True Crime

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Man-Eater: The Terrifying True Story of Cannibal Killer Katherine Knight - Paperback

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by Ryan Green (Author)On 29th February 2000, John Price took out a restraining order against his girlfriend, Katherine Knight. Later that day, he told his co-workers that she had stabbed him and if he were ever to go missing, it was because Knight had killed him. The next day, Price didn't show up for work. A co-worker was sent to check on him. They found a bloody handprint by the front door and they immediately contacted the police. The local police force was not prepared for the chilling sc...

Never Forgive, Never Forget: A Shocking True Crime Story - Paperback

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by Rod Kackley (Author)No body means no crime, which makes this the perfect murder, Doug Stewart hopes.Doug even has an ironclad alibi. He's been seen hundreds of miles away when his lovely wife, Venus, vanishes. What better plan could any murderer hope for? But Doug's forgotten one thing: the power of a mother's love. Venus' mother believes her daughter's husband lured Venus outside and killed her.Now, Venus' mom wants her daughter back, dead or alive. Never Forgive, Never Forget: A Shocking...

The Son of Zodiac: How the Zodiac and Son of Sam Serial Murders Were Meant to Usher in the Coming of Satan - Paperback

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by Jack Myers (Author)How the Zodiac and Son of Sam Serial Murders Were Meant to Usher in the Coming of Satan. Number of Pages: 496 Dimensions: 1.11 x 8.5 x 5.51 IN Publication Date: April 03, 2019

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by Jeff Wise (Author)The most complete and technically informed account to date of what happened to missing Malaysian airliner MH370.Five years after a state-of-the-art Boeing 777 vanished into the night over the South China Sea, renowned science and aviation author Jeff Wise offers a compelling and detailed account of what happened that night and in the months and years that followed. In his follow-up to "The Plane That Wasn't There," named the Best Kindle Single of 2015, Wise walks readers ...

Intelligence and Intelligence Analysis - Paperback

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by Patrick F. Walsh (Author)This book tracks post 9/11 developments in national security and policing intelligence and their relevance to new emerging areas of intelligence practice such as: corrections, biosecurity, private industry and regulatory environments. Developments are explored thematically across three broad sections: applying intelligence understanding structures developing a discipline. Issues explored include: understanding intelligence models; the strategic management cha...

Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History - Paperback

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by A. Dirk Moses (Editor) In 1944, Raphael Lemkin coined the term "genocide" to describe a foreign occupation that destroyed or permanently crippled a subject population. In this tradition, Empire, Colony, Genocide embeds genocide in the epochal geopolitical transformations of the past 500 years: the European colonization of the globe, the rise and fall of the continental land empires, violent decolonization, and the formation of nation states. It thereby challenges the customary focus on twe...

An Introduction to Political Crime - Paperback

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by Jeffrey Ian Ross (Author)In An introduction to political crime, Jeffrey Ian Ross provides the most comprehensive and contemporary analysis of political crime addressing both violent and nonviolent crimes committed by and against the state (e.g. political corruption, illegal domestic surveillance, and human rights violations) in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and other advanced industrialized democracies since the 1960s. Written by a respected social scientist, this book reviews ...

Drug War Mexico: Politics, Neoliberalism and Violence in the New Narcoeconomy - Paperback

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by Peter Watt (Author), Roberto Zepeda (Author)Mexico is a country in crisis. Capitalizing on weakened public institutions, widespread unemployment, a state of lawlessness and the strengthening of links between Mexican and Colombian drug cartels, narcotrafficking in the country has flourished during the post-1982 neoliberal era. In fact, it has become one of Mexico's biggest source of revenue, as well as its most violent, with over 12,000 drug-related executions in 2011 alone. In response, Me...

