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Listopia > Rachael's votes on the list Texas True Crimes (24 Books)
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The Man With The Candy: The Story of The Houston Mass Murders
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"Murders that took place in the Heights and cops couldn't and amazingly did not connect the dots.
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Blood and Money
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"Took place here in River Oaks where the old rice live here in Houston."
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Blues and Bad Blood
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"Musician that traveled with the likes of Willie Nelson and Jerry Jeff Walker."
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Shattered
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"This man actually worked at one of the high schools in the district I work for."
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Die, My Love: a True Story of Revenge, Murder, and Two Texas Sisters
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"The suspect was an attorney that lived here in Houston."
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Ladykiller: The True Story of a Texas Cop and Wife-Killer--and the Unbelievable Perversions of Justice That Almost Set Him Free
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"What was so unbelievable about this crime was that the victim's mother testified in the suspected murder's favor and took his side."
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rated it 3 stars
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A Warrant to Kill
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"Shocking story about a deputy sheriff here in Houston that stalked and harassed a woman and eventually killed her."
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Strangler
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"contributed to the longheld belief that there have been several serial killings that dump their bodies along I-45...or contribute to the stories of the I-45 killings. This has lead to the highway being called The Corridor of Death or the TX Killing Fields which later became a movie."
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Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town
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"Disturbing what corruption and the actions of a bad cop can lead to."
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Luggage By Kroger: A True Crime Memoir
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"A journalist for the Houston Post was stalked and almost killed by the Houston attorney, Catherine Shelton. She even made headlines later in life."
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Without a Trace
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"Story about the bizarre millionaire Robert Durst whom lived part of his life as a mute crossdresser in Galveston Texas. Ryan Gosling plays him in the movie All Good Things. Also, my husband's uncle was a juror on the case."
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The Death Shift: The True Story of Nurse Genene and the Texas Baby Murders
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"A nurse in San Antonio- babies kept dying on her watch. She moved to Kerrville and worked at a clinic where the same thing began to happen."
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A Sniper in the Tower: The Charles Whitman Murders
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"When I was younger I listened to a first-hand acct of this day from a friend's Dad whom attended UT at the time."
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Bad Boy: The True Story of Kenneth Allen McDuff, the Most Notorious Serial Killer in Texas History
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"Unbelievably, after his murders of three teenage girls, this man was released from prison in 1986."
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The Servant Girl Murders: Austin, Texas 1885
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"A compilation of real newspaper articles detailing the murders. They were never solved and mysteriously stopped in Austin, TX."
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Evil Among Us: The Texas Mormon Missionary Murders
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"This was at a time when the Supreme Court was still deciding on the death penalty."
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Eleven Days in Hell: The 1974 Carrasco Prison Siege in Huntsville, Texas
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"One of the biggest prison sieges here in Huntsville, TX."
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The Trials of Eroy Brown: The Murder Case that Shook the Texas Prison System
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"Landmark case concerning prisoner's rights and the end of Jim Crow justice in TX prison system."
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Scream at the Sky: Five Texas Murders and One Man's Crusade for Justice
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"14 year old serial killing cold-case that was eventually solved."
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Buried Memories
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"Texas Black Widow"
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The Shooting Salvationist: J. Frank Norris and the Murder Trial that Captivated America
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"Soon to be reverend of America's first mega-church shot and killed a man in his church office."
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Final Justice: The True Story of the Richest Man Ever Tried for Murder
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Evil Eyes
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"Suspected to have killed as many as John Wayne Gacey and he almost got out of prison due to screwy TX laws."
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To The Last Breath: Three Women Fight For The Truth Behind A Child's Tragic Murder
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"Mother fights to get the infant child's body re-examined when it was originally declared she died of SIDS."
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