When Satan Wore A Cross: The Shocking True Story of a Killer Priest by Fred Rosen

When Satan Wore A Cross: The Shocking True Story of a Killer Priest

Biographies & Memoirs

FRED ROSEN

True Crime

Harper

The author of Lobster Boy recounts the case of axe murderer Sam Smithers, a Tampa deacon and handyperson who hid behind a religious identity while he targeted the prostitutes of the area. Original.

Deacon of Death

Literature & Fiction

Pinnacle Books

Details the disturbing true account of twenty-seven-year-old Kendall Francois, a middle-school hall monitor, known as "Stinky" due to his apparent disregard for hygiene, who murdered eight prostitutes and hid their decomposing bodies throughout his house. Reissue.

Body Dump

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Blood Crimes: The Pennsylvania Skinhead Murders

Pinnacle

"The one true crime masterpiece I have read ... Poe-like ..."--David Calder, The Guardian newspaper "One word describes it: Wow! ... A car accident that you just can’t look away from."--Kim Cantrell, TrueCrimeZine Meet Grady Stiles Jr., a carnival “freak show” character known as The Lobster Boy and his offbeat colleagues–The World’s Only Living Half Girl, Midget Man, The Electrified Girl, and the Human Blockhead. And then look beneath the carnival tent flaps at the dark underworld and personal life of The Lobster Boy and the events leading up to his brutal murder. Learn how and why author Fred Rosen risked his own life in the pursuit of justice in this revised and updated WildBlue Press True Crime Classic!

Lobster Boy: The Bizarre Life and Brutal Death of Grady Stiles Jr.

WildBlue Press

A riveting true account of gold rush fever in mid-19th-century America, rich with the thrilling exploits of daring fortune seekers and dangerous outlaws. America was never the same after January 24, 1848. It was on that day that a carpenter named James Marshall discovered a tiny nugget of gold while building a sawmill at Sutter's Fort, just east of Sacramento, California. Marshall's find ignited a fever the nation had never known before, drawing people from all over the country to the West Coast with high hopes of getting rich quick. Over the next six years, 300,000 prospectors raced to the California gold fields to make their fortunes, leaving their lands and families behind in order to chase a dream of easy wealth but all too often encountering a reality of lawlessness, disease, cruelty, and death. A former columnist for the New York Times, author Fred Rosen takes listeners back to the seminal moment when the American dream exploded. Chock full of fascinating details, unforgettable characters, and shocking real-life events, the captivating true story of the California gold rush brings an era of unparalleled change to breathtaking life. Rosen's enthralling history of the gold rush of 1848 demonstrates how this golden ideal was supplanted by a culture of selfishness and greed that endures in America to this very day.

Gold!

History

Americas

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