True Crime

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Sleepless Nights: The First 42 Years as an Active EMT

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Report copyright infringementby James W. Rose (Author)All across this great country in towns scattered throughout the hills, mountains, valleys, and forests nestled in their homes, are volunteer first responders known as "EMTS", Emergency Medical Technicians. They are everyday people, many of which hold full time jobs, going to work daily, and responding to calls in their community when they are off from work. Much of this work is done at night, when the first responder actually has free time...

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Report copyright infringementby Wanda Gray (Author), Erin Gray (Illustrator)Reality can be far more surreal-and cruel-than fiction. This is the heart-wrenching true story of Erin Gray, who was lured, held hostage by, and eventually escaped from a serial predator. Broken Butterfly delves into horror-movie territory in this retelling of a young woman's spiral into drug addiction after prolonged exposure to brutal physical, sexual, and mental torture. Told by her mother, Wanda Gray, this first-h...

The Boy from Tiger Bay: A True Story of Murder, Betrayal, and a Fight for Justice

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Report copyright infringementby Ceri Jackson (Author)A brutal murder. A blighted investigation. The true story of five men damned by a crime they didn't commit.On Valentine's Day 1988, twenty-year-old Lynette White was brutally murdered in a dark corner of Cardiff's world-famous, and infamous, Tiger Bay. Stigmatised by a bad reputation, the area was on the brink of major redevelopment which would change the historic community forever.South Wales Police launched its biggest murder hunt to date...

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Report copyright infringementby Ronarose Train (Author)THE INJUSTICE SYSTEM, It Could Happen to You is a frightening account of the abuse and negligence rampant in our judicial and prison system. Sam and Marilyn Gray appointed their banker and trusted friend Steve Miller as Chairman of the Board of their casino ship operation. He also acted as treasurer of the family enterprise. When the Grays learned that Miller had embezzled millions of dollars from his bank and laundered the stolen money t...

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Report copyright infringementby Charles W. Sasser (Author)Former Police Homicide Detective Charles W. Sasser brings readers into the raw, grim world of a detective with the stories of the psychopaths and criminals that haunt our streets, the gruesome details of dead bodies, the killers who are out on parole and free to kill again, and the terrible, mind-binding toll homicide investigations take on a cop and his family. They called Tulsa detective Chuck Sasser "Columbo" for his uncanny abilit...

Ghost: The True Story of One Man's Descent into Madness and Murder

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Report copyright infringementby Glenn Puit (Author)John Patrick Addis was a state trooper, crime scene investigator, bush pilot, ex-convict, UFO fanatic, survivalist-and a pro at manipulating women. His criminal madness stretched from Alaska to Mexico-leaving countless victims in his wake.Author BiographyGlenn Puit is an award-winning journalist and investigative reporter for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. A native of New York, he lives in Vegas with his wife, Tina, and their two sons Garrison...

Sister, Sinner: The Miraculous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson

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Report copyright infringementby Claire Hoffman (Author)Sister, Sinner chronicles the dramatic rise, disappearance, and near-fall of Aimee Semple McPherson, America's most famous woman evangelist. On a spring day in 1926, Aimee Semple McPherson wandered into the Pacific Ocean and vanished. Weeks later she reappeared in the desert, claiming to have been kidnapped. A national media frenzy and months of investigation ensued. Who was this woman? America's most famous evangelist, McPherson was a so...

L.A. Coroner: Thomas Noguchi and Death in Hollywood

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Report copyright infringementby Anne Soon Choi (Author)L.A. Coroner is a gripping true crime biography of Dr. Thomas Noguchi, the controversial "Coroner to the Stars," who performed the autopsies of Marilyn Monroe, Robert F. Kennedy, and Natalie Wood. It blends Hollywood celebrity and death, Asian American history, and Los Angeles history in a feat of exquisite storytelling.It is the first ever biography of Dr. Thomas Noguchi, the Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner of the County of Los Angeles fr...

