Arkansas Hitchhike Killer, The: James Waybern "Red" Hall
Arkansas Hitchhike Killer, The: James Waybern

Author: Janie Nesbitt Jones

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1467148172

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Faulkner County native Red Hall was a serial killer who confessed to murdering at least twenty-four people. Most of his victims were motorists who picked him up as he hitchhiked around the United States. In the closing months of World War II, he beat his wife to death and went on a killing spree across the state. His signature smile lured his victims to their doom, and even after his capture, he maintained a friendly manner, being described by one lawman as "a pleasant conversationalist." Author Janie Nesbitt Jones chronicles his life for the first time and explores reasons why he became Arkansas's Hitchhike Killer.

Daughter of the White River
Daughter of the White River

Author: Denise Parkinson

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2009-04-30

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 1625840136

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The tragic, true story of Helen Spence, the teenager who murdered her father’s killers in the insulated lower White River area of Arkansas in 1931. The once-thriving houseboat communities along Arkansas’s White River are long gone, and few remember the sensational murder story that set local darling Helen Spence on a tragic path. In 1931, Spence shocked Arkansas when she avenged her father’s murder in a DeWitt courtroom. The state soon discovered that no prison could hold her. For the first time, prison records are unveiled to provide an essential portrait. Join author Denise Parkinson for an intimate look at a Depression-era tragedy. The legend of Helen Spence refuses to be forgotten—despite her unmarked grave. “Most memorably, Parkinson evokes the natural beauty of the White River itself. But more importantly, she’s given Helen Spence, daughter of the river, a sympathetic hearing—something in its pulp version of events Daring Detective did not.”—Memphis Flyer “Denise details Helen’s life, from the murder of her father to the horrific treatment she received at the hands of the law, including how prison officials seemed to entice her to escape a final time, with the attempt culminating in her murder.”—Only in Arkansas

The Hitchhiker from Hell
The Hitchhiker from Hell

Author: Jack Smith

Publisher:

Published: 2021-05-27

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13:

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Picking up a hitchhiker can be a risky business. It can also be just a kind stranger that needs help, but if you're unlucky, it can be just someone like James Waybern Hall, the Hitchhiker from Hell. Learn more about the life of this serial killer and his heinous crimes! James Waybern Hall isn't quite as well known as some other mass murderers, but his crimes are just as heinous. Waybern picked most of his victims at random out on the open road. His method was simple: he would smile, raise a thumb into the air, and see if he could catch a ride. Before too long, this amiable hitchhiker led a trail of death and destruction in his wake. Although it is unclear just how many people he killed, it was on charges of murdering his second wife Fayrene Hall, that this killer would finally be brought to justice. In this book, we will closely chronicle all of the dastardly doings of this little-known serial killer. Scroll back up and click the BUY NOW button at the top right side of this page to order your copy now!

Woods Runner
Woods Runner

Author: Gary Paulsen

Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books

Published: 2011-01-11

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 037585908X

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Samuel, 13, spends his days in the forest, hunting for food for his family. He has grown up on the frontier of a British colony, America. Far from any town, or news of the war against the King that American patriots have begun near Boston. But the war comes to them. British soldiers and Iroquois attack. Samuel’s parents are taken away, prisoners. Samuel follows, hiding, moving silently, determined to find a way to rescue them. Each day he confronts the enemy, and the tragedy and horror of this war. But he also discovers allies, men and women working secretly for the patriot cause. And he learns that he must go deep into enemy territory to find his parents: all the way to the British headquarters, New York City.

Arkansas Curiosities
Arkansas Curiosities

Author: Janie Jones

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2010-06-15

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0762765739

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Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Natural State has to offer!

