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Front Toward Enemy: A Slain Soldier's Widow Details Her Husband's Murder and How Military Courts Allowed the Killer to Escape Justice - Paperback

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by Barbara Allen (Author)When the military judicial system fails and acquits a known murderer, it is upon Barbara Allen's family and the family of the soldier slain with her husband to right the wrongs bestowed upon justice. "Front Toward Enemy" details the private and public struggles Barbara faced when the government turned it's back on this case and refused to account for its mistakes.Author BiographyBarbara Allen is the mother of four boys and resides in New York. She holds a Bachelors de...

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by Bart J. Allen (Author)Squarely in the heart of America, Salina, Kansas is a pretty safe place to have kids. At least, that's what they say. But some places in Kansas are safer than others. The Allens found out the hard way. In the case of the death of their oldest son, seventeen-year-old Destry Greer Allen, they did what nobody else would do to find out the truth about what really happened to him that late night in June of 2004. Originally ruled a textbook suicide, an independent investiga...

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by David Alistair Yalof (Author)Can Justice Department officials effectively investigate wrongdoing within their own administration without relying on an independent counsel? In Prosecution among Friends political scientist David Alistair Yalof explores the operation of due process as it is navigated within the office of the attorney general and its various subdivisions. The attorney general holds a politically appointed position within the administration and yet, as the nation's highest rank...

Blood River Rising: The Thompson-Crismon Feud of the 1920s - Paperback

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by Victoria Pope Hubbell (Author)"The KKK weren't never about race. It were always about power and greed." So begins 86-year-old Hadley Thompson, who insists a rural historian research why two people were murdered. At first, Hubbell has little interest in the matter. Not only did the murders take place in 1924, there never was a question of who committed them. What difference could a motive make now? It is Thompson's insistence that an active Ku Klux Klan chapter fueled the feud between two b...

Trauma Room One: The JFK Medical Coverup Exposed - Hardcover

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by Charles a. Crenshaw (Author), J. Gary Shaw (Author)The doctors who tried to save President John F. Kennedy at Parkland Hospital in November of 1963 agreed-either out of respect or fear-not to publish what they had seen, heard, and felt. Then in 1990, one of the Dallas surgeons who worked on JFK in Trauma Room One, Dr. Charles Crenshaw, decided after much deliberation that the American people ought to know the truth. "The wounds to Kennedy's head and throat that I examined were caused by bu...

Girl with No Name: The Incredible Story of a Child Raised by Monkeys - Paperback

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by Marina Chapman (Author), Vanessa James (With), Lynne Barrett-Lee (With)In 1954, in a remote mountain village in South America, a little girl was abducted. She was four years old. Marina Chapman was stolen from her home and then abandoned deep in the Colombian jungle. That she survived is a miracle. Two days later, half-drugged, terrified, and starving, she came upon a troop of capuchin monkeys. Acting entirely on instinct, she tried to do what they did: she ate what they ate and copied the...

FBI Handbook of Crime Scene Forensics - Paperback

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by Federal Bureau of Investigation (Author)The authoritative guide to navigating crime scenes-for professionals and for anyone fascinated by the world of CSI. FBI Handbook of Crime Scene Forensics is the official procedural guide for law enforcement agencies, attorneys, and tribunals submitting evidence to the FBI. This handbook outlines the proper methods for investigating crime scenes, examining evidence (bullets, computers, hairs, inks, lubricants, ropes, shoeprints, tire treads, weapons o...

The CIA Document of Human Manipulation: Kubark Counterintelligence Interrogation Manual - Paperback

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by The Central Intelligence Agency (Manufactured by)Released by the Freedom of Information Act. This document is a thorough description of how the CIA recommends interrogating a subject. To get the information that is needed there is nothing withheld short of torture. For example in "Threats and Fears," the CIA authors note that "the threat of coercion usually weakens or destroys resistance more effectively than coercion itself. The threat to inflict pain, for example, can trigger fears more ...

