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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

Shocking Celebrity Deaths and Murders - Paperback

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by Dylan Frost (Author)Despite their wealth, fame, and power, celebrities are ultimately just flesh and blood like all of us. Their status or accomplishments are not a magical shield of protection when it comes to death. In fact, in some cases, celebrities are more vulnerable than your averge person. As we shall see in this book, a number of celebrities have been murdered by their own fans. A number of celebrities have also been murdered in cases that remain unsolved. Fame can be a fickle and...

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by Harold Trisler (Author), David Higginbotham (Contribution by), Brett Short (Artist)Finding the Lost Dalton is an important book documentingthe location, circumstance, and murder of Deputy U.S.Marshal Frank Dalton. Dalton was one of the brave federallawmen of the Fort Smith, Arkansas, federal court thatworked for federal judge Isaac C. Parker. Dalton hadbrothers who worked with him as posse and after hisdeath became legendary outlaws. Well researched byTrisler, this book will add to the kno...

LIzzie Borden: The Untold Story - Paperback

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by Edward D. Radin (Author)Originally published in 1961, Lizzie Borden: The Untold Story covers the original "True Crime" story in America.On a hot August morning in 1892, Mrs. Abby Borden was tidying up the guest room in her house in Fall River, Massachusetts. Someone entered, carrying an ax. An hour and a half later her husband, Andrew J. Borden, lay down to take a nap on the sitting-room sofa. Again, someone entered, ax in hand. The two violent, brutal murders shocked the country. And when...

Murder & Mayhem in the Crescenta Valley - Paperback

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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 eye ...

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by John Dickie (Author)MAFIA. CAMORRA. 'NDRANGHETA. The Sicilian mafia, known as Cosa Nostra, is far from being Italy's only dangerous criminal fraternity. The country hosts two other major mafias: the camorra from Naples; and, from the poor and isolated region of Calabria, the mysterious 'ndrangheta, which has now risen to become the most powerful mob group active today. Since they emerged, the mafias have all corrupted Italy's institutions, drastically curtailed the life-chances of its ci...

Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World's Greatest Art Heist - Paperback

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by Stephen Kurkjian (Author)The definitive story of the greatest art theft in history. In a secret meeting in 1981, a low-level Boston thief gave career gangster Ralph Rossetti the tip of a lifetime: the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was a big score waiting to happen. Though its collections included priceless artworks by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Degas, and others, its security was cheap, mismanaged, and out of date. And now, it seemed, the whole Boston criminal underworld knew it. Nearly a dec...

The Wrongful Conviction of Oscar Pistorius: Science Transforms Our Comprehension of Reeva Steenkamp's Shocking Death - Paperback

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by Brent Willock (Author)Just when the world thought Oscar Pistorius' meteoric rise to Olympic glory and international celebrity had terminated abysmally in prison, Brent Willock's scientific perspective reopens this gripping narrative for an astonishing re-view.Olympian Oscar Pistorius' spectacular assent to fame ground to a screeching halt in the wee hours of Valentine's Day, 2013. Hearing a sound emanating from his bathroom, he grabbed his pistol and he stumbled to the washroom, screaming ...

Seven Million: A Cop, a Priest, a Soldier for the Ira, and the Still-Unsolved Rochester Brink's Heist - Paperback

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by Gary Craig (Author)On a freezing night in January 1993, masked gunmen walked through the laughably lax security at the Rochester Brink's depot, tied up the guards, and unhurriedly made off with $7.4 million in one of the FBI's top-five armored car heists in history. Suspicion quickly fell on a retired Rochester cop working security for Brinks at the time--as well it might. Officer Tom O'Connor had been previously suspected of everything from robbery to murder to complicity with the IRA. On...