Daddy's Baby, Mama's Maybe: I Am Not My Conception

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Report copyright infringementby Come LaMore (Author)Daddy's Baby, Mama's Maybe sheds light on the complexities of sexual assault, mother-daughter relationships, sibling rivalry, generational cycles, grief, and the determination to overcome.Journey through the reality of the consequences rendered from destructive family secrets that too often, take on a life of their own. Witness the impact and effects of how bad decisions can corrupt innocence and linger through generations. Find insight and ...

Sidney Korshak: The Chicago Outfit's Fixer

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Report copyright infringementby Andy Petepiece (Author), Patti Petepiece (Author)Sidney Korshak was an extremely influential "fixer" deeply connected to the notorious Chicago Outfit mafia family. This partnership gave Korshak the clout he needed to arrange lucrative Teamster loans to mob-connected Las Vegas casino owners and manage the purchase and sale of many of these entities. A multitude of legitimate organizations hired Korshak, knowing any labor problems they might face had a good chanc...

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Report copyright infringementby Joe Hastings (Author)"Mental Health & Murder: Understanding the Darkness That Consumed My Sister""I killed Bill. His soul needed to be cleaned-the dogs told me so."With those chilling words, the author's world was shattered. What began as an unimaginable tragedy unraveled into a devastating story of mental illness, family bonds, and the fragile line between love and fear.In this gripping true crime memoir, the author takes readers inside the courtroom where...

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Report copyright infringementby Gil Andrews (Author), Anne Farris (Contribution by)To escape a life of poverty, and to avoid getting trapped in a seasonal agricultural lifestyle where just gettin' by was all you could ask for, I chose the only way out available to me: enlisting in the United States Air Force. That was the start of a forty-year federal career. Twenty-nine of those years were in federal law enforcement, a career that, at times, could be extremely boring, especially when working...

The Many Deaths of Tom Thomson: Separating Fact from Fiction

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Report copyright infringementby Gregory Klages (Author)A National Post Bestseller!How did Tom Thomson die in the summer of 1917?Was landscape painter Tom Thomson shot by poachers, or by a German-American draft dodger? Did a blow from a canoe paddle knock him unconscious and into the water? Was he fatally injured in a drunken fight? Did he end his life out of fear of being forced to marry his pregnant girlfriend?Commemorating the one-hundredth anniversary of the death of the renowned Canadian ...

The Fairbanks Four: Murder, Injustice, and the Birth of a Movement

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Report copyright infringementby Brian Patrick O'Donoghue (Author)One murder, four guilty convictions, and a community determined to find justice.October, 1997. Late one night in Fairbanks, Alaska, a passerby finds a teenager unconscious, collapsed on the edge of the road, beaten nearly beyond recognition. Two days later, he dies in the hospital. His name is John Gilbert Hartman and he's just turned 15 years old. The police quickly arrest four suspects, all under the age of 21 and of Alaska Na...

The New Evil: Understanding the Emergence of Modern Violent Crime - Paperback

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by Gary Brucato (Author), Ann W. Burgess (Afterword by)Revisiting Dr. Michael Stone's groundbreaking 22-level Gradations of Evil Scale, a hierarchy of evil behavior first introduced in the book The Anatomy of Evil, Stone and Dr. Gary Brucato, a fellow violence and serious psychopathology expert, here provide even more detail, using dozens of cases to exemplify the categories along the continuum. The New Evil also presents compelling evidence that, since a cultural tipping-point in the 1960s, ...

Da Rep Ute Able Vol 3 Tears Still Invincible

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Report copyright infringementby Julius Clark Jones (Author)At the tender age of 10 I kept hearing my mama cry over backed up bills. I hit the streets to sell drugs to help ends meet. Deep involved in the streets, were put on West Side 30's Fruit Town Brim 36St Jersey City NJ chapter. Gang Bangin pressing the line for the set, getting setup and rearrested by gang task force and the Fed's. Facing two hot one cases (187). Doing time in State and Federal Prison, watching my daughters grow up thro...

