Ryan Becker - True Crime Stories 48 Terrifying True Crime Murder Cases (List of Twelve Collection Book 1)

Why is it that we are fascinated by stories and news coverage about murders? What is it about a killers morbid deeds that attracts our interest? Some murders have become a permanent fixture in our popular culture. Books, movies, and even music have used particular murders as their subject matter. Perhaps our fascination with murderers arises as a vestige from our childhood. Perhaps we graduate from our childhood fascination with monsters to an adult fascination with murderers. Perhaps it is because murderers put into practice what we have all felt at times but could never conceive doing. After all, how many of us, in our most emotional moments, have felt like killing someone?

Between news coverage and popular culture, we have, intentionally or not, adopted beliefs about murders, many of which are inaccurate. Many of our assumptions about murders could lead us to a false sense of security. We may wrongly believe there is a certain profile or set of qualities that murderers possess, that will help us intuitively tell whether or not the person next to us could take a human life.

Interviews with murderers have led to some surprising discoveries:

Most murderers are not cold-blooded monsters that lack any sense of humanity. Most murderers are people who are suffering emotionally and have never received help.

Murderers do not kill indiscriminately or without reason. Murderers kill due to their distorted thinking.

Murderers are not born to kill; they almost have always experienced or witnessed extreme trauma when young. Examples being physical abuse, sexual abuse, domestic violence, and drug abuse. The Adverse Childhood Experience Scale assesses a persons exposure to ten different traumatic events. Most of us would meet one of these criteria. Interviews with murderers have shown that most of them have experienced between nine and ten of these events.

In this book, you will read about twelve murderers. These individuals were selected because they are unfamiliar to many of us. While they may be less well-known than those murderers who have been highly publicized, their crimes are no less heinous. The murderers who will be covered in this book include:

Marjorie Orbin, a former stripper who killed and dismembered her husband. To date, only his torso has been found.

Christy Sheats, a mother who shot her two daughters at the dinner table to spite her husband.

Luke Magnotta, a former male stripper and porn star who videotaped himself stabbing a man to death with an ice pick and then mailed his body parts to political offices and schools.

Shari Tobyne, who dismembered her husband and distributed his body parts across three different counties.

David Michael Barnett, the 20-year-old who stabbed both of his grandparents to death.

Arunya Rouch, a petite woman who shot up the grocery store where she worked and murdered one of her co-workers.

Brian Nichols, who went on a killing spree in a Georgia courtroom and was convicted on 50 charges.

Valerie Pape, a wealthy Scottsdale Salon owner, who dismembered her husband. The media dubbed her case the Trunk Murders.

Robert Beaver, the 18-year-old who, with his brother, murdered their entire family.

Amy Bishop, a university professor who shot her coworkers because she did not receive tenure.

Bryan Uyesugi, a Xerox repairman who shot eight of his co-workers, killing seven of them.

Antoinette Renee Frank, a police officer who, while on duty, committed three murders and armed robbery.