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Historic Mysteries of Western Colorado: Case Files of the Western Investigations Team - Hardcover

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by David P. Bailey (Author)From Mesoamerican mysteries to local legends, history waits to be unearthed on Colorado's western slope. Revelations include discovering new evidence in the infamous Alferd Packer case and old Spanish colonial relics near Kannah Creek. Investigators follow the trail of lost Spanish explorers searching for the Seven Cities of Gold and pursue archaeological signs of a prehistoric civilization north of Collbran. Expeditions search for the legend of the Utes' Cave of th...

Weapons of Mass Deception: How the government framed an intelligence analyst to suppress his report - Paperback

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by James Lowther (Author)The administration wanted a report that supported their excuse to invade another country. A young intelligence analyst took the data given to him and put together his report. The evidence clearly showed that there was no reason to believe what the administration was asserting. Due to this adverse report the young analyst was framed through planted classified documents in his home. He spent over six years in a federal prison camp for possession of these documents. Even...

Introduction to Corporate and White-Collar Crime - Paperback

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by Frank J. Dimarino (Author), Cliff Roberson (Author)White-collar crime costs the United States more than $300 billion each year. It is surprisingly common, with one in every three Americans eventually becoming a victim. The criminals often dismiss these crimes as victimless, but those unfortunate enough to fall prey would disagree. An Introduction to Corporate and White-Collar Crime provides readers with an understanding of what white-collar crime is, how it works, and the extent to which i...

Beautifully Unbroken: The Prostitute's Daughter - Paperback

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by Jodie Ballenger (Author), Melissa Herrera (Other)FAITH, REDEMPTION, AND A LOVE STORY"Suddenly, the back door was thrown off its hinges as the SWAT team swarmed our house in a chaotic frenzy, rifles drawn. I sat in the front room with my baby, as I looked down the hallway at Billy already on the floor, and knew they were coming for me."What do you expect from life? A warm bed and food to eat? A safe space free from harm? For Jodie Ballenger, those expectations were never a given. Raised in ...

Shocking True Crime Stories Volume 1: 15 Famous Murders Too Chilling to Forget (True Crime Short Stories) - Paperback

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by George Kennedy (Author)Some deaths just never go away. People's lives brought to an untimely end in such bizarre and horrifying ways their memories live on, haunting the world for many years, decades, and even centuries. These strange killings become famous murders that dominate headlines and airways all over the world and haunt our collective dreams.These famous murders aren't made chilling by the deaths alone, no. Millions die around the world each day without a news report on anything. ...

The Cop and the Stalker: Based on a True Story and Actual Events - Paperback

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by Vincent Davis (Author)The Cop and the Stalker is a true story of what happened when a highly decorated New York City cop and a career criminal are put on a collision course with the help of US Customs and an overzealous federal prosecutor. It is also a story of raw courage and the friendship of two youths growing up in Yonkers, New York. Vinny Davis worked as a plainclothes cop in the highest crime neighborhoods of the Bronx in the eighties and nineties. He would stop at nothing to put the...

Rogue Mobster: The Untold Story of Mark Silverman and the Boston Mafia - Paperback

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by Scott Deitche (Author), Mark Silverman (Author)Rogue Mobster chronicles the history of the Winter Hill Gang and the New England mafia through the eyes and ears of Boston organized crime figure Mark Silverman. Silverman explains how shifting allegiances and internal power struggles have deciminated the once mighty Patriarca Crime Family. In 1988 Frank Cadillac Salemme was released from prison and decided to rekindle his criminal partnership with his old pals Whitey Bulger and Stevie Flemmi ...

Rendered Safe: Tales of an NYPD Bomb Tech - Hardcover

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by Jeff Ingber (Author)Rendered Safe centers on the remarkable life of former NYPD Bomb Squad Detective Donald Sadowy. In the aftermath of the February 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the most devastating terrorist attack on the United States to that point, Sadowy risked his life to search for evidence in the shattered and dangerous sub-basement. There, he discovered a piece of chassis frame that contained a VIN number which enabled law enforcement to catch the perpetrators just in time. The...

Clinton Bush and CIA Conspiracies: From The Boys on the Tracks to Jeffrey Epstein - Paperback

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by Shaun Attwood (Author)In the 1980s, George HW Bush imported cocaine to finance an illegal war in Nicaragua. Governor Bill Clinton's Arkansas state police provided security for the drug drops. For assisting the CIA, the Clinton Crime Family was awarded the White House. The #clintonbodycount continues to this day, with the deceased including Jeffrey Epstein. This book features harrowing true stories that reveal the insanity of the drug war. A mother receives the worst news about her son. A ...

Beautifully Unbroken: The Prostitute's Daughter - Hardcover

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My Daddy is a Hero: How Chris Watts Went from Family Man to Family Killer - Hardcover

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by Lena Derhally (Author)A husband.A father. A killer.Chris Watts was a family man. Everybody, including his family, believed that. Yet, on August 13, 2018, he murdered Shanann, his pregnant wife, and two young daughters, burying Shanann and their unborn son in a shallow grave and dumping their daughters' bodies in separate oil tanks.As terrible as his story is, it is also a warning because, to this day, living behind bars, Watts is still acting out the character traits that made him kill in ...

