True Crime

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Rose Cherami: Gathering Fallen Petals - Paperback

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by Michael Marcades (Author), Norma Kirkpatrick (Other), J. Gary Shaw (Introduction by)Rose's son, Dr. Michael Marcades, pieces together the fragments of Rose's troubled life - involving her secret life with mobsters, assassins, the FBI, personal substance abuse, prostitution rings, and violence - to reveal startling truths about the events leading up to the assassination of President John Kennedy and what Rose knew in advance of the Dealey Plaza events. Based on true, documented events, the ...

Happily Ever Cyber!: Protect Yourself Against Hackers, Scammers, and Cybermonsters - Paperback

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by Sandra Estok (Author)Are your family, your business, and your data safe from cyber threats? Our world has dramatically changed, and we rely on technology for everything we do, but according to recent studies, there is a new victim of identity theft every two seconds. Identity theft and cybercrime could happen to anyone. Sandra Estok, expert in the fields of cybersecurity, IT, and Data Privacy, shares inspiring stories and simplifies cybersecurity so you can: - Overcome your fear of cy...

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by Jan Valtin (Author)A bestseller in 1941, selected by the Book of the Month Club for a special edition and described by Book of the Month Club News as: ". . . full of sensational revelations and interspersed with episodes of daring, of desperate conflict, of torture, and of ruthless conspiracy . . . It is, first of all, an autobiography the like of which has seldom been seen."The son of a seafaring father, Richard Julius Herman Krebs, a.k.a. Jan Valtin, came of age as a bicycle messenger du...

Bloodsuckers: The life and cons of Jeremy and Amy Crawford (and the rest of the Crawford Clan) - Paperback

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by Randy Rush (Author)"Have nothing to do with the 'stinky fish' Jeremy Crawford."Fifty-million-dollar lottery winner Randy Rush was only out for personal justice when he launched a court battle against Jeremy Crawford, a skilled con man who exploited mutual relationships and a deeply devoted Christian facade to swindle him out of more than $4.6 million. But that all changed when Rush's court case hit Canada's national news media and other Crawford victims began contacting him to share their ...

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by Annette Marie Hoffman (Author), Richard Roland Bailey Jr (Author)Golden Tongue: Helen Brach "Candy" Heiress and "The innocent man that killed her?" On January 1, 1977, Richard's Life changed forever...Imagine, experiencing the enormity of emotional extremes from spending New Year's Eve, dancing with the 'Lady of his Dreams' to a wonderful night of romance at the Waldoff Astoria. Then her 'no-show' on February 19, 1977, in Florida, the devastation of her disappearance, inconceivable, that 2...

Monsters & Madmen: A Death Row Experiment - Paperback

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by Nick Yarris (Author)January 1995. The first prison ever condemned by the United Nations for "Active Practices of Torture" was shut down by a civil lawsuit. Huntingdon Prison in Pennsylvania had a dilemma following this ruling against its holding men on Death Row any longer: What to do with the worst men among 225 Death Row prisoners ordered out of their cells more than one hour a day?The answer: Create a special unit where 48 of the most violent and dangerous men would be kept away from th...

76 Minutes: My Search for Andrew, Alexander and Tanner Skelton - Paperback

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by Donald L. Allison (Editor), Stuart Rosebrock (Illustrator), Lynn Thompson (Author)Three young Michigan brothers disappeared in 2010. Their father says they will "hibernate until they graduate" but police believe it's a triple homicide. Eight years later, this remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries in the United States, stretching from Michigan to Montana, and national coverage from John Walsh to Nancy Grace have yet to turn up a clue.If police are right, Andrew, Alexander and Tanner...

The Horror of 1888: The True Story of the Crime, Escape, and Capture of John Kuehni - Paperback

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by Betty Plombon (Author)The Horror of 1888 is the true story of two brothers fishing in a creek leading off the Sugar River in the township of Primrose, Dane County, Wisconsin, in 1888. They noticed a sack in the shallow waters of the creek and inside found body parts belonging to someone who had evidently been murdered. The identity of the murderer was soon determined, and the bloody crime scene discovered and searched, disclosing the details of one of the most horrible murders ever known t...

