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Fugitive From Injustice Part 2: Criminalization of a Conservatorship - Paperback

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by Martha Warnock Kyzer (Editor), Kurt Markus (Photographer), Danny Tate (Author)The on-going legal tragedy of conservatorship abuse, the criminalization of the ward to justify the legalized theft that takes place, and the author's attempt to fight back. A Tarantino-esque tale where the protagonist has been falsely adjudicated insane, a danger to himself and society, but the only society he is truly a danger to is the dark one inside the halls of justice, where the crooks work in secret and w...

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by William P. Myers (Author)A man, John Phillips, who wins the California State Lottery, decides to give some of his money to people in need. He hires a private detective, David T. Baker, to make sure the people are really in need of his help. John tags along with Baker and likes it so much that he becomes a private investigator himself. The two of them go on a journey solving crime. Number of Pages: 242 Dimensions: 0.51 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: November 29, 2017

Ted Bundy: A Life From Beginning to End - Paperback

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by Hourly History (Author)Ted BundyTed Bundy is one of America's most notorious serial killers. Between the mid and late 1970s, Bundy admitted to the murders of more than thirty young women and girls across the American states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, and Colorado. Reports of Bundy's murders reached the police and trickled down through the press to ordinary citizens; panic ensued. Yet while the killings were taking place, no-one could see that the string of brutal murders happening...

Naked With Only the Will to Survive - Paperback

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by Kim Adams Graham (Author), Johnny Adams (Author)Lisa Joy Theris survived 25 terrifying days and nights lost in a dense forest in rural Alabama. She had no clothes, no food and no phone. Theris had absolutely nothing, except the will to survive. Her story made national news. After many exclusive interviews with Lisa, the harsh details of what Theris endured are now being released for the first time. Lisa's problems originated in high school, when she began abusing alcohol and Xanax. For the...

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by Maureen K. Hughes (Author)Ted Crowley ran Quincy, Illinois. The brothels, the prostitution up and down the Mississippi River involving 10 states and Cuba all centered around the Quincy godfather. His relationship with James Earl Ray, the convicted killer of Martin Luther King Jr., is exposed in River of Shame. What was Crowley's role in the assassination? What was the government's role? Was James Earl Ray 'programmed' to kill and be a patsy to the assassination? Why did Ted Crowley go with...

A Girl's Guide to Predators: The Games Psychopaths and Narcissists Play - Paperback

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by Alison Summers (Author)Most women wouldn't expect a man to be cynically assessing their "usefulness" on a first date but that's how a psychopath thinks. Psychopaths are ruthless human predators. The man across the restaurant table is calculating, "Does she have what I need?" What is he after? It could be anything. A sexual partner, money he hopes to live off, access to a particular group of friends or colleagues, a willingness to help him climb the career ladder...or it could be something ...

The Toolbox Killers: A Deadly Rape, Torture & Murder Duo - Paperback

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by Rebecca Lo (Author), Jack Rosewood (Author)Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris, the Toolbox Killers, brought a level of terror that changed the way people carried out their daily lives. It was a time of innocence in California, where young girls could walk the streets or hitchhike along the freeways without a care or concern for their own safety, day or night. But that innocence and trust were to be shattered as five girls made the fatal mistake of accepting a ride from Bittaker and Norris. W...

You'd Better Get Some Ice on That: Juanita's Story - Paperback

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by Nick Lulli (Author), Juanita Broaddrick (Author)In 1999, Juanita Broaddrick burst into the public consciousness when she accused President Bill Clinton on national television of raping her in 1978 as he ran for governor in Arkansas. It was a TV appearance she dreaded and never wanted, but felt compelled to squash the rumors: it was rape. Now, with award-winning former investigative journalist Nick Lulli, she tells her story of survival; from the assault at the hands of the future president...

