True Crime

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Vampire Killer: A Terrifying True Story of Psychosis, Mutilation and Murder - Paperback

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by Ryan Green (Author)On 23 January 1978, David Wallin returned to an unlit home. His pregnant wife, Teresa (22), was nowhere to be seen. The radio was still playing and there were some peculiar stains on the carpet. Wallin nervously followed the stains to his bedroom and encountered a scene so chilling that it would haunt him for the rest of his life. Teresa had been sexually assaulted and mutilated. She was also missing body parts and large volumes of blood. Four days later, the Sacramento ...

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by W. G. Davis (Author)In the fall of 1931, Charles "Lucky" Luciano calls the most powerful gangsters to a hotel in Chicago for a meeting that will soon change the way that organized crime is run in America. He creates the Five Families just like they did back in Sicily. His words were, "We have to run our business like a business." With the Capos, the Crews, and the Consiglieres, all reporting to the head of the family, The Boss, but there will be no more Boss of Bosses.He also created a boa...

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by Victor Avila (Author)"Former ICE Special Agent Victor Avila's story of survival and courage is a harrowing must read. His dedication to obtaining justice for his partner, Jaime Zapata, who was murdered just inches away while on assignment in Mexico, is honorable and a reflection of his character. The government coverup of what happened and their retaliation against him for telling the truth is unforgivable. You won't be able to put this book down." -Katie Pavlich, Townhall Editor, Fox News...

On The Trail of Delusion: Jim Garrison: The Great Accuser - Paperback

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by Fred Litwin (Author)Fred Litwin exposes the truth about Jim Garrison, the New Orleans District Attorney, who 'solved' the JFK assassination in 1967. On the Trail of Delusion shows how Garrison persecuted an innocent gay man in order to spout his crazy conspiracy theories. There is also a touch of bribery and intimidation, the story of his attempt to charge a dead man with being a grassy knoll assassin, the former Marine he believed was a 'second Oswald, ' several con men who turned the tab...

Bloody Alphabet 2: The Scariest Serial Killers Coloring Book. A True Crime Adult Gift - Full of Notorious Serial Killers. For Adults Only - Paperback

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by Brian Berry (Author)* The spine-chilling second edition of the Amazon bestselling serial killer coloring book! *The Bloody Alphabet collection is back with 20+ brand-new illustrations of infamous serial killers.Inside this brilliant collection, you'll uncover 24 fascinating illustrations that bring some of the world's most horrifying killers to life. From thugs and hardened criminals to cold-blooded, meticulous murderers, these serial killers come from all walks of life and from across the...

It Was Never a Gamble: The Life and Times of an Early 1900s Gambler and Hustler - Paperback

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by C. W. Jim James (Author)It Was Never A Gamble is the true-life story of an early 1900s gambler and hustler. It chronicles the life of Jimmy James. Born in 1900 and leaving the family farm at the age of 14, he made a living by taking advantage of other's greed. He learned early that to get ahead he may have to bend a few rules. But, in a time when the rules were few and the enforcement was often left to one's own conscious, there could be big rewards for the person with the intestinal forti...

It's Insanity: The Bizarre Story of a Bipolar Megalomaniac's Insane Plan for Total World Domination - Paperback

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by Matthew B. Cox (Author)AS FRANK AMODEO met with President George W. Bush at the White House to discuss NATO operations in Afghanistan, no one knew that he'd already embezzled nearly $200 million from the federal government-money he intended to use to bank roll his plan to take over the world.From Amodeo's global headquarters in the shadow of Florida's Disney World, with a nearly inexhaustible supply of the Internal Revenue Service's funds, Amodeo acquired multiple businesses and amassed a ...

King of X: The True Story of an Ecstasy Empire - Paperback

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by Christopher King (Author)Back in the 90's, a new drug named ecstasy swept the nation, especially on the party scene. a young man got involved with selling this latest sensation, and the lure of fast money was just too much to resist. When the authorities caught up with him, he fled to Mexico. South of the border, he resumed his operations and amassed a fortune, started a family and life was good. Until it wasn't. Disasters, betrayal, and fighting his own personal demons was taking a heavy ...

