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Chilling Cold Blooded Killer Kids - Paperback

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by Angela L. Wilson (Author), Cathy Cavarzan (Author)Most people don't want to believe that children are capable of killing their parents; however, it happens more frequently than we can imagine. So, what motivates a child to kill their own parents? Research has indicated that there are three types of children who do the unthinkable. One type is the child who has been severely abused and cannot think of another way out of their abusive home life. Another type is a severely mentally ill child,...

Jan: The Youngest Woman Sentenced to Georgia's Death Row - Paperback

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by Jodi McDaniel Lowery (Author)Imagine waking up one morning at the age of 18 and realizing that you have just become the youngest woman in Georgia awaiting the electric chair. Just hours after her birth, Janice Buttrum was sold by her prostitute mother to an alcoholic couple who raised her in squalor. Janice soon found herself a product of the foster care system. At the age of 15, she married her knight in shining armor, 26-year-old Danny Buttrum, and quickly became the victim of domestic a...

Eula: The First Woman in Georgia to be Sentenced to the Electric Chair - Paperback

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by Jodi McDaniel Lowery (Author)Eula was born an Elrod but used several last names during her tumultuous life, some legally, others questionable. Although few considered Eula "drop dead gorgeous," she used her female wit and wiles to persuade men to do her bidding. She was accused of bootlegging (illegally transporting moonshine from Tennessee to Georgia), robbery, conspiracy, bigamy, running a house of prostitution, and murder-all before she was 25 years old. Eula's father reportedly told a ...

The Mob and the Kennedy Assassination: Jack Ruby.Testimony by Mobsters Lewis McWillie, Joseph Campisi and Irwin Weiner - Paperback

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by Stuart Moulden (Author)A look at Jack Ruby, the man who killed Lee Harvey Oswald, from the men who knew him as told through federal testimony. Number of Pages: 416 Dimensions: 0.85 x 10 x 7.99 IN Publication Date: April 06, 2012

Fifty-Seven Pieces of the Cloudcroft Puzzle ...Some Secrets of the Sacramento Mountains, and other New Mexico Law Enforcement Stories... - Paperback

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by Billy Anders (Author)THE SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS MAY HIDE YOU BUT THE COPS WILL FIND YOU ... Fifty-seven of 80 'Pieces of the Puzzle' stories written over nine years by retired Sgt Billy Anders of the Otero County NM Sheriff's Office for the Cloudcroft, New Mexico, Mountain Monthly newspaper ...the first sent from a Santa Fe maximum security prison cell True-life tales of a deputy's life in remote mountains at the lower tip of the Rockies, southern New Mexico; and other reflections... Thousa...

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by Warren Robinson (Author)This is the true story of two young men of the Georgia frontier who met by chance for the first time on the night of April 26th, 1909. One was black, one was white. Fate brought their paths together at a railroad depot in the new town of Lenox, Georgia and neither man would walk away from that encounter. This story is suspenseful with many twists and turns and covers more than 100 years of Georgia history during the 20th century, including many ironic discoveries. W...

Perpetual Cover-Up: President John F. Kennedy's Assassination Mystery - Hardcover

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by Frank A. Cellura (Author)Perpetual Cover-Up is the product of a lifelong endeavor of Attorney Frank A. Cellura to solve the mystery of the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. It is a riveting, compelling, hard-hitting volume that is based upon logical analysis and fact-based research. In convincing fashion, Mr. Cellura describes the criminal conspiracy orchestrated by New Orleans Mafia capo, Carlos Marcello, that was followed by a concerted effort of the U.S. government and th...

Tough Love XXX: Drugs, Guns and Domestic Violence. Based on a True Story. - Paperback

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by Max Dooley (Author)It's 1971 in Sydney's Western Suburbs "Hard Times" and at 17 years of age Margo has fallen pregnant. Tough Love XXX follows Margo's struggle as a single parent. Tough Love XXX follows the lives of my parents through their struggles and turmoil of those awkward teenage years through to the hard times of adulthood. The drugs, jail time and a long time association with one of Australia's leading Motorcycle Clubs showing the harsh reality of a lifestyle people don't hear abo...

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by Jeff Beach (Author), Fred W. Hogan (Joint Author)Rubin Carter and John Artis Had Been Knocked Down... But what prosecutors who built a highly questionable case against the famous middleweight boxer and his teenage acquaintance in the 1966 Lafayette Bar and Grille triple murders in Paterson, New Jersey, did not count on was a young investigator from the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender who was willing to devote his free time, talent and energies to picking apart the case built on "e...

The Rape That Lasted a Lifetime: Does It Ever End? - Paperback

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by Jodi Morley (Author)My worst nightmare came true almost 18 years ago. My story begins after being brutally raped in college. It describes the aftermath immediately after the rape. However, it also details the struggles with Major Depression, Anxiety, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder that has followed me throughout my life and into adulthood. It explains how difficult it is to maneuver in the mental health community. Number of Pages: 68 Dimensions: 0.16 x 7.99 x 5 IN Publication Date: Decembe...

