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The Unlucky 13: The Essential True Crime Books to Start Your Collection

Stop watching Netflix and start analyzing. From the Idaho Murders to Mindhunter, here is the ultimate True Crime starter pack: 13 essential books to build your forensic library.

The Library

Jonathan Silva

19 de dez. de 2025

Realengo shooter Wellington Menezes de Oliveira pointing a silver revolver directly at the camera in a still from his video manifesto.

The Realengo Massacre: Anatomy of a Foretold Tragedy.

A forensic analysis of the Realengo Massacre. Explore the tactics, the 'speed loader' use, and the incel psychology of shooter Wellington Menezes de Oliveira.

Mass Murder / Spree Killers

Jonathan Silva

17 de dez. de 2025

A side-by-side comparison shows a black and white composite sketch of a youthful male suspect with shaggy hair on the left, and a color mugshot of an older, balding Joseph DeAngelo with reddish skin on the right.

BTK, the Floppy Disk, and the Betrayal of Metadata

How a floppy disk and hidden metadata ended the 30-year reign of the BTK killer. Inside Dennis Rader's "projects" and the birth of modern digital forensics.

Serial Killers / Digital Forensics

Jonathan Silva

13 de dez. de 2025

A composite image consisting of two side-by-side photographs. On the left, a police booking photo (mugshot) of a young, blonde Jeffrey Dahmer wearing large glasses, looking at the camera against a wall with height markings indicating he is about 6 feet (1.83 m) tall. He holds a placard with the number '57520'. On the right, an exterior photograph of the Oxford Apartments in Milwaukee, a three-story light brick building where Dahmer lived in apartment 213. The scene is winter, with snow on the ground, showing the building's entrance and windows, along with a lamppost and two people walking on the sidewalk.

Apartment 213: The Anatomy of Compulsion and Systemic Failure in the Jeffrey Dahmer Case

An analysis of the crime scene at Oxford Apartments and the police negligence that allowed Jeffrey Dahmer to kill. A deep dive into splanchnophilia and the pathology of loneliness.

Modern Serial Killers / Forensic Ps

Jonathan Silva

13 de dez. de 2025

The Co-ed Killer: Edmund Kemper and the Genesis of Modern Criminal Profiling

How a genius with an IQ of 145 manipulated the police, destroyed his family, and taught the FBI how to hunt serial killers. The true story of Edmund Kemper.

Serial Killers / Forensic Psycholog

Jonathan Silva

13 de dez. de 2025