True Crime

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by Rick Geary (Author)Lindbergh's baby disappears! Geary retraces all the different highly publicized events, blackmail notes, false and otherwise, as well as the string of colorful characters wanting to 'help, ' some of which actually successfully snookered the beleaguered hero.Author BiographyAn award-winning cartoonist and illustrator, Rick Geary has worked for Marvel Entertainment Group, DC Comics, Dark Horse Comics, and Heavy Metal, and has contributed to National Lampoon and The New Yor...

Sheriff: A Memoir of a Lawman from Bloody Williamson County, Illinois - Hardcover

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by Harry Spiller (Author)This 160 page book serves as a memoir of a lawman (Harry Spiller) from Williamson County, Illinois and tells of his stories and ventures as a sheriff. Number of Pages: 160 Dimensions: 0.5 x 9.4 x 6 IN Publication Date: June 15, 1999

Death by Government: Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900 - Paperback

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by R. J. Rummel (Author)This is R. J. Rummel's fourth book in a series devoted to genocide and government mass murder, or what he calls democide. He presents the primary results, in tables and figures, as well as a historical sketch of the major cases of democide, those in which one million or more people were killed by a regime. In Death by Government, Rummel does not aim to describe democide itself, but to determine its nature and scope in order to test the theory that democracies are inher...

Bloodsworth: The True Story of One Man's Triumph Over Injustice - Paperback

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by Tim Junkin (Author)"Chilling, heartbreaking, and ultimately inspiring. I urge you to read it." --SISTER HELEN PREJEAN, author of Dead Man Walking CHARGED WITH THE RAPE AND MURDER of a nine-year-old girl in 1984, Kirk Bloodsworth was tried, convicted, and sentenced to die in Maryland's gas chamber. Maintaining his innocence, he read everything on criminal law available in the prison library and persuaded a new lawyer to petition for the then-innovative DNA testing. After nine years in one...

Players: Con Men, Hustlers, Gamblers, and Scam Artists - Paperback

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by Geno Zanetti (Editor), Stephen Hyde (Editor)Once I hear the clatter of chips I almost go into convulsions," said Dostoyevsky, while Anatole France wrote, "The gambler is driven by the fascination of danger at the bottom of all great passions." The characters the reader meets in Players -- chess grand masters, poolroom hustlers, or street-hardened practitioners of the short con -- are all alike propelled by the ecstasy of risk. "The stake is money," France wrote, "in other words, immediate,...

Kill the Messenger (Movie Tie-In Edition): How the Cia's Crack-Cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb - Paperback

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by Nick Schou (Author)Now a major motion picture starring Jeremy Renner! Kill the Messenger tells the story of the tragic death of Gary Webb, the controversial newspaper reporter who committed suicide in December 2004. Webb is the former San Jose Mercury News reporter whose 1996 "Dark Alliance" series on the so-called CIA-crack cocaine connection created a firestorm of controversy and led to his resignation from the paper amid escalating attacks on his work by the mainstream media. Author and...

Serial Killers and Mass Murderers: Profiles of the World's Most Barbaric Criminals - Paperback

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by Nigel Cawthorne (Author)SHOCKING TRUE STORIES OF THE WORLD'S MOST BARBARIC CRIMINALSRevealing portraits of the most notorious killers of our time: -Jeffrey Dahmer-The Zodiac Killer-Dr. Harold Shipman-Son of Sam-The Columbine Killers-Charles Manson-The Night Stalker-The Yorkshire Ripper-Ted Bundy-Charles Starkweather-The Boston Strangler Serial Killers & Mass Murderers takes you into the minds of the criminals who committed the world's most notorious and horrifying crimes. Each of the s...

El Sicario: The Autobiography of a Mexican Assassin - Paperback

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by Molly Molloy (Editor), Charles Bowden (Editor)In this unprecedented and chilling monologue, a repentant Mexican hitman tells the unvarnished truth about the war on drugs on the American. El Sicario is the hidden face of America's war on drugs. He is a contract killer who functioned as a commandante in the Chihuahuan State police, who was trained in the US by the FBI, and who for twenty years kidnapped, tortured and murdered people for the drug industry at the behest of Mexican drug cartels...

