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by Sean Scott Hicks (Author)Goodfellas meets the Irish mob in The Devil to Pay, the incredible true story of one man's unconventional upbringing in the criminal gangs of Boston and his eventual road to redemption.Growing up in South Boston, Sean Scott Hicks was running jobs for the Irish mob before his voice changed. Mistreated by his drug-addled mother, Hicks found sanctuary with his adoptive family of felonious uncles--known to law enforcement officials as the Winter Hill Gang. These crooks knew where all the bodies were buried--because they'd done the burying--but they also looked out for young Sean. Even the notorious gangster known worldwide as Whitey Bulger was simply "Uncle Jim" to...
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by Ken Widner (Author), Mike Lynch (Author)When Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin boldly escaped from Alcatraz prison on June 11, 1962, it is widely believed that they succumbed to the waters of San Francisco Bay. In this reexamination of the escape and its aftermath, the authors make a strong case for the Anglin brothers' survival. This book provides a plausible outcome to one of America's enduring mysteries.Author BiographyKen Widner grew up hearing stories about his famous uncles from his mother and family. In 2015, he participated in The History Channel documentary, Alcatraz: Search for the Truth, in which he shared previously unknown stories and photos. He also becam...
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by Glenn Kenny (Author)The behind-the-scenes story of the iconic film, featuring new interviews with the cast and crew.An unflinching confrontation of humanity's dark side, Brian De Palma's crime drama film Scarface gave rise to a cultural revolution upon its release in 1983. Its impact was unprecedented, making globe-spanning waves as a defining portrait of the gritty Miami street life. From Al Pacino's masterful characterization of Tony Montana to the iconic "Say hello to my little friend," Scarface maintains its reputation as an unwavering game changer in cult classic cinema.With brand-new interviews and untold stories of the film's production, longtime film critic Glenn Kenny takes us...
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by Michael Finkel (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the world's most prolific art thief, Stéphane Breitwieser. - "The Art Thief, like its title character, has confidence, élan, and a great sense of timing."--The New Yorker A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Lit Hub "Enthralling." --The Wall Street Journal In this spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, the best-selling author of The Stranger in the Woods brings us into Breitwieser's strange world--unlike most thieves, he never stole for money, keeping all his treasures in a single room where he could adm...
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by Jonathan Rosen (Author)Named a Top 10 Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Slate, and People One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2023 "Brave and nuanced . . . an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph." --The New York Times "Immensely emotional and unforgettably haunting." --The Wall Street JournalAcclaimed author Jonathan Rosen's haunting investigation of the forces that led his closest childhood friend, Michael Laudor, from the heights of brilliant promise to the forensic psychiatric hospital where he has lived since killing the woman he loved. A story about friendship, love, and the price of self-delusion, The Best Mind...
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by Tobias Buck (Author)The gripping narrative of one of the last Nazi criminal trials in Germany--that of Bruno Dey, a 93-year-old former concentration camp guard charged with aiding the murder of more than 5,000 people--and a larger exploration of Germany's reckoning with the Holocaust, from silence to memory to today's rising tide of fascism and antisemitism. Bruno Dey's trial formed part of an extraordinary series of Holocaust cases brought by German prosecutors in recent years in a belated attempt to deliver justice to the victims and reverse decades of judicial neglect. It also surfaced at a pivotal moment for Germany and its thinking about the Holocaust. The Nazi genocide continues...
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by Bernard Tribe Ackon (Author)Legal mail window is about a time that God showed Himself strong on my behalf and gave me another chance at life. I was sentenced to 15 years in the department of corrections for possession of ammunition by a convicted felon. During a police raid searching for drugs they found nothing but a box of bullets. This book outlines the perseverance, faith and everything I went thru to have this case overturned. In prison there was a window where a postal lady would come thru everyday to give out legal mail responses to the inmates that submitted motions to the state. Most of those inmates have submitted every motion possible (its called "throwing everything but the...
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by Teri Davidson (Author)David Carpenter, also known as the Trailside Killer, stalked, sexually assaulted, and murdered mostly women on hiking trails near San Francisco, California, with a few victims in Santa Cruz, California. Most of his victims were shot in the head, execution-style, while a couple of them were stabbed to death. Carpenter's reign of terror lasted from 1979 into 1981 when he was subsequently arrested, tried, and convicted of death.
