20 Bizarre True Crime Stories to Weaken Those Knees!"Like a FOMO database for true crime podcasts!" Ugly Tuna Saloona and The Smiley Face Killers - In one of the most baffling missing person's cases of all time, a man is seen on a security feed entering a bar but never leaving, in a rabbit-hole of a case leading to an unusual serial killer theory. The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist - Over the course of several months, a team of thieves stole $19million worth of Maple Syrup. Here's how they pulled off the most valuable heist in Canadian history. The Vampire Clan Murders - A group of teens obsessed with vampirism formed a cult called the Vampire Clan. Led by a disturbed man believing himself to be a 500-year-old vampire, they ended up committing cold-blooded murder. The Slender Man - Believing an online story of a faceless man who stalks children to be real, two 12-year-old girls lured their friend to the middle of a forest and stabbed her as a sacrifice to the Slender Man. The Body Brokers - A centre where human bodies were donated for science, was discovered to be a human chop-shop where body parts were sold for profit across the United States, all run by a man named Gore. Little Slaughterhouse on the Prairie - The first family of serial killers ran a guesthouse to snare their victims with a secret trap door, until one day they vanished, leaving behind a tale of folklore, conspiracies, and macabre discoveries. Ghost Ship: The True Story of the Mary Celeste - 150 years after the Mary Celeste was found floating in the Atlantic with its crew mysteriously vanished, time seems to have forgotten the real true crime surrounding the ship and its later voyages. Pet Cemetery Murders - A bizarre murder saga involving a pet cemetery owner, a conman, a convicted witness, ghostly hauntings, and a cold case solved thirty years after the fact. Chute to Kill - A professional skydiver died on impact after her parachute failed to open, leading to a mysterious love triangle, an opportunity at revenge, and a search for the truth. Cannibal Island of Death - Thousands of Russians were deported to Nazino island in the wilds of Siberia to cultivate the land, but it went wrong, very wrong, as cannibal gangs ate the weakest to fend off starvation. + TEN MORE varied true crime stories including murder, robbery, serial killers, disappearances, and mysteries! Perfect for late night reading or a quick tale at lunchtime. ^^^SCROLL UP TO GET YOUR COPY NOW!^^^ Follow Ben Oakley on Amazon to be informed of new releases.

Fact is never more strange than fiction than when it comes to crime, and the crimes described here are so bizarre it's inconceivable that they could have been made up. In this all-new collection of truly unusual crimes, a sequel to the bestselling Mammoth Book of Bizarre Crimes, Odell and Donnelley tell the extraordinary stories of criminal acts far stranger than any fiction, including the murder of Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace by spree-killer Andrew Cunanan and the killing of intern Chandra Ann Levy, who had had an affair with US Representative Gary Condit, though he was cleared of any involvement in her murder. They reveal how Danilo Restivo was eventually convicted of the murder of Heather Barnett in England after the ritualistic placing of hair connected him to another murder in Italy. They tell the terrible story of the inexplicably brutal murder, over a number of days, of 15-year-old Kristy Bamu by his sister and her lover because they believed him to be practising 'witchcraft'. They also give a chilling account of the thirty-one-year-old mother-of-two, Joanna Dennehy, who killed three men. 'I started killing,' she said, 'to see if I was as cold as I thought I was. Then it got moreish and I got a taste for it.'

This is no ordinary true crime book. If you think you've got the stomach for the most blood-curdling, sickening and downright strangest murders you will ever come across, then look no further than these pages. You have been warned...Take, for example, Enriqueta Marti who kidnapped children from the streets of Barcelona, then boiled away their flesh and crushed their bones for ingredients for her coveted 'magic potions'. Or take Randy Kraft, known as The Scorecard Killer, a computer genius by day and a a deranged psychopath by night. Finally arrested with a corpse slumped in the passenger seat of his car, it emerged that Kraft had spent over a decade cutting up and disposing of his numerous victims along the California highways. In this stomach-churning collection, all the stories have one thing in common - a unique bizarre twist. True crime writer James Marrison draws upon the material that has featured in the hugely successful column The Murder File in cult magazine Bizarre in order to disclose the kind of sickening deeds that are perpetrated more often than you might think, but which sometimes go largely unreported by the media. Welcome to The World's Most bizarre Murders - the most shocking true crime book you will ever read.