My Daddy is a Hero: How Chris Watts Went from Family Man to Family Killer - Paperback

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Pirates and Lost Treasure of Coastal Maine - Paperback

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by Greg Latimer (Author)Maine has never been regarded as a pirate haven, but only because witnesses were few and far between. With a rugged coast and more than four thousand offshore islands, Maine's dark waters attracted sea raiders like Dixie Bull from the 1600s through colonial times. Pirate treasure still awaits discovery in Phippsburg and Machias, and pirate deceit prompted a massacre in ancient Fort Loyall. The infamous Captain Kidd may have prowled the waters off Deer Isle, while farth...

True Crime Stories of Eastern North Carolina - Paperback

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by Cathy Pickens (Author)Eastern North Carolina is a land of contrasts, and its crime stories bear this out. A lovelorn war hero or a stalker? Conniving wife or consummate homemaker? Murder or suicide? The answers can be as puzzling as the questions. Mystery author Cathy Pickens Number of Pages: 176 Dimensions: 0.5 x 9 x 6.1 IN Publication Date: September 28, 2020

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by James Patterson (Author)Now with an all-new bonus chapter--in the bestselling The House of Kennedy, "James Patterson applies his writerly skills to real-life history . . . re-telling the political clan's rise and fall and rise again (and fall again) with novelistic style" (People). The Kennedys have always been a family of charismatic adventurers, raised to take risks and excel, living by the dual family mottos: "To whom much is given, much is expected" and "Win at all costs." And they do...

Solving the West Palm Beach Murder of Jeffrey Heagerty - Hardcover

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by Graham Brunk (Author)Jeffrey Heagerty was like most young gay nineteen-year-olds in South Florida in the 1980s, commonly finding himself and his friends at the popular Kevin's Cabaret in West Palm Beach on Saturday nights. On one of those Saturday nights in 1984, Jeff vanished from the club, leaving his friends behind even though he was their ride home. His body was found dumped in a canal the next morning and his car was missing, only to be found a month later, abandoned on the other side...

Serial Killer Coloring Book: Most famous serial killers in the world in a creepy coloring book - Paperback

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by Creepy Editions (Author)Serial Killer Coloring Book v1 is finally out 35 famous serial killers (+3 bonuses) totally hand-drawn and ready to be colored.Didn't your mom buy you enough coloring books when you were a child? This is your moment Treat yourself to this pastime and fill your lonely nights with color.It's also perfect as a gift for your friends Serial Killers Coloring Book contains: 35 of the most famous serial killers + 3 bonus pages. High-resolution hand drawn images which wil...

Inside the Mind of Casey Anthony: A Psychological Portrait - Paperback

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by Keith Russell Ablow (Author)INSIDE THE MIND OF CASEY ANTHONYKeith AblowThe trial of twenty-five year old Casey Anthony for the death of her daughter Caylee was the most sensational case in America since O.J. Simpson's--with a verdict every bit as stunning. After being acquitted in July 2011, Ms. Anthony instantly became one of the most infamous women in the world. Dr. Keith Ablow distills tens of thousands of pages of documents he has obtained, his behind-the-camera, one-on one interviews,...

Fatal Jealousy: The True Story of a Doomed Romance, a Singular Obsession, and a Quadruple Murder - Paperback

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by Colin McEvoy (Author), Lynn Olanoff (Author)OUT OF CONTROLJune 26, 2010. A Pennsylvania State Trooper, heading home from work, witnesses a car speeding and crashing into trees. Stopping to help, he finds that the driver, Michael Ballard, is alive--and drenched in blood. When asked what happened, the man answers: "I just killed everybody."OUT OF HIS MINDNot far from the accident, police make a gruesome discovery in the home of Michael's ex-girlfriend, Denise Mehri. Four bodies are found, st...

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by Beverly Bell (Author)Today, the name Marion Miley is largely unrecognizable, but in the fall of 1941, she was an internationally renowned golf champion, winning every leading women's tournament except the elusive national title. This unassuming twenty-seven-year-old woman was beloved by all she met, including celebrities like jazz crooner Bing Crosby. With ambitions to become a doctor, it seemed Marion Miley was headed for greatness.But on September 28, 1941, six gunshots broke through the...

The Murder of Marilyn Monroe: Her Lips Were Sealed Until Now - Paperback

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by R. Gentillalli M. Ed (Author), T. Atencio (Author)Marilyn Monroe was Murdered - The Truth is Revealed - Official Documents, Interviews & the Kennedy's; produced by a retired federal criminal investigator, now a California private investigator and the other author an investigative journalist who is a Marilyn Monroe fan. One of the two hitmen was interviewed, recorded and transcribed. This person (hitman) has never been interviewed before and his name does not appear in other manuscripts...

