Chambers of Horror is a study of the warped thinking that went into some of the world's most macabre crimes, as well as a clinical examination of the purpose-built rooms hidden spaces and soundproof dungeons increasingly prepared for victims. Cases include: Josef Fritzl, Ariel Castro, Anthony Sowell, Michael Alig, Robert Berdella, Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka, David and Catherine Birnie, Jerry Brudos, Reginald Christie, Marc Dutroux, Philip and...

Nancy Kissel served her investment banker husband a strawberry milkshake laced with drugs, then clubbed him to death with a statuette. Kimberly Hricko poisoned her husband and set fire to his corpse during a Valentine's Day break intended to rekindle their relationship. Jane Andrews, former aide to the Duchess of York, used a kitchen knife and cricket bat to bring her fiance's life to a grisly end. Rita Gluzman stabbed her estranged husband and then...

Ex-cult member Wendy Davidson seeks to recover from her traumatic past in a small Nevada town, but finds herself threatened by a serial killer known as Red.

Sweeney Todd's shop stood next to St. Dunstan's Church just a few blocks from the Royal Courts of Justice. On this site, he robbed and murdered hundreds of customers. To dispose of their remains, he carried them to an underground bakery of one Mrs. Lovett, whose pie shop was a few blocks away. She ground the cadavers into stuffing for her meat pies, the favorite mid-day repast of the lawyers who worked nearby and who got their shaves from Sweeney...

Her Royal Highness, the Princess of Wales, was an ordinary young woman who was picked to be the future queen. Her wedding was a worldwide sensation. But, she was deceived and betrayed before the honeymoon was over. Five months after a fairy tale wedding, she threw herself down a flight of stairs when she was pregnant with a future heir to the throne. Suicide attempts, illicit affairs, and paranoia that there were plots by the Royals to kill her became...

True-crime author Philip Carlo reflects on his time spent with serial killers, interviewing them and gaining their trust, and discusses his internal killer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease, and all he went through dealing with this disease before his death in 2010.

"What goes through the mind of a killer when they commit murder? Based on the massively successful Netflix documentary series of the same name, this book features ten of the most compelling cases from the series and is full of exclusive never-seen-beforematerial. In each of the cases the inmate speaks openly about themselves and reflects on their life and their crimes. To gain a complete picture of the impact of the murders, the authors spoke to the...

Author Miles Van Meter is on a book tour to promote his sensational bestseller Sleeping Beauty, a true-crime account of a deeply personal subject: the attack by a serial killer that left his twin sister, Casey, in a coma. Tonight the audience waits to hear Miles discuss recent developments in his sister's case -- unaware that pieces of this complex puzzle of violence, unknown even to the author, are about to be revealed. Six years earlier, life was...

A woman who has been seeing spirits since childhood offers her assistance to the local police after a series of grisly child murders and becomes a suspect herself after uncovering an impossible piece of information from her ghost informants.

Single father Remi Bone knows that his daughter’s Ivy League education will cost an arm and a leg . . . or a few bodies Remi Bone is a good guy. He’s a hardworking mechanic, a single father raising his late wife’s daughter, and now, he’s dying of heart failure. But his daughter Kayla was just admitted to the college of her dreams. How will she afford college with two dead parents? Before he dies, Remi decides to stockpile as much money as...