mass murder

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mass murder

The Charles Manson murder trial

a headline court case
2004
Presents an account of the murders committed by Charles Manson and his followers in 1969, recounts the events of the murder investigation and trial, and provides some information about Manson's life and motivations.

Women serial and mass murderers

profiles of 85 killers worldwide, 1580-1990
1992
A collection of biographies of eighty-five female killers from 1580 to 19903.

The spiral notebook

the Aurora theater shooter and the epidemic of mass violence committed by American youth

The cat dancers

2005
Lt. Cam Richter of the Manceford County, North Carolina, sheriff's department, faces pressure and threats from all sides when he is assigned to investigate the vigilante murders of two lowlifes who killed a gas station attendant and several innocent bystanders and were then let off on a technicality by a stubborn judge who just happens to be Richter's ex-wife and sometimes lover.

The evidence of things not seen

1986
Using the Wayne Williams/Atlanta child murder case as both subject and springboard, the author assesses the state of the Union in the mid-1980s.

The murder reference

Everything you never wanted to know about murder in America
1996
America's murder laws--Murder statistics--The chronology of headline murders--Murder ink.

Final truth

the autobiography of mass murderer/serial killer Donald "Pee Wee" Gaskins
1992

Point deception

2001
California sheriff's deputy Rhoda Swift reluctantly joins forces with author and journlist Guy Newberry in an attempt to solve a thirteen-year-old multiple murder--a case that is revived when a copycat killing occurs on the anniversary of the massacre.

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