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Nuclear Spies: America's Atomic Intelligence Operation Against Hitler and Stalin - Hardcover

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by Vince Houghton (Author)Why did the US intelligence services fail so spectacularly to know about the Soviet Union's nuclear capabilities following World War II? As Vince Houghton, historian and curator of the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC, shows us, that disastrous failure came just a few years after the Manhattan Project's intelligence team had penetrated the Third Reich and knew every detail of the Nazi 's plan for an atomic bomb. What changed and what went wrong?Houghton's d...

The Foundling: The True Story of a Kidnapping, a Family Secret, and My Search for the Real Me - Paperback

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by Paul Joseph Fronczak (Author), Alex Tresniowski (With)This is the inspiring and "page-turning" (Booklist) true story of a man who discovered that he had been kidnapped as a baby--and how his quest to find out who he really is upturned the genealogy industry, his own family, and set in motion the second longest cold case in US history. In 1964, a woman pretending to be a nurse kidnapped an infant boy named Paul Fronczak from a Chicago hospital. Two years later, police found a boy abandoned ...

Blue Helmets and Black Markets: The Business of Survival in the Siege of Sarajevo - Paperback

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by Peter Andreas (Author)The 1992-1995 battle for Sarajevo was the longest siege in modern history. It was also the most internationalized, attracting a vast contingent of aid workers, UN soldiers, journalists, smugglers, and embargo-busters. The city took center stage under an intense global media spotlight, becoming the most visible face of post-Cold War conflict and humanitarian intervention. However, some critical activities took place backstage, away from the cameras, including extensive...

Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community - Hardcover

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by Richard J. Samuels (Author)The prewar history of the Japanese intelligence community demonstrates how having power over much, but insight into little can have devastating consequences. Its postwar history--one of limited Japanese power despite growing insight--has also been problematic for national security.In Special Duty Richard J. Samuels dissects the fascinating history of the intelligence community in Japan. Looking at the impact of shifts in the strategic environment, technological c...

Waste Land: The Savage Odyssey of Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate - Paperback

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by Michael Newton (Author)A gripping account of Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate's rampage across Nebraska in the late 1950s. Complete with an update on Fugate's life today, WASTE LAND compellingly probes not only the mind-set of history's deadliest juvenile delinquents--but also the tragic end of America's innocence. 1958. More than a decade before Charles Manson warned parents to beware their homicidal children, nineteen-year-old Caril Ann Fugate embarked on a shocking, eight-day r...

Rope: The Twisted Life and Crimes of Harvey Glatman - Paperback

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by Michael Newton (Author)JOURNEY TO THE KILLING GROUND It was an age of innocence -- an era of carhops, poodle skirts, and hula hoops. It was also a time of terror. In 1958, a man named Harvey Glatman sped along the Santa Ana freeway out of L.A., headed to the desert with hiAuthor BiographyMichael Newton is the author of numerous fiction and nonfiction works, including Waste Land, Daddy Was the Black Dahlia Killer, and Cat and Mouse. A leading expert on serial murder, Newton lives with his...

Daddy Was the Black Dahlia Killer: The Identity of America's Most Notorious Serial Murderer--Revealed at Last - Paperback

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by Michael Newton (With), Janice Knowlton (Author)It is one of the most enduringly fascinating crimes in American history. On January 15, 1947, passersby made a grisly discovery in a vacant lot in Los Angeles: the body of a naked young woman, cut in two, and savagely mutilated. The victim was identified as Elizabeth Short, a struggling Hollywood actress. Nicknamed the Black Dahlia by a headline-hungry press, her lurid demise sparked a desperate manhunt. But the mystery of the Black Dahlia mur...

Unnatural Causes: Notorious USA - Paperback

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by Rebecca Morris (Author), Gregg Olsen (Author)With Photos From the dark and bloody ground of Kentucky, to the peaceful Amish communities of Pennsylvania, to the cities and towns crisscrossing Ohio, murder and mayhem has been a part of it all. Within the pages of this latest volume in Notorious USA's New York Times bestselling series you'll discover how the unsuspecting succumbed to the evil that caught them by surprise, and what the authorities had to do to stop the madness. Cases include:...

