Murder, Madness and Mayhem

Murder, Madness and Mayhem: Twenty-Five Tales of True Crime and Dark History is a compilation of compelling true crime stories from all corners of the world. Inspired by the popular Canadian podcast, Dark Poutine, host Mike Browne chronicles some of his all-time favourite dark tales that haven’t been covered on his show. While some stories will be familiar, and others more obscure, twenty-two of these stories will be all new to fans of the podcast. The book’s four sections include Murders with a Twist, Perpetual Puzzles, The Madness of Crowds and Notable Disasters. In Murder with a Twist, we learn about a man who was willing to kill to possess a human voice and two women who played a game coldly dispatching innocents in an elder care home to prove their love to one another. Perpetual Puzzles includes a story about an archaeological find of the century that turns out to be something far more sinister and a northern spree killing by two teens that sparked a multi-province manhunt in Canada in the summer of 2019. The Madness of Crowds delves into the bizarre world of murderous cults, including the story of cult leader Marshall Applewhite and his band of space travellers and a dark tale about post-war Nazis who got up to their old tricks in South America. The book concludes with Notable Disasters, which covers the devastating Boxing Day tsunami in the Indian Ocean on Boxing Day 2004, the Chilean mine disaster in 2010, and the deadly Grenfell Tower fire in London in June 2017. The book also includes a foreword by Alan R. Warren, bestselling true crime author and host of the House of Mystery Radio Show.