The Phantom Killer
The Phantom Killer

Author: James Presley

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-11-15

Total Pages: 529

ISBN-13: 1605987239

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The salacious and scandalous murders of a series of couples on Texarkana's "lovers lanes" in seemingly idyllic post-WWII America created a media maelstrom and cast a pall of fear over an entire region. What is even more surprising is that the case has remained cold for decades. Combining archival research and investigative journalism, Pulitzer Prize nominated historian James Presley reveals evidence that provides crucial keys to unlocking this decades-old puzzle.Dubbed "the Phantom murders" by the press, these grisly crimes took place in an America before dial telephones, DNA science, and criminal profiling. Even pre-television, print and radio media stirred emotions to a fever pitch. The Phantom Killer, exhaustively researched, is the only definitive nonfiction book on the case, and includes details from an unpublished account by a survivor, and rare, never-before-published photographs.Although the case lives on today on television, the Internet, a revived fictional movie and even an off-Broadway play, with so much of the investigation shrouded in mystery since 1946, rumors and fractured facts have distorted the reality. Now, for the first time, a careful examination of the archival record, personal interviews, and stubborn fact checking come together to produce new insights and revelations on the old slayings.

The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Volume Four T–Z
The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Volume Four T–Z

Author: Susan Hall

Publisher: WildBlue Press

Published: 2021-01-05

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 1952225353

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The 4th volume of this comprehensive work features hundreds of serial killers from Sacramento to Soviet Russia—plus numerous unsolved cases. The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers is the most complete reference guide on the subject, featuring more than 1,600 entries about the lives and crimes of serial killers from around the world. Defined by the FBI as a person who murders three or more people with a hiatus of weeks or months between murders, the serial killer has presented unique and terrifying challenges to have walked among us since the dawn of time—a fact this extensive record makes chillingly clear. The series concludes with Volume Four, T-Z. Entries include the Terminator Anatoly Yuriyovych Onoprienko; Trailside Killer David Joseph Carpenter; Vampire of Sacramento Richard Trenton Chase; and the Voroshilovgrad Maniac Zaven Almazyan; plus the unsolved cases of the Adelaide Child Murders; the Axeman of New Orleans; the Chillicothe Killer; the Dead Women of Juarez; the Korea Frog Boy Murders; and the Volga Maniac.

The Michigan Murders
The Michigan Murders

Author: Edward Keyes

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2016-04-19

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1504025598

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Edgar Award Finalist: The true story of a serial killer who terrorized a midwestern town in the era of free love—by the coauthor of The French Connection. In 1967, during the time of peace, free love, and hitchhiking, nineteen-year-old Mary Terese Fleszar was last seen alive walking home to her apartment in Ypsilanti, Michigan. One month later, her naked body—stabbed over thirty times and missing both feet and a forearm—was discovered, partially buried, on an abandoned farm. A year later, the body of twenty-year-old Joan Schell was found, similarly violated. Southeastern Michigan was terrorized by something it had never experienced before: a serial killer. Over the next two years, five more bodies were uncovered around Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti, Michigan. All the victims were tortured and mutilated. All were female students. After multiple failed investigations, a chance sighting finally led to a suspect. On the surface, John Norman Collins was an all-American boy—a fraternity member studying elementary education at Eastern Michigan University. But Collins wasn’t all that he seemed. His female friends described him as aggressive and short tempered. And in August 1970, Collins, the “Ypsilanti Ripper,” was arrested, found guilty, and sentenced to life in prison without chance of parole. Written by the coauthor of The French Connection, The Michigan Murders delivers a harrowing depiction of the savage murders that tormented a small midwestern town.

Ted Bundy: Conversations with a Killer
Ted Bundy: Conversations with a Killer

Author: Stephen G. Michaud

Publisher: Union Square & Co.

Published: 2019-07-02

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1454937696

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In a series of death row interviews done shortly before his execution, infamous serial killer Ted Bundy gave a third-person "confession" of his many murders. This definitive book on Bundy was recently made into a Netflix documentary. What goes on in the mind of a serial killer? Drawn from more than 150 hours of exclusive tape-recorded interviews with the handsome, charismastic Bundy, whose grisly killing spree left at least 30 young women dead across seven states between 1974 and 1978, this chilling exposé provides a shocking self-portrait of one of the most savage sex murderers in history. Speaking eerily in the third person, Bundy reveals appalling details about his crimes, discloses how he attracted his victims, explains how he methodically disguised his acts, and recounts his two daring jailbreaks. Bundy also offers his thoughts on other infamous serial killers, including John Wayne Gacy and Son of Sam.