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Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xviii, 413 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"On January 21st, 1958, Charles Starkweather and his fourteen-year-old girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate changed the course of crime in the United States when they murdered her parents and sister in a house on the edge of Lincoln, Nebraska. They then drove to the nearby small town of Bennet, where they robbed and killed a farmer. When Starkweather's car broke down, the man and woman who stopped to help were murdered and jammed in a food cellar. By the time...
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing, Co., Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
282 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From veteran true crime master Harold Schechter comes Murderabilia, a history of crime told through the dark objects left behind. The false teeth of a female serial killer from 1908, the cut-and-paste confession of the Black Dahlia killer, the newly cracked cipher of the Zodiac killer, the shotgun used in the Clutter family murders, which were made famous by Truman Capote's true crime classic In Cold Blood--these are more than simple artifacts that...
Author
Publisher
Union Square & Co
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xii, 372 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
A fascinating pop-history dive into the stories behind the incredibly impactful crimes--both infamous and little-known--that have shaped the legal system as we know it. When asked why true crime is so in vogue, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Amber Hunt always has the same answer: it's no hotter than it's always been. Crimes and trials have captured American consciousness since the Salem Witch Trials in the...
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