True Crime

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Crime: Introduction To Criminology And Some Theories That Will Help Recognize Crime: Crime Book - Paperback

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by Jamaine Donaldson (Author)Criminology is the study of crime and criminals, including the causes, prevention, correction, and impact of crime on society. Since it emerged in the late 1800s as part of a movement for prison reform, criminology has evolved into a multidisciplinary effort to identify the root causes of crime and develop effective methods for preventing it, punishing its perpetrators, and mitigating its effect on victims.The focus of modern criminology is criminal behavior and t...

Criminology: Top 10 Famous Cases Discovered By Crime Psychology: Criminal Behavior - Paperback

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by Jamaine Donaldson (Author)Criminologists are increasingly exploring nontraditional objects, sources of information, methods of analyzing this information, and explanatory frameworks for helping guide analysis and interpretation. One such nontraditional object is the "fictional reality." Fictional realities are fictional social realities, such as those found in novels and film. There is a precedent for the analytical and pedagogical use of "fictional realities" in criminology, but in genera...

A Brotherhood Betrayed: The Man Behind the Rise and Fall of Murder, Inc. - Paperback

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by Michael Cannell (Author)The riveting true story of the rise and fall of Murder, Inc. and the executioner-turned-informant whose mysterious death became a turning point in Mob history. In the fall of 1941, a momentous trial was underway that threatened to end the careers and lives of New York's most brutal mob kingpins. The lead witness, Abe Reles, had been a trusted executioner for Murder, Inc., the enforcement arm of a coast-to-coast mob network known as the Commission. But the man respon...

Standoff: Race, Policing, and a Deadly Assault That Gripped a Nation - Paperback

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by Jamie Thompson (Author)Standoff is award-winning journalist Jamie Thompson's gripping account of a deadly night in Dallas, told through the eyes of those at the center of the events, who offer a nuanced look at race and policing in America. On the evening of July 7, 2016, protesters gathered in cities across the nation after police shot two Black men, Philando Castile and Alton Sterling. As officers patrolled a march in Dallas, a young man stepped out of an SUV wearing a bulletproof vest a...

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by Milad Kalantari (Author)Reza, a reserved Iranian citizen, while living in Iran, won the Green Card Lottery and migrated to the Unites States. As soon as he stepped on American soil, he was arrested. After being accused of defrauding the U.S. out of 4.7 billion dollars, he was ultimately sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.In this biographical account, Reza chronicles his criminal and personal life, with detailed realism that brings to light certain beliefs and political practices of hi...

The Psychology of Death Investigations: Behavioral Analysis for Psychological Autopsy and Criminal Profiling - Paperback

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by Katherine Ramsland (Author)The Psychology of Death Investigations outlines definitively how behavioral evidence can often provide the necessary components and "missing pieces" to complement physical evidence as an essential tool for incident reconstruction. In order to determine the direction of an investigation and to prioritize leads, if necessary, death investigators must establish the manner of a death: natural, accident, homicide or suicide. The most overlooked aspect of death investi...

Sitting on Death Row: The Most Notorious Cases of Death Row Killers Vol. 2 - Paperback

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by Jack Smith (Author)Agreeing or not with the death penalty, death row killers committed some of the most atrocious crimes ever and are awaiting their execution on death row. Meet some more of the evilest and heinous death row killers today.Certain crimes are viewed by some societies as such a violation of morality that they must be dealt with in the most severe terms. Death is the recommended consequence for the worst offenders of the sacred social compact that holds us all together. This b...

Confessions of a CIA Spy: The Art of Human Hacking - Paperback

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by Lillian Chapa (Editor), Peter Warmka (Author)What can you learn from a CIA spy who spent his career artfully manipulating regular people to steal high-value secrets? Plenty In this explosive book, former intelligence officer Peter Warmka unveils detailed methodologies that he and other threat actors use to breach the security of their targets, whether they're high-profile individuals or entire organizations. His illustrative examples reveal: the motivations and objectives behind attempt...

