Books published by Pedialaw Publishing

What is the price of passion? Who knows the power of love?Meet Martha Beck, a young nurse dedicated to healing others until her own hurting heart lured her down a darker parth. Loneliness led her to Raymond Fernandez, but love led her all the way to the electric chair.This is the tragic true story of the Lonely Hearts Killers.

Two families mysteriously murdered under similar circumstances, just a month apart.  One was memorialized in Truman Capote''s classic true crime novel, In Cold Blood. The other was all but forgotten.  Dick Hickock and Perry Smith confessed to the first: the November 15, 1959 murder of the Clutter family of four in Holcomb, Kansas.  Despite remarkable similarities between the two crimes, Hickock and Smith denied committing the second: the December 19 murder of the Walker family of four in Osprey, Florida.Over half a century later, a determined Florida detective undertakes exceptional efforts seeking to bring closure to the long-cold case.   

He was the friendly, baby-faced, Canadian boy next door.  He came from a loving, caring, and well-respected family.  Blessed with good looks and back-woods charm, he was popular with his peers and he excelled in sports.  A self-proclaimed "die hard" Calgary Flames fan, he played competitive junior hockey and competed on his school''s snowboarding team.  And he enjoyed the typical simple pleasures of a boy growing up in the country: camping, hunting, and fishing with family and friends. But he also enjoyed brutally murdering women, and he became one of the youngest serial killers in Canadian history.  

This is the frightening story that inspired the movie, "Scream"...Ambitious, attractive, and full of potential, five young college students prepared for a new semester.  They dreamed of pursuing careers and starting their own families. They had a lifetime of experiences in front of them.  But death came without warning in the dark of the night.  Brutally ending five promising lives, leaving behind three gruesome crime scenes, the Gainesville Ripper terrorized the University of Florida and surrounding area, casting an ominous shadow across a terrified college town.  And the five Gainesville murders were not his first.  What evil lurked inside him?  What demons drove him to kill? What made him A Monster of All Time? 

John Crutchley seemed to be living the American Dream.  Good-looking and blessed with a genius level IQ, he had a prestigious, white-collar job at a prominent government defense contractor, where he held top secret security clearance and handled projects for NASA and the Pentagon.  To all outward appearances, he was a hard-working, successful family man with a lavish new house, a devoted wife, and a healthy young son.But Crutchley concealed a hidden side of his personality, a dark secret tied to a hunger for blood the overriding need to kill.  As one of the most prolific serial killers in American history, Crutchley committed at least twelve murders, and possibly nearly three dozen.  His IQ eclipsed that of Ted Bundy, and his body count may have as well. While he stalked the streets hunting his unsuspecting victims, the residents of a quiet Florida town slept soundly, oblivious to the dark creature in their midst . . . unaware of the vampire next door.