True Crime

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Good Cop, Bad Cop: Joseph Trimboli Vs Michael Dowd and the NY Police Department - Paperback

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by Mike McAlary (Author)Award-winning journalist Mike McAlary pulls the curtain and reveals the details of a disturbing case of police corruption based on the confession of NYPD officer Michael Dowd and the testimony of Sergeant Joseph Trimboli, the detective investigating the case and a key witness. New York City investigators sat in stunned disbelief as rogue NYPD police officer Michael Dowd recounted the criminal activities perpetrated by his band of corrupt fellow cops, from drug dealing...

Murder in the Bayou: Who Killed the Women Known as the Jeff Davis 8? - Paperback

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by Ethan Brown (Author)A New York Times Bestseller & the Basis for the Hit Showtime Docuseries A Southern Living Book of the Year "Part murder case, part corruption exposé, and part Louisiana noir" (New York magazine), Murder in the Bayou chronicles the twists and turns of a high-stakes investigation into the murders of eight women in a troubled Louisiana parish. Between 2005 and 2009, the bodies of eight women were discovered around the murky canals and crawfish ponds of Jennings, Louis...

Finding Jacob Wetterling: The 27-Year Investigation from Kidnapping to Confession - Paperback

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by Robert M. Dudley (Author)In October 1989, 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling was abducted near his home in the small town of St. Joseph, Minnesota. Despite an unparalleled effort to find him, his whereabouts remained a mystery for 27 years--until his kidnapper, arrested on another charge, confessed to Wetterling's murder and led authorities to his buried remains in September 2016. Wetterling's disappearance--and the national media attention that followed--had far-reaching effects. No longer was ...

Corruption Officer: From Jail Guard to Perpetrator Inside Rikers Island - Paperback

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by Gary L. Heyward (Author)In this shocking memoir from a former corrections officer, Gary Heyward shares an eye-opening, gritty, and devastating account of his descent into criminal life, smuggling contraband inside the infamous Rikers Island jails. Gary Heyward's life changed forever when he received a letter from the New York City Department of Corrections announcing he was accepted into the academy for new recruits. For the Harlem-born ex-Marine, being an officer of the law was the ticket...

Murders, Mysteries and History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania 1800 - 1956 - Paperback

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by Don Hilton (Author)Who doesn't love a good homicide? Murders, Mysteries and History pulls 150 years of forgotten crimes straight from the pages of yesterday's news and stirs them in a historical mix to produce a book like no other. Get the scoop on more than a hundred real-life murders and unsolved killings. Vics, suspects, perps. Judges and juries. Jails and penitentiaries. Hangings, electrocutions and nothing less than simply getting away with murder. Sometimes brutal, often haunting, al...

True Crime Parallels to the Mysteries of Agatha Christie - Paperback

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by Anne Powers (Author)Outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare, the works of Agatha Christie stand as some of the most celebrated crime fiction of our era. This book takes ten of her most famous works and shows their relationship to ten of crime history's most famous and sensational cases--cases whose notoriety still resounds to this day. Addressing both novels and short stories, the author illuminates the relationship between Christie's Murder on the Orient Express and the sensational Lind...

Mob Girl: A Woman's Life in the Underworld - Paperback

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by Teresa Carpenter (Author)From Pulitzer Prize winner Teresa Carpenter comes the captivating true-crime story of a Mafia moll--"the female counterpart of the pseudonymous Henry Hill, the star of Wiseguy....An insider's view of mob life that is by turns comic and chilling" (Los Angeles Times). Arlyne Weiss grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the daughter of a Jewish mobster who ran an auto sales business as a front. From a young age she idolized Virginia Hill, the girlfriend of gangs...

Newtown: An American Tragedy - Paperback

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by Matthew Lysiak (Author)A journalist for The Daily News (New York) offers a "meticulous account of the Newtown massacre and its aftermath....it's been a year, and this harrowing book might be a reminder that the debate needs reviving" (Kirkus Reviews). The world mourned the devastating shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14, 2012. We remember the numbers: twenty children and six adults, murdered in a place of nurture and trust. We remember the names...

The Ripper's Victims in Print: The Rhetoric of Portrayals Since 1929 - Paperback

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by Rebecca Frost (Author)Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Katherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly--the five known victims of Jack the Ripper--are among the most written-about women in history. Hundreds of books on the Ripper murders describe their deaths in detail. Yet they themselves remain as mysterious as their murderer. This first ever study of the victims surveys the Ripper literature to reveal what is known about their lives, how society viewed them at the time of their ...

Mean Justice: A Town's Terror, a Prosecutor's Power, a Betrayal of Innocence - Paperback

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by Edward Humes (Author)Deep in the heartland of California lies a city on the cutting edge of the nation's war on crime. Besieged by spectacular crimes in which pillars of the community were accused of murder, rape and the most vile conspiracies, Bakersfield found its saviors in a band of bold and savvy prosecutors. They descended on the courthouse like avenging angels, winning their cases, forging sweeping new laws and creating one of the toughest towns on crime in America -- a model for th...

