12 Disturbing True Crime Stories of Murder and Mayhem
Volume 23 of the True Crime Case Histories Series
***** This series can be read in any order *****
Most of the killers in this book looked completely normal.
That's what the people who knew them always said afterward. The neighbors. The coworkers. The family members who sat across the holiday table and never suspected a thing. These weren't strangers who emerged from the shadows—they were con men and caregivers, fathers and lovers, people with reputations carefully maintained right up until the moment everything came apart.
The twelve cases in this volume span more than half a century and reveal what happens when the people closest to us turn out to be the most dangerous.
A sampling of the stories includes:
The Lonely Hearts Killers – He had a gift for seduction and a talent for finding lonely women. She had a jealousy that brooked no competition. Together, they built a killing enterprise out of the personal ads—and left a trail of bodies that investigators almost didn't find.
Mockingbird Hill – A family man by every outward measure. A respected name in his small Arkansas community. But when deputies arrived at his property over the Christmas holiday, what they found inside defied comprehension.
The Speed Freak Killers – Two childhood friends who shared everything—including a secret they managed to keep for the better part of a decade. It took a prison cell and a deal with prosecutors to finally begin counting the bodies.
The Body Broker – He had discovered a gap in the law and a market most people didn't know existed. Business was good. No one was watching. And the families of the deceased had no idea what was being done with their loved ones.
Keep Digging – Everyone in town knew him. Everyone liked him. He was charming and easy to talk to, the kind of person who made you feel welcome. No one thought to wonder what he was doing in the woods.
The Closing Shift – The crime scene told one story. The evidence told another. What investigators uncovered was one of the most audacious staging attempts they had ever seen—and one of the most transparent.
Plus six more chilling cases involving a grandmother whose backyard held dark secrets, a father whose son came to visit for Thanksgiving and never came home, a wife whose trial forced a jury to confront one of the most disturbing domestic crime scenes in Texas history, and a death that was ruled an accident for over twenty years while the people who loved the victim never stopped fighting to prove otherwise.
These aren't stories ripped from headlines you've already read. They're deep dives into cases reconstructed from court transcripts, police files, forensic evidence, and witness testimony. No sensationalism, no padding—just raw, meticulously researched truth about what humans are capable of when they believe no one is watching.
Readers love the True Crime Case Histories series:
“I stay up way too late every time I pick up one of these books. Jason Neal has a gift for making you feel like you’re right there with the investigators.”
“The research alone sets this series apart. These aren’t recycled headlines—they’re cases I’d never heard of, told with real depth.”
“I’ve read every volume in this series. The writing keeps getting sharper and the cases keep getting more disturbing. Can’t stop now.”
“What gets me is how normal these people seemed. Jason Neal captures that better than anyone else writing true crime today.”
“Finished this in two sittings. The pacing is perfect. Every chapter pulls you deeper before you realize how much time has passed.”
“I recommended this to my true crime book club and now everyone is working through the whole series. Genuinely hard to put down.”
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