The Kill Jar: Obsession, Descent, and a Hunt for Detroit's Most Notorious Serial Killer - Paperback

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by J. Reuben Appelman (Author)Now the subject of the Discovery+ series Children of the Snow, a cold case murder investigation is cracked open by "a powerful, confident voice in the new true crime memoir genre" (James Renner, author of True Crime Addict). Four children were abducted and murdered outside of Detroit during the winters of 1976 and 1977, their bodies eventually dumped in snow banks around the city. J. Reuben Appelman was only six years old when the murders began and even evaded an...

Mindhunter: Inside the Fbi's Elite Serial Crime Unit - Paperback

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by John E. Douglas (Author), Mark Olshaker (Author)Now a Netflix original series Discover the classic, behind-the-scenes chronicle of John E. Douglas' twenty-five-year career in the FBI Investigative Support Unit, where he used psychological profiling to delve into the minds of the country's most notorious serial killers and criminals. In chilling detail, the legendary Mindhunter takes us behind the scenes of some of his most gruesome, fascinating, and challenging cases--and into the darkest...

Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File - Paperback

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by John Edgar Wideman (Author)A major literary figure tells "a searching tale of loss, recovery, and d ja vu that is part memoir and what-if speculation, part polemic and expos " (The Washington Post) about two generations of one family--civil rights martyr Emmett Till and his father, Louis--shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Emmett Till took a train from his home in Chicago to visit family in Money, Mississippi; a few weeks later he returned home dead. Murdered because h...

An Arson, A Wig, and A Murder: The Patsy Kessinger Calloway Story - Paperback

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by Tina M. Cummins (Author)Patsy Calloway was a small town girl from the rolling hills of Kentucky. She was last seen on March 3rd, 1993. It would take her brother Darrell over twenty-one years to unlock the mystery behind her disappearance. This novel takes an in-depth look into organized crime, in the back woods of Kentucky and the disappearance of Patsy Kessinger Calloway. Number of Pages: 200 Dimensions: 0.42 x 7.8 x 5.08 IN Publication Date: September 08, 2014

Murder By The Springs: The Unsolved Mystery of Oliver Springs. - Paperback

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by Tara D. Tinker (Illustrator), Danita Faye Ashley (Author)Murder By The Springs is a book about an unsolved murder that took place in a small town in Tennessee in the year 1940. Two sisters were murdered in their Victorian Mansion along with their 16 year old errand boy. The errand boy was found with the murder weapon which led to the theory it was a murder suicide. In 2001, the case was reopened after a mystery witness came forward with information that eventually cleared the boy. This cha...

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by Angela Williams (Author)This suspenseful true story that reads like a thriller details the homicidal rampage of Ronald Gene Simmons, from his troubled youth to murdering fourteen of his family members and the explosive trial that followed. Gene Simmons was always determined to control everything around him, including his wife and children, even as they slipped further and further from his grasp. Beginning with a strange fixation on details and discipline, he slowly slid from isolation all...

In a Child's Name: Legacy of a Mother's Murder - Paperback

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by Peter Maas (Author)In a tragic and shocking story of true crime, Peter Maas gives insight into how the brutal murder of a young wife by her husband sparked a nasty and threatening custody battle between the couple's families. In 1984, the infant son of Kenneth and Teresa Taylor was left orphaned after Kenneth brutally murdered Teresa using a dumbbell to crack her skull. In the months that followed, an intoxicatingly traumatic battle for the infant's custody between Kenneth's parents and T...

Strangers on a Bridge: The Case of Colonel Abel and Francis Gary Powers - Paperback

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by James Donovan (Author), Jason Matthews (Foreword by)The #1 New York Times bestseller and subject of the acclaimed major motion picture Bridge of Spies directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Hanks as James B. Donovan. Originally published in 1964, this is the "enthralling...truly remarkable" (The New York Times Book Review) insider account of the Cold War spy exchange--with a new foreword by Jason Matthews, New York Times bestselling author of Red Sparrow and Palace of Treason. In the ...

