They say everything is bigger in Texas and that also seems to apply to legal blunders. 

There is no doubt there is a fascination we have with understanding the working minds of murderers, killers and especially serial killers.

The kidnapping of J. Paul Getty III in 1973 made international headlines.  

      The book,  "The Killer of Little Shepherds: a True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science" recounts the story of French serial killer Joseph Vacher and his crime spree at the end of the nineteenth century. This criminal was finally caught through one of the earliest uses of criminal profiling, by criminologists

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Books about:

• True Crime books about murder
• Arthur Ellis Award winners for best non-fiction (formerly True Crime)

Authors who write True Crime:

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