24 must-read true crime books like Because of the Hate: The Murder of Jerry Bailey by Kirk McCracken

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Because of the Hate: The Murder of Jerry Bailey

By: Kirk McCracken

3.23

Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition

"Because of the Hate" is the true story about the murder of Jerry Bailey, a beloved high school foo…

If you liked the true crime plot in Because of the Hate: The Murder of Jerry Bailey by Kirk McCracken , here is a list of 24 books like this:

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1. Playing With Fire: The True Story of a Nurse, Her Husband, and a Marriage Turned Fatal

By: John Glatt

3.92

Format: 384 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A beautiful nurse. A lethal injection. A gruesomely charred corpse. Nothing could have shocked the … read more

Similar categories in John Glatt's Playing With Fire: The True Story of a Nurse, Her Husband, and a Marriage Turned Fatal book and Kirk McCracken's Because of the Hate: The Murder of Jerry Bailey

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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2. Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez

By: Philip Carlo

4.02

Format: 592 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The shocking true story behind the serial killer case that inspired the hit Netflix series! Pain… read more

Similar categories in Philip Carlo's Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez book and Kirk McCracken's Because of the Hate: The Murder of Jerry Bailey

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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3. The Killing Season

By: Alex French

3.41

Format: None pages,

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Similar categories in Alex French's The Killing Season book and Kirk McCracken's Because of the Hate: The Murder of Jerry Bailey

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Beyond Cruel: The Chilling True Story of America's Most Sadistic Killer by Stephen G. Michaud

4. Beyond Cruel: The Chilling True Story of America's Most Sadistic Killer

By: Stephen G. Michaud

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

AUTHORITIES OPENED THE DOOR ON ONE MAN'S HIDDEN LIFE... Mike DeBardeleben was known as the Mall Pas… read more

Similar categories in Stephen G. Michaud's Beyond Cruel: The Chilling True Story of America's Most Sadistic Killer book and Kirk McCracken's Because of the Hate: The Murder of Jerry Bailey

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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5. Seven Bones: Two Wives, Two Violent Mureders, a Fight for Justice.

By: Peter Seymour , Jason K. Foster

3.63

Format: None pages, Paperback

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Similar categories in Peter Seymour's Seven Bones: Two Wives, Two Violent Mureders, a Fight for Justice. book and Kirk McCracken's Because of the Hate: The Murder of Jerry Bailey

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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6. Inside the Mind of BTK: The True Story Behind the Thirty-Year Hunt for the Notorious Wichita Serial Killer

By: None , Johnny Dodd

4.25

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A dramatic and compelling true-crime psychological thrillerThis incredible story shows how John Dou… read more

Similar categories in None's Inside the Mind of BTK: The True Story Behind the Thirty-Year Hunt for the Notorious Wichita Serial Killer book and Kirk McCracken's Because of the Hate: The Murder of Jerry Bailey

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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7. Secrets in the Cellar

By: John Glatt

4.16

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

Josef Fritzl was a 73-year-old retired engineer in Austria. He seemed to be living a normal life wi… read more

Similar categories in John Glatt's Secrets in the Cellar book and Kirk McCracken's Because of the Hate: The Murder of Jerry Bailey

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Angel of Darkness: The True Story of Randy Kraft and the Most Heinous Murder Spree by Dennis McDougal

8. Angel of Darkness: The True Story of Randy Kraft and the Most Heinous Murder Spree

By: Dennis McDougal

3.64

Format: None pages,

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Similar categories in Dennis McDougal's Angel of Darkness: The True Story of Randy Kraft and the Most Heinous Murder Spree book and Kirk McCracken's Because of the Hate: The Murder of Jerry Bailey

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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9. Cold Water Crossing: An Account of the Murders at the Isles of Shoals

By: David Faxon

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

This series of events happened on a cold winter evening when three women were unexpectedly left alo… read more

Similar categories in David Faxon's Cold Water Crossing: An Account of the Murders at the Isles of Shoals book and Kirk McCracken's Because of the Hate: The Murder of Jerry Bailey

