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The Serial Killer Whisperer: How One Man's Tragedy Helped Unlock the Deadliest Secrets of the World's Most Terrifying Killers - Paperback

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by Pete Earley (Author)From New York Times bestselling author Pete Earley--the strange but true story of how a young man's devastating brain injury gave him the unique ability to connect with the world's most terrifying criminals. Fifteen-year-old Tony Ciaglia had everything a teenager could want until he suffered a horrific head injury at summer camp. When he emerged from a coma, his right side was paralyzed, he had to relearn how to walk and talk, and he needed countless pills to control h...

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by John Douglas (Author), Mark Olshaker (Author)New York Times bestselling author of Mindhunter John Douglas reveals more unique cases from his time as head of the FBI's elite Investigative Support Unit. In the #1 New York Times bestseller Mindhunter, John Douglas, who headed the FBI's elite Investigative Support Unit, told the story of his brilliant and terrifying career tracking down some of the most heinous criminals in history. Now, in Journey into Darkness, Douglas profiles vicious seria...

Betrayal: Clinton, Castro & The Cuban Five - Paperback

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by Matt Lawrence (Author), Thomas Van Hare (Author)On February 24, 1996, three Brothers to the Rescue aircraft took off from South Florida on a search and rescue mission meant to save the lives of Cuban balseros - yet their mission would end in death, with two planes shot down by Cuban MiG fighters. Four aviators were lost - Carlos Costa, Mario de la Peña, Armando Alejandre and Pablo Morales. Their murders were perpetuated by La Red Avispa, the "Cuban Five" spy ring and a DIA analyst turned C...

Colleen Stan: The Simple Gifts of Life: Dubbed by the Media

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by Jim B. Green (Author)Throughout my captivity, I was never told what was going to happen next or why. This lack of knowledge was used my Master to maintain a continuous element of fear and control over me. Anytime I was taken out of the box, I never knew what to expect. Fear of the unknown was always with me as I was kept in the dark both physically and mentally. This lack of knowledge may have been a good thing in one sense. If I had known the length of my entombment after returning from R...

Depravity: A Narrative of 16 Serial Killers - Hardcover

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by Harvey Rosenfeld (Author)Their crimes span the globe but one thing unites them: they are sixteen of the twentieth century's most notorious serial killers. In this well-researched volume, find out their motives and what made them tick. Walk the path of investigators who broke cases and listen to the words spoken from the killers mouth. All of them made their communities tremble in fear. They include: Johann Otto Hoch, who moved to America from Germany in the 1890s and married a string of w...

Charles Manson's Blood Letters: --dueling with the devil - Paperback

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by Richard Rubacher (Author)"Both Rubacher and Manson are brilliant, intuitive, half-mad artists and psychologists/manipulators...only God knows why one uses his energy and talent for good and why one wastes it in evil. Rubacher is on to something." San Francisco Chronicle "Rubacher's journey to the heart of darkness was not without travail. During the two years he corresponded with Manson, Rubacher says, he endured threats from members of the family and from Manson. Manson ordered several fa...

The Green Wall: The Story of a Brave Prison Guard's Fight Against Corruption Inside the United States' Largest Prison System - Hardcover

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by D. J. Vodicka (Author), D. J. Vodicka (Author)The career of Donald "D.J." Vodicka encompassed the rapid expansion of the prison system. For sixteen years, he was a prison guard in California's highest security prisons, serving meals to gang leaders, serial killers in lockdown cells, and patrolling exercise yards filled with violent felons while unarmed and outnumbered 1000-to-2. He belonged to an elite unit called the Investigative Services Unit (Internal Affairs), responsible for solving ...

The Green Wall: The Story of a Brave Prison Guard's Fight Against Corruption Inside the United States' Largest Prison System - Paperback

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by D. J. Vodicka (Author)The career of Donald "D.J." Vodicka encompassed the rapid expansion of the prison system. For sixteen years, he was a prison guard in California's highest security prisons, serving meals to gang leaders, serial killers in lockdown cells, and patrolling exercise yards filled with violent felons while unarmed and outnumbered 1000-to-2. He belonged to an elite unit called the Investigative Services Unit (Internal Affairs), responsible for solving horrific crimes inside t...

Jeffrey Dahmer's Dirty Secret: The Unsolved Murder of Adam Walsh - Book One: Finding The Killer - Paperback

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by Arthur Jay Harris (Author)You may think you know the whole story of Adam Walsh-the 6-year-old found killed, whose father, John Walsh, became a crime-fighting TV host. We've long been told that the dead child was Adam-but astonishingly, the medical examiner file doesn't legally confirm it. It should be in an autopsy report, since an autopsy was done-but as Harris reported in the Miami Herald, there is no autopsy report. That never happens. Without legal proof of who's been killed, how can y...

