murder

Examines the lives and deaths of four members of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and the two men who murdered them on November 15, 1959.

Recreates the slaying of the Clutter family of Kansas, and the capture, trial, and execution of their murderers.

Reconstructs the events surrounding the murder of a young boy in London in 1831 and investigates the trade in human corpses carried out by body snatchers who would rob graves or commit murder to supply medical colleges with fresh cadavers.

Phoebe Matthews, a member of the Alpha Sigma Pi sorority, enlists friends Miranda and Camille in a plot to humiliate pledge Shandra James who has set her sights on Phoebe's fiance, but when Shandra's body turns up days later, the Alpha sisters--and the police--begin to wonder if Phoebe went too far.

Recounts the true story of Doris Angleton's murder, describing the brutal crime, her husband's trial for hiring his brother to kill Doris, and the jury's decision about his guilt.

Describes the work of forensic scientists in crime investigations, discussing crime scenes, trace evidence, ballistics, handwriting, blood, DNA, bones, fingerprints, and the presentation of evidence in trials.

Raskolnikov, an impoverished Russian student, murders a despicable old pawnbroker, reasoning that his evil act is outweighed by humanitarian good, but he discovers the fault in his theory when he is plagued by horror and guilt over his actions. Includes a selection of study aids.

The family of a murder victim, a journalist opposed to capital punishment, and the man convicted of the killing find their lives bound together as the execution hour approaches, while the person who knows the truth about the murder waits to plunge them into an abyss of terror.

The author interviews a number of experts from various stages of the criminal justice process in order to establish the vast differences between the ways in which forensic science is portrayed on television and reality.

Reexamines the murder of Bessie Goldberg in the Boston suburb of Belmont in 1963--a crime for which African-American handyman Roy Smith was tried and convicted--in light of the confession two years later by Albert DeSalvo to being the notorious Boston Strangler, and the knowledge that DeSalvo was also in the neighborhood the day Goldberg died, working at the author's home.