<div><B>The acclaimed true crime author of <I>Lobster Boy</I> chronicles the brutal acts and eventual capture of two cannibalistic killers on Florida&rsquo;s Gulf Coast.</B><BR /><BR /> Jeremiah Rodgers and Jonathan Lawrence met in a Florida hospital for the criminally insane, where both had been serving time for petty crimes. Upon their release, they traveled to Lawrence&rsquo;s hometown of Milton, Florida, where they murdered Justin Livingston, Lawrence&rsquo;s mentally challenged cousin. Their deadly spree continued when they viciously raped and shot 18-year-old Jennifer Robinson and then cannibalized her body.<BR />  <BR /> Author Fred Rosen reports on how Detective Todd Hand solved the case and brought justice to the victims&rsquo; families. Hand had his work cut out for him as there was no clear motive behind these heinous crimes, but during questioning he caught the 2 killers in a lie about Justin Livingston&rsquo;s whereabouts, which led to their arrests. Rodgers and Lawrence now reside on Florida&rsquo;s death row.</div>

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Flesh Collectors

<div><B>A Michigan couple&rsquo;s affair leads to two grisly murders by heroin injection in this true crime account from the acclaimed author of <I>Lobster Boy</I>.</B><BR /><BR /> When Carol Giles&rsquo;s friend Nancy Billiter was found dead&mdash;she had been bound, sexually violated, and injected with a lethal dose of battery acid and heroin&mdash;detectives in Michigan traced Billiter&rsquo;s death back to Giles and her boyfriend, Tim Collier. Police also learned that the diabolical duo shared another secret: They had murdered Giles&rsquo;s husband, Jessie.<BR />  <BR /> Jessie, who had died months before Billiter, was disinterred, and an autopsy proved he&rsquo;d been given a lethal shot of heroin instead of his prescribed insulin. Homebound and diabetic, Jessie was a heroin dealer. Police determined that Giles&mdash;who was fed up with taking care of her husband and children&mdash;along with her lover, Collier, had stolen the fatal dose from Jessie&rsquo;s own drug supply. The cops surmised that Billiter&rsquo;s death might have been due to her knowledge of the couple&rsquo;s plot. In their dramatic trial, Giles and Collier turned against each other, but both were eventually convicted of murder.</div>

Needle Work

<div><B>The shocking true story of Mary Thompson, a Eugene, Oregon, anti-gang activist who secretly ran her own murderous mob of teenagers&mdash;including her own son.</B><BR /><BR /> Aaron Iturra was just eighteen years old when he was found dead in the bedroom of the Eugene, Oregon, home he shared with his mother and sister. Investigating the crime, Detective Jim Michaud found evidence pointing to an unlikely suspect: Mary Louise Thompson, also known as Gang Mom. Once a biker chick and police informer, she had become a locally famous anti-gang activist.<BR />  <BR /> Michaud soon learned Thompson was a modern-day Fagin who was running her own gang of juveniles&mdash;including her own son, Beau&mdash;which preyed on the unsuspecting city, dealing dope and burglarizing homes. When Thompson had found out Iturra planned to testify against Beau in a felony case, she put out a hit on him.</div>

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Gang Mom

<div><B>The author of the true crime &ldquo;masterpiece&rdquo; <I>Lobster Boy</I> traces a brutal killer&rsquo;s history across two decades of slipping past the legal system (<I>The Guardian</I>).</B><BR /><BR /> When police in Tampa, Florida, arrested Larry Singleton in 1997 for brutally murdering prostitute Roxanne Hayes, they soon realized it wasn&rsquo;t the man&rsquo;s first violent attack. Back in 1978 he had gained notoriety as &ldquo;the Mad Chopper&rdquo; for raping and cutting off the arms of 15-year-old Mary Vincent on a patch of desolate, sun-scorched land 5 miles off the highway near Modesto, California.<BR />  <BR /> When Singleton was let out of prison on supervised parole after serving only 8 years for his crimes, no community in California would accept him. He eventually moved back to his home in Florida, where he killed Hayes nearly 20 years after his original crime. But his first victim, Vincent, had survived, walking nearly a mile to get help after the assault, and testified against him at his trial for murdering Hayes.</div>

