murder

In 1824, five white men murder innocent, peaceful Indians, including women and children, causing certain bloody reprisals if the Indians' demands for justice are not met.

When one of their classmates kills another with a gun, two high school students try to come to terms with the tragedy by examining the motives for the killing and by tracing the acquisition of the weapon.

A series of poems reflect the thoughts of various people--town residents young and old, teachers, and some students visiting from the city--caught up in the events surrounding the murder of a beautiful high school student who had recently moved to the small lake-side community of Hudson Landing.

Kristen is trying to forget the death her best friend and that she had dated a murderer; she parties every night, until she meets her ex-boyfriend in the Hamptons.

When serial killer Hank Miller is killed in a shoot-out with police, his abused son Cameron adopts the identity of one of his father's victims in order to find a better life.

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.