North Carolina's Triangle region is known for universities, research facilities and politics, but even in such a prosperous, diverse, modern environment, crime helps define the edges. These cases cover several decades of murder, fraud and betrayal. Read about the nation's largest prison escape and a couple of North Carolina's poisoners. From a civil rights-era clash of Old South and New and a suspected Cold War spy to new-tech sleuths and tales of diligent as well as discredited investigators, these stories will keep you entertained and aghast at the dark side of daily life. Crime writer Cathy Pickens explores a collection of headline-grabbing tales that shows the sinister side of the Triangle's cities.
Mystery author Cathy Pickens details an assortment of quirky cases, including a duo of poisoning cases more than one hundred years apart, a band of folk hero swamp outlaws, sex swingers and a couple of mummies.
But this drug addict and ex-con would not let the Fort Worth millionaire control her. For the next month, one man and two women formed a twisted triangle, consumed by greed, sex, and drugs--and ultimately undone by jealousy and murder.
Documents the case of Northeast Louisiana University pre-med student Irvin Bolden, Jr., who was found innocent of the murder of his fiancée's lover before his fiancée was also killed, in an account told from the perspective of an ...
A collection of true crime stories featuring female killers with varying reasons for committing murder.
Crime writer Cathy Pickens brings a novelist's eye to the Upstate's real crime stories and the international headlines and the little-known tales that define the sinister--and quirky--side of her home state.
A veteran journalist examines a teenage lesbian love triangle in Richmond, Virginia, that ended in the brutal murder of eighteen-year-old Stacey Hanna and the efforts to bring to justice her killers, including Kelley "Turtle" Tibbs, her ...
A chilling account of a deadly romantic triangle describes how attorney Michael Fletcher killed his pregnant wife, Leann, to pursue a scandalous illicit love affair with District Judge Susan Chrzanowski. Reissue.
Describes how millionaire Bill McLaughlin fell victim to a beautiful gold digger and embezzler who, along with her former NFL linebacker boyfriend, stole from his business and then killed him for his life insurance policy.
"Deeply immersed in the close-knit culture of long-distance running, Pam and Bob Bulik were avid competitors.
. . In this new edition of her bestselling book Wasted, true crime master Suzy Spencer chronicles a fatal love triangle as three lives are driven out of control by sexual desire, drugs, and shocking childhood demons.