The Cast of a Hand: Based on a True Story of Love and Murder in Second Empire France - Paperback

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by Gs Johnston (Author)At dawn on the outskirts of Paris in 1869, Hortense Kinck lies buried alive and surrounded by five of her children. Violently attacked, tormented and trapped, she sifts through the truths and deceits of her marriage to self-made industrialist, Jean Kinck. Why had he lied? France, snug in the prosperity of Napoleon III's Second Empire, is shocked by the vicious destruction of the bourgeois Kinck family. Under pressure from his superiors, the Chief of Police, Monsieur Cl...

Ambush: The Real Story of Bonnie and Clyde - Paperback

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by Ted Hinton (Author), Larry Grove (As Told to)The story of Bonnie and Clyde--their love, their desperate killings, and their destruction in an explosion of gun fire--has fueled an American legend more than seventy years. But it is only with this book by the last surviving officer of the six who shot Bonnie and Clyde that the full story of their capture has been told.Ted Hinton's description of a secret, illegal police trap--hidden at the time from the press and public--is one of many revela...

Swanson: The Life and Times of a Victorian Detective - Paperback

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by Adam Wood (Author)Donald Sutherland Swanson was born in the remote far north of Scotland, leaving for London in 1867 at the age of 19 and initially working as a City clerk. The following year he joined the Metropolitan Police and began patrolling the streets of the capital as a uniformed constable. 35 years later he retired as Superintendent of the Criminal Investigation Department, the top detective in the country. He is best known as the detective in charge of the Jack the Ripper case fr...

L.A.'s Last Street Cop: Surviving Hollywood Freaks, the Aryan Brotherhood, and the L.A.P.D.'s Homicidal Vendetta Against Me - Hardcover

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by Al Moreno (Author)FINALIST - Book of the Year Awards, The Independent Author Network A vivid, true-life tale of service, survival and sacrificeThis gripping memoir vividly recounts Al Moreno's rise as a gifted and fearless Los Angeles police officer, surviving gangs and homicidal situations in brutal urban war zones as he strove to achieve his personal and professional dreams. Packed with unforgettable scenes of both beauty and despair, it culminates in his vocal stand against corruption...

Mercy: A Memoir of Medical Trauma and True Crime Obsession - Paperback

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by Marcia Trahan (Author)One of BuzzFeed's 15 Books from Smaller Presses You Won't Be Able to Put Down. One of Book Riot's 10 Best New Indie Press Books of Summer 2020. Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. When Marcia Trahan began watching true crime television, she did so in secret. She felt ashamed by her fascination with these violent stories, and how hungrily she consumed one gruesome tale after another. Only years later did she start to connect the dots between her true crime obsession ...

Charlotte True Crime Stories: Notorious Cases from Fraud to Serial Killing - Hardcover

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by Cathy Pickens (Author)Crimes that captivated attention in the Charlotte area over the years run the gamut from missing people to the wrongly accused. This collection of headline stories features violent motorcycle gangs, crusading mothers, a fraudster who claimed a president was poisoned by his wife, a serial killer who broke all the rules and even a man who made Bigfoot. With a mystery novelist's ear for a good tale, Cathy Pickens presents more than a century of sensational sinister deeds...

Nebraska's Missing Public Enemy: The Last of the Ghost Gang - Hardcover

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by Brian James Beerman (Author)In 1934, a band of desperadoes known as the Ghost Gang terrorized bankers across the state of Nebraska with a series of daring robberies. A posse of lawmen traced the gang to a Gage County ghost town, and the hideout was raided on a cold November night. One by one, all the members of the gang faced prison or death, until only Maurice Denning remained at large. Denning, the son of a respectable farm family, had drifted into bootlegging and, ultimately, bank robbe...

Prohibition in Cape May County: Wetter Than the Atlantic - Hardcover

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by Raymond Rebmann (Author)With its proximity to Philadelphia, New York and Baltimore, Cape May County was a perfect location for lawbreakers during Prohibition. Rumrunners operating along the Atlantic Seaboard and Delaware Bay teamed up with backwoods bootleggers to make Cape May County a bustling center of the era's illegal liquor business. It seemed as if every house around Otten's Harbor in Wildwood was a speakeasy. Bill McCoy would sail from the Caribbean to Jersey with undiluted rum, ga...