Mobsters In Our Midst: The Kansas City Crime Family - Paperback

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by William Ouseley (Author)The true story of Kansas City's longest-reigning crime family boss. Nick Civella, a former tire theif, against all odds, took over leadership of the local mob, known as the "Outfit", and for the next 30 years oversaw the varied rackets common to La Cosa Nostra crime families. Not as well known outside of Kansas City, as bosses in New York or Chicago, Civella nonetheless came to wield considerable influence in Cosa Nostra affairs, especailly when it came to the Teams...

Psychopaths: Up Close and Personal: Inside the Minds of Sociopaths, Serial Killers and Deranged Murderers - Paperback

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by Christopher Berry-Dee (Author)Dive inside the minds of some of the planet's most notorious serial killers, murderers and criminals in this mammoth true crime collection from acclaimed author Christopher Berry-Dee. Hear from doctors, lawyers, relatives, and psychopaths themselves to see what makes killers tick. "I have a nut ball...he's a real one-off...He's got a woman's breast in his jacket pocket, for Christ's sake." --Phone call about Wayne Adam Ford, "The Killer with a Conscience" "T...

Female Serial Killers: Up Close and Personal: Inside the Minds of Revenge Killers, Sexual Predators, Black Widows and Angels of Death - Paperback

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by Christopher Berry-Dee (Author)Hear from Detectives, Ex-Husbands, Victims and Lady Killers Themselves to Understand Why They Snapped "Don't be fooled by me. Don't be fooled by the face that I wear for I wear a thousand masks; masks that I'm afraid to take off and none of them are me. Pretending is an art that is second nature to me but do not be fooled. For God's sake don't be fooled."--Judy Buenoano, shortly before her death row execution "I fell to the ground but the attack continued. I w...

Stories from Langley: A Glimpse Inside the CIA - Hardcover

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by Edward Mickolus (Editor)Applicants to the Central Intelligence Agency often asked Edward Mickolus what they might expect in a career there. Mickolus, a former CIA intelligence officer whose duties also included recruiting and public affairs, never had a simple answer. If applicants were considering a life in the National Clandestine Service, the answer was easy. Numerous memoirs show the lives of operations officers collecting secret intelligence overseas, conducting counterintelligence in...

The Hidden Addiction: Behind Shoplifting and Other Self-Defeating Behaviors - Paperback

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by Peter Berlin (Author)The HIDDEN ADDICTION Behind Shoplifting and Other Self-defeating Behaviors is based on the premise that people don't want to make their life any harder than it is and that when they are shown who they really are as individuals and how to easily change their thinking and beliefs which are false or self-destructive, they can be guided to significantly alter their life solely on their own steam. The goal is to strengthen people to be who they want to be by presenting core...

Wheels Up! - A 21st Century Grand Tour - Paperback

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by April Gamble (Author)BB is a widow and reluctantly aging baby-boomer with a pot of money and loads of time. She is determined to take her granddaughters on a 21st Century Grand Tour. But it is not that easy. Fractured families are not uncommon today, nor are the bad feelings caused by an ugly divorce. Now BB must play nice to her former daughter-in-law in order to secure permission to take Emily out of the country. This global road trip covers eight major destinations; part crime caper, tr...

The Kennedy Assassination Cover-Up - Paperback

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by Donald Gibson (Author)Over the course of half a century, polls have repeatedly shown that most Americans refuse to accept the official story of the Kennedy Assassination. That story, set forth by the media and by a Presidential Commission dominated by representatives of the most powerful private forces in the nation, was that the President was killed by a lone assassin with radical tendencies and an abnormal mind. It is demonstrated in this book that everything we can know about the cover-...

Law and Order, Ltd.: The Rousing Life of Elfego Baca of New Mexico - Paperback

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by Kyle S. Crichton (Author)"In fashioning this life story of Elfego Baca we have made no attempt to set down in chronological order his deeds from birth to old age, but have been more concerned with those incidents which best bring out the interest and humor and strangeness of the Old West he lived in." This light biography of Elfego Baca (from 1928) was built on interviews by the author (and published) while Baca was still living. Any biography of such a colorful character skirts the edge o...