The Man from the Train: Discovering America's Most Elusive Serial Killer - Paperback

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by Bill James (Author), Rachel McCarthy James (Author)An Edgar Award finalist for Best Fact Crime, this "impressive...open-eyed investigative inquiry wrapped within a cultural history of rural America" (The Wall Street Journal) shows legendary statistician and baseball writer Bill James applying his analytical acumen to crack an unsolved century-old mystery surrounding one of the deadliest serial killers in American history. Between 1898 and 1912, families across the country were bludgeoned i...

A Crossing of Paths: The True Untold Story of the Hillside Strangler Case - Paperback

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by Ron Crisp (Author)If you like first person accounts of true crime stories, you will love this book. I invite the reader to follow me through my investigation of the Leslie Barry murder; the trial of Art Anzures for the murder; the evidence that led me to my 3 suspects; how my investigation of the Barry murder led me to the defense of Angelo Buono in the Hillside Strangler case; and what happened in my personal life as a result of my attempts to expose the systematic cover-up in California ...

The Manson Family on Film and Television - Paperback

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by Ian Cooper (Author)For half a century the Manson Family has captured the public imagination--the lurid, inexplicable violence in a glamorous Hollywood setting, the bizarre and lengthy trials, and Charles Manson's strange charisma and willingness to embrace the role of evil icon. For years, the story has been documented, dramatized and lampooned in dozens of films and television programs. This comprehensive study examines the various on-screen portrayals, from factual accounts based on pros...

Chasing Frank and Jesse James: The Bungled Northfield Bank Robbery and the Long Manhunt - Paperback

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by Wayne Fanebust (Author)Frank and Jesse James, the infamous brothers from Missouri, rode with marauding Confederate guerrillas during the Civil War. Having learned to kill and raid without compunction, they easily transitioned from rebels to outlaws after the war, robbing stagecoaches, banks and trains in Missouri and surrounding states. It was a botched bank robbery in Northfield, Minnesota, followed by an improbable escape through the Dakota Territory and Iowa, that elevated the James bro...

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by Ty Treadwell (Author)Robert Vickers killed his prison cellmate because the other man drank his Kool-Aid. Varnall Weeks believed that after his execution he would be reincarnated as a giant turtle who would rule the universe. Hit man and former Elvis impersonator James Paster tried to escape from his cell by slathering himself with hair tonic and squeezing through a tiny air vent.Death Row's Oddest Inmates features 13 of the most bizarre and unique killers the prison system has ever seen. M...

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by Timothy B. Tyson (Author)This extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement--the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till--"and demands that we do the one vital thing we aren't often enough asked to do with history: learn from it" (The Atlantic). * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * Longlisted for the National Book Award * Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award *An NPR, Los Angeles Times, and Atlanta Journal-Constituti...

Run, Brother, Run: A Memoir of a Murder in My Family - Paperback

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by David Berg (Author)A searing family memoir, hailed as "remarkable" (The New York Times), "compelling" (People), and "engrossing" (Kirkus Reviews), of a trial lawyer's tempestuous boyhood in Texas that led to the vicious murder of his brother by the fath Number of Pages: 272 Dimensions: 0.65 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: June 10, 2014

The Case of the Drowning Men: Investigating the Smiley Face Serial Murder Theory: [Discount B&W Edition] - Paperback

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by Eponymous Rox (Author)The police are calling them accidents. They say young men are simply drinking too much and meeting a tragic end in icy lakes and rivers. But the public thinks something else has been going on in America's northland since 1997. They're calling the sudden disappearances of hundreds of college-age men mysterious. They're calling the drownings murder. Special Black & White Illustrated Discounted Edition] Number of Pages: 150 Dimensions: 0.32 x 10 x 7.01 IN Publicatio...

Death of a Policeman Birth of a Baby: A Crime and Its Aftermath - Paperback

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by T. Felder Dorn (Author) Number of Pages: 230 Dimensions: 0.52 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: July 30, 2012

Death of a Policeman Birth of a Baby: A Crime and Its Aftermath - Hardcover

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by T. Felder Dorn (Author) Number of Pages: 230 Dimensions: 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: July 30, 2012

Impossible Odds: The Kidnapping of Jessica Buchanan and Her Dramatic Rescue by SEAL Team Six - Paperback

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by Jessica Buchanan (Author), Erik Landemalm (Author), Anthony Flacco (Author)A New York Times bestseller In 2006, twenty-seven-year-old Jessica Buchanan stepped off a plane in Nairobi, Kenya, with a teaching degree and long-held dreams of helping to educate African children. By 2009, she had met and married a native Swede named Erik Landemalm, who worked to coordinate humanitarian aid with authorities in Africa. Together the two moved from Nairobi to Somalia, and with hopes of starting a fa...

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by McGinniss (Author)The shocking true story of greed, murder, and a family torn apart. At thirty-nine, Nancy Kissel had it all: glamour, gusto, garishly flaunted wealth, and the royal lifestyle of the expatriate wife. Not to mention three young children and what a friend described as the best marriage in the universe. That marriage--to Merrill Lynch and former Goldman Sachs investment banker Robert Kissel--ended abruptly one November night in 2003 in the bedroom of their luxury apartment hig...

