28 Chilling True Crime Reads That Will Keep You Up At Night

There’s nothing more chilling than the truth. From the investigators, offenders, victims and their families, here are their real-life stories.

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In Cold Blood
The Stranger Beside Me
The Journalist and the Murderer
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In Cold Blood
4.3
The Stranger Beside Me
4.2
The Journalist and the Murderer
3.6
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
4.3
The Red Parts
3.9
Midnight in Mexico
3.6
I'll Be Gone in the Dark
3.9
The Brothers
3.7
My Dark Places
3.8
Homicide
4.2
Justice
3.5
The Fact of a Body
3.6
Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade
3.4
Columbine
4.4
Down City
4.2
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
3.8
American Predator
4
The Lazarus Files
3.7
Mindhunter
4.3
Dead in the Water
4.3
Last Call
4
The Five
4.2
Boys Enter the House
3.6
Say Nothing
4.7
The Ground Breaking
We Keep the Dead Close
3.9
The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream
3.5
The Child in the Electric Chair: The Execution of George Junius Stinney Jr. and the Making of a Tragedy in the American South
4.2

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