And Hell Followed with Her: Crossing the Dark Side of the American Border - Hardcover

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by David Neiwert (Author)It began with a frantic 911 call from a woman in a dusty Arizona border town. A gang claiming to be affiliated with the Border Patrol had shot her husband and daughter. It was initially assumed that the murders were products of border drug wars ravaging the Southwest until the leader of one of the more prominent offshoots of the Minutemen movement was arrested for plotting the home invasion as part of a scheme to finance a violent antigovernment border militia. And He...

Desert Reckoning: A Town Sheriff, a Mojave Hermit, and the Biggest Manhunt in Modern California History - Paperback

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by Deanne Stillman (Author)North of Los Angeles - the studios, the beaches, Rodeo Drive - lies a sparsely populated region that comprises fully one half of Los Angeles County. Sprawling across 2200 miles, this shadow side of Los Angeles is in the high Mojave Desert. Known as the Antelope Valley, it's a terrain of savage dignity, a vast amphitheatre of startling wonders that put on a show as the megalopolis burrows northward into the region's last frontier. Ranchers, cowboys, dreamers, dropout...

The Honored Society: A Portrait of Italy's Most Powerful Mafia - Paperback

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by Petra Reski (Author)In the early hours of an August 2007 morning a gunfight broke out in an Italian restaurant in Duisburg, Germany; in less than five minutes over seventy shots were fired into the bodies of six men. Both the victims and the assassins were members of the 'Ndrangheta crime organization. Calabria's Mafia had brazenly shown its savage influence outside Italy for the first time. In The Honored Society award-winning investigative reporter Petra Reski reveals the Mafia menace l...

The Guns of Meeting Street: A Southern Tragedy - Paperback

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by T. Felder Dorn (Author)An engrossing investigation into the deadly outcome of a sixteen-year family feudAs compelling as fiction, The Guns of Meeting Street reconstructs a series of murders from the early 1940s that rocked rural Edgefield County, South Carolina. Featuring a cast of unlikely antagonists--a prominent store owner, an elementary school teacher, and a law enforcement officer--the acts of revenge resulted in five murders and a trio of executions, including that of the first woma...

Dead Men Tell No Tales: The Life and Legends of the Pirate Charles Gibbs - Hardcover

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by Joseph Gibbs (Author)A chronicle of murders, mutiny, and mayhem carried out by a real pirate of the CaribbeanDead men tell no tales, or so the pirate maxim goes. But shortly before execution for mutiny and murder in 1831, the enigmatic pirate Charles Gibbs recounted the infamous crimes of his harrowing life at sea in a self-aggrandizing series of "confessions." Wildly popular reading among nineteenth-century audiences, such criminal confessions were peppered with the romanticized mythology...

Treating the Trauma of Rape: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Ptsd - Hardcover

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by Edna B. Foa (Author), Barbara Olasov Rothbaum (Author)In the U.S. alone, approximately 1.5 million adult female survivors of rape are estimated to suffer from chronic PTSD. This invaluable book--informed by the latest research and written by two of the leading authorities in the field--provides a step-by-step guide to proven brief therapy techniques for treating traumatized women. Filling an urgent need of front-line practitioners working within managed care guidelines, the book includes n...

Gamblers & Gangsters: Fort Worth's Jacksboro Highway in the 1940s & 1950s - Paperback

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by Ann Arnold (Author)A gripping account of rampant crime in Fort Worth, Texas, during the 1930s, through the 1950s, with hoodlums, gamblers, murderers, dopers, pimps, and lawmen on the take. The author recounts the days when Fort Worth was as wide open as Las Vegas with gambling and crime that rivaled New York and Chicago with mob hits, exploding cars, and late-night police raids. The personalities were larger than life, some went on to fame in other parts of the country such as Las Vegas ga...

The Fall of the Duke of Duval: A Prosecutor's Journal - Paperback

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by John E. Clark (Author)The name Parr may not be familiar to most readers, but many know Lyndon Johnson's first U.S. Senate election was tainted: this 1948 "Box 13" fraud was perpetrated in the town of Alice in Jim Wells County, Texas, by George Parr, the "duke" of neighboring Duval County. Clark, an assistant federal prosecutor under U.S. Attorney William Sessions (later FBI director) in the1970s, played a key role in the long federal grand jury investigation of the Parr machine and later t...