The Franklin Park Tragedy: A Forgotten Story of Racial Injustice in New Jersey - Hardcover

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by Brian Armstrong (Author)On March 1, 1894, two African American men broke into a home in rural Franklin Park and murdered a white woman and her daughter before her husband fought and killed the attackers. The newspapers called it the "Franklin Park Tragedy," and the story captivated public attention nationally and abroad. Another tragedy came afterward, with the racist forced expulsion of many local African American residents. Author Brian Armstrong tells the shocking story of this "sundown...

Don't Look Behind You: And Other True Cases - Paperback

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by Ann Rule (Author)The #1 New York Times bestselling author and true crime master Ann Rule presents her fifteenth volume of the acclaimed Crime Files series focusing on disturbing stories of people in danger, sometimes from strangers and sometimes from the people they know and love. Walking home on a dark night, you hear footsteps coming up behind you. As they get closer, your heart pounds harder. Is it a dangerous stranger or someone you know and trust? The answer is as simple as turning a...

Sunset Lodge in Georgetown: The Story of a Madam - Hardcover

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by David Gregg Hodges (Author)Hazel Weisse moved to Georgetown in 1936 and opened a brothel three miles south of Front Street. Despite being illegal, the business remained open for thirty-three years until Weisse's retirement in 1969. She was well known, shopping every week on Front Street and appearing in the newspaper as a donor to charitable causes. She sent her "sporting ladies" to town for their weekly doctor visits, banking deposits and shopping trips. Weisse was also aware of the commu...

Pirates and Smugglers of the Treasure Coast - Hardcover

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by Patrick S. Mesmer (Author), Patricia Mesmer (Author)For hundreds of years, colorful characters and criminals used the myriad coves and inlets along the Treasure Coast for illicit commerce. From the early days of privateer Henry Jennings to the notorious Prohibition exploits of the Ashley Gang, these sandy shores have been a refuge for those looking to trade on the dark side of the law. Legendary tales of Don Pedro Gibert, Spanish Marie and Al Capone all contribute to the lore of a region t...

North Carolina Murder & Mayhem - Hardcover

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by Rick Jackson (Author)The smiling faces and southern hospitality of North Carolina promise a paradise for visitors and residents alike, but darkness still lurks in small towns as well as big cities. The state's dangerous past of violence and murder is never seen in tourist pamphlets. From the capture of Olympic bomber Eric Rudolph in the mountains to the seaside murder of the Hermit of Fort Fisher, dark deeds have touched every part of the state. Author Rick Jackson tells the stories behind...

Murder in Roanoke County: Race and Justice in the 1891 Susan Watkins Case - Hardcover

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by John D. Long (Author)A drama played out in the mountains of southwestern Virginia in 1891 that attracted nationwide attention and held the citizens of the Roanoke Valley spellbound. It was a story of violence, bigamy, race and a quest for justice. The tale of the trial of Charles Watkins for the murder of his wife was marked by threats of lynching, a fugitive manhunt, a disappearing witness, mistaken identities, claims of insanity and finally a secret letter to break the case wide open. In...

Colorado's Carlino Brothers: A Bootlegging Empire - Hardcover

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by Samuel Carlino (Author)From 1922 to 1931, Pete and Sam Carlino controlled the flow of Prohibition alcohol from southern Colorado to Denver before their empire suffered a gruesome, bloody demise. The brothers battled their own kin in the Danna family to secure southern Colorado's bootleg liquor territory. Dozens perished in their rise to power. Eventually, mafia boss Nicola Gentile intervened to settle a dispute involving the brothers' associates. Pete Carlino's grandson, author Sam Carlino...

New Castle's Kadunce Murders: Mystery and the Devil in Northwest Pennsylvania - Hardcover

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by Dale Richard Perelman (Author)In the summer of 1978, a mother and her four-year-old were stabbed to death in the quiet town of New Castle. Police suspected the husband, Lou Kadunce, but were unable to find either a weapon or a motive. Sitting in a Lawrence County jail in 1981, convicted serial killer Michael Atkinson accused Frank Costal--a carny, petty thief and Satanist--of having an affair with the Kadunce husband and participating in the murder. A series of intense trials ensued as Cos...