  • nonfiction
  • true crime

10. Doctors from Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans

By: Vivien Spitz

3.79

Format: 249 pages, Hardcover

A chilling story of human depravity and ultimate justice, told for the first time by an eyewitness … read more

Similar categories in Vivien Spitz's Doctors from Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans book and Kirk McCracken's Because of the Hate: The Murder of Jerry Bailey

11. Buried Memories

By: Irene Pence

3.63

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

Here is the chilling true story of Betty Lou Beets, the "Texas Black Widow" -- a woman who shot and… read more

Similar categories in Irene Pence's Buried Memories book and Kirk McCracken's Because of the Hate: The Murder of Jerry Bailey

12. Tears of the Silenced: A True Crime and an American Tragedy; Severe Child Abuse and Leaving the Amish

By: Misty Griffin

3.93

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

When I was six years old my family started to live and dress like the Amish, it was the beginning o… read more

Similar categories in Misty Griffin's Tears of the Silenced: A True Crime and an American Tragedy; Severe Child Abuse and Leaving the Amish book and Kirk McCracken's Because of the Hate: The Murder of Jerry Bailey

13. Pretty Little Killers: The Truth Behind the Savage Murder of Skylar Neese

By: Daleen Berry , Geoffrey C. Fuller

4.32

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

In Pretty Little Killers, journalist Daleen Berry and investigator Geoffrey Fuller expand upon thei… read more

Similar categories in Daleen Berry's Pretty Little Killers: The Truth Behind the Savage Murder of Skylar Neese book and Kirk McCracken's Because of the Hate: The Murder of Jerry Bailey

14. Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs

By: John Bloom , Jim Atkinson

4.34

Format: 168 pages,

Edgar Award Finalist: The "sensational" true story of two desperate housewives and the killing that… read more

Similar categories in John Bloom's Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs book and Kirk McCracken's Because of the Hate: The Murder of Jerry Bailey

15. The Lost Girls: The True Story of the Cleveland Abductions and the Incredible Rescue of Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus

By: John Glatt

2.83

Format: 288 pages, ebook

New York Times bestselling crime writer John Glatt tells the true story behind the kidnappings and … read more

Similar categories in John Glatt's The Lost Girls: The True Story of the Cleveland Abductions and the Incredible Rescue of Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus book and Kirk McCracken's Because of the Hate: The Murder of Jerry Bailey

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16. American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

By: Maureen Callahan

4.09

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

Ted Bundy. John Wayne Gacy. Jeffrey Dahmer. The names of notorious serial killers are usually well-… read more

Similar categories in Maureen Callahan's American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century book and Kirk McCracken's Because of the Hate: The Murder of Jerry Bailey

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
"I've got lots more stories to tell."

-Maureen Callahan, American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

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17. Hide

By: Kiersten White

3.33

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The challenge: spend a week hiding in an abandoned amusement park and don't get caught. The priz… read more

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"What a generation long before her summoned and paid for, and what subsequent generations decided to make others pay for. Trickle-down economics. They got the economy, and the blood trickled down the …"

-Kiersten White, Hide

"Mack looks back at the maze that housed a monster that fed in youth and hope and stalled dreams. That ground up vulnerable people so the ones in power could keep their power, could keep their safety,…"

-Kiersten White, Hide

"So now she's seen it. She [Mack] knows what's out there. It doesn't make any more sense than it did before, but at least she can move from horror, the fear of the unknown, and into terror, the fear o…"

-Kiersten White, Hide

"He doesn't love you," she said matter-of-factly. "He didn't love your mother, either, and I don't want you to spend your whole life waiting for something he can't give. Men like that, people are thin…"

-Kiersten White, Hide

Cover of We Thought We Knew You: A Terrifying True Story of Secrets, Betrayal, Deception, and Murder by M. William Phelps

18. We Thought We Knew You: A Terrifying True Story of Secrets, Betrayal, Deception, and Murder

By: M. William Phelps

4.10

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author, television personality, and host of the #1 podcast "Paper Ghosts… read more

