Wyoming State Law Library

Dorothea Truelove is young, wealthy, and beautiful. Ruth Butterham is young, poor, and awaiting trial for murder. When Dorothea's charitable work brings her to Oakgate Prison, she is delighted by the chance to explore her fascination with phrenology and test her hypothesis that the shape of a person's skull can cast a light on their darkest crimes. But when she meets one of the prisoners, the teenaged seamstress Ruth, she is faced with another strange...

There is nothing more shocking or fascinating than the story of a homicidal woman. We are told that violence is a man’ s domain— that a woman is pre-programmed to nurture and protect. Women who break this taboo are hated and reviled; their stories scorched into our collective psyches. This book profiles twenty-one female murderers throughout history— from powerful female warriors such as Boudicca and Agrippina to the revenge killings of Ruth...

Detective Sam Carver journeys through sins scattered across the City of Angels, where hipsters, homeless, immigrants, producers, politicians, movie stars, and cops collide in mysterious ways. Every move Carver makes is anticipated by the killer, Dylan Cross. She has hacked his computer and knows his diaries and secrets. She sees in him a kindred and damaged spirit, a man who can understand her crimes, heal her scars, and love her. Dylan is reclaiming...

I don't have to eat ever again," she said, her gaze locked on mine. "And if you shoot me, the bullet won't hurt me, Adam. My body has almost completed the process of becoming immortal." So begins the often bizarre, almost unbelievable tale of Lori Daybell, as told by two of the people who know her best: her brother, Adam Cox, and her uncle, Rex Conner. What follows is the hauntingly tragic account of Vallow's descent from loving mother to murderous...