Sirloin Stockade Slaughter: Murder on the Run - Paperback

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by Emma Jean Stover (Author)On June 22, 1978, Melvin Lorenz, his wife, Linda, and son, Richard, were killed near Purcell, Oklahoma. Twenty-four days later, on July 16, six employees of a Sirloin Stockade Restaurant in southwest Oklahoma City were herded into a freezer and shot to death. Hundreds of law enforcement members worked for eight months to track down the killers. In October and November 1979, Roger Dale Stafford was convicted of first degree murder of nine people. However, he was not...

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by J. R. Galloway (Author)The Servant Girl Murders documents the true story of a series of mysterious murders that occurred in Austin, Texas during the year 1885. Number of Pages: 346 Dimensions: 0.77 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: March 29, 2010

Left to Die: Chappaquiddick Grand Jury Foreman Reveals Explosive, Never-told Before Information - Hardcover

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by Jerry Shaffer (Author), Leslie H. Leland (Author)1969, Chappaquiddick, Martha's Vineyard: Mary Jo Kopechne is the unsuspecting victim of a fatal car accident. The driver is Senator Edward (Ted) Kennedy. This is a story that details the investigation, inquest, and grand jury deliberations into the young woman's untimely death. Leslie H. Leland, jury foreman, gives his own account of how the entire grand jury was stymied in seeking evidence relating to the accident caused by Senator Ted Kenn...

Hunted in the Heartland: A Memoir of Murder - Paperback

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by Bonney Hogue Patterson (Author)On May 12, 1978, a woman is assaulted and brutally murdered in her home. It happened in broad daylight, as her husband lunched with friends, and neighbors bustled in and out of their houses. Two nearby women have encounters with a strange man and remember him. Neither would have believed that they would be the only living survivors able to identify who was then an unknown serial killer in the midst of his most deadly killing frenzy. The two become part of a p...

Notorious Telluride:: Wicked Tales from San Miguel County - Paperback

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by Carol Turner (Author)While today's Telluride might bring to mind a hot tourist spot and upscale ski resort, the earliest days of the town and surrounding San Miguel County were marked by an abundance of gamblers, con men and murderers. From Bob Meldrum, a deputized killer who prowled the streets during times of labor unrest, to the author's own ancestor, Charlie Turner, a brash young man killed in a shooting in Ophir, Carol Turner's Notorious Telluride offers a glimpse at some of the sordi...

Six Miles to Charleston: The True Story of John and Lavinia Fisher - Paperback

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by Bruce Orr (Author), John Laverne (Foreword by) Explore the grizzly tale of Charleston's most infamous serial killers from the beginning of their reign of horror till their eventual incarceration and execution.In 1819, a young man outwitted death at the hands of John and Lavinia Fisher and sparked the hunt for Charleston's most notorious serial killers. Former homicide investigator Bruce Orr follows the story of the Fishers, from the initial police raid on their Six Mile Inn with its report...

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by Fiona Young-Brown (Author)Filled with tales of infamous duels, cheating congressmen, and much more, Wicked Lexington, Kentucky offers the first collection the city's rowdy and ruckus history .Despite its illustrious beginnings as the Athens of the west, Lexington has always had a darker side lurking just beneath its glossy sheen. It didn't take long for the first intellectual hub west of the Alleghenies to quickly morph into a city with the same scandalous inclinations as neighboring Louis...

Murder, Inc.:: The Mafia's Hit Men in New York City - Paperback

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by Graham K. Bell (Author)Beginning in the 1920s, an all-star team of goons, gunmen and garrotters transformed America's criminal landscape. Its membership was diverse; the mob recruited men from all ethnicities and religious backgrounds. Most were natives of the Big Apple, handpicked from the city's toughest neighborhoods: Brownsville, Ocean Hill, Flushing. So prolific were their exploits that the media soon dubbed this bevy of hired hands Murder, Incorporated. The brainchild of aging mob bo...

