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A marriage made in hell.... Barely five feet tall, sweet and innocent looking, Charlene Gallego used all of her charms to beguile pretty teenage girls and young women into the back of a van, where her lethal husband, Gerald, lay waiting. A killer couple bound together by secrets, lies, and sex slave fantasies... Married multiple times and still in his early 30s, Gerald Gallego found the perfect companion in Charlene. Over a grisly period of twenty-six months, their bloody and brutal rampage of kidnapping, rape, and murder spanned three states and claimed 11 lives.

Spanning murder cases from the beginning of the 20th century to today, this is a must-hear for fans of true crime and will also be compelling to mystery and thriller listeners. The contributors include Harold Schechter, Katherine Ramsland, Carol Anne Davis, Burl Barer, and other leading writers in this genre. Each of the 17 contributors draws on his or her own strengths, backgrounds, interests, and research skills to describe, in a vivid narrative, not only the facts of each notorious case but also the terrible emotions and macabre circumstances surrounding the crimes.

From award winning criminologist R. Barri Flowers and the best-selling author of The Sex Slave Murders 1 & 2, Serial Killer Couples, and Murder of the Banker's Daughter comes Murder Chronicles, a gripping collection of true crime tales. Includes ten compelling stories of murder, madness, and mayhem that span nearly a century of American history and homicidal criminality that will keep you reading from beginning to end, while staying with long after.

Street Kids: The Lives of Runaway and Thrownaway Teens, Second Edition, by award-winning and best-selling criminologist R. Barri Flowers, is an audiobook that examines the pathway from home to homeless for runaways and thrownaways, including precursors to life on the street. Street Kids will be a useful source for child welfare advocates, academics, professionals, sociologists, criminologists, researchers, laypersons, and others with an interest in the plight and mistreatment of children living on the streets or away from a safe home environment.

Twenty years after a high school student's bullying driven suicide, former students at Landen Creek High are being systematically shot to death in the town of Landen Creek, Oregon. Homicide detectives Paige Lombard and Garrison Stanton investigate the crimes and search for the killers or possible serial killer. The case becomes personal for Paige as she attended the high school and knew the victims, including being once romantically involved with the first victim, Ben Huxley.

From R. Barri Flowers, award winning crime writer and international best-selling author of Dark Streets of Whitechapel and Killer in the Woods, comes a gripping new psychological thriller, Before He Kills Again: A Veronica Vasquez Thriller. FBI psychologist and criminal profiler Veronica Vasquez returns to her hometown of Portland, Oregon to assist police in apprehending a ruthless serial killer dubbed "The Rose Killer," who kills beautiful women in pairs, leaving a rose on top of each corpse.

The Wrong End of a Gun is a modern day noir mystery short by bestselling novelist R. Barri Flowers. When a man meets a beautiful blonde woman, his dream turns into a nightmare in which there may be no escape.

Trudy Clawson is a homicide detective with the police department in Night, Oregon. She is paired with FBI special agent Daryl Hatcher in pursuit of a diabolical serial killer with the moniker, “The Night Strangler”, who has raped and murdered several local women. When a second serial killer emerges targeting men, who are shot to death, Clawson and Hatcher must do double duty in their relentless pursuit of the clever unsubs.

In the wee hours of the morning on November 13, 1974, shots rang out in the upscale home at 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York, a village within the town of Babylon. The house belonged to forty-three year old Ronald DeFeo, Sr. and his forty-two year old wife, Louise, who lived there with their five children, ranging in age for nine to twenty-three. The DeFeos and four of their children were shot to death, execution style, while in bed.

Three years after her father was killed, 16-year-old Peyton Delaney; her mother, Melody; and her new stepfather, Vance McIntyre, relocate to Shadow Bay, Minnesota, and move into an old Victorian. They are unaware of the house's dark history: 50 years ago, a jealous husband snapped, murdering his wife, her lover, and 16-year-old daughter, before killing himself. But when Peyton begins to have nightmares about the crime and is haunted by a ghostly girl named Caitlyn, she begins to investigate.

