The True Crime File Serial Killers, Famous Kidnappings, Great Cons, Survivors Their Stories, Forensics, Oddities PDF
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TRue CrImE FiLe The TRue The Cr I m E Fi Le SSeerriiaall KKiilllleerrss..FFaammoouuss KKiiddnnaappppiinnggss.. GGrreeaatt CCoonnss..SSuurrvviivvoorrss && TThheeiirr SSttoorriieess.. FFoorreennssiiccss..OOddddiittiieess && AAbbssuurrddiittiieess.. QQuuootteess && QQuuiizzzzeess Kim Daly CCOOMMPPIILLEEDD BBYY - - WORKMAN PUBLISHING - NEW YORK - - -------------------------------------------------- Copyright © 2022 Workman Publishing Co., Inc. All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced—mechanically, electronically, or by any other means, including photocopying—without written permission of the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Daly, Kimberly E.- editor. Title: The true crime file : serial killings, famous kidnappings, great cons, survivors & their stories, forensics, and more / compiled by Kim Daly. Description: New York, NY : Workman Publishing, [2022] | Identifiers: LCCN 2021040980 | ISBN 9781523514113 (paperback) Subjects: LCSH: Crime—Case studies. | Criminals—Case studies. Classification: LCC HV6233 .T78 2022 | DDC 364—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021040980 Text by Kim Daly, Sam O’Brien, and Steven Buscok Design by Galen Smith Photo research by Sophia Rieth Cover credit (fingerprints): artemiya/Shutterstock Workman books are available at special discounts when purchased in bulk for premiums and sales promotions as well as for fundraising or educational use. Special editions or book excerpts can also be created to specification. For details, contact the Special Sales Director at [email protected]. Workman Publishing Co., Inc. 225 Varick Street New York, NY 10014-4381 workman.com WORKMAN is a registered trademark of Workman Publishing Co., Inc. Printed in the USA on responsibly sourced paper. First printing March 2022 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 -------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii KILLERS: Charles Manson and His “Family”: To Helter Skelter and Back. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Dee Dee Blanchard: Munchausen to Murder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 A Bombing in Birmingham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20 Ted Bundy: Escapee (and Serial Killer) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 The Murder of Stanford White .......................................................39 Jeffrey Dahmer: The Milwaukee Cannibal ............................................45 The Women of Juárez: Missing and Murdered ........................................70 Richard Ramirez: The Night Stalker .................................................. 71 Belle Gunness: Mistress of Murder Farm ............................................. 77 The Bitch of Buchenwald ............................................................82 Joseph DeAngelo: The Golden State Killer ............................................96 Ed Kemper: Matricidal Monster .....................................................105 John List and the Annihilation of the List Family .................................... 110 Terri Hoffman: Conscious Development’s Trail of Death ............................ 114 John Wayne Gacy: The Killer Clown .................................................120 The Real Amityville Horror Murders .................................................124 David Berkowitz: Son of Sam ........................................................129 Tillie Klimek: The Psychic Serial Killer ...............................................133 H. H. Holmes and the Murder Castle ................................................. 141 Dean Corll: The Houston Candy Man ................................................146 Michael and Suzan Bear Carson: The San Francisco Witch Killers ....................153 Gary Ridgway: The Green River Killer ................................................162 Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield ................................................... 172 Nannie Doss: The Giggling Granny .................................................. 176 Pedro Alonso López: The Monster of the Andes ......................................184 John Hinckley Jr.: Gunning for the Gipper ...........................................188 The Bear Brook Murders ............................................................ 191 -------------------------------------------------- Betty Broderick: Love Triangle Turned Deadly .......................................194 The Zodiac Killer ................................................................... 200 Roch Thériault: The Ant Hill Kids Cult ...............................................210 Alexander Pichushkin: The Chessboard Killer .......................................219 The Poisonous Blanche Taylor Moore ...............................................225 The Murder of Tupac Shakur ...................................................... 228 The Murder of Lana Clarkson .......................................................232 Robert Chambers: The Preppy Murderer ............................................237 The Real Hannibal Lector ........................................................... 241 The Murder of Kim Wall .............................................................243 The Drowning of Natalie Wood ..................................................... 250 Martin Bryant: The Port Arthur Massacre ...........................................253 Leopold and Loeb: The Übermensch Murderers .................................... 259 The Sydney River McDonald’s Murders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 Albert DeSalvo: The Boston Strangler and the Green Man ..........................269 Andreas Lubitz: Murder by Pilot .....................................................278 Charles Starkweather: Mick and Maybe Mallory ....................................289 Stella Nickell: The Excedrin Murders ...............................................303 Daytime Drama: The Murder of Scott Amedure .....................................308 Oscar Pistorius and the Murder of Reeva Steenkamp ................................314 Philip Markoff: The Craigslist Killer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330 Gordon Cummins: The Blackout Ripper ............................................339 Edward Joseph Leonski: The Brownout Strangler ..................................340 Who Killed JonBenét? ..............................................................341 Betty Lou Beets ....................................................................353 Heavenly Creatures: The Parker-Hulme Murders ...................................356 Adam Walsh and America’s Most Wanted ...........................................376 SURVIVORS: Jaycee Lee Dugard ..................................................................12 The Abductions of Shin Sang-ok and Choi Eun-hee ...................................32 Erica Pratt: Super Seven-Year-Old ...................................................44 Patty Hearst and the SLA ............................................................50 Mary Vincent Has Her Day in Court ..................................................74 Jackie Nink Pflug: Super Survivor ....................................................95 El Fusilado and the Firing Squad ....................................................104 -------------------------------------------------- Baby Bump-Off: An Attempted Womb Snatching ....................................145 Kelly Herron: “Not Today, Motherfucker!” ...........................................175 Jennifer Morey and the False Sense of Security .....................................222 Melissa Dohme: Happily Ever After . . . ..............................................246 Elizabeth Shoaf and the Forest Bunker ..............................................273 Colleen Stan: The Girl in the Box ...................................................284 