8 must-read true crime books like The Chicago Killer: The Hunt For Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy by Joseph R. Kozenczak

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The Chicago Killer: The Hunt For Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy

By: Joseph R. Kozenczak

4.29

Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition

The Chicago Killer - The Hunt For Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy is the story of the capture of John…

If you liked the true crime plot in The Chicago Killer: The Hunt For Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy by Joseph R. Kozenczak , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Small Sacrifices

By: Ann Rule

4.25

Format: 496 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Ann Rule's shocking and powerful account of the destructive forces that drove Diane Downs, a beauti… read more

Similar categories in Ann Rule's Small Sacrifices book and Joseph R. Kozenczak's The Chicago Killer: The Hunt For Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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2. Columbine

By: Dave Cullen

4.29

Format: 417 pages, Hardcover

"The tragedies keep coming. As we reel from the latest horror . . . " So begins a new epilogue, ill… read more

Similar categories in Dave Cullen's Columbine book and Joseph R. Kozenczak's The Chicago Killer: The Hunt For Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
"The final portrait is often furthest from the truth."

-Dave Cullen, Columbine

"What good were special talents when there was no one to share them with?"

-Dave Cullen, Columbine

"The goal with hostages is to gradually lower expectations; in nonhostage crises, it's to lower emotions."

-Dave Cullen, Columbine

"You can't really teach a kid anything: you can only show him the way and motivate him to learn it himself."

-Dave Cullen, Columbine

3. Shattered

By: Kathryn Casey

3.45

Format: 105 pages, Paperback

"Kathryn Casey is one of the best true crime writers today." --Ann Rule With true crime classics li… read more

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4. Buried Dreams: Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer

By: Tim Cahill

4.09

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

The definitive study of John Wayne Gacy--from his abusive childhood to the murders of thirty-three … read more

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5. The Amish Wife

By: Gregg Olsen

3.49

Format: 387 pages, Kindle Edition

The #1 New York Times and Amazon Charts bestselling author Gregg Olsen solves a murder among the Am… read more

Similar categories in Gregg Olsen's The Amish Wife book and Joseph R. Kozenczak's The Chicago Killer: The Hunt For Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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6. American Mother: The True Story of a Troubled Family, Motherhood and the Cyanide Poisonings That Shook the World

By: Gregg Olsen

3.55

Format: 497 pages, Kindle Edition

From the #1 bestselling author comes the shocking true-crime story of a mother and wife, her distur… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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7. Eyes of a Monster

By: Ron Peterson Jr.

4.35

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Schoolteacher Olivia Dare Christian was murdered in her Hampton, Virginia apartment in 1981. Her ki… read more

Similar categories in Ron Peterson Jr.'s Eyes of a Monster book and Joseph R. Kozenczak's The Chicago Killer: The Hunt For Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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8. When a Killer Calls (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2)

By: John E. Douglas

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A Haunting Story of Murder, Criminal Profiling, and Justice in a Small Town From John Douglas—th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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9. In Plain Sight: The Kaufman County Prosecutor Murders

By: Kathryn Casey

4.17

Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition

JUDGE. JURY. EXECUTIONER. On a cold January morning, the killer executed Assistant District Attorn… read more

Similar categories in Kathryn Casey's In Plain Sight: The Kaufman County Prosecutor Murders book and Joseph R. Kozenczak's The Chicago Killer: The Hunt For Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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10. The Chicago Killer: The Hunt For Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy

By: Joseph R. Kozenczak

4.29

Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition

The Chicago Killer - The Hunt For Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy is the story of the capture of John… read more

Similar categories in Joseph R. Kozenczak's The Chicago Killer: The Hunt For Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy book and Joseph R. Kozenczak's The Chicago Killer: The Hunt For Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy

  • nonfiction
  • true crime

8 best-selling nonfiction books like The Chicago Killer: The Hunt For Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy by Joseph R. Kozenczak

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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

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In the Name of Love and Other True Cases (Crime Files, #4)

Ann Rule

4.17

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3.55

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David Miraldi

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