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Inside Dea: Operation Snowcap - Paperback

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by Bob Hartman (Author)The "spine" of the Andes Mountain, which runs through Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, is the source of almost all of the world's cocaine-based products, both legal and otherwise. In 1986, in the midst of the American "cocaine epidemic," the Reagan administration decided that the drug problem needed to be attacked at its source. The result was an eight-year clandestine drug war known as Operation Snowcap. From 1987 through 1994, groups of twelve to fifteen DEA agen...

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by S. a. Barrett (Author), E. W. Gifford (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 360 Dimens...

Fires...Accidental or Arson?: Fire Investigations - Paperback

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by Richard J. Keyworth (Author)Author Richard J. Keyworth stands tall and his courage and commitment to fighting and investigating fires stand even taller. His account of 14 of the innumerable fires he investigated will intrigue, inform and educate fellow firefighters and law enforcement professionals. Because fire is mystical at times and practical at others, FIRE... Accidental or Arson? will also entrance the general public. His investigations will twist and turn and take place in likely an...

Portraits in the Snow: The Oakland County Child Killings...Scandals and Small Conspiracies - Paperback

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by M. F. Cribari (Author)Like a rotten onion peeled away from itself, with seemingly no end to the many layers and stench; was the tragic truth, that four little ones and their torturous murders which set off a fire storm of fear, that for a time crippled a community and forever devastated their families; were, in the landscape of the underbelly of humanity where kings, thieves and killers dwelt; simply small pebbles thrown into its cold murky waters...causing a difficult inconvenient ripple....

Looking For Closure: The Theresa Ferrara Story - Paperback

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by Maria Stewart (Author) The Story Behind the Mafia Murder that Riveted New York On the afternoon of February 10, 1979, Theresa Ferrara took a phone call at Apple Hair Cutters on Long Island, New York. Then she headed out the door-"to make an easy $10,000," as she told her niece. She said she'd be back in ten minutes. That was the last time anyone ever saw her alive. The FBI ruled it a homicide. But what really happened to Theresa Ferrara? Was she killed over her involvement in the Mafia's ...

Prospect, South Carolina: The Good and Not So Good Times - Paperback

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by Troy Collins (Author)This book is about a group of six ( 6 ) young boys growing up in rural South Carolina during the time of the State's largest mass murder case. This area is named Prospect and is noted to be the hometown of South Carolina's most notorious Serial Killer, Donald Henry (Pee Wee) Gaskins. When growing up in this area we all knew him as Junior Parrott. Gaskins admitted to killing Thirteen (13) people during his trial. During this period, we would see Pee Wee all the time in ...

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by Andrew J. Rafkin (Author), Louis Pagano (Author)THE LARGEST HEIST IN HISTORY NEVER TOLD In 1983 the rapidly growing city of LA and beachfront communities were active in the illicit drug trade, successfully operating through Angels Gate Lighthouse, and LAX, the gate to the City of Angels. This true story is a recounting of the largest monetary heist in history, carried out by four local surfers, and August Taracina, a successful marijuana smuggler. The heist proceeds with only minor hitche...

Shield, Gun, Wallet, Keys: One Cop's Story - Paperback

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by Jim Motherway (Author)He never wanted to be a cop but when the bug bit him he couldn't turn his back on the job. It was another type of job...a battle for the streets of New York. Cops were being murdered, bombs were going off, people were dying. It had to be stopped JIM MOTHERWAY was born in Brooklyn New York, the second of twelve children. He entered the Navy during his senior year in high school and served in the Submarine Service aboard the USS Sea Dog. Upon being honorably discharged...

Shield, Gun, Wallet, Keys: One Cop's Story - Hardcover

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Looking For Closure: The Theresa Ferrara Story - Hardcover

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Murder in Gales: A Rose Hanged Twice - Paperback

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by Patricia Lubeck (Author)In 1888 there's bad blood and bitter feuding between two families, the Lufkins and the Roses. It seems William Rose sought the heart and hand of Lufkin's beautiful daughter, Grace and she was the main subject of the feud. Her father put a stop to the romance and the fire of hatred was kindled resulting in bitter quarrels and lawsuits between the families. On the evening of August 22, 1888 Moses Lufkin is seated on a lounge near an open window conversing with the Slo...