Corazon Amurao Atienza ............................................................297 Terry Jo Duperrault and the Sinking of Bluebelle ....................................307 Escaping the Toy-Box Killer .........................................................317 Natascha Kampusch ...............................................................334 Elizabeth Smart ...................................................................355 The Slender Man Attack ...........................................................364 The Vampire Attack ................................................................382 BIZARRE BRUTALITY: Kitty Genovese and the Bystander Effect .............................................29 “Headless Body in Topless Bar” ......................................................80 Forced Sterilization ..................................................................89 The Black Dahlia Murder ............................................................132 The Astronaut Love Triangle ........................................................152 Senior Center: The Note Before the Blaze ...........................................193 The Mysterious Death of Keith Warren ..............................................216 Truly Crazy Love ....................................................................248 More Than a Punch Line: The Lorena Bobbitt Story ..................................255 A True Halloween Monster .........................................................264 Fourteen Feet in the Salish Sea ....................................................282 The Greyhound Bus Murder ........................................................298 The Tattoo Confession ..............................................................321 The Man at the ATM ...............................................................345 Wrestling with Murder .............................................................363 The Soap Maker of Correggio .......................................................372 The Bennington Triangle ............................................................373 CON ARTISTS: Dead Man Walking . . . and Walking ...................................................65 Mummy Issues: The Case of the Persian Princess ...................................127 -------------------------------------------------- The Lost Carnegie ..................................................................183 Anna Delvey: The Ersatz Heiress ....................................................275 Linda Taylor: The “Welfare Queen” ..................................................291 The Rockefeller Ringer .............................................................358 THIEVES: The Great Feather Heist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28 Waddling Off with Dirk the Penguin ..................................................54 The Bank Robber and the Bail Law ...................................................93 Spumoni Gardens and the Secret Sauce ............................................119 Danger Dad: The Israeli Motorcycle Bandit ..........................................136 Rusik, the Caviar-Sniffing Cat .......................................................170 Mr. Rogers’s Car ....................................................................179 The Veggie Holdup ..................................................................214 The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist .............................................235 Food Fight: Culinary Crooks ........................................................236 Operation Broken Glass .............................................................312 The Theft of the Mona Lisa ..........................................................337 ANTICS & ACCIDENTS: Escape from Alcatraz ................................................................43 The Pill-Toting Pigeon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64 Gender Reveal Gone Wrong: The Sawmill Fire .......................................100 Assault with a Deadly Gator .........................................................113 Knit, Purl, Spy ......................................................................187 The Watcher House ................................................................230 The Mad Gasser of Mattoon .........................................................242 The Flight Attendant Freakout ......................................................252 The Hermit of North Pond ..........................................................268 The Hollow Nickel Case ............................................................300 A Deadly Kiss ......................................................................306 Ming of Harlem .....................................................................315 The Bizarre Body Snatching of Gram Parsons ......................................368 “The Unrepentant Necrophile” ......................................................371 The Morris Worm ...................................................................379 The Dognapping of Kid Boots Ace ..................................................380 -------------------------------------------------- CRIME THROUGH TIME: The Resurrection of Anne Greene ....................................................36 The Lindbergh Baby: A Questionable Kidnapping .....................................55 The Murder of Emmett Till ...........................................................76 Chappaquiddick: Kennedy, Kopechne, and a Car Crash ...............................83 Jolly Jane and the Death Rattle .....................................................101 The Stonewall Uprising ..............................................................117 Johnny Gosch, Milk Cartons, and the Amber Alert ...................................137 The Murder of Dominique Dunne ....................................................150 Clark County John Doe .............................................................158 The Corpsewood Manor Murders ...................................................166 The Murder of Marvin Gaye .........................................................180 Whiskey and Cannibalism ..........................................................198 The Cooper Do-nuts Uprising .......................................................199 The LaLaurie Mansion ..............................................................224 Firsts: Isabella Goodwin, NYPD Detective ..........................................239 The Suspicious Death of Marsha P. Johnson .......................................286 The Chicago Tylenol Murders ......................................................302 The Osage Indian Murders ..........................................................322 The Bloody Benders ...............................................................326 The Lana Turner Affair ..............................................................331 Crime and Punishment: The Demise of Captain Cook ...............................354 Body Snatching ....................................................................366 FORENSIC FACTS: DNA Profiling ........................................................................17 GINA and the Devious Defecator .....................................................60 Body Farms ..........................................................................87 A Purr-fect Match ..................................................................108 Familial DNA and Genetic Genealogy ................................................157 The DNA Doe Project ...............................................................159 What Body Part Helps Identify More Than 93 Percent of Remains? ..................165 Forensic Fingerprinting ............................................................203 Tattoo Analysis ....................................................................320 How Scientific Is Forensic Science? ................................................346
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