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  Chasing Down the Zombie Hunter -...

  Troy A. Hillman

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  The stranger-than-fiction story of the terrifying "Zombie Hunter" whose brutal crimes nearly went unsolved until an unconventional detective and his team solved the mystery of a real-life monster hiding in plain sight. 
   
  Bryan Miller, aka The Zombie Hunter, was a cavalier character juxtaposed as a single parent of a teenage daughter. He sported Steampunk attire, wielded a gatling gun at Comic Con conventions, and rode around in a custom fitted police looking car with green lights on the top and “The Zombie Hunter'' detailed on the side. While his outward appearance and interests were a bit eccentric, little did people know, he was a real-life killer and predator that had been terrorizing the Phoenix area since 1992. 
   
  Chasing Down the Zombie Hunter is the extraordinary, detailed inside story of how a small-town ex-CPA, Detective Troy Hillman, and an elite team of detectives—hounded by the press, a frustrated and frightened public, and their own doubts and exhaustion—solved a double murder that had haunted the Valley of the Sun for more than twenty years. The initial details were already chilling—the brutal murder of two women, found headless, who were assaulted while riding their bikes along a well-known canal bike path—but with his inside perspective, Hillman reveals how the initial headlines only scratch the surface. 
   
  Besides giving the families of Angela Brosso and Melanie Bernas closure and justice, Detective Hillman's groundbreaking methods and his familial DNA case set the precedent for cold cases like The Golden State Killer. Chasing Down the Zombie Hunter reveals how evidence that was already in the possession of the police turned out to be the key to catching the killer—once they knew how to look at it. 
   
  From frustrations and heartbreak to bizarre twists and incredible breakthroughs, Detective Hillman takes true crime devotees through every facet of how, against all odds, the suspect was found and arrested. Chasing Down the Zombie Hunter is a testament to the fact that no matter how old the case, there is always hope for justice. . . if you know where to look.

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  The Devil to Pay - A Mobster’s...

  Sean Scott Hicks

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  Goodfellas meets the Irish mob in The Devil to Pay, the incredible true story of one man’s unconventional upbringing in the criminal gangs of Boston and his eventual road to redemption. 
  Growing up in South Boston, Sean Scott Hicks was running jobs for the Irish mob before his voice changed. Mistreated by his drug-addled mother, Hicks found sanctuary with his adoptive family of felonious uncles—known to law enforcement officials as the Winter Hill Gang. These crooks knew where all the bodies were buried—because they’d done the burying—but they also looked out for young Sean. Even the notorious gangster known worldwide as Whitey Bulger was simply “Uncle Jim” to him. 
  After such an upbringing, a life of crime was a given. In this unprecedented memoir, Hicks talks about everything from his experience running illegal goods up and down the coast of Massachusetts to his theory about what really happened the night three hundred million dollars’ worth of art went missing from Boston’s Isabella Gardner Museum. Terms like money laundering and assault insufficiently describe his daily tasks, a brash existence that alternated with stints behind bars. This knuckles-close look at mobster life chronicles the greed and avarice, tenderness and brutality, and the reckoning all gangsters must eventually face. 
  Hicks tells a story of blood and vengeance but also—surprisingly—of hope. The Devil to Pay: A Mobster’s Road to Perdition is an extraordinary memoir that illuminates the reality of what it’s really like in the dark, dangerous, and insidious places of the world, and what it takes to bring a person there and back again.

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  The Road Out of Hell - Sanford...

  Anthony Flacco, Jerry Clark

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  From 1926 to 1928, Gordon Stewart Northcott committed at least twenty murders on a chicken ranch outside of Los Angeles. His nephew, Sanford Clark, was held captive there from the age of thirteen to fifteen, and was the sole surviving victim of the killing spree. Here, acclaimed crime writer Anthony Flacco—using never-before-heard information from Sanford's son, Jerry Clark—tells the real story behind the case that riveted the nation.Forced by Northcott to take part in the murders, Sanford carried tremendous guilt all his life. Yet despite his youth and the trauma, he helped gain some justice for the dead and their families by testifying at Northcott's trial—which led to his conviction and execution. It was a shocking story, but perhaps the most shocking part of all is the extraordinarily ordinary life Clark went on to live as a decorated WWII vet, a devoted husband of fifty-five years, a loving father, and a productive citizen.In dramatizing one of the darkest cases in American crime, Flacco constructs a riveting psychological drama about how Sanford was able to detoxify himself from the evil he'd encountered, offering the ultimately redemptive story of one man's remarkable ability to survive a nightmare and emerge intact.

