Ann Rule brings her brilliantly informed understanding of the sociopath to this riveting true crime collection. Only Rule, who unknowingly worked alongside the smart and charming Ted Bundy-America's most notorious serial killer-could lend her razor-sharp insight into these cases of the spouse, lover, family member or a helpful stranger who is ...
From Americas #1 true crime writer and "New York Times" bestselling author comes her most engrossing book ever: a 14-year saga of treachery, jealousy, and murder, about two women who learned the truth too late about Dr. Bart Corbin of Atlanta.
Ex-Seattle police officer and critically acclaimed bestselling true crime author Ann Rule covers a hometown case: the hunt for the notorious Green River killer. Gary Ridgway killed dozens of young women in the Seattle area in the early eighties, and remained at large for nearly 20 years before DNA evidence definitively identified him and led to ...
Ann Rule was a writer working on the biggest story of her life, tracking down a brutal mass-murderer. Little did she know that the young man who was her close friend was the savage slayer she was hunting. Ted Bundy was everyone's picture of a natural 'winner' - handsome, charming, brilliant in law school, successful with women, on the verge of a ...
In 1997, Sheila Bellush was murdered in her kitchen while her four toddlers (quadruplets) looked on. Eventually, her ex-husband, a Texas millionaire, was convicted of hiring Bellush's killer. In her latest true-crime saga, Rule delves into this harrowing story.
In the bestselling tradition of In Cold Blood, The Stranger Beside Me, and Fatal Vision, comes Small Sacrifices, the harrowing, headline-breaking story of Diane Downs, a woman so desperate for love and attention that she would attempt to murder her three children to please a man who wanted none. "A work of resonance and revelation with breath ...
In this shocking investigation, centered in a world of successful politicians, best-selling true crime author Anne Rule details the adulterous love affair between a governor's beautiful secretary and the acclaimed attorney who was convicted of murdering her.
Originally published under the pseudonym Andy Stack, this is the story of Harvey Louis Carignan, one of the most brilliant and savage sex-killers of our time. Here, complete with victim and police testimonies, is one of the most shattering of current crime stories, including 8 pages of photos.
Linda Slawson disappeared while trying to make a living selling encyclopaedias door-to-door. Jan Whitney never completed her two-hour drive home on the freeway. Karen Sprinkler failed to turn up for lunch with her mother. As a pattern of disappearances emerges, Oregon State Police launch a search for the sadistic monster capable of the most grisly ...
An ideal family is targeted for death by the least likely enemy, who plotted their demise from behind bars...A sexual predator hides behind multiple fake identities, eluding police for years while his past victims live in fear that he will hunt them down...A modest preacher's wife confesses to shooting her husband after an argument -- but there's ...
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ann Rule, a true story of obsessive love, murder, and betrayal. A series of brilliantly manipulated crimes brings two families to ruin, and at the center of it all is a sociopath whose evil hides behind her soft words and gentle manners. To be the subject of a two-hour ABC-TV miniseries. 32-page insert.
The explosive story of four talented, handsome, and charismatic young men--best friends whose bond is shattered when one among them becomes consumed by lethal greed and twisted desire.
After her police-officer husband is killed in a terrible accident while they are wilderness camping, Joanne Lindstrom must depend for her survival on violent, cunning Duane Demich, who may have planned the accident.
Award-winning student Randall Woodfield was every college girl's dream - and nightmare. This "boy-next-door" type cruised an 800-mile-long northwestern highway, the I-5 in search of his prey - woman of all ages. He subjected them to horrifying abuse and notched up at least 44 victims before he was caught and convicted. This is his story.
Rule takes readers on a spine-tingling journey across America to visit places where the dead refuse to rest as she uncovers ghost stories that will chill readers to the marrow. Photos.
True-crime specialist Rule here examines the murder of Chris Northon in 2000. Northon's wife, Liysa, was convicted of the crime, though she claimed that she shot him in self defense. Rule delves into Liysa's past (both real and manufactured), looks at the claims of Chris's family, and pieces together the events that lead the pair, along with one ...
The "New York Times" bestselling true-crime author updates some of the most astonishing cases from the eight volumes of her stunning Case Files series and presents shocking, all-new true-crime accounts, in one riveting anthology. Original.
Following the success of four top-ten New York Times bestsellers, former Seattle policewoman Ann Rule offers readers Volume Two of her Crime Files. In the trademark style that makes her books such extraordinary pageturners, Rule now focuses on one of Florida's most shocking criminal cases: that of the state trooper who hid bizarre and fatal ...
A ship's pilot legendary for guiding mammoth freighters through the narrows of Puget Sound, Rolf Neslund was a proud Norwegian, a ladies' man, and a beloved resident of Washington State's idyllic Lopez Island. Virtually indestructible even into his golden years, he made electrifying headlines more than once: after a ship he was helming crashed ...
"America's best true-crime writer" ("Kirkus Reviews") presents an all-new collection of crime stories drawn from her private files. Featured is the story of cosmetic surgeon Anthony Pignataro, a surgical sociopath who carved a deadly swath across western New York State, perceiving himself as a medical genius being persecuted by a cruel and jealous ...
In her latest collection of fascinating case studies, former Seattle policewoman and bestselling author Ann Rule confirms her status as the Queen of True Crime. The title story is a gripping account of the shocking murder of Adrianne Jones by Diane Zamora and David Graham, students at the Naval Academy and the Air Force Academy. This and other ...
With this gripping true crime anthology, the first in a 5-book series, former Seattle policewoman and #1 New York Times bestselling author Ann Rule turns her unflinching eye on compelling true crime accounts from her personal case files.
The story of Bradley Morris Cunningham, a handsome and charming entrepreneur who married five women and devastated or destroyed each one - through bankruptcy, beating, cheating and killing. The author won the 1994 Anthony Award for Best True Crime Book, for "A Rose for Her Grave".
From the "New York Times" bestselling true-crime writer comes the tenth shocking collection of true stories from her personal crime files. Rule expertly analyzes these headline-making cases, unmasking the deadly motives behind the appalling crimes. Original.
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