Jack Olsen

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1) I: the creation of a serial killer

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St. Martin's Paperbacks

Pub. Date

2003.

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English

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From Barnes & Noble: In 1990, Oregon State Police arrested a couple for the savage rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman. One newspaper reader realized that the cops had made a grievous error and began a solitary campaign to win freedom for the wrongfully accused couple. But the man was no zealot libertarian or maverick investigator; he was the killer. In several chilling letters, Keith Hunter Jesperson reenacted the gruesome attack and slaughter...

2) Hastened to the grave: the gypsy murder investigation

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Publisher

St. Martin's Press

Pub. Date

1998.

Language

English

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They were a notorious gypsy family that seeped into their victims' lives like a deadly cancer. And they couldn't be stopped-- until one courageous woman took on the cases no one else would touch... THE VICTIMS: Elderly, well-to-do men and women who, due to their failing health, strength, and faculties, could be conned out of their fortunes by heinous neglect, abuse, and possibly even murder. THE ACCUSED: Several members of a ruthless family of...

3) "Doc": the rape of the town of Lovell

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Publisher

Atheneum

Pub. Date

1989.

Language

English

4) Predator: rape, madness, and injustice in Seattle

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Publisher

Delacorte Press

Pub. Date

1991.

Language

English

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"The true story of a sociopath, his victims, and the innocent man who was blamed for his crimes"--Jacket subtitle.

5) Last man standing: the tragedy and triumph of Geronimo Pratt

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Publisher

Doubleday

Pub. Date

[2000]

Language

English

6) Salt of the earth: one family's journey through the violent American landscape

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Publisher

St. Martin's Press

Pub. Date

1996.

Language

English

7) Charmer: a ladies' man and his victims

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Publisher

W. Morrow

Pub. Date

1994.

Language

English

8) The man with the candy: the story of the Houston mass murders

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Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Pub. Date

[1974]

Language

English

9) "Son": a psychopath and his victims

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Publisher

Atheneum

Pub. Date

1983.

Language

English

10) The misbegotten son: a serial killer and his victims : the true story of Arthur J. Shawcross

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Publisher

Delacorte Press

Pub. Date

1993.

Language

English

11) Night of the grizzlies

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Publisher

Putnam

Pub. Date

[1969]

Language

English

12) Cold kill: the true story of a murderous love

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Publisher

Atheneum

Pub. Date

1987.

Language

English

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Relates the chain of events that led David West and Cindy Ray to murder her parents in Texas.

13) The black athlete: a shameful story : the myth of integration in American sport

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Publisher

Time-Life Books

Pub. Date

[1968]

Language

English

14) The bridge at Chappaquiddick

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Publisher

Little, Brown

Pub. Date

[1969]

Language

English

15) Slaughter the animals: poison the earth

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Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Pub. Date

[1971]

Language

English

16) Aphrodite: desperate mission

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Publisher

Putnam

Pub. Date

[1970]

Language

English

17) Give a boy a gun: a true story of law and disorder in the American West

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Publisher

Delacorte Press

Pub. Date

[1985]

Language

English

18) Black is best: the riddle of Cassius Clay

Author

Publisher

Putnam

Pub. Date

[1967]

Language

English

19) The climb up to hell

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Publisher

Harper & Row Publishers

Pub. Date

[1962]

Language

English

20) The girls in the office

Author

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Pub. Date

[1972]

Language

English