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by Wanda a. Landrey (Author)For the lawless, the Big Thicket offered the best natural hiding place in Texas. Wanda Landrey tells the tales of various outlaws and their deeds from extensive research and first hand accounts. The Sapp murders, the Kaiser Burnout and the escapades of "Red" Goleman are all covered, along with the boomtowns where riches were made and lost. In no way is this book a complete history of the outlaws and crimes of the area, but many stories are told that otherwise would...

Texas Prisons: The Largest Hotel Chain in Texas - Paperback

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by Lon Bennett Glenn (Author)Overcrowded and understaffed, Texas prisons are nearing the meltdown stage. It wasn't always that way. A few California lawyers and an activist federal judge ruined what was widely acknowledged as the best prison system in the nation. The old judge reached into the pockets of Texas taxpayers and extracted several billion dollars, forcing Texans to undertake the largest prison expansion program in the history of the world. In this unblinking look at the past and pr...

The Letters of John Wesley Hardin - Paperback

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by John Wesley Hardin (Author), Roy Stamps (Author), Jo Ann Stamps (Author)Considered by many to be one of the deadliest men in the west, claiming to have killed 42 men, John Wesley Hardin was also one of the most controversial men in the West. "The Letters of John Wesley Hardin," helps to reveal the man behind the myth, These personal writings of Hardin and his family, provide a detailed account of his capture, imprisonment, his family relationships, his religious beliefs, his transformation...

Counterspy: Memoirs of a Counterintelligence Officer in World War II and the Cold War - Paperback

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by Richard W. Cutler (Author), Joseph E. Persico (Foreword by)During World War II and the beginning of the Cold War, Richard W. Cutler was an officer with the elite X-2 counterintelligence branch of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and with its successor, the Strategic Services Unit (SSU). Counterspy offers a rare firsthand account of the secret war against Hitler and the postwar competition with the Soviets for German intelligence assets. While with X-2, Cutler analyzed the super-secre...

Strange Trade: The Story of Two Women Who Risked Everything in the International Drug Trade - Paperback

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by Asale Angel-Ajani (Author)Strange Trade tells the compelling stories of Mary, a Liberian drug courier with a college education, and Pauline, a Ugandan wife, mother, and drug cartel boss. A leading expert on women and organized crime, Asale Angel-Ajani spent years interviewing these women in Italy's notorious Rebibbia Prison--and gained unprecedented access into the narcotics trade. Herself the daughter of a drug trafficker, Angel-Ajani brings a wrenching, deeply personal perspective to the...

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by Fredric Wertham (Author), William Bush (Introduction by)In 1955 a New York City court sentenced Puerto Rican immigrant and teenage gang member Frank Santana to twenty-five years to life for second-degree murder. Fredric Wertham (1895-1981), one of the most influential authorities on child psychology in the twentieth century, was outraged and felt compelled to write The Circle of Guilt.He had conducted multiple interviews with Santana and created an extensive psychological profile on him. W...

Return Again to the Scene of the Crime: A Guide to Even More Infamous Places in Chicago - Paperback

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by Richard Lindberg (Author)Return again to the scene of the crime and visit the secret hideouts of Nazi saboteurs, anarchist plotters, charlatans, fakers, gangsters, and even a love-sick matron dubbed the "Torso Killer." See up close the murdering matrimonial bluebeard Johann Hoch and probe the unsolved mysteries surrounding the disappearance of candy heiress Helen Brach, the sinking of the "Christmas Tree Ship," and dozens of famous gangland "rubouts." This sequel to the best-selling Return...

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by J. Neil Schulman (Author), J. Neil Schulman (Introduction by) Number of Pages: 304 Dimensions: 0.77 x 9.01 x 6.03 IN Publication Date: January 01, 1999

After Capone: The Life and World of Chicago Mob Boss Frank the Enforcer Nitti - Hardcover

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by Mars Eghigian (Author)After Capone is the first book-length work to present the complete, never-before-told story of Frank "the Enforcer"Nitti--born Francesco Raffele Nitto--the driving force behind the Chicago mob's operations in the years that followed Al Capone's imprisonment. Beginning with Nitti's Italian origins, Mars Eghigian traces the Enforcer's entry into and subsequent rise inside Chicago's underworld, his near-fatal shooting by city detectives, his strange death, and the ultima...

