Robert Graysmith
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Description
A sexual sadist, his pleasure was torture and murder. His first victims were a teenage couple, stalked and shot dead on a lover's lane. After another slaying, he sent his first mocking note to authorities, promising he would kill again. The official tally of his victims was six. He claimed thirty-seven. The real toll may have reached fifty. He was never caught.
"After Jack the Ripper and before Son of Sam there is only one name their equal
...Author
Pub. Date
1999.
Description
"San Francisco's Emmanuel Baptist church was built amid the hollows, odd lights and drifting fog of what had been a burial ground."--BOOK JACKET. "Rumors of ghosts and orgies swirl around the church. Worse is the repeated, brutal fact of suicide and murder. The church's first pastor severed his own throat with a straight razor, the second pastor shot himself, the third murdered the publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle."--BOOK JACKET. "The fourth...
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
First biography of the little-known real-life Tom Sawyer (a friend of Mark Twain during his brief tenure as a California newspaper reporter), told through a harrowing account of Sawyer's involvement in the hunt for a serial arsonist who terrorized mid-nineteenth century San Francisco.
6) Zodiac
Pub. Date
2007
Description
A serial killer in the San Francisco Bay Area taunts police with his letters and cryptic messages. The four men most affected by the killer are San Francisco PD Homicide detectives David Toschi and William Armstrong, and the San Francisco Chronicle reporters Paul Avery and Robert Graysmith. Displays the psychological and emotional effects of the killings, as well as the endless procedural details of the investigation (handwriting experts, the "2500"...
7) Auto focus
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
Dramatization of the turbulent life of Bob Crane, popular for his role in the television program Hogan's heroes.
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