Michael Benson

Crime And The Lifecourse

by Michael Benson

In recent years, the lifecourse perspective has become a popular theoretical orientation toward crime. Yet despite its growing importance in the field of criminology, most textbooks give it only cursory treatment....

Michael Benson's True Crime Bundle: Watch Mommy Die, A Killer's Touch & A Knife In The Heart

by Michael Benson

In The Hands Of A Sadist...

First, he bound and beat his girlfriend, a 43-year-old librarian. Then he went after her teenaged daughter-warning her, "Scream and I will kill you both"-before knocking her unconscious....

A Knife in the Heart

by Michael Benson

"Difficult to put down. . .. This is one that I highly recommend." --True Crime Book Reviews on Watch Mommy Die

Die For Love

Sarah Ludemann was new to love. The Pinellas, Florida, 17-year old was a late bloomer....

A Killer's Touch

by Michael Benson

A PRETTY YOUNG WOMAN . . .

Denise Amber Lee was a 21-year-old happily married mother of two little boys. She had her whole life ahead of her...until an intruder broke into her Florida home. Within a few short...

Watch Mommy Die

by Michael Benson

In The Hands Of A Sadist. . .

First, he bound and beat his girlfriend, a 43-year-old librarian. Then he went after her teenaged daughter--warning her, "Scream and I will kill you both"--before knocking her unconscious....

Mommy Deadliest

by Michael Benson

Case Featured On 20/20

Anti-Freeze For A Husband

It looked like a suicide. A man's corpse on the bathroom floor--next to a half-empty glass of anti-freeze. But fingerprints on the glass belonged to the deceased's...

The United Nations Conspiracy to Destroy America

by Michael Benson

Enemies On American Soil

The shocking agenda of an organization more dangerous to America than any terrorist group.

Inspired by FDR, funded by the USA, and safely sheltered on America's hallowed soil, the United...

Killer Twins

by Michael Benson

They Looked Alike. . .

Robert Bruce Spahalski and Stephen Spahalski were identical twins. Same hair, same eyes, same thirst for blood. Stephen was the first brother to kill--by viciously bashing in storeowner...

The Burn Farm

by Michael Benson

First, She Seduced Them. . .

Sheila LaBarre liked to troll the personal ads and homeless shelters, looking for men whom society had rejected for one reason or another--men she could easily dominate both verbally...