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• The Babysitter

  My Summers With a Serial Killer

  Rodman, Liza,

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  As a child, Liza Rodman thought the man who babysat her and took her on special trips to the woods was one of the few kind adults in her life. Years later, she realized Tony Costa was a serial killer and his “Secret Garden” in the Truro woods was…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Confident Women

  Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion

  Telfer, Tori,

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  Con artists occupy a place of fascination in human consciousness. Con women are especially intriguing. These are the stories of the women who both successfully and sometime hilariously unsuccessfully scammed society.

• Couple Found Slain

  After a Family Murder

  Brottman, Mikita, 1966-

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  This is literary fiction to be celebrated. In 1992, when he was 22 years old, Brian Bechtold killed his parents. Now psychoanalyst Mikita Brottman examines Brian’s life after his conviction.

• Fuzz

  When Nature Breaks the Law

  Roach, Mary,

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  Mary Roach offers an entirely humorous romp through the crimes of the natural world from jaywalking moose to breaking and entering bears.

• Last Call

  a True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York

  Green, Elon,

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  Amid the AIDS epidemic, already high New York murder rates in the 1990’s, and the fact that all the victims were gay men, the butcheries of the Last Call Killer have been almost completely forgotten. This book respectfully looks into the lives of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Liliana's Invincible Summer

  a Sister's Search for Justice

  Rivera Garza, Cristina, 1964-

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  In July of 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza was murdered by her ex-boyfriend. Here, her sister recounts the life and tragic death of a promising life cut short and ultimately submerged in Mexico’s history of domestic violence.

• The Rope

  a True Story of Murder, Heroism, and the Dawn of the NAACP

  Tresniowski, Alex,

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  This seemingly disparate account of the 1910 murder of a ten year old girl, the advent of modern criminal detection, and racial divisions in America comes together to ultimately foster what would become the NAACP

• A Thread of Violence

  a Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder

  O'Connell, Mark, 1979-

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  A brutal look at the lengths one heir went to in maintaining his privileged lifestyle and how it all went horribly wrong, leading to two innocent deaths and the fall of a government.

• Two Truths and a Lie

  a Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice

  McGarrahan, Ellen,

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  In 1990, Jesse Tafero was put to death for the murder of two police officers. But was he really guilty? In two truths and a lie, Ellen McGarrahan returns to find out the truth of a case she covered as a young reporter and reexamines the veracity…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• While Idaho Slept

  the Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students

  Appelman, J. Reuben,

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  An humanizing look at the victims of the University of Idaho massacre and the motivations behind the presumed killer.