The Double Back: Wanted Fugitive, Contributing Citizen - Paperback

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by Rex Woodson Brown (Author)The amazing saga of a Vietnam Veteran's addiction for twenty years to Methamphetamine, manufacturing meth, his struggles and hardships. This is a true account of a real persons failures and ultimately his successes, unlike the fairy tails " Breaking Bad " and " Forest Gump ".The crazy three month holiday to Europe. Return from Europe and resuming manufacturing of meth. His arrest by the U.S. Drug Enforceent Adminstration, ( D.E.A), his trial, jumping bail, and bec...

Dirty John and Other True Stories of Outlaws and Outsiders - Paperback

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by Christopher Goffard (Author)A collection of newspaper stories by award-winning Los Angeles Times reporter Christopher Goffard--including "Dirty John," the basis for the hit podcast and the upcoming Bravo scripted series starring Connie Britton and Eric Bana.Since its release in fall 2017, the "Dirty John" podcast--about a conman who terrorizes a Southern California family--has been downloaded more than 20 million times, and will soon premiere as a scripted drama on Bravo starring Connie Br...

Serial Killers Volume 1: 6 Horrific Serial Killers' True Crime Stories - Paperback

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by True Crime Seven (Author), Ryan Becker (Author)Entrepreneurs, farmers, nurses, roofers...Killers.Serial killers are not simple monsters, as many believe. They are human beings just like us; men and women who have made the wrong choices or been turned into ugly creatures by their upbringing.Some seek to cause pain and shock - others just wish to scratch an itch that they have in their mind. All of them bring darkness in their own way.Among them are those that work with accomplices, others p...

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by William Burg (Author)In the early 1900s, Sacramento became a battleground in a statewide struggle. On one side were Progressive political reformers and suffragettes. Opposing them were bars, dance halls, brothels and powerful business interests. Caught in the middle was the city's West End, a place where Grant "Skewball" Cross hosted jazz dances that often attracted police attention and Charmion performed her infamous trapeze striptease act before becoming a movie star. It was home to the ...

Chameleon in the Shadow of Death - Paperback

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by H. (Author)Chameleon ITSOD contains confessions and memoirs of a CIA black operations agent assigned to the Kennedy family 1955-65. Recruited by Joseph P. Kennedy, this raw Marine Corps teenager became the most active assassin in black operations that carried out special operations in the history of the covert operations division of the CIA. This Black OPS agent, dubbed the Chameleon by Joe Kennedy, was given the cover of a Marine Sergeant E-5 and directed to infiltrate the Mafia families ...

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by S. L. White (Author) Number of Pages: 252 Dimensions: 0.53 x 7.99 x 5 IN Publication Date: January 18, 2018

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by Simon Webb (Author)The ultimate Ripper collection runs to over 550 pages and includes four complete books: 'American Jack', about the Ripper's links to the United States, books on the suspects Francis Thompson and Ernest Dowson, and 'Severin', a novel based on the story of the well-known suspect George Chapman. Among other suspects covered in the book are Francis Tumblety, James Maybrick, Prince Albert Victor, Neill Cream, James Kelly and Robert D'Onston Stephenson. 'A Jack the Ripper Omni...

Green River, Running Red: The Real Story of the Green River Killer--America's Deadliest Serial Murderer - Paperback

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by Ann Rule (Author)In this provocative and eye-opening classic of investigative journalism, the #1 New York Times bestselling author and "America's best true-crime writer" (Kirkus Reviews), Ann Rule, explores the nearly twenty-year long search for America's most prolific and horrifying serial killer. In 1982, the body of Wendy Coffield is discovered floating near the sandy shore of Washington's Green River. Authorities have no idea that this tragic and violent death is only the beginning of...

H. H. Holmes: The Life of the American Ripper - Paperback

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by Hourly History (Author)H. H. HolmesH. H. Holmes' story has become one of legend. Holmes committed his crimes at a time in history where the idea of murdering on a mass scale was just being introduced to the world through the actions of Jack the Ripper. Unlike Jack the Ripper though, Holmes' motives were clear; he killed out of greed, convenience, and curiosity. Inside you will read about...- Herman Webster Mudgett, the Medical Student- Settling in Chicago- Murders in the Mansion- The World...

