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Baby Face Nelson: Portrait of a Public Enemy - Paperback
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by Steven Nickel (Author), William J. Helmer (Author)Using new information that comes from the formerly classified files of the FBI, this book tells the full story of the remarkable criminal career of Baby Face Nelson. Illustrations.
Number of Pages: 416
Dimensions: 0.85 x 9.61 x 6.69 IN
Publication Date: June 01, 2012
Death on the Gallows: The Encyclopedia of Legal Hangings in Texas - Hardcover
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by West C. Gilbreath (Author)The most comprehensive work ever done on legal executions by hanging in Texas. Arranged by counties, this book documents 467 executions in Texas, many that have been forgotten through the years. Such as: Decapitated: Jack Fields--Wharton County, and Charles Myers-- Tarrant County were both completely decapitated and Clemente Apolinar--Bexar County was almost decapitated.Had to be hanged twice: Joseph Brewster--El Paso and Jack Williams--Wharton County, and Jack ...
Murdered Judges of the Twentieth Century - Paperback
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by Susan P. Baker (Author)Although there have been individual books published about famous murder cases ranging from serial killers, mass murderers and more . . . ."Murdered Judges of the Twentieth Century" is the first collection of its kind. Susan P. Baker started this project because she was concerned with the prevalence of violence in American courthouses in the 1980s and 1990s. She had always thought of a courthouse as a safe haven, a place where one came to resolve one's differences thr...
More Precious Than Rubies - Paperback
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by Mohau Mashigo (Author)It takes more than love to sustain a fulfilling and peaceful marriage. Life is not all roses and violets. The commitment to a vision that is bigger than both of you is one of the greatest sustainer of marriages. When my husband came home one day in 2002 with a gun in his hand to shoot our sons to death, he then turned the gun on himself. Little did I know what a painful journey awaited me from that day onward. By writing this book, God in his unfailing love and daily ...
The Lynchings in Duluth: Second Edition - Paperback
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by Michael Fedo (Author), William Green (Foreword by)On the evening of June 15, 1920, in Duluth, Minnesota, three young black men, accused of the rape of a white woman, were pulled from their jail cells and lynched by a mob numbering in the thousands. Yet for years the incident was nearly forgotten. This updated, second edition of The Lynchings in Duluth includes a new preface by the author, additional research and notes, and suggestions for further reading."This account of racial violence in...
Closing Time: A True Story of Robbery and Double Murder - Paperback
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by Anita Paddock (Author)From the best-selling author of Blind Rage"Blood from two bullets fired at close range into the head of the man and two bullets into the head of the pretty girl with long, light-brown hair."The Staton Slaughter is one of the saddest true-crime events of the 1980s, told by the best-selling author of Blind Rage. In the vein of In Cold Blood, Closing Time is the stunning story of good and evil colliding in the most tragic of ways, both for the victims and their loved one...
Cold Blooded: A chilling, true tale of terror, rape, and murder in the Arkansas River bottoms - Paperback
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by Anita Paddock (Author)A chilling, true tale of terror, rape and murder in the Arkansas River bottoms. On a cold January morning in 1981, a knock on an apartment door began what would become one of the bloodiest crime sprees in Arkansas history. In the coming days the bodies of newlyweds Larry and Jawana Price, businessman Holly Gentry, and Police Detective Ray Tate were discovered. They had been executed in cold blood and discarded like so much trash. What kind of person murders four peopl...
Cradle of Violence: How Boston's Waterfront Mobs Ignited the American Revolution - Paperback
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by Russell Bourne (Author)They did the dirty work of the American Revolution Their spontaneous uprisings and violent actions steered America toward resistance to the Acts of Parliament and finally toward revolution. They tarred and feathered the backsides of British customs officials, gutted the mansion of Lieutenant Governor Thomas Hutchinson, armed themselves with marline spikes and cudgels to fight on the waterfront against soldiers of the British occupation, and hurled the contents of 350...
