True Crime

6830 books

Pee Wee Gaskins America's No. 1 Serial Killer - Paperback

$26.98

by John Chandler Griffin (Author) Number of Pages: 228 Dimensions: 0.52 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: July 28, 2010

$9.43

by Latonn Glanton (Illustrator), John Monaco (Editor), Dionne Lee Nelson (Author)Angelina Merrezzi grew up with many things, but a safe, normal childhood was not one of them. As the only child of Angelo Merrezzi, head of the Merrezzi 5000 syndicate, she has lived through enough danger and excitement in her 18 years to fill a book. And her latest experience is providing her an opportunity to do just that. For reasons not immediately known to her, Angelina finds herself kidnapped. The culprit i...

The Family Debt: The True Story of Giacomo Jack Bianco - Paperback

$13.99

by Bianco Teresa Bianco (Author), Teresa Bianco (Author)The Family Debt is a tribute to the author's father, Giacomo "Jack" Bianco. He was a man who lived his life with passion for his family, a man who worked hard at everything he did. His unselfish nature was exposed year after year, experience after experience. Giacomo was undoubtedly a family man who never let his family down; no matter the cost. Never asking questions, he simply chose to rise to the occasion time after time to preserve t...

Crossing the Line: Memoirs of a Fairfax County Police Officer - Paperback

$13.99

by Constance Curran Novak (Author)Few women seek the profession of law enforcement and even less stay until retirement. In Crossing the Line, the eighth woman ever to retire from the Fairfax County Police Department in Virginia offers an in-depth glimpse into her life as a female police officer. When Connie Novak was hired by the Fairfax County Police in 1979, there were 700 sworn officers, of which just thirty were women. As Novak chronicles the good and the evil, the lighthearted and the in...

With Malice Aforethought: The Execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti - Hardcover

$38.83

by Theodore W. Grippo (Author)On April 15, 1920, five bandits robbed and killed a paymaster and his guard in a Boston suburb. The police charged Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti with the crime. They were local immigrant workers associated with a detested anarchist group. A year later, a jury convicted Sacco and Vanzetti of murder during a period of anti-communist hysteria in America. They were executed after six years of failed appeals, despite proven misconduct by prosecutors and the jud...

Almost Perfect: The True Story of the Crawford Family Murders - Paperback

$16.15

by Greg Fogarty (Author)On July 2, 1970, tourists in Australia spotted a smashed car, teetering precariously on a cliff edge, overlooking the raging ocean below. It seemed the car would fall into the water at any moment, but the car lingered ... as did a mystery, revealed when police traced the license plate to the Crawford household. Here, the police discovered the shocking truth: a mother and her three children had been murdered, with the husband and father-now missing-the main suspect. Th...

$32.35

by Hilary R. Sessions (Author)While out exercising the afternoon of February 9, 1989, college student Tiffany Sessions disappeared. Her mother, Hilary, frantically tried to find her, but after twenty years, Tiffany is still missing. Where's My Tiffany? is a heartrending glimpse into one mother's struggles to deal with the emotions, hardships, and grief over the loss of her daughter. With intimate detail, Sessions reveals how the case unraveled, from the first moments of Tiffany's disappearanc...

The Woman Who Wasn't There: The True Story of an Incredible Deception - Paperback

$16.99

by Robin Gaby Fisher (Author), Angelo J. Guglielmo (Author)"The Woman Who Wasn't There is a riveting real-life mystery, a probe into the inner depths of humanity. This is a page-turner for every American" (Star Tribune, Minneapolis). Tania Head's astonishing account of her experience on September 11, 2001, was a tale of loss and recovery, of courage and sorrow, of horror and inspiration. It transformed her into one of the great victims and heroes of that tragic day. But there was something ve...

Maximum Risk: True Adventures of a Homeland Security Pilot - Paperback

$18.31

by Rocky Anderson (Author)For more than twenty-three years, Robert Anderson chased drug smugglers and terrorists across a dozen different countries, flying a wide variety of government airplanes and helicopters for the world's largest law enforcement air force. For his entire career as a pilot, he kept a logbook of all his flights, making notes if anything out of the ordinary happened-and it often did. Maximum Risk is a true account of some of his most exciting adventures, working some of the...

Debra Lafave: And Other Infamous Female Teachers - Paperback

$12.13

by Robert Murray (Author)The sorted details of Debra Lafave and other infamous female teachers Number of Pages: 146 Dimensions: 0.31 x 10 x 7.99 IN Publication Date: November 02, 2009

Broken Circle: True Story of Murder and Magic in Indian Country: The Troubled Past and Uncertain Future of the FBI - Paperback

$26.48

by Rodney Barker (Author)Broken Circle recounts "The Chokecherry Massacre," in which three New Mexico high-school students were charged with the murder of two Navajo Indian men, causing a violent, racial street riot that prompted the governor to call out the National Guard. The tensions between whites and Native Americans reached a high in the town of Farmington, New Mexico when three white high school students brutally tortured and killed helpless victims from the neighboring Navajo reservat...

