In Cold Blood: Oklahoma's Most Notorious Murders

by Charles W. Sasser

Book by Sasser, Charles W.

Genres: True Crime

205 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1994

About the author

Charles W. Sasser has been a full-time freelance writer/journalist/photographer since 1979. He is a veteran of both the U.S. Navy (journalist) and U.S. Army (Special Forces, the Green Berets), a combat veteran and former combat correspondent wounded in action. He also served fourteen years as a police officer (in Miami, Florida, and in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he was a homicide detective). He has taught at universities, lectured nationwide, and traveled extensively throughout the world. He has published over 2,500 articles and short stories in magazines ranging from Guideposts, Parents and Christian Life to Soldier of Fortune, True West, and Writer's Digest. He is author, co-author or contributing author of more than 30 books and novels.

As an adventurer, Sasser has, at various times: solo-canoed across the Yukon; sailed the Caribbean; motorbiked across the continent; rode camels in the Egyptian desert; floated the Amazon River; dived for pirate treasure; rode horses across Alaska; motorcycled Europe; climbed Mount Rainier; ran with the bulls in Spain; chased wild mustangs...

He has been a professional rodeo clown and bronc rider; professional kickboxer; sky diver and SCUBA diver; college professor; newspaperman; archaeologist/anthropologist...

Sasser now lives on a ranch in Chouteau, Oklahoma with wife Donna where he is a writer, rancher, and businessman who trains horses and team ropes. He also has a private pilot's license and is an ultralite aircraft Certified Flight Instructor.

Reviews

[Fishface · Rating 4 out of 5]

A really good read! Condensed accounts of a wide variety of crimes, some very familiar, like the Girl Scout Murders, some totally new to me. Some of the unresolved cases have been cleared since this book came out in 1994, but some I couldn't find out anything about at all, like the terse of the stabbed woman. Was she ever identified? Was her killer caught? Sasser is slways a good writer who tells you the interesting parts of each story, but this book did need a final copyediting.

[A. Loyd · Rating 5 out of 5]

Scared the heck out of me. These true crime stories are not to be read by yourself in the dark.