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1960s Austin Gangsters: Organized Crime That Rocked the Capital - Paperback

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by Jesse Sublett (Author)Timmy Overton of Austin and Jerry Ray James of Odessa were football stars who traded athletics for lives of crime. The original rebels without causes, nihilists with Cadillacs and Elvis hair, the Overton gang and their associates formed a ragtag white trash mafia that bedazzled Austin law enforcement for most of the 1960s. Tied into a loose network of crooked lawyers, pimps and used car dealers who became known as the traveling criminals, they burglarized banks and ra...

Arizona Outlaws and Lawmen: Gunslingers, Bandits, Heroes and Peacekeepers - Paperback

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by Mike Guardabascio (Author), Chris Trevino (Author)A refuge for outlaws at the close of the 1800s, the Arizona Territory was a wild, lawless land of greedy feuds, brutal killings and figures of enduring legend. These gunfighters included heroes as well as killers, and some were considered both. Bandit Pea Number of Pages: 144 Dimensions: 0.4 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN Publication Date: April 13, 2015

The Truth: Massacre at Cinema 16 in Aurora Colorado - Paperback

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by Steve Unruh (Author)John 3:16 A family man with an addiction relapse gets an intervention in his life, and also in a mass murderer's life, just hours after the man kills 12 people and injures 70. The killer wants to commit suicide, and the author is used as a vessel from a higher power to pray with the killer, convince him to repent, and talk him out of his suicidal thoughts. Then the killer opens up with gruesome details. Publisher's website: http: //sbprabooks.com/SteveUnruh Number of Pa...

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by Michael A. Joseph Esq (Author)As the world's attention was focused on the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games on September 6, 1972, the Fountain Valley Golf Course in the U.S. island of St. Croix hours later was invaded by five masked gunmen. Within minutes eight people including tourists and employees lay dead. It raced around the globe as a black-on-white massacre even though in St. Croix, where we locals refer to whites as Continentals and to blacks as Yankees, Amer...

Black Dahlia Avenger: A Genius for Murder: The True Story - Paperback

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by Steve Hodel (Author)A New York Times Bestseller For viewers of the hit Series I Am the Night and fans of the Root of Evil Podcast, the book that finally revealed the shocking identity of the Black Dahlia Killer--and the Police Corruption That Concealed It for So Long In 1947, the brutal, sadistic murder of a beautiful young woman named Elizabeth Short led to the largest manhunt in LA history. The killer teased and taunted the police and public for weeks, but his identity stayed a mystery,...

Why We Love Serial Killers: The Curious Appeal of the World's Most Savage Murderers - Paperback

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by Scott Bonn (Author), Diane Dimond (Foreword by)For decades now, serial killers have taken center stage in the news and entertainment media. The coverage of real-life murderers such as Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer has transformed them into ghoulish celebrities. Similarly, the popularity of fictional characters such as Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter or Dexter demonstrates just how eager the public is to be frightened by these human predators. But why is this so? Could it be that some of us h...

True Stories from the Files of the FBI: America's Most Notorious Gangsters, Mobsters and Mafia Members - Paperback

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by W. Cleon Skousen (Author), Paul B. Skousen (Introduction by)Be the FBI Agent in training under J. Edgar Hoover and run the gauntlet of Machine Gun Kelly, Baby Face Nelson and the Barker Karpis Gang. Step back into downtown Chicago of the 1930s and retrace the steps of some of America's most notorious mobsters.True Stories from the Files of the FBI was written by W. Cleon Skousen under the direct supervision of Mr. Hoover himself. These first-hand accounts of actual "do or die" situations w...

The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre - Paperback

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by John Fleury (Author), Absolute Crime (Prepared by)In the crime-ridden Chicago of the Prohibition era, gangsters like Al Capone battled for power, but few went to the extreme lengths that Capone did on Valentine's Day in 1929.The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre is one of the most notorious gang murders of all time. This short book, the first in the "Crime Shorts" series, gives you a page-turning look at one of the most notorious criminals of all time, and the massacre he masterminded to fina...

