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Last Podcast on the Left book list that features key books used in series throughout the show. Dive deeper into your favorite series. Updated weekly!

Last Podcast on the Left Book List

Last Podcast on the Left is an OG true-crime podcast. Starting in 2011, Last Podcast on the Left covers a wide variety of topics: serial killers, cryptids, UFOs, conspiracy theories, ghosts, and more! Hosted by Marcus Parks, Henry Zebrowski, and new to the group, Ed Larson, the podcast is an impressive mix of research and brevity.

This Last Podcast on the Left book list contains the main sources used in series throughout the history of the show. The group hasn’t always cited sources at the beginning of the episodes, so please send us a message if you find any missing sources.

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Witches: A History and Demonstration of their Power

Episode: 85

  • Book 1: Malleus Maleficarum – The Witch Hammer, by Jacob Sprenger, Heinrich Kramer, Montague Summers


Spree Killers

Episodes: 86 & 87

  • Book 1: Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment, edited by David Levinson


Black Serial Killers

Episodes: 91 & 92

  • Book 1: The Zebra Murders: A Season of Killing, Racial Madness, and Civil Rights, by Prentice Earl Sanders and Bennett Cohen


John Wayne Gacy

Episodes: 105 & 106

  • Book 1: John Wayne Gacy: Defending a Monster, by Sam Amirante


Richard Ramirez

Episodes: 110 & 111

  • Book 1: Night Stalker, by Clifford Linedecker

  • Book 2: The Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez, by Philip Carlo


Jeffrey Dahmer

Episodes: 122, 123, & 124

  • Book 1: The Man Who Could Not Kill Enough: The Secret Murders of Milwaukee’s Jeffrey Dahmer, by Anne E. Schwartz

  • Book 2: A Father’s Story, by Lionel Dahmer

  • Book 3: My Friend Dahmer, by Harry N. Abrams


O.J. Simpson

Episode: 129

  • Book 1: If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer, by OJ Simpson


Ted Kaczynski

Episodes: 135 & 136

  • Book 1: Unabomber: A Desire to Kill, by Robert Graymith

  • Book 2: Between Good and Evil: A Master Profiler’s Hunt for Society’s Most Violent Predators, by Roger L. Depue, Susan Schindehette


Andrei Chikatilo

Episodes: 141 & 142

  • Book 1: The Red Ripper: Inside the Mind of Russia’s Most Brutal Serial Killer, by Peter J. Conradi


Charles Manson

Episodes: 147, 148, & 149

  • Book 1: Manson in His Own Words: The Shocking Confessions of ‘The Most Dangerous Man Alive’, by Charles Manson as told to Nuel Emmons

  • Book 2: Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders, by Vincent Bugliosi


The Boston Strangler

Episodes: 159 & 160

  • Book 1: The Boston Stranglers, by Susan Kelly

  • Book 2: The Boston Strangler, by Gerold Frank


Ed Kemper

Episodes: 165 & 166

  • Book 1: Serial Killers: The Methods and Madness of Monsters, by Peter Vronsky


JonBenet Ramsey

Episodes: 167 & 168

  • Book 1: The Death of Innocence: The Untold Story of JonBenet’s Murder and How Its Exploitation Compromised the Pursuit of Truth, by John and Pat Ramsey


The Betty & Barney Hill Abduction

Episodes: 169 & 170

  • Book 1: Incident at Exeter, the Interrupted Journey: Two Landmark Investigations of UFO Encounters Together in One Volume, by John G. Fuller


Ed Gein

Episodes: 172, 173, & 174

  • Book 1: Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original Psycho, by Harold Schechter

  • Book 2: Ed Gein — Psycho!, by Paul Anthony Woods


Amityville

Episodes: 175 & 176

  • Book 1: The Amityville Horror, by Jay Anson

  • Book 2: The Night the DeFeos Died, by Ric Osuna


Columbine

Episodes: 178 & 179

  • Book 1: Columbine, by Dave Cullen


Henry Lee Lucas

Episodes: 182, 183, 184, & 185

  • Book 1: Hand of Death: The Henry Lee Lucas Story, by Max Call

  • Book 2: Serial Killers: Up Close and Personal: Inside the World of Torturers, Psychopaths, and Mass Murderers, by Christopher Berry-Dee


