True Crime

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by Ronald M. Holmes (Author), Stephen T. Holmes (Author)Continuing in the same well-written and accessible style as the previous editions, this text systematically examines the strange phenomenon of serial murder. Exploring the different types of serial killers, the authors present a clear image of the typology, behavioral patterns, and motivation of the various types of serial killers. New to This Edition Differentiation between Mass, Spree and Serial Murder Theories Three new chapters: Ma...

Tragic Beauty: The Lost 1914 Memoirs of Evelyn Nesbit - Paperback

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by Deborah Paul (Author)The 1914 memoirs of Evelyn Nesbit, the beautiful chorus girl and model whose association with architect Stanford White would later lead to his sensational murder at Madison Square Garden. In June 1906, Pittsburgh playboy Harry K. Thaw shot and murdered Stanford White, one of America's most famous architects, over a deadly dispute involving White's seduction of Thaw's wife, Evelyn Nesbit. Known as "the girl on the red velvet swing," Evelyn earned this moniker when she d...

Juvenile Injustice: The Chicago Story - Hardcover

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by Jeff Benjamin (Author) Number of Pages: 360 Dimensions: 1.07 x 9.44 x 6.48 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: December 16, 2003

Secrets Worth Dying for: Timothy James McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing - Paperback

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by David Paul Hammer (Author), Jeffery William Paul (Author) Number of Pages: 348 Dimensions: 0.91 x 8.9 x 6.08 IN Publication Date: March 24, 2004

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by Robert D. Keppel (Author), William J. Birnes (With)In a real-life scenario straight out of The Silence of the Lambs, Robert Keppel went one-on-one with the notorious serial killer Ted Bundy, who advised Keppel on the detective's highly publicized search for the elusive Green River Killer. Bundy's chilling revelations were chronicled in The Riverman, "a page-turner" (Ted Montgomery, Detroit News) praised by Ann Rule as "the definitive book on serials." But Ted Bundy wasn't the first killer ...

Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town - Paperback

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by Elyssa East (Author)The area known as Dogtown--an isolated colonial ruin and surrounding 3,000-acre woodland in seaside Gloucester, Massachusetts--has long exerted a powerful influence over artists, writers, eccentrics, and nature lovers. But its history is also woven through with tales of witches, supernatural sightings, pirates, former slaves, drifters, and the many dogs Revolutionary War widows kept for protection and for which the area was named. In 1984, a brutal murder took place the...

It's Not about the Truth: The Untold Story of the Duke Lacrosse Case and the Lives It Shattered - Paperback

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by Don Yaeger (Author), Mike Pressler (With)Mike Pressler walked into the bottomfloor meeting room of the Murray Building and, as he had done hundreds of times over a sixteen-year career at Duke University, prepared to address his men's lacrosse team. Forty-six players sat in theater-style chairs, all eyes riveted forward. It was 4:35 P.M. on Wednesday, April 5, 2006. The program's darkest hour had arrived in an unexpected and explosive announcement. Pressler, a three-time ACC Coach of the ...

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by Goldfarb (Author)The assassination of former Russian intelligence officer Alexander "Sasha" Litvinenko in November 2006 -- poisoned by the rare radioactive element polonium -- caused an international sensation. Within a few short weeks, the fit forty-three-year-old lay gaunt, bald, and dying in a hospital, the victim of a "tiny nuclear bomb." Suspicions swirled around Russia's FSB, the successor to the KGB, and the Putin regime. Traces of polonium radiation were found in Germany and on cer...

Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde - Paperback

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by Jeff Guinn (Author)Forget everything you think you know about Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker--previous books and films, including the brilliant 1967 movie starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, have emphasized the supposed glamour of America's most notorious criminal couple, thus contributing to ongoing mythology. The real story is completely different--and far more fascinating. In Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde, bestselling author Jeff Guinn combines exhaus...

Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage - Paperback

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by Cliff Stoll (Author)Before the Internet became widely known as a global tool for terrorists, one perceptive U.S. citizen recognized its ominous potential. Armed with clear evidence of computer espionage, he began a highly personal quest to expose a hidden network of spiesAuthor BiographyWhen, to the delight of the baffled FBI, CIA, and NSA, Cliff Stoll nailed his spy, he wound up on the front page of The New York Times. The story, broken in 1989, quickly gathered headlines across the natio...

