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Fatal: The Poisonous Life of a Female Serial Killer

10 best books like Fatal: The Poisonous Life of a Female Serial Killer (Harold Schechter): The Boy in the Box: The Unsolved Case Of America's Unknown Child, The Father of Forensics: The Groundbreaking Cases of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, and the Beginnings of Modern CSI, Death at the Priory: Love, Sex, and Murder in Victorian England, Bath Massacre: America's First School Bombing, The Man With The Candy: The Story of The Houston Mass Murders, Mad Mary Lamb: Lunacy and Murder in Literary London, Kentucky Bloodbath: Ten Bizarre Tales of Murder from the Bluegrass State, A Sniper in the Tower: The Charles Whitman Murders, The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York, The World's Most Bizarre Murders: True Stories That Will Shock and Amaze You

The Boy in the Box: The Unsolved Case Of America's Unknown Child
AuthorDavid Stout
ISBN1599212692
On February 25, 1957, the nude, badly bruised body of a young boy was found in a cardboard box in trash-strewn woods of north Philadelphia. Posters of the “Boy in the Box” soon dotted the city and police stations nationwide—to no avail. In November 1998 the remains were exhumed for DNA analysis,...
The Father of Forensics: The Groundbreaking Cases of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, and the Beginnings of Modern CSI
AuthorColin Evans
ISBN0425210073
Before there was CSI, there was one man who saw beyond the crime-and into the future of forensic science.

His name was Bernard Spilsbury-and, through his use of cutting-edge science, he single-handedly brought criminal investigations into the modern age. Starting out as a young, charismatic...
Death at the Priory: Love, Sex, and Murder in Victorian England
AuthorJames Ruddick
ISBN0802139744
In 1875 the beautiful widow Florence Ricardo married the handsome and successful young attorney Charles Bravo, hoping to escape the scandals of her past. But Bravo proved to be a brutal and conniving man, and the marriage was far from happy. Then one night he suddenly collapsed, and three days later...
Bath Massacre: America's First School Bombing
AuthorArnie Bernstein
ISBN0472033468
On May 18, 1927, in a horrific conflagration of dynamite and blood, a madman forever changed a small Michigan town. Bath Massacre takes readers back more than eighty years to that fateful day, when Andrew Kehoe set off a cache of explosives concealed in the basement of the local school, killing thirty-eight...
The Man With The Candy: The Story of The Houston Mass Murders
AuthorJack Olsen
ISBN0965765083
The title is misleading, it should have been called The Man Who Really Liked Killing Teenage Boys. That said, this is a beautifully written account of one of the worst crimes in American crime history, which is saying, you know, a lot. And it’s a strangely unknown crime too, not famous at all like your...
Mad Mary Lamb: Lunacy and Murder in Literary London
AuthorSusan Tyler Hitchcock
ISBN0393327531
After killing her mother with a carving knife, Mary Lamb spent the rest of her life in and out of madhouses; yet the crime and its aftermath opened up a new life. Freed to read extensively, she discovered her talent for writing and, with her brother, the essayist Charles Lamb, collaborated on the famous...
Kentucky Bloodbath: Ten Bizarre Tales of Murder from the Bluegrass State
AuthorKevin M. Sullivan
New From The Author of Vampire: The Richard Chase Murders and The Bundy Murders!
Think Kentucky is all about horses and mint juleps? You may revise that image with this excursion into the weird and the bizarre: from a medieval-esque murder in a small town museum to the jilted boyfriend who decided...
A Sniper in the Tower: The Charles Whitman Murders
AuthorGary M. Lavergne
ISBN1574410296
On August 1, 1966, Charles Whitman ascended the University of Texas Tower and committed what was then the largest simultaneous mass murder in American history. He gunned down forty-five people inside and around the Tower before he was killed by two Austin police officers. In addition to promoting...
The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York
AuthorPatricia Cline Cohen
ISBN0679740759
In 1836, the murder of a young prostitute made headlines in New York City and around the country, inaugurating a sex-and-death sensationalism in news reporting that haunts us today. Patricia Cline Cohen goes behind these first lurid accounts to reconstruct the story of the mysterious victim, Helen...
The World's Most Bizarre Murders: True Stories That Will Shock and Amaze You
AuthorJames Marrison
ISBN1844546675
From the stomach-churning to the truly bizarre, the details of some of history’s weirdest and most shocking murder cases are collected in this enthralling volume. The criminals covered here all perpetrated crimes with a peculiar twist, among them Enriqueta Marti, who kidnapped children then...
Killing for Company: The Case of Dennis Nilsen
AuthorBrian Masters
ISBN0099552612
On February 9th 1983 Dennis Nilsen was arrested at his Muswell Hill home, after human remains had been identified as the cause of blocked drains.