Murder & Mayhem in Herkimer County - Hardcover

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by Caryl Hopson (Editor), Susan R. Perkins (Editor)Herkimer County is steeped in history, from the settlement of the Mohawk Valley by Palatine German settlers to the flood of western migration with the opening of the Erie Canal. But the region also boasts an infamous history of high-profile homicides and crimes. Roxalana Druse murdered her abusive husband and became the last woman to be hanged in New York in 1887. The death of Grace Brown on scenic Big Moose Lake became one of the most famous...

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by Belinda Oliver (Author)A gritty tale about Lavay ONeil sprouting in the urban corridors of New York City. Never getting caught stealing candy from Mr. Clark's store could be costly. In girlhood the boosting game snagged her. At the fragile age of ten, she started carrying bags and popping tags. Expeditiously she engaged in street law and earned a degree at the University of Streetology. Belinda shares one woman's journey of how the hurricanes stormed into her life's cycle. These cyclones w...

The Colombo Family: A History of New York's Colombo Mafia Family - Paperback

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by Andy Petepiece (Author)The Colombo Family The Colombo Family is a well-researched book on the nearly 100-year history of one of New York City's infamous La Cosa Nostra organizations. It begins with the USA arrival of Joe Profaci, the first Boss, and ends in the confusion of the passing of Boss Carmine Persico in 2019. Some of the essential events covered include the 1928 meeting of mobsters in Cleveland, the Castellammarese War of the early 1930s, the Apalachin fiasco of 1957, plus three C...

London Crime: An in-depth history of the geezers, the gangs and the major heists in the UK 1930s - present day - Paperback

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by Barry Faulkner (Author)An in-depth look at the major London criminals, their gangs, their robberies and murders from the 1930s to the present day. Starting with the Messina Brothers in the 1930s who introduced people trafficking and major prostitution to the Capital through to the Hatton Garden Heist and the current crop of gangs. On the way through we visit all the major heists including Brinks Mat, Great Train Robbery, Baker Street bank Robbery, Knightsbridge Safe Deposit robbery and man...

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by Hank Messick (Author)In Sin City, Newport, Kentucky, in the mid-twenthieth century, across the Ohio River from Cincinnati, Ohio, organized crime--the syndicate--established itself as the purveyor of vice: gambling & prostituion. Since the prohibtion era Newport had been the night life center for the greater Cincinnati area, and by the 1950s it was run by the eastern mafia syndicate based in Cleveland. In the late 1950s Newport citizens began their attempt to clean up Newport to make wa...

Every Stranger's Eyes: Part one of the incredible true story behind the acclaimed 'Sisters for Sale' documentary - Paperback

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by Ben Randall (Author)Young women on the border between Vietnam and China find themselves caught between a violent custom and a vicious criminal underworld... The multi-award-winning documentary 'Sisters for Sale' is an incredible true story of hope, courage, and freedom. 'Every Stranger's Eyes' tells the first four amazing years of that story.Following the mysterious abductions of his local friends May and Pang, an Australian filmmaker returns to Vietnam determined to do everything he can t...

Murder in Montague: Frontier Justice and Retribution in Texas - Paperback

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by Glen Sample Ely (Author)On a sweltering August night in 1876, Methodist minister William England, his wife, Selena, and two of her children were brutally slaughtered in their North Texas home. Acting on Selena's deathbed testimony, a neighbor, his brother-in-law, and a friend were arrested and tried for the murders. Murder in Montague tells the story of this gruesome crime and its murky aftermath. In this engrossing blend of true crime reporting, social drama, and legal history, author Gle...

The Pale-Faced Lie: A True Story (Large Print) - Paperback

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by David Crow (Author)WINNER OF THE SPUR AWARD FOR BEST WESTERN FIRST NONFICTION BOOK - FINALIST FOR THE SPUR AWARD FOR BEST WESTERN CONTEMPORARY NONFICTION - IPPY SILVER AWARD FOR BEST MEMOIR - NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR BEST MEMOIR (OVERCOMING ADVERSITY)A violent ex-con forces his son to commit crimes in this unforgettable memoir about family and survival"Cinematically gripping."--Kirkus ReviewsGrowing up on the Navajo Indian Reservation, David Crow and his siblings idolized their...