Jack Olsen (1925–2002)

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1. Ann Rule

   Author of The Stranger Beside Me, Dead by Sunset, Everything She Ever Wanted

2. Jack Olsen

   Author of I: The Creation of a Serial Killer, The Climb Up to Hell, Hastened to the Grave: The Gypsy Murder Investigation

3. Carlton Stowers

   Author of Scream at the Sky (St. Martin's True Crime Library), Innocence Lost, Sins of the Son

4. Jerry Bledsoe

   Author of Bitter Blood: A True Story of Southern Family Pride, Madness, and Multiple Murder (Onyx), Before He Wakes: A True Story of Money, Marriage, Sex and Murder, Death Sentence: The True Story of Velma Barfield's Life, Crimes, and Punishment

5. Gregg Olsen

   Author of Abandoned Prayers, Bitter Almonds, The Confessions of an American Black Widow

6. M. William Phelps

   Author of Perfect Poison: A Female Serial Killer's Deadly Medicine, Every Move You Make, Lethal Guardian

7. Stephen G. Michaud

   Author of The Only Living Witness: The True Story of Serial Sex Killer Ted Bundy, The Devil's Right-Hand Man: The True Story of Serial Killer Robert Charles Browne, Lethal Shadow: The Chilling True-Crime Story of a Sadistic Sex Slayer

8. Kathryn Casey

   Author of Die, My Love: A True Story of Revenge, Murder, and Two Texas Sisters, A Descent Into Hell: The True Story of an Altar Boy, a Cheerleader, and a Twisted Texas Murder, Evil Beside Her: The True Story of a Texas Woman's Marriage to a Dangerous Psychopath

9. Joe McGinniss

   Author of Fatal Vision, Cruel Doubt, Going to Extremes

10. John Douglas

    Author of Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit, The Cases That Haunt Us, Anyone You Want Me to Be: A True Story of Sex and Death on the Internet

11. Carlton Smith

    Author of The Search for the Green River Killer, Cold Blooded, Dying for Daddy: The True Story of Accused Family Killer Jack Barron

12. Harold Schechter

    Author of Depraved: The Definitive True Story of H.H. Holmes, Whose Grotesque Crimes Shattered Turn-of-the-Century Chicago, Deranged: The Shocking True Story of America's Most Fiendish Killer, Bestial: The Savage Trail of a True American Monster

13. Vincent Bugliosi

    Author of Helter Skelter, And the Sea Will Tell, Till Death Us Do Part: A True Murder Mystery

14. Corey Mitchell

    Author of Dead And Buried: A Shocking Account of Rape, Torture, and Murder on the California Coast, Strangler

15. Aphrodite Jones

    Author of All She Wanted, Cruel Sacrifice, Della's Web

16. John Glatt

    Author of Cries in the Desert (St. Martin's True Crime Library), Never Leave Me: A True Story of Marriage, Deception, and Brutal Murder (St. Martin's True Crime Library), Evil Twins: Chilling True Stories of Twins, Killing and Insanity (St. Martin's True Crime Library)

17. Ken Englade

    Author of Cellar of Horror, A Family Business (True Crime Library)

18. Darcy O'Brien

    Author of Two of a Kind: The Hillside Stranglers, Murder in Little Egypt

19. Joseph Wambaugh

    Author of The Onion Field, The Blooding, Echoes in the Darkness

20. Donald A. Davis

    Author of Hush Little Babies: The True Story Of A Mother Who Murdered Her Own Children (St. Martin's True Crime Library), Death of an Angel