True Crime Conspiracies
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Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
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Tom O'Neill
4.04 avg rating — 32,230 ratings 2. 
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
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David Grann
4.14 avg rating — 426,026 ratings 4. 
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The Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse & Betrayal
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Nick Bryant
4.27 avg rating — 794 ratings 7. 
Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream
by:
David McGowan
3.61 avg rating — 1,772 ratings 7. 
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
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Ronan Farrow
4.40 avg rating — 101,066 ratings 9. 
And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank
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Steve Oney
4.07 avg rating — 474 ratings 10. 
Assassination of a Saint: The Plot to Murder Óscar Romero and the Quest to Bring His Killers to Justice
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Matt Eisenbrandt
4.07 avg rating — 54 ratings 
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A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments 4.09 avg rating — 168 ratings
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I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad
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Baynard Woods
3.89 avg rating — 1,596 ratings 
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The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro
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Kenn Thomas
3.81 avg rating — 195 ratings 17. 
Without Mercy: The Stunning True Story of Race, Crime, and Corruption in the Deep South
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David Beasley
3.53 avg rating — 114 ratings 18. 
The Price of Justice: A True Story of Greed and Corruption
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Laurence Leamer
4.18 avg rating — 422 ratings 19. 
The Snow Killings: Inside the Oakland County Child Killer Investigation 3.81 avg rating — 870 ratings
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Gone at Midnight: The Tragic True Story Behind the Unsolved Internet Sensation
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Jake Anderson
3.19 avg rating — 1,592 ratings 
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The Daughters of Juárez: A True Story of Serial Murder South of the Border
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Teresa Rodríguez
3.84 avg rating — 1,258 ratings 23. 
Black Dahlia, Red Rose: The Crime, Corruption, and Cover-Up of America's Greatest Unsolved Murder 3.74 avg rating — 2,078 ratings
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True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray
by:
James Renner
3.66 avg rating — 8,376 ratings 26. 
Robert Maxwell, Israel's Superspy: The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul
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Gordon Thomas
3.84 avg rating — 184 ratings 
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The Last Lynching: How a Gruesome Mass Murder Rocked a Small Georgia Town
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Anthony S. Pitch
3.59 avg rating — 138 ratings 
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What Virtue There Is in Fire: Cultural Memory and the Lynching of Sam Hose
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Edwin T. Arnold
4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings 
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Trust Me: The True Story of Confession Killer Henry Lee Lucas
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Ryan Green
3.93 avg rating — 722 ratings 37. 
The Satin Man: Uncovering the Mystery of the Missing Beaumont Children
by:
Alan Whiticker
3.64 avg rating — 215 ratings 38. 
The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther
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Jeffrey Haas
4.46 avg rating — 2,713 ratings 39. 
One Nation Under Blackmail, Vol. 1: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein 4.24 avg rating — 836 ratings
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The Killing of Karen Silkwood: The Story Behind the Kerr-McGee Plutonium Case
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Richard Rashke
3.92 avg rating — 340 ratings 40. 
'The Son of Sam' and Me: The Truth About Why I Wasn't Shot By David Berkowitz
by:
Carl Denaro
4.05 avg rating — 60 ratings 
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Murder in the Bayou: Who Killed the Women Known as the Jeff Davis 8?
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Ethan Brown
3.43 avg rating — 3,390 ratings 44. 
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The Kill Jar: Obsession, Descent, and a Hunt for Detroit's Most Notorious Serial Killer 3.12 avg rating — 1,212 ratings
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Portraits in the Snow: The Oakland County Child Killings...Scandals and Small Conspiracies
by:
M.F. Cribari
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings 47. 
A Wilderness of Error: The Trials of Jeffrey MacDonald
by:
Errol Morris
3.64 avg rating — 1,668 ratings 48. 
The Boys on the Tracks: Death, Denial, and a Mother's Crusade to Bring Her Son's Killers to Justice
by:
Mara Leveritt
3.95 avg rating — 565 ratings 49. 
Lost in the Jungle: The mysterious disappearance of Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon in Panama
by:
Marja West
3.25 avg rating — 395 ratings 50. 
I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa
by:
Charles Brandt
4.12 avg rating — 18,108 ratings 
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Who Killed These Girls?: Cold Case: The Yogurt Shop Murders
by:
Beverly Lowry
3.41 avg rating — 2,639 ratings 53. 
American Assassination: The Strange Death of Senator Paul Wellstone
by:
James H. Fetzer
3.24 avg rating — 37 ratings 54. 
Killing the Poormaster: The Depression-Era Murder That Put America's Welfare System on Trial
by:
Holly Metz
3.81 avg rating — 108 ratings 
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Richard Speck and the Eight Nurses: Deconstructing A Mass Murder
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B D SALERNO
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 
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Jeffrey Dahmer's Dirty Secret: The Unsolved Murder of Adam Walsh - Special Single Edition 3.82 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era
by:
Jerry Mitchell
4.43 avg rating — 2,081 ratings 62. 
The Nine (Sinister Forces: A Grimoire of American Political Witchcraft, #1)
by:
Peter Levenda
4.16 avg rating — 557 ratings 64. 
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Sinister Forces: A Grimoire of American Political Witchcraft, Book 3: The Manson Secret: it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Shots on the Bridge: Police Violence and Cover-Up in the Wake of Katrina
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Ronnie Greene
3.95 avg rating — 286 ratings 66. 
Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh 4.57 avg rating — 561 ratings
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New York Exposed: The Gilded Age Police Scandal that Launched the Progressive Era
by:
Daniel Czitrom
3.46 avg rating — 52 ratings 
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Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture
by:
Oswaldo Zavala
4.09 avg rating — 539 ratings 
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Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion
by:
Gary Webb
4.30 avg rating — 1,967 ratings 74. 
When Evil Lived in Laurel: The "White Knights" and the Murder of Vernon Dahmer
by:
Curtis Wilkie
3.91 avg rating — 433 ratings 
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Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
by:
Michela Wrong
4.42 avg rating — 1,276 ratings 77. 
Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
by:
David Zucchino
4.43 avg rating — 4,088 ratings 78. 
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
by:
Bill Browder
4.44 avg rating — 104,281 ratings 79. 
The Claude Neal Lynching: The 1934 Murders of Claude Neal and Lola Cannady
by:
Dale Cox
4.36 avg rating — 25 ratings 80. 
Ghosts of Mississippi: The Murder of Medgar Evers, the Trials of Byron De LA Beckwith, and the Haunting of the New South
by:
Maryanne Vollers
4.29 avg rating — 290 ratings 81. 
Murder at Broad River Bridge: The Slaying of Lemuel Penn by the Ku Klux Klan
by:
Bill Shipp
3.90 avg rating — 71 ratings 82. 
Murder on Shades Mountain: The Legal Lynching of Willie Peterson and the Struggle for Justice in Jim Crow Birmingham 3.98 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Terror in the City of Champions: Murder, Baseball, and the Secret Society that Shocked Depression-era Detroit
by:
Tom Stanton
3.75 avg rating — 1,037 ratings 85. 
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Smoke but No Fire: Convicting the Innocent of Crimes that Never Happened
by:
Jessica S. Henry
4.33 avg rating — 64 ratings 88. 
The Rosewood Massacre: An Archaeology and History of Intersectional Violence 3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
by:
Gilbert King
4.40 avg rating — 15,749 ratings 