The Death Row Cookbook: The Famous Last Meals (with Recipes) of Death Row Inmates - Paperback

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by John Fleury (Author)The last meals of death row convicts fascinate us because they offer an insight into a disturbed mind shortly before its owner's death. The last meal is a way for the system to offer a last-minute nod to humanity--that although these murderers, rapists, and villains listed inside may have performed inhuman acts, they are still indeed human. The irony of feeding a criminal before killing them by electrocution or lethal injection is not missed on many of the inmates, as ...

The Butcher Baker: The Search for Alaskan Serial Killer Robert Hansen - Paperback

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by Reagan Martin (Author)Beautiful Alaska--a peaceful, natural land where you know your neighbors and don't have to lock your doors. For most people, it's the perfect place to experience nature; for Robert Hansen, it was the perfect place for murder.Between 1980 and 1983, Hansen went on a murderous rampage killing between 17 and 37 women in the Anchorage, Alaska area. Hansen, a small-business owner, and pillar of the community, was also an avid hunter and used young girls as prey when he deci...

Young, Queer, and Dead: A Biography of San Francisco's Most Overlooked Serial Killer, the Doodler - Paperback

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by Reagan Martin (Author)Read about one of the most overlooked serial killersThe Zodiac Killer may have been San Francisco's most notorious serial killer, but another equally cruel killer was also stalking the streets at the same time, and, just like the Zodiac Killer, has never been arrested for his crimes. The difference is, while the Zodiac Killer's murder spree was heavily publicized, this other killer, nicknamed The Doodler, went unreported by the media and is nearly unknown today.How di...

America's First Serial Killers: A Biography of the Harpe Brothers - Paperback

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by Wallace Edwards (Author)★★★ Discover America's First Killers ★★★They murdered. They stole. And they did it all to excess. Unlike other bandits of early America, they didn't do it for the money--they did it for the thrill and love of blood.They were the Harpe Brothers, and they have been called America's first true serial killers.In this gripping narrative, the crimes and the lives of America's most notorious sibling killers are documented like a page-turning novel. Number of Pages: 108 Dim...

Warden Force: Deadly Intent and Other True Game Warden Adventures: Episodes 76 - 87 - Paperback

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by Terry Hodges (Author)A collection of 12 award-winning short stories concerning the true adventures of California Fish and Game Wardens and the wildlife-destroying outlaws they pursue. Season 7 episodes: Skin-Head Fred - Wardens tangle with a murderous, meth-cooking, game-killing, Neo Nazi.Spreaders - Wardens target a highly intelligent, super-wary commercial lobster pirate.Deadly Intent - An alert warden stays alive and saves a life.The Poor Eyesight Of Love - The arrest of a man and wife ...

The Power of Conviction: My Wrongful Conviction 18 Years in Prison and the Freedom Earned Through Forgiveness and Faith - Paperback

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by James C. Tillman (Author), Jeff Kimball (With)James Tillman was stretched out on his basement couch, relaxing after a long day of work at the car wash, the smell of sweet onions and simmering steak filling the air of his modest apartment in the projects of Hartford, Conn. His mother, a bible perched nearby, was softly singing a hymn when she was shaken by the thundering sound of pounding on the front door. It wasn't a knock; it was an act of sheer force. In an instant, the police burst in,...

Jack the Ripper and the Case for Scotland Yard's Prime Suspect - Hardcover

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by Robert House (Author), Roy Hazelwood (Foreword by)An investigation into the man Scotland Yard thought (but couldn't prove) was Jack the RipperDozens of theories have attempted to resolve the mystery of the identity of Jack the Ripper, the world's most famous serial killer. Ripperologist Robert House contends that we may have known the answer all along. The head of Scotland Yard's Criminal Investigation Department at the time of the murders thought Aaron Kozminski was guilty, but he lacked ...