Yellow Kid Weil: The Autobiography of America's Master Swindler - Paperback

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by J. R. Weil (Author), W. T. Brannon (With), Bruno Ruhland (Foreword by)Bilked bankers, grifted gamblers, and swindled spinsters: welcome to the world of confidence men.You'll marvel at the elaborate schemes developed by The Yellow Kid and cry for the marks who lost it all to his ingenuity--$8,000,000 by some estimations. Fixed horse races, bad real-estate deals, even a money-making machine--all were tools of the trade for the Kid and his associates: the Swede, the Butterine Kid, the Harmony...

Murder in Shakespeare's England - Paperback

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by Vanessa McMahon (Parkins) (Author)Fascination with murder is not a modern phenomenon. People in the past were just as interested in extreme violence and homicide as people nowadays. In seventeenth-century England all excessive and gratuitous violence was condemned and prosecuted, with murderers being categorized as particularly wicked. The courtrooms where murderers were tried were packed and crowds attended their execution. Ballads about notorious cases and prints reflected the huge inter...

Phoenix Park Murders: Conspiracy, Betrayal & Retribution - Paperback

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by Senan Molony (Author)A gripping true story of conspiracy, bloodletting intrigue, execution and revenge, 'The Phoenix Park Murders' tells the story of the most infamous crime of nineteenth century Ireland when assassins wielding deadly surgical knives killed two men walking in the Phoenix Park on 6 May 1882. One of the dead is the new chief secretary for Ireland, Lord Frederick Cavendish, a close relative of Prime Minister William Everett Gladstone. The other is Thomas Henry Burke, head of ...

The Missing Postman: What Really Happened to Larry Griffin? - Paperback

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by Fachtna O. Drisceoil (Author)Christmas Day 1929 was an ordinary working day for Larry Griffin, the postman in Stradbally, Co. Waterford. But he didn't return home after work. Apart from an abandoned bicycle on a country road, no trace of him could be found. Despite the lack of a body, ten local people were charged with his murder. The defendants included two gardaí, the school teacher, the publican, his wife and two of their children. But when the state's only witness to the alleged murder...

Mi6: Fifty Years of Special Operations - Paperback

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by Stephen Dorril (Author)The first comprehensive history of the UK government overseas intelligence service, MI6, by an acknowledged expert and author of the highly acclaimed Smear Epitomised in the public imagination by James Bond, MI6's svelte and glamorous image has been peeled away by Dorril's searching investigations to reveal a less savoury truth. Here is the story of MI6's recruitment operation after WW2 of former Nazis; anticommunist guerrilla campaigns in the Ukraine and the Baltic ...

Fatal Collisions: The South Australian Frontier and the Violence of Memory - Paperback

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by Robert Foster (Author), Rick Hosking (Author), Amanda Nettelbeck (Author)In 1849, James Brown, a South Australian pastoralist, was charged with shooting dead nine Aboriginal people. Unable to find witnesses, the crown was forced to drop the case even though the magistrate was convinced of his guilt. Two generations later, a glowing biography of Brown's life noted merely that he was involved in a charge of poisoning an Aboriginal man, but emerged from the trial with a clean slate. Why had t...

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by Griselda Sprigg (Author), Rod MacLean (With), Dick Smith (Foreword by)'Dune is a four-letter word', said Griselda Sprigg on the first day of her family's attempt to make the first motorised crossing of the forbidding Simpson desert. 'And so is bloody spinifex.' Dune is a Four-letter Word tells the story of Griselda and Reg Sprigg's pioneering desert adventures - not only in the Simpson Desert but all over the vast Australian outback. Griselda's story is also the story of Arkaroola Sanctua...

Real Rape, Real Pain: Help for women sexually assaulted by male partners - Paperback

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by P. Easteal (Author), L. McOrmond-Plummer (Author)Real Rape, Real Pain is a book may make you feel uncomfortable, in that it tackles the violence and unpleasantness of rape within marriage; it forces us to confront the hidden violence in our society. It challenges the silence and secrecy about marital rape. As the authors say, "Violence is about using power and control, not about being out of control. There is no excuse for marital violence ever." The aims of the book are changing the rape ...

