Then, in August 2009, a registered sex offender named Phillip Garrido appeared on the University of California, Berkeley campus alongside two young women whose unusual behavior sparked concern among campus officials and law enforcement. That visit would... [More...]

In this almost cinematic page-turner, a famed forensic pathologist and a veteran true-crime journalist offer never-before-published information on the deaths of Michael Jackson and Caylee Anthony, plus six other ripped-from-the-headlines criminal cases.

What happened in this book will change what you think of the criminal justice system in this country. Each of [the authors] tells an extraordinary story about crime . . . but it's their shared spiritual journey toward reconciliation and forgiveness that is... [More...]

Frank W. Abagnale, alias Frank Williams, Robert Conrad, Frank Adams, and Robert Monjo, was one of the most daring con men, forgers, imposters, and escape artists in history.  In his brief but notorious criminal career, Abagnale donned a pilot's... [More...]

Glatt recounts the horrifying case of Josef Fritzi, a 73-year-old retired engineer in Austria, who stands accused of incest after imprisoning his daughter Elisabeth for 24 years in his basement, repeatedly raping her, and fathering seven children with her.... [More...]

Scott follows the story of 11-year-old Jaycee Dugard's abduction from the day of her disappearance in 1991 to the arrest and trial of her abductors, the Garridos, nearly 20 years later. Original.

Sent to prison at age 19 on a minor drug offense, a 10-to-20 year sentence, Susan Marie Lefevre chose to escape the life she'd been dealt and begin a new one. She spent the next thirty-two years living the life she'd always planned, all the while carrying... [More...]

In two previous books, Janet Malcolm explored the hidden sides of, respectively, institutional psychoanalysis and Freudian biography. In this book, she examines the psychopathology of journalism. Using a strange and unprecedented lawsuit as her... [More...]

An authorized tie-in for the 15 million people who watch "Criminal Minds" each week."
"Most episodes of "Criminal Minds" feature a briefing where the show's team of FBI profilers defines the type of criminal they're looking for and provides some... [More...]

The FBI expert who coined the term "serial killer" and advised Thomas Harris on serial killers for the now-classic novel "The Silence of the Lambs" tells how he uses evidence from a crime scene to construct a psychological profile of the killer—and... [More...]