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morbidology · 7 months

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My 5th book, Killers Caught, is available to purchase in the United Kingdom and Ireland today! It’s available everywhere else on the 17th. You can get it on Amazon and all good bookstores!

They thought they had got away with murder. They were wrong.

Discover the vital clues, the crucial evidence, the lucky breaks, the chases, the painstaking detective work, and the unlikely heroes that led to the capture of some of the world’s most notorious murderers and serial killers, such as “The Good Nurse” poisoner Charles Cullen, finally detected by a young colleague; “Night Stalker” Richard Ramirez, spotted by a 13-year-old boy; “ Son of Sam”, unmasked by a parking ticket; John Wayne Gacy, connected to his final victim by a stray receipt; and, Rodney Alcala, spotted on a TV game show...

Killers Caught reveals the remarkable circumstances leading to the downfall of these deadly individuals, as well as the stories of how many more of crime’s most notorious and prolific murderers were finally brought to justice.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Killers-Caught-Stories-Extraordinary-Murder/dp/0241645581

#true crime #true crime book #true crime books

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pyramidsoul · 1 year

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Dahmer’s Books Reviews

I decided I could post my personal reviews about Dahmer’s books I’ve read, with a unique review template I created hoping it works well. I hope these can help people who wants to buy Dahmer’s books or just create a discussion with people who read them as well. With this I don’t mean to say my opinion is absolute, tastes are different and I saw people who have different opinions than mines already. I also want to state I’m not a professional at this, everything is amateurish and I manly did this for fun. I’m not even a big reader too. So let’s take it easy, everything is personal! Also: I’m currently reading more, so as I’ll finish the other books I can post the new ones too!

These are all the books I’ve read till now, but more are coming since I have some more few books at home which are waiting. I’m not sure when I’ll be able to start/finish them, but for now I can offer you the most discussed Dahmer books at least.

Books I’m going to do a review next:

The Psych Reports by Taylor James*;

Monster: The True Story of the Jeffrey Dahmer Murders by Anne E Schwartz*;

Milwaukee Massacre: Jeffery Dahmer and the Milwaukee Murders by Robert Dvorchak;

The Jeffrey Dahmer Story: An American Nightmare by Don Davis.

*the books I’m planning to read next

#jeff dahmer #true crime #jeffrey dahmer #books #crime books #true crime books

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popcorn-plots · 1 month

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Welp. I found the first true crime book that practically had me gagging. Not because of the murder, hell no, but because of the writing. Imo, at least.

#true crime #true crime books #bad writing

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lyanmeart · 2 months

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Enjoy the dark world of the Macabre?

Working on a series of bookmarks with book genres.

First up are two perfect pairs.

True crime and Horror.

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absolutelyfuckinggnobody · 1 month

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annotating my night stalker book finallyyyy

#richard rameriz #truecrime #true crime books #the night stalker

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ashintheairlikesnow · 2 years

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I am about to finish up a book on John Wayne Gacy's victims that sort of just tells the stories of a few of them through the eyes of the loved ones left behind. It's almost an ensemble coming-of-age summer story, the individuals sometimes bouncing off each other's lives and sometimes never knowing each other at all.

What each of them had in common was that, in a shockingly small period of time, all of them walked into a small, unassuming house and never walked back out again.

What they all had in common was that a man whose previous sexual assaults SHOULD have put him in prison for life was walking free, and they fell prey to his violent, arrogant depravity.

You don't even get to Gacy himself until more than halfway through it, nearly two-thirds. Until that point, you get to know Rob Piest, and John Szyc, and Jon Prestige and Randy Reffett and Dale Lindingen and John Butkovich and Gregory Godzik - not even half of the boys and men who deserved more time - and you get a look at the lives they were leading that came to such an abrupt end.

Gacy, as the one who ended them, is not an afterthought but he IS secondary to the boys, and their families and boyfriends and girlfriends and friends. He is secondary. He is less than them.

As he always should have been.

It's not the way books like this are often written, but it matters so much to tell the boys' stories first. They should have had more time. Their stories should have been longer.

Boys Enter the House.

#true crime #john wayne gacy #boys enter the house #books #true crime books #nonfiction #bookworm #ash rambles

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criminol · 1 year

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The Murder of Daniella Gazolla

Daniella Ferrante Perez Gazolla was a Brazilian actress and dancer, she had been interested in performing arts since she was a young child and had been on television acting and dancing. In 1990, Daniella married actor Raul Gazolla.

On 28th December 1992, Daniella was ambushed by her former co-actor Guilherme de Pádua and his wife, Paula Nogueira Thomáz. She was killed by 18 stab wounds to her neck and chest. Pádua attended Daniella’s funeral before the authorities realised he had murdered her.

The motive for the murder was jealousy- Pádua resented that Danielle was getting more screen time that him on the soap opera they both acted in. Thomáz was jealous of Daniella’s love scenes with her husband. The pair discussed their dislike of Daniella and planned the murder together.

