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by Jack Smith (Author)Brutality, sadism, remorselessness...Just a need to kill. This is Carl Eugene Watts, the Sunday Morning SlasherWhat turns a man into a killer? America has become the undoubted home of the mass-murderer, playing host to many of the most famous villains in history. From John Wayne Gacy to Jeffrey Dahmer, thousands of people have fallen victim to some of the evilest men in history. So horrible are many of these crimes, that the events themselves can become blurred. Often, w...
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by Kimberly A. McCabe (Author), Brianna M. Egan (With), Toy D. Eagle (With)Acts of School Violence in the School Setting provides accurate and practical information on school violence at a national and international level to students studying crime and criminal justice. In addition, this book provides information on victimization as it is perpetrated through the internet and focused upon students. Author BiographyKimberly A. McCabe, PhD, is the director of the Center for Community Development...
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by Jason Ross Arnold (Author)With its conceptual innovations and case studies, Whistleblowers clarifies the much-discussed but under-studied phenomena of leaking and whistleblowing, with a particular focus on the collaborative networks that make the extraction and publication of secrets possible.Author BiographyJason Ross Arnold is associate professor of political science at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the author of Secrecy in the Sunshine Era: The Promise and Failures of U.S. Ope...
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by Jeff Simmons (Author)Orel Hackworth is new to Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1957. A news correspondent, he lives for finding the "big story." That "big story" finds him, though, when 19-year-old Charles Starkweather and his 14-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate, go on a two-state killing spree, leaving eleven bodies behind. For three days in January, 1958, Lincoln is gripped in fear. The entire nation is aghast, watching the murders unfold on television, a new experience for many Americans. Eve...
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by Jack Rosewood (Author)The prostitutes working New York City's Times Square were more than a little bit nervous. A deranged serial killer who apparently melted into the crowd was picking up hookers and sadistically torturing them, leaving some girls wondering if there was a real-life Dr. Frankenstein out there attempting to create his own personal plaything from pieces of his dismembered victims. Some working girls were butchered in seedy hotel rooms, their heads, hands or breasts sliced of...
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by Aicibiades Cardenas (Author)En este texto se plantea la diferencia que existe entre los conceptos de genocidio y crimen de guerra. Partiendo de esas diferencias se empieza analizar el acontecimiento de Pontos Asunto que no queda resuelto por algunos autores. El an lisis busca una conclusi n que vaya m s all de lo previsto y argumentado actualmente por los intelectuales y acad micos que manejan el tema. Adem s, es un hecho que marc las vidas de muchos/as ponte os/as; tomando en cuenta que...
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by Dawn Taarud (Author), Lisa Stone (Author), Sherrie Lueder (Author)On Friday the thirteenth nineteen-year-old college student, Kathy Thomas, left the house anticipating a fun filled evening of shopping, drinks, and playing pool with friends.She waved goodbye to her stepfather, Sheriff McKenzie, as she drove her little orange Vega down the deserted street...completely unaware of the evil that was in store for her...The discovery of her dead body four days later in Hillside Cemetery left the ...
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by Martin G. Andrade Sr. (Author), Martin Andrade Jr. (Author)The day before Thanksgiving in 1971, a man wearing a business suit and carrying a briefcase boarded a Northwest Orient flight in Portland, bound for Seattle. Claiming to have a bomb, the skyjacker held the passengers and crew for $200,000 ransom while demanding four parachutes. After getting his money and parachutes in Seattle, the Boeing 727 took off, going south to Reno. About a half an hour later, the mysterious hijacker jumpe...
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by Special Agent (Ret ). Patrick Burns (Author)Pablo Escobar was the King of Cocaine, the wealthiest and most violent criminal in the world. By the 1980s his Medellin Drug Cartel was responsible for smuggling several tons of cocaine into America each and every day, killing thousands of people along the way. The end result was hundreds of millions of dollars in profits, cash profits. In response, and as part of President Reagan's War on Drugs, Congress created the Money Laundering Act of 1986....
