Murderabilia

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The objects that outlive the crime. Murderabilia is veteran true crime master Harold Schechter's singular look into the history of murder told through the dark artifacts notorious killers leave behind. The book examines the strange, magnetic objects that captivate true crime obsessives worldwide: the false teeth of a 1908 female serial killer, the cut-and-paste confession of the Black Dahlia killer, the newly cracked Zodiac cipher, and the shotgun used in the Clutter family murders made famous by Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. More than morbid relics, these artifacts offer a closer look at how monsters are actually made — and why we can't stop trying to understand them. What the killers left behind. Show more