400 Things Cops Know: Street-Smart Lessons from a Veteran Patrolman - Paperback

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by Adam Plantinga (Author)"The new bible for crime writers." --The Wall Street JournalHow does it feel to be in a high-speed car chase? What is it like to shoot someone? What do cops really think about the citizens they serve? Nearly everyone has wondered what it's like to be a police officer, but no civilian really understands what happens on the job. 400 Things Cops Know shows police work on the inside, from the viewpoint of the regular cop on the beat--a profession that can range from rewa...

The Atlanta Ripper: The Unsolved Case of the Gate City's Most Infamous Murders - Paperback

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by Jeffery Wells (Author)As Atlanta finished rebuilding after the Civil War, a new horror arose from the ashes to roam the night streets.Beginning in 1911, a killer whose methods mimicked the famed Jack the Ripper murdered at least twenty black women, from prostitutes to working-class women and mothers. Each murder attributed to the killer occurred on a Saturday night, and for one terrifying spring in 1911, a fresh body turned up every Sunday morning. Amid a stifling investigation, slayings c...

California's Deadliest Women: Dangerous Dames and Murderous Moms - Paperback

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by David Kulczyk (Author), Olaf Jens (Illustrator)We like to think of women as nurturers, not murderers, but women do kill. California's Deadliest Women is the definitive guide to the murderesses of the Golden State, a horrifying compendium of women driven to kill by jealousy, greed, desperation, or their own inner demons. From Brynn Hartman, who killed her husband, comedian Phil Hartman, to chemist Larissa Shuster, who dissolved her husband in acid, to dominatrix Omaima Aree Nelson, who cook...

The Boston Mob Guide: Hit Men, Hoodlums & Hideouts - Paperback

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by Beverly Ford (Author), Stephanie Schorow (Author)Boston journalists Beverly Ford and Stephanie Schorow navigate the backrooms and seedy hangouts throughout the real story of Boston's gangster past.The capture of notorious mobster James "Whitey" Bulger closed an infamous chapter in B Number of Pages: 160 Dimensions: 0.5 x 8.9 x 6 IN Publication Date: October 25, 2011

Jackpot: The Story of Eugene Bulgarino - Paperback

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by Tarvis El Alberty (Author)In this gripping profile of Eugene Bulgarino, author Tarvis El Alberty takes the reader on a fascinating journey into the world of a unique Robin Hood-type of hustler, whose schemes were humorous at their the core. Eugene was a key figure in the largest slot machine casino heist in history. Along with his accomplice - a man the FBI named "The Genius" - Eugene took Las Vegas for millions. Jackpot: The Story of Eugene Bulgarino covers Eugene's early years and his gi...

Police Craft: What Cops Know about Crime, Community and Violence - Paperback

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by Adam Plantinga (Author)A veteran police officer gives his thoughtful, balanced views on police shootings, racial profiling, community relations, and every other aspect of policing--and he'll change what you think about the police.From the author of the acclaimed 400 Things Cops Know, Police Craft is a thought-provoking and revelatory examination of policing in America, as seen by a working police officer. Adam Plantinga, a 17-year veteran sergeant with the San Francisco Police Department, ...

The Backpack: A Wounded Police Officer's Struggle with the Burden All Cops Share - Paperback

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by Brandon S. Hultink (Author)Wounded in the line of duty and paralyzed, police officer Brandon Hultink made an amazing journey from despair to hope."I can still remember the taste of metal in my mouth from the barrel of the gun ..." After the shoot-out that put him in a wheelchair, police officer Brandon Hultink was ready to put an end to it all. In his frank and compelling memoir The Backpack, Hultink tells how he came to the worst moment of his life, and how faith in God and the humility t...

