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Burn Boston Burn: The Largest Arson Case in the History of the Country' - Hardcover

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by Wayne M. Miller (Author), Paul a. Christian (Foreword by), Mike Clark (Cover Design by)Burn Boston Burn-The Largest Arson Case in the History of the Country is an astounding true crime narration. A conspiracy of 9 men, including 3 Boston cops and a Boston firefighter, burned Boston and surrounding communities in the early 1980s due to tax-cutting measures that caused layoffs of hundreds of police and firefighters. Over 2 years, these fire buffs turned arsonists, torched 264 buildings, caus...

The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America's War on Drugs - Paperback

$23.02

by Douglas Valentine (Author)The Strength of the Wolf is the first complete history of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (1930-1968). Working undercover around the globe, the FBN's charismatic "case-making" agents penetrated the Mafia and its French connection. In the process, however, they uncovered the national security establishment's ties to organized crime. Victims of their freewheeling methods and unparalleled success in hunting down society's predators, the agents were ultimately targete...

Professional criminals of America - Paperback

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by Thomas Byrnes (Author)This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature. Number of Pages: 476 Dimensions: 0.96 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: Septe...

Aokigahara: The Truth Behind Japan's Suicide Forest - Paperback

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by Tara a. Devlin (Author)What really lies in the forest's depths?Aokigahara is a mystery. Born out of an explosion, its roots twist and turn, the dense trees seeming to swallow anything that enters it whole. In recent years it has gained renown as a "suicide forest," but it wasn't always this way.Aokigahara: The Truth Behind Japan's Suicide Forest is fully researched from Japanese sources and looks at the history of the Sea of Trees, how it came to be, and why it became known worldwide as a ...

Serial Killers: The Horrific True Crime Stories Behind 4 Infamous Serial Killers That Shocked The World - Paperback

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by True Crime Seven (Author), Ryan Becker (Author)Are Serial Killers Your Guilty Pleasure? Serial Killer Collection Deal for ONLY $15.99. Instead of $39.96 for all Four books individually.Witness how seemingly innocent, neighbor loved men turned into devilish creatures, feared till this day.Famous actors, musicians, political leaders and the greats of science. There are stories told. Movies filmed. And books written about the impact they've made on the world. But...This is a collection of dif...

The Mammoth Book of More Bizarre Crimes - Paperback

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by Robin Odell (Author), Paul Donnelly (Author)The Mammoth Book of More Bizarre Crimes returns with a brand new A-Z compilation of true crime stories, spanning the globe and traversing the centuries. Filled with over a hundred rediscovered cases, it will shed light on advances in crime detection, law enforcement, and forensic science while retelling some of history's most gruesome and grisly crimes.Author BiographyRobin Odell developed an interest in forensic science after training as a labor...

The Doctor Broad: A Mafia Love Story - Hardcover

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by Barbara H. Roberts (Author)For decades starting in the 1950s, Raymond Patriarca ran the New England Mafia out of a storefront in Providence, Rhode Island. By 1980 he was seventy-two years old, and suffering from diabetes and heart disease. One night in December of that year his life intersected with that of Dr. Barbara Roberts, a thirty-six-year old single mother of three, who was the first female cardiologist to practice in Rhode Island. Asked by Raymond's family to check on him after he ...

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by Caitlin Rother (Author)Extensively Revised And Updated!"Rother gives readers compelling insight to an unthink- able American nightmare. A gripping read . . . frank and frightening . . . it sizzles." -Aphrodite Jones, host of True Crime for Investigation Discovery NetworkTom and Jackie Hawks loved their life in retirement, sailing on their yacht, the Well Deserved. But when the birth of a new grandson called them back to Arizona, they put the boat up for sale. Skylar Deleon and his pregnant...

A Confession, A Map, and A Cross: Darrell's Perspective - Paperback

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by Darrell Kessinger (Contribution by), Tina Cummins (Author)After the murder trial, lots of new information about Patsy's case came to light. It is the scope of the details that is important, changing the outcomes of what was suspected, but not proven. Now that the truth is out there, will the district attorney choose to prosecute? Only time will tell. Number of Pages: 286 Dimensions: 0.6 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: September 07, 2019

Killing Pat Garrett, The Wild West's Most Famous Lawman - Murder or Self-Defense? - Paperback

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by David G. Thomas (Author)Pat Garrett, the Wild West's most famous lawman - the man who killed Billy the Kid - was himself killed on leap day, February 29, 1908.Who killed him? Was it murder? Was it self-defense? No biographer of Garrett has been able to answer these questions. All have expressed opinions. None have presented evidence that would stand up in a court of law. Here, for the first time, drawing on previously undiscovered information, is the definitive answer to these questions, t...

