True Crime

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by Arthur Nash (Author)Throughout the United States, there is no single major metropolitan area more closely connected to organized crime's rapid ascendancy on a national scale than New York City. In 1920, upon the advent of Prohibition, Gotham's shadowy underworld began evolving from strictly regional and often rag-tag street gangs into a sophisticated worldwide syndicate that was--like the chocolate egg creme--incubated within the confines of its five boroughs. New York City Gangland offers...

Motor City Mafia: A Century of Organized Crime in Detroit - Hardcover

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by Scott M. Burnstein (Author)Motor City Mafia: A Century of Organized Crime in Detroit chronicles the storied and hallowed gangland history of the notorious Detroit underworld. Scott M. Burnstein takes the reader inside the belly of the beast, tracking the bloodshed, exploits, and leadership of the southeast Michigan crime syndicate as never before seen in print. Through a stunning array of rare archival photographs and images, Motor City Mafia captures Detroit's most infamous past, from its...

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by Arnold G. Parks (Author)The Missouri State Penitentiary was established in 1833 via a bill passed by the state legislature, and the first prisoner was incarcerated in 1835. Inmates constructed the main prison building from rock quarried at the site in 1836. The penitentiary closed on September 15, 2004, and plans are in place to redevelop the site into offices for state agencies and private enterprises. The Missouri State Penitentiary was once considered one of the largest maximum-security...

Ghosts and Murders of Manhattan - Hardcover

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by Elise Gainer (Author)Manhattan's past whispers for attention amongst the bustle of the city's ever-changing landscape. At Fraunces Tavern, George Washington's emotional farewell luncheon in 1783 echoes in the Long Room. Gertrude Tredwell's ghost appears to visitors at the Merchant's House Museum. Long since deceased, Olive Thomas shows herself to the men of the New Amsterdam Theatre, and Dorothy Parker still keeps her lunch appointment at the Algonquin Hotel. In other places, it is not the...

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by Gavin Schmitt (Author)Milwaukee is best known for its beer--and rightfully so. But in the days of Prohibition, the big alcohol suppliers were not Miller, Blatz, Schlitz, and Pabst. The Mafia had control, and it made its money by running alcohol as far away as Canada and Indiana, as well as with counterfeiting, the numbers racket, and two of the biggest heists in American history. From then on, the sky was the limit, as the Mafia indulged in extortion, protection rackets, and skimming from ...

Murder in Linn County, Oregon: The True Story of the Legendary Plainview Killings - Hardcover

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by Cory Frye (Author)On June 21, 1922, Linn County sheriff Charles Kendall and Reverend Roy Healy drove out to the town of Plainview to arrest a moonshining farmer named Dave West. By the end of the day, all three men were dead. First responders found Sheriff Kendall facedown with his pistol still holstered. The court appointed William Dunlap as the new sheriff, but within a year, someone killed him, too. Author and journalist Cory Frye delivers a riveting, detailed account of these shocking ...

Murder at the Roosevelt Hotel in Cedar Rapids - Hardcover

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by Diane Fannon-Langton (Author)Byron C. Hattman sealed his fate when he checked into the Roosevelt Hotel on December 13, 1948. A maid found his body in a blood-spattered room two days later. An investigation linked him to the young wife of St. Louis pediatrician Robert C. Rutledge, who confessed to the brutal attack after trying to poison himself. The scandal made national headlines and seemed like an easy case for the Linn County court. That is, until new evidence changed the story complete...

The Original Battle Creek Crime King: Adam Pump Arnold S Vile Reign - Hardcover

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by Blaine Pardoe (Author), Victoria Hester (Author)Adam Pump Arnold was both feared and regaled in Victorian- era Battle Creek. He was a bootlegger and a pimp, a robber and a con artist, an arsonist and a loan shark and even an assassin. Arnold faced off with the city over illegal liquor sales and flaunted his victory with a life-size statue of the mayor dressed as a hobo. Called the greatest criminal in the history of Battle Creek, Arnold was convicted in a captivating public trial for the m...

