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Here is a look into the creation of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit and the evolution of criminal profiling, written by the forensic nurse who transformed the way the FBI studies, profiles, and catches serial killers.

In January 1923, twenty-year-old Fritzie Mann left home for a remote cottage by the sea to meet a man whose identity she had revealed to no one. The next morning, the barely clad body of the beautiful and bewitching interpretive dancer washed up on Torrey Pines beach. The investigation revealed a scandalous secret and, possibly, a powerful motive for murder. After a suspect was arrested and charged, an ambitious district attorney battled a high-profile LA private counsel in the most sensational trial in San Diego's history, which was followed avidly across the nation.

Lizzette Martinez and Keelin MacGregor share a no-holds-barred look at Martinez's relationship with Kelly, her efforts to break free and pursue her dreams, and her courage to seek justice.

In the 1960s, Edgar Smith, in prison and sentenced to death for the murder of teenager Victoria Zielinski, struck up a correspondence with William F. Buckley, the founder of National Review. Buckley, who refused to believe that a man who supported the neoconservative movement could have committed such a heinous crime, began to advocate not only for Smith's life to be spared, but also for his sentence to be overturned.

The story of Clarence Henderson, a Black sharecropper convicted and sentenced to death three times for a murder he didn't commit, and of Thurgood Marshall's battle against racism and the Communist Party to save him.

In 1913, two Catholic priests set out to the Canadian Arctic to convert isolated Inuit's. Three days after reaching their destination, the two men were murdered. It took years for Western justice to investigate.

In 1974, Dennis Lynn Rader stalked and murdered a family of four in Wichita, Kansas. Soon after killing the family, he murdered a young woman and then another, until he had ten victims. Katherine Ramsland worked with Rader himself to analyze the layers of his psyche. Using his drawings, letters, interviews, and Rader's unique codes, she presents in meticulous detail the childhood roots and development of one man's motivation to stalk, torture, and kill.

Danny Seifert was murdered when he tried to leave the Chicago Mob. As they grow into men, Danny's sons, Joe and Nick, take it upon themselves to find the man responsible for their father's death and make him pay.

This is the true story of a sixteen-month crime spree in 1998, when a Cuban-born former Red Army lieutenant launched a series of raids on the Las Vegas Strip, hitting five world-class hotels, three armored cars, and a department store.

In this biography, Wayne Hoffman meticulously researches the century-old murder of his great-grandmother, while facing another tragedy much closer to home: his mother's decline from Alzheimer's.