Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil483 reviews
John Berendt

Vintage, 1999

One of those books that you won't be able to put down

+ Fascinating Book About a Fascinating City

I've never been to Savannah before, but after reading this book, I really want to go there! "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" is a fantastic book about the leaders of Savannah society in the early 1980's. It's actually a work of non-fiction (although it reads very much like a novel), and it ...
  
  











  



  
City Confidential - Middleburg: Pistols, Ponies, And Foul Play
Keith David

A & E Home Video, 2001

On an autumn morning in 1997, on a 300-acre horse farm in Virginia, heiress Susan Cummings pulled a 9-mm pistol and fired four shots into boyfriend Argentine polo star Roberto Villegas's chest and throat. His abusive past led many to assume it was self-defense, but some to question how much justice a rich heiress could buy.
  
  











  



  
The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Reissued Edition4 reviews
James Baldwin

Holt Paperbacks, 1995

Can People of Color Be that Cruel...?

+ The Evidence of Things Not Seen

This is a difficult read because Baldwin's thoughts come across like a man too perplexed to ask "Why?". And so there are many crosscurrent thoughts, parentheticals that are not in parenthesis, and sheer rage. The question: who could be murdering the children in Atlanta? And has the years of ...
  
  











  



  
Bitter Blood: A True Story of Southern Family Pride, Madness, and Multiple Murder (Onyx)50 reviews
Jerry Bledsoe

Onyx, 1989

YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS STUFF UP...

+ Great Read, Yet Again!
+ Long but good
+ Great read! Very sad story.
+ This was an unexpected surprise!
  
  











  



  
Everything She Ever Wanted48 reviews
Ann Rule

Pocket, 1993

If you love non-fiction crime....Read this one

+ Long, but worth it.
+ Ann makes this story shine with intrigue
+ love true crime books
  
  











  



  
American Justice: The Killer Within

Bill Kurtis probes the bizarre murder case of Tom Bonney, who shot his 19-year-old daughter 27 times in 1987. Claiming that he suffers from multiple personality disorder, Bonney says that one of his "other" personalities committed the killing.
  
  











  



  
American Justice: Lying Eyes
American Justice

A & E Home Video, 2002

The astonishing story of how a man served 11 years for a rape that he did not commit. Ronald Cotton was convicted after Jennifer Thompson, who was raped by a man in her apartment, told a court that Cotton was her assailant. DNA testing later proved that the rapist was another man, and in a strange twist, Cotton and Thompson became friends and are now advocates for the rights of the wrongfully ...
  
  











  



  
Cruel Doubt8 reviews
Joe McGinniss

Pocket, 1992

A real thriller

+ Outstanding - Well Written
+ A riveting read
+ Great job with a difficult subject
  
  











  



  
City Confidential: Great Falls, VA

A&E Home Video, 2000

The story of the murder of a prominent cardiologist that shocked a well-to-do town in 1980. But the town was even more startled when the killer turned out to be a highly respected neighbor who had hidden his real profession--master jewel thief.
  
  











  



  
Mother Love, Deadly Love: The Susan Smith Murders2 reviews
Andrea Peyser

Harpercollins (Mm), 1995

so sad

+ How can she killed her own children ???

This is a well-written book about an unbalanced woman who cold-bloodedly drowned her two babies so she could have the rich man she wanted. Never mind she still had a husband, and both were having affairs. These precious children were sent into a dark, cold lonely lake on a chilly October night ten ...
  
  











  



  
Before He Wakes: A True Story of Money, Marriage, Sex and Murder25 reviews
Jerry Bledsoe

Onyx, 1996

Just think about this: this woman is up for parole in 2006

+ Another Black Widow Escapes Death Penalty
+ For the Love of Money
+ Good Read
+ She's Very Sorry That She Was Convicted
  
  











  



  
American Justice: Conspiracy To Kill
American Justice

A & E Home Video, 2002

A look at the trial of the star football player who was implicated in the killing of Cherica Adams. In 1999, Adams, more than six months pregnant with Carruth's baby, was gunned down in her car. Before slipping into a coma, Cherica implicated Carruth in the shooting. Doctors managed to save her baby, but within weeks, Cherica died. Was she killed as a result of a botched drug deal, as the ...
  
  











  



  
Death Sentence: The True Story of Velma Barfield's Life, Crimes, and Punishment17 reviews
Jerry Bledsoe

Onyx, 1999

I support the death penalty more than ever

+ A Story That Will Haunt the Reader
+ ". . .It Hardly Behooves Us To Talk About The Rest Of Us!"
+ Jerry Bledsoe does it again!
  
  











  



  
City Confidential: Washington: Deadly Games In Little Washington

A&E Home Video, 2001

A college student living in a fantasy world and obsessed with the game Dungeons and Dragons is charged with the brutal murder of his step-father in North Carolina. This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.
  
  











  



  
Dead Run: The Untold Story of Dennis Stockton and America's Only Mass escape from Death Row16 reviews
Joe Jackson, William Jr Burke

Crown, 1999

My GOD!! What a MASTERPIECE!!

+ Important
+ Real Life, Real Drama
+ Impossible to put down
  
  











  



  
Blood Games (Signet)13 reviews
Jerry Bledsoe

Onyx, 1992

Wonderful Book-- should not be out of print

+ Quite Astounding!
+ Better than "Cruel Doubt"
+ Great Book! Awful Kids and Parents!
+ Stunning depiction of horror
  
  











  



  
American Justice: Green Beret Murder
American Justice

A & E Home Video, 2000

In the early morning hours of February 17, 1970, Colette MacDonald and her two young children were brutally murdered in their home at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Colette's husband, Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald, a physician and member of the elite Green Berets, was beaten, knocked unconscious and suffered a punctured lung. When questioned, MacDonald remembered four people standing above him as he ...
  
  











  



  
Fatal Vision73 reviews
Joe McGinniss

Signet, 1984

Thanks Freddy and Mildred Kassab.

+ Best true crime I've ever read
+ Not McGinniss's best but a classic of the genre
+ Brilliant, Sad, Truthful, and Painful!
+ Brilliant
  
  











  



  
American Justice: Death In a Small
American Justice

A & E Home Video, 2002

One strange day in a quintessential small southern town, Alvin Ridley reported the death of his wife in the early hours of the morning--a wife nobody in Ringgold, Georgia, knew that he had! With a reputation for paranoid and reclusive behavior, Ridley lived with his wife Virginia in a dilapidated house on the edge of town for 30 years without anyone knowing she existed. Did she die suddenly ...
  
  











  



  
American Justice

A & E Home Video

Is Wayne Williams the monster responsible for killing 29 African Americans between 1979 and 1981? Or did the prosecution in Williams' trial withhold evidence that white supremacists were responsible? This in-depth probe explores the continuing controversy over the infamous Atlanta child murders that shocked the nation. We'll hear from the prosecutors, the defense attorney, a mother of one of ...