Cop Without a Badge: The Extraordinary Undercover Life of Kevin Maher - Paperback

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by Charles Kipps (Author) WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A COP AND KEVIN MAHER? KEVIN DOESN'T HAVE A BADGE. AND HE DOESN'T PLAY BY THE RULES. Cop Without a Badge tracks confidential informant Kevin Maher as he helps the NYPD, the FBI, and many other law enforcement agencies solve cases that range from robbery to extortion to homicide. In the process, Kevin becomes the highest paid CI the DEA ever had. But Kevin's motives are more complicated than simply money. Having been arrested for Gran...

Badd Newz: The Untold Story of the Michael Vick Dog Fighting Case - Paperback

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by Kathy Strouse (Author)Book Author, Kathy Strouse, has launched her first book, "Badd Newz-The Untold Story of the Michael Vick Dog Fighting Case". She reveals the never before reported twists, turns, obstacles, plots, and setbacks that made building a case against superstar Michael Vick the challenge of a lifetime. Readers will be shocked to learn how close and how often Vick came to walking away from justice. Investigators were fueled by a determination to rescue the innocent dogs and to ...

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by Edward Humes (Author)NOW UPDATED WITH EXPLOSIVE COURTROOM DETAILS. . . . The riveting true-crime account of the heartbreaking murder that shook a Southern city to its corrupt foundation BILOXI, MISSISSIPPI: After the fatal shooting of one of the city's most prominent couples--Vincent Sherry was a circuit court judge; his wife, Margaret, was running for mayor--their grief-stricken daughter came home to uncover the truth behind the crime that shocked a community and to follow leads that poli...

The Trial of Lizzie Andrew Borden Book Three - Paperback

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by Stefani Koorey Phd (Author), Kat Koorey (Author), Harold Widdows (Author)The Trial of Lizzie Andrew Borden is the complete trial transcript of the legal proceedings held in New Bedford, Massachusetts, at the Superior Court, June 5 - 20, 1893. It is a faithful transcription of the official stenographic record of the case. Complete and in three volumes.Author BiographyStefani Koorey holds a Ph.D. in theatre history and dramatic criticism from Penn State University. She has enjoyed a varied p...

The Trial of Lizzie Andrew Borden Book Two - Paperback

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Inside the Mind of a Serial Multi-Paraphilic Sex Offender - Paperback

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by R. Devin Beverly (Author) Number of Pages: 204 Dimensions: 0.47 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: December 22, 2009

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by Miekal And (Author)A collection of language works including "Sacerdotal," "Against Dreams,""Elevation at at They Ran," & visual/verbal works "THC," "By Camel Night" & "Aluminum". Number of Pages: 162 Dimensions: 0.37 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: October 02, 2008

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by Robert Nemecek (Author) Number of Pages: 224 Dimensions: 0.51 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: October 07, 2009

Carnival Games: The Perfect Crimes - Paperback

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by Richard Margittay (Author) Number of Pages: 346 Dimensions: 0.77 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: December 02, 2009

The CIA Document Of Human Manipulation: Kubark Counterintelligence Interrogation Manual - Paperback

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by Dantalion Jones (Author), The Central Intelligence Agency (Author)Released by the Freedom of Information Act. This document is a thorough description of how the CIA recommends interrogating a subject. To get the information that is needed there is nothing withheld short of torture. For example in "Threats and Fears," the CIA authors note that "the threat of coercion usually weakens or destroys resistance more effectively than coercion itself. The threat to inflict pain, for example, can tr...

Solving the Zodiac: The Zodiac Killer Case Files - Paperback

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by C. Symons (Author)Can you solve the identity of one of the most elusive serial killers of our time? Solving The Zodiac provides the reader crime scene photos, police reports, witness statements, media excerpts, timelines and everything needed to possibly solve the Zodiac killeringa. If you're an amatuer slueth, this is your chance to solve the identity of the Zodiac Killer, whose reign of terror held the San Francisco Bay area hostage in the late 1960's and early 1970's. Number of Pages: 3...

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by Stewart Bell (Author)In 1981, a small but heavily armed force of misfits from Canada and the United States set off on a preposterous mission: invade an impoverished Caribbean country, overthrow its government in a coup d'etat, install a puppet prime minister and transform the island into a crooks' paradise. Their leader was a Texas soldier of fortune named Mike Perdue. His lieutenant was a Canadian Nazi named Wolfgang Droege. Their destination: Dominica. For two years, they recruited fight...

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by Jerry Langton (Author)Sometimes, you make bad choices. Sometimes, bad choices are made for you.In Biker, the first book of the trilogy, Ned "Crash" Aiken thought he had made a clean break. He had turned on his biker brothers in the Sons of Satan and entered the FBI's witness protection program, only to end up in a different kind of prison--one of mediocre work and cheap apartments. He then fell in with the Russian mob, learning its brutal code first-hand and fleeing the organization when t...

