The True Crime Website of
Author Gary C. King


Gary C. King



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"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
--Edmund Burke
Irish orator, philosopher, & politician (1729 - 1797)


"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
--Edgar Allan Poe


"You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth."
--H.L. Mencken


"Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority."
--Francis Bacon


"One's aim should be to concentrate and simplify, and so to expand one's being...and so to float upwards towards the divine fountain of being whose stream flows within us."
--Plotinus


"Conscience never deceives us and is the true guide of humanity. She is to the soul what instinct is to the body; whoever follows her pursues the direct path of nature and need not fear being misled."
--Jean Jacques Rousseau


"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience."--Teilhard de Chardin


"How ignorant is he who knows all but not himself."
--Validivar


Welcome to the Official Web Site of True Crime
Author Gary C. King


Classic True Crime Stories


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.


Advance praise for BUTCHER and Gary C. King:

"Using the most intimate of facts, King draws readers as far inside the mind of murderers as rational, moral people can go--the rest of the journey, thank the gods, is beyond our knowing. King's talent and faithful service does honor to the dogged truthseekers who finally bring justice for those whose lives were stolen." Noreen Ayres, author of the Smokey Brandon mystery series.

"A page-turner for true crime fans." Vincent Bugliosi, author of HELTER SKELTER and THE PROSECUTION OF GEORGE W. BUSH FOR MURDER.

"Gary C. King is one of the best true crime writers on the scene today." R. Barri Flowers, Author of THE SEX SLAVE MURDERS.

"You will never want to walk alone again after reading this book." Dr. Maurice Godwin, Criminal Psychologist and Author.

“In a serial murder case almost too ghastly to comprehend, skilled true crime researcher (and writer) Gary C. King leads the reader deep into a world of unimaginable depravity, to meet a savage killer unlike any before him, who literally fed on dozens of helpless young women—whose defiled bodies then simply…disappeared. This book will jolt you…a page-turner.” Clark Howard, author of City Blood and Love's Blood.



From the back cover:

HIS GOAL: TO KILL AN "EVEN FIFTY"
They called him "Uncle Willie." At night, Robert "Willie" Pickton visited the streets of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. The women he picked up never came back...

HIS METHODS: RAPE AND TORTURE
For years, police built a long list of missing prostitutes, women at the edge of society. Some people claimed there was a serial killer. One detective lost his job for saying so. But investigators didn't have a single body...until someone found a skull sawed in half...

THE PIG FARM MURDERS
On land that had made his family millions, on a squalid pig farm near a school, a condo development and a Starbucks, Robert Pickton ran a house of horrors for decades. Friends, neighbors and community leaders came and went, while Pickton committed debauchery, torture, and bloodletting rivaling the worst on record. What he did to his victims was unspeakable. What he did to the bodies was unimaginable. How he got away with it is the most shocking crime of all...

INCLUDES 16 PAGES OF DISTURBING PHOTOS


BUTCHER will be released on April 7, 2009 to bookstores everywhere.


I was recently interviewed on KNPR's State of Nevada radio program with Dave Berns, on 9-23-08, in 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:


Now Available: AN ALMOST PERFECT MURDER



From the back cover:

A WOMAN WITH A PASSION FOR POWER...
Kathy Marie Augustine was not out to make friends. In politics, she rose to the top by playing hardball--and pushing her way through the old boy's network of the Nevada legislature, rising to the rank of State Controller. When she died, only a few people shed tears--including the man who killed her.

A KILLER WITH FOOLPROOF PLAN...
Chaz Higgs was a former body-builder turned intensive care nurse who saw wealthy, sexy Kathy Marie Augustine as his meal-ticket--until he couldn't stomach her domineering personality any longer. When Chaz decided he'd had enough, he chose a poison that would leave no evidence behind.

MURDER HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT...
The death of a nationally-known politician made headlines, but one slip of the tongue came to the attention of a determined Nevada detective. Now, true-crime master Gary C. King takes us into the extraordinary life and death of a famously ambitious woman politician, behind the scenes of the investigation that unearthed shocking secrets, and into the heart and mind of a man who nearly got away with the perfect crime...

INCLUDES 16 PAGES OF REVEALING PHOTOS!






Perry March book:



Janet Levine March

Perry March

Now available from Pinnacle Books:
Love, Lies, and Murder

A WEALTHY WIFE.
A successful lawyer, Perry March married the beautiful daughter of one of the most powerful attorneys in Nashville. Through his wife Janet, Perry won a position in his father—in—law's firm and joined the city's social elite. The couple raised two children in a mansion that Janet, a talented artist, designed. They seemed to have the good life and more.

A HUSBAND'S BETRAYAL.
But in 1996, when Janet vanished, police dug into Perry's past, turning up strange stories of sexual obsession, unfaithfulness, and vicious arguments with Janet. When they suspected that one of those fights ended in murder, Perry skipped town with his children.

A FATHER'S VOW FOR JUSTICE.
Janet's father would not let Perry escape so easily. He and his agents pursued the murder suspect to Chicago, and then to Mexico, where Perry opened a new practice and remarried. Still, ten years would pass before the desperate fugitive became trapped in his own web of deceit and betrayal.

Includes 16 Pages Of Revealing Photos!


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.

Again, many thanks to all of you for visiting. This site will change occasionally, so please visit again!




True Crime Books by Gary C. King

Butcher
HIS GOAL: TO KILL AN "EVEN FIFTY" They called him "Uncle Willie." At night, Robert "Willie" Pickton visited the streets of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. The women he picked up never came back...
An Almost Perfect Murder
The true story of the murder of Nevada state controller Kathy Augustine by her husband, critical care nurse Chaz Higgs.
Love, Lies, and Murder
The true story of an affluent couple who seemed to have it all--great careers, wonderful children, and a beautiful home--until a moment of anger turned to rage and murder.
STOLEN IN THE NIGHT: The True Story of a Family's Murder, a Kidnapping, and the Child Who Survived
This is a true story that details the Shasta and Dylan Groene case perpetrated by Joseph Edward Duncan III.
Blind Rage
"Gut-wrenching and gripping...Solid, absorbing true crime."--Clark Howard, author of LOVE'S BLOOD
Driven to Kill
"The first complete book about Westley Allan Dodd's short but destructive career...a thorough, thoughtful, and unforgettable account of a profoundly disturbing case of pedophilia and murder." --Inside Detective magazine. "Horrific...this story will leave you gasping."--Jack Olsen, bestselling author of Salt of the Earth and Hastened to the Grave.
Blood Lust: Portrait of a Serial Sex Killer
"Effective account of the worst serial killer in Oregon's history." --Publishers Weekly. "Writer Gary C. King knows the dark side of the Pacific Northwest as well as anybody...an unflinching account of one of the most vicious reigns of terror by one of the sickest psychopathds in the annals of crime."--Official Detective magazine.
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