories of historical female con women and explains why we are so enamored by their scams.

The most common triggers for homicide are fear, rage, revenge, money, lust, and, more rarely, sheer madness. This book offers my memories of homicide cases that I investigated or oversaw. In each case, I examine the trigger that led to death. I chose this theme for the book because even though the why of a murder case may not be critical in an investigation, it can sometimes lead us to the killer. And even if we solve a case without knowing the trigger,...

From the dogged Long Island reporter who has been on his trail since 2019, the bizarre, page-turning, and frankly hysterical story of America’s most outrageous grifter—former US Representative George Santos. America has grown used to larger-than-life politicians. Yet in 2022, a new player on the national scene outshone them all. George Anthony Devolder Santos, and his revolving door of pseudonyms, shed glaring new light on how far we’d all let...

The autobiography of Dennis Nilsen, one of Britain's most notorious serial killers, written while in prison.