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by Brian D'Ambrosio (Author)This book examines 25 chilling cases of vanishings and murders from the 1970s to present day.Author BiographyBrian D'Ambrosio is a prolific writer of nonfiction books and articles. He specializes in histories, biographies, and profiles of actors and musicians. One of his previous books for Riverbend, Warrior in the Ring, a biography of Native American world champion boxer Marvin Camel, was a finalist for the High Plains Book Award. He also wrote Shot in Montana: A History of Cinema in Montanafor Riverbend. He has written for The History Press and contributes to several newspapers and magazines. He lives in Helena, Montana.
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by Scott M. Deitche (Author)From the author of the star-reviewed Garden State Gangland comes the story of the notorious East Harlem Purple Gang, a group of freelance hitmen who flourished on the Mafia's payroll and the media's front page. Author BiographyScott M. Deitche is the author of multiple books on organized crime, including Cigar City Mafia: A Complete History of the Tampa Underworld and critically acclaimed, Garden State Gangland: The Rise of the Mob in New Jersey. He has written articles on organized crime for local and national magazines and newspapers. Scott has been featured on The Discovery Channel, The History Channel, American Heroes Channel, A&E, C-SPAN, Oxygen, as we...
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by William Elliott Hazelgrove (Author)Breaking through boundaries of class, education, and gender, Cassie Chadwick conned at least 2 million dollars, equivalent to about 60 million today, from unsuspecting bankers simply by claiming to be the illegitimate daughter and heir of steel titan, Andrew Carnegie. Author BiographyWilliam Elliott Hazelgrove has a masters in history and is the best-selling author of ten novels and five narrative nonfiction books. His most recent publications include, Sally Rand: American Sex Symbol (Lyons Press), Knox's Noble Train: The Story of a Boston Bookseller's Heroic Expedition That Saved the American Revolution (Prometheus), Al Capone and the 1933 World's Fa...
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by Roger Rodriguez (Author), John C. Kilburn (Foreword by)Since the early 1990s, Elsa Cuellar was able to operate in a way that left no trail. She would pose as a pastor, doctor, or lawyer to win the trust of her young victims. With the promise of a better life, citizenship, and education, these young girls were lured into the clutches of Cuellar's claws where they became the source of her wealth. This in itself made her money, but the true motive was to ensure these young girls got pregnant. By posing as a doctor or midwife, Cuellar would convince the young girls that having the baby at her home was the most sanitary and natural way to give birth. Unknown to the girls, the objective was ...
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by Doug Kari (Author)For true crime readers obsessed with learning the full story, get the book that Publishers Weekly calls a "stirring account," and says, "Dogged reporting and expert pacing make this a good bet for true crime fans."At daybreak on January 6, 1986, a couple on a camping trip in the Mojave Desert set out for a stroll and never returned. The local sheriff eventually discovered that Barry and Louise Berman had been murdered. As years passed and the double homicide remained unsolved, the Berman case spawned speculation and conjecture. To date there's never been an arrest in the case--let alone a conviction. This is the first book to tell the full story of the Berman murders ...
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by Jerry Hester (Author)No other investigation across his entire FBI career would ever match the level of intensity, excitement, suspense, and drama of operation "Paesan Blues"--this book is the inside look at that undercover investigation centered on an Italian mafioso and his associates in Miami and Italy. Author BiographyJerry Hester is a retired Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). He led criminal investigations into violations of federal law involving organized crime, narcotics, public corruption, and counter terrorism matters.
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by Michael Benson (Author)Today you'd call Ballantyne suburban, but back then, at the start of the summer of 1966, it was country -- just a cluster of houses, some of them shacks, on or near Ballantyne Road, in the Town of Chili, NY. And while June 25 started like any other day it would end in a nightmare. In The Devil at Genesee Junction, veteran crime writer, Michael Benson, returns to his formerly rural hometown to take on the double homicide of his friends Kathy Bernhard and George-Ann Formiciola that took place that night. The two girls were missing for a month and then found in the bushes horribly mutilated. The double homicide changed the author's childhood suddenly, and drasticall...
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by Kathleen P. Munley (Author), Paul R. Mazzoni (Author)In November 1973, William J. Wright, a former patient and trustee of the Farview State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, brutally murdered two teenage boys, Edmund Keen and Paul Freach, in Lackawanna County, a region that took great pride in not only its history, but its reputation as a friendly, family-oriented, safe place to live. It was a place where families could leave their doors unlocked, and be confident about allowing their children to play and explore outdoors. Yet all that would change in an instant. The brutal murders of these two boys forever altered the way people thought of this region and the safe neighborhoods they...
