Books like Deadly innocence? by Robert Perske

Jon Ronson's investigative inquiry into psychopathy examines the tools, practitioners, and personalities behind the science—and reveals how the lines between study and madness can blur.

John E. Douglas recounts his 25‑year career in the FBI Behavioral Science Unit, detailing how psychological profiling helped him solve some of the nation’s most infamous serial killings.

John Douglas reveals the hidden motives behind violent crime, examining the psychology of serial killers, mass murderers, and ordinary people who commit horrific acts.

A chilling true‑crime account of four missing women in Cape Cod, detailing the investigation that led to a serial killer dubbed "his garden" and the mounting evidence implicating a young man as the perpetrator.

A gripping true‑crime account of the Tate–LaBianca murders, revealing Ed Sanders’ exclusive access to the Manson family, their Spahn Ranch hideaways, and the trial’s behind‑the‑scenes dynamics with defense counsel and investigators.

A chilling biography of the 1982 Wyoming family murder, detailing the abuse‑ridden Jahnke household and the subsequent trials, exposing flaws in the American justice system.

On January 20, 1984, Earl Washington -- defended for all of forty minutes by a lawyer who had never tried a death penalty case -- was found guilty of rape and murder in the state of Virginia and sentenced to death. After nine years on death row, DNA testing cast doubt on his conviction and saved his life. However, he spent another eight years in prison before more sophisticated DNA technology proved his innocence and convicted the guilty man. DNA exonerations have shattered confidence in the criminal justice system by exposing how often we have convicted the innocent and let the guilty walk free. In this unsettling in-depth analysis, Brandon Garrett examines what went wrong in the cases of the first 250 wrongfully convicted people to be exonerated by DNA testing. Based on trial transcripts, Garrett's investigation into the causes of wrongful convictions reveals larger patterns of incompetence, abuse, and error. Evidence corrupted by suggestive eyewitness procedures, coercive interrogations, unsound and unreliable forensics, shoddy investigative practices, cognitive bias, and poor lawyering illustrates the weaknesses built into our current criminal justice system. Garrett proposes practical reforms that rely more on documented, recorded, and audited evidence, and less on fallible human memory. Very few crimes committed in the United States involve biological evidence that can be tested using DNA. How many unjust convictions are there that we will never discover? Convicting the Innocent makes a powerful case for systemic reforms to improve the accuracy of all criminal cases. - Publisher.

When new DNA evidence proves that innocent men have been wrongfully convicted, advocates battle a system that refuses to let them go.

In his memoir, Albert DeMeo reveals the conflicted life of growing up as the son of the notorious Gambino Mafia killer Roy DeMeo, detailing the hidden legacy of organized crime in New York.

A chilling true‑crime account of the Niagara Falls murders, detailing how a seemingly typical married couple orchestrated and filmed the abduction, sexual assault, and killing of innocent schoolgirls in suburban Canada.

Eric Konigsberg’s gripping family history unfolds the lurid rise of his notorious ‘Uncle Heshy,’ the legendary Mafia enforcer who spent decades on the run.

Stolen in the Night is a true‑crime biography that follows the arrest and execution of serial child abductor Joseph Duncan, detailing his crimes, the investigation, and the impact on the victims’ families.