Similar categories in M. William Phelps's We Thought We Knew You: A Terrifying True Story of Secrets, Betrayal, Deception, and Murder book and Kirk McCracken's Because of the Hate: The Murder of Jerry Bailey

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of The Murder of Kelsey Berreth: A Shocking True Crime Story by Rod Kackley

19. The Murder of Kelsey Berreth: A Shocking True Crime Story

By: Rod Kackley

3.79

Format: 178 pages, Kindle Edition

A successful young mother, Kelsey Berreth, vanishes on Thanksgiving Day 2018. The FBI is afraid the… read more

Similar categories in Rod Kackley's The Murder of Kelsey Berreth: A Shocking True Crime Story book and Kirk McCracken's Because of the Hate: The Murder of Jerry Bailey

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of The Stranger In My Bed (St. Martin's True Crime Library) by Michael Fleeman

20. The Stranger In My Bed (St. Martin's True Crime Library)

By: Michael Fleeman

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback

He Found New Brides To Love Him- All Diane Bertalan really knew of her new husband, John, was that … read more

Similar categories in Michael Fleeman's The Stranger In My Bed (St. Martin's True Crime Library) book and Kirk McCracken's Because of the Hate: The Murder of Jerry Bailey

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Everybody's Best Friend: The True Story of a Marriage That Ended In Murder by Ken Englade

21. Everybody's Best Friend: The True Story of a Marriage That Ended In Murder

By: Ken Englade

3.90

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

The shocking murder that exposed a devoted husband as a cold-hearted killer To Love, Honor-And Mur… read more

Similar categories in Ken Englade's Everybody's Best Friend: The True Story of a Marriage That Ended In Murder book and Kirk McCracken's Because of the Hate: The Murder of Jerry Bailey

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Death in Texas: A True Story of Marriage, Money, and Murder (St. Martin's True Crime Library) by Carlton Smith

22. Death in Texas: A True Story of Marriage, Money, and Murder (St. Martin's True Crime Library)

By: Carlton Smith

3.35

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Was he his brother's keeper? Robert and Doris Angleton seemed to have the perfect life. Until she … read more

Similar categories in Carlton Smith's Death in Texas: A True Story of Marriage, Money, and Murder (St. Martin's True Crime Library) book and Kirk McCracken's Because of the Hate: The Murder of Jerry Bailey

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of The Horrors of Fox Hollow Farm: Unraveling the History & Hauntings of a Serial Killer's Home by Richard Estep

23. The Horrors of Fox Hollow Farm: Unraveling the History & Hauntings of a Serial Killer's Home

By: Richard Estep

3.42

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Fox Hollow Farm, the infamous Indiana property where Herb Baumeister allegedly murdered at least el… read more

Similar categories in Richard Estep's The Horrors of Fox Hollow Farm: Unraveling the History & Hauntings of a Serial Killer's Home book and Kirk McCracken's Because of the Hate: The Murder of Jerry Bailey

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of The Doomsday Mother: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and the End of an American Family by John Glatt

24. The Doomsday Mother: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and the End of an American Family

By: John Glatt

3.82

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In The Doomsday Mother , bestselling true crime author John Glatt tells the twisted tale of Lori Va… read more

Similar categories in John Glatt's The Doomsday Mother: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and the End of an American Family book and Kirk McCracken's Because of the Hate: The Murder of Jerry Bailey

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of A Gallery of Poisoners: Thirteen Classic Case Histories of Murder by Poisoning by Adrian Vincent

25. A Gallery of Poisoners: Thirteen Classic Case Histories of Murder by Poisoning

By: Adrian Vincent

3.54

Format: 188 pages, Kindle Edition

Here are thirteen cases of fatal passions, unfortunate acquaintances and gruesome endings. The thi… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Vincent's A Gallery of Poisoners: Thirteen Classic Case Histories of Murder by Poisoning book and Kirk McCracken's Because of the Hate: The Murder of Jerry Bailey

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Poisoned Blood: A True Story of Murder, Passion, and an Astonishing Hoax by Philip E. Ginsburg

