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Prologue Temperatures were in the high teens, and a light snow was falling on the morning of March 16, 2015, as an employee for Columbia Gas Transmission drove along County Road 1908, a narrow lane that ran through cornfields and wooded areas of Ashland County, Ohio. The driver was proceeding slowly because low fog…
When I was younger, I loved all of the urban legends that were told on the playground. In fact, I specifically remember being the ringleader of these macabre story times, often scaring the other children with tales of babysitters getting creepy phone calls, being licked from beneath the bed (still the real reason why I,…
A Hunger to Kill is a fascinating and profoundly chilling account of how Detective Kim Mager, a real-life version of Clarice Starling, closed in on—and broke—one of Ohio’s most infamous serial killers, Shawn Grate. Read on for co-author Lisa Pulitzer’s interview with Det. Kim Mager. Lisa Pulitzer: What was the hardest part of writing your…
Artist and academic Lisa Perrin’s first book is a gorgeously illustrated and designed collection of biographies of that most romantic and maligned of villainesses: the poisoner. In black and gold and a bright arsenic green, this is undeniably one of the best-looking books about true crime to ever grace my desk. Professor Perrin’s drawings throughout…
Prologue Labor Day Weekend 2021 Alex Murdaugh’s world was falling apart. The highly respected attorney, heir to a powerful legal dynasty that had ruled South Carolina’s Lowcountry for more than a century, had run out of places to hide. The day before, his family’s illustrious law firm, founded in 1910 by his great-grandfather, Randolph Murdaugh…
AUTHORS’ FOREWORD The legend of Salon Kitty is well known to historians, filmmakers, cinema goers, and indeed to anyone taking more than a passing interest in Nazi Germany. But until now, verifiable facts have been few, and myths, rumours and legends have accumulated. The bare bones of the story go something like this: Salon Kitty…
True Crime Redux is really two stories. The first is a true account of the brutal murder of Denver-area housewife Betty Frye in her suburban garage. The second is a memoir of my involvement in the crime and the cold case decades later. To top it off, the cold case was ignited by a short-lived…
I’ve learned there’s always a new way to tell a story. Having written successful books on the Titanic and Amelia Earhart, I know from experience that if you dig deeply enough, you’ll often find surprising new details and angles to make it fresh. In both books, of course, readers already know the end of the…
All the Living and the Dead by Hayley Campbell Fueled by a childhood fascination with death, journalist Hayley Campbell searches for answers in the people who make a living by working with the dead. Along the way, she encounters mass fatality investigators, embalmers, gravediggers, a former executioner, and more. Through Campbell’s incisive and candid interviews with…
The party kicked off at Skateland, where the neon marquee regularly malfunctioned, so that it read SKAT or ATE. The roller rink sat at the eastern edge of Waukesha, Wisconsin, a city of 70,000 people, with an average income of $70,000, and a murder rate of about one person per year. In Skateland’s carpeted lobby,…
