Chet Hardin - The Vampire's Cult
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"Chet Hardin sharpens his investigative knives to penetrate a graphic and disturbing crime in America's heartland, while also unmasking a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde hellbent on ritualistic murder. The writing is crisp and the narrative moves at the speed of a locomotive." -- Casey Sherman, bestselling author of Helltown and The Killer and Frank Lloyd Wright
Left Bank Books, the Left Bank Books Foundation, and St. Louis Public Library are delighted to present journalist and St. Louisan Chet Hardin, author of The Vampire's Cult: The Untold Story of Obsession, Control, and a Shocking Small-Town Murder (2026).
Join us at St. Louis Public Library - Schlafly Branch for a presentation and book signing, free and open to the public.
RSVPs are appreciated.
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Can't make it? Preorder now to receive an autographed and personalized copy of The Vampire's Cult!
This event is possible thanks to the support of individual donations to the Left Bank Books Foundation. Donate today!
https://lbbfound.org/
The Vampire's Cult is "an engrossing story about human depravity" and the small-town murder that shocked America. When twenty-four-year-old Sydney Loofe disappeared after a Tinder date, the quiet town of Wilber, Nebraska was stunned. Days later, her dismembered body was found scattered across nearby fields--and the horrifying truth began to emerge. Sydney hadn't just met the wrong man. She had crossed paths with a deeply disturbed psychopath and his dangerous accomplice. Investigative journalist Chet Hardin exposes the twisted world of Aubrey Trail, an aging con man who presented himself as an all-powerful being, and Bailey Boswell, the woman who called herself his "queen." Through exclusive interviews, firsthand reporting, and chilling detail, Hardin unravels the making of a modern cult--and the social desperation that feeds it. In an era defined by false realities and toxic charisma, The Vampire's Cult reveals just how easily darkness can disguise itself as devotion.
"Chet Hardin was the first journalist to give me a voice. He didn't just listen to me; he understood what it means to survive something people didn't want to believe. He doesn't sensationalize it. He confronts it head-on. The result reads like a Stephen King novel, except it's all true; this is true crime." -- Toni Natalie, author of The Program: Inside the Mind of Keith Raniere and the Rise and Fall of NXIVM
Chet Hardin is an award-winning investigative journalist and the coauthor of The Program: Inside the Mind of Keith Raniere and the Rise and Fall of NXIVM.
Left Bank Books, the Left Bank Books Foundation, and St. Louis Public Library are delighted to present journalist and St. Louisan Chet Hardin, author of The Vampire's Cult: The Untold Story of Obsession, Control, and a Shocking Small-Town Murder (2026).
Join us at St. Louis Public Library - Schlafly Branch for a presentation and book signing, free and open to the public.
RSVPs are appreciated.
https://forms.gle/hNhrsaveYz1w6JCJ8
Can't make it? Preorder now to receive an autographed and personalized copy of The Vampire's Cult!
This event is possible thanks to the support of individual donations to the Left Bank Books Foundation. Donate today!
https://lbbfound.org/
The Vampire's Cult is "an engrossing story about human depravity" and the small-town murder that shocked America. When twenty-four-year-old Sydney Loofe disappeared after a Tinder date, the quiet town of Wilber, Nebraska was stunned. Days later, her dismembered body was found scattered across nearby fields--and the horrifying truth began to emerge. Sydney hadn't just met the wrong man. She had crossed paths with a deeply disturbed psychopath and his dangerous accomplice. Investigative journalist Chet Hardin exposes the twisted world of Aubrey Trail, an aging con man who presented himself as an all-powerful being, and Bailey Boswell, the woman who called herself his "queen." Through exclusive interviews, firsthand reporting, and chilling detail, Hardin unravels the making of a modern cult--and the social desperation that feeds it. In an era defined by false realities and toxic charisma, The Vampire's Cult reveals just how easily darkness can disguise itself as devotion.
"Chet Hardin was the first journalist to give me a voice. He didn't just listen to me; he understood what it means to survive something people didn't want to believe. He doesn't sensationalize it. He confronts it head-on. The result reads like a Stephen King novel, except it's all true; this is true crime." -- Toni Natalie, author of The Program: Inside the Mind of Keith Raniere and the Rise and Fall of NXIVM
Chet Hardin is an award-winning investigative journalist and the coauthor of The Program: Inside the Mind of Keith Raniere and the Rise and Fall of NXIVM.
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St. Louis Public Library - Schlafly Branch, 225 No Euclid,St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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