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

The Stranger Beside Me

The Journalist and the Murderer

Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

The Red Parts

Midnight in Mexico

I'll Be Gone in the Dark

The Brothers

My Dark Places

Homicide

Justice

The Fact of a Body

Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade

Columbine

Down City

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

American Predator

The Lazarus Files

Mindhunter

Dead in the Water

Last Call

The Five

Boys Enter the House

Say Nothing

The Ground Breaking

We Keep the Dead Close

The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream

The Child in the Electric Chair: The Execution of George Junius Stinney Jr. and the Making of a Tragedy in the American South

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