26. Poisoned Blood: A True Story of Murder, Passion, and an Astonishing Hoax

By: Philip E. Ginsburg

3.93

Format: 555 pages, Kindle Edition

Pretty, smart, and pampered, Audrey Marie Hilley grew up in a small Alabama town believing she was … read more

Similar categories in Philip E. Ginsburg's Poisoned Blood: A True Story of Murder, Passion, and an Astonishing Hoax book and Kirk McCracken's Because of the Hate: The Murder of Jerry Bailey

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Hell in the Heartland: Murder, Meth, and the Case of Two Missing Girls by Jax Miller

27. Hell in the Heartland: Murder, Meth, and the Case of Two Missing Girls

By: Jax Miller

3.70

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

The stranger-than-fiction cold case from rural Oklahoma that has stumped authorities for two decade… read more

Similar categories in Jax Miller's Hell in the Heartland: Murder, Meth, and the Case of Two Missing Girls book and Kirk McCracken's Because of the Hate: The Murder of Jerry Bailey

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
"I come to Oklahoma, thinking that it’ll be hard to write about the dead, but it has proven harder to write about the living, about those who’ll have to read themselves through my eyes."

-Jax Miller, Hell in the Heartland: Murder, Meth, and the Case of Two Missing Girls

Cover of Cold Blooded: A chilling, true tale of terror, rape, and murder in the Arkansas River bottoms by Anita Paddock

28. Cold Blooded: A chilling, true tale of terror, rape, and murder in the Arkansas River bottoms

By: Anita Paddock

3.98

Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition

A chilling, true tale of terror, rape and murder in the Arkansas River bottoms. On a cold January m… read more

Similar categories in Anita Paddock's Cold Blooded: A chilling, true tale of terror, rape, and murder in the Arkansas River bottoms book and Kirk McCracken's Because of the Hate: The Murder of Jerry Bailey

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of The Brick Slayer (Bloodlands collection) by Harold Schechter

29. The Brick Slayer (Bloodlands collection)

By: Harold Schechter

3.54

Format: 58 pages, Kindle Edition

A series of brutal home invasions terrified Los Angeles in 1937. They ended in Chicago a year later… read more

Similar categories in Harold Schechter's The Brick Slayer (Bloodlands collection) book and Kirk McCracken's Because of the Hate: The Murder of Jerry Bailey

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Because of the Hate: The Murder of Jerry Bailey by Kirk McCracken

30. Because of the Hate: The Murder of Jerry Bailey

By: Kirk McCracken

3.23

Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition

"Because of the Hate" is the true story about the murder of Jerry Bailey, a beloved high school foo… read more

Similar categories in Kirk McCracken's Because of the Hate: The Murder of Jerry Bailey book and Kirk McCracken's Because of the Hate: The Murder of Jerry Bailey

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of The Camp Scott Murders: The 1977 Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders by C.S. Kelly

31. The Camp Scott Murders: The 1977 Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders

By: C.S. Kelly

3.31

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

June 13th, 1977, Rural Eastern Oklahoma. Three young girls are brutally murdered on the first night… read more

Similar categories in C.S. Kelly's The Camp Scott Murders: The 1977 Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders book and Kirk McCracken's Because of the Hate: The Murder of Jerry Bailey

  • nonfiction
  • true crime

24 Top nonfiction books like Because of the Hate: The Murder of Jerry Bailey by Kirk McCracken

Transform Your Habits

Playing With Fire: The True Story of a Nurse, Her Husband, and a Marriage Turned Fatal

John Glatt

3.92

Transform Your Habits

Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez

Philip Carlo

4.02

Transform Your Habits

The Killing Season

Alex French

3.41

Transform Your Habits

Beyond Cruel: The Chilling True Story of America's Most Sadistic Killer

Stephen G. Michaud

3.93

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Transform Your Habits

The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town

John Grisham

3.86

Transform Your Habits

The Evil Within: Murdered by her stepbrother – the crime that shocked a nation. The heartbreaking story of Becky Watts by her father

Darren Galsworthy

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Invisible Darkness

Stephen Williams

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island

Regina Calcaterra

4.31

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