Harold Schechter - True Crime

True Crime

• Depraved: The Shocking True Story of America's First Serial Killer, the story of Chicago serial murderer Herman Mudgett, alias Dr. H. H. Holmes
• Deranged: The Shocking True Story of America's Most Fiendish Killer!, the story of New York serial murderer Albert Fish
• Fiend: The Shocking True Story of America's Youngest Serial Killer, the story of Jesse Pomeroy, child murderer.
• Bestial: The Savage Trail of a True American Monster, serial murderer Earle Leonard Nelson, who killed in Canada and the United States.
• Deviant: The Shocking True Story of the Original "Psycho", the story of Ed Gein, the killer who inspired Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and The Silence of the Lambs
• Fatal : The Poisonous Life of a Female Serial Killer, the story of 19th century murderess Jane Toppan
• A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers (co-written with David Everitt)
• The Serial Killer Files : The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World's Most Terrifying Murderers
• Panzram: A Journal of Murder (Introduction)
• "The Devil’s Gentleman: Privilege, Poison, and the Trial that Ushered in the Twentieth Century," New York: Random House/Ballantine Books, 2007.
• Killer Colt: Murder, Disgrace, and the Making of an American Legend(2010), the story of 19th century murderer John C. Colt, brother of arms maker Samuel Colt, and the trial