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Joseph Weldon Brown confessed to more than a dozen murders across seven states. He was convicted and sentenced for killing a woman whose body he dismembered and scattered across three Indiana counties. In prison, he hogtied and strangled his cellmate, then asked the judge to lock him up for life because if he was released, he would continue killing. Police detective Rick Reed was on the scene when Brown led authorities to the scattered remains of Ginger Gasaway in 2000. After Brown''s arrest, he confessed to a shocking number of other heinous crimes - the torture and murders of drifters and sex workers, the cold case of a naked woman''s body found in a roadside ditch, even the murder of his own mother. Detective Reed was the one man Brown opened up to - and the only one to cut through the deceptions and lies and learn the terrible truth... In this newly updated edition, now-retired detective Reed reveals his personal theories and insights into one of the darkest minds he has ever encou

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An Alexander Hamilton heir, a beautiful female con artist, an abandoned baby, and the shocking courtroom drama that was splashed across front pages from coast to coast... It''s a historical true crime story almost too tawdry to be true - a con woman met the descendant of a Founding Father in a brothel, duped him into marriage using an infant purchased from a baby farm, then went to prison for stabbing the couple''s baby nurse - all while in a common-law marriage with another man. The scandal surrounding Evangeline and Robert Ray Hamilton was one of the sensations of the Gilded Age, a sordid, gripping tale involving bigamy, bribery, sex, and violence. Through personal correspondence, court records, and sensational newspaper accounts, The Scandalous Hamiltons explores not only the full, riveting saga of ill-fated Ray and Eva, but the rise of tabloid journalism - including an exclusive interview conducted by world-famous investigative reporter Nellie Bly - in a story that unfurls as a tim

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