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by Timothy Cotton (Author)For the hundreds of thousands of followers of the Bangor, Maine, Police Department on social media, the Got Warrants? feature brings a regular dose of levity. Pulled straight from daily reports, these short interludes provide a welcome spin on the standard police log. Collected here is a fresh batch of all-true police-related hijinks. Poking fun at human nature and turning ne'er-do-wells into sages of silliness, Got Warrants? reminds us all to step back, take a deep ...
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by Ben MacIntyre (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War. "The best true spy story I have ever read."--JOHN LE CARRÉ Named a Best Book of the Year by The Economist - Shortlisted for the Bailie Giffords Prize in Nonfiction If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British double-agent Kim...
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by Corban Addison (Author), John Grisham (Foreword by)Author BiographyCORBAN ADDISON is the internationally best-selling author of four novels, A Walk Across the Sun, The Garden of Burning Sand, The Tears of Dark Water (winner of the inaugural Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize), and A Harvest of Thorns, all of which address some of today's most pressing human rights issues. An attorney, activist, and world traveler, he lives with his wife and children in Virginia.
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by Janet Malcolm (Author)A seminal work and examination of the psychopathology of journalism. Using a strange and unprecedented lawsuit by a convicted murder againt the journalist who wrote a book about his crime, Malcolm delves into the always uneasy, sometimes tragic relationship that exists between journalist and subject. Featuring the real-life lawsuit of Jeffrey MacDonald, a convicted murderer, against Joe McGinniss, the author of Fatal Vision. In Malcolm's view, neither journalist nor s...
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by Raffaele Sollecito (Author), Andrew Gumbel (Author)Accused . . . Targeted . . . Sentenced . . .Wrongfully Imprisoned. Raffaele Sollecito and Amanda Knox were the victims in a world-famous trial so bizarre that it defied all reason. Charged with a crime neither could fathom, let alone perpetrate, they spent four excruciating years in prison before their final acquittal. Now, for the first time since, Raffaele reveals what really happened between him and his then girlfriend before, during, a...
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by Becky Cooper (Author)Author BiographyBecky Cooper is a former New Yorker editorial staff member and Senior Fellow at Brandeis's Schuster Institute for Investigative Reporting. Her undergraduate thesis, a literary biography of David Foster Wallace, won Harvard's Hoopes Prize, the highest undergraduate award for research and writing. Research for this book was supported by the Fund for Investigative Journalism and the International Women's Media Foundation's Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women ...
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Report copyright infringementby John McElhaney (Author)This book gives the actual account of murders that received the death penalty with the facts of the case and the events of the hangings. The facts are real with the actual names of the victims and the perpetrator along with the sheriff, judges that sentenced them and others that were involved. The hangings listed here cover a period of about forty years in East Tennessee. One of the men that was hanged build the scaffold he was hanged on ...
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Report copyright infringementby Dwayne Walker (Author), Jack Rosewood (Author)In the early 1940s, the city of Chicago was in the midst of a one man crime wave. But this crime wave was unlike any other in Chicago history. It was not perpetrated by a seasoned gangster like Al Capone or sophisticated serial killer like John Wayne Gacy: the offender in question was an unassuming teenager named William George Heirens. Before Heirens' crime spree was over, he burglarized over 300 hundred homes and ...
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by Mark Bowden (Author)"A master of narrative journalism, Bowden] employs the same techniques of reconstructing scenes and dialogue that made his bestselling Black Hawk Down gripping reading." -Linda Robinson, New York Times Book Review On July 22, 1992, drug lord Pablo Escobar walked out of the luxurious prison he built for himself and disappeared into the Colombian jungle. His audacious escape destroyed the nation's tenuous cease-fire with its infamous narcos, and pushed it into open war w...
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by David Grann (Author)“Disturbing and riveting. . . . Grann has proved himself a master of spinning delicious, many-layered mysteries that also happen to be true. . . . It will sear your soul.” - Dave Eggers, New York Times Book Review
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.
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Report copyright infringementby Joseph R. Kozenczak (Author), Karen M. Henrikson (Author), Joseph R. Kozenczak Henrikson (Author)THE CHICAGO KILLER: The Hunt For Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy is the story of the capture of John Wayne Gacy, as told from the perspective of the former Chief of Detectives of the Des Plaines, Illinois Police Department, Joseph Kozenczak. The conviction of Gacy on 33 counts of murder is a record in the archives of the criminal justice system in the United States. T...