The Complete Public Enemy Almanac: New Facts and Features on the People, Places, and Events of the Gangsters and Outlaw Era: 1920-1940 - Paperback

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by William J. Helmer (Author), Rick Mattix (Author)Meticulously documented, lavishly detailed, exhaustively researched, and written with an eye for the truths that have remained largely hidden, The Complete Public Enemy Almanac"" provides a reliable source of information about the violent and lawless era of the twenties and thirties."" Number of Pages: 669 Dimensions: 1.4 x 8.9 x 7.14 IN Publication Date: July 01, 2007

King of the Sunset Strip: Hangin' with Mickey Cohen and the Hollywood Mob - Hardcover

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by Steve Stevens (Author), Craig Lockwood (Author)Who would have thought that an acting career that began as a teenage star in the "Annette" series on the "The Mickey Mouse Club," Walt Disney's "Zorro," "The Roy Rogers Show," and "That's My Mom" would lead to the role of confidante and assistant to Southern California crime-boss Mickey Cohen? King of the Sunset Strip is a pistol-to-the-side-of-your-head Hollywood story. Beginning with the parties, boozing, and sex and the "good-time" macho wh...

The Complete Public Enemy Almanac: New Facts and Features on the People, Places, and Events of the Gangsters and Outlaw Era: 1920-1940 - Hardcover

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by William J. Helmer (Author), Rick Mattix (Author)Meticulously documented, lavishly detailed, exhaustively researched, and written with an eye for truths that have remained largely hidden, this edition provides a reliable source of information about the violent and lawless era of the '20s and '30s. Number of Pages: 669 Dimensions: 1.7 x 9.22 x 7.22 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: July 01, 2007

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre: The Untold Story of the Gangland Bloodbath That Brought Down Al Capone - Paperback

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by William J. Helmer (Author), Arthur J. Bilek (Author)A Case of Bad Timing and Poor JudgmentThe machine-gun murders of seven men on the morning of February 14, 1929, by killers dressed as cops became the gangland "crime of the century." Or so the story went. Since then it has been featured in countless histories, biographies, movies, and television specials. The St. Valentine's Day Massacre, however, is the first book-length treatment of the subject. Challenging the commonly held assumption...

Egan's Rats: The Untold Story of the Prohibition-Era Gang That Ruled St. Louis - Hardcover

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by Daniel Waugh (Author)Led by two childhood pals, Thomas "Snake" Kinney and Tom Egan, the Egan's Rats emerged from St. Louis's Irish slums. They learned their trade the old-fashioned way, via robberies, brawls, burglaries, and shootings. When Kinney ran on the Democratic ticket in the third ward, his friends were at the polls to ensure he got enough votes. For nearly ten years the gang cut a large swath in St. Louis, instilling fear wherever it went. With Snake Kinney, a Missouri state senat...

Fatal Holiday: A True Crime Story - Paperback

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by Judy Gigstad (Author)On November 20, 2001, advertising executive Robert Andrew was murdered in his garage. Bizarre events catapulted the killing into the national media spotlight. Andrew's estranged wife, Brenda, and James Pavatt soon became suspects. This true crime book recounts the murder, its effects on the families and on the author as a next door neighbor and witness. Returning home from vacation, the author and her husband discovered evidence in their house that directly implicated ...

Chicago Assassin: The Life and Legend of Machine Gun Jack McGurn and the Chicago Beer Wars of the Roaring Twenties - Hardcover

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by Richard J. Shmelter (Author)The city of Chicago led the nation when it came to gangland violence during the Prohibition era. As a result, many infamous, unforgettable personalities became a part of America's criminal history.Chicago Assassin is the story of "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn, one of the people responsible for putting much of the roar into the Roaring Twenties. McGurn was born is Liscata, Sicily, on Febuary 15, 1905 as Vincenzo Antionio Gibaldi. His family immigrated to Chicago in 1...