The Bundy Murders: A Comprehensive History, 2D Ed. - Paperback

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by Kevin M. Sullivan (Author)In this revised, updated and expanded edition, the author explores the life of Theodore Bundy, one of the more infamous--and flamboyant--American serial killers on record. Bundy's story is a complex mix of psychopathology, criminal investigation, and the U.S. legal system. This in-depth examination of Bundy's life and his killing spree that totaled dozens of victims is drawn from legal transcripts, correspondence and interviews with detectives and prosecutors. Usi...

Murderers In California: The Unforgettable True Stories of Compulsive Serial Killers On the West Coast - Paperback

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by Brenda Brown (Author), True Crime Seven (Author), Ryan Becker (Author)Murder is very practical, really.It doesn't take too much time or effort once you're used to it. You don't have to wait for the paycheck; you take it. You don't have to look for pleasure; you take it.The people who populate these pages have found all the shadows in the sun-drenched state of California. They have leaped from nameless victim to nameless victim.Each killer's only challenge was finding a spot to hide the lef...

Who Killed Starr Faithfull ?: and other murderous tales of murder on Long Island - Paperback

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by Gail Rough-Stratford (Author)From a man who kept his girlfriend in a closet to a young woman who washed ashore in Long Beach, Long Island has a colorful history of murder and mayhem. Gail Rough-Stratford has always had a fascination with murder. Even as a child, she would clip news stories and save them in a shoe box under her bed. Presented here are some of those same stories, with tales of the Amityville Horror, the Railroad shooter, young woman who arranged a murder during home room and...

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by Richard Houdershell (Author)A German boy who emigrates to America at the age of three, experiences severe sexual and physical abuse, ultimately ending up in this spiral of violence himself. When he is 13, the father dies on Christmas Eve, which tears him and his mother into the abyss. Out of desperation, his mom dives into Church and college studies, leaving him to his own devices where he then falls into violence, drugs and alcohol. This eventually leads him to a Life Sentence, serving 15...

365 Days in the West Virginia Penitentiary - Paperback

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by Cj Plogger (Author)For every day of the year there is an interesting fact, story, or event that took place at the West Virginia Penitentiary. It is fascinating and sad, wonderful and gruesome, and educational and heartbreaking Number of Pages: 372 Dimensions: 0.77 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: December 20, 2019

Bayou Justice: Southeast Louisiana Cold Case Files - Paperback

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by Hl Arledge (Author)Bayou Justice: Southeast Louisiana Cold Case Files compiles year one of the award-wining newspaper columns with updates to each true-crime installment.Bayou Justice is a twice-weekly true-crime newspaper column featuring exciting or notable crime-related stories often focusing on cold case files in South Louisiana; stories based on interviews with key players, among them: police investigators, lawyers, victims, and their families. Number of Pages: 302 Dimensions: 0.68 x ...

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by Robb Felder (Author)MYSTERY ON THE OTTERTAILA sequel to Pioneers on the OttertailIt is the year 2025. It's been 40 years since any of the Feifer family has been seen in Otter Falls. After their uncle Lewis sold the family's brewery and farmstead to the cheese company, the family all moved away.Now this once historic place just lies in a disgraceful state of destruction after the cheese company almost completely destroyed the homestead and brewery to prevent anyone from discovering how badl...

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by Hl Arledge (Author)Call them anything but closed cases. Who killed attorneys Margaret Coon and Donna Bahm? Why would someone butcher a 26-year-old bank teller? Did the mafia assassinate Senator Huey Long? What happened to the Grinch who stole shotguns? Louisiana's foremost expert on true-crime, and a thirty-year veteran investigative journalist, HL Arledge revisits those tantalizing questions, meeting the state's most colorful characters along the way. From voodoo practitioners, mobsters, ...

Elder Fraud Wars: Case Histories from an Enforcement Attorney - Paperback

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by David Neil Kirkman (Author)By recounting actual court cases, this book examines the multi-billion-dollar elder fraud industry, the special vulnerabilities of those it targets, and the ease and frequency with which it obtains hundreds of thousands of dollars per victim. It also reveals successful strategies for combating that industry and the important contributions to that effort by concerned bankers, doctors, reporters and others in the private sector. The cases reveal an increasingly sop...

Robin Hood of the Hood: The Life and Times of Teddy Roe, Policy King - Paperback

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by Ron Chepesiuk (Author), Michael Roe (Joint Author)A historical account of Theodore "Teddy" Roe who courageously fought the Chicago Mafia aka The Outfit, for control of the lucrative Policy/Numbers racket. During the time when the mob was muscling in on the Policy/Numbers game that for decades had been a staple in the African-American Community many knuckled under the pressure. However, Roe was one who didn't fold. He famously told mob bosses that he'd rather die first than give up control ...

The Burger Chef Murders in Indiana - Hardcover

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by Julie Young (Author)The evening of November 17, 1978, should have been like any other for the four young crewmembers closing the Burger Chef at 5725 Crawfordsville Road in Speedway, Indiana. After serving customers and locking the doors for the night, the kids began their regular cleanup to ready the restaurant for the following day. But then something went horribly wrong. Just before midnight, someone muscled into the place, robbed the store of $581 and kidnapped the four employees. Over ...