{"product_id":"9781504048040","title":"Four Shocking True Crime Tales: Body Dump, Flesh Collectors, Lobster Boy, and Deacon of Death","description":"\u003cb\u003eFour bizarre true crime stories about serial killers, murder sprees, sideshows, and church pulpits in one sensational volume.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e These grizzly true crime books by a former \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ecolumnist chronicle four shocking and disturbing cases.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBody Dump\u003c\/i\u003e: Few people in Poughkeepsie, New York, paid mind when prostitutes started vanishing off the streets. Nor did anyone have hard evidence to link the disappearances to suspect Kendall Francois, a slovenly middle school hall monitor nicknamed Stinky. Then, one woman escaped his house of horrors and led authorities to the ghastly secrets hidden in Francois’s attic.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlesh Collectors\u003c\/i\u003e: When social misfit Jeremiah Rodgers and racist devil-worshipper Jonathan Lawrence met in a Florida penal system mental hospital, they discovered a mutual lust for sadism. Then, they were released. What followed was a thrill-killing spree of murder, rape, and cannibalism—the makings of an “unforgettable . . . true crime classic” (Dan Zupansky, host of Blog Talk Radio’s \u003ci\u003eTrue Murder\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLobster Boy\u003c\/i\u003e: With his lobster-claw hands and stunted legs, Grady Stiles Jr. traveled the carnival circuit as Lobster Boy. He was also a violently dangerous husband and father who had been convicted once before of murder. After years of abuse, his wife—a sideshow wonder known as the Electrified Girl—fought back with a murder-for-hire.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeacon of Death\u003c\/i\u003e: By day, Sam Smithers, deacon of the Baptist church in Plant City, Florida, was a family man beyond reproach. By night, he was a sex-addicted killer who trolled for prostitutes. When the decomposed bodies of two women were found off a rural road in Tampa, no one suspected the clergyman. Then one day, a local woman saw sweet Mr. Smithers cleaning his bloody axe.","brand":"Open Road Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47136981713136,"sku":"9781504048040","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781504048040_p0.jpg?v=1769897537","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781504048040","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}