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by Shaun D. Mullen (Author)Eddie Joubert's midlife crisis had arrived right on schedule. He fell hard for the Poconos, a resort area in Pennsylvania where he bought a rundown tavern that became a magnet for an eclectic clientele that ranged from world-class jazz musicians to bikers to returning Vietnam War veterans. But the Poconos held a dark secret. When Joubert was hacked to death in 1981, it was yet another in a series of gruesome unsolved murders and puzzling deaths involving hippies, ga...
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by Jim Chandler (Author)On a desolate country road in rural West Tennessee early one morning in 1993, a young male motorist was hijacked, robbed and slaughtered by three local people, one a young woman. This book, written by a news reporter who covered every facet of the case, details that terrible crime.Author BiographyJim Chandler is a retired newspaper reporter and a native of McKenzie, Tennessee. His poems and stories have appeared in numerous small and literary magazines in America and a...
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by Michael Morell (Author), Bill Harlow (With)Like See No Evil and At the Center of the Storm, this is a vivid and gripping account of the Central Intelligence Agency, a life of secrets, and a war in the shadows. Called the "Bob Gates of his generation" by Politico, Michael Morell was a top CIA officer who played a critical role in the most important counterterrorism events of the past two decades. Morell was by President Bush's side on 9/11/01 when terrorists struck America and in the White...
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by James Patterson (Author), John Connolly (Author), Tim Malloy (With)You've read the Jeffrey Epstein headlines, now get the full story. The world's bestselling author, James Patterson, has written the definitive book on the billionaire pedophile at the center of the newly unsealed federal sex crimes case. Jeffrey Epstein rose from humble origins into the New York City and Palm Beach elite. A college dropout with an instinct for numbers -- and for people -- Epstein amassed his wealth through...
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by Katja Pumm (Author)"If he was not guilty, he would not be in prison," so the argument goes about inmates. And yet, DNA evidence frees two or more innocent prisoners each month in the United States of America. But, the great majority of the wrongly convicted cannot make use of this forensic science because there is none to test or for other reasons. African-American Vincent Simmons is one of them. In 1977, white minor twin sisters reported a "black man" had raped them. Before the police mad...
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by Teresa Holloway (Author), Marcelle Harwell (Author)The murder trial of Ouida Keeton was the most sensational case in the history of Mississippi.
Number of Pages: 264
Dimensions: 0.55 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN
Publication Date: December 06, 2010
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by Anita Raghavan (Author)Just as WASPs, Irish-Catholics and Our Crowd Jews once made the ascent from immigrants to powerbrokers, it is now the Indian-American's turn. Citigroup, PepsiCo and Mastercard are just a handful of the Fortune 500 companies led by a group known as the "Twice Blessed." Yet little is known about how these Indian emigres (and children of emigres) rose through the ranks. Until now... The collapse of the Galleon Group--a hedge fund that managed more than $7 billion in as...
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by John Stark Bellamy II (Author)All murders are not created equal. There are epoch-making homicides like the O. J. Simpson bloodbath or the Lizzie Borden horror-and then there are all the rest. The 1898 murder of George D. Saxton wasn't one of the rest-it had everything: Saxton, a Social Register victim with a sordid love-life; Anna George, the femme fatale suspect from the gutter where he'd kicked her-and loads of sex, sensation and a slam-bang surprise ending. Not to mention the President ...
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by Tony Ray Harvey (Author)AS FAR AS FITTING THE STEREOTYPES bestowed to infamous chain-link murderers that exist outside African American culture, there was a time when black serial killers were recognized, to some extent, implausible by purported experts who probably cared not to explore the primary nature of the slayers' transgressions. Nevertheless, the obscured story of handyman Morris Solomon Jr. has to be one of the most interesting tales untold as it is one of the most horrific yarns ...
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by Lee Mellor (Author)Lee Mellor has gathered more than 25 of Canada's most lethal mass and spree killers into a single work. Rampage details their grisly crimes, delves into their twisted psyches, and dissects their motivations to answer the question every true crime lover yearns to know: why?Author BiographyLee Mellor was born in the United Kingdom and raised in southern Ontario. The author of Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder, he is also a noted singer-songwriter. Currently, he is...