Twenty-Two Ways to Develop Leadership in Staff Managers - Paperback

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by Robert W. Eichinger (Author), Michael M. Lombardo (Author)A person who works exclusively in staff jobs throughout a career is less likely to develop important leadership competencies than a person who works exclusively in line jobs. This report shows why and offers several specific ways to increase the leadership potential of staff managers. Number of Pages: 38 Dimensions: 0.1 x 10 x 7.01 IN Publication Date: January 01, 2015

Lockington - Crash at the Crossing - Paperback

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by Richard M. Jones (Author)On 26th July 1986 a train derailed after striking a van at an open level crossing in a remote East Yorkshire village. The resulting carnage killed nine people, injured 42 and left dozens of survivors and families reeling from the shock for the rest of their lives. Now for the first time the full story of that tragedy can be told by the people who were there. The horror of the survivors, the bravery of the rescuers and the heartache for the people left behind. From ...

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by Olivia Forsyth (Author)In the world of espionage, truth is the first victim and nothing is as it seems. Here, for the first time, South Africa's most notorious apartheid spy Olivia Forsyth lays bare the story of her remarkable life. Olivia Forsyth was a romantic young woman in search of adventure when she joined the Security Police with visions of international derring-do. But Craig Williamson, her unit head, had other ideas and Olivia was trained to spy on students before being dispatched...

Hitmen for Hire: Exposing South Africa's Underworld - Paperback

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by Mark Shaw (Author)When you next sit down at your local coffee shop, look around you: there may just be a professional hitman sitting at the next table. As author Mark Shaw reveals in this highly original and informative book, the 'upper world' sails perilously close to the underworld.HITMEN FOR HIRE takes the reader on a journey like no other, navigating a world of hammermen (hitmen), informers, rogue policemen, taxi bosses, gang leaders and crooked businessmen. The book examines a system ...

How to Steal a City: The Battle for Nelson Mandela Bay: An Inside Account - Paperback

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by Crispian Olver (Author)How to Steal a City is an insider account of this intervention, which lays bare how the administration was entirely captured and bled dry by a criminal syndicate, how factional politics within the ruling party abetted that corruption, and how a comprehensive clean-up was eventually conducted.It is written as a gripping real-life thriller, taking the reader deeper and deeper into the rotten heart of the city. As a former senior government official and local government...

The Last Words of Rowan Du Preez: Murder and Conspiracy on the Cape Flats - Paperback

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by Simone Haysom (Author)In 2012 Angy Peter was bringing up her young children with her husband is Bardale, Mfuleni on the Cape Flats. Angy was an activist, and spent her days collecting evidence for a commission of inquiry into policing that had the chance to change law enforcement across the country's troubled townships. She was vocally against vigilante violence and a go-to person when demanding better services from the police.But when the commission started its hearings, Angy found hersel...

Into the Heart of Darkness: Confessions of Apartheid's Assassins - Paperback

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by Jacques Pauw (Author)Jacques Pauw has been an investigative journalist for more than three decades. Before the phenomenal success of The President's Keepers, he spent years tracking down apartheid death squads. Into the Heart of Darkness, first released in 1997, was the result of this work.Despite official denials and cover-ups, the rumours of apartheid's death squads have now been proved to be all too real. Hundreds of anti-apartheid activists were killed and thousands tortured by a grou...

The Enforcers: Inside Cape Town's deadly nightclub battles - Paperback

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by Caryn Dolley (Author)CAPE TOWN'S POPULAR high-end night spots attract an array of clientele, from young partygoers to politicians, models to moguls. In parallel with this is a sleazy underworld where control of the lucrative nightclub-security scene is the ultimate prize, for which some are prepared to pay using extortion and murder as the main currencies.South Africa's private-security sector is massive, an informal police force increasingly relied on as confidence in traditional policing...

