Family, Friends and Neighbors
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- The captivating downfall of prestigious attorney and community figure Alex Murdaugh, whose addiction spiraled into a web of deceit, fraud, and murder.
- The heartbreaking story of Michael and Robert Bever, brothers driven to commit unspeakable acts due to a lifetime of torment inflicted by their own parents.
- The macabre case of Heather Mack and her boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, who were entangled in a web of greed and trust funds leading to a gruesome discovery inside a suitcase.
- The shocking crimes committed by Lyle and Erik Menendez, whose privileged lives culminated in the massacre of their own parents, forever shocking the nation.
- The accused Victorian-era serial poisoner, Mary Ann Cotton, and the mysterious deaths of her husbands and children.
- The troubled Florida teen Tyler Hadley and his wild house party that went on while his parents' bodies bled in the master bedroom.
- The bank vice-president-turned-embezzler Steven Sueppel, whose mounting debts compelled him to commit a desperate act of murder.
- And dozens of other intimate murders and webs of deceit! Murders committed to escape a marriage, or out of dire desperation, or from an insane separation from reality, these and other less comprehensible motivations fill the pages of Family, Friends and Neighbors. It's an unflinching look into humanity's dark side! Read the stories, investigate the facts, and meet the vicious killers who murder the people who should have been nearest and dearest to them.
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Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
1. Death by Arsenic (Mary Ann Cotton)
2. Forty Whacks (Lizzie Borden)
3. Run for the Hills (Abel Clemmons)
4. Double Jeopardy (George Jefferson Hassell)
5. Striking Out (Marty Bergen)
6. Getting Away with Murder (John List)
7. The Green Beret Killer (Jeffrey MacDonald)
8. Through the Grapevine (Marvin Gaye Sr.)
9. Over the Edge (Elmer Crawford)
10. The Soap Opera Murder (Daniel Bartlam)
11. The Embezzler (Steven Sueppel)
12. Dark Christmas (Ronald Gene Simmons)
13. Killer Party (Tyler Hadley)
14. Slender Man (Various)
15. "That Bitch Is Dead!" (Gypsy Rose Blanchard)
16. Into the Water (Scott Peterson)
17. The Hudson Murders (William Balfour)
18. A Secret Life (Christopher Watts)
19. Killer Writer (Nancy Crampton Brophy)
20. "The Babysitter Stole Her!" (Casey Anthony)
21. "Kill or be Killed" (The Menendez Murders)
22. Doting Father (Neil Entwistle)
23. Body in a Suitcase (Mack & Schaefer)
24. The Medicine Hat Murders (Steinke & Richardson)
25. Beautiful Creatures (Parker & Hulme)
26. A Self-Made Man (Christopher Foster)
27. The Easter Sunday Massacre (James Ruppert)
28. Triggered (George Emil Banks)
29. The Foreign Officer (William Bradford Bishop)
30. Murder in Broken Bow (The Bever Family)
31. Did She, or Didn't She? (Diane Downs)
32. The Pike County Massacre (Wagner Family)
33. The Spear Gun Killer (John Myles Sharpe)
34. Death Came to Amityville (The DeFeo Murders)
35. A Tangled Web (Richard "Alex" Mudaugh)
Further Reading
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