Killing Pat Garrett, The Wild West's Most Famous Lawman - Murder or Self-Defense? - Hardcover

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Roxanne: My Extraordinary Life - Paperback

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by Roxanne Holmes (Author)"Give me everything in the till. Notes only Don't make me nervous or I'll shoot " The waitress handed me twenty dollars. I fled back to the car and John hightailed it outta there. At seventeen she was living in an old car, fleeing across the Australian desert, committing armed robberies to please the convicted child molester who had 'befriended her'. Taking handfuls of drugs to block out her memories of an abused childhood, life was on the streets, years in and o...

Beads: A Memoir about Falling Apart and Putting Yourself Back Together Again - Hardcover

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by Rachael Brooks (Author)"An eloquent and unsettling story of recovery that features solid advice and encouragement for other trauma victims."-Kirkus Reviews Beads is the harrowing story of a rape victim determined to become a survivor by putting her life back together. It details her journey after suffering a brutal attack, confronting the devastating justice system, and ultimately discovering the other side of trauma: forgiveness and peace. Beads reveals the realities and challenges surviv...

Beads: A Memoir about Falling Apart and Putting Yourself Back Together Again - Paperback

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The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth - Paperback

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by Josh Levin (Author)Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in BiographyIn this critically acclaimed true crime tale of "welfare queen" Linda Taylor, a Slate editor reveals a "wild, only-in-America story" of political manipulation and murder (Attica Locke, Edgar Award-winning author).On the South Side of Chicago in 1974, Linda Taylor reported a phony burglary, concocting a lie about stolen furs and jewelry. The detective who checked it out soon discovered she was a welfare cheat wh...

Snitch!: A History of the Modern Intelligence Informer - Paperback

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by Steve Hewitt (Author)Snitch! offers a vivid account of how some citizens actively assist state surveillance by "informing" on others.Author BiographyDr Steve Hewitt isan expert on security and intelligence and Senior Lecturer in the Department of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Birmingham. Among the courses he teaches are a history of American intelligence, including the Central Intelligence Agency. Steve Hewitt regularly appears on television and radio commenting on iss...

Nickname Flower of Evil (呼び名は悪の花): The Abe Sada Story - Paperback

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by Kristine Ohkubo (Author)When Japan transitioned from 264 years of rule under the military-led Tokugawa Shogunate to the restoration of imperial power during the Meiji era, it embarked on a path of rapid modernization. This modernization came at an enormous cost, a cost that was borne primarily by the already repressed members of Japan's society - the impoverished rural women, the female factory laborers, and the sex industry workers.Born during the latter part of the Meiji era, a former ge...

Boss of Murder, Inc.: The Criminal Life of Albert Anastasia - Paperback

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by Michael Newton (Author)Umberto Anastasio, better known as Albert Anastasia, was an Italian-American mobster and hitman who became one of the deadliest criminals in American history and one of the founders of the modern American Mafia in New York City. For all-out savagery and ruthlessness, few other leaders of the Mafia worldwide have rivaled Anastasia, known to peers as The Mad Hatter and to journalists as The Lord High Executioner. After escaping a death sentence in 1921 and multiple oth...

Toxic Love: The Shocking True Story of the First Murder by Cancer - Paperback

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by Tomás Guillén (Author)The chilling true story of romantic obsession and murder by cancer from the New York Times-bestselling author of The Search for the Green River Killer. Omaha, Nebraska, 1978. Sandy Johnson was in shock. Her husband, Duane, and young daughter, Sherrie, were violently ill when word arrived that her infant nephew just died of mysterious causes. Days earlier, the entire family was happy, healthy, and living the American dream. Now they were at the center of a terrifying m...

Dancin' with the Devil at Midnight: The true and untold story of the brutal murder of a young black man that went unsolved for 34 years. - Paperback

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by Quimby Melton III (Author)In 1983 Timothy Wayne Coggins, a young black man in a small middle Georgia community, was brutally and savagely murdered. The murder remained unsolved for 34 years until a small overlooked clue was discovered by an unyielding and determined district attorney, sheriff and their staffs. This first-hand account of the vicious murder traces the prejudice of the times, the lack of cooperation from the local law enforcement and a community that was sick and tired of bei...

The Trayvon Hoax: Unmasking the Witness Fraud that Divided America - Paperback

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by Joel Gilbert (Author)In this stunning work of investigative journalism, filmmaker Joel Gilbert uncovers the true story of the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, a tragedy that divided America. By examining Trayvon's 750-page cell phone records, Gilbert discovers that the key witness for the prosecution of George Zimmerman, the plus-sized 18-year-old Rachel Jeantel, was a fraud. It was in fact a different girl who was on the phone with Trayvon just before he was shot. She was the...

Cuando el Pasado es una Condena - Paperback

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by Claudio Whittle (Author)Una novela de suspenso que describe una realidad que es parte de nuestros tiempos y que enmascarada en un aparente xito econ mico, financiero contiene situaciones fuera de toda racionalidad. C mo las organizaciones relacionadas con los carteles de la droga se insertan en la sociedad haciendo pagar grandes costos personales a quienes en alg n momento fueron ciudadanos comunes y corrientes pero distintas circunstancias en la vida les hicieron tomar un camino equivoca...