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by Hunter Cole (Author)In Laurel, Mississippi, in 1935, one daughter of a wealthy and troubled family stood accused of murdering her mother. On her testimony, authorities suspected an equally prominent and well-to-do businessman, her reputed lover, of assisting. Ouida Keeton apparently shot her mother, chopped her up, and disposed of most of her body parts down the toilet and in the fireplace, burning all but the pelvic region, the thighs, and the legs. Attempting to dispose of these remains ...

You Can't Win, Complete and Unabridged by Jack Black - Paperback

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by Jack Black (Author)My background is crowded with robberies, burglaries, and thefts too numerous to recall. All manner of crimes against property. Arrests, trials, acquittals, convictions, escapes. Penitentiaries I see in the background four of them. County jails, workhouses, city prisons, Mounted Police barracks, dungeons, solitary confinement, bread and water, hanging up, brutal floggings, and the murderous straitjacket. I see hop joints, wine dumps, thieves' resorts, and beggars' hangou...

Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation - Paperback

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by Dean Jobb (Author)It was a time of unregulated madness. And nowhere was it madder than in Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties. Enter a slick, smooth-talking, charismatic lawyer named Leo Koretz, who enticed hundreds of people to invest as much as $30 million upward of $400 million today in phantom timberland and nonexistent oil wells in Panama. This rip-roaring tale of greed, financial corruption, dirty politics, over-the-top and under-the-radar deceit, illicit sex, and a brilliant...

Why You Can't Win (John Scarne Explains): A Treatise on Three Card Monte and Its Sucker Effects - Paperback

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by Audley V. Walsh (Author), John Scarne (Contribution by)Audley V. Walsh presents a fascinating overview of the popular street (and con) game of Three Card Monte, with contributions by magician John Scarne. There are multiple methods and card maneuvers used by tricksters of which the general public is unaware and magicians can incorporate into their acts Walsh (1894-1957) was a Vaudeville comic turned policeman, and an expert on gambling fraud. Number of Pages: 48 Dimensions: 0.1 x 8.5 x 5....

An Angel Betrayed: How Wealth, Power and Corruption Destroyed the JonBenet Ramsey Murder Investigation Contact and Publish Dav - Paperback

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by David Hughes (Author)JonBenet Ramsey was six years old when she was murdered on Christmas night, 1996 in her home in Boulder, Colorado. Her killer has never been brought to justice, because the police, prosecutors, lawyers, and her own family were too focused on their own careers, public images, political agendas, and social status. Experts sold out, lawyers used every dirty trick available, and police were hamstrung by political maneuvering and restrictions placed on them largely without ...

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by Michael L. Hawley (Author)Hidden from history for over a century, the name of Scotland Yard's key suspect in the mysterious Jack the Ripper murders was rediscovered in 1993. He was arrested, jumped bail, sneaked out of England--and then the murders stopped. Tracing his footsteps through Victorian London has revealed haunting finds. A macabre wax museum operated just yards away from the first vicious attack, in which the proprietor callously showcased explicit wax models of the fiend's vict...

Jack the Ripper Suspect Dr. Francis Tumblety - Paperback

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by Michael L. Hawley (Author)Jack the Ripper Suspect Dr. Francis Tumblety highlights the most recent groundbreaking discoveries concerning one of Scotland Yard's top Jack the Ripper suspects in the 1888 Whitechapel Murders Investigation, Dr. Francis Tumblety. Among the discoveries is over 700 pages of never-seen-before sworn testimonies revealing not only a picture of an antisocial narcissist with a single-minded lifelong drive for exploitation but also damning evidence that he may indeed hav...