9/11

Episodes: 189, 190, & 191

  • Book 1: Most Dangerous Book in the World: 9/11 as Mass Ritual, by S. K. Bain


Son of Sam

Episodes: 193 & 194

  • Book 1: Son of Sam – the .44 Caliber Killer, by George Carpozi Jr.

  • Book 2: Ultimate Evil: The Truth about the Cult Murders: Son of Sam and Beyond, by Maury Terry

  • Book 3: Love, Sex, Fear, Death: The Inside Story of The Process Church of the Final Judgment, by Timothy Wyllie, Adam Parfrey


H.H. Holmes

Episodes: 200, 201, & 202

  • Book 1: The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America, by Erik Larson


Leonard Lake & Charles Ng

Episodes: 203, 204, 206, & 207

  • Book 1: The Collector, by John Fowles

  • Book 2: DIE FOR ME: The Terrifying True Story of the Charles Ng & Leonard Lake Torture Murders, by Don Lasseter


Dean Corll

Episodes: 210, 211, 212, & 213

  • Book 1: Mass Murder in Houston, by John K. Gurwell

  • Book 2: The Man with The Candy, by Jack Olsen

  • Book 3: Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us, by Jesse Bering


Aum Shinrikyo

Episodes: 218, 219, 220, & 221

  • Book 1: The Cult at the End of the World: The Terrifying Story of the Aum Doomsday Cult, from the Subways of Tokyo to the Nuclear Arsenals of Russia, by David E. Kaplan & Andrew Marshall

  • Book 2: Destroying the World to Save It: Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism, by Robert Jay Lifton

  • Book 3: Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation, by Isaac Asimov


The Hillside Stranglers

Episodes: 225, 226, & 227

  • Book 1: The Hillside Stranglers: The Inside Story of the Killing Spree That Terrorized Los Angeles, by Darcy O’Brien


Albert Fish

Episodes: 234, 235, & 236

  • Book 1: Deranged: The Shocking True Story of America’s Most Fiendish Killer!, by Harold Schechter


Jack the Ripper

Episodes: 254, 255, 256, 257, & 258

  • Book 1: Capturing Jack the Ripper: In the Boots of a Bobby in Victorian London, by Neil Bell

  • Book 2: The Jack the Ripper Files: The Illustrated History of the Whitechapel Murders, by Richard Jones

  • Book 3: From Hell, by Alan Moore


L. Ron Hubbard

Episodes: 261, 262, 263, & 264

  • Book 1: Bare-faced Messiah – the True Story of L. Ron Hubbard, by Russell Miller


Aileen Wuornos

Episodes: 266 & 267

  • Book 1: Dear Dawn: Aileen Wuornos in Her Own Words, by Aileen Wuornos


Carl Panzram

Episodes: 271, 272, & 273

  • Book 1: Panzram: A Journal of Murder, by Thomas Gaddis, James O. Long, and Harold Schechter


The Oklahoma City Bombing

Episodes: 274, 275, 276, & 277

  • Book 1: The Turner Diaries, by Andrew MacDonald

  • Book 2: American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing, by Lou Michel, Dan Herbeck

  • Book 3: Oklahoma City: What the Investigation Missed–and Why It Still Matters, by Andrew Gumbel, Roger G. Charles

  • Book 4: The Anarchist Cookbook, by William Powell


The Enfield Poltergeist

Episodes: 279 & 280

  • Book 1: This House is Haunted: The True Story of the Enfield Poltergeist, by Guy Playfair


Jerry Brudos

Episodes: 281 & 282

  • Book 1: Lust Killer, Updated Edition, by Ann Rule


Norwegian Black Metal

Episodes: 285, 286, & 287

  • Book 1: Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground New Edition, by Michael Moynihan & Didrik Soderlind

