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"The Sunday School Killer" headlines an anthology of True Crime stories where seemingly sweet women transform into cold-blood killers when a hefty insurance settlement is offered upon the death of their husband. If the circumstances regarding Brenda Evers Andrew's murder of her husband was made into a movie, it would strain the credulity of the viewing audience. Sunday school teacher Brenda got together with another church member want to acquire an $800,000 life insurance policy. All they had to do was murder Robert Andrew, Brenda's ex-husband. Brenda had tired of being the good girl going to church every Sunday. She wanted the good life. Her lover, James Pavatt, was a man deep in debt. Together, they were the answer to each other's problems both physically and financially if only they could get rid of the one man standing in their way. No Bible passages or other church teachings would stop them. If they were going to hell, they were going to do it in style.

Margaret is desperate to escape her sadistic mother and step-brother so she sees a chance for a new life in the form of a mail-order bride catalog. She finds correspondence with a playboy turned ranch hand named Kenneth who must work and gain a wife in order to gain his inheritance. Margaret finds herself instantly attracted to Kenneth but worries that he sees her only as a business transaction. Will the two be able to develop the love that they both so desperately want behind their facades?

A discussion of different satanic cults that have appeared across North America in the last thirty years; The Cult of Santa Muerta, The Death Cult of Mexico and others.

Janey is a young Amish woman hoping for a miracle. Unlucky in love, she doesn't want to spend another Christmas without a boyfriend. With the holidays just around the corner, she begins to dread the get-togethers that she will feel obligated to attend. Her only possible mate is Jacob but he is more like a friend to her. Or could he be more? Will this be the year she finds her Christmas miracle?

Harriet lived in a little lodging home on the outskirts of town. Beside it lay the commercial fishing docks where men made it a goal to start shouting at one another as early as four in the morning - sometimes even three. Harriet used these shouts as an alarm. For a little while, she laid in bed and blinked into the darkness. She was mentally preparing herself for the day to come by rehearsing her lessons and reminding herself of everything that needed to be completed by the day's end. When she was done thinking about these things, she finally rose to her feet and stretched away the sleep that still lingered in her bones. The moonlight provided enough illumination for her to find her matchbox and start the fire. Soon, the room was cozy with its warmth. She stood there a warm, palms toward the rich source of heat. "Ah," she sighed with a contented smile. As far as she was concerned there was nothing that could make her life any better. She loved her line of work. No one bothered her at the lodge. Everything was perfect. But still something was missing..

Excitement filled the air in Alma, Arkansas on the night of June 9, 1995. A crowd of nearly three hundred surrounded the baseball pitch to watch a little league game on a warm summer night. Cheering could be heard echoing around the town, reaching far from the stadium. In what appeared to be a perfect summer's evening, spirits were high, with adults chatting jovially and children playing together, making new friends. But for one mother, the midsummer evening would become a living nightmare in an incident she would describe in an interview for Fox News as "pure childhood innocence and such evil that met in [the] same moment." Her six-year-old daughter disappeared, never to be seen or heard from again.

A True Crime anthology featuring serial killers who used the Internet to stalk their victims. This series is headlined by The Craiglist Killer, Miranda Barbour.On December 3rd, 2013, Barbour was taken into custody by Sunbury, Pennsylvania police and charged with the murder of Troy LaFerrara, whom she had previously met through a Craigslist ad. Shortly afterward, she professed to have been a member of a satanic cult and murdering at least 22 people between the years 2008 and 2013. Whether her claims of being a serial killer are to be believed or not, the details surrounding Miranda Barbour's life, arrest, and incarceration reveal a life of abuse and addiction. How did this young woman from Alaska, former classmate of Willow Palin, wind up a convicted murderer and self-professed serial killer in Pennsylvania?