Very Much a Lady: The Untold Story of Jean Harris and Dr. Herman Tarnower (Original) - Paperback

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by Shana Alexander (Author)A classic tale of true crime, now an HBO film titled Mrs. Harris starring Annette Bening as Jean Harris and Sir Ben Kingsley as the Scarsdale Diet doctor Jean Harris belonged to the last generation of Americans brought up to believe tha Number of Pages: 384 Dimensions: 1.05 x 8.28 x 5.44 IN Publication Date: March 01, 2006

The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers - Paperback

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by Harold Schechter (Author)Bestselling true-crime writer Harold Schechter, a leading authority on serial killers, and coauthor David Everitt offer a guided tour through the bizarre and blood-chilling world of serial murder. Through hundreds of detailed entries that span the entire spectrum -- the shocking crimes, the infamous perpetrators, and much more -- they examine all angles of a gruesome cultural phenomenon that grips our imagination. From Art (both by and about serial killers) to Zei...

A Convenient Spy: Wen Ho Lee and the Politics of Nuclear Espionage - Paperback

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by Dan Stober (Author), Ian Hoffman (Author)No espionage case in recent decades has been anything like the Wen Ho Lee affair. As Dan Stober and Ian Hoffman describe in A Convenient Spy, an astonishingly inept investigation of a crime that may never have occurred ended in a national disgrace. A weapons-code scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lee was hunted as a spy for China, indicted on fifty-nine counts, and held in detention for nine months as a threat to the entire nation. But a...

The Very Best Men: The Daring Early Years of the CIA - Paperback

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by Evan Thomas (Author)The Very Best Men is the story of the CIA's early days as told through the careers of four glamorous, daring, and idealistic men who ran covert operations for the government from the end of World War II to Vietnam. Evan Thomas re-creates the personal dramas and sometimes tragic lives of Frank Wisner, Richard Bissell, Tracy Barnes, and Desmond FitzGerald, who risked everything to contain the Soviet threat. Within the inner circles of Washington, they were regarded as the...

Bluegrass: A True Story of Murder in Kentucky - Paperback

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by William Van Meter (Author)A shocking investigation into a true crime that tore a town apart--the violent murder of a young coed in Kentucky, the innocent boy who was jailed for the crime, and a small Southern community filled with haunting, unforgettable characters. Katie Autry was a foster child from a tiny village in Kentucky; a little awkward, but always with the biggest smile on her high school cheerleading squad. In September 2002, she matriculated as a freshman at Western Kentucky Un...

Hello Charlie: Letters from a Serial Killer - Paperback

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by Charlie Hess (Author), Hess (Author), Davin Seay (Author)The 1991 abduction and murder of thirteen-year-old Heather Dawn Church baffled police for three agonizing years, and became one of the most infamous murders the quiet and scenic city of Colorado Springs had ever seen. It was legendary homicide detective Lou Smit who finally broke the case, sending Robert Charles Browne, a forty-three-year-old Louisiana drifter and career criminal, to prison for life. But the savage saga of Robert Br...

Outer Banks Piracy: Where Is My Son Jeffrey? - Paperback

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by Shirley Mays (Author) Number of Pages: 256 Dimensions: 0.65 x 8.56 x 6.48 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: May 21, 2004

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by Kenneth Walton (Author)Ripped from the headlines of the New York Times, Fake describes Kenneth Walton's innocent beginnings as a lawyer turned online art-trading hobbyist, whose satisfaction in reselling thrift store paintings for a profit soon became a fierce addiction to eBay. In a landscape peopled with colorful eccentrics hoping to score museum-quality paintings at bargain prices, Walton entered into a partnership with con man Ken Fetterman. Over the course of eighteen months they mana...

A Cast Of Killers: The Twentieth Anniversary Edition - Paperback

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by Sidney D. Kirkpatrick (Author)On February 1, 1922, the distinguished silent-film director William Desmond Taylor was shot to death in his Los Angeles bungalow by an unknown assailant. Reports of strange activities at the scene of the crime circulated soon after. When the police arrived, was the head of Paramount Studios burning a bundle of papers in the fireplace, and was a well-known actress searching the house for letters she claimed were hers? Despite a full-scale investigation, the cas...

After Rape: Changing Faces: A Never Ending Love Story - Paperback

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by Christina Pickett (Author)This is a true story between the author and her boss's husband, who repeatedly sexually harasses by telephoning her constantly, and making visits to the office, threatening her to remain silent. As she continues to decline his request for sexual favors, he is determined to draw a wedge between her boss, implying that she's treating him badly, by not giving in to his sexual request and threatens her to remain silent. She finds herself distraught, as he consistently...

