For 16 years, Harry Spiller worked as a deputy sheriff, investigator, and sheriff in a place where murder isn't suppose to happen?Southern Illinois. Investigating murder cases mainly in Williamson County and assisting in other counties. He learned the hard reality that murder is all around us. It is swift for the victim and can happen to anyone, anywhere at anytime. It doesn't matter if you live in a big city or a small county, with brick-front towns, small farms, white church houses, lakes and ponds, the Shawnee National Forest, and the muddy rivers. All too often, victims fall prey in places that we think are safe to raise our families, places where we take walks on hot summer nights, where our children play in the park without concern, where we fish in the local pond hoping to land the big one, and where we leave our doors unlocked at night. In this book, Murders In The Heartland, Book 2 there are 10 case files.
Special Agent Steven Thatcher, a widower, searches for a serial killer preying on the teenage girls of a small town and finds himself falling for his alienated son Brad's teacher, Jenna Marshall, unaware that the twisted murderer has now ...
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and taken on the Swahili name Chukia ( pronounced Cha - kée - a ) , meaning “ hater of whites . " " What you see tonight is strange to you , " she said , pointing to women dressed in traditional gowns they had designed themselves ...
At 9:15 p.m. , man from Kansas City called and asked Sheriff Edward J. Uebinger if he was investigating the death of two people ... The caller said that Shafer had telephoned another relative and told her that he had shot two people .
The Hunting Down of Peter Manuel, Glasgow Multiple Murderer
Criminal Court Judge Terry Lafferty denied Stanton's request . Jewett Miller stood , raising his voice . “ I object , ” he said . “ We fear that such publication before the trial would prejudice the prospective jurors .
In this riveting true crime account, acclaimed author P. D. James, the "Queen of the English mystery novel" (Newsweek) joins forces with historian T. A. Critchley to re-create the Radcliffe Highway murders, a series of vicious crimes ...
A true crime story by a Pulitzer Prize winner.
Missing Beauty: A True Story of Murder and Obsession
In the harrowing tradition of Precious Victims--an unforgettable true-crime thriller also set in St. Louis.