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Lure Them HomeWhen the urge took hold, serial killer Larry Bright brought women back to his home. After raping and murdering his victims, he brutally disposed of their bodies. Sometimes he built a white-hot fire and burned them in his backyard. Other times he dumped them along nearby roads and fields. Rape And Murder ThemFor years, Bright had trolled the roads and back streets of Illinois for the most helpless, desperate women he could find. Then one woman escaped, and suddenly police were looking for bodies everywhere--trying to find out how many women Bright had really killed and what he had done with their remains. Burn Their Bodies In The BackyardStep by step, an all-out investigation would shock hardened detectives. From interviews with women who survived their encounters with him to the forensic search for bone fragments and pieces of burned, buried flesh, the case against Larry Bright finally closed like a vise--on the man who turned his victims into ashes. With 16 pages of shocking photos!

The Darkest Urge.  .  .To his friends and neighbors, Jeffrey Mailhot was an ordinary, law-abiding motorcycle enthusiast with a fondness for 80''s rock ''n roll. But there was a dark side to Mailhot--and an urge he couldn''t control...The Vanished Bodies.  .  .Rhode Island detectives knew they had a serial killer in their town. But the victims were women who lived and worked in a sexual underground--and whose bodies were never found. Then, prostitutes began to talk about a man who played too rough. Police arrested Jeffrey Mailhot, and an incredible duel of wits began...The Confession Of A Serial Killer.  .  .A brilliant police interrogation led to a chilling confession. Now, this insider''s account of a modern-day Jack the Ripper takes us into the room where Jeffrey Mailhot, in his own words, told police how he killed women with his bare hands, cut their bodies into pieces, and then went out to kill again...Includes 16 pages of shocking photos! Linda Rosencrance has twenty years of experience as a reporter, writing for both The Boston Globe and the Boston Herald as well as many community papers in the Boston metropolitan area. She is the author of An Act of Murder and Murder at Morses Pond and has also written an anthology examining various crimes on college campuses. She lives in the Boston area. Edward Lee, Jr., has been a police officer in Woonsocket, Rhode Island since 1988. In 1997 he was promoted to the rank of Sergeant and became patrol supervisor for the morning platoon.  He went on to work as a Municipal and District Court Prosecutor as well as Sergeant in the Day Detective Division before being promoted to Lieutenant of the Day Platoon in October 2004.  Promoted to Captain in June of 2006, Lee is responsible for the Uniform Division, which is the largest and most visible division of the Woonsocket Police Department. He lives in Massachusetts.

Killer DebutanteKelley Cannon was living the American Dream. The former prom queen had three beautiful children with her successful, handsome husband, Jim, and an elegant home in well-to-do Nashville. But when their housekeeper found Jim murdered, strangled to death as their children slept, the fairytale collapsed. Behind the facade, Kelley''s glamorous lifestyle was being torn apart by infidelity, alcohol, and drug abuse. When she went from prime suspect to accused, a jury had to decide--How could a 90-pound woman overpower a grown man to death? Their finding: premeditated murder, a life sentence--and a storybook life that masked a dark, violent truth . . . "What caused petite, pretty Kelley Cannon to snap? Find out in this page-turning account of a woman who killed her husband." --Burl Barer, Edgar Award-winning Author of Body Count and Head Shot"A gripping true-crime shocker."--Burl BarerCase seen on Dateline Includes 16 Pages Of Photos

A Brutal MurderThe upscale suburb of Wellesley, Massachusetts hadn''t seen a murder in 30 years. Then came Halloween, 1999. That brisk morning, Dr. Dirk Greineder, 60, and his wife of 32 years, Mabel, took one of their dogs for a walk in Morses Pond park. A short time later, Dr. Greineder led police to the corpse of his wife. She''d been bludgeoned, stabbed and her throat slashed. Her husband claimed an unknown assailant had committed the act--possibly the same person responsible for two unsolved murders in nearby towns.A Double LifeDirk Greineder was a well-respected allergist whose home was valued at half a million dollars. He and Mabel had raised three children, who had all attended Yale, like their father. But the "good" doctor also indulged in a secret life involving phone sex, Internet porn, and motel trysts with prostitutes. A Family DestroyedA dogged investigation finally yielded enough evidence to lead to Greineder''s arrest, and in a six-week trial that would make national headlines, he was supported by his three children, while the dead woman''s sister and niece testified for the prosecution. There in the courtroom, a jury would learn the grisly details of cold-blooded murder. . .and the community of Wellesley would learn that you never really know your neighbors. . .16 Pages Of Shocking Photos

Fatal Blaze? "The Bride Who Cried." That was the title of the dinner-theater murder mystery presented at Maryland''s luxurious Harbourtowne resort on Valentine''s Day weekend, 1998. But no tears were being shed by Kimberly Hricko at 3 a.m. when she reported a fire in the room she shared with her husband, Stephen. Rescuers found him dead, badly burned around the upper body. It seemed that he''d fallen asleep while smoking a cigar, sparking off an inferno.Staged MurderBut Kimberly''s efforts to play the part of an innocent widow quickly began to unravel. Sleuths learned that she had been having an affair with a man ten years her junior. She also stood to inherit $400,000 on her husband''s death--and had tried to bribe a coworker to kill Stephen for $50,000. In the courtroom, prosecutors argued that Kimberly injected her sleeping spouse with a lethal dose of muscle relaxant and set the fire to cover her tracks. For a cold-blooded killer who acted without remorse, there could only be one verdict. . . Linda Rosencrance has fifteen years experience as a reporter, writing for both the Boston Globe and the Boston Herald, as well as many community papers in the Boston metropolitan area. She is the author of Murder at Morses Pond and has also written an anthology examining various crimes on college campuses. She lives in the Boston area.

“A riveting look at life inside a Mafia family.”—New York Times bestselling author George AnastasiaThe world called him a killer. She called him Dad . . .“We were always worried. Always looking over our shoulders . . .”Linda Scarpa had the best toys, the nicest clothes, and a close-knit family. Yet classmates avoided her; boys wouldn’t date her. Eventually she learned why: they were afraid of her father.A made man in the Colombo crime family, Gregory Scarpa, Sr. was a stone-cold killer nicknamed the “Grim Reaper.” But to Linda, he was also a loving, devoted father who played video games with her for hours. In riveting detail, she reveals what it was like to grow up in the violent world of the mob and to come to grips with the truth about her father and the devastation he wrought.“An amazing story of jealously, duplicity, hatred and betrayal.”—Sal Polisi, author of The Sinatra Club “Touching, shocking, revealing—Linda Scarpa’s memoir is more than a mob book; it’s a family book.”—John Alite, subject of Gotti’s Rules  “An edge-of-your-seat page turner—jaw-dropping, raw, and real.”—Andrea Giovino, author of Divorced From the Mob INCLUDES 16 PAGES OF DRAMATIC PHOTOS[color photo inserts for ebook editions]