The Mad Chopper

<div><B>The inside story of an upstate New York serial killer who abducted, raped, and murdered women and hid their bodies in his home. </B><BR /><BR /> In the late 1990s in Poughkeepsie, New York, prostitutes began to go missing off the streets of the old Hudson River town. Due to the women&rsquo;s nomadic lifestyles, which many people condemned, few in the town noticed they were gone besides their families and Lieutenant Bill Siegrist, who suspected that a serial killer was behind the disappearances. Local prostitutes described a strange man lurking around, leading Siegrist to Kendall Francois, an overweight, slovenly middle school hall monitor nicknamed Stinky. Police brought in Francois for a lie detector test, which he passed, and they were forced to release him. Area women continued to disappear.<BR />  <BR /> In a shocking twist of fate, Francois was finally arrested when a woman he had raped managed to escape from his house and ran into a roadblock set up by Siegrist. She led the police back to Francois&rsquo;s home, and the hall monitor soon gave a full confession and cut a deal with the prosecution. By then, cops in Tyvek suits had already found eight bodies concealed in the attic and crawl space of Francois&rsquo;s house of horrors. To this day, one victim is still missing.<BR /><BR /> From the author of numerous true crime books, including <I>Lobster Boy</I> and <I>Deacon of Death</I>, this is the frightening story of a brutal murderer whose neighbors never suspected what was going on behind his front door.<BR />  </div>

Body Dump

<div><B>Baptist deacon, family man, pillar of his Florida community . . . and serial killer of prostitutes: chilling true crime from the author of <I>Lobster Boy</I>.</B><BR />  <BR /> By day, Sam Smithers was the deacon of his Baptist church in Plant City, Florida, a respected neighbor to many, and a devoted husband and father. But after the sun set, he became something else: a violent attacker&mdash;and killer&mdash;of prostitutes.<BR />  <BR /> Smithers&rsquo;s twisted double life came to light when a local woman who had hired him to take care of her property found him in her garage, cleaning an ax&mdash;and then discovered a puddle of blood. Through exclusive interviews with Smithers&rsquo;s wife, who described her spouse as nothing but a doting husband and father, author Fred Rosen learned why this man of God, raised in an intensely religious Tennessee home, was the last person anyone would suspect of committing these savage crimes. Rosen reveals the details behind the deaths of Christy Cowan and Denise Roach after Smithers picked them up in Tampa&mdash;and the fate of a man who seemed holier than thou, but was actually guilty as sin.<BR />  </div>

Deacon of Death

<div><B>Two brothers turn from Jehovah&rsquo;s Witnesses in Allentown, PA, to neo-Nazi murderers in this true crime investigation from the author of <I>Lobster Boy</I>.</B><BR /><BR /> Raised as Jehovah&rsquo;s Witnesses and frustrated with their parents&rsquo; repressive rules, Bryan and David Freeman rebelled as teenagers. Encouraged by an acquaintance he met while institutionalized at a reform school, Bryan became a neo-Nazi. Bryan then indoctrinated David, and their flare for defiance took a dark turn. After callously murdering their father, mother, and younger brother, the skinhead brothers took flight across America, with police from three states in hot pursuit. They were eventually captured in Michigan and returned to Pennsylvania for trial.<BR />  <BR /> During the trial, author Fred Rosen uncovered evidence that one of the brothers might not have been as culpable as authorities claimed, and divulged the history of a family torn apart by stringent religious beliefs.</div>

Blood Crimes

<div><B>The shocking expos&eacute; of a carny&rsquo;s murder arranged by his wife&mdash;and the daughter who threatened the author to keep the truth from getting out.</B><BR /><BR /> In his account of the sensational life and murder of Grady Stiles Jr., also known as the legendary carnival &ldquo;freak&rdquo; Lobster Boy, author Fred Rosen explains how Stiles&rsquo;s death was engineered by his wife, Mary Teresa, the carny known as the Electrified Girl. Rosen describes how Mary Teresa arranged for her husband&rsquo;s murder after years of physical and emotional abuse. The narrative is full of appearances from the couple&rsquo;s colorful acquaintances, including the World&rsquo;s Only Living Half Girl, Midget Man, and the Human Blockhead.<BR />  <BR /> During Mary Teresa&rsquo;s dramatic trial, Rosen becomes a character in his own book. When both he and the prosecution are threatened by Mary Teresa&rsquo;s daughter, who Rosen believes was a co-conspirator although she was never indicted, the writer risks his life in pursuit of the truth and the evidence that leads to Mary Teresa&rsquo;s conviction.</div>

Lobster Boy

<div><B>Nine of the most controversial violent crimes in America&rsquo;s history are reexamined in these compelling stories of true crime </B><BR />  <BR /> Dr. Samuel Mudd set John Wilkes Booth&rsquo;s broken ankle, but was he actually part of the larger conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln? Did Lizzie Borden brutally murder her own parents in Massachusetts? Was admitted jihadist Zacarias Moussaoui really involved in the terrorist plot to destroy the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001? In a series of provocative and eye-opening true crime investigations, author Fred Rosen revisits some of the most shocking and notorious crimes in America over the past two centuries to determine once and for all . . . did they really do it?<BR />  <BR /> Applying logic and techniques of modern criminology while reexamining the crime scenes, official police records, and the original courtroom testimonies of witnesses and the accused, Rosen explores nine infamous crimes that rocked the nation and the verdicts that were ultimately handed down. From Ethel and Julius Rosenberg&rsquo;s execution for treason to the kidnapping and killing of the Lindbergh baby to the Ku Klux Klan slayings of three civil rights workers in Mississippi to 9/11, the alleged perpetrators get another day in court as Rosen calls into question the circumstantial evidence and cultural context that may have determined guilt or innocence in each case.</div>

Did They Really Do It?

