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Author Gary C. King

Murder in Room 305 (formerly published as Web of Deceit) is now available as an eBook from your favorite bookseller!

Murder in Room 305 is now available from the Kindle store!

Kathryn Ann Martini graduated from Yale with a bright future in the banking business. Young, beautiful and ambitious, she had everything going for her. Until she met Michael...

Michael David Lissy was the sleazy proprietor of a scuba diving school and a coke addict who consorted with pimps, prostitutes and known criminals. Burned out and broke, he had nothing going for him. Then he met Kathryn...

Theirs was a match made in hell.

On July 6, 1984, the raped and mutilated body of Kathryn Martini Lissy was found in Room 305 at the Valley River Inn in Eugene, Oregon. Soon afterward, police arrested Michael David Lissy, Kathryn's husband of one year. A few months earlier, Lissy had taken out a large insurance policy on Kathryn's life, naming him as sole beneficiary. Then he hired an underworld assassin to stalk and kill his wife. After one of the most sensational trials in Eugene's history, Lissy was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Veteran true crime author Gary C. King spins a gripping real-life tale of a woman caught in a deadly web of lust and violence...a riveting story of love gone horribly, tragically wrong.

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To Die For (formerly published as Blind Rage) is now available as an eBook at your favorite eBook retailer!

To Die For is now available in the Kindle store!

MACHO MURDERER

The pretty, vivacious fourteen-year-old was walking alone to a convenience store when the handsome, long-haired, bearded stranger forced her into the sleeping compartment in the back of his semi-truck. There he violated her again and again and again, in ever more ingeniously perverted ways to recharge his sexual batteries, in a horrifying ordeal she thought would never end.

Still, she was lucky. The man let her live.

That was more than the savage Darren Dee O'Neall did for beautiful young Robin Smith, whom he first deftly separated from her fiancé, then bestially abused and killed.

Why did he do it? How did he do it? Here is the riveting true-crime story that takes you into the mind of an evil murderer, into the agony of his victims, and into the core of the massive manhunt that pulled out all stops to track down a vicious sex slayer.

This book follows the FBI's search for and capture of Darren Dee O'Neall, a serial killer whose ability to change his appearance kept him out of the reach of the authorities, and describes his violent sexual crimes.

Deadly Hunk--For women with a yen for macho men, Darren Dee O'Neall seemed the kind of guy romantic dreams were made of. Strong, handsome, smooth talking, with an array of tattoos adding to his masculine aura, he came on as a rugged outdoorsman looking for a mate. But in reality, O'Neall was a nightmare of savage, sexually violent crimes that put him on the FBI's Most Wanted list.

Here is the bone-chilling true story of the twisted killer whose masterful ability to change appearances confounded authorities again and again...and a mother's agonizing search for her missing daughter. It is the story, too, of the brilliant police work and startling psychic detection that teamed with a family's outrage to bring him to justice. But it was too late for the young woman whose dream of a hunk "to die for" became a chilling reality!

Notice to readers: This book was previously published as Blind Rage.

"A solid, absorbing true-crime book that depicts the depths of a remorseless mind." —Clark Howard, author of City Blood

Blood Lust: Portrait of a Serial Sex Killer is now available as an eBook!

Blood Lust is now available as an eBook for the Kindle!

5.0 out of 5 stars A Dance With a Deviant Killer Hidden In Plain Sight, August 25, 2011 By Kevin Edwards

This review is from: Blood Lust: Portrait of a Serial Sex Killer (Kindle Edition)

In this, the first part of the 21st century, there is little argument that the world is full of boogey men - scary beings slinking around furtively doing their nasty business. But there are few of these frightening characters that are more disturbing than the sexual serial killer. Is it the gruesome nature of their crimes that make them among the worst of violent criminals? Is it the escalation of their acts, requiring more and more violence, blood and depravity to achieve satisfaction? Or is it that they walk around with us, day to day, their sheep's clothing masking the beast beneath the fluffy, white wool?

Sexual serial killers often have dissociative states or entirely different ego states that allow them to change personalities as easily as hanging up one set of clothes and putting on another, not unlike Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. And so it was with Dayton Leroy Rogers, respected businessman from Portland, Oregon, and his bone-chilling acts of humiliation, perversion and torturous murder. Gary C. King's true crime novel, Blood Lust, is a detailed re-telling of one of America's most horrific sexual predators.

King's novel is wonderfully detailed, the words resounding in the reader's head as if they were, themselves, the case investigator, finding clues, an increasing number of victims and, finally, Rogers himself. Be prepared for the chills that will inevitably run down your spine, the shock of depraved acts beyond understanding and the seemingly cool nature of a deviant killer hidden in plain sight.

5.0 out of 5 stars A truly magnificent read, 13 July 1999
By A Customer

This review is from: Blood Lust: Portrait of a Serial Sex Killer (Onyx) (Paperback--also now available for most eReaders, including Kindle)

Gary C King has certainly done wonders in writing the account of Dayton Leroy Rogers. Horrifying as some of the scenes are, you are taken much deeper than that. You get an insight into what it is like to be investigating such horrific crimes and yet you are still able to remain focused into the lives of the people involved. He has managed to take you there to envisage the most gruesome and sadistic acts of violence ever heard of and yet still remains to the point. A truly magnificent read.

Driven to Kill is now available as an eBook at your favorite eBook retailer!

Driven to Kill is now available in the Kindle store!

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DIVORCE IS VIOLENT
Darren Mack had it all. A beautiful home in Reno. A lovely wife. Three children. And a million-dollar business. Then his wife Charla filed for divorce, winning a large settlement in a heated courtroom battle. According to friends, Mack was "angry." They had no idea how far his fury would take him...

REVENGE IS BLOODY
Over the next year, the rage only intensified. Finally, Darren Mack snapped, stabbing and killing his ex-wife in his condo. Hours later, he stalked and shot their divorce judge in broad daylight. Before the blood had even cooled and law enforcement could react, he fled to Mexico, eluding police hot on his trail.

JUSTICE IS FINAL
The case made headlines nationwide, propelled by lurid details of Mack's wild "swinger" lifestyle, the shocking discovery of explosives in his apartment, and the chillingly prophetic remark made by his wife: "Someday he's going to kill me..." Catching him was the hardest part...

Interview

December 6, 2008--Outlawradio.com interview with Burl Barer and Don Woldman where I discussed my latest book, BUTCHER, as well as AN ALMOST PERFECT MURDER, BLOOD LUST, DRIVEN TO KILL and several of my other titles.

Interview on KNPR's State of Nevada radio program with Dave Berns, on 9-23-08, on which I discussed AN ALMOST PERFECT MURDER. Below are links to either listen to the interview or to download it as an mp3 file, for those who are interested:

Those of you who are familiar with my other true crime works will recall that I am the author of Blood Lust, Driven to Kill, Web of Deceit, Blind Rage, Savage Vengeance (with Don Lasseter as co-author), Im Schatten (the German language translation of Blood Lust), An Early Grave, The Texas 7, Murder in Hollywood, and Angels of Death. The focus of this site is primarily on true crime and my own books in that genre, some of which provide accounts of the most heinous true crime incidents of murder and serial murder committed in recent history.

To inquire about rights such as motion picture, television, foreign translation, book clubs, and so forth, for my books please contact PMA Literary and Film Management at 212-929-1222, or e-mail them via the link on the right side of this page.

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