hi, i'm new. yes, good book!

i like anything by john douglas..."mindhunter" would be a fave.

Well, see, you obviously have to count my memory as one of the things all shot to hell around here.

(This is my 1st-ever post to Tribe)
Anyone heard of "Bloodletters and Badmen"? it's an oldie, by Jay Robert Nash. It's a huge catalog of American criminal; from the pilgrims to the present"
"The Hillside Stranglers" was a very disturbing read. It stayed with me a while. The depravity related was tough to take. I've read so many, those 2 stand out. Along with 'Stranger beside me' and "The only living witness' about Bundy. I enjoyed "Green river running red" by Ann Rule.
Over the years I've probably read more bad then good :P

im not really a true crime connesuier like some people here :) but 2 fascinating books i did read were "little lost angel" by michael quinlan about 4 girls (i believe they were within the 13-16 age range) who murdered a 12-year-old girl because she had supposedly stolen one of their girlfriends. heres more info:
www.popsmear.com/popcultur...teens.html
also, "deadly innocence" by scott burnside and alan cairns was hard to put down. its one of the many books available on the murderous lives of paul & karla homolka.
www.hobbydo.com/crime/paul...ooks-1.html

Bitter Harvest, I think. That one was soooooooooo sad.

Another novel that freaked me out..."Helter Skelter." And Bugliosi wrote one of the best books out there on the OJ Simpson murder case.

Miche

The "Encyclopedia of Serial Killers" by Michael Newton is available on a CD-ROM called "Mind of a Killer." It's has four or five other books on it, including a transcript of Robert Ressler interviewing John Gacy and Ressler's book on sexual homicides. It's a very good CD-ROM, you can find it by doing a google on the title. It's $29.95.

Hunting Humans and Bad Girls Do It

I believe Robert Graysmith was the author of the Zodiac Killer book. He's a good writer, although I question a lot of the conclusions he came to about the case, especially in the wake of the supposed "#1 suspect" being cleared in a posthumous DNA test.

But otherwise, Zodiac is a fascinating and chilling case. I live in the Bay Area, just minutes away from the killing zones.

Ann Rules books are excellent too. She knows how to tell a good story, and all sides like she's doing with the book i'm reading now, Heartfull of Lies"

We like a lot of the same stuff! I think Colin Wilson writes with a brother or something, too.I've seen a few titles w/ so and so and Colin Wilson. I got a Colin Wilson book as a gift :" The Mammoth book of true crime" But I must admit it is a bit of a disappointment. Mammoth it is, but...seems like Mr Wilson tended to opine a lot about things he has no training in, or documentation of. Or professional opinions to site. Like the opinion that 'in western society more murders then ever are motivated by the need for self esteem'. stated as fact. How is such a thing quantified? I like a professionals opinion on things or an authors description, it seemed like he was trying to be a profiler or something he is not.
Mark Olshaker is a good writer. He co-wrote one with JOhn Douglas and one on Ted Bundy-I think. The only living witnerss was a good one. They got interviews over many hours and had Bundy tell how a "HYPOTHETICAL" sick-o pervbert killer might have behave, and soon he was talking in 1st person and really getting a sick thrill out of it.
My maiden name was BUNDY and when i wanted to freak out the people in church, or embarass my Mom I'd tell them he was my uncle, 'but no one was supposed to know about Uncle Ted." My Mom got really mad. Tee Hee

I love all of Ann Rules stuff....Love Helter Skelter, and Fatal Vision, but I have to tell you, I never thought that I would be scared by a book before, and the one that scared me while I was reading it, and even after was The Night Stalker!!!