Wicked Carlisle:: The Dark Side of the Cumberland Valley - Paperback

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by Joseph David Cress (Author)With Wicked Carlisle, author Joe Cress revisits the criminal history of Cumberland County. Taking a more focused and less bloody approach, Cress will largely bring new stories of mischief to the table, though he will revisit the lighter side of two or three crimes from Murder and Mayhem in Cumberland County. From stories of college pranks gone wrong, Carlisle's own Robin Hood and the robbing and subsequent torching of a beloved local theater (the Strand where the...

If a Wicked Man: True Freedom Behind Bars - Paperback

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by John Lawson (Author), John Sealey (Author)Finding True Freedom Behind BarsJohn Lawson's fighting skills and fearless reputation made him a man to be respected in the nightclubs of Manchester, Liverpool and Edinburgh. Leading a team of ex-soldiers and riding with a biker gang, he graduated to working for the Maltese Mafia running the sex industry in London's Soho. Returning to Scotland he trained as a bodyguard working for the rich and famous and soon became embroiled in a world of kidnap, ...

Gangs and Outlaws of Western Pennsylvania - Paperback

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by Thomas White (Author), Michael Hassett (Author)Violent bank heists, bold train robberies and hardened gangs all tear across the history of the wild west--western Pennsylvania, that is.The region played reluctant host to the likes of the infamous Biddle Boys, who escaped Allegheny County Jail by romancing the warden's wife, and the Cooley Gang, which held Fayette County in its violent grip at the close of the nineteenth century. Then there was Pennsylvania's own Bonnie and Clyde--Irene and ...

Gangsters and Organized Crime in Buffalo: History, Hits and Headquarters - Paperback

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by Michael F. Rizzo (Author)Take a tour of Buffalo, NY's mobster and mafia history. Local mob expert reveals gangsters' stories, hangouts and more.Buffalo has housed its fair share of thugs and mobsters. Besides common criminals and bank robbers, a powerful crim Number of Pages: 256 Dimensions: 0.76 x 8.96 x 6.08 IN Publication Date: June 12, 2012

The Boys in Chicago Heights: The Forgotten Crew of the Chicago Outfit - Paperback

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by Matthew J. Luzi (Author)Chicago Heights was long the seat of one of the major street crews of the Chicago Outfit, but its importance has often been overlooked and misunderstood.The crew's origins predate Prohibition, when Chicago Heights was a developing manufacturing center with a large Italian immigrant population. Its earliest bosses struggled for control until a violent gang war left the crew solidified under the auspices of Al Capone. For the remainder of the twentieth century, the bo...

Lisbon: War in the Shadows of the City of Light, 1939-1945 - Paperback

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by Neill Lochery (Author)This atmospheric history of Portugal's capital city during the Second World War is a gripping tale of high-stakes intrigue, betrayal, double-dealing and survival.Author BiographyNeill Lochery, PhD, is a world-renowned source on Israel, the Middle East, and Mediterranean history. He is the author of five books and countless newspaper and magazine articles. He regularly appears on television in the UK, the USA, and the Middle East. He is currently based at University Co...

Spies and Commissars: The Early Years of the Russian Revolution - Paperback

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by Robert Service (Author)The early years of Bolshevik rule were marked by dynamic interaction between Russia and the West. These years of civil war in Russia were years when the West strove to understand the new communist regime while also seeking to undermine it. Meanwhile, the Bolsheviks tried to spread their revolution across Europe at the same time they were seeking trade agreements that might revive their collapsing economy. This book tells the story of these complex interactions in det...

Daughter of the White River:: Depression-Era Treachery and Vengeance in the Arkansas Delta - Paperback

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by Denise White Parkinson (Author), Dale Woodiel (Foreword by)Join author Denise Parkinson for an intimate look at a Depression-era tragedy.The once-thriving houseboat communities along Arkansas' White River are long gone, and few remember the sensational murder story that set local darling Hele Number of Pages: 144 Dimensions: 0.36 x 9.03 x 6.06 IN Publication Date: August 27, 2013