The Corpsewood Manor Murders in North Georgia - Hardcover

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by Amy Petulla (Author)In 1982, Tony West and Avery Brock made a visit to notorious Corpsewood Manor under the pretense of a celebration. They brutally murdered their hosts. Dr. Charles Scudder and companion Joey Odom built the castle in the woods in the Trion forest after Scudder left his position as professor at Loyola. He brought with him twelve thousand doses of LSD. Rumors of drug use and Satanism swirled around the two men. Scudder even claimed to have summoned a demon to protect the es...

Under the Trestle: The 1980 Disappearance of Gina Renee Hall & Virginia's First

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by Ron Jr. Peterson (Author)"Under The Trestle" is the true story of the most compelling murder case in Virginia history. In 1980, beautiful Gina Renee Hall, a Radford University freshman, went to a Virginia Tech nightclub on a Saturday night. She was never seen again. Her abandoned car was found parked beneath a railroad trestle bridging the New River, with blood in the trunk. The investigation led police to a secluded cabin on Claytor Lake, where there was evidence of a violent attack. Form...

John F. Kennedy Sites in Dallas-Fort Worth - Hardcover

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by Mark Doty (Author), John H. Slate (Author)November 22, 1963, is a date that will forever live in the minds and hearts of those who were witness to or touched by the assassination of Pres. John F. Kennedy in Dealey Plaza. Surprisingly, the majority of sites associated with events surrounding that day still stand along the streets and in the neighborhoods of the greater Dallas-Fort Worth region. From Fort Worth's Hotel Texas to the Texas Theater and the Old Municipal Building in Dallas, John...

Howard County Law Enforcement - Hardcover

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by Tom Kelley (Author), Jon Zeck (Foreword by)Since the 1880s, when a Howard County sheriff's deputy shot the mayor of Kokomo during the commission of a burglary, Howard County law enforcement officers have played an important role in the community's history. Police officers, deputies, and troopers cleared rowdies out of the junction neighborhood, walked downtown beats, rescued tornado survivors, quelled civil disturbances, cleaned up tragic accidents, and solved grisly murders. By the mid-19...

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by Michael P. Rich (Author)The San Diego Harbor Police Department has proudly provided more than 50 years of law enforcement. From its humble beginnings as a small security force formed after World War II to protect San Diego imports to the modern and sophisticated police force it is today, the San Diego Harbor Police Department serves as a shining example of the exciting and important role law enforcement plays in the development of a busy 21st-century city. Through a stunning collection of ...

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by Lillian Mae Crosby (Author)Detective John Winslow is bulldog determined. Even though he prefers big cities, he has settled into marriage with a small town girl that he has loved since childhood. Brownsville, West Virginia, does not have a lot of crime, but suddenly he is confronted by the disappearance of two young women and the murder of a stranger who is asking questions around town about his missing sister . His investigation leads him to unique places, dead-ends, and frustration with a...

Tarricone: A Death on Canyon Road - Paperback

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by Gary Leon Zimmer (Author), Gary Zimmer (Author)Marilyn Carlson lived in the house on Canyon Road from her birth until she married twenty-two years later. She would always have treasured family memories of birthday parties, Christmas celebrations; countless events within the walls of the large two-story yellow home.Only two families occupied the residence between 1974 and June of 1978 when Geraldine Hesse came calling in her quest for a home for herself, her daughter Renee, and granddaughte...

Onondaga County Sheriff's Office - Hardcover

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by Jonathan L. Anderson (Author)The Onondaga County Sheriff's Office was formed on March 5, 1794. At that time, its jurisdiction covered what had previously been known as the Military Tract, a 1.75 million-acre stretch of land made available as bounty to soldiers of the Continental army during the Revolutionary War. Since then, the episodes that sketched the history of Onondaga County and Central New York have painted an exciting historical portrait of the sheriff's office and the role it has...