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by John Matthew Gutch (Author)Bristol, England, 1817. A beautiful young stranger speaking an unknown language is tried for the crime of begging. But when a man claims that he can translate her dialect, it becomes understood that the woman is a princess from an exotic foreign land. She is welcomed by a family of aristocrats interested in using her to increase their prestige. But is Caraboo really a princess? This true story was the basis of the 1994 film Princess Caraboo, starring Phoebe Cates...

Historic Police Department: Long Beach, California - Hardcover

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by Russell R. Bradford (Author), Long Beach Police Historical Society (Author)The history of the Long Beach Police Department documents the ten City Marshall's and twenty five persons who served as Chief of Police. The stories of the early members of the department who played a vital part in the history, include: Fanny Bixby, Thomas C Borden, Theo Cervantes, Earl Daugherty, Fred Kutz, Robert O'Rourke, Grace Reinhardt and the Resuch brothers. The modern history began with Chief Dovey in 1949 a...

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by Christopher Terry Evans (Author)The May 1927 issue of True Detective magazine dealt with the shooting of Tommy Evans and subsequent investigation of the case in the Old 23rd District of Henry County, Tennessee. The True Detective article read in part, "They told me of the existence of a 'whiskey ring, ' in which it was estimated that seventy-five percent of the population ... was alleged to have been engaged in this illicit whiskey business. And it was contended that (Tommy Evans), a respe...

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Joseph Wambaugh and the Jay Smith Case - Paperback

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by Jay Charles Smith (Author)No reader of this book will be more surprised than was the public by the truly bizarre beliefs and benthic depths of the evil (the Supreme Court's repeated word, evil) encountered in this longest murder investigation in Pennsylvania's history--thirteen years. Over fifty state troopers, eighteen FBI agents, and numerous local police departments were involved as this longest investigation began when the naked body of Susan Reinert was found, obviously sexually abuse...

Joseph Wambaugh and the Jay Smith Case - Hardcover

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Nothing Is Strange with You: The Life and Crimes of Gordon Stewart Northcott - Paperback

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by James Jeffrey Paul (Author) Number of Pages: 280 Dimensions: 0.71 x 8.92 x 6.14 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: September 11, 2008

Can You Help Me Solve This Crime? - Paperback

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by Lois K. Chicoine (Author) Number of Pages: 240 Dimensions: 0.55 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: June 16, 2009

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by Edward Bufala (Author) Number of Pages: 116 Dimensions: 0.28 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: February 28, 2009

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by Charlie Withers (Author) Number of Pages: 376 Dimensions: 0.84 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: January 24, 2009

Alphonse Bertillon's Instructions For Taking Descriptions For The Identification Of Criminals And Others, By Means Of Anthropometric Indications (1889 - Paperback

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by Alphonse Bertillon (Author), Gallus Muller (Translator)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 1...

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by Alan J. Summers (Author) Number of Pages: 140 Dimensions: 0.44 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: September 30, 2008

A Time to Betray: A Gripping True Spy Story of Betrayal, Fear, and Courage - Paperback

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by Reza Kahlili (Author)An exhilarating true story that reads like a spy thriller about a former CIA operative recruited out of Iran, while he served as a member of the secretive and highly feared Revolutionary Guards of Iran.A TIME TO BETRAY This exhilarating, award-winning memoir of a secret double life reveals the heart-wrenching story of a man who spied for the American government in the ranks of the notorious Revolutionary Guards of Iran, risking everything by betraying his homeland in o...

