They were the owners of funeral home—and organ harvesters. An unsettling look at the Sconce family from the acclaimed true crime author of Deadly Lessons.  For sixty years, families in Southern California trusted the Sconce-owned Lamb Funeral Home with their loved ones' remains. That trust was betrayed in an extraordinary, horrifying fashion, as it was discovered that the family, seeing an opportunity, had been stealing gold fillings and harvesting the organs of the newly deceased, hiding the evidence by burning the bodies in their crematorium. When the shocking acts came to light, a trial brought every gruesome detail to the forefront, and Ken Englade has—with even-handed, clear-eyed reporting—chronicled every chilling detail.

This true crime biography reveals the disturbing story of a serial killer who terrorized central Michigan—and now has a chance to go free. As a former youth pastor who attended the Michigan State University School of Criminal Justice, Don Miller seemed like a decent young man. But in 1978, he was arrested for the attempted murder of two teenagers. Police soon connected Miller to the disappearances of four women. In exchange for a controversial plea bargain, he led police to the missing women's bodies. Now, thanks to the deal he was offered and changes to Michigan law, Miller is allowed to seek parole once a year. In Killing Women, author Rodney Sadler examines the crimes, the "justice" meted out, and the possibility that Miller could be unleashed on the world once again.

Medicare is a maze of pitfalls, traps and consequences wrapped in strange language and acronyms. This book will guide you over, under, around or through all of the traps lying in wait for you within the Medicare maze. In a short, enjoyable 2 or 3 hour read, you will gain an education about the problems and the solutions within the care systems that many professionals struggle to comprehend. You will become a truly informed consumer, prepared to grapple with your own set of constraints as you pass the milestone of "Happy 65th!"Decisions you make at this critical time, when most new seniors are totally unprepared for the complexities ahead, will either help you or hurt you for many years to come. Many of those decisions are irrevocable. The solutions are affordable and relatively painless, for the well-informed. Read this book and find them.This is Mortimer's fourth book on Medicare, fully updated for the 2027 plan year, and with a major innovation to make it a PERENNIAL EDITION: readers get an ANNUAL 4 page pdf insert by email, updating ALL major changes in the numbers and programs from Medicare, FREE OF CHARGE!Complexity and confusion are the earmarks of this system. Words often have quite different meanings than in simple English. One small example: the word "covered". When we're told that a procedure or treatment is “covered” by Medicare, our normal English interpretation is that our costs are taken care of.This is not the case, not by a long shot. Covered, to the folks at Medicare, means that they will pay *some part* of the cost, leaving us with sometimes huge out-of-pocket expenses. And figuring out what part they will pay is far from simple.To illustrate, consider the medical bills "covered" under Part B of Medicare, for a common senior procedure, a knee replacement. Medicare will confirm that a knee replacement is all "covered" by Part B. If you merely accept that language as plain English and assume that you can have the procedure without cost, you are in for a massive set of surprises."Covered" under Part B means, at best, 80% of the costs are actually paid by Medicare. You pay a monthly premium of $202.90 in 2026 for Part B coverage. Then you pay a deductible, $283 in 2026, upon your first use of Part B benefits in the calendar year. But the biggest surprise of all is that you still have to pay 20% of ALL the Part B charges, plus additional “excess charges" if your doctor elects to bill you for more than Medicare will payWe’ll skip the math shown in the book because a more urgent matter has recently surfaced, but bottom line? You were perfectly “covered” --except for the ~$12,200 CHECK your hip-pocket insurance co. had to write!The more URGENT matter? Believe it or not, the Wizards in D.C. are working hard on a plan to AUTO-ENROLL EVERY new Medicare age-in to the *lowest bid* managed care Medicare Advantage plan available in their county, and LOCK THEM INTO IT FOR THREE YEARS! We must be joking, right? No, not by a long shot. This is how the machinery of Medicare works, quietly, behind the scenes, and then--- BANG! We’re trapped. This one is called H.R. 3467, due to take effect Jan. 1, 2028, and Chris Klomp, Medicare Director, speaking for the Trump administration, threw his full support behind the bill on March 20, 2026. Mortimer supports all of this with multiple sources in his Preface.Can you imagine the implications? Lock people into Medicare Advantage, never mind the *lowest bid* plan available, eliminate their right to choose Original Medicare, or Medicare Supplements, the current choice of almost half of Medicare users! But the pols don’t want our choices – they want *their* choice.

A true crime account and analysis of a California housewife's murder of her husband and the revealing trial that followed.In October 2002, Susan Polk, the soft-spoken mother of three teenage boys, was arrested for stabbing her husband and former therapist, Dr. Felix Polk, to death. Three years later she was tried for first degree murder, choosing to act as her own attorney in a trial that rapidly devolved into one of the most outrageous media circuses in modern history. To a crowded courtroom, Susan Polk presented her defense—a bizarre story of unethical therapies, abuse, repressed memories, and satanic rituals—and, in doing so, exposed her madness. Carol Pogash was there.Seduced by Madness is the remarkably compelling, profoundly disturbing true story of the severe dysfunction of an affluent American family, as told by the leading journalist who worked the case. It is a spellbinding re-creation of a troubled life, a marriage, a murder, and a terrifying, inexorable descent into madness.Praise for Seduced by Madness"While the background is fascinating, the coverage of the trial is mesmerizing. Pogash takes the characters . . . and creates an edge-of-your-seat excitement. For fans of true crime, psychology, courtroom drama and truth-is-stranger-than fiction, this is a triumph." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Rich, beautiful, deadly...Billionairess Susan Cummings was very rich, even by the exalted standards of Virginia horse country. Shy and single, she used just two rooms of her huge mansion and slept with a .357 Magnum under her pillow. Some people called her haughty. Others said she was strangely obsessive, eccentric, and emotionless, with a strong distrust of people.Her lover, Roberto, an Argentinian polo player with an eye for wealthy women, was undoubtedly handsome and possessive...and he was also cheating on her. But police, answering a mysterious 911 call, saw him only as a bullet-riddled corpse. Telling of escalating abuse, Susan displayed the blood running freely from knife wounds on her arm, and said she shot him in self-defense. Yet police had their doubts: claiming that Roberto had been dead so long, the pool of his blood looked like sticky red Jell-O...Now, in a harrowing true tale of secrets, obsession and betrayal, top crime writer Lisa Pulitzer reveals the uncensored truth about a privileged world where ordinary rules don't apply...where a shocking crime rattled the sprawling playground of the wealthy elite...and where money can buy almost everything...