Cover of Nightmare in Wichita: The Hunt For The BTK Strangler

Nightmare in Wichita: The Hunt For The BTK Strangler

by Robert Beattie · 2005

+ Want to read

Presents the story of the five-year murder spree by the BTK strangler in Wichita, Kansas, the thirty-year investigation, and the final breakthrough in 2005 which led to the arrest of a suspect.

Subject
true crimetrue crimeMore like thisLess of this
Genre
crimecrimeMore like thisLess of this
Setting
KansasKansasMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

BuyAmazonGoogle Books

BorrowOpen LibraryA library near you

MoreCompare pricesHardcover

Liked Nightmare in Wichita: The Hunt For The BTK Strangler? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked Nightmare in Wichita: The Hunt For The BTK Strangler. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Murder By The Books R.J. Parker · 2014 Shares true crime, crime, nonfiction
  2. Serial Killers (True Crime Series) Time-Life Books · 1992 Shares true crime, crime, nonfiction
  3. 501 Most Notorious Crimes Paul Donnelley · 2009 Shares true crime, crime, nonfiction
  4. The Badge: True and Terrifying Crime Stories That Could Not Be Presented on TV, from the Creator and Star of Dragnet Jack Webb · 1958 Shares true crime, crime, nonfiction
See more recommendations →

“People who read Nightmare in Wichita: The Hunt For The BTK Strangler tend to reach for these next.”

  1. The Ultimate Evil: The Truth about the Cult Murders: Son of Sam and Beyond Maury Terry · 1987
  2. Daddy Was the Black Dahlia Killer: The Identity of America's Most Notorious Serial Murderer--Revealed at Last Michael Newton, Janice Knowlton · 1995
  3. Dissecting Death: Secrets of a Medical Examiner Frederick Zugibe · 2005
  4. The Annals of Unsolved Crime Edward Jay Epstein · 2012

“If you want more of the same (true crime), start with these.”

  1. Inside the Mind of BTK: The True Story Behind the Thirty-Year Hunt for the Notorious Wichita Serial Killer John E. Douglas, Johnny Dodd · 2007
  2. Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Next Door Roy Wenzl, L. Kelly, Tim Potter, Hurst Laviana · 2007
  3. Couples Who Kill Carol Anne Davis · 2005
  4. Serial Killers: The World's Most Evil Nigel Blundell · 2010

“If it was the crime that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. The Devil: Britain's Most Feared Underworld Taxman Graham Johnson · 2007
  2. Alphabet Killer: The True Story of the Double Initial Murders Cheri Farnsworth · 2010
  3. In the Shadow of Papillon: Seven Years of Hell in Venezuela's Prison System Frank Kane, John Tilsley · 2006
  4. The Cromwell Street Murders: The Detective's Story John Bennett, Graham Gardner · 2005

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Playing With Bones Kate Ellis · 2011
  2. A Reunion to Die For Lauren Carr · 2007
  3. O.J. is Innocent and I Can Prove It William C. Dear · 2012
  4. The Zebra Murders: A Season of Killing, Racial Madness, and Civil Rights Prentice Earl Sanders, Bennett Cohen · 2006

Report a problem