Deadly Roses: The Twenty Year Curse - Paperback

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by Marvin Marable (Author)An autobiographical drama in which an innocent man paid his reputation and nearly his life for almost twenty years, Deadly Roses by Marvin Marable is a shocking tale of what happens when officials follow the wrong leads and guilty men have the means to cover their tracks and flee the country. Set between Atlanta and Palm Beach, the author's life was sent into turmoil soon after his divorce. Two weeks after his divorce was finalized, his ex-wife's best friend was murd...

Depraved: The Definitive True Story of H.H. Holmes, Whose Grotesque Crimes Shattered Turn-Of-The-Century Chicago - Paperback

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by Harold Schechter (Author)The heinous bloodlust of Dr. H.H. Holmes is notorious -- but only Harold Schechter's Depraved tells the complete story of the killer whose evil acts of torture and murder flourished within miles of the Chicago World's Fair. "Destined to be a true crime classic" (Flint Journal, MI), this authoritative account chronicles the methods and madness of a monster who slipped easily into a bright, affluent Midwestern suburb, where no one suspected the dapper, charming Holme...

Turning The Tide: One Man Against The Medellin Cartel - Paperback

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by Sidney D. Kirkpatrick (Author), Peter Abrahams (Author)Carlos Lehder Rivas, kingpin of Colombia's most murderous cocaine empire. A powerful international businessman and self-proclaimed revolutionary. He made the mistake that would end his career: He invited an American professor to be his guest on the island of Norman's Cay... Richard Novak, father of five and lover of the sea, came to Norman's Cay to study the hammer-head shark up close. But the college professor soon found himself locke...

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by John Walsh (Author), Susan Schindehette (With)The host of the America's Most Wanted, John Walsh tells for the first time the full story of the 1981 abduction and murder of his six-year-old son, Adam. This is the heartbreaking chronicle of John Walsh's transformation from grieving father to full-time activist -- and the infuriating conspiracy of events that have kept America's No. 1 crime-fighter from obtaining justice and closure for himself and his family. From the day Adam disappeared fr...

Finding Chandra: A True Washington Murder Mystery - Paperback

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by Scott Higham (Author), Sari Horwitz (Author)It was the mystery that gripped the nation during the summer of 2001: the sudden disappearance of Chandra Levy, a young, promising intern, and the possible involvement of Congressman Gary Condit. And then the case went cold. By 2007, satellite trucks and reporters had long since abandoned the story of the congressman and the intern in search of other news, fresh scandals. Across the country, Chandra's parents tried to resume their daily lives, de...

Corpse Had a Familiar Face (Revised, Updated) - Paperback

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by Edna Buchanan (Author) Now in trade paperback, Pulitzer Prize winner Edna Buchanan's classic nonfiction masterpiece detailing events from her eighteen years writing for The Miami Herald. Nobody covered love and lunacy, life and death on Miami's mean sAuthor Biography Edna Buchanan has covered more crimes than most cops. A Pulitzer Prize-winning Miami Herald police reporter and winner of the prestigious George Polk Career Award, she brings a dynamic and steamy Miami to vivid life in all of ...

The Kennedy Detail: Jfk's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence - Paperback

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by Gerald Blaine (Author), Lisa McCubbin Hill (Author), Clint Hill (Foreword by)The New York Times bestselling and extraordinary true story of the critical events leading up to and following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, as told by the Secret Service agents who were firsthand witnesses to one of America's greatest tragedies. The Secret Service. An elite team of men who share a single mission: to protect the president of the United States. On November 22, 1963, these men fail...

The Riverman: Ted Bundy and I Hunt for the Green River Killer - Paperback

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by Robert D. Keppel (Author), William J. Birnes (With), Ann Rule (Foreword by)After a search of over twenty years, one of America's most elusive serial killers was finally apprehended. Now, read the true story of one man's attempt to get inside se mind of the Green River Killer July 15, 1982: 3 woman's strangled body was filed, caught on the pilings of Washington state's Green River. Before long, the "Green River Killer" would be suspected in at least forty-nine more homicides, with no end in...