True Crime Case Histories - Volume 28: 12 Disturbing Stories of Murder and Mayhem

12 Disturbing True Crime Stories of Murder and MayhemVolume 28 of the True Crime Case Histories SeriesThe most dangerous thing in these stories isn’t a killer. It’s a convincing answer.Every case here passed through the hands of people whose job was to be certain: detectives, doctors, prosecutors, a federal task force. Each landed on a wrong answer first.A word of warning: nothing here is sanitized. The news reports stopped well short of what the case files hold.A sampling of the twelve stories:One of Their Own – A newlywed nurse named Sherri Rasmussen was beaten, bitten, and shot three times in her own living room, and detectives wrote it off as a burglary gone wrong. Her father named the killer in the first week and kept naming her for twenty-three years. The woman he named carried an LAPD badge.The Dollmaker – In Nizhny Novgorod, families visiting their children’s graves found the soil turned and the nameplates gone. Detectives hunting the grave robber went to the scholar who knew those cemeteries better than anyone alive, and stepped into an apartment full of homemade dolls in white tights and wedding veils.The Bishop of North Marshall Street – Gary Heidnik preached in his Philadelphia living room and dug a pit in the basement below it. Neighbors reported a smell like burning flesh, officers came to the door, and he explained it in an ordinary man’s voice. Sandra Lindsay’s family had begged those same police for months to look again.Plus nine more, among them Kathleen Folbigg, who served twenty years for four dead babies before ninety scientists read the code they carried, and the anthrax letters that killed five people and ruined two men.Every case is built from court records, police files, and firsthand testimony. No sensationalism, no padding, no sanitizing.Stark, obsessively documented, and impossible to put down, True Crime Case Histories Volume 28 is essential listening for fans of Ann Rule, Harold Schechter, and Gregg Olsen.