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by Jeffrey Sussman (Author)Like sharks to blood in the water, the mob arrived in Hollywood greedy and ready to tear away huge chunks of cash. Opportunistic mobsters saw labor unions as the means for muscling into the movie industry and extorting millions of dollars from studio bosses. Control the unions to which projectionists, art directors, cinematographers, electricians, scene designers, stagehands, extras belong, and you control the whole industry.Painting colorful portraits of numerous mobsters, producers, actors, and directors, Tinseltown Gangsters tells the gripping, fast-paced, true story of corruption and greed in Hollywood throughout much of the twentieth century.Author Biograp...
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by Owen Wilson (Author)This is the first book on the Wagner Group, the shadowy Russian paramilitary organisation that fought in Ukraine and staged a surprise uprising against Vladimir Putin on 23-24 June. It has been involved in conflicts in Syria, Libya, the Central African Republic, Venezuela and Mali, committing war crimes, rape, robbery of civilians, and torture. Yevgeny Prigozhin, a businessman with close links to the Kremlin, admitted in September 2022 that he "founded" the paramilitary group. Owen Wilson investigates its history and who is really behind the group as it clearly isn't Vladimir Putin.Author BiographyOwen Wilson started his writing career at the FINANCIAL TIMES and the...
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by Jos? Reveles (Author)En México, la violencia se ha convertido en un fin en sí mismo. En los últimos 18 años nuestro país pasó de horrorizarse ante la guerra a administrar la vida y la muerte. Se ha consentido que el Estado catalogue a personas y a poblaciones como "desechables y superfluas" y fomente así su destrucción material. De esta forma, México ha entrado en un estado de necropolítica, que ha conseguido transformar a sus habitantes en una mercancía intercambiable o desechable, según dicten los mercados políticos y financieros. En esta obra, a caballo entre el periodismo y el ensayo sociopolítico, José Reveles --uno de los decanos del periodismo nacional-- nos muestra la ruta q...
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by Michael A. Ross (Author)Winner of the Kemper and Leila Williams Prize of the Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana Historical Association. Winner of the New Orleans Public Library Foundation Choice Award for Non-Fiction. In June 1870, the residents of the city of New Orleans were already on edge when two African American women kidnapped seventeen-month-old Mollie Digby from in front of her New Orleans home. It was the height of Radical Reconstruction, and the old racial order had been turned upside down: black men now voted, held office, sat on juries, and served as policemen. Nervous white residents, certain that the end of slavery and resulting "Africanization" of the cit...
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by Dean Jobb (Author)Catch Me If You Can meets The Great Gatsby meets Cary Grant in To Catch a Thief in this captivating Jazz Age true-crime caper about "the greatest jewel thief who ever lived" (Life Magazine), Arthur Barry, who charmed celebrities and millionaires--everyone from Rockefellers to members of the royal family--while simultaneously planning and executing the most audacious and lucrative heists of the 1920s. "A master of narrative nonfiction. In this mesmerizing tale about a Jazz Age gentlemanly thief, Jobb has found his own perfect jewel." ―DAVID GRANN, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Wager and Killers of the Flower Moon "An enthrallingly propulsive, unpredict...
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by Howard Blum (Author)The definitive, inside story of the Idaho murders from bestselling author Howard Blum, whose groundbreaking coverage of the story was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.Timed for a trial that will capture national attention, When the Night Comes Falling examines the mysterious murders of the four University of Idaho students. Having covered this case from its start, Edgar award winning investigative reporter Howard Blum takes readers behind the scenes of the police manhunt that eventually led to suspected killer, Bryan Christopher Kohberger, and uncovered larger, lurid questions within this unthinkable tragedy.Reminiscent of the panoramic portraiture of In Cold Blood an...
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by Jane Flowers (Author)In this riveting retelling, Jane Flowers, the daughter of Dr. T.C. Boring, bravely challenges the defamatory false portrayals of her father's life and unsolved murder as depicted in William Stephenson's essay 'Perfectly Boring' that was published in Oxford American Magazine.Armed with intimate knowledge and a quest for truth, Jane unravels the fabrications surrounding her father's legacy, while shedding light on a man beyond the uniform - a respected U.S. Navy Veteran Dentist, a loving father, and a victim of an unsolved murder.While Eggleston and his family capitalize on the tragedy of Dr. T.C. Boring's unsolved murder through Eggleston's Murderablia. Jane's poign...