Organized Crime (Large Print Edition): The Unvarnished Truth About Government - Paperback

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by Thomas J. Dilorenzo (Author)LARGE PRINT EDITION More at LargePrintLiberty.com. Politics and thieves, coercion and regulation, fascism and the Fed, centralization and liberty, workers and unions, trade and freedom, free-market achievements and government disasters in American history-this book covers it all Organized Crime collection of essays in the tradition of Austrian political economy-a combination of applied economics and the study of governmental reality. Unlike "mainstream" economi...

Foxtrot, We're on the Way! ... San Antonio, Texas, Police Department Helicopter Stories, a Memoir... - Paperback

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by Billy Anders (Author)True stories - real life drama - of Foxtrot, the San Antonio, Texas, Police Department aviation unit formed in the 1970s, today called Blue Eagle... Between 1975 and 1981, the author, a police officer and commercial pilot, helped pioneer the use of helicopters in law enforcement. There were few universal procedures. Flight crews raced to intercept high speed chases, searched for homicide victims, and engaged in a few shenanigans. Read these actual accounts and more......

O.I.S. After the Trigger's Pulled - Paperback

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by Lt Jim Byler (Author)Police officer shootings dominate the headlines on an almost daily basis. Go beyond the superficial reporting, and find out what really happens when an officer makes the ultimate decision to use deadly force. After The Trigger's Pulled tells the story of one law enforcement family, a father and his two sons, who stunningly have found themselves in life and death situations. In order to survive a deadly encounter, each one had to point their guns at another human being ...

The Top Serial Killers Of Our Time (Volume 4): True Crime Committed By The World's Most Notorious Serial Killers - Paperback

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by Jason Krueger (Author)For some reason I've always been fascinated by crime, particularly serial killers and what makes them "tick". Some if not all of the acts performed by human beings in this publication are so despicable that they seem impossible to believe. Unfortunately the contents contained within are not part of some fictional script for a future Hollywood movie, they are factual This volume features the following murderers: Mohammed Bijeh Donato Bilancia Jeffrey Dahmer Vladimir K...

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by David B. Whitehurst (Author)This true story splashed all over the news on November 21, 2004. A deer hunter shot eight and killed six other deer hunters including a young woman. In the Blue Hills east of Rice Lake, Wisconsin, Chai Soua Vang―caught trespassing on private property and occupying another hunter's tree stand―became infuriated and exploded into a rampage after being tongue-lashed by the property owner. Anguished over marital and financial woes, exhausted by working two full-time ...

Pierre VS The New York Times: Media Lies and Disinformation in the Brutal Slaughter of 230 On Board TWA Flight 800 - Paperback

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by Patrick Harris (Author)The evening of July 27th, 1996 started out as just another pleasant, balmy summers night in the Hamptons, but soon turned into one of the worst nightmares in New York City history. TWA 800, a nonstop flight from New York to Paris, exploded spectacularly over the Atlantic, ten miles off the coast of Long Island. Many of the locals rushed to save survivors of the crash, but their efforts were in vain, because all on board had perished in the explosion and subsequent in...

Pierre VS The New York Times: Media Lies and Disinformation in the Brutal Slaughter of 230 On Board TWA Flight 800 - Hardcover

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Where's Evelyn?: The 1953 babysitter's kidnapping that shook the nation - Paperback

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by Susan T. Hessel (Author)La Crosse, Wisconsin was an innocent small community in 1953. Equally innocent was bright, young babysitter Evelyn Hartley. But, someone came in and snatched her while she was baby-sitting and she was never seen again. This story still haunts La Crosse sixty years later, with just about everyone holding a theory about what happened to her or a story about how they were affected by her disappearance and presumed murder. There was no CNN, MSNBC, or Fox News then. In f...

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by Alexandre Dumas (Author)Alexandre Dumas ( born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, 24 July 1802 - 5 December 1870) was a French writer, best known for his historical novels of high adventure. Translated into nearly 100 languages, these have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. Many of his novels, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne were originally published as serials. His novels have been adapt...

Mafia Wife: Revised Edition My Story of Love, Murder, and Madness - Hardcover

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by Lynda Milito (Author) When Lynda Lustig met Louie Milito, she was a sixteen-year-old high-school dropout with a taste for adventure and an agonizing childhood. When they were married two years later, he was not yet a "made man" in the powerful Gambino crime family. Louie was a hairdresser who dabbled in petty thievery. But Lynda was so happy to be out of her domineering mother's loveless house. And over the years, she was willing to forgive her husband for anything: his violent rages, his ...

Who Goes Next?: True Stories of Exciting Escapes - Paperback

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by Robert Edmond Alter (Author)Of all creatures, man is the most difficult to keep caged. There is no textbook on escape, yet every prison, no matter how "escape proof" it is claimed to be, has lost some of its unwilling guests. Here are twelve true tales of men whose ingenuity and determination would not permit them to languish in confinement. Some were famous, some not; some imprisoned justly, some unjustly, but all had that extra measure of human dignity that would not accept chains. Numbe...

