{ "item_title" : "True Crime Case Histories - (Books 22, 23, & 24)", "item_author" : [" Jason Neal "], "item_description" : "36 Disturbing True Crime Stories of Murder and MayhemVolumes 22, 23, and 24 of the True Crime Case Histories SeriesThis series can be read in any orderThree books. Thirty-six cases. From a cold New Jersey mansion to a whirlpool tub in a Wisconsin prison.A word of warning: the documentaries and news reports stop well short of what the case files contain. This series does not.A sampling of the thirty-six stories: The Vanishing Act - In December 1971, police climbed through a window into a dark Westfield, New Jersey, mansion where hymns had been playing over the intercom for weeks. In the ballroom, Helen List and her three children lay in a row on sleeping bags, cloths over their faces. A five-page letter to the family's pastor sat on the study desk, and John List was nowhere to be found.Over Our Dead Bodies - When the alarm went off at 12:20 a.m. on October 24, 1995, physician Debora Green assumed the dogs had tripped it again, until she saw an orange glow pulsing deeper inside her Prairie Village, Kansas, home. Upstairs, her thirteen-year-old son, Timothy, came on the intercom asking what he should do. When firefighters arrived, Debora and her daughter Kate were on the lawn, and Timothy and six-year-old Kelly were still somewhere inside.Mockingbird Hill - Behind a ten-foot concrete wall outside Dover, Arkansas, retired Air Force Master Sergeant Ronald Gene Simmons kept his wife and children cut off from the world. In the summer of 1987, Becky Simmons wrote to her son Billy, I am a prisoner here and the kids too. Their eldest son planned to drive up from San Antonio for Christmas, and Becky's brother believed he meant to take everyone back with him.The Closing Shift - When the manager of a Bethesda Lululemon opened up one March morning in 2011, Jayna Murray lay dead in a rear hallway, blood spattered six feet up the walls. In the bathroom, coworker Brittany Norwood lay with her wrists and ankles bound in zip ties, and she told police about two masked men. The night before, two Apple Store employees had stood at the shared wall listening to the screams, then walked away.The Chosen One - Christopher Scarver heard voices telling him he was the son of God, and he began signing his legal documents simply Christ. In July 1992, the Wisconsin prison where he was serving life took in a new arrival under heavy security: Jeffrey Dahmer, convicted that year of fifteen murders. Two years later, a Church of Christ minister baptized Dahmer in the prison's physical-therapy whirlpool tub.Call Me Clark - In 1980s San Marino, California, a young man calling himself Christopher Mountbatten Chichester, a British baronet, moved into the guest house behind Didi Sohus's home. In February 1985, Didi's son, John, and his wife, Linda, vanished after Linda told her family he'd been offered a top-secret government job, and that June, postcards signed John and Linda arrived from Paris. Years later, Harvard Business School student Sandra Boss fell for the same man, who told her his name was Clark Rockefeller.Plus thirty more, among them an eleven-year-old Florida kite champion whose newspaper photo brought a friendly stranger to the door, a mother, daughter, and exchange student who never came home from Yosemite, the postwar Lonely Hearts Killers, and a seven-year-old Lübeck girl who skipped school one morning to visit a friend.Every case is reconstructed from court records, police files, forensic reports, and firsthand testimony. No sensationalism, no padding, no sanitizing.Stark, thoroughly reconstructed, and impossible to put down, this three-book collection is essential reading for fans of Ann Rule, Jack Olsen, and Ann Burgess.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers2.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/96/461/376/1964613760_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "24.99", "online_price" : "24.99", "our_price" : "24.99", "club_price" : "24.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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