Ken Englade

Relates the gruesome details and horrifying events that transpired in a Philadelphia basement and profiles serial murderer Gary Heidnik, a self-proclaimed minister with a long history of mental illness, whose macabre plans led him to prey upon the vulnerable. Reissue.

Cellar of Horror

A self-proclaimed minister enslaving and raping women in his basement, scattered body parts strewn about the kitchen, a riveting courtroom drama that shocked the city of Philadephia and horrified the world - this chilling story is impossible to forget.

Heidnik Profile: Cordeiro Assassino , de Ken Englade, traz a história real do bispo Gary Michael Heidnik e de seus violentos crimes. Até onde pode ir o egoísmo e o desejo de controle de uma pessoa? O que alguém é capaz de fazer para saciar seus mais obscuros desejos? O militar aposentado Gary Heidnik fundou a seita Igreja Unida dos Ministros de Deus. Para muitos, seria apenas uma malandragem para driblar impostos e arrecadar dinheiro com a fé alheia; para outros, parte essencial de seus delírios psicóticos. Heidnik queria, mais do que tudo, ter muitos filhos e construir uma família de adoradores com seu próprio sangue. Depois de alguns anos no Exército, outros em instituições psiquiátricas, investimentos em ações e muitos fracassos nas relações pessoais, Heidnik cede ao seu narcisismo sórdido e bola um plano: sequestrar várias mulheres, prendê-las no porão e violentá-las para dar origem a sua tão desejada família. Esse ato de violência extrema se concretizou com o sequestro de seis mulheres, e resultou em torturas, abuso sexual e morte de duas das vítimas. Com uma prosa seca e afiada, Ken Englade traça de forma minuciosa e documental os principais movimentos dos crimes e traz um relato direto do processo e do dia a dia do tribunal durante todo o julgamento de Heidnik. Assim, o leitor acompanha as entrelinhas do próprio sistema penal norte-americano. A ressonância do horror chegou também à ficção: Gary Heidnik e seus atos hediondos são uma das inspirações para o vilão James “Buffalo Bill” Gumb, em O Silêncio dos Inocentes, de Thomas Harris, em conhecida adaptação cinematográfica com direção de Jonathan Demme e atuações de destaque de Anthony Hopkins e Jodie Foster. Por um lado, Heidnik foi um sacerdote, um pastor cristão, que conduzia suas ovelhas não para os pastos do Senhor, mas para o abatedouro de seu porão diabólico. Por outro, ele é o próprio cordeiro dado em sacrifício a uma sociedade faminta em condenar, mas incapaz de reavaliar seus estranhos valores. Heidnik Profile: Cordeiro Assassino é um lançamento da marca dedicado aos crimes reais, a Crime Scene®, da DarkSide® Books, que busca a trazer a leitoras e leitores a experiência de ser um investigador. A edição conta ainda com um prefácio do autor e pesquisador Enéias Tavares, para que os darksiders possam tentar unir as pistas e entender o que leva alguém a agir de modo tão assustador quanto Heidnik. A leitura dessa obra é pesada e não é indicada para pessoas sensíveis ou menores de 18 anos.

Heidnik Profile: Cordeiro Assassino

Murder in Boston

The shocking murder that exposed a devoted husband as a cold-hearted killer. Inside a beautiful house in Philadelphia's ritzy Main Line section lay the body of a young mother—dead of an apparent drowning in her bathtub. With no sign of a break-in, no history of marital problems, and the naïve belief that these things sometimes just happen, Stefanie Rabinowitz's family prepared to bury the twenty-nine-year-old wife and mother. But at the eleventh hour, because Stefanie was so young, and because there were no witnesses to her death, an autopsy was ordered. What it revealed was unthinkable: Stefanie had been murdered, strangled in her home then dragged into the tub to stage a fake drowning. Even more shocking was the suspected killer, Stefanie's husband, Craig: devoted family man, loyal husband, and "everybody's best friend." When the astounding truth began to emerge, so did the tawdry double life of Craig Rabinowitz, a man so obsessed with a two-thousand-dollar-a-week exotic dancer, that his habit caused him to look to the insurance money he would get from murdering his wife. Now, with exclusive interviews and startling inside details, bestselling author Ken Englade blows wide open the shocking true account of a storybook marriage that ended in bone-chilling murder.