AN ANTHOLOGY OF HORROR SHORT STORIESENDLESS HORRORMaria is a reporter who gets an interview with the survivor of a sorority house massacre. Six of her housemates have been murdered by a college professor wielding a machete before slicing his own throat. Then another mass killing occurs, this time a man sets off an explosive device in a hospital emergency room before turning the gun on himself. Then another killing happens, a grandmother goes crazy with a gun inside a church before killing herself. Maria interviews the survivors of these massacres and begins to realize the strange connection between all of these mass killings...HELLHOLEJoe Sullivan is framed by a biker gang and vows revenge when he is released from prison. Unable to wait, he breaks jail with the help of his girl, Pat. But the bikers kidnap Ann Martin, a stranger who sympathetically corresponded with Joe while he was in jail. As his plans to exact revenge are complicated by Ann's presence, Joe works to find a way to rescue her.DREAM KILLERCindy thought she had the perfect marriage. Dean was handsome, kind and thoughtful. A little on the quiet side but she liked that about him. They met during paramedic school, became partners, then went to nursing school together. Everything they did, they did as a team. But Dean grows weary of his stressful career as a registered nurse and begins to dabble in photography...Glamour photography to be exact. Dean decides to go away for an artist's retreat in Monterey alone. When some of his models begin disappearing, he is immediately under suspicion until his wife shows up. Cindy sensing that her husband is in trouble, is willing to do anything to keep their marriage alive. Dean, on the other hand, is willing to do anything to secure his freedom from the job and his marriage...even murder.SPOOKYPastor Adams tries to welcome everyone who comes into his church. But when a weird stranger begins to attend his services, he struggles to balance his beliefs with his gut instinct. And when is daughter goes missing, he begins a frantic search to find the strange man that he suspects of abducting her.MISS MURDERAnna and Jake are a DINK (dual income, no kids) couple. They have their entire life planned out in terms of career, where they're going to live and even where they are going to go on vacation years ahead of time. A wrench is thrown into their plans when Anna discovers that Jake has been cheated on her. A violent argument ensues and Anna accidentally kills Jake. She stuffs his body into the trunk of her car and plans to do away with his body when she is stopped by a female police office. She soon finds out, however, that the police officer knows a lot more about her and Jake than she could ever imagine...THE BUNNY MANIt is the summer before college for five teens as they head into the mountains for a camping trip. Little do they know that the isolated forest is now home to a machete wielding serial killer called the Bunny Man, who begins hunting them down one by one in this homage to 1980s slasher films.

Sometimes, crisis leads a person to do things they wouldn't normally consider, they bend the rules, and break the bow, but when these actions have the potential to change your entire life, no one knows what the future truly holds..When Mary's sister decides, against the wishes of her husband Able, to break the rules in order to save her baby, she doesn't think twice to stand up for her sister. Fearless and determined, she willingly takes on the elders, defending her sister's actions, and her own, but it comes at a price...Losing a parent is one thing, having to live with complete strangers another, but losing the man you love, is heart-breaking, especially when he sides with the elders and the senseless rules imposed on them by the church...Mary was going to marry Jacob, but now it all hung in the balance; would her determination ruin her chance of a happy life?

A anthology of both thrillers in crime and the paranormal...Jaimi has a dream that her young son will be murdered as an adult by his future girlfriend, a young woman named Fiona. Thinking that her dream is prophetic, she begins taking steps to prevent that event from happening as she discovers a local couple that plan on naming their child Fiona.

Joanna emerges as a survivor following a fatal car crash. She's lost part of her memory...and wants to keep it that way. But soon she begins to question everything. Who are these strange nurses that keep going in and out of her room. Why has no family or friends come to visit?Soon she has trouble discerning reality. It isn't until she finds a note in her hand with her daughter's handwriting. "Find me mommy, before it is too late."Struggling to keep her sanity, Joanna must find out what is really going on in order to salvage what life she has left.

Mary and Hannah are two sweetly innocent Amish sisters who have been close all of their life...until they both begin to fall for Jacob, one of the most eligible bachelors in town. Hannah has a crush on him but he seems to have eyes only for Mary...The sisters begin to grow apart as they compete for the charms of Jacob...Will they allow a prospective love interest to come in between their love for one another?

Samuel comes from a family of troublemakers. Feeling guilty over the loss of his brother, Samuel begins to push everyone in the community away...even Sarah...the woman he loves so much...She reaches out to Samuel but he furthers the separation between them as a form of punishment for the guilt he feels over his brother's death. Can Sarah help Samuel heal or will he spiral further into his depression?

Gary Hilton will not walk free again. One way or another, he is going to die in prison. If the gurney does not get him, then old age will. Currently, he sits in his cell paying penance for the deaths of four people including that of Cheryl Dunlap, whom he murdered in the Apalachicola National Forest, which lies in the north of Florida. He received the death penalty for that homicide.'He will most likely die in prison and most certainly never see the light of day again, ' the Hall County District Attorney in Georgia had said in 2008 after Hilton was convicted just a month after he killed Meredith Emerson on New Year's Day of that year. That was before he was sentenced for the killing of three other victims in a spree which lasted from the end of 2005. It is widely believed that Hilton also murdered several others, but either their bodies are yet to be found, or they were too decomposed to be tied definitively to him...How many people did Gary Hilton kill?