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Report copyright infringementby Alan R. Warren (Author)Volume 2 of the International Serial Killers Encyclopedia series focuses on the most notorious serial killers from the Soviet Union Era of history.In the shadows of the Iron Curtain, amidst the turmoil of revolution and the rigid structures of the Soviet regime, a different kind of darkness lurked. Behind closed doors and beneath the watchful eyes of the state, a breed of killers emerged, their crimes shrouded in secrecy and fear from the...

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Report copyright infringementby Shavaun Scott (Author)Nightbird, by Shavaun Scott's profoundly intimate memoir that charts one woman's perilous journey through a childhood steeped in religious guilt, suffocating family dynamics, and an industrial hometown where "breathing was dangerous"-amid cycles of abuse, gaslighting, and heartbreak she, fights to hold onto her sense of self-until a haunting moment where the man she has loved leaves her with a devastating goodbye, casting blame at her feet...

The Last Mob Lawyer: True Stories from the Man Who Defended Some of the Biggest Names in Organized Crime

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Report copyright infringementby S. M. Chris Franzblau (Author), Bruce Nagel (Author)The Last Mob Lawyer presents a rare glimpse behind the curtain of some of the mob's best-kept secrets--told by the only man still alive to share them. Post-World-War-II New Jersey was the breeding ground for some of the most notorious mobsters in American history. Their business was crime. Their capital was influence. And their leaders controlled every facet of American life for nearly half a century. These w...

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Report copyright infringementby Jenny Taylor (Author)"I was the one to be called upon in the night for reasons I do not know and compelled to follow my God through places I could never have imagined. I would become a part of something so overwhelmingly grotesque and foul but, yet, laden with such beauty and power that I could not look away." The Final Word begins with Jenny Taylor's midnight prayer for her father's salvation and expands into an intricately woven story of murder, fraught fami...

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Report copyright infringementby Mike Martin (Author), Ross Lee (Illustrator)WILD BILLY EARP?A trio of Old Wild West legends ... Wild Bill Hickok ... Billy the Kid ... Wyatt Earp ... morphed into one? Well, kind of ... but how can such an amalgamation be justified?It is not literal, of course. Their stories have been told many times before, but not quite like this. All three followed similar paths in the same era of violence and lawlessness, each making their mark in such a way that they still...

Infamous Cults: The Life and Crimes of Cult Leaders and Their Followers

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Report copyright infringementby Daniela Airlie (Author)Come with me and learn about the world's most ill-famed and chilling cults, their leaders, and their followers. The strange and sinister stories of lesser-known cults will have you asking what triggers the cult followers' unwavering loyalty to their often cruel leaders. You may know the story of the Manson Family, whose followers committed senseless acts of violence (including the tragic murder of actress Sharon Tate). But, many cult crim...

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Report copyright infringementby Harold Schechter (Author)From the author of "top-drawer true crime" (Booklist) books comes the definitive account of Ed Gein--the man whose shocking crimes inspired Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs. The year was 1957. To his Wisconsin neighbors, Ed Gein was a slight, Midwestern farmhand with a twisted little smile. To an unsuspecting nation, he would become one of the most notorious crime figures in history, having lived for t...

Home of the Happy: A Murder on the Cajun Prairie

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Report copyright infringementby Jordan LaHaye Fontenot (Author)"Riveting and atmospheric, Home of the Happy is also a heartfelt grappling with a trauma in the author's family and her attempts to unravel its secrets once and for all. LaHaye Fontenot's writing is urgent, fueled not just by a desire for justice but by love for her ancestors and the Cajun community of south Louisiana. A must-read for true crime and mystery fans."-- Ana Reyes, New York Times bestselling author of The House in the ...

