True Mass

United States of True Crime is an anthology series with books devoted to the most disturbing cases in each of the 50 states. This book focuses on 10 of the most chilling crimes in Alabama history. True crime junkies may recognize some of the highly publicized cases, but I’ve made sure to include lesser-known, equally unsettling crimes. If you’re a true crime enthusiast who enjoys hearing about some of the most depraved monsters in our country, you will love United States of True Crime.

In an area of Houston known as the Heights, boys had been going missing for years, but it was the peace-and-love 1970s, so police just called them runaways. When the truth was uncovered, and police - and the rest of Houston - realized the boys had become victims of notorious American serial killer Dean Corll, Houston recoiled in horrified shock. Residents realized that they had not only become the site of the most grisly mass murder in Texas history, but the worst mass murder in all of US history.

Can you predict killing sprees? What do mass killers have in common? Why do so many of them write manifestos online, and what do these tell us? These are some of the questions David J. Krajicek seeks to answer about mass killings, a topic that is becoming increasingly urgent and desperate. In recent decades, mass shootings worldwide have increased in their savagery and frequency.

A self-educated man, Eric Hoffer was most likely born in 1898. He wrote in his spare time after doing shifts on the San Francisco docks, where he continued to work, even after becoming a successful author. Hoffer began writing The True Believer in the 1940s, as Nazism and fascism spread across Europe. Most analysts who were trying to work out how these movements became so powerful focused on their leaders and the ideas they trumpeted.

Mientras usted lee este libro, alguien—un adolescente, un joven, un padre de familia- está siendo forzado a cavar su tumba en algún paraje olvidado del país. Por primera vez, logra documentarse el dolorosísimo final de miles de "desaparecidos"...En Testigos del horror, Sandra Romandía desvela la verdad del Rancho Izaguirre, uno de los nombres que quedarán para siempre en la historia de la infamia.

A CHILD IN THE MIDST is the personal memoir of one of the central characters of the true story of the Lawson Family Christmas Day Murders. Stella Boles' and her interviews and writings were used in the development of the historical true crime books, WHITE CHRISTMAS, BLOODY CHRISTMAS and THE MEANING OF OUR TEARS. The book gives historical insight into her life growing up in the sleepy foothills of North Carolina.