After his December 2003 arrest, registered nurse Charlie Cullen was quickly dubbed "The Angel of Death" by the media. But Cullen was no mercy killer, nor was he a simple monster. He was a favorite son, husband, beloved father, best friend, and celebrated caregiver. Implicated in the deaths of as many as 300 patients, he was also perhaps the most prolific serial killer in American history. Cullen's murderous career in the world's most trusted profession...

In 2004, the FBI was tipped off to a gruesome pattern of murders along America's highways and interstates. Today at least 850 homicides have been linked to a solitary breed of predators: long-haul truck drivers. They have been given names like the "Truck Stop Killer," who rigged a traveling torture chamber in the rear of his truck and is suspected to have killed fifty women, and "The Interstate Strangler," who once answered a phone call from his mother...

In the summer of 1998, aspiring novelist Walter Kirn delivered a crippled hunting dog from his home in Montana to the New York apartment of one Clark Rockefeller, a secretive young banker and art collector who had adopted the dog over the Internet. Thus began Kirn's fifteen-year relationship with an outlandish, eccentric son of privilege who would be unmasked as a brazen serial impostor, child kidnapper, and brutal murderer. (Bestseller)

In July 2011, billionaire Jonah Shacknai's Coronado, California, mansion was the setting for two horrifying deaths only days apart--his young son's plunge from a balcony and his girlfriend's ghastly hanging. What really happened? Baffling questions remain unanswered. Rule looks at the closed cases through the eyes of a relentless crime reporter. The second probe began in Utah when Susan Powell vanished in a 2009 blizzard. Her controlling husband,...

Trust. It's the foundation of any enduring relationship between friends, lovers, spouses, and families. But when trust is placed in those who are not what they seem, the results can be deadly. Ann Rule, who famously chronicled her own shocking experience of unknowingly befriending a sociopath in The Stranger Beside Me, offers a riveting, all-new collection from her true-crime files, with the lethally shattered bonds of trust at the core of each blood-soaked...

Trust is the foundation of any enduring relationship between friends, lovers, spouses, and families, but when trust is placed in those who are not what they seem, the results can be deadly. In this riveting collection from the true-crime files of New York Times bestselling author Ann Rule, trusting bonds are lethally shattered. Whether driven to extreme violence by greed or jealousy, passion or rage, these calculating sociopaths targeted those closest...

When detectives respond to a crime scene in Orlando, Florida, during the "summer of hurricanes" in 2004, they find Charlie Brandt hanging from the rafters in the garage of Michelle Jones' home, his niece. Inside the house, they find a scene of horror that reminds them of other murders ... In 1978, 13-year-old Carol Lynn Sullivan's head was found inside a rusty paint can in Osteen, FL; her body was never found. Homeless transient Sherry Perisho was...