K9 Commando: Police and Army Dogs from New York to Berlin - Paperback

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by Violetta Kovacs (Author)K9 Commando: Police and Army Dogs from New York to Berlin Dogs have much to teach us humans about selflessness, loyalty and incorruptibility. As crime-fighters aiding the police, Special Forces dogs, in particular, heed the call of duty with all the courage that their owners and fellow officers have. Author Violetta Kovacs presents 12 true and touching stories of these brave, tough, smart and beautiful animals in her latest book, K9 Commando: Police and Army Dogs fr...

Property Cop, the Patrol: My Time in the Concrete Jungle of Phoenix, Arizona - Paperback

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by Timothy W. Newton (Author)When criminal justice student Timothy Newton applied for work in private policing of a group of apartment complexes, he found himself in an abyss of urban warfare, pitting law enforcement against gangs, and law and order against out-of-control crime. Newton became a man on a mission: to create a safe and crime-free environment for honest, law-abiding citizens in the most violent policing precinct in Phoenix. In Property Cop, Newton shows how the war on drugs can b...

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by Garrett Campbell (Introduction by), Garrett Campbell (Author)Ever wonder if the heavens act in synchronicity with physical events happening on the Earth? This book attempts to do just that - analyzing crimes. Astrology is a language all to it's own and to read a birth chart is to see correspondences in the symbolism in that chart pertaining to life on Earth. Using this language, the author attempts to find explanations to crimes that continue to baffle and mystify us. What were the alignme...

Sexual Assault [Rape]: Moving from Victim to Survivor - Informative Guide - Paperback

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by Lizyvette Ramos Ma (Author)Sexual Assault Rape]: Moving from Victim to Survivor is a collection of facts that encompasses social, psychological, and legal aspects created to help you if you are a victim of sexual assault, or if you are part of a vulnerable population (college students, sexual minorities, military, and human trafficking victims). Also, use this book if you are the family, friend, or professional caring for someone who has been sexually assaulted (nurses, physicians, mental...

To Hell I Must Go: The True Story of Michigan's Lizzie Borden - Paperback

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by Rod Sadler (Author)On a cool, spring day in 1897, Alfred Haney left his Williamston, Michigan home to earn a day's wage. He knew his wife's peculiar behavior had become more frequent, and he had planned on her seeing the town doctor, but she assured him she was feeling much better. They would go the following day instead. When he returned home later that day, he discovered a macabre murder so bizarre that it shook the entire community to its core. His mother's severed head was set on the d...

American Hooker: 5 Days on 4th Street - Paperback

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by Jonathan Lockwood (Author)Step into the uncertain night....with some of the people who know it best. Ladies of the Evening inhabit every city in America. Some are old, some are young. They come in all shapes and sizes and their reasons for doing what they do are as varied as the women themselves. The subject of this book is Prostitution, the definition of which is simple... Prostitution is sex for money. NO, it is not simple.... AMERICAN HOOKER is a glimpse inside that world for 10 differe...

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by George Dapra (Author) Non-DisclosureIn the compelling memoir Non-Disclosure, author George Dapra draws fascinating connections between the struggles of immigrants settling in the United States, like his Italian parents, and those who enter the United States Marshal's Witness Security Program. Dapra was an inspector for the program in New York City--at the height of the government's war against organized crime.Non-Disclosure begins with Dapra's childhood in a large Italian American family a...

Behind the Green Curtain: True Crime Stories from Mendocino County - Paperback

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by Bruce McEwen (Contribution by), Ronald Rhea (Contribution by), Mark Scaramella (Contribution by)Another collection of true crime stories from the pages of the Anderson Valley Advertiser, Mendocino County's newspaper of record. Number of Pages: 320 Dimensions: 0.67 x 8.5 x 5.51 IN Publication Date: August 04, 2012

Surviving Heartbreak Valley: A wrenching true tale of horrific loss-murders, love, obsession, stalking, and surviving through faith! - Paperback

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by Linda Walls (Author)A wrenching true tale of horrific loss, Surviving Heartbreak Valley is the story of a woman whose four young children were murdered on the day she graduated college. She somehow finds the strength and courage to go on with life. She became an outspoken advocate, conducting seminars, speaking to organizations and groups, appearing on the Oprah Winfrey Show and in a Diane Sawyer documentary. Less A wrenching true tale of horrific loss, Surviving Heartbreak Valley is the s...

A Slayer Waits: The true story of a Michigan double murder - Paperback

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by Rod Sadler (Author)A Slayer Waits In September, 1955, Nealy Buchanan, a trustee at the State Prison of Southern Michigan, was denied parole. Because of his trustee status, he was assigned to pick up local trash from area farms in a prison truck, which provided the perfect opportunity to escape. Running out of gas near the small town of Stockbridge, Michigan and continuing on foot, he hid out inside the barn of Howard and Myra Herrick, an elderly farm couple. Buchanon was planning to steal ...