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by Tom Carr (Author)Before Michigan became a state, there were witch trials, scalp collectors, dirty sports, and a massacre of epic proportions. The lumber era that followed made Michigan as much of a wild, wild west as Deadwood. And Prohibition allowed a group of Detroit thugs to run roughshod over even the likes of Al Capone.There's more: - A father who shoots his daughter and friends for being hippies, just as an eerily similar tale hits the silver screen- A widow whose love of dressing up...
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by Robert Graysmith (Author)Robert Graysmith's New York Times bestselling account of the desperate hunt for a serial killer and his own investigation of California's unsolved Zodiac murders. A sexual sadist, the Zodiac killer took pleasure in torture and murder. His first victims were a teenage couple, stalked and shot dead in a lovers' lane. After another slaying, he sent his first mocking note to authorities, promising he would kill more. The official tally of his victims was six. He claim...
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Report copyright infringementby T. H. Johnson (Author)Author covers activity revealling concealed evidence intentionally suppressed by corrupt officials in the OJ Simpson murder trial of 1995, and the conspiracy to keep it hidden from the public.Author BiographyT.H. Johnson became a member of the Ocean Medical Investigative Group (OMIG) in Los Angeles in 1996 in order to conduct an independent investigation of suppressed evidence in the OJ Simpson murder trial. He is noted for insisting upon ...
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by Ann Rule (Author)From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Stranger Beside Me comes a shocking true crime account of the destructive forces that drove a beautiful young mother to murder. "Somebody just shot my kids!" Diane Downs brought her car to a halt in front of a Springfield, Oregon, hospital, her three gravely wounded children beside her. Thus begins the tale of a truly unthinkable crime that shattered the tranquility of a tight-knit community. As police searched for the "...
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by Terry Williams (Author), Trevor Milton (Author)This vivid account of hustling in New York City explores the sociological reasons why con artists play their game and the psychological tricks they use to win it. Terry Williams and Trevor B. Milton, two prominent sociologists and ethnographers, spent years with New York con artists to uncover their secrets. The result is an unprecedented view into how con games operate, whether in back alleys and side streets or in police precincts and Wall S...
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Report copyright infringementby Jean Boles (Author), Kelly Luker (Author)In mystery novels, private investigators search for clues that will help send the bad guy to jail. As a criminal defense investigator, Kelly Luker did the opposite: she tried to keep the suspects out of jail, gathering evidence that might free them or at least reduce the repercussions for those accused of everything from vandalism and drunk driving to kidnapping, child molestation, and murder. Unlike those who could affo...
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Report copyright infringementby Lawless Press (Author)In "The Colombian Predator: Untold Story of Luis Garavito," delve into the chilling and harrowing biography of one of the most notorious serial killers in history. Luis Garavito's monstrous reign of terror gripped Colombia, leaving a trail of unimaginable horror in his wake.Born into poverty in a small Colombian town, Garavito's troubled childhood offered a glimpse into the darkness that would consume him. As the pages turn, you'll uncover...
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by John E. Douglas (Author), Mark Olshaker (Author)Violent. Provocative. Shocking. Call them what you will...but don't call them open and shut. Did Lizzie Borden murder her own father and stepmother? Was Jack the Ripper actually the Duke of Clarence? Who killed JonBenet Ramsey? America's foremost expert on criminal profiling and twenty-five-year FBI veteran John Douglas, along with author and filmmaker Mark Olshaker, explores those tantalizing questions and more in this mesmerizing work of ...
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Report copyright infringementby John Barelli (Author), Zach Schisgal (With)When he retired as the chief security officer of New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, John Barelli had spent the better part of forty years responsible not only for one of the richest treasure troves on the planet, but the museum's staff, the millions of visitors, as well as American presidents, royalty, and heads of state from around the world. For the first time, John Barelli shares his experiences of the crim...
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Report copyright infringementby John J. Binder (Author)Although much has been written about Al Capone, there has not been--until now--a complete history of organized crime in Chicago during Prohibition. This exhaustively researched book covers the entire period from 1920 to 1933. Author John J. Binder, a recognized authority on the history of organized crime in Chicago, discusses all the important bootlegging gangs in the city and the suburbs and also examines the other major rackets, such as...
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by Lise Pearlman (Author)Astonishingly more key evidence is accessible today than was presented at the death penalty trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann for the kidnap/murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr. Viewing documents and photos that the jury never saw and forensic analysis never before published, you get to judge for yourself who committed the "crime of the century." Experts and enthusiasts alike are calling award-winning author Lise Pearlman's shocking new expos on the Lindbergh kidnapping: ...
