Cheryl's Book Nook

  Here is a collection of true crime stories from different countries and time periods that defy simple description. They include: • The strange tale of a psychotic geisha who severed her lover’s genitals to carry as a token of her love and who inspired a cult following • How a small-town murderer helped inspire the movie Psycho and left his hometown with a reputation they never lived down • A father who sacrificed his daughter to prove his faith in God and his followers who fully expected her to be raised on the third day (she wasn’t) • A Sorbonne graduate student who killed and cannibalized the woman he loved and went on to become a bizarre media celebrity • A 19th century serial killer who earned the title of “the worst women in the world” by killing a series of husbands for profit • The assassination attempt on John F. Kennedy you never heard about but which very nearly succeeded. • George Stinney, the fourteen-year-old child who died in the electric chair for a crime he didn’t...