$23.02

by Michael Quinlan (Author)A tragic and riveting true story of teenage obsession, torture, and murder. From Michael Quinlan, staff member of the Louisville Courier-Journal and the only journalist to interview all the parties involved, meticulously recounts the shocking and horrific events surround the murder of twelve-year-old Shandra Sharer by a group of teenage girls.Author BiographyMichael Quinlan is the author of Little Girl Lost. Number of Pages: 320 Dimensions: 0.82 x 8 x 5 IN Publicat...

Ida B. Wells Versus Judge Lynch: The Anti-Lynching Trilogy - Paperback

$22.93

by Joe Henry Mitchell (Illustrator), Joe Henry Mitchell (Author), Ida B. Wells (Author)IDA B. WELLS VERSUS JUDGE LYNCH: The Anti-Lynching Trilogy This book contains three separate works from anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells. At the conclusion of the three volumes, the reader will find an array of photographs depicting lynching victims. This book contains the following works of Ida B. Wells: 1) Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases, 1892]. 2) The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics an...

$21.53

by Pete Noyes (Author)"The Real L.A. Confidential" by Pete Noyes covers more than a half-century of investigative reporting by one of the nation's most honored newsmen. It provides startling new information about some of L.A.'s most notorious cases including the "Black Dahlia," "Bugsy" Siegel, Charles Manson and O.J. Simpson murders. Noyes tells how a bribe paid to a high government official got a condemned rapist off "Death Row." How a serial killer who worked for the Los Angeles Times was a...

Never Flirt with a Femme Fatale - Paperback

$19.44

by P. I. CICI McNair (Author)NEVER FLIRT WITH A FEMME FATALE is two true tales of lust, money and murder, narrated by a female private detective. The setting is the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Sante Kimes is a thrill-seeking psychopath who leads her son on a Vodka-fuelled, blood-soaked crime spree across the country. Cici McNair is her private detective through two murder trials. One in NYC and one in Los Angeles. Melanie Cain is the beautiful Vogue cover girl who unwittingly becomes a dark...

The Hot One: A Memoir of Friendship, Sex, and Murder - Paperback

$17.00

by Carolyn Murnick (Author)A true-crime, coming-of-age story with a tragic twist: a New York editor's quest to uncover the truth about the brutal murder of her wild and seductive friend in a "riveting...and thoughtful examination of how we grow up and apart" (Cosmopolitan).As girls growing up in rural New Jersey in the late 1980s, Ashley and Carolyn had everything in common: two outsiders who loved spending afternoons exploring the woods. Only when the girls attended different high schools di...

El Cazador de Sombras: Un Agente de Los Estados Unidos Infiltra Los Mortales Carteles Criminales de México - Paperback

$16.00

by Hipolito Acosta (Author), Lisa Pulitzer (With)The Spanish edition of The Shadow Catcher: a firsthand look inside U.S. undercover operations targeting the immigrant smuggling, counterfeiting, and drug rings of Mexico's dangerous mafia.Vivir bajo una identidad ficticia y arriesgar su vida eran parte del trabajo diario de Hipólito Acosta, agente del gobierno de los Estados Unidos. Trabajaba regularmente en operaciones clandestinas de gran importancia, infiltrando las bandas criminales de cont...

Gods of Mischief: My Undercover Vendetta to Take Down the Vagos Outlaw Motorcycle Gang - Paperback

$18.99

by George Rowe (Author)This harrowing, no-holds-barred true story is the "brash account of a reformed bad boy's decision to help the federal government take down Green Nation, the Vagos outlaw motorcycle gang" (Kirkus Reviews).Gods of Mischief is the harrowing, no-holds-barred true story of a bad guy turned good who busted open one of the most violent motorcycle gangs in history. George Rowe's gritty and high-octane story offers not only a clear window into the violent world of the motorcycle...

$17.48

by Joe Schwab (Author)Outlaws on the Big River is a true account of the experiences of the Author as he worked the Columbia River as a Wildlife Enforcement Officer for the Oregon State Police. The danger, tedium and humor encountered while matching wits with determined fish poachers and law breakers makes for some interesting reading and insight into a field of Law Enforcement the public knows little about. Accounts date from early 1970s thru the 90s and even after the Author's retirement in ...

War Dogs: The True Story of How Three Stoners from Miami Beach Became the Most Unlikely Gunrunners in History - Paperback

$19.99

by Guy Lawson (Author)Soon to be a major motion picture from the director of The Hangover starring Jonah Hill, the page-turning, behind-closed-doors account of how three kids from Florida became big-time weapons traders for the government and how the Pentagon later turned on them.In January of 2007, three young stoners from Miami Beach were put in charge of a $300 million Department of Defense contract to supply ammunition to the Afghanistan military. Instead of fulfilling the order with high...

$18.99

by Jaycee Dugard (Author)An instant #1 New York Times bestseller--Jaycee Dugard's raw and powerful memoir, her own story of being kidnapped in 1991 and held captive for more than eighteen years. In the summer of June of 1991, I was a normal kid. I did normal things. I had friends and a mother that loved me. I was just like you. Until the day my life was stolen. For eighteen years I was a prisoner. I was an object for someone to use and abuse. For eighteen years I was not allowed to speak my ...