Son: A Psychopath and His Victims - Paperback

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by Jack Olsen (Author)A classic from "the dean of true crime" (The Washington Post)--now with a new foreword--this 1983 masterpiece tells the incredible story of a Spokane, Washington serial rapist who was exposed as the handsome, privileged son of one of the city's most elite families. For more than two years, a rapist prowled the night streets of the homey, All-American city of Spokane, Washington, terrorizing women, sparking a run on gun stores, and finally causing one newspaper to offer a...

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by Luke Waters (Author)In this "inspiring inside tour of the human toll, and the satisfactions of becoming a cop" (The New York Times), Irish immigrant and retired NYPD homicide detective Luke Waters takes us inside the New York City police department and offers a glimpse at the grit, the glory, and the sometimes darker side of the police force. Growing up in the rough outskirts of northern Dublin at a time when joining the guards, the army, or the civil service was the height of most parents...

The Piano Teacher: The True Story of a Psychotic Killer - Paperback

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by Robert K. Tanenbaum (Author), Peter S. Greenberg (Author)New York Times bestselling author Robert K. Tanenbaum tells the terrifying and gripping story of Charles Yukl, a mild-mannered piano and voice teacher that killed and abused his students. Everybody has a dream. For aspiring actress Suzanne Reynolds, her dream ended in a gruesome encounter with eccentric New York artist Charles Yukl. Fooled by his choirboy looks, Reynolds had no idea the man who taught her the piano was a woman-hating...

Fixer: The Notorious Life of a Front-Page Bail Bondsman - Paperback

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by Ira Judelson (Author), Daniel Paisner (With)From New York's foremost bail bondsman with "over $30 million on the street" comes the story of a modern-day "fixer" who walks a fine line between hustler and humanitarian with clients ranging from the rich and famous to the mafia and gangs of New York. With from-the-gut prose, Ira Judelson sheds light on the highs and lows of the bondsman life. But Judelson is no process server. He sees himself as a sort of modern day "macher"--using his juice a...

Think No Evil: Inside the Story of the Amish Schoolhouse Shooting...and Beyond - Paperback

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by Jonas Beiler (Author), Shawn Smucker (With)An insider's look into the events surrounding the Nickel Mines Amish schoolhouse shootings--told by the counselor who was called upon to come to the farmhouse where the families met on that fateful day. On October 2, 2006, Charles Roberts, a local milk-tank truck driver, bound and shot ten young girls in an Amish schoolhouse before committing suicide. Five girls died. Five others were severely injured and left in critical condition. In the afterma...

The Poison Plot: A Tale of Adultery and Murder in Colonial Newport - Hardcover

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by Elaine Forman Crane (Author)An accusation of attempted murder rudely interrupted Mary Arnold's dalliances with working men and her extensive shopping sprees. When her husband Benedict fell deathly ill and then asserted she had tried to kill him with poison, the result was a dramatic petition for divorce. The case before the Rhode Island General Assembly and its tumultuous aftermath, during which Benedict died, made Mary a cause c l bre in Newport through the winter of 1738 and 1739.Elaine ...

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by Gregg Olsen (Introduction by), Katherine Ramsland (Author)WELCOME TO THE LATEST BOX SET in the New York Times bestselling series of stories about America's most notorious criminals. For DARKEST WATERS, Wall Street Journal bestselling author Katherine Ramsland is the perfect guide to the famous and not so famous cases that still haunt the states huddled around the Great Lakes. Say hello to Notorious USA Katherine is one of the best in the business and here she takes readers on a journey th...

Marilyn Monroe: The Live-in Housekeeper did it: .....all of it, acting independently, and the Kennedy's had nothing to do with it - Paperback

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by Gwendolyn Olmsted (Author)The untimely death of one of the most recognized faces who had ever graced Hollywood, Marilyn Monroe, has led to more than one theory surrounding her unsolved departure from the world, the causes, what lead up to it, and contrary to popular belief, The Kennedy's had nothing to do with the death of Marilyn Monroe. It was the live-in housekeeper, Eunice Murray, whose hand, acting alone, and independently, killed Marilyn, in her sleep, while she was tranquilizing in ...