It's Just the Way It Was: Inside the War on the New England Mob and other stories - Paperback

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by Joe Broadmeadow (Author), Brendan Doherty (Author), Jeffrey Slater (Cover Design by)In It's Just the Way It Was: Inside the War on the New England Mob and other stories, Joe Broadmeadow and Brendan Doherty take you inside the investigations, covert surveillances, and murky world of informants in the war against Organized Crime. Make no mistake about it, it was a war targeting the insidious nature of the mob and their detrimental effect on Rhode Island and throughout New England. Indeed, t...

Buried Beneath the Boarding House: A Shocking True Story of Deception, Exploitation and Murder - Paperback

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by Ryan Green (Author)In 1988, detectives from the Sacramento Police Department were called to investigate the disappearance of a man at his last known address, a boarding house for the elderly, homeless and mentally ill. The owner, Dorothea Puente, was an adorable old lady who cared for stray cats and the rest of society's castaways. She had a strong standing in the community and was celebrated for her selfless charitable work. The search revealed nothing untoward but one of the guests recal...

Thievery: Catholic Church Exposed! - Paperback

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by Les Cochran (Author)Is thievery the second big scandal of the Catholic Church? Get the facts. Priests were not the only ones engaged in deviant behavior, and sex abuse was not the Church's only form of criminality; thousands more priests and staff members were embezzling and stealing, giving root to the thievery scandal in the Catholic Church.THIEVERY is a documentary based upon the collection of ninety-seven (non-sex abuse) cases uncovered through a comprehensive investigation of legal ca...

Dark New World Order Part 1: MKULTRA Mind Control, Ritual Abuse and a Global Agenda - Paperback

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by Marcel Polte (Author)Since the 1950s, U.S. military and intelligence agencies have systematically tortured and abused children. Their goal: the creation of mind-controlled slaves to be used for child prostitution (blackmailing), child pornography, drug trafficking and assassinations. A natural protective mechanism makes this possible. If the agony becomes unbearable, the victim uncouples parts of his perception (dissociation). In the most extreme form this means: the child's personality sp...

Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders - Paperback

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by Billy Jensen (Author), Karen Kilgariff (Foreword by)***With a brand new chapter, updates on the investigations, 8 pages of exclusive photos, and a behind-the-scenes conversation between Billy Jensen and retired detective Paul Holes on the Golden State Killer, their favorite cold cases, and more***The New York Times bestselling true-crime hit, now in trade paperback!Journalist Billy Jensen spent fifteen years investigating unsolved murders, fighting for the families of victims. Every story ...

Prison Days: The Collection (The First 6 Months) - Paperback

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by Simon King (Author)The complete collection of the first SIX months of the hard-hitting Prison Days series. For the first time ever, read the entire series to date in one convenient package. This is Maximum Security in all it's terrifying reality as told by a current-serving prison officer. Rapes, murders and assaults are just the beginning. Through his diary entries, Simon will take you on a personal tour behind the walls for a harsh and realistic journey into one of the darkest places on ...

The Hero of Mississippi Burning - Paperback

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by Mickel Moorer (Author), E. Gail Ellison (Editor)1964 was the height of the Civil Rights and Wrongs Movement, and America was in turmoil. I was eight years old and visiting the town of Philadelphia, Mississippi for a family reunion. This story is about something I have remembered from that time, when I met two men on a creek bank in Neshoba County, Mississippi on August 6, 1964. I have always remembered what they said out loud in front of me. The one with the hat said, "Judge, go up there a...

Command Influence: A Story of Korea and the Politics of Injustice - Hardcover

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by Robert A. Shaines (Author)A true story that reads like a novel set in war torn South Korea. This book reflects the best and the worst of our military and shows how political motives can impact those in command of the military. It exemplifies the expendability of the rank and file to advance the careers of the powerful. Number of Pages: 402 Dimensions: 0.88 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: November 23, 2010

Murder in McComb: The Tina Andrews Case - Hardcover

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by Trent Brown (Author)What remained of the badly decomposed body of twelve--year--old Tina Marie Andrews was discovered underneath a discarded sofa in the woods outside of McComb, Mississippi, on August 23, 1969. Ten days earlier, Andrews and a friend had accepted a ride home after leaving the Tiger's Den, a local teenage hangout, but they were driven instead to the remote area where Andrews was eventually murdered. Although eyewitness testimony pointed to two local police officers, no one w...

Missing Sarah Pryor: A Mother's Testimony of Choosing Love over Grief and Emptiness - Paperback

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by Barbara Smith Pryor (Author), Rodney Miles (Editor), Anka Kovacevic (Cover Design by)ON WHAT SEEMED like a beautiful Wednesday, just six weeks after relocating and starting to settle in to their new home in Wayland, Massachusetts, Barbara and Andy Pryor's nine-year-old daughter Sarah went missing during a walk after school on October 9th, 1985.This is the Pryor family's story of unspeakable tragedy and profound compassion and beauty. From the initial days that seemed like they would never ...