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The Making of a Serial Killer: Second Edition - Paperback

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by Danny Harold Rolling (Author), Sondra London (Author)The True Story of the 1990 Gainesville Student Murders in the Killer's Own Words. 2d Ed. Murder confessions & drawings done on Death Row in Florida during the early 1990's. New prologue, new illustrations and a new preview of the companion volume, Beyond the Making of a Serial Killer. Number of Pages: 444 Dimensions: 0.9 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: October 02, 2020

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by Jeffrey G. Harrell (Author)On March 31, 1931, legendary Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne and seven others were killed in a plane crash in a remote pasture near Bazaar, Kansas. The death of the greatest sports visionary in American history who shaped the game of football and, literally, the ball itself, was written off as an accident and forgotten for nearly a century.Until now..."Rockne of Ages" conjures the long-lost spirit of Knute Rockne through a posthumous voice and a vast galle...

Passion, Poison, and Pretense: The Murder of Hingham's Postmaster - Paperback

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by John F. Gallagher (Author)I was gripped by this account of the 1857 Gardner murder - a detailed, absorbing, and compelling page-turner. John Gallagher has given historical fiction fans another richly satisfying, complicated, and well-researched story. Bravo Annie Hartnett, author of Rabbit CakePassion, Poison, and Pretense: The Murder of Hingham's Postmaster is the type of local history story I have been craving for some time -a concise, engaging, true story of one of the earliest and mos...

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by Tess McCormack (Author)In 1959, a former Nazi S.S. Officer manipulated Child Services to grant him guardianship of young Kathy Jackson, age fifteen. He immediately authorized her marriage to his sixteen-year-old son, Peter, despite the desperate pleas to the court from her mother, Alice, who was powerless to stop the process. Thus, began a systematic grooming of the young Kathy to ultimately submit to her father-in-law's sexual demands and to suffer a life of servitude and isolation, cling...

Thornapple Girl: One Family Against the Lumber Trust - Paperback

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by James A. Brakken (Author)Step into the life of Myra Dietz, a girl whose voice is as sweet as her determination is strong. Meet Myra's father, John, a steadfast Northwest Wisconsin woodsman who confronts the world's largest lumber syndicate.When John asks for his back wages, the lumber company refuses. He then learns that the dam they've been using for log drives is on his land. The syndicate could lose millions. But rather than settle, they respond with government corruption. Warrants are ...

The Heroine of Cameron Dam: The Annotated 1929 Memoir of Myra Dietz - Paperback

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by Sybil L. Brakken (Author), James A. Brakken (Cover Design by)The Heroine of Cameron DamDecades ago, a vagabond searching through trash outside a Los Angeles publisher's office found a rejected 1929 manuscript. The author, Myra Dietz, wrote it 19 years after she, her brother, and father, were severely wounded by gun-toting thugs who served powerful Midwest lumber barons. News of the Winter, Wisconsin, shootings went nationwide in 1910 and the John Dietz family came to be regarded as nationa...

Murder Times Six: The True Story of the Wells Gray Murders - Paperback

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by Alan R. Warren (Author)It was a crime unlike anything seen in British Columbia. The horror of the "Wells Gray Murders" almost forty years ago transcends decades. On August 2, 1982, three generations of a family set out on a camping trip - Bob and Jackie Johnson, their two daughters, Janet, 13 and Karen, 11, and Jackie's parents, George and Edith Bentley. A month later, the Johnson family car was found off a mountainside logging road near Wells Gray Park completely burned out. In the back s...

The Minneapolis Police Department: Blue Code of Silence: The True Story of the Terrance Franklin Murder - Paperback

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by Mike Padden (Author)In May 2013, a young black man named Terrance Franklin was being pursued by a large contingent of officers of the Minneapolis Police Department. After an intensive afternoon search, a SWAT team found Franklin holed up in the basement of a South Minneapolis home. In the series of events that followed, two SWAT team members suffered gunshot wounds and Terrance Franklin was subsequently shot to death. The team of officers reported that Franklin took control of one officer'...