Within days he had confessed to fifteen gruesome murders over a period of four years. His victims, all young homosexual men, had never been reported...
Jack the Ripper: A Journal of the Whitechapel Murders 1888-1889
AuthorRick Geary
ISBN1561633089
*Book source ~ Library

From Goodreads:
Rick has researched this book extensively and presents, with his own inimitable tongue-in-cheek style, the jack The Ripper mystery as told through a journal of a fascinated Englishman of the day. Both factual and darkly funny, Geary's personal...
London 1849: A Victorian Murder Story
AuthorMichael Alpert
ISBN0582772907
A sensational story of murder, trial and public revenge influenced the great writers and commentators of the day. As much a book about London as the story of a murder books about London sell. Full of fascinating detail about mid-Victorian London in the vein of Peter Ackroyd social history at its best.
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Perfect Poison: A Female Serial Killer's Deadly Medicine
AuthorM. William Phelps
ISBN0786015500
Lots of thoughts on this book sadly not alot of them are good.
Perfect poison uses just last names then just first names and i didnt know who was who (which was really annoying). The beginning made me feel like i was reading through a doctors file (which was kinda the point), but it was a little much. But...
Dead And Buried: A Shocking Account of Rape, Torture, and Murder on the California Coast
AuthorCorey Mitchell
ISBN0786015179
The Face Of Death On the night of November 12, 1998, in San Luis Obispo, California, attractive blonde college student Rachel Newhouse was walking home alone when suddenly a stranger appeared in front of her. His visage was a skull-face: a grotesque Halloween mask. Beating her unconscious with his...
Buried Secrets: A True Story of Drug Running, Black Magic, and Human Sacrifice
AuthorEdward Humes
A book documenting the mass sacrificial murders on the border [and Mexico City:] in the late 80s. Buried Secrets is a mostly ghastly account of a few of the Palo Mayombe cult members and the officers who led the hunt for these perverse fugitives. Atrocities committed ranged from rape to mutilation, accompanied...
Dismembered
AuthorSusan D. Mustafa
ISBN0786023619
Includes Killer's Gruesome Confession!

"She had beautiful legs. I wanted to keep those legs."

One by one, investigators found the women's bodies. Each one carefully posed. Each one brutally mutilated. An arm here. A leg there. A breast, nipples, a tattoo. The killer was cutting...
Witch: The True Story of Las Vegas' Most Notorious Female Killer
AuthorGlenn Puit
ISBN0425207196
The first half was better than a 3 star, at least 4. And the autopsy process and the entire progression of procedures to get the victim to the autopsy was 5 star.

But the second half of the book was mostly straight transcript or neighbor witness "word for word".

This was a truly sick, sick...
Killer Nurse
AuthorJohn Foxjohn
ISBN0425263657
She was hired to nurse them back to health...instead, she took their lives.

For months, the DaVita Dialysis Center in Lufkin, Texas had been baffled by the rising number of deaths and injuries occurring in their clinic. In April alone, they’d rushed thirty-four patients to the hospital....
One of Your Own: The Life and Death of Myra Hindley
AuthorCarol Ann Lee
ISBN1845965450

Myra Hindley was Britain’s most hated woman ever. She died in 2002 aged 60 from bronchial pneumonia and had been in prison for 36 years, since she was 23, the third longest serving British prisoner of all time. (The second longest is her boyfriend, still in jail, still alive, aged 75.) If she had...
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