  • Book 2: Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, by Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain


Robert Pickton

Episodes: 288, 289, 290, & 291

  • Book 1: On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver’s Missing Women, by Stevie Cameron


Bill Cooper

Episodes: 293 & 294

  • Book 1: Behold a Pale Horse, by Bill Cooper


Pee Wee Gaskins

Episodes: 298, 299, 299.5 & 299.75

  • Book 1: Final Truth: The Autobiography of Pee Wee Gaskins, by Wilton Earle


Jonestown

Episodes: 300, 301, 302, 303, & 304

  • Book 1: The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple, by Jeff Guinn

  • Book 2: Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People, by Tim Reiterman


Robert Hansen

Episodes: 308 & 309

  • Book 1: Butcher, Baker: The True Account of an Alaskan Serial Killer, by Walter Gilmour, Leland E. Hale


Rasputin

Episodes: 310, 311, 312, & 313

  • Book 1: Rasputin: The Untold Story, by Joseph T. Fuhrmann

  • Book 2: Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs, by Douglas Smith


The Assassination of John Lennon

Episodes: 315 & 316

  • Book 1: Let Me Take You Down: Inside the Mind of Mark David Chapman, the Man Who Killed John Lennon, by Jack Jones


Dennis Nilsen

Episodes: 317 & 318

  • Book 1: Killing for Company: Case of Dennis Nilsen, by Brian Masters

  • Book 2: Dennis Nilsen – Conversations With Britain’s Most Evil Serial Killer, by Russ Coffey


Biggie & Tupac

Episodes: 320, 321, & 322

  • Book 1: Murder Rap: The Untold Story of the Biggie Smalls & Tupac Shakur Murder Investigations, by the Detective Who Solved Both Cases, by Greg Kading

  • Book 2: Original Gangstas: Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, and the Birth of West Coast Rap, by Ben Westhoff


The Men in Black

Episodes: 323 & 324

  • Book 1: The Real Men In Black: Evidence, Famous Cases, and True Stories of These Mysterious Men and their Connection to UFO Phenomena, by Nick Redfern

  • Book 2: Casebook on the Men In Black, by Jim Keith

  • Book 3: They Knew Too Much about Flying Saucers, by Gray Barker

  • Book 4: Flying Saucers and the Three Men, by Albert Bender


Richard Kuklinski

Episodes: 326, 327, & 328

  • Book 1: The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer, by Phillip Carlo


Katherine Knight

Episodes: 329 & 330

  • Book 1: Blood Stain, by Peter Lalor

  • Book 2: Green Is The New Black: Inside Australia’s Hardest Women’s Jails, by James Phelps


The Donner Party

Episodes: 331 & 332

  • Book 1: The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party, by Daniel James Brown

  • Book 2: Desperate Passage: The Donner Party’s Perilous Journey West, by Ethan Rarick


The West Memphis Three

Episodes: 335, 336, & 337

  • Book 1: Devil’s Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three, by Mara Leveritt

  • Book 2: Life After Death, by Damien Echols

  • Book 3: True Stories of False Confessions, by Rob Warden & Steven A. Drizin

  • Book 4: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, by Neil Postman


The Possession of Michael Taylor

Episode: 338

  • Book 1: The Sussex Devils: A True Story of the 1980s Satanic Panic, by Marc Heal


Peter Kurten

Episodes: 339 & 340

  • Book 1: The Sadist, by Karl Berg

  • Book 2: Monster: The True Story of Serial Killer Peter Kurten, by C.L. Swinney


The Order of the Solar Temple

Episodes: 341, 342, & 343

  • Book 1: The Order of the Solar Temple, by James R. Lewis

  • Book 2: The Most Evil Secret Societies in History, by Shelley Klein


Mark Twitchell

Episodes: 346 & 347

  • Book 1: The Devil’s Cinema: The Untold Story Behind Mark Twitchell’s Kill Room, by Steve Lillebuen