The True Story of a Marriage That Ended in Murder

Everybody's Best Friend

The Woman: She was a beautiful, gifted descendant of Lady Astor. But Elizabeth Haysom was also a spoiled, willful daughter of privilege. The Lover: He was the brilliant young son of a German diplomat. But his love for Elizabeth would draw Jens Soering into a web of madness and murder. The Murder: When Elizabeth's parents were found savagely butchered in their elegant Virginia country home, she and Jens fled to Europe-igniting an international manhunt that spanned three continents. The Trial: The sensational courtroom drama that followed painted a twisted portrait of two golden youths consumed by hatred and perverse fantasies. Elizabeth's startling testimony-and intimations of acts and desires that went beyond mere murder-would reveal a tangled web of dark secrets and deadly obsession.

The True Story of a Shocking Double Murder, a Brilliant, Beautiful Virginia Socialite, and a Deadly Psychotic Obsession

Beyond Reason

Jimmy Hoffa leads the Teamsters Union while battling openly with management, other unions, and government agents who suspect him of corruption, and carrying on an uneasy relationship with the mob

Hoffa

In the days leading up to the Civil War, a bloody shootout between soldiers and renegades leaves twelve immigrants dead and a villainous outlaw named "Notch" Henderson still roaming the frontier. Original.

Tony Hillerman's Frontier #3

The Soldiers

The fourth title in a frontier series set in the 1850s follows the battles of the Cheyenne with the Army, the Mormons with a train of settlers, and the law with the lawless. Original.

Battle Cry

Despite Second Lieutenant Benoit's protests against his government's heartless treatment of the Indians, he carries out his military duties, until he is rescued from death by a Sioux warrior who teaches him the Native American way of life. Original.

The Tribes

Desert Dance It was 1858. New Orleans-born Second Lieutenant Jean Benoit is finally getting used to his post in Fort Laramie, Wyoming. Then comes the sudden order, direct from the Secretary of War. He is being promoted to captain and transferred to Fort Marcy in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Benoit is not happy about the promotion and the transfer -- especially when he finds himself in the middle of a turf war between the Archdiocese of New Mexico led by the Frenchman, Bishop Lamy, and a coven of corrupt priests and their allies. When one of Lamy's priests is murdered, Benoit finds himself in an impossible situation: Trying to sort out guilt and innocence at a time and place where the truth is anybody's guess and the spoils of the future have the names of millions written in the desert wind.

Brothers in Blood

A True Story of Love and Death in Texas

To Hatred Turned

Dark and Deadly Love: A True Story of Love and Death in Texas

Tony Hillerman endorses this richly evocative new series that portrays the day-to-day lives of Native Americans in the west during a volatile time of betrayals great and small. The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 called for a reallocation of tribal lands in the Plains. Anticipating that the U.S. Government would make good on its promise of hefty sums to make up for their loss of property, a number of tribes stood on the threshold of history. - Englade is an Edgar Award-nominated author.

The Emigrants

The shocking murder that exposed a devoted husband as a cold-hearted killer To Love, Honor-And Murder... Inside a beautiful house in Philadelphia's ritzy Main Line section lay the body of a young mother --dead of an apparent drowning in her bathtub. With no sign of a break-in, no history of marital problems, and the naïve belief that these things sometimes just happen, Stefanie Rabinowitz's family prepared to bury the 29-year-old wife and mother. But at the eleventh hour, because Stefanie was so young, and because there were no witnesses to her death, an autopsy was ordered. And what it revealed was unthinkable: Stefanie had been murdered-strangled in her home, then dragged into the tub to stage a fake drowning. Even more shocking was the suspected killer-Stefanie's 34-year-old husband, Craig: devoted family man, loyal husband, and "everybody's best friend." When the astounding truth began to emerge, so did the tawdry double life of Craig Rabinowitz, a man so obsessed with a two-thousand-dollar-a-week exotic dancer, that his habit caused him to look to the insurance money he would get from murdering his wife. Now, with exclusive interviews and startling inside details, bestselling author Ken Englade blows wide open the shocking true account of a storybook marriage that ended in bone-chilling murder.

The True Story of a Marriage That Ended In Murder

Relates the gruesome details and horrifying events that transpired in a Philadelphia basement and profiles mass-murderer Gary Heidnik.

Ken Englade

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