mass murder

A collection of biographies of eighty-five female killers from 1580 to 19903.

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.

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.

America's murder laws--Murder statistics--The chronology of headline murders--Murder ink.

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.

Challenges the commonly held belief that Al Capone order the hit on George "Bugs" Moran's gang on Valentine's Day in 1929, discusses the cover-up by law enforcement officials, and analyzes the political reforms that helped Capone rise to power.