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Berry, Amanda
Hope : a memoir of survival in Cleveland
Two victims of an infamous Cleveland kidnapper share the story of their abductions, their decade in captivity and their dramatic escape.
364.154 BERRY
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Bugliosi, Vincent
Helter skelter : the true story of the Manson murders
Presents the gripping story of this famous and haunting crime. Prosecuting attorney in the Manson trial, Vincent Bugliosi, held a unique insider's position in one of the most baffling and horrifying cases of the twentieth century: the cold-blooded Tate-LaBianca murders carried out by Charles Manson and four of his followers.
364.1523 BUGLIOSI
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Dugard, Jaycee Lee
A stolen life : a memoir
The memoir of Jaycee Dugard who was kidnapped on June 10, 1991, when she was 11 years old, and was missing for over 18 years before her reappearance in 2009.
B DUGARD DUGARD
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Graeber, Charles
The good nurse : a true story of medicine, madness, and murder
After his December 2003 arrest, registered nurse Charlie Cullen was quickly dubbed "The Angel of Death" by the media. But Cullen was no mercy killer, nor was he a simple monster. He was a favorite son, husband, beloved father, best friend, and celebrated caregiver. Implicated in the deaths of as many as 300 patients, he was also perhaps the most prolific serial killer in American history.
364.1523 GRAEBER
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Grisham, John
The innocent man : murder and injustice in a small town
Presents the real-life case of Ron Williamson, a mentally ill former baseball player who was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death for the 1982 murder of a 21-year-old woman in his Oklahoma hometown.
345.766 GRISHAM
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Kerman, Piper
Orange is the new black : my year in a women's prison
Author Piper Kerman's wild past comes back to haunt her and results in her arrest and detention in a federal penitentiary. To pay her debt to society, Piper trades her comfortable New York life for an orange prison jumpsuit and finds unexpected conflict and camaraderie amidst an eccentric group of inmates.
365.4309 KERMAN
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Krakauer, Jon
Missoula : rape and the justice system in a college town
From bestselling author Jon Krakauer, a stark, powerful, meticulously reported narrative about a series of sexual assaults at the University of Montana, stories that illuminate the human drama behind the national plague of campus rape.
362.883 KRAKAUER
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Leveritt, Mara
Devil's knot : the true story of the West Memphis three
A comprehensive look at the guilty verdicts given to three young men in Arkansas, known as the West Memphis Three, for the murder of three eight-year-old boys in 1993 and discusses whether the case was handled correctly.
364.1523 LEVERITT
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O'Reilly, Bill
Killing Kennedy : the end of Camelot
Recounts the murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and how gunshots on a Dallas afternoon not only killed a beloved president but also sent the nation into the cataclysmic division of the Vietnam War and its culture-changing aftermath.
973.922 OREILLY
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Olsen, Gregg
Starvation heights
Tells the story of Dr. Linda Burfield Hazzard, who ran a sanatorium in Seattle where a British heiress died of starvation in 1911.
364.1523 OLSEN
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Preston, Douglas J
The monster of Florence
New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston teams up with Italian investigative journalist Mario Spezi to present a gripping account of crime and punishment in the lush hills surrounding Florence, Italy. The Monster of Florence is a remarkable and harrowing story involving murder, mutilation, and suicide--and at the center of it, Preston and Spezi are caught in a bizarre prosecutorial vendetta.
364.1523 PRESTON
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Smart, Elizabeth
My story
Ten years after her abduction from her Salt Lake City bedroom, Elizabeth Smart's powerful memoir reveals how she survived and the secret to forging a new life in the wake of a brutal crime.
B SMART SMART
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Last updated January 2016
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