Cold Serial: The Jack the Strangler Murders - Paperback

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by Brian Forschner (Author)"Cold Serial" paints the picture of five girls who were raped and strangled in the Dayton, Ohio, area between 1900 and 1909. The working conditions, lack of rights for women and police protection, and the sexism of the age portray these girls as victims not only of a crime but also of their time. As their stories unfold, a common thread appears, a modus operandi that begins to link them together. During that era, police did not recognize the lurking shadow of a pred...

Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade - Paperback

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by Walter Kirn (Author)In the summer of 1998, Walter Kirn--then an aspiring novelist struggling with impending fatherhood and a dissolving marriage--set out on a peculiar, fateful errand: to personally deliver a crippled hunting dog from his home in Montana to the New York apartment of one Clark Rockefeller, a secretive young banker and art collector who had adopted the dog over the Internet. Thus began a fifteen-year relationship that drew Kirn deep into the fun-house world of an outlandish,...

Never Again: A Never Before Told Insight Into the 1992 Los Angeles Riots - Paperback

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by Bill C. Weiss (Author)Features themes of how law enforcement responds to and handles violent encounters and civil disturbances. The police and community relations issues from 1992 still resonate with the entire country as evidenced by recent events in Ferguson, Missouri, and Baltimore, Maryland. Police and community relations are and will always be a hot topic. Many citizens have been upset with the lack of response by law enforcement in these incidents when law enforcement failed to engag...

Murder in the Heartland: Book One - Hardcover

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by Harry Spiller (Author)In a place where murder isn't supposed to happen--Southern Illinois--deputy sheriff and investigator Harry Spiller learned the hard reality: murder is all around us. It doesn't matter whether you live in a big city or small county with farms and churches--murder is swift and can happen to anyone, anywhere, and anytime. All too often, victims fall prey in places we think are safe to raise our families, where we take walks on hot summer nights, where our children play i...

Murder in the Heartland: Book Three - Hardcover

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by Harry Spiller (Author)In a place where murder isn't supposed to happen--rural Missouri and Southern Illinois--deputy sheriff and investigator Harry Spiller learned the hard reality: murder is all around us. It doesn't matter whether you live in a big city or small county with farms and churches--murder is swift and can happen to anyone, anywhere, and anytime. All too often, victims fall prey in places we think are safe to raise our families, where we take walks on hot summer nights, where ...

Murder in the Heartland: Book Two - Hardcover

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by Harry Spiller (Author)In a place where murder isn't supposed to happen--rural Missouri and Southern Illinois--deputy sheriff and investigator Harry Spiller learned the hard reality: murder is all around us. It doesn't matter whether you live in a big city or small county with farms and churches--murder is swift and can happen to anyone, anywhere, and any time. All too often, victims fall prey in places we think are safe to raise our families, where we take walks on hot summer nights, where...

Black Dahlia, Red Rose: The Crime, Corruption, and Cover-Up of America's Greatest Unsolved Murder - Paperback

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by Piu Eatwell (Author)Los Angeles, 1947. A housewife out for a walk with her baby notices a cloud of black flies buzzing ominously in Leimert Park. An "unsightly object" is identified as the mutilated body of Elizabeth Short, an aspiring starlet from Massachusetts who had been lured west by the siren call of Hollywood. Her killer would never be found, but Short's death would bring her the fame she had always sought. Her murder investigation transformed into a real-life film noir, featuring c...

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

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by William J. Helmer (Author), Arthur J. Bilek (Author)The 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, and it challenges the commonly held assumption that Al Capone ordered the sl...

Faith, Forensics, and Firearms: A Spiritual Psychoanalysis of Three Forensic Trauma Cases - Paperback

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by Charles Zeiders (Author)In Faith, Forensics, and Firearms, author Charles Zeiders offers case studies in forensic psychology from a Christian and Jungian perspective.When one seeks civil redress for trauma, even a favorable outcome will not likely heal the heart of a plaintiff who has been raped, beaten, humiliated, violated, or treated unjustly. Forensic psychology analyzes human behavior as it applies to the law. The forensic psychologist establishes the merits of a case, then writes a r...

