1. Murder in Mississippi by John Safran
2. Night Games by Anna Krien
3. The Innocent Man by John Grisham
4. The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule
5. Popular Crime by Bill James
6. Portrait of a Killer by Patricia Cornwell
7. Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi
8. The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
9. People Who Eat Darkness by Richard Lloyd Parry
10. Forensics by Val McDermid
11. A Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger
12. The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm
13. A Wilderness of Error by Jeffrey MacDonald
14. How to Get Away With Murder in America by Evan Wright
15. Lost Girls by Robert Kolker
16. Coronado High by Joshuah Bearman
17. Homicide by David Simon
18. Devil's Knot by Mara Leveritt
19. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
20. The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
21. A Long Walk Home by Judith Tebbutt
22. The Trials of White Boy Rick by Evan Hughes
23. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
24. The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale
25. Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
26. Mind Hunter by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker
27. The Devil and Sherlock Holmes by David Grann
28. An Innocent Man by Pamela Colloff
29. The Incredible True Story of the Collar Bomb Heist by Rich Schapiro
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Gary Gilmore was arrested for the murders of two men in Utah. An earlier version of this post said they were women.