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by K. D. Lewis (Author)Author K.D. Lewis recounts the evolution of the serial killer father he became reunited with later in life. Armed with newly discovered information about his father's past debased life, Lewis seeks to explore and understand his own struggles with mental illness that likely plagued both his parents and may have ultimately destroyed him. Son of a Killer has it all- love, loss and liberation of every kind, including the final confrontation of a killer who may have set his ...

Jungle Law: Mad, Bad, Stupid and Dangerous: True Crime Tales from a Perth Criminal Lawyer - Paperback

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by Henry Sklarz (Author)A glimpse into the chaotic, violent and often hilarious world of crime through the eyes of one of Perth's top criminal defence barristers, Henry Sklarz. From a career spanning 35 years comes a collection of short stories recounting the murderers, drug smugglers, rapists, prostitutes, unsuccessful bank robbers and more thrills and spills of those caught on the wrong side of the law. The mad, bad, stupid and dangerous. Number of Pages: 204 Dimensions: 0.47 x 8 x 5.25 IN ...

Cherry City Confidential: 12 Murder Cases that Rocked Oregon's Capital City - Paperback

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by J. E. McComb (Author)Salem, Oregon: A nice place to raise your family.At least that's what people say.A dozen murderers. 74 victims. Some of Oregon's most brutal crimes have occurred in the Cherry City-but then, every town has its dark side, doesn't it?This book explores some of the area's most sensational crimes, including serial killers, desperados, a filicide, a battered wife, a mass poisoning, and much more from 1902 through the 1980s.Among the tales: Jerome Brudos who abducted and str...

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by Mike Curry (Author)Shattered Dreams is based on the life of Alfred "Bones" Barton who at 12 years old prompted law makers to enact a law based on his criminal behavior. The Bartons Law was created to charge juveniles young as 11 years old for violent crimes. As a young teen Bones was faced with many obstacles growing up in Bromley-Heath housing project. Will Bones influential family keep him out of harms way or will he become a product of his environment? Number of Pages: 278 Dimensions: ...

Monsters and Monarchs: Serial Killers in Classical Myth and History - Hardcover

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by Debbie Felton (Author)Jack the Ripper. Jeffrey Dahmer. John Wayne Gacy. Locusta of Gaul. If that last name doesn't seem to fit with the others, it's likely because our modern society largely believes that serial killers are a recent phenomenon. Not so, argues Debbie Felton-in fact, there's ample evidence to show that serial killers stalked the ancient world just as they do the modern one. Felton brings this evidence to light in Monsters and Monarchs, and in doing so, forces us to rethink t...

From There to Here As I Remember It!: An Autobiography - Paperback

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by Leonard Szczesny (Author)Leonard Szczesny was born in 1931 on the Polish-Russian border to a Polish family. Because in 1933 his father Josef was banished for five years of hard labor to Siberia and was not allowed to ever return to within two hundred kilometers of his village, Leonard's travels started at an early age. In 1937, with his mother Antonina and his older brother Jan, he traveled east to rejoin his father at a new place of employment. World War II broke out in 1939, and by 1943 ...

The Foggy Bottom Gang: The Story of the Warring Brothers of Washington, DC - Paperback

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by Leo Warring (Author)In the town of lawmaking, three brothers thrived in lawbreakingBefore Prohibition, Leo, Emmitt, and Charles "Rags" Warring worked as laborers in their father's barrel shop. When the (illegal) booze started flowing, all three quickly got caught up in the wild and sometimes violent underworld of Washington, D.C. Their exploits-including a lucrative numbers racket, gangland shootings, and high-profile courtroom trials-created sensational headlines and thrust them into an u...

