True Crime Case Histories - Volume 25

12 Disturbing True Crime Stories of Murder and Mayhem
Volume 25 of the True Crime Case Histories Series
***** This series can be read in any order *****

Some of them took years to catch. A few were never fully caught at all.

The twelve cases in this volume span half a century and four countries, but they share something underneath: none of them were accidents, and none were the work of a single hot second the killer would have taken back. These were choices, made and remade by people who had every chance to stop and chose instead to keep going.

A sampling of the stories includes:

The Kiss of Death – A young mother vanished at closing time from a gas station with no cameras, leaving behind her coat, her purse, and the cash in the drawer. The one early tip led to a man with a clean alibi, and it would be three years before anyone learned what was hidden under the floor of his van.

The Antifreeze Murders – In a churchgoing Missouri household, a husband died, then a son, then a daughter lay dying in the ICU. The doctors couldn’t name what was killing her. The pastor could.

MOVE – On a spring afternoon in Philadelphia, a long standoff between the city and the people inside a row house ended when a bomb was dropped from a helicopter onto the roof. The fire that followed consumed an entire block, and the children inside never had a chance.

Whips and Chains – A long-haul trucker crossed the southern highways with a chained, naked woman shackled into the sleeper of his cab. The accident that finally stopped him was a state trooper who noticed something strange about his truck.

The Gold Digger – A retired Austin broadcasting executive went to sleep in his own bed and woke bleeding from a shotgun blast to the stomach. There was no forced entry and nothing taken. Detectives in Texas came to believe the answer was already inside the house.

Vigilante Killer – A boy in the green hills of Brazil was born with his skull already marked by his father’s violence, and grew into one of the most prolific killers his country has ever produced. He claimed he only hunted the guilty—and in the chaos of an overwhelmed justice system, he very nearly proved it didn’t matter.

Plus several more disturbing cases.

These aren’t stories ripped from headlines you’ve already read. They’re deep dives into cases reconstructed from court transcripts, police files, forensic reports, trial testimony, and contemporary news coverage. No sensationalism, no padding—just meticulously researched truth about what people are capable of when they’re convinced no one will ever know.

Readers love the True Crime Case Histories series:

“I stay up way too late every time I pick up one of these books. Jason Neal has a gift for making you feel like you’re right there with the investigators.”

“The research alone sets this series apart. These aren’t recycled headlines—they’re cases I’d never heard of, told with real depth.”

“I’ve read every volume in this series. The writing keeps getting sharper and the cases keep getting more disturbing. Can’t stop now.”

“What gets me is how normal these people seemed. Jason Neal captures that better than anyone else writing true crime today.”

“Finished this in two sittings. The pacing is perfect. Every chapter pulls you deeper before you realize how much time has passed.”

“I recommended this to my true crime book club and now everyone is working through the whole series. Genuinely hard to put down.”

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