The Dark Corners of the Lindbergh Kidnapping: Volume Ii - Paperback

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by Michael Melsky (Author)This book will follow the same path as volume one by continuing to explore the dark corners of the Lindbergh kidnapping. All the topics throughout this volume will be ones that were never properly examined or evaluated anytime in the past. And the facts revealed cause the historical account to become very unlikelyif not impossibleas a result. As with the first, it is an unorthodox stylea book that may not transition from one chapter to the next as is typical. There m...

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by Peter C. Vermilyea (Author)Thieves, rumrunners and rapscallions all color the unsavory side of Litchfield County history. Townspeople accused women of witchcraft simply for not bearing enough children in the early days of the region. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Owen Sullivan and William Stuart took advantage of the county s isolated stretches and a currency shortage to build counterfeiting empires. In 1780, Barnett Davenport s brutal actions earned him infamy as the nat...

The Ruthless Northlake Bank Robbers: A 1967 Shooting Spree That Stunned the Region - Hardcover

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by Edgar Gamboa Navar (Author)Automatic gunfire hammered police arriving at Northlake Bank in response to a silent alarm on the morning of October 27, 1967. The shootout killed two officers and injured two others. One of the robbers lay wounded as the other two fled in a getaway car. The ensuing manhunt tore across state lines and thrust the quiet Illinois community into a national debate over rehabilitated prisoners two of the men were fresh out of jail for bank robbery. Local author Edgar G...

Life In The Trenches: My Stories: My [mis]adventures as a crime scene investigator and photographer - Paperback

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by Catherine DeYoung (Author)(Blue Cover) Life in the Trenches: My Stories is a fun, sarcastic, and honest glimpse into the scenes hidden behind the police barrier tape. Ride along with Catherine as she shares her experiences as a crime scene investigator and other adventures as she investigates life in the big city. You'll see why detectives always call her, "Abby", but her supervisor calls her, "Trouble".To protect the identity of victims and suspects, little details have been changed and o...

Fred & Rose West: Britain's Most Infamous Killer Couples - Paperback

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by Ryan Green (Author)Fred & Rose West - Britain's Most Infamous Killer Couples On the 24th of February 1994, police knocked on the door of an aging house in the English town of Gloucester. They'd come to serve a search warrant in the case of a missing girl - the daughter of the house's inhabitants. What they uncovered would shock the world: decades of child abuse, an underground torture chamber, and a burial ground containing the bodies of the spent victims of the torture - including th...

Why Not Kill Her: A Juror's Perspective: The Jodi Arias Death Penalty Retrial - Paperback

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by Paul a. Sanders Jr (Author)On June 4, 2008, at approximately 5:30 PM in a quiet suburb of Phoenix, Arizona, Jodi Arias stabbed Travis Alexander twenty-nine times and then shot him in the head. The killer then went to great lengths to cover up the crime, including sending his grandmother flowers, going to the memorial service, driving by the victim's house and calling the lead investigator, Detective Esteban Flores. It would take five years before the case would be put in front of a jury an...

The Twin Peaks Ambush: A True Story About The Press, The Police And The Last American Outlaws - Paperback

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by Donald Charles Davis (Author)A year after the fact, the brief, deadly, biker brawl in the parking lot of the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco, Texas on May 17, 2015 remains a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. Nine people died and nineteen more were wounded. Numerous news outlets "explained" the event as a "real life Sons of Anarchy episode." Until now, that has been as insightful as writers for numerous national and international publications have dared to be. From the very begi...

They Can't Break Me: The Joanna Madonna Murder Trial - Paperback

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by Iola Cramer (Author)"They can shake me, but they can't break me." Those were the words Joanna Madonna spoke as a mantra during her incarceration in the Wake County Jail. She spent more than 800 days awaiting trial on a charge of first-degree murder, for the death of her husband. Before her arrest, Joanna was known by family and friends as a wife and mother, a teacher, and a singer. She lived with her third husband, three daughters, an aging father, and several rescued cats and dogs in an u...

