Father and daughter, Cylin and John Busby, share their memories of the challenges they faced after their family was forced to go into hiding in order to protect themselves from a killer who had already shot John, a police officer, once and was determined to finish the job.

In the summer of 1998, just days after her divorce was final, author Theresa James' ex-husband, John, broke into her home and murdered their three children before killing himself. James didn't share her tragic story for almost twenty years. Now, as a means to inspire and encourage others, she offers insight into that life-altering event. Healing Tears narrates her story, beginning with meeting John in 1990, the joys and challenges of their life together,...

"The untold story of the women killed by Jack the Ripper--and a gripping portrait of Victorian London--[this book] changes the narrative of these murders forever. Polly, Annie, Elisabeth, Catherine, and Mary Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from some of London's wealthiest and poorest neighborhoods, from the factory towns of middle England, and from Wales and Sweden. They wrote ballads, ran coffeehouses, lived on...

The mother of homicide victim Laci Peterson discusses Laci's life, the crime that took the lives of her daughter and her unborn grandson, the trial and conviction of Laci's husband Scott, and the impact of the tragedy on her family.

"'He promised to kill me when he got out. I believed him. If I wanted to survive, I had to fight both him and the legal system... and maybe kill him first.' This is not a manufactured dialogue from a thriller but the words of attorney Sharon Muse. They came after she survived an attempted kidnapping, rape, and murder at the hands of Larry Morrison, a former client. On April 7, 2006, Muse miraculously escaped from the sociopathic Morrison, only to...

"A respected retired criminologist picks up a pistol and shoots his wife five times as she rocks on her plantation home's gallery." The wife "miraculously survived" and gives this account.

Sarah Brady tells her life story, describing her childhood in Virginia, the day her husband nearly died in the assassination attempt on President Reagan, her work on the Brady Bill, and her fight with lung cancer.