Cold Blooded Murder: Shocking True Stories of Killers and Psychopaths

by Brad Hunter

Overview

When the mob kills, it's never personal. It's strictly business. With the murderers in Cold Blooded Murder, it's ALWAYS personal.

Murder is the most vile crime known to man. It can be triggered by love or money or sex. Those are the three big ticket items for homicide.

But people are strange. They will kill for the most obscure and ridiculous of reasons. In 30 years covering murder, I have discovered each one has its own flavour. Cops and friends can be stunned by the evil lurking within a seemingly ordinary man or woman.

In this collection of some of the most memorable cases I've reported on, there are serial killers, rich kid monsters, football stars and wives in pursuit of hormone-charged hijinks… The very rich and the very poor. Successful lawyers and hotel executives. Southern belles who could melt butter with a come hither wink and a sexy drawl. Daddy’s girls with gleaming smiles, good marks and possessed by the devil.

These are stories of American crimes and they stretch from coast to coast. You will find cheating husbands and wives so desperate for love that they’ll kill for it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781913543518
Publisher:	Gemini Books Group
Publication date:	09/28/2021
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.75(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Brad Hunter is the National Crime Columnist for The Toronto Sun. Previously he worked for the New York Post and his work has been published in newspapers and magazines around the planet. He is the author of Cold Blooded Killers (Ad Lib, 2021). He lives in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and likes pubs, hockey, baseball and spending time with his family.

Read an Excerpt

INTRODUCTION
     Some of these crimes are well known, like the Dating Game Killer, responsible for up to a hundred murders. He was a man so sinister that, even though he’s now rotting on death row, detectives are still trying to connect the dots of his murderous rampage, forty years after his last kill.
     Others are not as well known.
     There’s the AIDS researcher who was slowly poisoned by arsenic and died in agony. The prize for his cheating wife was a new man, a new life and lots of money.
     Ultimately, these are the stories of humans, fatal and flawed, who for reasons often known only to themselves decided to solve their problems with murder.
     In the course of my career I have also covered several mafia assassinations in New York City and Toronto. The difference between the professional hitmen and the killers in this collection is that when the mob kills, it’s never personal. It’s strictly business. With the murderers in this collection, it’s always personal.

 

Table of Contents

Introduction 7

1 Arsenic at the Bowling Alley 9

2 Angel-Faced Monster 21

3 The 1-5 Killer 35

4 The Vile Mr Winger 47

5 Orgy of Death 59

6 Daddy's Girl 71

7 Homicide in the Heartland 83

8 The Dating Game Killer 97

9 Murder in Farmville 109

10 Nasty Nurse 121

11 Hollywood Horror 135

12 Cup of Lies 147

13 Comic Book Killer 159

14 Boy Toy Terror 173

15 Elvis Execution 185

16 Hotel Heir Horror 197

17 Legally Dead 209

18 Sinister Scrapbooker 221

19 The Suitcase Killer 233

20 Coach Killer 245