Shadows of the Sunshine State: Florida's True Crime, Notorious Killers & the Dark History No One Talks About (The Sunshine State Series)($14.99Value)

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Florida is the most visited state in America. Tens of millions of tourists pass through it every year chasing sunshine, beaches, and the promise of paradise. Theme parks. Retirement dreams. Fresh starts. Florida has always been in the business of selling its future, and it has always been very good at it. They don't talk about the rest. Shadows of the Sunshine State pulls back the curtain on the darker history that Florida's tourist brochures leave out. Told with the depth, detail, and urgency of the best narrative nonfiction. Inside these pages: The serial killers who used Florida's vast geography and transient population as a hunting ground. Ted Bundy's final killing spree, Danny Rolling's four-day reign of terror in Gainesville, and Aileen Wuornos on the highways of central Florida - The cocaine war that turned Miami into the most dangerous city in America — the Dadeland Mall massacre, the rise of Griselda Blanco, and the drug money that built a skyline - The racial massacres that burned entire Black communities to the ground — Ocoee, Rosewood, and the Groveland Four — and vanished from the history books for decades - Three catastrophic disasters and the human decisions that made them inevitable — the Great Okeechobee Hurricane, the Sunshine Skyway collapse, and the Surfside condominium implosion - The myths and obsessions Florida keeps generating — the Fountain of Youth fraud, the mysteries beneath Lake Okeechobee, and Mel Fisher's sixteen-year hunt for a sunken empire - The darkness that remains today — modern slavery in the fields of Immokalee, Jeffrey Epstein's decade-long operation and the deal that shielded him, and the Nation of Yahweh's murder cult operating in plain sight in Miami Every story in this book is true. Every quote is documented. Every name is real. This is Florida's other story. And it has been waiting too long to be told. From the author of Hidden Gems of Florida and Vanished in the Sunshine State.