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by Jon Wells (Author)Award-winning Hamilton Spectator journalist Jon Wells delivers four blockbuster murder stories, taking readers up close into multiple homicide investigations, the agony of victims and their loved ones, and into the heart of darkness of cold-blooded killers.Author BiographyJon Wells has published five true crime books, including Post-Mortem, nominated for an Arthur Ellis Award. Born in Montreal and raised in London, Ontario, he writes for the Hamilton Spectator and has won...
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by John Cooper (Author)Desperate, Hermann Beier of Alliston, Ontario, turned to bank robbery in the early 1990s to pay his mounting bills and ended up being pursued in what became at the time the longest police chase in Canadian history. Gunned down in a hail of bullets, Beier lived to tell the tale and gain a chance to restart his life.Author BiographyJohn Cooper has published a number of books on African-Canadian history, including Rapid Ray: The Story of Ray Lewis and Season of Rage: Hugh ...
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by Bob Briggs (Author) On March 8, 1954, while battling post partum depression, a 24 year old Maine housewife drowned her three children in a bathtub before attempting suicide. After spending only 5 years at the Augusta State Hospital, Constance Fisher was released from the institution. Her release marked the beginnings of a new era in the treatment of the mentally ill in America, as the nation moved to phase out the large state run mental hospitals. On June 30, 1966, Constance Fisher aga...
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by Bob Briggs (Author) On March 8, 1954, while battling post partum depression, a 24 year old Maine housewife drowned her three children in a bathtub before attempting suicide. After spending only 5 years at the Augusta State Hospital, Constance Fisher was released from the institution. Her release marked the beginnings of a new era in the treatment of the mentally ill in America, as the nation moved to phase out the large state run mental hospitals. On June 30, 1966, Constance Fisher aga...
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by Diana Washington Valdez (Author), Leonel Monroy (Photographer), Robert Locke (Editor)Hundreds of girls and young women are brutally killed or missing in Juarez, Mexico, and no one does anything about it. Most of the victims come from poor families. This explosive book reveals who is killing them and why. Across the border from El Paso, Texas, serial killers, drug dealers, gangs, and powerful men are getting away with murder. During this dangerous investigation, people wanting to help were ...
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by Michael Arntfield (Author)Like the mythic cities of Gotham or Gomorrah, London, Ontario was for many years an unrivalled breeding ground of depravity and villainy, the difference being that its monsters were all too real. In its coming to inherit the unwanted distinction of being the serial killer capital of not just Canada-but apparently also the world during this dark age in the city's sordid history- the crimes seen in London over this quarter-century period remain unparalleled and for ...
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by Michael Arntfield (Author)Like the mythic cities of Gotham or Gomorrah, London, Ontario was for many years an unrivalled breeding ground of depravity and villainy, the difference being that its monsters were all too real. In its coming to inherit the unwanted distinction of being the serial killer capital of not just Canada-but apparently also the world during this dark age in the city's sordid history- the crimes seen in London over this quarter-century period remain unparalleled and for ...
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by June Ti (Author)Organized stalking is carried out by an enthusiastic and structured group that has cruel intentions: stalk, harass, injure, financially ruin, and mentally crumple human prey until incapacitation occurs. What sets this crime apart is that innocents are picked off the street. There is no getting away from the stalkers and no getting away from the unusual technology that is used to take over someone's life."For the first couple of months," says June, "I thought it was a sick g...
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by Lorna Poplak (Author)Shining a light on the dark history of hangings in Canada.Take a journey through notable cases in Canada's criminal justice history, featuring well-known and some less-well-known figures from the past. You'll meet Arthur Ellis, Canada's most famous hangman, whose work outfit was a frock coat and striped trousers, often with a flower pinned to his lapel. And you will also encounter other memorable characters, including the man who was hanged twice and the gun-toting boo...
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by Stacey Webb (Author)Do you listen to your intuition?Even when you know following it will result in your life-changing forever. Or do you later wish you had followed your intuition after realizing you have been avoiding and ignoring it out of fear? No one knows this better than Stacey Webb A police officer for fifteen years, thirteen as a detective, and with a passion to assist people experiencing trauma, Stacey Webb shows how she has been guided by her intuition in her personal and profess...