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by United States Department of Justice (Author)The FBI, an agency of the United States Department of Justice, has investigated many famous cases concerning spies, terrorists, and criminals. For those cases considered particularly significant, the agency has prepared detailed written studies. This paperback edition presents the FBI's monograph concerning Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, an American couple accused of spying for the Soviet Union and of transmitting to them top-secret technology conce...
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by Axton Betz-Hamilton (Author)AN EDGAR AWARDS 2020 WINNER AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER In this powerful true crime memoir, an award-winning identity theft expert tells the shocking story of the duplicity and betrayal that inspired her career and nearly destroyed her family. Axton Betz-Hamilton grew up in small-town Indiana in the early '90s. When she was 11 years old, her parents both had their identities stolen. Their credit ratings were ruined, and they were constantly fighting over ...
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by Jack Rosewood (Author)WARNING The following true crime book may shock and frighten the faint hearted. In the pages of this book are assembled twelve of the strangest true crime stories in human history. There is no doubt that some of these cases will disturb you, but it is equally assured that you will not be able to put this book down Follow along in various criminal investigations as astute investigators race to solve cold murder cases. Some of the cases in this true crime anthology wil...
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by Jack Smith (Author)A killer on the loose in Spokane, this is the true story of serial killer Robert Lee Yates Jr.The United States of America is a complicated country. Home to many of the world's best-loved cultural icons and achievements, the nation has a darker side. With one of the highest murder rates per capita in the so-called developed world, the country has played home to some of the most violent deaths in recorded memory. Out of this spectrum of death emerges a very specific subse...
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by James Patterson (Author)As seen on the Discovery ID TV series Murder is Forever, these two true-crime thrillers follow a lawyer struggling to stop a killer and a detective angling to solve a double homicide.Home Sweet Murder (with Andrew Bourelle): Lawyer Leo Fisher and his wife Sue are a sixty-one-year-old couple enjoying a quiet Sunday dinner at home. Until a man in a suit rings their front door claiming to be an SEC agent. By the end of the evening, two people will be shot, stabbed, and...
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by J. D. Chandler (Author)The headlines shook Portland, Oregon. The brutal Ardenwald axe murders. The retribution killings by Chinatown tongs. The fiendish acts of the Dark Strangler. In this compelling account, author JD Chandler chronicles the coverups, the false confessions, the miscarriages of justice and the investigative twists and turns of Portland's infamous crimes while providing valuable historical perspective. From the untimely end of the Black Mackintosh Bandit to the convoluted h...
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by Frank J. Leskovitz (Author)Shots rang out in a prominent Pittsfield family home on the morning of August 20, 1900, ending the life of young socialite May Fosburgh. Who pulled the trigger was unclear, and the scandal captivated attention well beyond the Berkshires. Her brother was a top suspect, but the distraught family claimed an intruder was to blame. Investigators, media and the public struggled to make sense of conflicting details, including suspicious gunpowder residue, as the mystery...
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by Gary Keyes (Author), Mike Lawler (Author)The pleasant neighborhoods of the Crescenta Valley offer no hint of the many violent and heinous crimes that have occurred between the San Gabriel and Verdugo Mountains. But ties to such macabre episodes as the Onion Field murder and the search for the Hillside Strangler left lasting scars here. Infamous criminals such as mafia boss Joe "Iron Man" Ardizzone, red-light bandit Caryl Chessman and accused yacht bomber Beulah Overell have left a black ey...
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by Geoffrey K. Fleming (Author), Amy K. Folk (Author), Joseph S. Wickham (Foreword by)In the mid-nineteenth century, James Wickham was a wealthy farmer with a large estate in Cutchogue, Long Island. His extensive property included a mansion and eighty acres of farmland that were maintained by a staff of servants. In 1854, Wickham got into an argument with one of his workers, Nicholas Behan, after Behan harassed another employee who refused to marry him. Several days after Behan's dismissal, h...