The Serial Killer Handbook: Facts That Are Stranger Than Fiction - Paperback

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by J. R. Mayfield (Author)Killing in cold blood There is little on this Earth more heinous than a serial killer. Killing innocent people to satisfy their own sick needs is bad enough. But what if I told you that there is a man out there who has killed 400 people?What if I told you that there is a serial killer out there who dresses up as a woman and ties himself up to take pictures? Or that serial killers can be as young as 8 years old? What if I told you a man fed 49 human beings to pigs? Or...

America's Serial Killers: The Stories of the Co-Ed Killer, the Green River Killer, Btk, the Son of Sam, and the Night Stalker - Paperback

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by J. R. Mayfield (Author)HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHAT MAKES A MAN TURN TO MURDER?WRITTEN WITHIN ARE THE LIFE STORIES OF FIVE OF THE EVILEST MEN TO HAVE EVER WALKED THE EARTH.HOW CAN FIVE MEN KILL A COMBINED MINIMUM OF 89 VICTIMS? WHAT WENT WRONG IN THEIR LIVES? WAS THERE A SIGNIFICANT EVENT THAT TURNED THEM INTO HEARTLESS MURDERERS, OR WERE THEY SIMPLY BORN THAT WAY?NOBODY CAN SAY FOR SURE, BUT HERE IS A GLIMPSE INTO THE DARK AND CONFUSING LIFE OF A SERIAL KILLER.CONTINUE WITH CAUTION Number...

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by Nicholas Pileggi (Author), Martin Scorsese (Introduction by)Nicholas Pileggi's vivid, unvarnished, journalistic chronicle of the life of Henry Hill--the working-class Brooklyn kid who knew from age twelve that "to be a wiseguy was to own the world," who grew up to live the highs and lows of the mafia gangster's Number of Pages: 304 Dimensions: 1 x 8.3 x 5.4 IN Publication Date: April 16, 2019

Dr. Death: Life of Serial Killer Michael Swango - Paperback

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by Jack Smith (Author)Under the appearance of a caring doctor, Michael Swango planned and killed... Wherever he went, death followed...The story of Michael Swango is perhaps not quite as well-known as that of other prolific killers such as Ted Bundy and Richard Ramirez, but this diabolical doctor may have killed more people than these two murderers combined. And, what makes the story of Michael Swango even more sinister is that he committed his crimes under the guise of medicine. He put up a ...

Lying in Wait and Other True Cases - Paperback

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by Ann Rule (Author)Ann Rule presents a collection of fascinating and disturbing true-crime stories--drawn from her real-life personal files--in this seventeenth volume in the #1 New York Times bestselling Crime Files series. In this gripping collection of investigative accounts from her private archives, "America's best true-crime writer" (Kirkus Reviews) exposes the most frightening aspect of the murderous mind: the waiting game. Trusted family members or strangers, these cold-blooded kille...

Charm of Favor: A true story of the rise of the Clinton Crime Syndicate - Paperback

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by Brooks A. Agnew (Author)For nearly 5,000 years, the world had been ruled from wooden ships by one man. 241 years ago, the Founding Fathers declared a new course for the human race. Freedom and Liberty were unalienable rights given by God, not government. Through these rights, the People would control a revolutionary new type of government declared in 1776. The all-powerful Global Syndicate has been seeking to regain control of the world, but first it has to get America out of the way.Presi...

Tried Three Times: The Karmendi Story - Paperback

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by Celeste Yost (Author)A crime novel based on the true story of a shocking murder in a quiet central Pennsylvania town that made national headlines...".She would never have thought herself capable of murder. What made her think like this? It wasn't to be this way. She was the mother. She was to protect him. Even a mongrel dog protects her pup..."Based on a true story, a freak spring snow storm is the setting for one of the most abominable and evil crimes ever committed in the quiet central P...

