True Crime Extreme

True Crime Extreme: 13 Shocking Cases from Around the World.

A church organist who sold his neighbors as cured pork. Four nurses who drowned their patients for sport. A man who kept his victims' organs in the refrigerator. All of it real. All of it documented. All of it hidden in plain sight for years.

In the first volume of the True Crime Extreme series, Alexander Dragone opens thirteen case files most American audiences have never seen—cases that shook parts of Europe, alongside two that unfolded in California and Louisiana.

Inside this collection:

The Cannibal of Münsterberg—For more than twenty years, a devout church sexton played the organ on Sundays and butchered vagrants in his kitchen the rest of the week. Police found 420 teeth sorted into tins labeled "Pepper" and "Salt."

The Angels of Death—Four hospital aides in Vienna decided which patients were too much trouble to keep alive. Their method left almost no forensic trace. Estimates of the death toll ran as high as 300.

The Vampire of Sacramento—Richard Chase believed his blood was turning to powder and that only the blood of others could save him. In one week in January 1978, he killed six people, including a twenty-two-month-old baby.

Dragone goes past the headlines and into the psychology: what these killers looked like to their neighbors, how the systems around them failed for years at a time, and what finally brought each of them down. Thirteen cases. Nine countries. One question you won't be able to shake: how did nobody notice?

Note: These cases are recounted in unflinching detail, including sexual violence, and cannibalism.