True Accounts

From reviews of the newest, hippest restaurants in cities across Texas to stories about the comfort foods we all love, Texans have long relied on Texas Monthly to dish up some of the best writing about food in the Lone Star state. This anthology brings together twenty-eight classic articles about fo... More

A fresh and fascinating look at the Evelyn Dick murder trial and the intriguing mystery of her disappearance. The "torso" murder trial of young attractive Evelyn Dick grabbed headlines in 1946 and 1947. Her husband John's head and limbs had been sawed from his body and burned up in her furnace. Aft... More

All the stories in this 24th scintillating volume of letters collected from the Forum section of "Penthouse" magazine have a common theme--cheating--as contributors recount their memorable sexual experiences. Original.... More

Serial killer Gary Heidnik's name will live on in infamy, and his home, 3520 North Marshall Street in Philadelphia, is a house tainted with the memory of unbelievable horrors. What police found there was an incredible nightmare made real. Four young women had been held captive-some for four months-h... More

The chilling life story of Kent Walker, whose mother, Sante Kimes, and younger brother, Kenny, made national headlines when they were arrested for the 1998 murder of a wealthy New York City widow. Walker reveals how he survived four decades of growing up as the oldest son of a bloodthirsty killer/co... More

Cicero was still in his twenties when he got Sextus Roscius off a charge of murdering his father and nearly sixty when he defended King Deiotarus, accused of trying to murder Caesar. In between (with, among others, his speeches for Cluentius and Rabirius), he built a reputation as the greatest orato... More

"Invisible Darkness is the story of one of the more bizarre cases in recent memory--killings so sensational that they prompted the Canadian government, in the interests of justice, to silence its national press and to lock foreign journalists out of the courts. To all appearances, Paul and Karla Ber... More

In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana's Angola State Prison. In the months before Sonnier's death, the Roman Catholic nun came to know a man who was as terrified... More

Lisa Beamer was thrust into the national spotlight after her husband, Todd, led a counterattack against terrorists on United Flight 93. Todd's last known words, "Let's roll!" have become a rallying cry for the nation to move ahead in hope. This is the story of her marriage, the events of 9/11, and t... More

Communism was never a popular ideology in America, but the vehemence of American anticommunism varied from passive disdain in the 1920s to fervent hostility in the early years of the Cold War. Nothing so stimulated the white hot anticommunism of the late 1940s and 1950s more than a series of spy tri... More

STEP ONE: MAKE A PLANCarl and Sarah Collier feared their cold and wild granddaughter, Holly. But when they forbade Holly from spending time with her 16-year-old female lover, Sandy, they set in motion a horrifying plot... STEP TWO: GET A WEAPONHolly and Sandy asked around for a gun. They made a to-d... More

Corbitt--along with the godson and namesake of a former Chicago mob boss--tells the gritty, often gruesome, personal account of how he slipped between the deadly, conflicting worlds of cop and mobster with terrifying, almost schizophrenic ease.An expose of organised crime and its unholy alliance wit... More

"Hazelwood's authentic and unique perspective pierces a darkness most of us would like to believe doesn't exist."--Chris Carter, creator of "The X-Files" Twenty-two years in the FBI. Sixteen years on the bureau's infamous Behavioral Science Unit. Thousands of homicides, rapes, suicides, and other gr... More

Famed criminologist Dr. Lee explains the forensic evidence in five intriguing cases, including one in which his reconstruction of the crime scene was key to solving a murder, and one where he believes an innocent man has gone to prison.Famed criminalist Dr. Lee explains the forensic evidence in five... More

Whichever galaxy they're from, these interwoven tales prove that some stories are indeed universal--and that others are weird, bizarre, and clearly not of this world. It's nice to know that aliens, too, can smile, cry, poop, make friends, be kind or be cruel, and sometimes make a total mess of thing... More

From the Emmy Award-winning journalist and bestselling author comes a gripping narrative account of the tragic deaths of 19 immigrants in Texas as they tried to make their way across the Mexican-American border, and the 25-year-old female mastermind of the "human trafficking cell" accountable for th... More

"Thinking About the Insanity Defense" answers ninety-seven frequently asked questions and presents sixteen case examples in easily understood language. This volume provides a clear and compelling introduction to one of the most important topics in the relation between psychology and law. Compiled by... More

The first truly in-depth look at the history of the mob in Hollywood from the 1920s to the 1980s when the last vestiges of mob influence were revealed through investigations of former SAG President Ronald Reagan and his union backers. From the time Harry Cohn of Columbia and Louis B. Mayer of MGM ac... More