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  The Chicken Murders - A True...

  Ralph Beistline

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  Two days before Christmas 1977, a phone call shattered Ralph Beistline's quiet legal practice in Fairbanks, Alaska. The Presiding Judge had an assignment: represent a seventeen-year-old boy charged with two counts of first-degree murder in a deadly shootout over a gold mining claim in the remote Fortymile Country. "I don't do criminal law," the young attorney protested. "That won't be a problem," the judge replied. "Your client is guilty." What followed was a seven-month odyssey that would take Beistline into Alaska's rugged backcountry and introduce him to some of its most intriguing characters—from the enigmatic Russell family living off the grid in pursuit of gold, to the old-timer miners whose deaths sparked outrage throughout the territory's small communities. The case seemed straightforward: two teenagers had gunned down two experienced miners in a dispute over the "Rocking Chair" mining claim near the Alaska-Canada border. But as Beistline investigated, he uncovered a complex web of frontier justice, property rights, and family loyalty that challenged everything he thought he knew about law and justice. His client, David Russell, was barely five feet tall and weighed 140 pounds—hardly the cold-blooded killer prosecutors portrayed. The Russell family lived in a one-room cabin without electricity or running water, scraping gold from frozen riverbed with mayonnaise jars and tablespoons. They had purchased the mining claim legally, posted it properly, and sought help from law enforcement when threatened. Yet somehow, they had become the villains in a story where two men lay dead on the ice. As winter gave way to spring and trial approached, Beistline found himself not just defending a teenager's life, but grappling with fundamental questions about self-defense, frontier survival, and the price of gold fever in America's last wilderness. The case would test his skills as an attorney, challenge his understanding of justice, and forever change his perspective on the law. Set against the backdrop of 1970s Alaska—a time when the territory still embodied the raw spirit of the frontier—"The Chicken Murders" is both a gripping true crime narrative and a coming-of-age story about a young lawyer learning his craft in the crucible of a capital murder case. Written by retired Federal Judge Ralph Beistline, this memoir offers unprecedented insight into Alaska's legal system, mining culture, and the collision between modern law and frontier justice. It's a story that could only have happened in Alaska, told by someone who lived it. Part legal thriller, part historical chronicle, part personal memoir—"The Chicken Murders" delivers a fascinating glimpse into a world where gold, guns, and justice intersected in the frozen wilderness of Alaska's Fortymile Country.

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  Psychopath Killers -...

  Kelly Mass

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  This combo consists of two true crime books, which are: 
  Pablo Escobar - One of the big lords of the drug cartels in Colombia is Pablo Escobar, a criminal who became a leader and expanded his influence on organized crime throughout the North and South American continents. With billions in his bank account, in cash, and in other assents, it’s not easy to ignore his name and the power he gained. 
  In 1976, Escobar established the Medellín Cartel, which dispersed powder cocaine, and developed the first smuggling paths into the United States. In the 1982 Colombian parliamentary election, Escobar was chosen as an alternate member of the Chamber of Representatives as part of the Liberal Alternative movement. 
  Edmund Kemper - Initially diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and after a separation of his parents, Edmund Kemper already showed his twisted mind at 15 years old, when he murdered both his grandparents, who were taking care of him. Whether through nature or nurture, this man didn’t show a promising future from the get-go. But perhaps nobody could have suspected the horrors he would inflict on his many victims later in his life. 
  Edmund Kemper, born in 1948, has become a notorious serial killer. He is known for having raped, mutilated, and murdered young women and especially hitchhikers. Being labelled with being a necrophile and a cannibal, his crimes have been exposed, partially by himself, and even though he has requested the death penalty, he is still locked up for life. 
  If this is not enough to pique your interest, then I don’t know what is. Hurry up and start reading or listening to this book.

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  Angels of Death - Murderous...

  Al Cimino

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  Medics and carers hold the lives of their patients in the balance. They see us at our most vulnerable, and we trust them utterly. Yet there are those who abuse this trust in the medical profession, and take advantage of their position to commit the most hideous crimes. 
   
  In this gripping account, readers can discover the chilling stories of these cold-hearted killers, including Dr Harold Shipman who murdered as many as 200 of his patients, hospital orderly Donald Harvey who kept his crimes hidden for 17 years , and many more chilling cases. These are the stories of twisted minds who hide in plain sight and abuse their power over life and death.

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