Books like Newtown by Matthew Lysiak

David Cullen’s investigative account uncovers the psychological motives and planning behind the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, revealing how Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold engineered the tragedy.

A precise, ten‑year investigation into the 1999 Columbine High School massacre that uncovers the truth behind the myth and examines the killers, victims, and community response.

Unravel the chilling true story of Austin’s 1884–85 serial killings, the Midnight Assassin, who terrorized Texans with axes, knives and steel rods, and the decade‑long reveal of the city’s darkest scandal.

During the autumn of 1922, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald chart their return to New York as the city’s roaring glamour turns to tragedy with the unsolved Mills‑Hall double murder—an event that shaped the genesis of *The Great Gatsby*.

An investigative reporter tracks the long‑timed serial killer who has murdered women in South Central Los Angeles since the 1980s, uncovering the case’s alleged identity.

A true‑crime chronicle of Missouri’s most notorious murders and criminal incidents, spanning from the pre‑Civil War era to the gangster‑infested 1920s and 1930s.

Harold Schechter investigates the 1937 Beekman Place triple‑murder in Manhattan, uncovering the twisted mind of sculptor Robert Irwin and his fixation with model Veronica Gedeon in this true‑crime portrait of American psychopathology.

A true‑crime investigation of the 1981 disappearance and murder of Adam Walsh, examining police failures, family resilience, and the eventual unmasking of the case 25 years later.

When handsome Mormon carpenter Travis Alexander is found dead in Mesa, Arizona, investigators turn to Jodi Arias—a former lover and aspiring photographer—whose sudden move to the area and peculiar evidence linking her to the crime spark a high-profile murder investigation.

True crime chronicle of a flamboyant smuggling family whose alleged assassination of a Federal judge triggered the most expensive FBI investigation in U.S. history.

A nonfiction guide that explores how Hollywood has turned notorious American criminals—such as Ma Barker, Al Capone, John Wesley Hardin, and Charles Starkweather—into legends or villains, blending film, music, and true‑crime facts.

A true crime investigation following the murder of nineteen‑year‑old Mark Fisher, a college football star from New York City.

Most parents would never consider dispensing deadly addictive "street" drugs to their children but if a trusted physician writes a prescription for an FDA-approved schedule 2 "medication" for their two-year old based on some questionable mental health screening, those unwary parents do not question or object. Despite side effect warnings, regularly revealed during TV ads, parents frequently fail to take those warnings seriously, perhaps presuming that the side effects are happenstance or rarely occur. Over the decades, because organized psychiatry, represented by the American Psychiatric Association (APA), convened numerous consensus panels that designed hundreds of non-biologically-based "disorders" for its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) especially suitable for the pill-for-every-ill pharmaceutical industry that conceivably already had many profitable solutions for the "disorders," in the pre-production process. The consequences have been disastrous with no discernible end in sight - some people taking prescription drugs or withdrawing from them have perpetrated school, mall and public shootings. That is in addition to thousands of suicides that the public never hears about, unless the victim is a well-known public figure like Robin Williams. Just the military-related suicide rate is 8,000 per year -untold numbers of these are the result of the psych drug cocktails doled out by psychiatrists working for the VA. The government is big pharma's largest customer. In addition to the homicides and suicides, irreversible brain damage results from drug remedies to temporary problems that might have been easily resolved through compassionate interaction and talk therapy. Despite the claims that drugs were not a factor in the Sandy Hook mass murders, certain circumstances provide a different picture. Adam Lanza, always a unique individual, changed from being a "geeky, weird kid" to being a mass murderer, not of people his own age, but of beautiful, vulnerable children feeling secure in their classrooms in a sleepy bedroom community in Connecticut

Elizabeth Smart recounts her 2002 abduction, nine‑month captivity, escape, and transformation into a champion for child‑crime prevention, drawing on faith, resilience, and advocacy work.

Ann Rule investigates a shocking Christmas‑time murder on the Washington coast, exposing the greed, sex, and scandal that led to a brutal killing.

In February 2013, Suburban Washington, D.C. faced an alarming spike in homicides and police‑involved shootings. Del Quentin Wilber follows the Prince George’s County homicide unit through its frantic investigation of a series of brutal murders, including the infamous “Red Ball” case.

Diane Cameron blends memoir, history and true crime to uncover the story of her stepfather, Donald Watkins, a Vietnam-era Marine who served in China during the 1937-39 Japanese invasion and later convicted of murder, exploring trauma, mental illness and family dynamics.