This book is about relating the concepts of rape and murder in both senses of the term; that is the way rape and murder are linked and related and also how stories of rape and murder are related or told.

A shocking look at how the idea of romantic love can justify and excuse the killing of women by their partners, and lead to sympathy and reduced sentences for the killers. The author explores how stories of domestic homicide are told in the news, by the police, and in the courts, drawing from 72 cases which took place over a twelve month period.

Recounts the events that took place in Casper, Wyoming, in the autumn of 1973, when Amy Burridge and her eighteen-year-old half sister Becky Thomson were raped by two men and thrown off bridge, and explores how the events impacted the residents of the small town, Becky, the only one of the girls to survive the attack, and the many people who helped her recover from her physical and emotional injuries.

The true story of the pool table rape and murder of Margaret Anderson in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Left for dead, practically beheaded in a manure pile, Margaret fights for life. But in the end, the single mother leaves behind a son. Author Mike Dauplaise practically makes Margaret blow a breath at readers as he recreates the night she was killed. He then takes readers to the place she was trying to escape back to, her home state of Montana, and finally, on the investigative hunt of a lifetime as this "America's Most Wanted" drama ends with the capture of the last of the suspects five years later. Dauplaise infiltrates the motorcycle club culture of the 1980s to expose what happened to Anderson and why she was just six months away from returning home to Montana. True-crime enthusiasts will revel in the detail and the hunt.

Edgar Award Finalist: The hunt for Ronnie Shelton, Cleveland’s West Side Rapist, and the victims who united for justice—“Groundbreaking” (Ann Rule). From 1983 to 1988, serial rapist Ronnie Shelton preyed on the women of Cleveland. Dubbed the West Side Rapist, twenty-seven-year-old Shelton would spy on his victims, stalk them, and brutally assault them in their homes. Arrested at least fifteen times for other crimes, Shelton slipped through the cracks of an overburdened police department so often it seemed he would never be caught. Based on more than 150 interviews with the survivors, the police, psychiatrists, and Shelton himself, this “groundbreaking study of the infinite perils of serial rape” is the extensively researched story of Shelton’s crimes and the five-year pursuit that ended in his capture (Ann Rule). Investigative journalist James Neff also documents the long-term devastation caused by rape and celebrates the courage of the women who helped to put a sexual predator behind bars. It resulted in a sentence of 3,195 years—the longest in Ohio state history. A finalist for the Edgar Award, Unfinished Murder is “not only a riveting nonfiction thriller but an important account about the true nature of sex crimes in America” from the prizewinning true crime journalist who is also the author of The Wrong Man: The Final Verdict on the Dr. Sam Sheppard Murder Case and Mobbed Up: Jackie Presser’s High-Wire Life in the Teamsters, the Mafia, and the FBI, which was the basis for the HBO movie, Teamster Boss (Nicholas Pileggi).

Young Man low educated, riding his bicycle, stumbled onto the mutilated body of a 12 year-old girl, of course he is nervous. The sheriff didnt believe his story and locked him up in jail when he couldnt find any other suspects. The district attorney ordered; the sheriff to desist investigation. James was sent to life in prison. While in prison, he met Alan. He was studying to be a lawyer; when he found out that James had sexual organs that were not functioning. He got an intern in the infirmary, to help make the tests on camera and he showed beyond a doubt that James could not have committed such a crime that James could not even get an erection, let alone rape some child and murder her. Allen made his investigation very carefully, and when he presented his case to the governor. He was eventually able to get James out on a pardon. And eventually cleared of all chargers and ironic story led to his biological father, being the man that raped the girl and was eventually sent to jail for murder and rape of Candy L. Plowtz. After James was freed from prison, he moved on to be a professional house painter, and with doctors treatments. He eventually was able to function like God intended a man to function. And thus he will live a productive life. He eventually educated his mother and she married his cellmate Patrick and they all associated for the rest of their lives.