Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the invention of murder
Stashower, Daniel
2006
Examines the murder of twenty-year-old Manhattan cigar salesgirl Mary Rogers in 1841, the troubled life of Edgar Allan Poe, and his treatment of the case in his story "The Mystery of Marie Rog?t.".
Presents an account of the murder of Iowa farmer John Hossack in December 1900, drawing from newspaper accounts, government documents, unpublished memoirs, and the legal record to retrace the subsequent investigation, and the arrest and trial of his wife, Margaret.
Tells the parallel stories of the skepticism and incredulity that accompanied Guglielmo Marconi's invention of wireless communication in the late nineteenth century, and the investigation of the murder of an inconvenient wife by her love-starved husband, Dr. H.H. Crippen, who would likely have pulled off the perfect crime had it not been for the ability to send wireless transatlantic transmissions.
a true story of organized crime, corruption, and murder in Chicago
O'Shea, Gene
2005
Recounts the true story of the 1955 murders of three Chicago boys and the ATF agents who, forty years after the crime was committed, launched their own investigation and tracked down the killer.
Forensic pathologist Dr. Cyril Wecht reviews the evidence in nine high-profile murder cases and shares his verdicts on what really happened, looking at the O.J. Simpson trial, the death of Tammy Wynette, the Sam Sheppard case which inspired the "Fugitive" television show, and others.
A collection of six true crime stories, with photographs, chronicling the cases of convicted murderers Randy Roth, Charles Rodman Campbell, Cynthia Marler, Ken Burke, Richard Marquette, and Sherwood Knight.
An anthology that features one book-length study, and five additional cases from the author's files, each relating the details of a crime involving an innocent victim or victims who are subjected to shocking revelations.