True Crime Stories Volume 9: 12 Shocking True Crime Murder Cases - Paperback

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by Jack Rosewood (Author)In this addition to the True Crime Stories series you will follow police investigators as they enlist the aid of profilers to solve the infamous Phoenix Canal murders more than twenty years after they happened. You'll read about two shocking cases where teenagers thought it would be a good idea to kill someone for fun. After having their fun, the murderous teenagers were promptly arrested and served a good helping of justice. Some of the cases in this book can only be...

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by Dexter Isaac (Author)This is the chronicles of one of NEW YORK CITY'S Goons, Big Dex. The first ever of his kind to write about his exploits. This is the rest of his untold story after the robbery of the actor/rapper Tupac Shakur and his criminal lifestyle and the betrayal that led to him going to prison to do a life sentence. Number of Pages: 278 Dimensions: 0.58 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 19, 2018

The Butcher Baker: Life of Serial Killer Robert Christian Hansen - Paperback

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by Jack Smith (Author)Robert Hansen, a baker from Alaska, hunted down his victims without mercy. He did the unthinkable, making hunting much more than a sport... Robert Hansen dubbed the "Butcher Baker" killed at least 19 women. Taking the crime escalator to the top, Hansen went from petty thief and arsonist to rapist to serial killer over his lifetime, all while maintaining the facade of a shy and gentle family man. He was a baker in Anchorage, Alaska, a husband, and the father of two childr...

Sinclair: The World's End Murders through the Eyes of a Killer - Paperback

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by Ryan Green (Author)On 15th October 1977, Christine Eadie and Helen Scott left the World's End pub after a fun-filled night with two men in their arms. They had their whole lives ahead of them. They had nothing to fear and everything to look forward to.Their naked bodies were discovered the following day. They were found six miles apart from each other. No attempt had been made to conceal their bodies, and both girls had been beaten, gagged, tied, raped and strangled.The case attracted wide...

Stolen Valor: From World War II to Now. - Paperback

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by Karen Salamone-Jourdan (Author)This book reveals an on-going problem pertaining to stolen valor. Stolen valor occurs when men and women claim honors, benefits, and material goods by lying about military service. Number of Pages: 116 Dimensions: 0.28 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: January 24, 2018

Investigating Corporate Fraud - Paperback

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by Chester P. Karrick Jr (Author)This book contains 82 true corporate crime investigations conducted by Private Investigators Clyde A. Wilson and the author, Chester P. Karrick, Jr. The cases generally involve hard-working blue collar and white collar family men who have never been involved in criminal activity. They just saw an easy opportunity to score some extra money and got greedy. The private investigator has no badge or gun. He only has his wits and experience in obtaining incriminatin...

Framed: J. Edgar Hoover, COINTELPRO & the Omaha Two story - Paperback

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by Michael Richardson (Author)J. Edgar Hoover, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, ordered information to be withheld in the death of an Omaha policeman in 1970 resulting in the conviction of two Black Panthers for the crime. The book explores the racial divide of the time and events leading to murder, the details of the FBI intrusion into a local prosecution, and the unsuccessful efforts of the two convicted men to obtain a new trial untainted by FBI and police misdeeds. The...

Once Upon A Time In Compton: From Gangsta Rap to Gang Wars... The Murders of Tupac & Biggie... This is the story of two men at the center of it all - Paperback

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by Tim Brennan (Author), Lolita Files (Author), Robert Ladd (Author)From Gangsta rap to gang wars and everything in between.... Former Compton police officers Tim Brennan and Robert Ladd have seen it all..... And now, they're telling all..... For twenty years, gang unit detectives Tim Brennan and Robert Ladd patrolled the streets of Compton. They witnessed the birth and rise of gangsta rap with acts they knew personally, such as N.W.A and D.J. Quik; dealt firsthand with the chaos of the L.A. ...