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by Julian Bhebhe (Author)Four Years in a Cave documents a painful, real life-experience of an elementary school teacher who survives a brutal, barbaric, and tribally-charged military purge of the 1980s in Zimbabwe. A secretly selected and specially trained brigade abducts the teacher from a minority tribe, falsely accusing him of collaborating with dissidents seeking to destabilize the regime dominated by the majority tribe. The teacher is savagely tortured but he manages to escape and hide in a remote cave for four years. The brigade continues unleashing terror, annihilating the defenseless minority tribe, and tossing tens of thousands of bodies into disused mineshafts and shallow graves...
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by Jessica Sierra (Author)"The Unravelling Journey" is a powerful memoir by Jessica Sierra that explores her personal journey through healing and self-discovery. This book is not a guide, but a testament to the power of questioning societal norms and finding your own path. Sierra shares her experiences with mental illness and sexual assault, intertwining raw experiences with poetic storytelling. The book is a mix of grunge grit and soft emotion, providing an intimate look inside the heart and mind of a young woman navigating the challenging terrain following sexual assault. Sierra's intention is to break the stigmas of mental illness and sexual assault, inviting readers to sit with the un...
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by David Daniel (Author), Blythe Daniel (Editor)In the late 1960s and early 1970s, a serial killer, who called himself the ZODIAC, terrorized Northern California with cold-blooded murders and a series of taunting ciphers and letters. His first set of three ciphers, considered at the time to be one, were sent to three newspapers in 1969. They were cracked by a couple within a week. On July 11, 2021, David Daniel read, where the Zodiac had stated in a letter, that the three ciphers contained his identity, but the couple and the authorities claimed that it wasn't there. David believed that the authorities had said the ciphers didn't reveal the Zodiac's identity for one reason-they couldn't f...
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by Roy Lynn Pugmire (Author)The captivating true story of a charming serial killer. How could a well-bred and highly esteemed young woman in early 19th-century Germany, over a period of 15 years, fatally poison at least 15 people, 9 of them members of her immediate family, without arousing suspicion? The case of an unlikely fall from innocence into narcissistic pathology.
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by Jeffrey Miller (Author)The dead speak in a silent language. What is it like to be a crime scene detective and understand the language of the dead? How do the police investigate a death when there is no one to talk to? What does death look and smell like? What would it be like to be part of a major murder case and hear the voices of the dead? Wouldn't you like to see what is on the other side of that yellow crime scene tape? This is your chance. Retired Fairfax County Police Crime Scene Detective and forensic science professor, Jeffrey Miller pulls up the crime scene tape and offers you a rare first-person account of his Life of Death. You will follow in his footsteps as he helps to sol...
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by Lance A. Maddox (Author), M. Maeve Eagan (Author)When single dad, Dr. Lance Maddox, goes looking for love online, he finds a web of lies and deceit that will leave you shell-shocked at the lengths some people will go to maintain an illusion.Based on a true Kentucky court case, this story follows the incredible events that begin when Lance finds what he thinks is true love and ends with a heart-wrenching test of his physical and mental strength.Despite growing up fatherless in the projects of Daytona, Florida, losing his brother to drugs, and juggling complex family dynamics, Lance has beaten the odds and achieved his goals. All that's missing is the woman of his dreams, and after meeti...
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by Tony Thompson (Author)The shocking inside story of life in a biker gang, from one of Britain's top true-crime writers As a member of the international motorcycle club known as the Pagans, Daniel "Snake Dog" Boone had a ringside seat to some of the most violent biker battles ever fought. When he joined his small-town club in the early 1980s, Boone could never have imagined that the ragtag group would one day grow to become a part of the Outlaws, a major gang that would challenge the Hell's Angels for supremacy around the globe in a battle lasting decades. Through Boone's eyes, true-crime master Tony Thompson takes us into the fray, and into the heart of a shocking subculture. Outlaws is...
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by Guy Lawson (Author)Born into one of America's most illustrious trading families, Sam Israel was determined to strike out on his own. After apprenticing with one of the greatest traders of the 1980s, he founded his own fast-growing hedge fund, promising investors extraordinary returns. But it was all an elaborate charade. After suffering devastating losses and fabricating fake returns, Israel knew it was only a matter of time before his real performance would be discovered. So when a former black-ops agent told him about a "secret market" run by the Fed, Israel bet his last $150 million on a chance to make billions. Thus began his bizarre journey into "the Upperworld"--a society popul...