murderers

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What happened to Johnnie Jordan?

the story of a child turning violent
2002
Explores the circumstances which led fourteen-year-old Johnnie Jordan to murder his elderly foster care mother, arguing that his life in the foster care system left him feeling unloved and unwanted and forcing him to take desperate measures.

Murders in the United States

crimes, killers and victims of the twentieth century
2001
Presents brief descriptions of notorious murder cases in the U.S. from the 1900s to the 1990s, as well as alphabetized biographical sketches of famous killers and victims.

Lethal passage

how the travels of a single handgun expose the roots of America's gun crisis
1994
Traces the history of the Cobray M-11/ 9 handgun and questions the political economic forces that allowed it to be marketed.

The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

2010
The tale of a kind and will-respected doctor who can turn himself into a murderous madman by taking a secret drug that he has created.

The alchemist

2003
A charismatic murderer tells his life story to a New York City psychologist, revealing that he was born in ancient Egypt, where he learned alchemy at the House of Ra and became tempted and corrupted by the dark arts.

Mad River

2012
Virgil Flowers joins the growing army of cops trying to run down three teenagers with dead-end lives who are on a crime spree in Minnesota and who think they are just like Bonnie and Clyde, and their sidekick.

Poe

2010
Everyone knows that Poe created the detective genre, but did you know he was a detective himself? Finally the secret can be revealed for the first time! Enter the world of Poe and follow the famous author of darkness as he delves into the dark side of man. As he tracks the killer of his brother's friend, Poe must rescue his brother and his brother's wife from The Red Death! But when The Red Death offers to bring Poe's wife Virginia back to life in exchange, will Poe make the right choice?.

The butcher

anatomy of a Mafia psychopath
2009
Discusses the criminal life of Tommy "Karate" Pitera, covering his role as an assassin for the New York Mafia in the 1980s and the efforts of investigator Jim Hunt, who tracked him down with a variety of methods, including the use of informants.

Erased

missing women, murdered wives
2008
Draws on more than fifty case studies to examine the psychological factors that drive men to kill the women they love in cold blood, they carefully cover their tracks to point police in another direction as they investigate the crime.

Mass murderers

1993
Profiles mass murderers such as, Richard Speck, Charles Whitman, and others while examining what possibly led them to commit the crimes.

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