Confessions of the South Side Rapist: 25 Years of Terror in the Gateway City - Paperback

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by Mike Murphy (Author)Confessions of the South Side Rapist is a true crime tale about the life, the crimes, and the motivations behind the crimes of Dennis Rabbitt, one of the most prolific rapists in American history. It relies on hundreds of pages of police reports and exhaustive interviews, especially from Dennis Rabbitt, to tell his story. The book gives detailed and sometimes grisly accounts of the crimes of the South Side Rapist but also gives the motivations and explanations behind th...

Reflections In The Night: A Survivor's Story of Total Mind Controlled Slavery and Torture - Paperback

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by Mauri (Author)"Reflections in the Night" is the autobiographical account of a survivor of mind control and torture perpetrated by underworld criminal groups who would rule the world. Nazis in American before and after World War II hone their magick through occult organizations such as the O.T.O., churches worshiping Satan including Mormon Church members practicing witchcraft at night, the military-industrial complex including Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California University System c...

The Beast of Gevaudan: La Bete Du Gevaudan - Paperback

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by Abbi Pierre Pourcher (Author), Abb Pierre Pourcher (Author), Abbe Pierre Pourcher (Author)La B te du G vaudan was a real wolf-like monster living in the Auvergne from 1764 to 1767. She killed about one hundred people. Prowling Catholic pre-Revolutionary France, she spread terror among the aristocrats and peasants of the beautiful Auvergne countryside. Her story beats most mystery novels in false trails, horror and atmosphere. The big difference is La B te was real, not fiction, and leaves ...

The Journey to Chatham: Why Emmett Till's Murder Changed America, a Personal Story - Paperback

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by Arthur L. Miller (Author)A story about America in its pre-civil rights struggle, and how the brutal murder of an innocent Chicago boy forced the country to face its own ugliness. The impact of Emmett Till's brutal murder is told from the perspective of his neighborhood friends and who he was before he became an unwilling symbol of the horror of racial hatred. His courageous mother, Mrs. Mamie (Till) Bradley, exhibited her strength and sense of justice when she refused to allow her son's ca...

Vatican Ratline: The Vatican, the Nazis and the New World Order - Paperback

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by Mauri (Author)Vatican Ratline is the true story of recovered memories of one survivor of the post World War II ratline interwoven with the history of the players. It exposes why we are seeing a return to the Middles Ages, the crusades, the inquisition, the slave trade, constant war and the conquering of nations. It looks at the Jesuits, the soldiers of the Pope, who are leading the brigade, with the Nazi run CIA as Grand Inquisitor. The twentieth century 'grey' Nazi collaborator is investi...

The Bostrom Conspiracy: The True UNTOLD Story of America's Top Motorcycle Racers Ben Bostrom & Eric Bostrom and Their Crime Family - Paperback

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by J. Y. Johnny (Author)Read the true crime story of J.Y. Johnny's father and the father of America's famous motorcycle road racing brothers Ben and Eric Bostrom. See how the Bostrom's tight knit family eluded the San Francisco Police Dept. while Ben and Eric climbed the ladder to fame and fortune experiencing a meteoric rise to ROC star status. Experience a world of deception crimes and lies. A story of a secret background of stolen motorcycles and stolen cars along with cocaine sales and dr...

Murder, Salinas Style: Book Two - Paperback

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by Lisa Eisemann (Author) The City of Salinas has a long history of violence and murder. From the deaths of innocent children to the brutality of gang executions, Salinas continues to be rocked by night and daytime murders committed in all parts of town. Now considered one of the gang hot spots in the U.S., Salinas has more than just gang related homicides each year. Only a few of the stories in this book were the result of gang activity. More often, homicides are committed by family members ...

I've Been Watching You: The South Louisiana Serial Killer - Hardcover

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by Susan D. Mustafa (Author), Tony Clayton (Author), Sue Israel (With)"Rigor mortis had set in by the time police arrived," Special Prosecutor Tony Clayton told the jury, watching their eyes as they viewed the photograph of the bloodied arm of Geralyn Barr DeSoto. Geralyn's clenched fist, frozen in death away from her body, held her secret. "Geralyn was trying to tell us something. She was telling us how hard she fought. She was telling us who her killer is. 'Right here, ' she said. 'Right he...