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by Jerry Langton (Author)Out of the frying pan, into the fireAfter his adventures in Biker and Dead Biker, the first two books of the trilogy, Ned Aiken was set up for a quiet life. After falling into the biker world almost by accident, rising throughout the ranks of a major motorcycle gang and eventually betraying its members to the FBI in return for indemnity and witness protection, Ned chafes at his boring mailroom job and the cheap apartment where the Feds make him life. Babysat by a slov...

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by W. N. Roughead (Author)First published in 1951, this fascinating collection of true crime stories offers a tantalizing peek into some of the most disturbed minds of 18th & 19th century Scotland. Recounting the murders and trials of the period, William Roughead's biting commentary and witty narrative - combined with his precise detail and legal know-how, will have you hooked from cover to cover. "To my mind, one cannot have too much of a good murder." Now regarded one of the fathers of ...

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by Neil Chakraborti (Author), Jon Garland (Author)Hate crime is a particularly pernicious form of criminal behaviour that has significant impacts upon victims, their families and wider communities. In this substantially revised and updated edition the book examines the nature, extent and harms of hate crime, and the effectiveness of criminal justice responses to it. It covers racist, religiously motivated, homophobic, disablist and transphobic hate crime, as well as other forms of targeted vi...

You Can't Have My Daughter: A True Story of a Mother's Desperate Fight to Save Her Daughter from Oxford's Sex Traffickers - Paperback

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by Elizabeth McDonnell (Author)A personal account of a mother's determination to never give up on her daughter. Number of Pages: 288 Dimensions: 0.86 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: April 09, 2015

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by Eric Canori (Author)Pressure is the unbelievable true story of Eric Canori, who buried $10 million worth of gold bars in the woods-and later used them to buy himself out of prison.Eric Canori was one of the largest high-end marijuana dealers on the East Coast of the United States-before it became legal in any state-smuggling weed out of Canada via eighteen-wheelers, helicopters, and boats. He was a mastermind, doing well over $300 million of business by age twenty-nine-without a gun or the...

Choice, Chance, Change: From Crime to Christ. The Milton Campbell Story. - Paperback

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by Derville Lowe (Editor), Milton Campbell (Author)A riveting, true crime story chronicling a life of crime, drugs, money, sex and near-death experiences, which ultimately led to an incredible transformation and surrender to Jesus Christ. It's an eye-opening story about the miraculous power of God to transform lives from darkness to light, hatred to love, and His wonder working power to cleanse the vilest soul from sin. This is the story of my life from darkness to light. Herein is expressed ...

They Call Me Korney: The True Story of Buffalo's Korney Gang - Paperback

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by Michael F. Rizzo (Author)Set in Buffalo, New York during Prohibition, this true story revolves around an East Side group of Polish gangsters. Korney Kwiatkowski leads the gang that robs and kills it's way to the front pages of Buffalo newspapers and an ending none expected.Author BiographyBorn and raised in Western New York, Rizzo has been a bike messenger, network admin, tour guide, school bus driver. He has written seven books, this was his third. Number of Pages: 210 Dimensions: 0.44 x ...

True Crime Stories You Won't Believe: A Cavalcade of Chaotic Justice - Paperback

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by Romeo Vitelli (Author)Here is a collection of true crime stories from different countries and time periods that defy simple description. They include: The strange tale of a psychotic geisha who severed her lover's genitals to carry as a token of her love and who inspired a cult following How a small-town murderer helped inspire the movie Psycho and left his hometown with a reputation they never lived down A father who sacrificed his daughter to prove his faith in God and his followers who...

Gone Shopping: The Story of Shirley Pitts - Queen of Thieves - Paperback

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by Lorraine Gamman (Author)Shirley Pitts, the eldest of six children was born upside down on 24 november 1934. Her "career" began by thieving bread off doorsteps and coal from coalcarts. Her father's bungled attempts at blackmarketering and her dipsomaniac mother's inadequacies made Shirley resolve not only to be a first-class thief but also the best mother her six children could wish for. Before she died Shirley told her story to Lorraine - the story of a generous, brave and beautiful woman ...

Queen City Gothic: Cincinnati's Most Infamous Murder Mysteries - Hardcover

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by J. T. Townsend (Author)Losing a loved one to murder is life's ultimate tragedy. But when the killer is never captured, a family's paralyzing grief only compounds. Years pass. Pain grows. Time heals nothing. Parents, spouses, and children of the victims never find peace. Investigators continue to lie awake night after night, year after year, thinking, "If only..." Cold cases fascinate us because of the endless possibilities. What if Alice Hochhausler hadn't driven her daughter home from wor...