Steven J Davies
The Matamoros Necroplis
In the spring of 1989, an American rite of passage collided with a borderland nightmare.
When twenty-one-year-old pre-med student Mark Kilroy vanished into the neon-lit streets of Matamoros, Mexico, during a collegiate Spring Break trip, authorities dismissed it as a routine case of youthful misadventure. But Mark's disappearance was no accident. It was the catalyst for an unprecedented international manhunt that would ultimately breach the gates of Rancho Santa Elena—and expose a subterranean world of terror that shattered every conventional paradigm of criminal profiling.…
Steven J Davies
The Unlocked Door - The True Story Of The Sacramento Vampire
SIX MURDERS. THIRTY DAYS. A SYSTEM THAT FAILED EVERYONE.
In the winter of 1978, the quiet streets of Arden-Arcade, California, became the hunting ground for one of the most violent disorganised killers in American history. Richard Trenton Chase did not hide in the shadows; he walked into unlocked homes in broad daylight, driven by severe somatic delusions.
But the tragedy of the Sacramento murders began long before the first shot was fired. It began in overcrowded psychiatric wards, in paper-based firearm registries that failed to cross-reference mental health holds, and in an administrative system that turned a blind eye to a man unravelling in plain sight.…