Women Who Kill: The Bitches from Hell - Paperback

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by Rj Parker (Author)When we hear about a Serial Killer, we never consider the sex, we would immediately assume a man...right? but that's not always the case Females are for the most part, the loving and caring protectors of our species and the ones that are more susceptible to danger. However, they are in fact the most dangerous because they are the least suspected of the Serial Killers. Like their male counterparts, they show no remorse and have no mercy for their victims. Should we still ...

Case Closed: Serial Killers Captured - Paperback

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by Rj Parker (Author)When a Serial Killer is active in a community it is extremely scary for everyone. This book focuses on Serial Killers who have been captured and some of the most notorious and ruthless killers in history. Serial killers stay close to home and their victims are random. Dennis Rader found all his victims in Kansas not far from the Wichita home he shared with his wife and two kids. Rader, the president of his local church, knocked on his victim's doors and they simply let hi...

The Little Old Lady Killer: The Sensationalized Crimes of Mexico's First Female Serial Killer - Paperback

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by Susana Vargas Cervantes (Author)The surprising true story of Mexico's hunt, arrest, and conviction of its first female serial killer For three years, amid widespread public outrage, police in Mexico City struggled to uncover the identity of the killer responsible for the ghastly deaths of forty elderly women, many of whom had been strangled in their homes with a stethoscope by someone posing as a government nurse. When Juana Barraza Samperio, a female professional wrestler known as la Dama...

What a Security Guard Needs to Know for Best Practices - Paperback

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by Leroy Edmund Registe (Author)Security guard services is a growing industry. Security personnel need education and training to effectively carry out employers' policies and procedures. What a Security Guard Needs to Know for Best Practices is a guide to providing basic information pertaining to the tools the security guard needs in order to effectively provide safety for personnel and property. About the Author Dr. Leroy Edmund Registe studied with Come World Ministries and the Theologica...

Whitey's Payback: And Other True Stories of Gangsterism, Murder, Corruption, and Revenge - Paperback

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by T. J. English (Author)Sixteen stories of true crime from America's foremost authority on the underworldJames "Whitey" Bulger is the last of the old-fashioned gangsters. As a polished, sophisticated psychopath--who also happened to be a secret FBI informant--his reign of power in Boston lasted for more than twenty years. When he went on the lam in 1995, the kingpin's legend grew to rival that of Al Capone. Captured after sixteen years in hiding, he now sits in a maximum security prison awai...

Not in Your Lifetime: The Defining Book on the J.F.K. Assassination - Paperback

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by Anthony Summers (Author)Updated with the latest evidence, the essential, acclaimed account of President Kennedy's assassination by Pulitzer Prize finalist Anthony Summers"He was holding out his hand . . . He looked puzzled . . . Then he slumped in my lap . . . I kept bending over him saying, 'Jack, Jack, can you hear me? I love you, Jack . . .' The seat was full of blood and red roses . . . ." --Jacqueline Kennedy, recalling the fatal moment in Dallas. Fifty years on, most Americans still ...

The Murder of Chris Kyle: An American Hero - Paperback

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by Robert F. Blevins (Author)Chad Littlefield riding in the passenger seat gets a text from Chris Kyle saying, "This dude is straight up nuts" "Watch my six." A police officer pulled up to the house. The officer told Taya, "Chris has been hurt. Have you seen Chris' truck?" Taya called her mother and told her something was wrong. American soldier and patriot Chris Kyle died unexpectedly on home soil at the top of his game with all the glory and medals one man could ever imagine. Suddenly, a wi...

The Murder of Chris Kyle: An American Hero - Hardcover

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by David Trucker (Author)In The 11th Commandment, Dr. David Trucker depicts his personal experiences as a practicing physician who was also associated with the underworld of organized crime. Not only this, but he was an undercover cop as well As a youth in trouble, he managed to change his life for the better in a highly skilled field. Never in a book or in actuality has there been a story of a criminal turning his life around and pursuing a career as a highly successful surgeon while also...

Illegal Encounters: The Effect of Detention and Deportation on Young People - Paperback

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by Deborah A. Boehm (Editor), Susan J. Terrio (Editor)The impact of the U.S. immigration and legal systems on children and youth In the United States, millions of children are undocumented migrants or have family members who came to the country without authorization. The unique challenges with which these children and youth must cope demand special attention. Illegal Encounters considers illegality, deportability, and deportation in the lives of young people--those who migrate as well as tho...

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by Thomas F. Comiskey (Author)Few New Yorkers are aware that the tenements and storefronts of the East Village, famous for Beat poetry, avant-garde art, and alternative rock music, were a stronghold of mafia racketeering, treachery, and intrigue for almost seventy years. From the 1920s to 1990, mob icons lived in or frequented the East Village, known as part of the Lower East Side until the mid-1960s. In The East Village Mafia, author Thomas F. Comiskey shares the history of this little-known...