Josef Mengele

Episodes: 348, 349, & 350

  • Book 1: Mengele: The Complete Story, by Gerald L. Posner & John Ware

  • Book 2: The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide, by Robert Jay Lifton

  • Book 3: Auschwitz: A Doctor’s Eyewitness Account, by Miklos Nyiszli


Skinwalker Ranch

Episodes: 352, 353, & 354

  • Book 1: Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah, by Colm A. Kelleher Ph.D., George Knapp


Joseph Kallinger

Episodes: 356 & 357

  • Book 1: The Shoemaker: The Anatomy of a Psychotic, by Flora Schreiber


The Devils of Loudon

Episodes: 360 & 361

  • Book 1: The Devils of Loudun, by Aldous Huxley


Israel Keyes

Episodes: 363 & 364

  • Book 1: Devil in the Darkness: The True Story of Serial Killer Israel Keyes, by JT Hunter


The Rendlesham Forest Incident

Episodes: 366 & 368

  • Book 1: Encounter in Rendlesham Forest: The Inside Story of the World’s Best-Documented UFO Incident, by Nick Pope, John Burroughs, and Jim Penniston

  • Book 2: Need to Know: UFOs, the Military, and Intelligence, by Timothy Good

  • Book 3: The Halt Perspective, by Charles Halt


Bonnie & Clyde

Episodes: 369, 370, & 371

  • Book 1: Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde, by Jeff Guinn

  • Book 2: The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl, by Timothy Egan


Belle Gunness

Episodes: 374 & 375

  • Book 1: Hell’s Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men, by Harold Schechter


Howard Unruh

Episode: 377

  • Book 1: Inside the Minds of Mass Murderers: Why They Kill, by Katherine Ramsland

  • Book 2: Rampage, by Harold Schechter


Mormonism

Episodes: 378, 379, 380, 382, 384, & 385

  • Book 1: Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, by Richard Lyman Bushman

  • Book 2: No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith, by Fawn M. Brodie

  • Book 3: Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History, by Kurt Andersen


Burke and Hare

Episode: 381

  • Book 1: Murder, Mutiny, and Mayhem, by Joe O'Shea


Borley Rectory

Episodes: 386 & 387

  • Book 1: The Most Haunted House in England: Ten Years’ Investigation of Borley Rectory, by Harry Price


Hadden Clark

Episodes: 389 & 390

  • Book 1: Born Evil: A True Story of Cannibalism and Serial Murder, by Adrian Havill


The Murder of Girly Chew Hossencofft

Episodes: 393 & 394

  • Book 1: September Sacrifice, by Mark Horner

  • Book 2: The Sociopath Next Door, by Martha Stout


Bob Berdella

Episodes: 395 & 396

  • Book 1: Rites of Burial, by Tom Jackman and Troy Cole

  • Book 2: The Collector, by John Fowles


Heaven's Gate

Episodes: 397, 398, & 399

  • Book 1: Heaven’s Gate: America’s UFO Religion, by Benjamin E. Zeller

  • Book 2: Cosmic Suicide: The Tragedy and Transcendence of Heaven’s Gate, by Rodney Perkins & Forrest Jackson


JFK & Lee Harvey Oswald

Episodes: 400, 401, 402, 403, 404, & 405

  • Book 1: The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government, by David Talbot

  • Book 2: Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK, by Gerald Posner

  • Book 3: JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters, by John W. Douglass


The Yorkshire Ripper

Episodes: 407 & 408

  • Book 1: Wicked Beyond Belief: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper, by Michael Bilton

  • Book 2: Somebody’s Husband, Somebody’s Son, by Gordon Burn

  • Book 3: The Sick Rose: Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration


Madame Blavatsky

Episodes: 410, 411, & 412

  • Book 1: Isis Unveiled: Secrets of the Ancient Wisdom Tradition, by Madame Helena Blavatsky