Kubark Counterintelligence Interrogation: The CIA Document of Human Manipulation - Paperback
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by The Central Intelligence Agency (Author), C. I. a. (Author)2018 Reprint of 1963 Edition. This 128-page report, classified Secret, was drafted in July 1963 as a comprehensive guide for training interrogators in the art of obtaining intelligence from "resistant sources." KUBARK -- a CIA codename for itself -- describes the qualifications of a successful interrogator and reviews the theory of non-coercive and coercive techniques for breaking a prisoner. Some recommendations are very specific....
The Hidden Hand: A Memoir - Paperback
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by Sophia Eggleston (Author)They were strong enough to die that I might be forced to seek God's hand for my sanity in life and live. Today, I know the richness confessed with our mouths as children is the richness that God has bestowed upon me in His "Great Grace" through my intimate relationship with Him. If all in this life I have is Christ Jesus, our dream has been fulfilled. Thank you, Lord.Deuteronomy 30:14 is the story of my life: "But the word is very much unto thee, in thy mouth, and ...
The Case Against the West Memphis 3 Killers: Condensed and revised from "Blood on Black" and "Where the Monsters Go" - Paperback
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by Gary Meece (Author)The beaten, bound and mutilated bodies of three 8-year-olds, Christopher Byers, Michael Moore and Stevie Branch, were pulled from a muddy ditch in a wooded area in West Memphis, Ark., on May 6, 1993. The boys had gone missing the day before. Weeks of investigation led to arrests of Damien Echols, 18, Jason Baldwin, 16, and Jessie Misskelley Jr. on June 3, 1993, after the 17-year-old Misskelley confessed that he and two friends murdered the boys. All three were convicted....
Prison Days: True Diary Entries by a Maximum Security Prison Officer, June 2018 - Paperback
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by Simon King (Author)
Number of Pages: 114
Dimensions: 0.24 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: August 14, 2018
Land of July: A Real Life Scandal of Sex & Social Media at a Connecticut High School - Paperback
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by Robert M. Marchese (Author)Winner of the Pen/Corvino Award for Nonfiction Runner Up D. Earles Medal for First-Time MemoiristsOn an ordinary January afternoon, a disturbing revelation about his wife hurls one man into a maelstrom of public humiliation and heartbreak, and eventually on a spree of run-ins with lawyers, judges, therapists, and law enforcement. Land of July tells the true story of a teacher/student sex scandal that not only shocked an entire school and small suburban community,...
Little Girl Lost: The True Story of the Vandling Murder - Paperback
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by Tammy Mal (Author)When nine-year-old Mae Ruth Barrett failed to return home on the stormy night of January 2, 1945, her family immediately feared an accident. But when the child's brutally beaten body was found the next day, secreted in an abandoned house, the small town of Vandling was left reeling. Who could kill a child walking home from church? Stunned by the barbaric events, residents would become even more horrified when suspicion soon focused on a most unlikely suspect. In harrowing...
Choices: You Make 'em You Own 'em: The Jerry Tillinghast Story - Paperback
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by Joe Broadmeadow (Author), Jeffrey Slater (Cover Design by)In a remarkably personal and intimate account, Jerry Tillinghast, one of the most popular characters from the first season of Crimetown, talks about his life and the choices he made. Battling alongside his brothers on the streets of Providence. Enlisting in the United States Marine Corps, fighting in Vietnam, and becoming a victim of the politics of that war. Returning to Providence an angry young man and his choice to hang with the...
Angel of Death: Life of Serial Killer Donald Harvey - Paperback
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by Jack Smith (Author)Cold Blooded Murderer or Angel of Mercy? Ronald Harvey claimed to have killed 87 persons under his care. This is his story from his first to last breath. Sometimes it seems that each new serial killer caught ends up being convicted of crimes more heinous than his predecessors-but Donald Harvey takes the crown. Born in Butler County, Ohio, in 1952, the "Angel of Death," as he liked to be called, had committed 13 murders by the time he turned 18. He grew up in an abusive a...