You couldn't make it up: incredible real-life criminal cases A fascinating A-Z of murderous crimes which spans the globe and the centuries in uncovering the extremes of human criminality in all its strangeness. This collection of unusual, if not sensational, murder cases recalls strange crimes of the past and offers insights into particularly macabre and shocking modern murders. Many of the cases also shed light on advances in crime detection, law enforcement and forensic science. Cases include: Krystian Bala, the Polish writer who killed a rival, and then used the murder as the plot for a novel; Alexander Pichuskin, who was stopped one short of killing the 64 victims he needed to 'fill a chess board'; John Lee, 'the man they could not hang' who survived three attempts to execute him; and Adelaide Bartlett, who was accused of killing her husband with chloroform, but was acquitted because no one could work out how she had done it - and she wouldn't say.

From murder and robberies to arson and blackmail, the 20 stories in this book are some of the most fascinating true crime stories ever recorded. Each of these cases is so bizarre that they confounded the police, baffled investigators and captured the attention of the press all over the world. These short and accessible stories include encyclopaedic information on when and how the crimes were committed, the background of each criminal, and their trials and punishments - for those that were caught.... The mind-boggling crimes in this book are so bizarre that they will stay with you long after you've closed the final page. The ideal gift for all True Crime fanatics.

Investigate some of the most horrific but unheard-of tales of true crime in Unbelievable Crimes Volume Seven. In the seventh installment of this series, I’ll visit some twisted cases that expose the wickedness some humans are capable of. From savage attacks and kidnapping to homicidal teens, I’m delving deep into lesser-known crimes and unearthing the depravity of the relatively unheard-of criminals. When you think you can’t be shocked by true crime tales, think again. One such crime took place in 2017 in Lancashire, England. A young woman and her boyfriend were violently attacked for no other reason than their style of clothing. The beating they received was prolonged and brutal - simply because the couple wore gothic clothing. Another deviant crime I’ll cover is straight out of a thriller movie. A mother of two is savagely beaten by her abusive ex-husband, kidnapped, and taken to a storage unit. She’s locked inside and left to die in the damp, cold container. Can she escape before the freezing temperatures get her? Or will her violent ex succeed in his attempt to end her life? Then there’s the gruesome case of a businesswoman abducted in Scotland in 2011. She was tortured in unimaginable ways before her murder. But why, and who would feel such anger toward her that they’d put her through such a cruel ordeal before ending her life? Learn more about these crimes, as well as other lesser-known cases, in Unbelievable Crimes Volume Seven. Please remember that this book describes real-life violence, assaults, and murder. For those new to the series, Unbelievable Crimes is written by a former small-town journalist turned true crime enthusiast. The series tackles hard-to-hear true tales that evaded headline news (mostly) despite the (or perhaps because of) barbarity of the crime.

This is the disturbing account of 31-year-old Joanna Dennehy, mother of two, the man under her spell, Gary Stretch, 47, and the murder investigation that led them and others to the Old Bailey for trial. A true crime short, plus 17 additional true crime stories. It was the day before Easter, 2013. A man out walking his dog on a rural road near Peterborough, United Kingdom found a dead body lying in a ditch. The grisly discovery preceded two other dead body discoveries under similar circumstances, thus launching police on a massive country-wide manhunt for a self-mutilating female psychopath with an affinity for knives and her 7-foot 3-inch tall companion and accomplice. Before their bloody rampage was brought to an end, they would attempt to kill two additional innocent people who likely never even saw them coming. This volume also includes the bizarre, compelling and frighteningly authentic true crime stories of several headline-grabbing cases, as well as more obscure cases that received little media attention. Within these pages you will find stories about serial killer Andrew Urdiales; Jodi Arias and the murder of Travis Alexander; the random serial stabber case; a killer who wanted to be like "Dexter;" a "blood oath" murder case out of Washington State; a story about a "dead" man who murdered two female victims; the case of Portland's "Motel Hell" bloodbath; and several other real-life true crime dramas chosen especially for true crime aficionados about killers who mostly had one thing in common—they were OUT FOR BLOOD! 18 stories in all. Photos.