In this frightening tale of dark fantasies, pornography, rape, and murder, British serial killers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley targeted children in the early 1960s - killing five and burying most of them in the Saddleworth Moor in Northern England - before being brought to justice. Included as a bonus is a complete true crime short, The Sunset Strip Killers, about serial killers Douglas Clark and Carol Mary Bundy, who targeted runaways and prostitutes in Hollywood, California in 1980 for rape, torture and murder.

On the evening of Wednesday, July 12, 1922, Los Angeles, California, was the scene of a shocking and deadly assault. The victim was an attractive 21-year-old widow named Alberta Meadows. Her death came as the result of a vicious hammer and boulder attack on a twisting dirt road at the bottom of a hill in the subdivision of Montecito Heights on the city's northeast side. 

Serial Killer Couples: Bonded by Sexual Depravity, Abduction, and Murder chronicles the true crimes of sexually motivated serial killers who are intimates. In this latest true crime book from award-winning, best-selling criminologist R. Barri Flowers, nine gripping tales examine killer couples from America, England, and Canada whose murderous reigns of terror knows no end till they were brought to justice.

In April 1912, schoolteacher Valerie McElroy and her eight-year-old sister Ruby booked passage on the RMS Titanic for a return trip to America after visiting an aunt in London, England. When the supposedly unsinkable passenger liner hits an iceberg, Valerie and Ruby find themselves apparently safe after being put on a lifeboat. But things go further awry when Valerie finds herself knocked off the crowded lifeboat and into the cold sea. 

Women’s fiction author Irene Stoddard thought she had it all with a successful husband Robert and their daughter Patty, while making a good life for themselves in Boston. But that all changed when, in the middle of Patty’s eighth birthday party, Irene caught Robert in their own bed with a sexy neighbor. In spite of feeling devastated by this betrayal, Irene chose to stay in the marriage for the sake of their daughter.

Set within the lush playground of Maui, Hawaii’s famed Kaanapali Beach Resort, this soap opera style audio tale of adultery, dark secrets, revenge, and murder revolves around the anticipated grand opening of Kaanapali Palms Hotel, the latest luxury accommodation on the island’s western shore. Multimillionaire CEO of Kaanapali Palms, Ben Crawford, is not above getting in bed with organized crime to make dream come true. A widower, his 19-year old daughter, Leigh, means everything to him. Forgotten is the child he abandoned long ago, never imagining this would come back to haunt him.

In the year 2020, graduate student and Victorian Era enthusiast Katie Judson finds herself living in 1890 London, England, and beyond, courtesy of a mysterious stairwell. There, she meets fellow American Spencer Brennan, a member of the Pennsylvania State Capitol Police Force, who is in search of his younger sister, Felicity, who has been forced into prostitution on the dark streets of Whitechapel. As they attempt to rescue her, Katie and Spencer must also grapple with their mutual passions, romance, and the mind-bending nature of time travel. 

When Dylan Malloy loses his beloved wife, Jenna, in a car accident, the grief-stricken history professor and best-selling sci-fi author suddenly finds himself thrust into time, where he tries desperately to prevent the accident from occurring. Unintended consequences put his mission, past and own future in jeopardy, along with Jenna's.

Multimillionaire real estate investor and CEO of Kaanapali Palms Ben Crawford is not above getting in bed with organized crime to make his dream come true. A widower, his 19-year old daughter, Leigh, means everything to him. Forgotten is the child he abandoned long ago, never imagining this would come back to haunt him. Leigh Crawford is gorgeous, spoiled, precocious, and primarily looking to have fun at her daddy’s new luxury hotel. After meeting super-hot Hawaiian chauffeur Masami, things get steamy in a hurry. Will they crash-land, or could there actually be a future between them?

Hey, What Is This? is an audio learning book for beginners and young listeners by best-selling children’s book author R. Barri Flowers. In a fun and educational manner, with rhymes, this first in a new children’s book series teaches kids about different things in life that are both ordinary and extraordinary.