Ibrahim Dawood: The new Emperor of India - Paperback
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by Henri Dauber (Author)Ibrahim Dawood Kaskar lives in Bombay. He is bored to the college and skips school. He robes to be made of the pocket money but is caught. His father intervened to avoid him the prison but gives him a correction. He decides to to give up the family residence and forms a band, the Konkanis.They turn to the port but the band is caught by the police. Ibrahim and his brother Iqbal are imprisoned into a prison center where they play fists to command respect. They get notice...
Murderous Minds: Stories of Real Life Murderers That Escaped the Headlines - Paperback
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by True Crime Seven (Author), Ryan Becker (Author)Your neighbor might be a murderer. The mailman might wake up one day and go on a killing spree.Even the friendliest granny in daycare could be a deadly killer... who knows, maybe she is?A killer granny, really? Yes, and in this true crime anthology, you're going to explore more insane stories of unexpected murderers that somehow escaped the headlines..., including a killer granny. From a man willing to get his hands dirty and lose everything o...
Bugsy Siegel: The Life and Legacy of the Notorious Gangster Who Helped Develop Murder, Inc. and the Las Vegas Strip - Paperback
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by Charles River (Author)*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Behind a black marble coffee table with elegant cabriole legs sat a man once admired and reviled as one of the toughest gangsters to ever come out of Brooklyn. The man was slouched over to one side, his undeniably lifeless body cold on the couch. The normally pressed suit of the famously debonair desperado was wrinkled and soaked with his blood, his matching tie askew. Thanks to the...
Bugsy Siegel: The Life and Legacy of the Notorious Gangster Who Helped Develop Murder, Inc. and the Las Vegas Strip - Paperback
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by Charles River (Author)*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Behind a black marble coffee table with elegant cabriole legs sat a man once admired and reviled as one of the toughest gangsters to ever come out of Brooklyn. The man was slouched over to one side, his undeniably lifeless body cold on the couch. The normally pressed suit of the famously debonair desperado was wrinkled and soaked with his blood, his matching tie askew. Thanks to the...
Railroaded: The Homophobic Prosecution of Brandon Woodruff for His Parents' Murders - Paperback
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by Phillip Crawford Jr. (Author)Was a Texas youth convicted for a horrific crime because he's gay? In Railroaded: The Homophobic Prosecution of Brandon Woodruff for His Parents' Murders author Phillip Crawford Jr. details how anti-gay bias rather than relevant evidence drove the case against a young defendant. In October 2005 nineteen-year-old Brandon Dale Woodruff was charged with murdering his parents in a rural northeast Texas town in the heart of the Bible belt. Dennis and Norma Woodruff...
The Thirty-Ninth Victim: A Memoir - Paperback
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by Arleen Williams (Author)The Green River murders were headline news throughout the 1980s. By the time the perpetrator was finally arrested over twenty years later, at least 48 young women had been killed in the worst serial murder case in history. In THE THIRTY-NINTH VICTIM, Arleen Williams tells the story of her family's journey before and after the Green River killer murdered her youngest sister and offers a window into the family dynamics behind this life-altering tragedy. The redemptive...
Killing a Kiwi in Thailand: The Pattaya Puppy Dog Murder - Paperback
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by Malcolm Scott (Author)Killing a Kiwi in Thailand is the true story of three Western expats who decided to swap living in Bali for residing in resort city of Pattaya, Thailand. Tragedy then struck when one of the expats became involved in an argument with a murderous couple in a roadside bar. The true story originates in Bali where the expats meet at an illegal card game held by a fugitive from the law and a struggling writer trying to survive living in a foreign country. Then along with an...
A Conspiracy of Silence: The Murder of Solicitor Floyd Hoard - Paperback
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by Mike H. Buffington (Author)On August 7, 1967, Floyd "Fuzzy" Hoard, the Solicitor General in rural Jackson County Ga., got into his car, turned the ignition switch and was assassinated with 10 sticks of dynamite that had been planted under the car's hood the night before. For over two years, Hoard had been prosecuting local bootleg and car theft gangs and had gained a reputation as a crusading lawman. But there is more to the story than just Hoard's murder. The widespread lawlessness in the...