Christopher Wilder: The True Story of The Beauty Queen Killer: Historical Serial Killers and Murderers - Paperback

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by Jack Rosewood (Author)Of all the many psychopaths and sociopaths that have hunted for human victims throughout history, few have been more disturbing or mysterious than Christopher Bernard Wilder - the beauty queen killer. From the middle of the 1960s until 1984, Wilder sexually assaulted countless women and murdered at least nine in Australia and the United States. The beauty queen killer was not only a true psychopath, but also a hunter as he carefully chose attractive girls and young wo...

Serial Killers: The Colombian Monsters: True Crime Serial Killers - Paperback

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by Jack Rosewood (Author)Pedro Lopez liked hosting tea parties, with corpses as his guests. Daniel Camargo sought out virgins, and took both their virtues and their lives. Luis Garavito became sadistically violent after years of sexual abuse. In Colombia in the 1970s, '80s and '90s, these three monsters cut a swath of terror across a country already ravaged by poverty as well as the casualties of the region's powerful drug cartels. The three are among the most prolific serial killers in the w...

Secrets, Lies and Deception: Top-Secret Presidential Telephone Transcripts, Top-Secret Presidential Letters, Top-Secret Documents and Other Amazing - Paperback

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by Various Presidents (Contribution by), Mike Rothmiller (Author)UPDATED WITH UFO IMAGES JULY 2021. This book was featured on Fox News.Did President Clinton know the 9-11 attack was coming? After reading this book, many will conclude he did.If you don't believe in government conspiracies, this book will change you forever. Throughout the book, the governments own top-secret documents details their conspiracies to commit assassinations and much more.New York Times Bestselling author and former...

'The Beverly Hills Supper Club: The Untold Story of Ky's Worst Tragedy - Paperback

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by David Brock (Author), Tom McConaughy (Author), Robert Webster (Author)This is the complete history of the alleged mob activity in Newport, Kentucky, and the magnificent Beverly Hills Supper Club, where 169 people died and the lives of thousands were changed in an instant. Unlike other publications, however, this is the true untold story of what led to Kentucky's worst tragedy-a story of greed, corruption, deceit, Mafia rule, government cover-ups, kidnapping, and even murder. In fact, this ...

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by Gean Kearns (Author), Vicki Welch Ayo (Author)A quartet of East Texas bank robbing sisters and their brother in the 1930s hook up with Earl Joyner from Bonnie & Clyde's gang and pull some fantastic heists. Earl's known as a Houdini because no jail can hold him and he teaches the girls everything he knows as they form The Davis Gang. Number of Pages: 156 Dimensions: 0.33 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 22, 2016

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by Gean Kearns (Author), Vicki Welch Ayo (Author)The Davis Gang, four femme fatales, in No Way Out tell of their predicament as they rob banks and execute prison breakouts in the 1930s. They ran with Bonnie & Clyde and also rivaled them. After the demise of the famous duo some members of the Barrow gang joined the Davis gang. Number of Pages: 196 Dimensions: 0.42 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: February 23, 2018

John Christie: The True Story of The Rillington Place Strangler: Historical Serial Killers and Murderers - Paperback

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by Rebecca Lo (Author), Jack Rosewood (Author)John Christie was a man with many secrets, and his flat at 10 Rillington Place in London would become known as one of the original houses of horror. Former soldier, Special Constable, and husband, John was to become regarded as one of the worst British Serial killers to date, and one that left a lot more questions than answers following his execution. Nobody ever suspected that this quiet man would have a dark double life, with a penchant for pros...

True Crime Stories: Monsters And Criminals From The Last 250 Years: Sickly Serial Killers From The Past - Paperback

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by Brody Clayton (Author)Monsters And Criminals From The Last 250 Years: Sickly Serial Killers From The Past How are serial killers made? Perhaps, if someone could answer this question, then the police and the community would be able to prevent people from killing in the first place. As it is, this question remains unanswered though many different hypothesis are put forward by the experts. Until a method for preventing crimes before they are committed is developed then all the authorities can...