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While Idaho Slept, by J. Reuben Appelman You know the story from the headlines: In the early morning hours of November 13, 2022, four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death in their ...
The infamous Charles Manson murders are front and center in Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders, the best-selling true-crime book in history. And this one’s a bit personal—one ...
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town is a 2006 true crime book by John Grisham, his first nonfiction title. The book tells the story of Ronald 'Ron' Keith Williamson of Ada, Oklahoma, a former minor league baseball player who was wrongly convicted in 1988 of the rape and murder of Debra Sue Carter in Ada and was sentenced to death.
[citation needed] On 18 January 1960, Time magazine published "Kansas: The Killers", a story about the murders. [21] Inspired by that article, Truman Capote wrote, in 1965 serialized in The New Yorker, and in 1966 published, as a "non-fiction novel", In Cold Blood, a true-crime book that detailed the murders and trial. Due to the brutality and ...
Judge David Burnett – Judge presiding over the trials; portrayed in the book as stubborn and biased toward the prosecution. Ron Lax – Private Investigator who lends his services to Damien Echols and goes on to uncover many details of concern surrounding the arrests and trials. Christopher Byers – Murder victim; Michael Moore – Murder victim
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland is a 2018 book by writer and journalist Patrick Radden Keefe. It focuses on the Troubles in Northern Ireland. It spent six weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list and received widespread critical acclaim. It was adapted into a 2024 limited series for Hulu and Disney+.
Both the book Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland and the FX show center on a particular case: the 1972 disappearance (later confirmed as a murder) of Jean ...
[1] The American book reviewer magazine Kirkus calls the book "a thrilling and suspenseful page-turner that is sure to be loved by the majority of readers, who will be both horrified and fascinated." [2] Liz Raftery, correspondent for The Boston Globe sees it as "a standout true-crime book...both a thrilling horror story and a cautionary tale."