Sex killer William Darrell Lindsey, a frightening fiend who terrorized St. Augustine, Florida, in the late 1980s, and who admitted to seven sadistic sex slayings, but may have been responsible for as many as 20 murders.

William Darrell "Bill" Lindsey (born Armstrong; May 18, 1935 – April 17, 2001), also known as Crazy Bill, was an American serial killer who murdered six women in St. Augustine, Florida, and one in Asheville, North Carolina, between 1983 and 1996.

William Lindsay Gresham (/ ˈ ɡ r ɛ ʃ ə m /; August 20, 1909 – September 14, 1962) was an American novelist and non-fiction author particularly well-regarded among readers of noir. His best-known work is Nightmare Alley (1946), which was adapted to film in 1947 and 2021.

Nightmare Alley is a novel by American writer William Lindsay Gresham, published in 1946. It is a study of the depths of show business and its immoral inhabitants—the dark, shadowy world of a second-rate carnival filled with hustlers, scheming grifters, and Machiavellian femmes fatales.

William Lindsay Gresham (August 20, 1909 – September 14, 1962) was an American novelist and non-fiction author particularly regarded among readers of noir. His best-known work is Nightmare Alley (1946), which was adapted into a 1947 film starring Tyrone Power.

Set in the sleazy low-life world of travelling carnivals in the 1920's -- 1930's, William Lindsay Gresham's 1946 novel, "Nightmare Alley" tells the story of Stan Carlisle from his days as a carnival sleight-of-hand magician, to his rise as a mentalist …

William Wilkins (“Lindsay”) Gresham was born in Baltimore, Maryland on August 20, 1909 to Henry H. and Aline Lindsay Gresham. The oldest of two boys, Bill had one younger brother named Henry, who was called “Lindsay” and later “Hank” by family and friends.