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Report copyright infringementby Cherokee Paul McDonald (Author)This is a brutally honest, no-holds-barred memoir of a cop's time on the street. it is a "scorching, devastating book" (Lawrence Block). Told in short story format, it chronicles a young man's journey from idealistic rookie to scarred, cynical veteran.
Number of Pages: 292
Dimensions: 0.66 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN
Publication Date: August 07, 2012
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by Gregg Olsen (Author)A #1 Wall Street Journal, Amazon Charts, USA Today, and Washington Post bestseller.#1 New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen's shocking and empowering true-crime story of three sisters determined to survive their mother's house of horrors.After more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek hear the word mom, it claws like an eagle's talons, triggering memories that have been their secret since childhood. Until now.For years, behind the closed door...
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Report copyright infringementby Lavender S. Williams (Author), Anthony Tyson (Author)For a quarter of a century, Anthony Tyson has been working to prove his innocence while sitting on death row. While behind bars, his reading, researching the law, filing appeals, and working with his lawyers gave him a sound knowledge of the law, but he also discovered a new respect for LIFE. Robbed of his freedom and threatened with a death sentence invited enlightenment Tyson says could only have happened o...
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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Maier (Author)**SOON TO BE A MINI-SERIES FROM PARAMOUNT+ IN SPRING 2024** From bestselling author and the producer of the hit cable series Masters of Sex, Thomas Maier, comes a true story of espionage and mobsters, based on the never-before-released JFK Files. From Vegas to Miami to Havana, the shocking connections between the CIA, the mob, and Sinatra's Rat Pack--with new revelations and details. Mafia Spies is the definitive account of America's most...
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by Neil Swidey (Author)The harrowing story of five men who were sent into a dark, airless, miles-long tunnel, hundreds of feet below the ocean, to do a nearly impossible job--with deadly results A quarter-century ago, Boston had the dirtiest harbor in America. The city had been dumping sewage into it for generations, coating the seafloor with a layer of "black mayonnaise." Fisheries collapsed, wildlife fled, and locals referred to floating tampon applicators as "beach whistles." In the 1990...
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Report copyright infringementby Julio César Navarro Villegas (Editor), Julio César Navarro Villegas (Author)Como humanista y escritor mexicano, deseo manifestar mi enérgico rechazo a las posturas chauvinistas y revanchistas que el gobierno de mi país ha manifestado a últimas fechas. Esa es la opinión del resentido que la emitió, no la de muchísimos millones de mexicanos que apreciamos el legado cultural de Europa y otros pueblos con los que hemos convivido armoniosamente durante muchos años: ...
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by Joseph Wambaugh (Author)Front JacketNot since Joseph Wambaugh's best-selling "The Onion Field has there been a true police story as fascinating, as totally gripping as . . ."Lines And Shadows. The media hailed them as heroes. Others denounced them as lawless renegades. A squad of tough cops called the Border Crime Task Force. A commando team sent to patrol the snake-infested no-man's-land south of San Diego. Not to apprehend the thousands of illegal aliens slipping into the U.S., but to st...
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by Joseph Wambaugh (Author)Fifteen-year-old Lynda Mann's savagely raped and strangled body is found along a shady footpath near the English village of Narborough. Though a massive 150-man dragnet is launched, the case remains unsolved. Three years later the killer strikes again, raping and strangling teenager Dawn Ashforth only a stone's throw from where Lynda was so brutally murdered. But it will take four years, a scientific breakthrough, the largest manhunt in British crime annals, and the...
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by Ted Botha (Author)MORE THAN THIRTY MURDERS, NINE FUGITIVES, AND ONE OBSESSED MANIn this thrilling and fascinating account of Frank Bender and his work, readers will be drawn into the cases he has solved, the intricacies of his art, the colorful characters he encounters, and the personal cost of his strange obsession. Through breathtakingly realistic sculptures, Frank Bender reconstructs the faces of the missing and the dead based in part on forensic science, and in part on deep intuition, ...
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Report copyright infringementby Paula Moore (Author)Ovida "Cricket" Coogler was last seen alive entering a mysterious car driven by an unknown man in downtown Las Cruces, New Mexico, around 3:00 on the morning of March 31, 1949. Seventeen days later, her body was found in a hastily dug grave near Mesquite, New Mexico. The discovery of the eighteen-year-old waitress's body launched a series of court inquiries and trials that would reshape the direction of New Mexico politics, expose political ...
