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Häftad, Engelska, 2026
228 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2026
271 kr
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The Fog Belt: Murder, Confession, and the Cold Cases of Terry ChildsBetween 1974 and 1985, Terry Childs killed at least five people across California and Nevada, evading justice through forensic awareness inherited from his bail bondsman father, the exploitation of remote terrain, and the deliberate contamination of crime scenes. Convicted of one murder in 1987, he spent the following decade in the Security Housing Unit at Pelican Bay State Prison, where the combined pressures of extreme isolation and advancing paranoid schizophrenia produced one of the most extraordinary episodes in the history of American serial crime: a killer claiming to be haunted by the ghosts of his victims, offering confessions to eleven additional murders in exchange for a prison transfer and immunity from the death penalty.What followed was a twenty-year forensic and legal undertaking spanning multiple jurisdictions, involving ballistic evidence, skeletal identification, geographic verification, and confession-directed remains recovery, that eventually produced four additional convictions and closed cold cases stretching back nearly three decades. Six claimed victims remain unverified. Terry Childs died at Salinas Valley State Prison on February 11, 2023, taking whatever remained of those cases with him.This is the complete account of his crimes, his psychology, his forensic legacy, and the families still waiting for answers he chose never to give.
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Marked With an X: The Copeland Murders and the Men Nobody MissedIn the autumn of 1989, forty law enforcement officers and a team of bloodhounds descended on a modest forty-acre farm outside Mooresville, Missouri, and began uncovering one of the most disturbing secrets in American criminal history. Raymond and Faye Copeland, aged seventy-four and sixty-eight respectively, were about to become the oldest couple ever sentenced to death in the United States.For at least three years, Raymond had been recruiting homeless and transient men from mission shelters in Springfield and Joplin, using them to conduct fraudulent cattle transactions, and then killing them when their usefulness was exhausted. Five men were shot through the back of the head with a .22 caliber rifle and concealed in barns, beneath hay bales, and at the bottom of an abandoned well. Faye maintained the financial records of the scheme, and investigators found a handwritten list of twelve names, most of them marked with a single, chilling X.Drawing on trial testimony, forensic evidence, criminological research, and the psychology of coercive control, this book reconstructs the full story of the Mooresville murders, the victims who deserved better, the institutional failures that allowed the killing to continue, and the one man who survived to make the phone call that ended it all.