A lovely elderly woman named Doris Johnston accepted Jennifer Rose Trent's offer to come around on a weekly basis and clean her home. The two struck a friendship very quickly, and Jennifer started spending more and more time with Doris. The woman liked Jennifer's young son, and she would often look after him while Jennifer was running errands. Doris didn't know that Jennifer had other plans that included getting her out of the picture and stealing her identity. Unaware of Jennifer's previous misdemeanors, Doris thought she could trust her. Tragically, she was very wrong, and Doris paid the ultimate price.

Jake Perez wants revenge...The Vietnam war vet has traveled to Los Angeles to find Frank Evans. The man who got his friends killed during a prisoner of war camp escape. Evans betrayed his fellow soldiers by telling the enemy of their plans to escape. Years late, and now a respected member of the business community, Evans has enjoyed a successful life...Until his past catches up to him in the form of a vengeful Jake...Jake's girlfriend Liz follows him to LA to thwart his plans. But will her love be enough to overcome his need for revenge?

The morning of October 24, 1961, started just like any other day for the Risch family of Lincoln, Massachusetts...Martin Risch was up before dawn, preparing to leave for a business trip he'd arranged. The plan was to drive himself to Logan Airport and then catch an 8 a.m. flight to New York City, where he planned to stay the night in Manhattan. After her husband left the house, Joan Risch woke their two children and busied herself making their breakfast...Once the kids were fed, Joan took them across the street to the neighbour's house - Barbara Barker would look after her son David while she and her daughter Lillian drove the family's blue 1951 Chevrolet into Bedford, where Joan had scheduled an appointment with a dentist after hearing a glowing recommendation from Morton, a friend from college...later that day, Joan would disappear in what would be one of the strangest missing persons case in modern history.

David is looking to make things right. Catherine is looking to put her past behind her. They were once boyfriend & girlfriend, the entire Amish town was envious of their love for each other. Then a tragic mistake torn them apart. David disappointed Catherine and himself, robbing her of a wedding and a family. Filled with shame, Catherine left the Amish town only to return a year later. David had left out of shame as well. But now, three years later he has returned. Hoping for a new start, he helps out in his family's construction business. Catherine's home is now in dire need of repair. Winter is coming and unfortunately David is the only one who can help...Forced to deal with each other and the past, can Catherine forgive the man who humiliated her years ago? Can David convince her that he's a changed man?

Tom is a middle aged computer nerd that women simply ignore. Rolling the dice, he hires a Chinese shaman to cast spells on two women at his workplace to get them to fall in love with him. The spell works and he is ecstatic... until he experiences how sick and crazy his "dream" girls really are.

Jessica Lang was a bright and vivacious fifteen-year old girl who just recently began dating Roller Rink DJ Myk Bloom. But her new romance comes with a thorn in the form of a jealous ex-girlfriend named Kelly Fuller. While her friends brush off Kelly's angry obsession with Jessica as something that will pass with time, Kelly has a rage underneath the surface that no one sees. Humiliated after seeing Myk with Jessica at the roller rink, Kelly plots a brutal revenge that left the most hardened policeman with a crime scene he would never forget.

Pastor Jacob and his wife struggle to make their way in Wild West, praying nightly for a miracle to happen as his wife cannot conceive. One night, a stage coach barrels into their yard and inside is a dead man and a baby. His wife insists on keeping the baby, believing that God has delivered him to them. A few months go by and then a mysterious woman appears in town, looking for her child She's a demon, a succubus, and wants her the baby back for a sacrifice. But the pastor and his wife won't give up the child without a fight.

A collection of Mail Order Bride & Amish Romance headlined by "Fiona: The Mail Order Bride"...Wanted: A mail order bride- I am a rancher and I need a good wife, someone honest and kind, ready to work together to make a home with me and raise children in the west.The words jumped out at her from the page. Her first reaction was to forget the idea and just give Jeremy the paper, but the closer to home she got, the more she thought about the prospect. She knew that she would never love or trust a man ever again, but maybe the life on out west as a rancher's wife wouldn't be so bad. It had to be better than the factory.She knew how to take care of animals from her brief time on her uncle's farm and she certainly would prefer to spend time out in the open air with animals and plants rather than cooped up in the stuffy clothing factory for barely enough money to feed herself. She wasn't afraid of hard work.Fiona was distracted and distraught for the entire evening and barely heard her siblings' chatter about their day. Her older brother Carson had moved out and married almost two years before. The twins were already working in positions such as her own and her little brother, Jeremy had an apprenticeship in town at fifteen years of age. None of their positions paid too much but between all of them and the income her mother came up with cleaning, they managed."I'm thinking on becoming a mail order bride," she announced abruptly, drawing the eyes of everyone at the dinner table."What?" Her mother turned from the small stove that held their steaming dinner.