Shadow Catcher: A U.S. Agent Infiltrates Mexico's Deadly Crime Cartels - Paperback

$20.72

by Hipolito Acosta (Author), Lisa Pulitzer (With)In this gritty expos , a firsthand look inside U.S. undercover operations targeting the immigrant smuggling, counterfeiting, and drug rings of Mexico's dangerous mafia. For three decades, U.S. government agent Hipolito Acosta's undercover work against Mexico's mafia routinely made national headlines, and he quickly gained a reputation as a daring crime fighter who sent bad guys to prison, using his intelligence and audacity to stay one step ahe...

$25.33

by Aphrodite Jones (Author)Cincinnati heart surgeoun Darryl Sutorious was spellbound, convinced he'd found the perfect wife. With bewitching hazel eyes and exquisite clothes, Cante Britteon seemed to have stepped straight out of Vogue and into his arms. But their honeymoon didn't last long. Beneath Dante's china-doll facade lured a sceretive, dangerous woman, a man-hater born as Della Faye Hall, whose four previous marriages had been spiced with butcher knives, pistols, vandalized house and l...

Urges: A Chronicle of Serial Killer Larry Hall - Paperback

$29.63

by Christopher Hawley Martin (Author)URGES chronicles Larry DeWayne Hall who, in 1994, confessed to killing four women and young girls; yet Hall has never been convicted of murder. Police in some jurisdictions believe Hall may have killed 40 or more women and young girls in a dozen states. How was this mild-mannered janitor able to kill with impunity for years? What psychopathy drove Larry Hall to sadistic sexual murder? How was Hall able to lure so many young women into his clutches? Why did...

Handbook of Transnational Crime and Justice - Paperback

$180.00

by Philip Reichel (Author), Jay Albanese (Author)Transnational crime and justice will characterize the 21st century in same way that traditional street crimes dominated the 20th century. In the Handbook of Transnational Crime and Justice, Philip Reichel and Jay Albanese bring together top scholars from around the world to offer perspectives on the laws, crimes, and criminal justice responses to transnational crime. This concise, reader-friendly handbook is organized logically around four majo...

$16.99

by David Kushner (Author)From award-winning journalist David Kushner, a regular contributor to Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair, Alligator Candy is "a raw story about courage, survival, and most certainly about love" (Tampa Bay Times Number of Pages: 256 Dimensions: 0.6 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: March 21, 2017

$31.36

by Larry Crompton (Author)This book is based on the actual case of the East Area Rapist, later also known as the Original Night Stalker, a masked man who terrorized California communities for ten years; 1976 through 1986, and possibly to this day. Because I was not involved in the initial rape investigations, they are written from hundreds of reports, notes, memos, newspaper clippings, conversations and interviews with those who were involved. The crimes are factual. The crimes are real. Whil...

$33.39

by John E. Douglas (Author), Mark Olshaker (Author)In Obsession, John Douglas once again takes us fascinatingly behind the scenes, focusing his expertise on predatory crimes, primarily against women. With a deep sense of compassion for the victims and an uncanny understanding of the perpetrators, Douglas looks at the obsessions that lead to rape, stalking, and sexual murder through such cases as Ronnie Shelton, the serial rapist who terrorized Cleveland; and New York's notorious "Preppie Mur...

$27.99

by Robert K. Tanenbaum (Author), Philip Rosenberg (Author)They were just doing their jobs -- serving and protecting -- when the unimaginable happened: Officers Waverly Jones and Joseph Piagentini became moving targets, ambushed from behind at a Manhattan housing project. Jones lay dead in a pool of his own blood, and Piagentini lived long enough to beg for his life -- before he was riddled with twenty-two bullet holes by members of a deadly hit squad hell-bent on taking out the men and women ...

Unholy Messenger: The Life and Crimes of the Btk Serial Killer - Paperback

$23.99

by Stephen Singular (Author)Behind a façade of Midwestern normalcy, Dennis Rader hid a life of bloodlust, sadism, and murder beyond imagining. The upstanding family man, Scout leader, and church board president was well liked and trusted by his Wichita community. Kansans -- and all of America -- would never recover from the truth: He was BTK, the madman who bound, tortured, and killed ten victims over the course of three decades. Drawing on extensive interviews, including exclusive access to ...

Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson - Paperback

$19.99

by Jeff Guinn (Author)The New York Times bestselling, authoritative account of the life of Charles Manson, filled with surprising new information and previously unpublished photographs: "A riveting, almost Dickensian narrative...four stars" (People).More than forty years ago Charles Manson and his mostly female commune killed nine people, among them the pregnant actress Sharon Tate. It was the culmination of a criminal career that author Jeff Guinn traces back to Manson's childhood. Guinn int...

Transnational Organized Crime: An Overview from Six Continents - Paperback

$134.46

by Jay Albanese (Author), Philip Reichel (Author)Transnational Organized Crime: An Overview from Six Continents explores the expansive topic of transnational organized crime, incorporating expert perspectives found throughout the world's six inhabited continents: North America, Central and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania. Editors Jay S. Albanese and Philip L. Reichel gather the knowledge and expertise of numerous authors, researchers, and practitioners in this field who are e...