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    The Creation of a Serial Killer

    by Jack Olsen ...
    The prize-winning, bestselling journalist provides a fascinating glimpse into the mind of "The Happy Face Killer" in the serial murderer's own words . . .In February 1990, Oregon State Police arrested John Sosnovke and Laverne Pavlinac for the vicious rape and murder of Taunja Bennet, a troubled twenty-three-year-old barfly who had a mild intellectual disability since birth. There was just one ... Read more

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  • Night of the Grizzlies

    by Jack Olsen ...
    For fifty-seven years, the grizzly bears of Glacier National Park had never killed a human being.That ended on the night of August 12, 1967.In the dark hours before dawn, in two separate locations miles apart, two grizzly bears attacked two young women sleeping at backcountry campsites. Julie Helgeson, nineteen, a seasonal park employee from Minnesota, was dragged from her sleeping bag near ... Read more

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  • The Bridge at Chappaquiddick

    by Jack Olsen ...
    On the night of July 18, 1969, a black Oldsmobile plunged off a narrow one-lane bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts. By morning, the car had been found submerged. Inside was the body of Mary Jo Kopechne, twenty-eight years old, a former campaign worker for Robert Kennedy. The next morning, Senator Ted Kennedy walked into the Edgartown police station and identified himself as the driver ... Read more

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  • Predator

    Rape, Madness, and Injustice in Seattle

    by Jack Olsen ...
    Winner of the American Mystery Award for Best True Crime, from two-time Edgar Award winner Jack Olsen, known as "the dean of true crime."For more than a decade, a serial rapist moved through the suburbs of Seattle. He was outwardly ordinary: steady job, regular churchgoer, polite and unremarkable to everyone around him. He would eventually confess to more than fifty rapes. Police departments, ... Read more

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  • Doc

    The Rape of the Town of Lovell

    by Jack Olsen ...
    Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime. With a new introduction by bestselling true-crime author Ron Franscell.For twenty-five years, Dr. John Story was the most trusted man in Lovell, Wyoming. He was the town's family doctor, a pillar of the community, a man who delivered babies, treated children, and cared for generations of the same families. He was also systematically raping his ... Read more

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  • The Man with Candy

    by Jack Olsen ...
    Series series For True Crime Fans
    The mass murder of almost thirty young boys in Houston may well have been the most heinous crime of the century. How could such a series of murders go undetected for almost three years before being exposed? The Man with the Candy is a brilliant investigative journalist’s story of the crime and the answer to that question.The night David Hilligiest didn't come home was both like and unlike other ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Give a Boy a Gun

    A True Story of Law and Disorder in the American West

    by Jack Olsen ...
    On January 5, 1981, Idaho game wardens Bill Pogue and Conley Elms rode into the remote Owyhee Desert to check a report of poaching at Claude Dallas's trapping camp. They never rode out.Dallas shot both men. When one fell wounded, he retrieved a .22 rifle and finished the job with a bullet to the head. Then he turned to the witness who had seen everything and said: "This is Murder One for me." He ... Read more

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  • Son: A Psychopath and His Victims

    by Jack Olsen ...
    Winner of the Edgar Award. A New York Times Bestseller.Between 1978 and 1981, a rapist prowled the South Hill neighborhood of Spokane, Washington. He targeted women jogging alone, waiting for buses, walking home after dark. His signature was unmistakable and terrifying: a gloved fist rammed into his victim's mouth to silence her screams. By the time police made an arrest, more than forty women had ... Read more

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  • The Girls on the Campus

    by Jack Olsen ...
    In the early 1970s, Jack Olsen turned his journalistic eye from the corporate women of New York City to the college campuses of America. What he found was a generation in the middle of reinventing itself.Fourteen young women speak here in their own words, without editorial interruption. They are students navigating the collision between the lives their parents imagined for them and the world they ... Read more

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  • Salt of the Earth

    by Jack Olsen ...
    "Jack Olsen's particular gift is his ability to illuminate the souls of his characters." Jonathan KellermanJoe Gere said he died on the afternoon his twelve-year-old daughter Brenda disappeared.In September 1985, Brenda Gere vanished from her family's home in Clearview, Washington. From the first moments of the investigation, suspicion fell on Michael Kay Green, a steroid-abusing bodybuilder with ... Read more

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  • The Misbegotten Son

    A Serial Killer and His Victims

    by Jack Olsen, Katherine Ramsland ...
    From New York Times bestselling author Jack Olsen, known as "the dean of true crime," comes a shattering account of a killer the system created, enabled, and then set loose to kill again.Little Artie Shawcross bullied classmates, started fires, tortured animals, and roamed the woods of upstate New York talking to imaginary friends. He also scored top grades, excelled in sports, and shared his toys ... Read more

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  • Have You Seen My Son?

    by Jack Olsen ...
    "A giggle, a crunch of gravel, a single wave of a grimy hand, and her only child was gone."One cool April day, Mike Pritcher visits the home of his estranged wife, Lael, and takes their five-year-old son, Ace, for an overnight outing. He doesn't bring him back. When Lael calls the police, they tell her it's a domestic matter. When she calls her lawyer, he tells her she has the right to snatch Ace ... Read more

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