  • Book 2: The Secret Doctrine, by Madame Helena Blavatsky

  • Book 3: Madame Blavatsky: The Mother of Modern Spirituality, by Gary Lachman

  • Book 4: Madame Blavatsky: The Woman Behind the Myth, by Marion Meade


Herbert Mullin

Episodes: 416 & 417

  • Book 1: Deadly Voices: The True Story of Serial Killer Herbert Mullin, by C.L. Swinney

  • Book 2: The Die Song: A Journey into the Mind of a Mass Murderer, by Donalt T. Lunde and Jefferson Morgan


Jodi Arias

Episodes: 419 & 420

  • Book 1: Picture Perfect: The Jodi Arias Story: A Beautiful Photographer, Her Mormon Lover, and a Brutal Murder, by Shannah Hogan


Arthur Shawcross

Episodes: 423 & 424

  • Book 1: The Misbegotten Son, by Jack Olson

  • Book 2: Arthur Shawcross: The Genesee River Killer: The Grisly True Crime Account of the Rochester Prostitute Murders!, by Joel Norris


The Bell Witch

Episodes: 427 & 428

  • Book 1: The Bell Witch, by Brent Monahan

  • Book 2: An Authenticated History of the Famous Bell Witch, by M. Ingram

  • Book 3: The Bell Witch: The Full Account, by Pat Fitzhugh

  • Book 4: The Trickster and the Paranormal, by George P. Hansen


Adolfo Constanzo

Episode: 431

  • Book 1: Buried Secrets: A True Story of Serial Murder, by Edward Humes


Roch Theriault & The Ant Hill Kids

Episodes: 434, 435, & 436

  • Book 1: Savage Messiah, by Paul Kaihla


John List

Episodes: 438 & 439

  • Book 1: Death Sentence: The Inside Story of the John List Murders, by Joe Sharkey

  • Book 2: Righteous Carnage: The List Murders in Westfield, by Timothy Benford


Aleister Crowley

Episodes: 442, 443, & 444

  • Book 1: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography, by Aleister Crowley

  • Book 2: Perdurabo, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Life of Aleister Crowley, by Richard Kaczynski

  • Book 3: Aleister Crowley: Magick, Rock and Roll, and the Wickedest Man in the World, by Gary Lachman

  • Book 4: The Book of Black Magic and of Pacts – Including the Rites and Mysteries of Goetic Theurgy, Sorcery, and Infernal Necromancy, also the Rituals of Black Magic, by A.E. Waite


Jack Unterweger

Episodes: 445 & 446

  • Book 1: Entering Hades: The Double Life of a Serial Killer, by John Leake


Alcatraz

Episodes: 448, 449, & 450

  • Book 1: Escape from Alcatraz, by J. Campbell Bruce

  • Book 2: Stroud’s Digest on the Diseases of Birds, by Robert Stroud


Danny Rolling

Episodes: 452 & 453

  • Book 1: The Gainesville Ripper, by Mary Ryzuk

  • Book 2: A Monster of All Time: The True Story of Danny Rolling, the Gainesville Ripper, by J.T. Hunter


The Black Death

Episodes: 457, 458, 459, & 460

  • Book 1: The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time, by John Kelly

  • Book 2: The Time Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century, by Ian Mortimer


USS Indianapolis

Episode: 461

  • Book 1: Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man, by Lynn Vincent and Sarah Vladic


Billy the Kid

Episodes: 462, 463, 464, & 465

  • Book 1: Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life, by Robert M. Utley

  • Book 2: To Hell on a Fast Horse: The Untold Story of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett, by Mark Lee Gardner


Rodney Alcala

Episodes: 466 & 467

  • Book 1: The Dating Game Killer: The True Story of a TV Dating Show, a Violent Sociopath, and a Series of Brutal Murders, by Stella Sands


Mike Warnke

Episodes: 468 & 469

  • Book 1: Selling Satan: The Evangelical Media and the Mike Warnke Scandal, by Mike Hertenstein and Jon Trott

