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Ballad of the Whiskey Robber is lesser known, but a fun, brisk read. It doesn't reach the level of HS or ICB, and it's about a more amusing case, not murders. The central criminal is just too likeable to not root for, he was a pelt smuggler before he was a robbery. The writing is above average for true crime.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attila_Ambrus

https://www.amazon.com/Ballad-Whiskey-Robber-Transylvanian-Moonlighting/dp/0316010731

While the City Slept was one of my favorites.

https://www.amazon.com/While-City-Slept-Violence-Descent/dp/0670015717

Ann Rule was a police officer before she started writing true crime books and magazine articles.

I've read and enjoyed The Stranger Beside Me, Green River Running Red, and Dead By Sunset.

Deadly Innocence by Scott Burnside and Alan Cairns, about Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka.

https://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Innocence-Scott-Burnside/dp/0446601543

I just finished The Pretty Girl Killer, next up is American Predator, no, it's not about your current president.

It's a wild story and ultimately, Michael Madsen (aka Mr. Blonde) helped my movie get distribution and in front of the audience. It's available here - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07R6YJ1RP

Our Little Secret about Melanie Paquette?

Second for "The Iceman"!

Some sources/ more reading:

The case is schlocked forever in Kenneth Anger’s Hollywood Babylon

General wiki article about Dekker.

Wiki link about his fiancé.

Schlocked forever over at find a death

A wiki link to Thomas Noguchi

A good youtube channel called Scary Mysteries featured the case.

Albert Dekker has his eye on you...

The Search for the Green River Killer. (These crimes took place very near where I live. You almost cannot go anywhere in the area and not be near to one of the dumpsites that the killer used for his victims). The book was written before Gary Ridgway was caught, but newer versions of the book now include that information. The book goes into great detail about how, when, why, what and where the murders took place.

A few really interesting (but not super well-known) ones:

The Darkest Night - This one haunted me, and I don't know why it's not more well-known. I think it's beautifully and thoughtfully written, especially for the true crime genre. Also, Ron Francsell has a personal connection to the case and lends a lot of pathos to it.

The Yoga Store Murder - Crazy case and a quick read. Don't google anything about it if you do decide to read it.

Delivered from Evil: True Stories of Ordinary People Who Faced Monstrous Mass Killers and Survived - Another one by Ron Franscell. This examines several mass shooting events (Charles Whitman, Mark O. Barton, The McDonald's Massacre) and the effect it had on surviving victims. Once again, very thoughtfully done.

A few classics I always recommend are The Only Living Witness or The Stranger beside me (both about Bundy), The Night Stalker by Philip Carlo, and In Cold Blood.

I just finished the book yesterday and it was so fascinating and well written. About a young woman who was part of the family for two years but not involved with the murders. Highly recommended!
Member of the Family: My Story of Charles Manson, Life Inside His Cult, and the Darkness That Ended the Sixties https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062695576/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_WY.KBbGTY2CH5

Tommy Lynn Sells hands down. As a drifter with no real 'area of operation' he strikes me as the most frightening. Read https://www.amazon.com/Through-Window-Terrifying-Cross-Country-Killer/dp/0312985258

The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy https://www.amazon.com/dp/0385496850/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_PiBXCbHD0132B

Ok. So not exactly crime in the sense you may be thinking , but this was a really interesting book.

It explains the fire , the reason so many were killed , how they treated those injured , the investigation

All very interesting things in the same vein as a lot of crime books.

I read Precious Angels by Barbara Davis when it was first published and the author claimed she was guilty -- she's since changed her mind and that's very unusual. I've also read a lot of transcripts and articles -- this is one of the best I've read -- and online discussions about the case, which seems to generate a lot of hostility on both sides, especially on Reddit. One thing that really bothers me is that Darin was planning a scam break-in so that he could file an insurance claim and the way everything happened, I can't help thinking his scam and the murders are connected in some way.

[T. Cullen Davis] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._Cullen_Davis) is a Texas multi-millionaire who was acquitted in a double murder of his stepdaughter and his wife's (from whom he was then separated) boyfriend in 1976. At this time, I believe he was the richest person ever to be tried for murder in the U.S.

Essentially, the defense was "his wife was a tramp," but that was all that was necessary in Texas in 1976 if you were rich and your defense attorney was the (in)famous [Richard "Racehorse" Haynes] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Haynes_(lawyer)). [Also here] (https://www.dallasnews.com/obituaries/obituaries/2017/04/28/richard-racehorse-haynes-whose-high-profile-clients-included-oil-millionaire-cullen-davis-dies-90).

Hayes was then charged with hiring a hitman to kill his wife and the judge overseeing the ongoing divorce proceeding. Hayes is on tape discussing the murder of his wife with an undercover agent (whom, if I remember correctly, was an FBI agent).

There was a technicality involving whether Hayes actually solicited the killing, but in the initial defense Hayes' attorneys claimed that Hayes had himself been solicited by the government to set up the hitman.

I read a book titled [Blood Will Tell: The Murder Trials of T. Cullen Davis] (https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Will-Tell-Murder-Trials/dp/0151699615) after meeting Racehorse Haynes on New Years Day 1981. Another story for another day.

I discovered this case when researching the Be-Lo murders in North Carolina. Both cases had their victims’ bodies stacked on top of each other and shot. The Austin Yogurt Shop murders occurred two years prior leaving the possibility that the murders or others could be connected to a yet to be caught serial killer. Why did so many confess to this crime? Do you think only one person was able to commit the crime or were multiple suspects involved?

Sources: “Scene of the Crime” Jordan Smith, The Austin Chronicle. 2011. https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2011-12-16/scene-of-the-crime/

“Cold Case: Austin’s Brutal Yogurt Shop Murders Remain Unsolved” Nerissa Knight, 2016.
https://crimewatchdaily.com/2016/10/17/cold-case-austins-brutal-yogurt-shop-murders-remain-unsolved/

“Who Killed These Girls? Cold Case: The Austin Yogurt Shop Murders” Beverly Lowry. 2016. https://www.amazon.com/Who-Killed-These-Girls-Murders/dp/0307594114

“Getting Away With Murder” Absolute Crime. 2017. http://www.absolutecrime.com/getting-away-with-murder.html#.Wff3VGhSxPY