Jack Olsen

Prize-winning journalist Jack Olsen, armed with unprecedented access to one of the most infamous serial killers in American history, provides a fascinating glimpse into the mind of a murderer in the killer's own words.... In February 1990, Oregon State Police arrested John Sosnovke and Laverne...

George Russell Jr. had a gift. He could walk into any room, any bar, any party, any crowd, and within minutes everyone knew his name. Women were drawn to him. Men wanted to be around him.

From Jack Olsen, the New York Times bestselling author known as "the dean of true crime," comes a shattering portrait of a crime rooted not in rage or madness, but in something far more chilling: cold calculation. On the night of June 19, 1982, respected Houston attorney James Campbell and his...

Salt of the Earth is a remarkable saga of indomitability, an inspiring and cathartic elegy to the increasing numbers of Americans whose lives are transformed by violence.

Predator is a true crime account of Edward Lee King, a serial rapist whose crimes spanned more than a decade across Washington State, as well as the related wrongful rape conviction of Steve Titus.

Between 1978 and 1981, a rapist prowled the South Hill neighborhood of Spokane, Washington. He targeted women jogging alone, waiting for buses, walking home after dark. His signature: a gloved fist rammed into his victim's mouth to silence her screams.

For twenty-five years, the trusted family doctor in a small Wyoming town had been raping and molesting the women and children who most relied on him....

An account of the crimes of Arthur Shawcross describes how the paroled child killer shot, stabbed, suffocated, and strangled 16 Rochester, New York, prostitutes and examines how the legal system failed his victims...

On January 5, 1981, Idaho game wardens Bill Pogue and Conley Elms rode into the remote Owyhee Desert to check a report of poaching at Claude Dallas's trapping camp. They never rode out.

A full account of the most heinous crime of the century in which nearly 30 young boys were sexually tortured to death....

In 1968, Jack Olsen wrote what Sports Illustrated would later call the most significant series of stories in the magazine's history. Published across five consecutive issues beginning July 1, 1968, "The Black Athlete: A Shameful Story" shattered the comfortable myth that American sport was a...

Monte Sole. Mountain of the Sun. A 2,000-foot peak in the Apennines, fifteen miles south of Bologna, where tenant farmers tended their fields, priests served their parishes, and families had lived for generations. On the morning of September 29, 1944, the SS came. Over three days, soldiers of...

Across the vast stretches of the American West, wildlife was being systematically exterminated, poisoned, shot, trapped, and bounty-hunted, for the profit of ranchers and stockmen, with the full cooperation of government agencies. Hardest hit were the great predators: wildcats, wolves, eagles...

For fifty-seven years, the grizzly bears of Glacier National Park had never killed a human being. That ended on the night of August 12, 1967. In the dark hours before dawn, in two separate locations miles apart, two grizzly bears attacked two young women sleeping at backcountry campsites. Julie...

The Pitcher's Kid covers the first eighteen years of the life that would produce one of America's greatest journalists. It begins in Depression-era New Jersey, in a family held together by a mother's quiet resilience and perpetually undermined by a father's chaos.

A Harrowing True Story of Survival on the Eiger's Deadly North Face The Germans call it the Mordwand. The Murder Wall. The north face of the Eiger in the Swiss Alps is a vertical mile of unstable limestone, perpetual avalanches, and weather that can turn lethal without warning. Eighteen climbers...

On the night of July 18, 1969, a black Oldsmobile plunged off a narrow one-lane bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts. By morning, the car had been found submerged in the water below. Inside was the body of Mary Jo Kopechne, twenty-eight years old, a former campaign worker for Robert...