Queen City Notorious: Cincinnati's Most Sensational Murder Cases - Hardcover

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by Jt Townsend (Author)In his much awaited follow-up to cult classic "Queen City Gothic," JT Townsend conducts the reader on another sinister journey through 13 murder tales from the golden age of Cincinnati true crime history. In "Queen City Notorious: Cincinnati's Most Sensational Murder Cases, watch as Townsend exhumes the dark underside of every love triangle, family vendetta, and perilous partnership that ended with a local homicide worthy of this anthology. Each chapter brushes away the...

The Bone Garden: The Chilling True Story of a Female Serial Killer - Paperback

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by William P. Wood (Author) THE TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION She looked like everyone's grandmother: white-haired, plump, bespectacled, and kindly. Only Dorothea Montalvo Puente's eyes, black and hard behind her glasses, hinted at the evil that lurked within. She was the rarest of murderers, a female serial killer--probably the most cold-blooded ever recorded in the annals of crime. This shocking story of the gruesome murder of seven men for profit comes from bestselling author William P. W...

I Am Murdered: George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the Killing That Shocked a New Nation - Hardcover

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by Bruce Chadwick (Author)""A good story, well told, of a sliver of life in Richmond, a small, elite-driven capital city in the young nation's most influential state.""--Publishers WeeklyGeorge Wythe clung to the mahogany banister as he inched down the staircase of his comfortable Richmond, Virginia, home. Doubled over in agony, he stumbled to the kitchen in search of help. There he found his maid, Lydia Broadnax, and his young protegé, Michael Brown, who were also writhing in distress. Hours...

Criminal Minds: Sociopaths, Serial Killers, and Other Deviants - Hardcover

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by Jeff Mariotte (Author)The authorized tie-in to the popular TV show Criminal Minds Featuring stunning photos from the CBS series, Criminal Minds: Sociopaths, Serial Killers, and Other Deviants will give you new terrifying and fascinating insights into the mind of a criminal. Most episodes of CBS's Criminal Minds series feature a briefing where the profiling team defines the type of criminal they are looking for by examining behavior patterns that were established in actual criminal cases. N...

Spies of the American Revolution: The History of George Washington's Secret Spying Ring (The Culper Ring) - Paperback

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by Howard Brinkley (Author), Historycaps (Editor)Spies Treason Conspiracy The American Revolution? The Culper Spying Ring had all the ingredients of a modern spy movie--just replaces gadgets with muskets. This book looks at the incredible history of Washington's famous spying ring. With a gripping narrative this book will read more like a John le Carr spy novel than a history book. HistoryCaps is an imprint of BookCaps Study Guides. With each book, a brief period of history is recapped....

Son of Sam: The Biography of David Berkowitz - Paperback

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by Paul Brody (Author), Lifecaps (Editor)Starting in the summer of 1976, one man terrorized a city and fascinated a nation: Son of Sam. Over 30 years after his capture, David Berkowitz (AKA Son of Sam), is still one of the most known serial killers of all time. The life, murders, trial, and prison life of David Berkowitz is recapped in this book. LifeCaps is an imprint of BookCaps(TM) Study Guides. With each book, a lesser known or sometimes forgotten life is recapped. Number of Pages: 74 D...

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by Phil Chalmers (Author)TRUE LIES is a book that attempts to counter the culture and the lies that the media is sending our young generation today, messages about sex, substance abuse, violence, and suicide. These "lies" as Chalmers calls them are having a major impact on today's young people, as they begin to believe these lies as truth. The effects are evident, with the high rates of suicide, violence, homicide, self-abuse, sexually transmitted diseases, and a general feeling of hopelessne...

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by Barbara Pritchett (Author)n 1980 when Barbara Pritchett was arrested for a murder she didn't commit, she was a wife, mother, realtor, deaconess in a Presbyterian Church and Sunday School teacher. Barbara was raised in a loving middle class Christian home. She accepted Jesus as her Savior when she was 12 years old, but she never made Him the Lord of her life until she went to prison. That is when she was humbled and drew closer to the Lord Jesus Christ. In this book Barbara gives details ab...