Blood on Her Hands: South Africa's most notorius female killers - Paperback

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by Tanya Farber (Author)MEET DAISY DE MELKER, who 'lovingly' prepared a flask of strychnine-laced coffee for her son. She is very different from Najwa Petersen, who carefully planned a 'house robbery' to eliminate her musician husband. Chan van Heerden placed her victim's facial skin in the freezer for preservation, yet Phoenix Racing Cloud Theron wished to dispose of her mother's body before it was even cold. And Dina Rodrigues? She 'wouldn't harm a fly' - but went and organised a hit on a ...

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by Marsh Cassady (Author), John Anderson (Author), Chief John Anderson (Author)Midnight, April 5, 1970. Minutes after a red Pontiac with two men in it was stopped, four young California Highway Patrolmen lay dead of gunshot wounds. The incident still stands as the worst of its kind and has changed the way police forces operate the world over. Number of Pages: 192 Dimensions: 0.51 x 9.04 x 6.06 IN Publication Date: March 01, 1999

Murder in the Garden, Volume II: More Famous Crimes of Early Fresno County - Paperback

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by Scott Morrison (Author), William B. Secrest (Foreword by)Presenting 16 famous criminal cases from Fresno California at the turn of the 20th century, this gripping history brings fascinating tales of murder and mayhem to light. Introducing a blend of memorable and tragic figures, such as the ""Old Broom Man"" or the ""Black Widow,"" a longtime detective of the Fresno sheriff's office shares his notes on each filed occurrence. Detailed and historically accurate, an entire chapter highlights ...

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by Troy Taylor (Author)The "Dead Men Do Tell Tales" saga begins with the first book in the series by Troy Taylor and reveals the dark and crime-ridden history of Chicago Join the author for a look at how the crime, violence and death of yesterday have created the hauntings of today in what has been called "the most haunted city in America" This page-turning thriller delves into Chicago's tales of crime, corruption, violence and bloody murder, from the days of gangland violence to the most p...

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by Troy Taylor (Author)Join author Troy Taylor as his -Dead Men Do Tell Tales- Series continues with a terrifying and blood-soaked look at Illinois crime, mystery and tales of hauntings from all over the state - many of which have never appeared in any book before In this volume, Taylor unlocks files of rare, seldom-told and favorite stories from both the cities and rural areas of the Prairie State, revealing true accounts of violence, murder, bloodshed and ghosts. Journey back into Illinois...

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by Troy Taylor (Author)ONE NIGHT AT THE BIOGRAPH MURDER, MAYHEM AND THE MYSTERIOUS AFTERLIFE OF JOHN DILLINGER BY TROY TAYLOR THE LIFE, LEGEND & MYSTERY OF ONE OF AMERICA'S MOST FAMOUS OUTLAWS As the Roaring 20's came to an end and America plunged into the Great Depression, celebrity outlaws began appearing on the front pages of the nation's newspapers. They were flashy bandits like Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Bonnie and Clyde, but none of them achieved the fame of John Dilli...

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by Troy Taylor (Author)"Something terrible has happened here..." Those were the words uttered by Ross Moore after discovering the bodies of his brother, his family and two houseguests in Villisca, Iowa in June 1912. That horrifying discovery created a legend that became both an unsolved mystery and a haunting that continues to this day. The small town of Villisca received an unwelcome visitor on that dark night and the town was touched by a horror unlike anything that it had seen before - or ...

I Want to Come Home Tonight: The Haunting Story of Marion Parker - Paperback

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by Troy Taylor (Author)"I WANT TO COME HOME TONIGHT" The Haunting Story of Marion Parker by Troy TaylorIt's Christmas in Los Angeles, 1927, and a bank officer named Perry Parker receives a bizarre ransom note, telling him that one of his twin daughters, Marion, has been kidnapped and that she'll be returned if he follows a series of explicit instructions. Little does Parker know, but his daughter is already dead - strangled and horribly dismembered by a madman who calls himself the "Fox." Alt...