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by J. D. Owen (Author)After over 40 years of media hype, mystery and controversy - for the first time, the whole true story of the shocking and brutal on-stage murder of 19-year-old Aussie singing star, Cathy Wayne in war-torn Vietnam. Number of Pages: 394 Dimensions: 0.81 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: October 09, 2014

Mob Rule in New Orleans: Robert Charles and his fight to death, the story of his life, burning human beings alive, other lynching statistics - Paperback

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by Ida B. Wells-Barnett (Author)Immediately after the awful barbarism which disgraced the State of Georgia in April of last year, during which time more than a dozen colored people were put to death with unspeakable barbarity, I published a full report showing that Sam Hose, who was burned to death during that time, never committed a criminal assault, and that he killed his employer in self-defense. Since that time I have been engaged on a work not yet finished, which I interrupt now to tell ...

When Nashville Bled: The untold stories of serial killer Paul Dennis Reid - Paperback

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by Judith a. Yates M. C. J. (Author)He was evil personified.In the Spring of 1997, a serial killer held Nashville, Tennessee in an icy grip of terror. In February, he murdered two employees at a Captain D's restaurant. In March, he struck a McDonalds just miles away, killing three people and maiming one. In April, he kidnapped and slaughtered two Baskin-Robbins employees.They called him "The Fast Food Killer" but his real name is Paul Dennis Reid, Jr. When he was caught and sentenced to seven...

Race Traitor: The True Story of Canadian Intelligence's Greatest Cover-Up - Paperback

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by Nina Bunjevac (Illustrator), Elisa Hategan (Author)RACE TRAITOR is the visceral true story of a teenage girl who becomes entangled in Canada's most powerful white supremacist group, the Heritage Front - a domestic terrorist group later revealed to have been created and funded with the assistance of Canada's spy agency, CSIS. To sixteen-year old runaway Elisse, the new friends she encounters in the secretive Heritage Front are the family she's never had. They feed her when she's hungry, wat...

Mob Rats: Gangsters Who Squeal: The Cleveland Canaries - Paperback

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by Joe Bruno (Author)Jimmy "The Weasel" Fratianno got his nickname from his days as a petty pushcart thief in Cleveland, when he ran as "quick as a weasel" with an armful of fruit and vegetables while the cops chased him.Rising quickly up the organized crime ladder in Cleveland, Fratianno, after doing a stint in the can for robbery and extortion, migrated west to Los Angeles where he hooked up with West Coast Mob boss, Jack Dragna. After doing a few "pieces of work" or murders for Dragna, Fra...

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by E. M. Black (Author)The Rape Kit is not a reference for law enforcement, criminal investigators, attorneys or medical practitioners wanting more in depth information on forensics. The Rape Kit is not a textbook. The Rape Kit is a helpful guide written for every woman young or old who needs to know one thing or a lot more about rape. The Rape Kit tests for diseases and their resulting health problems that the victim may be largely unaware of unless she seeks medical attention after a rape a...

Bessie Perri: Queen of the Bootleggers - Paperback

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by Rose Keefe (Author)★★★ Behind every smart man is a smarter woman ★★★Rocco Perri was the Al Capone of Canada. Without him, the American market of alcohol would be a little...dry.Rocco is frequently cited as the most successful bootlegger of Canada, however, for one important reason: his wife, Bessie Perri. If Rocco was the King of Bootlegging, Bessie was the obvious queen.With page-turning suspense, this gritty book looks at the brains behind Canadian bootlegging and how her cutthroat ways ...

Tasmania's Beaumaris Beach Mystery: What Happened to Nancy and Victoria? - Paperback

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by Melanie Calvert (Author)The mystery of what happened to 26-year-old German tourist Nancy Grunwaldt and 20-year-old Italian tourist Victoria Cafasso remains unsolved two decades later. Nancy disappeared without trace and Victoria was found brutally murdered, stabbed over forty times, on Beaumaris' lonely but beautiful beach.'Tasmania's Beaumaris Beach Mystery' reveals previously unrecorded details of these cases and potentially explosive revelations about the two young tourists' fates in an...