The Stocking Strangler: The Truth behind the Secrets - Paperback
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by Renate Solomon (Author)A non-fiction, true crime story about a serial killing called the Stocking Strangler murders in Columbus, Georgia in the late 70's.Author BiographyThis story is about the author's journey of her discovery of a serial killer. A man who got away with murder, while three other men were wrongfully convicted, one executed on March 15, 2018
Number of Pages: 286
Dimensions: 0.6 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: July 11, 2018
Twisted Love & Murder: Charles Manson's Girls, Jodi Arias & Karla Homolka - Paperback
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by Paul Dawson (Author)TWISTED LOVE & MURDER: CHARLES MANSON'S GIRLS, JODI ARIAS & KARLA HOMOLKA by Dr. Paul Dawson is the first in a series of three TWISTED LOVE & MURDER books. This true-crime book reveals the fascinating issue of young women and teenage girls who fall in love with men and then murder results for various reasons. Maybe the young lady, Karla Homolka, for example, was forced to participate in murder, pressured by the man she loved. Charles Manson's girls seemed to...
Murderous Minds Volume 2: Stories of Real Life Murderers that Escaped the Headlines - Paperback
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by True Crime Seven (Author), Ryan Becker (Author)Your neighbor might be a murderer.Imagine the father next door returning home after a long day of work to watch TV as his family's corpse rot around him.This is not fiction. It happened.Real monsters don't live in under your bed. They're everyday people who work during the day and return to their families at night.But no one is safe.These soon-to-be killers are like ticking time bombs. The ones that are in the most danger are the families they...
Charles Manson's Girls: Based On My Charles Manson Prison Interviews & Psychological Assessment - Paperback
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by Paul Dawson (Author)CHARLES MANSON'S GIRLS: BASED ON MY CHARLES MANSON PRISON INTERVIEWS & PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT by Dr. Paul Dawson reveals the forming of the Manson Family, which was 5:1 girls-to-guys. A particular emphasis is on the development and life passages of the young women in the Manson Family. Many of the girls Manson recruited for his hippie-murder cult seemed to be wild-and-crazy teenagers, hippie girls stoned on drugs, with parental issues, and identity-crisis turmoil,...
Cold Cases of West Central Wisconsin - Paperback
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by Robert M. Dudley (Author)"Cold Cases Of West-Central Wisconsin" is an in-depth collection of 13 long-term unsolved cases of the missing and murdered. Many cases include unprecedented information about the crimes and/or the victims - information you won't find in any newspaper article or online source. Cases included: Mary Schlais, Sara Bushland, William "Junior" Clapp, Jane Neumann, Baby Nicole Hattamer, Richard Scott, Angelina Wall, Elmer Sunday, Ruth Martin, Joan Butterbach, Jim Southwor...
Campus Cultism - Grave of Dreams - Paperback
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by Shola Oyeyipo (Author)About the Book Campus Cultism - Grave of Dreams picks its concept from a true-life story of a young undergraduate who was cunningly tricked into the crude act of cultism. Though unconvinced and hesitant from the onset, he ended up getting involved. At last, he had all the negative experiences that usually come with cultism. His leg was amputated, he was expelled from the university, imprisoned for about six years and faced bleak future. It was a story told by the vict...
Killer Kids Volume 2: 22 Shocking True Crime Cases of Kids Who Kill - Paperback
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by Robert Keller (Author)22 Shocking True Crime Cases of Kids Who Kill, including;Justina Morley: Self-described as a
Number of Pages: 150
Dimensions: 0.35 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: September 12, 2018
Twisted Love & Murder 3: Charles Manson's Girls, Jodi Arias & Karla Homolka - Paperback
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by Paul Dawson (Author)TWISTED LOVE & MURDER 3: CHARLES MANSON'S GIRLS, JODI ARIAS & KARLA HOMOLKA by Dr. Paul Dawson is third in a series of three TWISTED LOVE & MURDER books. This true-crime book reveals the fascinating issue of young women and teenage girls who fall in love with men and then murder results for various reasons. Jodi Arias was obsessed and stalked Travis Alexander and viciously murdered him. Dr. Dawson explores and scrutinizes the Jodi Arias and Travis Alexander ...
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