Pádua and Thomáz were convicted of second degree murder and only served 9 of their 18 year sentences much to the outrage of the public. After Daniella’s mother campaigned the pair were eventually forced to pay compensation to Daniella’s family.

#thomaz #padua #murder #homicide #crime #truecrime #true crime #truecrimeblog #truecrimecommunity #truecrimejunkie #truecrimebloggers #true crime case #true crime blog #true crime books #true crime central #tcc

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morbidology · 6 months

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Killers Caught, my most recent true crime book, is now available to purchase worldwide! You can pick up a copy in all good book stores or Amazon.

They thought they had got away with murder. They were wrong.

Killers Caught delves into the extraordinary chain of events that led to the downfall and apprehension of some of the world’s most heinous killers, bringing them to justice.

Discover the vital clues, the crucial evidence, the lucky breaks, the chases, the painstaking detective work, and the unlikely heroes that led to the capture of some of the world's most notorious murderers and serial killers, including Charles Cullen, dubbed "The Good Nurse," caught by a perceptive colleague; "Night Stalker" Richard Ramirez, identified by a 13-year-old boy; "Son of Sam," exposed by a parking ticket; John Wayne Gacy, traced through a stray receipt to his final victim, and Rodney Alcala, recognized from his appearance on a TV game show.

https://amzn.to/3M6EAiJ

#true crime #true crime book #true crime books

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we-are-all-of-legend-now · 1 year

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Currently reading: by Lucinda Roy

Summary: The world watched in horror in April 2007 when Virginia Tech student Seung-Hui Cho went on a killing rampage that resulted in the deaths of thirty-two students and faculty members before he ended his own life.

Former Virginia Tech English department chair and distinguished professor Lucinda Roy saw the tragedy unfold on the TV screen in her home and had a terrible realization. Cho was the student she had struggled to get to know–the loner who found speech torturous. After he had been formally asked to leave a poetry class in which he had shared incendiary work that seemed directed at his classmates and teacher, Roy began the difficult task of working one-on-one with him in a poetry tutorial. During those months, a year and a half before the massacre, Roy came to realize that Cho was more than just a disgruntled young adult experimenting with poetic license; he was, in her opinion, seriously depressed and in urgent need of intervention.

But when Roy approached campus counseling as well as others in the university about Cho, she was repeatedly told that they could not intervene unless a student sought counseling voluntarily. Eventually, Roy’s efforts to persuade Cho to seek help worked. Unbelievably, on the three occasions he contacted the counseling center staff, he did not receive a comprehensive evaluation by them–a startling discovery Roy learned about after Cho’s death. More revelations were to follow. After responding to questions from the media and handing over information to law enforcement as instructed by Virginia Tech, Roy was shunned by the administration. Papers documenting Cho’s interactions with campus counseling were lost. The university was suddenly on the defensive.

Was the university, in fact, partially responsible for the tragedy because of the bureaucratic red tape involved in obtaining assistance for students with mental illness, or was it just, like many colleges, woefully underfunded and therefore underequipped to respond to such cases? Who was Seung-Hui Cho? Was he fully protected under the constitutional right to freedom of speech, or did his writing and behavior present serious potential threats that should have resulted in immediate intervention? How can we balance students’ individual freedom with the need to protect the community? These are the questions that have haunted Roy since that terrible day.

No Right to Remain Silent is one teacher’s cri de coeur–her dire warning that given the same situation today, two years later, the ending would be no less terrifying and no less tragic.

#brea reads things #Lucinda roy #no right to remain silent #No Right To Remain Silent What We've Learned From The Tragedy At Virginia Tech #virginia tech #true crime #true crime bookblr #true crime books #bookblr #currently reading #reader #school shootings

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nerdynatreads · 2 years

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book review || Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History by Tori Telfer

video review || TLDR Version -- September Wrap Up || 13 books!

A perfect kind of stay sexy and don’t get murdered book!

I really enjoyed this, with each chapter being dedicated to a woman serial killer, many of whom I’ve never heard. The author comments in her conclusion that she chose killers from history instead of more recent cases, and I think that definitely worked in her favor for the overarching theme she discussed. It’s easier for us to distance ourselves from these sorts of killers when the most recent was from the 1950s, but it also ensures separation from negatively impacting families of victims. She gives a variety of women from different time periods, from all over the world, and different MOs (though still, lots of poison).

For the most part, this is a quick snippet of these women’s lives, the lead-up to their murders, and their endings, with an occasional discussion into the public’s reaction or how these women were talked about in media and legends. There’s an ongoing point about the dismissal of female killers in comparison to male killers as well. I could have done a bit more digging into those topics to really have this make more of an impact. But, the overall tone of this is very relaxed, with an almost conversational quality to the stories told, which makes sense given that Telfer hosts a historical true crime podcast.

There are creepy portraits of each killer to introduce the chapter, with clever little clues as to what you can expect, which also added well to the aesthetic of the book.

Across the board, I really enjoyed learning about these women and am definitely going to check out Telfer’s newest book.

4 / 5 stars