  • Book 2: The Satan Seller, by Mike Warnke


Karla Homolka & Paul Bernardo

Episodes: 470, 471, & 472

  • Book 1: Invisible Darkness, by Stephen Williams

  • Book 2: Lethal Marriage, by Nick Pron

  • Book 3: Deadly Innocence, by Scott Burnside & Alan Cairns


Anneliese Michel

Episodes: 473 & 474

  • Book 1: Anneliese Michel: A True Story of Demonic Possession, by Lawrence LeBlanc

  • Book 2: The Exorcism of Anneliese Michel, by Felicitas D. Goodman


Lizzie Borden

Episodes: 474 & 476

  • Book 1: The Trial of Lizzie Borden, by Cara Robertson

  • Book 2: The Borden Murders, by Sarah Miller

  • Book 3: Popular Crime, by Bill James


Ma Barker

Episodes: 479, 480, & 481

  • Book 1: Ma Barker: America's Most Wanted Mother, by Chris Enss & Howard Kananjian

  • Book 2: Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, by Bryan Burrough

  • Book 3: Secret Partners: Big Tom Brown and the Barker Gang, by Tim Mahoney


MKUltra

Episodes: 482, 483, 484, 485, & 486

  • Book 1: Poisoner in Chief, by Stephen Kinzer

  • Book 2: OSS: The Secret History of America’s First Central Intelligence, by R. Harris Smith

  • Book 3: The Search for the “Manchurian Candidate”: The CIA and Mind Control: The Secret History of the Behavioral Sciences, by John D. Marks

  • Book 4: Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America, by Annie Jacobsen


Randy Kraft

Episodes: 487 & 488

  • Book 1: Angel of Darkness, by Dennis McDougal


The Children of Thunder

Episodes: 489 & 490

  • Book 1: Unholy Sacrifice, by Robert Scott


Blackbeard

Episodes: 491, 492, & 493

  • Book 1: Blackbeard, by Angus Konstam

  • Book 2: The Sea Rover's Practice, by Benerson Little


Nannie Doss

Episode: 494

  • Book 1: Black Widow: The True Story of Giggling Granny Nannie Doss, by Ryan Green


Leopold and Loeb

Episodes: 495, 496, & 497

  • Book 1: For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz Age Chicago, by Simon Baatz


Joel Rifkin

Episodes: 498 & 499

  • Book 1: From the Mouth of the Monster, by Robert Mladinich


The Salem Witch Trials

Episodes: 500, 501, 502, & 503

  • Book 1: A Storm of Witchcraft, by Emerson W. Baker

  • Book 2: The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege, by Marilynne K. Roach


Charles Starkweather

Episodes: 504 & 505

  • Book 1: Waste Land: The Savage Odyssey Of Charles Starkweather And Caril Ann Fugate, by Michael Newton

  • Book 2: The Twelfth Victim: The Innocence of Caril Fugate in the Starkweather Murder Rampage, by Linda Battisti and John Berry


Fred and Rose West

Episodes: 506 & 507

  • Book 1: Fred and Rose, by Howard Sounes


The Bath School Massacre

Episode: 511

  • Book 1: Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer, by Harold Schechter


Jack Parsons

Episodes: 512, 513, 514, & 515

  • Book 1: Strange Angel, by George Pendle


UFO Bigfoot Invasion of 1973

Episode: 516

  • Book 1: Silent Invasion: The Pennsylvania UFO-Bigfoot Casebook, by Stan Gordon

  • Book 2: Dark Matter Monsters, by Simeon Hein Ph.D.