Paul's mistress calls him on the phone and insists that he get a divorce and marry her. She demands to see him and threatens to tell his wife if he doesn't finalize things soon. His wife is having an affair of her own but if he leaves her he will not get a penny of her fortune. Trapped with no way out, Paul sees only one solution..Murder....There is a man in the rural town of Jonesburg, burned from head to toe. He is seldom seen among the residents but when two of the local pastors are murdered back to back, the mysterious "burned man" becomes the primary suspect. Pastor Evan Givens and his wife arrive into town, inheriting the church and home from the murdered preacher. While doing some rummaging around the church, Givens finds a box of letters which detail the strange goings on in the town from years ago; tales of demon possession and cult sacrifices. Can the new pastor figure out who the burning man is before he becomes his next victim?

An anthology of True Crime...Serial killers are often caught in a span of five years because they cannot evade the justice forever. But one man managed to ruin many lives over four decades. A suspect in three murders, Robert J Gross was on a police radar many times, but they simply couldn't find any physical evidence connecting him to the crimes. The DNA technology was non-existent back then, and the forensic teams worked with what they had available. But he simply couldn't always be one step ahead of everyone and Robert J Gross had to slip up eventually.

Laura wants nothing more than to get away from her abusive husband. She's caught in a loop, if she leaves him she knows that he'll try and kill her. But when a new man enters her life, she cannot help but develop feelings for him. She wants to run away with him but will they be able to escape from her husband? Will she ever be able to outrun her past and gain redemption?

Did he kill himself? Was he murdered? Did he run off to meet a friend about whom his family knew nothing? Did he join some cult and if so, is he still a part of it? Did he die while a member of this unnamed, unknown group? Did he leave it, and has for decades been too ashamed to admit his error?Is he indeed dead, but his demise has nothing to do with his departure from an apparently loving, caring and tight knit home?His parents have no idea. Since his disappearance, they have not moved home, not even changed their telephone number or altered the locks on their doors. Because they are convinced that one day the possibility exists that there will a hesitant knock on the door and there will stand Christopher, older but still their son.Or a phone call will be received, again, that says 'Mom, I'm ready to come home, ' Each time they go shopping, or visit a friend they hold the faintest glimmer of a hope that they will return to find a strange car in the drive, and a man they hardly know but know so well sitting on the sofa, awaiting their return.Imagine thirty years of that hope, something to be dashed every day. Imagine the pain that causes, the hardship they endure.Because, nobody knows - has the faintest clue - what happened to Christopher Kerze.

When the elderly Irene passes away, Abby finds herself with the job of cleaning out her house. As she struggles with her own marriage, she comes across a box of "love notes" written by Irene over the course of her lifetime. With her curiosity getting the best of her, Abigail sits and reads every one, transporting herself into Irene's past life where she struggled with fear, faith and romance.

As Bobby lifted his 'gooney stick' axe handle above his head and swung it down with brute force for the third time, he licked his lips as the weapon smashed again into the limp head of his train boxcar companion. He savoured the moment as he watched the frantic eyes of his victim stammer to a halt and slowly drain of life. Bobby had become exceptionally good at taking lives - the lives of those who would not be missed. This is the true story of an extremely brutal and extraordinary serial killer who plagued the United States' busy freight train tracks for some fifteen years. Over the decade and a half between 1981 and 1996, Robert Joseph Silveria Junior's horrific and truly terrifying killing spree led him to ultimately take the lives of some 28 fellow travellers until being finally apprehended.

Rebecca Yoder returns to her family's Amish community when her grandmother dies. Forced to tie up loose ends because of her estrangement from her mother, she finds a box of diaries kept by her grandmother. Inside, the discovers the secrets of why her mother left the Amish community and seeks out the father she never knew written inside these diary pages. But will he welcome her back into his life?

A young Amish woman's father is the bishop in the community and he is preparing to shun her love interest. The young man defies the bishop and wants to leave the Amish community on his own accord. Will she follow his lead or risk being shunned by her father forever? Jessa Troyer was devastated. Her father was the bishop of their small community and today he had made the hardest decision of his life."No," her father, Lee Troyer, said sternly. "I have made my decision and it's final."Jessa didn't care that her Papa had made a hard decision, because it wasn't his future that was going to be affected; it was hers. Jessa stormed out of the house, knowing that any further argument would be foolish. She made the short trek to the barn not far away, which is where she would go to think and verbally process any troubles she might have with her horse.I can't believe Papa! She thought to herself. He always talks of including more technology to help the farmers make a living, but when someone he doesn't like brings something new...