<div><B>A riveting true account of gold rush fever in mid-nineteenth-century America, rich with the thrilling exploits of daring fortune seekers and dangerous outlaws</B><BR /><BR /> America was never the same after January 24, 1848. It was on that day that a carpenter named James Marshall discovered a tiny nugget of gold while building a sawmill at Sutter&rsquo;s Fort, just east of Sacramento, California. Marshall&rsquo;s find ignited a fever the nation had never known before, drawing people from all over the country to the West Coast with high hopes of getting rich quick. Over the next six years, three hundred thousand prospectors raced to the California gold fields to make their fortunes, leaving their lands and families behind in order to chase a dream of easy wealth, but all too often encountering a reality of lawlessness, disease, cruelty, and death.<BR />  <BR /> A former columnist for the <I>New York Times</I>, author Fred Rosen takes readers back to the seminal moment when the American dream exploded. Chock full of fascinating details, unforgettable characters, and shocking real-life events, the captivating true story of the California gold rush brings an era of unparalleled change to breathtaking life. Rosen&rsquo;s enthralling history of the gold rush of 1848 demonstrates how this golden ideal was supplanted by a culture of selfishness and greed that endures in America to this very day.</div>

Gold!

<div><B>The true story of Louisiana serial killer Ronald Dominique&rsquo;s ten-year murder spree, the men he slayed, and the detectives who hunted him down.</B><BR /><BR /> In 1997, the bodies of young African American men began turning up in the cane fields of the quiet suburbs of New Orleans. The victims&mdash;many of them transient street hustlers&mdash;had been brutally raped and strangled, but police had no leads on the killer&rsquo;s identity. The murders continued, leaving southeast Louisiana&rsquo;s gay community rattled and authorities desperate for a break in the case. Then, Detectives Dennis Thornton and Dawn Bergeron came together as task force partners, indefatigable in their decade-long effort to track down the killer.<BR />  <BR /> In 2006, DNA evidence finally linked the murders to a suspect: the unassuming Ronald Joseph Dominique, who had lived under the radar for years, working as a pizza deliveryman and meter reader. But who was Ronald Dominique and what led him to commit such heinous crimes?<BR />  <BR /> With direct access to the investigation, Dominique&rsquo;s confession, and all of the killer&rsquo;s body dump sites in throughout the state, author Fred Rosen enters the warped mind of a murderer and captures a troubled, disturbing, and broken life. As with the many other serial killers he has covered, including Jeffrey Dahmer (the Milwaukee Cannibal) and Dennis Rader (the BTK Killer), Rosen provides a horrifying and fascinating account of the lengths to which a bloodthirsty monster will go to lure and brutalize his victims.</div>

The Bayou Strangler

<div><B>Four bizarre true crime stories about serial killers, murder sprees, sideshows, and church pulpits in one sensational volume.</B><BR /><BR /> These grisly true crime books by a former <I>New York Times </I>columnist chronicle four shocking and disturbing cases.<BR />  <BR /><I>Body Dump</I>: Few people in Poughkeepsie, New York, paid mind when prostitutes started vanishing off the streets. Nor did anyone have hard evidence to link the disappearances to suspect Kendall Francois, a slovenly middle school hall monitor nicknamed Stinky. Then, one woman escaped his house of horrors and led authorities to the ghastly secrets hidden in Francois&rsquo;s attic.<BR />  <BR /><I>Flesh Collectors</I>: When social misfit Jeremiah Rodgers and racist devil-worshipper Jonathan Lawrence met in a Florida penal system mental hospital, they discovered a mutual lust for sadism. Then, they were released. What followed was a thrill-killing spree of murder, rape, and cannibalism&mdash;the makings of an &ldquo;unforgettable . . . true crime classic&rdquo; (Dan Zupansky, host of Blog Talk Radio&rsquo;s <I>True Murder</I>).<BR />  <BR /><I>Lobster Boy</I>: With his lobster-claw hands and stunted legs, Grady Stiles Jr. traveled the carnival circuit as Lobster Boy. He was also a violently dangerous husband and father who had been convicted once before of murder. After years of abuse, his wife&mdash;a sideshow wonder known as the Electrified Girl&mdash;fought back with a murder-for-hire.<BR />  <BR /><I>Deacon of Death</I>: By day, Sam Smithers, deacon of the Baptist church in Plant City, Florida, was a family man beyond reproach. By night, he was a sex-addicted killer who trolled for prostitutes. When the decomposed bodies of two women were found off a rural road in Tampa, no one suspected the clergyman. Then one day, a local woman saw sweet Mr. Smithers cleaning his bloody axe.</div>

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