Special Crimes: Memoirs of a D.A. Investigator - Paperback

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by Kenny K. Rodgers (Author)Special Crimes is the capstone of a lifetime career in law enforcement for Houston native Kenny Rodgers, and details not only the inner workings of the Harris County District Attorney Special Crimes Bureau, but the complete behind-the-scenes investigations and ultimate take-down of some of the most notorious criminals in the Lone Star State during the 1970s and 80s. From "The Black Widow" to "Yankee" (former Texas Supreme Court Justice Don Yarbrough) and Karla Faye...

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by Derek Bluford (Author)The Mighty Have Fallen is the account of a multi-year federal political corruption investigation by the FBI and its sole, confidential human source for the case, Derek Bluford. Mr.Bluford's work started with former Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson and his corrupt elected friends, and then expanded throughout the nation as he was recruited by other FBI and law enforcement agencies. Learn how these dirty politicians used their influence, money, and power to siphon million...

Embedded Enemy: The Insider Threat - Paperback

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by Bart E. Womack (Author)Embedded Enemy is the true story of the unprecedented deadly attack against the men and women of Headquarters and Headquarters Company First Brigade, 101st Airborne Division. Shortly after deploying for the war in Iraq, the Bastogne Brigade was staged at Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait where they prepared for combat against Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime. During the eerie, pitch-black, early morning hours of 23 March 2003, a fellow American soldier, Sergeant Hasan Akba...

Organized Crime: A Cultural Introduction - Paperback

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by Antonio Nicaso (Author), Marcel Danesi (Author)This book aims to describe and demystify what makes criminal gangs so culturally powerful. It examines their codes of conduct, initiation rites, secret communications methods, origin myths, symbols, and the like that imbue the gangsters with the pride and nonchalance that goes hand in hand with their criminal activities. Mobsters are everywhere in the movies, on television, and on websites. Contemporary societies are clearly fascinated by them...

The Darkest Serial killers with their stories: Coloring book for adults - Paperback

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by Ashley Coloring (Author)This dark coloring book contains illustrations about the darkest serial killers to be ever born, with their stories so you can learn about the darkest minds of the human species.Perfect for any true crime lover FOR ADULTS ONLYProduct details: ◆ Quality matte cover◆25 original illustrations◆Every illustration includes information and the story of the killer on the following page◆ dimension: 8.5 x 11 inches◆Quality white paper Number of Pages: 54 Dimensions: 0.11 x 11...

Relentless: The Forensics of Mobsters' Business Practices - Paperback

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by Jerold L. Zimmerman (Author), Daniel P. Forrester (Author)All types of organizations, for profit, not-for-profit, lawful, and unlawful, must be relentless in highly competitive, and constantly evolving environments. Every day iconic brands like Sears, Kodak, and Blockbuster vanish. Managers in lawful companies face disruptive technologies, groundbreaking new products, and competition from new entrants. Every organization must manage its way through a rapidly shifting world, or else fail. Y...

Relentless Pursuit: Inside the Escape from Dannemora - New York State's Largest Manhunt - Paperback

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by Incident Commander Major Charles Guess (Author)Relentless Pursuit - On June 6, 2015, two convicted killers escaped from New York State's toughest maximum security prison, Dannemora. What followed over the next 23 days, was an unbelievable tale of intrigue, as salacious facts revealed the murderers had seduced a female prison employee into aiding in their plan to escape. Swept up by their artful manipulation, she smuggled hacksaw blades into the prison in frozen hamburger, engaged in sexual...

Fighting for Queen and Country: One man's true story of blood and violence in the paras and the SAS - Paperback

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by Nigel Ely (Author)'Spud Ely tells it like it was, from first-hand experience. No glory, just guts. You can almost smell the dirt and the blood' - The SunSpud Ely's SAS career has pitched him into some of the most deadly, high-octane, violent battles ever fought. Ranging from occupations in the Parachute Regiment and the SAS to serving as a Military Consultant and as a War Photojournalist, much of the combat Ely saw was so brutal that it produced terrible and enduring psychological scars fo...