The Troubled Teen Industry

Episodes: 517, 518, & 519

  • Book 1: Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids, by Maia Szalavitz

  • Book 2: Duck in a Raincoat, by Maura Curley

  • Book 3: The Rise and Fall of Synanon, by Rod Janzen


The Tragedy of the Essex

Episodes: 520 & 521

  • Book 1: In the Heart of the Sea, by Nathaniel Philbrick


David Miscavige

Episodes: 522, 523, & 524

  • Book 1: Going Clear, by Lawrence Wright

  • Book 2: A Billion Years, by Mike Rinder

  • Book 3: Beyond Belief, by Jenna Miscavige


Gilles de Rais

Episodes: 525, 526, & 527

  • Book 1: Gilles de Rais: A Biography of Bluebeard, by Jean Benedetti

  • Book 2: Bluebeard, by Leonard Wolf


The Chicago Rippers

Episodes: 530 & 531

  • Book 1: Deadly Thrills, by Jaye Slade Fletcher


The Manhattan Project

Episodes: 533, 534, 535, 536, 537, & 538

  • Book 1: The Bastard Brigade, by Sam Kean

  • Book 2: American Prometheus, by Kai Bird

  • Book 3: Hiroshima, by John Hersey

  • Book 4: The Rape of Nanking, by Iris Chang

  • Book 5: The Making of the Atomic Bomb, by Richard Rhodes


John Holmes and the Wonderland Murders

Episodes: 545 & 546

  • Book 1: The Devil & John Holmes, by Mike Sager

  • Book 2: Porn King, by John Holmes


Jeffrey MacDonald

Episodes: 547 & 548

  • Book 1: Fatal Vision, by Joe McGinniss


Andrew Cunanan

Episodes: 549, 550, & 551

  • Book 1: Death at Every Stop, by Wensley Clarkson

  • Book 2: Vulgar Favors, by Maureen Orth


Madame LaLaurie

Episodes: 552 & 553

  • Book 1: Madame LaLaurie, Mistress of the Haunted House, by Carolyn Morrow Long

  • Book 2: Mad Madame LaLaurie, by Victoria Cosner Love


The Hatfield and McCoy Feud

Episodes: 555 & 556

  • Book 1: Blood Feud, by Lisa Alther

  • Book 2: The Feud, by Dean King


Survival in the Andes

Episodes: 557, 558, & 559

  • Book 1: Alive, by Piers Paul Read

  • Book 2: Miracle in the Andes, by Nando Parrado

  • Book 3: I Had to Survive, by Roberto Canessa


Anders Breivik

Episodes: 563, 564, & 565

  • Book 1: One of Us, by Åsne Seierstad


David Icke

Episodes: 566 & 567

  • Book 1: The Biggest Secret, by David Icke


Herb Baumeister

Episodes: 568 & 569

  • Book 1: Where the Bodies Are Buried, by Fannie Weinstein & Melinda Wilson

  • Book 2: The Horrors of Fox Hollow Farm, by Richard Estep & Robert Graves


The Snowtown Murders

Episodes: 570, 571, & 572

  • Book 1: Snowtown: The Bodies in Barrels Murders, by Jeremy Pudney

  • Book 2: Killing for Pleasure, by Debi Marshall


Ed and Lorraine Warren

Episode: 573, 574, & 575

  • Book 1: The Demonologist, by Gerald Brittle, Ed & Lorraine Warren


Armin Meiwes

Episodes: 576 & 577

  • Book 1: Cannibal: The True Story of the Maneater of Rotenburg, by Lois Jones


Patty Hearst

Episodes: 578, 579, 580, & 581

  • Book 1: Every Secret Thing, by Patty Hearst 

  • Book 2: American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst, by Jeffrey Toobin 


Australian Poltergeist

Espisodes: 585 & 586

  • Book 1: Australian Poltergeist: The Stone-Throwing Spook of Humpty Doo and Many Other Cases, by Tony Healy & Paul Cropper


Josef Fritzel

Episodes: 591, 592, & 593

  • Book 1: Secrets in the Cellar: A True Story of the Austrian Incest Case that Shocked the World, by John Glatt


The Krugersdorp Cult Murders

Episodes: 594, 595, 596, & 597

  • Book 1: The Krugersdorp Cult Killings: Inside Cecilia Steyn's Reign of Terror, by Jana Marx

  • Book 2: Satanism and Family Murder in Late Aparetied Africa, by Nicky Falkof

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