{"product_id":"murder-in-california-marques-vickers-9781097648467","title":"Murder in California: Serial Killers and Unsolved Murders: The Topography of Evil: Notorious California Murder Sites","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMurder in California: Serial Killers and Unsolved Murders\u003c\/i\u003e profiles some of California's most infamous murder cases. The edition photographically transports you to actual murder sites along with images related to the case and perpetrator(s). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe images and accompanying profiles offer a descriptive account and follow-up aftermath providing an important understanding into the far-reaching effects of each crime. Convicted killers and their confirmed victims are identified. For criminals still living, their current incarceration location is provided. A directory of precise crime site locations is included. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe captured snapshots portray visual testimonies of extinguished lives removed by acts of violence. Crime scenes often revert back into unremarkable landscape or unassuming buildings over the ensuing years and decades. Several have altered little since their moment of infamy. Many are passed daily by pedestrian and vehicular traffic unaware of a location's unique significance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCalifornia has been the site for many notorious serial killers. The following are portrayed in this edition: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eZodiac Serial Killer: Public and media taunting\u003cbr\u003eCharles Manson's serial killing clan\u003cbr\u003eDorothea Puente: The elderly and frail targeted and eliminated for profit\u003cbr\u003eEfren Saldivar: Caregiving medical homicide\u003cbr\u003eThe Unabomber: His UC Berkeley experience\u003cbr\u003eZebra Killings: San Francisco's racially targeted genocide\u003cbr\u003eHeaven's Gate Cult mass suicide\u003cbr\u003eEdmund Kemper III: Monstrous hitchhiking murders\u003cbr\u003eBittaker and Norris: Torture van murders\u003cbr\u003eJuan Corona: Migrant workers serial killer\u003cbr\u003eRichard Trenton Chase: The vampire killer\u003cbr\u003eThe Speed Freak Killers and their burial bone yards\u003cbr\u003eHerbert Mullin: Killing for earthquake preventiveness\u003cbr\u003eDavid Carpenter: The devil behind bifocals and a stutter\u003cbr\u003eJim Jones and the Peoples Temple Massacre: Lost in a jungle mass suicide\u003cbr\u003eThe Hillside Strangler Duo: Killing Cousins\u003cbr\u003eRodney Alcala: A beastly killing machine slaying beauty\u003cbr\u003eRichard Ramirez: Satan's ambassador\u003cbr\u003eGolden State Killer: The triumph of forensic tracking\u003cbr\u003eA Black Hand of Death and Inhumanity (Jose Manuel Martinez)\u003cbr\u003eA Killing Rampage Preying On Society's Most Vulnerable Population (Jon David Guerrero)\u003cbr\u003eA Dark Strangler Terrorizes the Pacific Coast (George Nelson)\u003cbr\u003eThe Santa Rosa Hitchhiking Murders: preying on the innocent\u003cbr\u003eDavid Nadel: The death of a man and rebirth of a performance icon\u003cbr\u003eTorrey Pines Beach: Sands, Secrets and A Butterfly Dancer\u003cbr\u003eThe continued fascination with the Black Dahlia Murder\u003cbr\u003eFatty Arbuckle's sex and homicide scandal\u003cbr\u003eA Classic Mob Contract Killing Of An Unwanted Distraction\u003cbr\u003eWas a 1963 beachfront slaying a prelude to future Zodiac terror?\u003cbr\u003eGeneva Ellroy: The transference of tragedy into literary expression\u003cbr\u003eA Double Tragedy Complicated By Mysterious Scenarios (Spreckels Mansion Death)\u003cbr\u003eKym Morgan: Death by classified advertisement\u003cbr\u003eKevin Collins: A solitary bus bench memorial to every parent's nightmare\u003cbr\u003eUnauthorized Celebrity Biography Comics and A Founder's Murder (Todd Lawrence)\u003cbr\u003eTed Healy: The suspected homicide of the fourth Stooge\u003cbr\u003eThe Resolute Will to keep William Desmond Taylor's murder unsolved\u003cbr\u003eA Contract Killer Terminated By His Own Profession (Frank Bompensiero)\u003cbr\u003eRamona Irene Price strolls innocently into a vanished past\u003cbr\u003eRaymond Washington: A cycle of senseless violence devours the Crips gang founder\u003cbr\u003eThe Senseless Murder of a Catholic Priest on Holiday (Monsignor Louis Gutierrez)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marques Vickers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 109764846X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781097648467\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/09\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d","brand":"Marques Vickers","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48435972997375,"sku":"9781097648467","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f37360d9-88a6-4a34-b71f-6cf29290c8a7.jpg?v=1777153926","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/murder-in-california-marques-vickers-9781097648467","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}