Death by arsenic: Mary Ann Cotton -- Forty whacks: Lizzie Borden -- Run for the hills: Abel Clemmons -- Double jeopardy: George Jefferson Hassell -- Striking out: Marty Bergen -- Getting away with murder: John List -- The green beret killer: Jeffrey MacDonald -- Through the grapevine: Marvin Gay Sr. -- Over the edge: Elmer Crawford -- The soap opera murder: Daniel Bartlam -- The embezzler: Steven Sueppel -- Dark Christmas: Ronald Gene Simmons -- Killer party: Tyler Hadley -- Slender man: Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weir -- "That bitch is dead!": Gypsy Rose Blanchard -- Into the water: Scott Peterson -- The Hudson murders: William Balfour -- A secret life: Christopher Watts -- Killer writer: Nancy Crampton-Brophy -- "The babysitter stole her!": Casey Anthony -- "Kill or be killed": the Menendez murders -- Doting father: Neil Entwistle -- Body in a suitcase: Mack & Schaefer -- The Medicine Hat murders: Steinke & Richardson -- Beautiful creatures: Parker & Hulme -- A self-made man: Christopher Foster -- The Easter Sunday massacre: James Ruppert -- Triggered: George Emil Banks -- The foreign officer: William Bradford Bishop Jr. -- Murder in Broken Bow: the Bever family -- Did she, or didn't she?: Diane Downs -- The Pike County massacre: the Wagner family -- The speargun killer: John Myles Sharpe -- Death came to Amityville: the Defeo murders -- A tangled web: Richard Alexander Murdaugh -- Postscript -- Further reading -- Index