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by Larry Wood (Author)Desperadoes like Frank and Jesse James earned Missouri the nickname of the "Outlaw State" after the Civil War, and that reputation followed the region into the Prohibition era through the feverish criminal activity of Bonnie and Clyde, the Barkers and Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd. Duck into the Slicker War of the 1840s, a vigilante movement that devolved into a lingering feud in which the two sides sometimes meted out whippings, called slickings, on each other. Or witness ...
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by Victoria Cosner (Author), Lorelei Shannon (Author)Body snatcher. Grave robber. Mad scientist. Brilliant surgeon. Delve into the macabre world of St. Louis s Dr. Joseph Nash McDowell, a man so loathed by the public that he wore body armor and so idolized by his anatomy students that they dug up corpses for his experiments. This ghoulish doctor cast a pall over the city and left a host of fiendish mysteries. Did his mother s ghost actually help him escape an angry mob? Did he really hang the...
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by Ellen McArthur (Photographer), Amy Owings (Editor), Kristi King-Morgan (Editor)In the early 1980's, serial killer Clifford Olson rampaged through the lower mainland of British Columbia, raping and murdering eleven victims. His heinous cash-for-bodies deal foreshortened his trial, and resulted in the law currently on Canadian books that forbids criminals from benefiting financially from their crimes. Olson was just the pimple on the hide of a misogynist culture, as this long poem sequence ...
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by Kathi Kresol (Author)Rockford rightly prizes its prosperous heritage, earned by manufacturing concerns like the Rockford Watch Factory and the Manny Reaper Company. But the town once named Midway also harbors a history of crime and calamity. Gunfire broke out in the streets when networks of Prohibition informants slid sideways. In 1893, John Hart forced his own sisters to drink poison. Three years later, James French shot down his wife in the street. Over the years, a courthouse collapsed,...
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by United States Department of Justice (Author)The FBI, an agency of the US Department of Justice, has investigated many famous cases concerning spies, terrorists, and criminals. For those cases considered particularly significant, the agency has prepared detailed written studies. This paperback edition presents the FBI's monograph concerning the Great Brink's Robbery of 1950, in which a gang of 11 men skillfully executed what was then the largest robbery in the history of the United States-m...
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by James Patterson (Author)A wealthy kidnapped man fights for his life and a real estate deal turns deadly in these two true crime thrillers that inspired Discovery's Murder is Forever TV series. Murder Beyond the Grave(with Andrew Bourelle): Stephen Small has it all: a Ferrari, fancy house, loving wife, and three boys. But the only thing he needs right now is enough air to breathe. Kidnapped, buried in a box, and held for ransom, Stephen has forty-eight hours of oxygen. The clock is ticking ...
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by James Patterson (Author)As seen on Discovery's Murder is Forever TV series: In these two true crime thrillers, a reluctant hitman and a cheating husband fight for their lives . . . and a single mother exacts her revenge.In Murder, Interrupted (with Alex Abramovich), rich, cheating financier Frank Howard wants his wife dead, and he's willing to pay Billie Earl Johnson whatever it takes: $750,000, to be exact. When his bullet misses the mark, Billie Earl and Frank will turn on each other in ...
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by Rachel Faugno (Author)The bucolic image of central Massachusetts belies a dark and sometimes deadly past. Grisly crimes and grim misdeeds reach back to colonial settlement in Worcester County, from an escaped slave hanged for rape in 1768 at the Worcester jail to the Sutton choir singer convicted of drowning his wife in 1935. Henry Hammond's 1899 suicide and the others that followed shook Spencer residents to their cores. Some crimes still grip the imaginations of residents, while others h...
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by J. R. Elias (Author)It was one push. One of the most controversial murder cases of the 21st century began the moment Amber Hilberling, a pregnant teenager raised in affluence, pushed her husband Josh inside their 25th-floor apartment living room. Amber watched in horror as Josh fell into a window, which collapsed on contact, then plummeted through the Tulsa sky to his death. Amber's claim of self-defense against a longtime abuser was quickly drowned out by the aggressive public campaign ...