Hunting a Psychopath: The East Area Rapist / Original Night Stalker Investigation - The Original Investigator Speaks Out - Paperback

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by Richard Shelby (Author)JUNE 16, 2016 - At a press conference today in Sacramento, the FBI and local law enforcement agencies announced a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the East Area Rapist/killer along with a nationwide multimedia campaign to once again bring the case to the public's attention. Hunting A Psychopath chronicles the on-going search for the identity of the serial rapist and murderer known both as the East Area Rapist and Original Night ...

86 Days: The Tragic True Story of Puppy Doe - Paperback

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by Sandra Lee (Author)On the muggy Massachusetts morning of August 31, 2013, a driver discovered a motionless dog lying in the middle of a road in Quincy, Massachusetts. When he stepped out of his vehicle and walked closer, he realized a small female Pit Bull Terrier mix. Barely alive, she wore fresh spots of blood on her head and was unable to stand or walk. The driver and his friend sought immediate help for the dog whose fate was uncertain.The discovery sparked a series of investigations a...

A Bird In Your Hand: A Story of Ambiguous Justice - Paperback

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by Jeffrey Alan John (Author), Frank L. Johnson (Author)A Bird in Your Hand is a true tale of crime, punishment, and justice in mid-20th century Ohio. Two young men set out on a joy ride across the state, looking for fun and romance, but instead they're caught up in the murder of a police officer. The story, spanning 40 years, weaves together the many aspects of their case and its aftermath. Author Frank Johnson, son of the trial's presiding judge, reveals the personal side of making life-or-...

John Wayne Gacy: Defending a Monster: The True Story of the Lawyer Who Defended One of the Most Evil Serial Killers in History - Paperback

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by Sam L. Amirante (Author), Danny Broderick (Author)"A riveting account of what it was like to defend one of the most notorious serial killers in history"--Seattle Post Intelligencer "Sam, could you do me a favor?" Thus begins a story that has now become part of America's true crime hall of fame. It is a gory, grotesque tale befitting a Stephen King novel. It is also a David and Goliath saga--the story of a young lawyer fresh from the Public Defender's Office whose first client in private pr...

More Than Heroic: The Spoken Words of Those Who Served With The Los Angeles Police Department - Hardcover

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by Gary Farmer (Author)Following The Streets Are Blue, this book, More Than Heroic, marks the second installment in a series of true tales of service from the front lines of the Los Angeles Police Department. In this book, the realities of police work are captured through the spoken words of thirty former officers with the Los Angeles Police Department. The most powerful aspect of their words is that they reveal the individuals behind the badge, the individuals you call when in need. The offi...

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by Richard Alumbaugh (Author)Two shots split the darkness. A firefight turns deadly. After retirement as a psychology professor in 2002, Richard Alumbaugh came upon a file box left over from a murder case heard in court by his deceased wife. This discovery sparked years of investigating the background of the accused and the state's evidence. Tensions between tribal police and Elmer McGinnis escalated to a point that a beam of light appeared to trigger a tragic firefight. Elmer's Tribal War is...

Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation Into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination - Paperback

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by Richard Belzer (Author), David Wayne (Author), Richard Charnin (Foreword by)A New York Times Best Seller Richard Belzer and David Wayne are back to set the record straight after Dead Wrong; this time they're going to uncover the truth about the many witness deaths tied to the JFK assassination. For decades, government pundits have dismissed these "coincidental" deaths, even regarding them as "myths" as "urban legends." Like most people, Richard and David were initially unsure about what t...

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by Mark Hobbs (Author)The readers of Bold Lions Survival Sense have said that it should be required reading for members of law enforcement, military investigators, and members of the criminal justice system, as well as students from high schools to universities. Avid readers of true crimes, conspiracies, organized crime, narcotics trafficking, and political corruption should enjoy reading Bold Lions Survival Sense. Those interested in the sixth sense will find great insight into the survival ...