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by Josh Ouellette (Author)On September 1, 1997, Ronald Lougheed's body was discovered in a wooded area in Windsor, Ontario. He had been shot in the head with a single .22 caliber bullet. Initially, the police had few leads, but things started to come together when a local salvage yard operator informed them of a 1979 White Buick Riviera with traces of blood inside. The blood matched Lougheed's. After arresting and interrogating the vehicle's owner, Ken Legace, a member of Windsor's West End G...
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by Brett Douglas (Author)In 1979, Brett Douglas was a twenty-eight-year-old US Marine Corps veteran working as a commercial tuna fisherman in California. That year, a young man named Bruce Perlowin came looking for professional seamen and found a few, including the author. The fishermen he recruited became a crew that played an integral part in smuggling more than 250 tons of marijuana that FBI agents credited to the "Perlowin Conspiracy." The Golden Gate Smuggling Company provides a true, be...
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by Brett Douglas (Author)In 1979, Brett Douglas was a twenty-eight-year-old US Marine Corps veteran working as a commercial tuna fisherman in California. That year, a young man named Bruce Perlowin came looking for professional seamen and found a few, including the author. The fishermen he recruited became a crew that played an integral part in smuggling more than 250 tons of marijuana that FBI agents credited to the "Perlowin Conspiracy." The Golden Gate Smuggling Company provides a true, be...
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by Anne E. Schwartz (Author)The Milwaukee Journal reporter who broke the Dahmer story spans the entire case, describing the dramatic scene when police first entered Dahmer's apartment; the fascinating science of forensics and how it was used to identify 16 victims; Dahmer's childhood; the personal stories of the victims' families; and much more. 16 pages of photographs.Back JacketOne night in July of 1991, two policemen saw a man running handcuffed from the apartment of Jeffrey Dahmer. Invest...
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by Ken Lang (Author)In his debut release, former homicide detective, Ken Lang, transports you from your cozy, comfy chair to the cold, hard streets surrounding Baltimore, Maryland. Witness first hand the vicious brutality that a human being can inflict onto another, search for that one piece of evidence needed to solidify a conviction, and desperately try to indentify a shooting victim whose mangled and burnt body is found at a scene where no clues are left behind. A revealing glimpse of the ...
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by Gabriel H. Bailey (Author)Murder or Justifiable Homicide? Life Sentence or Death Sentence? Lethal Gas or Injection? From the beginning, Brunswick County has seen evil epitomized through horrendous murders. U. S. Marshal Samuel Lilly and Detective Leon George were gunned down trying to shut down a still in 1924...just one of several murdered law enforcement officers. A plane crash in Bolivia killed all on board and was deemed deliberate... Nearly every community has seen the love triangle t...
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by Robert J. Kelly (Author)From Damon Runyan's colorful tough guys in black shirts and white ties to recent media coverage of John Gotti, the dapper don', public depictions of racketeers in the United States have drawn attention away from the true nature of organized crime and its extensive penetrations into mainstream business. The Upperworld and the Underworld: Case Studies of Racketeering and Business Infiltrations in the United States strips away the romantic patina and reveals the signi...
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by Ivey Nance (Author)Was it murder in Coweta County or manslaughter in Meriwether? Sixty-one years later, people are still asking that question. From the Farm to the Electric Chair has no Saints within its pages. This book is not for the faint of heart. It's a tale of corruption, greed, envy and the length that man will go to because of it. It's a sad, tragic tale of justice gone awry in a small southern town in Georgia that affected the entire population of two counties. This is a true stor...
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by Tom Walker (Author)More than thirty years ago, Tom Walker published Fort Apache: New York's Most Violent Precinct, introducing the world to the 4-1, a South Bronx precinct that was home to more murders than the entire city of San Francisco. To this day, his story about life as police lieutenant in the 4-1 precinct remains the definitive account of the vicious cycle of violence that griped urban America in the late twentieth century. The battle between criminals and law enforcement did not ...