Gangs in Garden City: How Immigration, Segregation, and Youth Violence are Changing America's Suburbs

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah Garland (Author)For the past five years, journalist Sarah Garland has followed the lives of current and former gang members living in Hempstead on the border of Garden City, Long Island. Affiliated with Mara Salvatrucha and 18th Street, their troubling personal stories expose the cruel realities of segregation, racial income gaps, and poverty that lie hidden behind suburban white picket fences. As Garland travels from Los Angeles to El Salvador and back ...

My Long Journey Through Faith: A New Beginning

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Report copyright infringementby Marcus Blalock (Author)In this book, "My Journey Through Faith," the author, Marcus Blalock, takes you on a journey with him as he battles with getting justice in a system that is seemingly unjust. On this journey to regain his freedom that was stolen from him, he never loses faith...which makes this story that much more remarkable. Throughout the years of fighting for liberty and justice, he discovers his purpose in life and makes every effort available to sha...

Invincible Tears Vol1 Tears You Can't See Only from the Mind and Heart

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Report copyright infringementby Julius Clark Jones (Author)Before you raw uncut authentic tales of Men and Women came together that were once gang bangin. From East Coast Blood's and West Coast Blood's inform today's world, what society loves glorifying through the music industry and movies.From Jersey City NJ, Newark NJ, East Orange NJ, Brooklyn NY, North Philly PA, Richmond VA, East South Central L.A, West South Central L.A and Compton CA.Harsh reality what they went through, some stories m...

Skeletons in my Closet: 101 Life Lessons From a Homicide Detective

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Report copyright infringementby Dave Sweet (Author), Sarah Kades (Author)A poignant virtual ride-along like no other.Sometimes tragedy can be the most sincere teacher-something retired homicide detective Dave Sweet knows all too well. In this unorthodox police memoir, Sweet takes readers on a ride-along like no other, revealing poignant truths about life and death, and how we can work and live together. Danger and grit pair with humour and compassion in this gripping, fresh read.Dave Sweet, a...

The Invisible Spy: Churchill's Rockefeller Center Spy Ring and America's First Secret Agent of World War II

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Maier (Author)The untold WWII story of a former NFL player turned White House insider who worked with Churchill's undercover agents in New York City to conduct the biggest foreign spy operation ever within the US, and inspired Ian Fleming's James Bond, for fans of Ben Macintyre and Erik Larson.As a tough but smart Italian American kid, Ernest Cuneo played Ivy League football at Columbia University and was in the old Brooklyn Dodgers NFL franchise before ...

A Better Ending: A Brother's Twenty-Year Quest to Uncover the Truth about His Sister's Death

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Report copyright infringementby James Whitfield Thomson (Author)For fans of We Keep the Dead Close and The Night of the Gun, a propulsive and moving memoir about a brother's decades-long investigation into the circumstances surrounding his sister's tragic death--and his own journey to forgiveness and closure. On a summer evening in 1974, Jim Thomson arrived home from a baseball game to the news that his younger sister, Eileen, had taken her own life. To Jim, his parents, and his brother, Keit...

The Church of Living Dangerously: Tales of a Drug-Running Megachurch Pastor

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Report copyright infringementby John Lee Bishop (Author)The unbelievable true story of John Bishop, a former megachurch pastor who ended up running drugs for the Sinaloa Cartel.For thirty years, John Bishop was a pastor. Along the way, he learned that everyone does stupid things. We lie to our families. We lie to ourselves. We take long lunch breaks and sneak cigarettes when we said we'd quit. Sometimes, we take a sabbatical from our nice, comfortable life as a pastor and start running drugs ...

Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story

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Report copyright infringementby Kristine S. Ervin (Author)A Washington Post "Most Anticipated" Book of the Year - A New York Times "Must Read" For readers of My Dark Places and The Fact of a Body, a beautiful, brutal memoir documenting one woman's search for identity alongside her family's decades-long quest to identify the two men who abducted--and murdered--her mother "Melding true crime with memoir, Ervin reminds us of what happens when we conflate people with the transgressions committed ...