14 Top biography books like The I-5 Killer by Ann Rule

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The I-5 Killer

By: Ann Rule

4.11

Format: 98 pages,

If you liked the biography plot in The I-5 Killer by Ann Rule , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of Deliver Us: Three Decades of Murder and Redemption in the Infamous I-45/Texas Killing Fields by Kathryn Casey

1. Deliver Us: Three Decades of Murder and Redemption in the Infamous I-45/Texas Killing Fields

By: Kathryn Casey

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Critically acclaimed author Kathryn Casey delivers a riveting account of the brutal murders of youn… read more

Similar categories in Kathryn Casey's Deliver Us: Three Decades of Murder and Redemption in the Infamous I-45/Texas Killing Fields book and Ann Rule's The I-5 Killer

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man's Descent into Madness by Eli Sanders

2. While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man's Descent into Madness

By: Eli Sanders

3.99

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

On a summer night in 2009, three lives intersected in one American neighborhood. Two people newly i… read more

Similar categories in Eli Sanders's While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man's Descent into Madness book and Ann Rule's The I-5 Killer

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez by Philip Carlo

3. 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 Ann Rule's The I-5 Killer

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders by Terry Sullivan, Peter T. Maiken, Peter Maiken

4. Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders

By: Terry Sullivan , Peter T. Maiken , Peter Maiken

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The state prosecutor at the Gacy trial recounts the police investigation that led to Gacy's arrest … read more

Similar categories in Terry Sullivan's Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders book and Ann Rule's The I-5 Killer

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Next Door by Roy Wenzl, L. Kelly, Tim Potter, Hurst Laviana

5. Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Next Door

By: Roy Wenzl , L. Kelly , Tim Potter , Hurst Laviana

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For thirty-one years, a monster terrorized the residents of Wichita, Kansas. A bloodthirsty serial … read more

Similar categories in Roy Wenzl's Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Next Door book and Ann Rule's The I-5 Killer

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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6. Son

By: Jack Olsen

4.00

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

A classic from "the dean of true crime" (The Washington Post)--now with a new foreword--this 1983 m… read more

Similar categories in Jack Olsen's Son book and Ann Rule's The I-5 Killer

  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Inside the Mind of BTK: The True Story Behind the Thirty-Year Hunt for the Notorious Wichita Serial Killer by None, Johnny Dodd

7. 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 Ann Rule's The I-5 Killer

  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Cases That Haunt Us (Lisa Drew Books) by None, Mark Olshaker

8. The Cases That Haunt Us (Lisa Drew Books)

By: None , Mark Olshaker

4.00

Format: 256 pages,

America's foremost expert on criminal profiling provides his uniquely gripping analysis of seven of… read more

Similar categories in None's The Cases That Haunt Us (Lisa Drew Books) book and Ann Rule's The I-5 Killer

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The I-5 Killer by Ann Rule

9. The I-5 Killer

By: Ann Rule

4.11

Format: 98 pages,

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Similar categories in Ann Rule's The I-5 Killer book and Ann Rule's The I-5 Killer

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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10. The Hillside Stranglers

By: Darcy O'Brien

2.77

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

For weeks in the fall of 1977, as the body count of sexually violated, brutally murdered young wome… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Search for the Green River Killer by Carlton Smith, Tomás Guillén

11. The Search for the Green River Killer

By: Carlton Smith , Tomás Guillén

3.50

Format: 296 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The true story of America's most notorious serial killer case ever. read more

Similar categories in Carlton Smith's The Search for the Green River Killer book and Ann Rule's The I-5 Killer

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook

12. Confession of a Serial Killer: The Untold Story of Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer

By: Katherine Ramsland

3.66

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In 1974, Dennis Lynn Rader stalked and murdered a family of four in Wichita, Kansas. Since adolesce… read more

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13. Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original "Psycho"

By: Harold Schechter

4.05

Format: None pages, Paperback

Murder Was the Least of His Crimes... The truth behind the twisted crimes that inspired the films P… read more

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14. Dancing with Death: The True Story of a Glamorous Showgirl, her Wealthy Husband, and a Horrifying Murder

By: Shanna Hogan

3.67

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

Phoenix, Arizona, 2004. Former stripper turned suburban housewife Marjorie Orbin filed a missing pe… read more

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15. How I Helped O.J. Get Away With Murder: The Shocking Inside Story of Violence, Loyalty, Regret, and Remorse

By: Mike Gilbert

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

You Don't Know the Full Truth About O.J. Simpson and the Murders that Gripped a Nation. But Mike Gi… read more

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

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 Ann Rule's The I-5 Killer

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"I've got lots more stories to tell."

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

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

17. 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 Ann Rule's The I-5 Killer

  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students by J. Reuben Appelman

18. While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students

By: J. Reuben Appelman

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The author of the acclaimed true-crime memoir, The Kill Jar, tells the inside story of the “Univers… read more

Similar categories in J. Reuben Appelman's While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students book and Ann Rule's The I-5 Killer

  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Killer's Shadow:  The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer by John E. Douglas

19. The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer

By: John E. Douglas

3.79

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

The legendary FBI criminal profiler and international bestselling author of Mindhunter and The Kill… read more

Similar categories in John E. Douglas's The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer book and Ann Rule's The I-5 Killer

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"The journey to reckon with our nation's searing history of racial hatred, intolerance, and discrimination is ongoing, and there are no neutrals in that struggle. The shadow cast by Joseph Paul Frankl…"

-John E. Douglas, The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer

"With today's technology, conversations that used to be limited to basements and meeting halls, the kinds of words and places that first helped radicalize Franklin, now have tens of thousands of parti…"

-John E. Douglas, The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer

"Due to the remarkable advances in communications technologies, we find ourselves living at a time when it is far easier to radicalize and inspire hate than ever before. The internet and social media …"

-John E. Douglas, The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer

Cover of When a Killer Calls (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2) by John E. Douglas

20. 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

Similar categories in John E. Douglas's When a Killer Calls (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2) book and Ann Rule's The I-5 Killer

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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21. Silent Sisters

By: Joanne Lee

4.13

Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition

A deadly secret. A horrifying discovery. For over 20 years, Joanne Lee's mother kept the rema… read more

Similar categories in Joanne Lee's Silent Sisters book and Ann Rule's The I-5 Killer

  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook

17 best-selling nonfiction books like The I-5 Killer by Ann Rule

Transform Your Habits

Deliver Us: Three Decades of Murder and Redemption in the Infamous I-45/Texas Killing Fields

Kathryn Casey

4.03

Transform Your Habits

While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man's Descent into Madness

Eli Sanders

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez

Philip Carlo

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders

Terry Sullivan , Peter T. Maiken , Peter Maiken

3.94

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10 must-read audiobook books like We Thought We Knew You: A Terrifying True Story of Secrets, Betrayal, Deception, and Murder by M. William Phelps

Transform Your Habits

American Black Widow

Gregg Olsen

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Twisted: The Secret Desires and Bizarre Double Life of Dr. Richard Sharpe

John Glatt

3.94

Transform Your Habits

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

M. William Phelps

4.10

Transform Your Habits

The Murder of Kelsey Berreth: A Shocking True Crime Story

Rod Kackley

3.79

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