Imagine a world where every wish was granted, love and laughter filled every day and lavish gifts were poured upon you. Then imagine everything that you thought was true never existed. This is a story of a non-fiction "Alice In Wonderland". Journey through a labyrinthine trail of joy, unbounded generosity, wonder, deceit, manipulation, mental and emotional contortions, and desperate love. Discover the fanatical obsession of a brilliant criminal who...

Warden McCrea spent 23 years faithfully serving the citizens of South Dakota as a state game warden. His career, which spanned from 1983-2006, started in the Moody County Warden District in the small town of Flandreau. What made the Moody County Warden District so challenging is that prior to Warden McCrea's arrival, the district had been without a game warden for 25 years. His first serious challenge was overcoming the many vicious rumors started...

A new look at some gruesome and riveting murders. In this grisly and gripping collection of essays-some revised and updated, some never before published, but all new to American audiences-prize-winning English crime historian Jonathan Goodman turns his attention to a variety of British and American crimes from the 1820s to the 1980s, some high profile and others not. With the author as detective, each of Goodman's essays examines a particularly notorious...

This is the story of how a family can be destroyed by a chain of events that begin when one member puts her trust in a conman. At the beginning of the 21st century, the de Védrines were an ancient aristocratic Bordeaux family, educated and socially established. From the outside they had everything they could have wished for – wealth, love, friends, education and family. But the very closeness and trust they had with each other ended up splitting...

The definitive account of audacious con woman Cassie Chadwick, the Carnegie Imposter Queen of the Con tells the true story of Cassie Chadwick, a successful swindler and "one of the top 10 imposters of all time," according to Timemagazine. Born Betsy Bigley in 1857 in Canada, she first operated as Madame Devere, a European clairvoyant, and in 1890 was arrested for defrauding a Toledo bank of $20,000. In the mid-1890s, while working as a madam in Cleveland,...

Around Thanksgiving (2010) my wife Robin and I were sitting on the sofa watching the 11:00pm late news when they announced it was once again the anniversary of the "D.B. Cooper skyjacking event. On television, they always talk about it…this time they showed the original film footage of the airliner, taken during a stormy night in Seattle around 40 years earlier. In addition, they also displayed the composite sketch of the skyjacker, drawn from the...

A Dissertation regarding the abuse of author Alan Power and his work by a criminal called John Morgan for his disgusting commercial ends

Christopher Piantedosi became an overnight media sensation dubbed "The Remorseful Robber" when in 2011 he snatched a woman's purse at a Market Basket in Plaistow, New Hampshire, then a few days later returned the contents, along with a note of apology, to the woman at her home. The surveillance photo of him hit the internet and media, and the house of cards that was his life spiraled out of control, ending in murder. This is the story of his life,...

They were the owners of funeral home-and organ harvesters. An unsettling look at the Sconce family from the acclaimed true crime author of Deadly Lessons. For sixty years, families in Southern California trusted the Sconce Family Funeral Home with their loved ones' remains. That trust was betrayed in an extraordinary, horrifying fashion, as it was discovered that the family, seeing an opportunity, had been stealing gold fillings and harvesting the...

Reporter Ken Englade explores the complex case of Rozanne Gailiunas, a woman in Texas who, in 1983, was the victim of a grisly, unsolved murder. Her married boyfriend, Larry Aylor, was questioned, but there wasn't enough evidence to tie him to the crime. It looked like this murder would go unsolved. Then, in 1988, an unexpected source tipped police off and set in motion a twisted story of family betrayal and murder-for-hire. Englade brings every shocking...