Jack Olsen

In the dark hours before dawn, in two separate locations miles apart, two grizzly bears attacked two young women sleeping at backcountry campsites.

On the night of June 19,1982 in suburban Houston, respected attorney James Campbell and his wife Virginia were shot to death in their luxurious home. The scene showed no signs of struggle or forced entry.

Predator is a true crime account of Edward Lee King, a serial rapist whose crimes spanned more than a decade across Washington State, as well as the related wrongful rape conviction of Steve Titus.

For more than two years, a rapist prowled the night streets of the homey, All-American city of Spokane, Washington, terrorizing women, sparking a run on gun stores, and finally causing one newspaper to offer a reward—the calls taken by the distinguished managing editor himself, Gordon Coe.

George Russell Jr. had a gift. He could walk into any room, any bar, any party, any crowd, and within minutes everyone knew his name. Women were drawn to him. Men wanted to be around him.

For twenty-five years, the trusted family doctor in a small Wyoming town had been raping and molesting the women and children who most relied on him....

A full account of the most heinous crime of the century in which nearly 30 young boys were sexually tortured to death....

Prize-winning journalist Jack Olsen, armed with unprecedented access to one of the most infamous serial killers in American history, provides a fascinating glimpse into the mind of a murderer in the killer's own words....

Salt of the Earth is a remarkable saga of indomitability, an inspiring and cathartic elegy to the increasing numbers of Americans whose lives are transformed by violence.

In The Climb up to Hell, acclaimed journalist and Edgar award winning author Jack Olsen delivers a gripping account of one of the most dangerous mountain climbs in history, a perilous 1957 assault on the Eiger’s infamous North Face in the Swiss Alps, where courage, tragedy, and endurance collide.

An account of the crimes of Arthur Shawcross describes how the paroled child killer shot, stabbed, suffocated, and strangled 16 Rochester, New York, prostitutes....

On January 5, 1981, Idaho game wardens Bill Pogue and Conley Elms rode into the remote Owyhee Desert to check a report of poaching at Claude Dallas's trapping camp. They never rode out.

On the night of July 18, 1969, a black Oldsmobile plunged off a narrow one-lane bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts. By morning, the car had been found submerged in the water below.

In June 1994 the Oakland Tribune cracked the story of a string of bizarre deaths in the San Francisco area....

Jack Olsen’s blunt depiction of the shameful treatment of black athletes in the 1960’s. A view of the sport most Americans refused to see during a time of complacency and pervasive racial crisis in America.

The Pitcher's Kid covers the first eighteen years of the life that would produce one of America's greatest journalists. It begins in Depression-era New Jersey, in a family held together by a mother's quiet resilience and perpetually undermined by a father's chaos.

It is the extermination of the coyote—a shrewd, wily, solitary scavenger—that serves as the central theme of Jack Olsen's ragingly indignant, beautifully written and deeply moving book, perhaps the most gripping and important work of its kind since the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.

Monte Sole. Mountain of the Sun. A 2,000-foot peak in the Apennines, fifteen miles south of Bologna, where tenant farmers tended their fields, priests served their parishes, and families had lived for generations. On the morning of September 29, 1944, the SS came.