Sitting on Death Row: The Most Notorious Cases of Death Row Killers - Paperback

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by Jack Smith (Author)Agreeing or not with the death penalty, death row killers committed some of the most atrocious crimes ever and are awaiting their execution on death row. Meet some of the evilest and heinous death row killers today.It's a hard thing to comprehend. Innocent life is taken, and a cold-blooded killer has absolutely no remorse. It is for such heinous individuals that society usually reserves its harshest of penalties. For there are some crimes and some criminals that simply s...

Chasing Thieves: A True Story of Identity Theft, Felons, and Fighting Back - Paperback

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by Karen Lodrick (Author)Chasing Thieves tells the true story of how I overcame identity theft to catch the criminal and recover from the personal and financial trauma that turned my life upside down. Every year hundreds of thousands of Americans become the victims of identity theft. In most cases the thief is not found; the victim never has the satisfaction of knowing how the thief came to target them. But my story had a very different ending. You may even have heard about it on entertainmen...

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by Jami D. Brown Martin (Author)In his driver's license photo, Jason Derek Brown looks like a typical Southern California surfer-tan, with spiky hair, a red hoodie, and an open smile. The photo looks completely out of place on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list where it's been since December, 8, 2007. For eight of those years, Jason appeared directly beside Osama Bin Laden. Bin Laden is long gone, but Jason is still wanted for armed robbery and murder.For years, his sister, Jami D. Brown ...

The Zodiac Revisited: The Facts of the Case - Paperback

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by Michael Cole (Author)Understand History's Most Enigmatic Serial KillerIn December of 1968, a serial killer began orchestrating a campaign of terror in the San Francisco Bay Area. Not satisfied with the simple act of murder, he taunted law enforcement and the public by writing letters to local newspapers. Through often cryptic and bizarre content-including four ciphers, three of which have never been solved-the psychopath played a twisted game. Reporters dubbed the man the "Cipher Killer," ...

The Zodiac Revisited: Analysis and Fact-Based Speculation - Paperback

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The Zodiac Revisited: Tying It All Together - Paperback

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A Stranger Killed Katy: The True Story of Katherine Hawelka, Her Murder on a New York Campus, and How Her Family Fought Back - Hardcover

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by William D. Larue (Author)In the early morning hours of August 29, 1986, Clarkson University sophomore Katy Hawelka - bright, pretty and full of life - strolled back to her upstate New York campus after a night out. On the dimly lit path beside the university's ice hockey arena, a stranger emerged from the darkness. The brutal sexual assault and strangulation that followed rocked the campus and the local community.When Katy was declared brain-dead three days later, her family's nightmare ha...

Salford Lads: The Rise and Fall of Paul Massey - Paperback

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by Bernard O'Mahoney (Author)SALFORD LADS The Rise and Fall of Paul Massey; When legendary old school villain Paul Massey immersed himself in the murky world of his modern-day counterparts, he was executed with a machine gun on the drive of his home. Contained within these pages, is his story. It is a story that will horrify the non criminal mind and lay bare, how Massey unwittingly became the architect of his own demise. Massey was not the only casualty of a toxic feud that had ignited betwe...

Hyde's Killer Doctor: Enter the psychology of Britain's most famous and prolific serial killer: A True Crime story of Dr. Harold Shipman - Paperback

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by Gerald Burns (Author)Enter the killer psychology of Britain's most famous and prolific serial killer who was killing at least one person per week at the height of his murder spree. On June 24 1998 Angela Woodruff received news of her mother's death from the family doctor. He stated that her mother's lifeless body had been found lying peacefully in her home where she lived alone. The family doctor advised Angela that no autopsy would be required and that it would be better if her mother's c...

Night Stalker Richard Ramirez: The Horrifying True Crime Story of the Infamous Serial Killer - Paperback

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by James Richmond (Author)Glimpse into the twisted life behind one of America's most horrifying serial killers.Delving into the sick mind of the infamous killer Richard Ramirez, this thought-provoking true crime book sheds light on the childhood, upbringing, killings, and eventual capture of the man who stalked the southern Californian suburbs for over two years. Dubbed as the Night Stalker and baffling the police at every turn, Richard Ramirez left a trail of mutilation and death in his wake...

El Patron: El fin de la guerra que originó ríos de sangre - Paperback

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by Raul Tacchuella (Author)El fin de una era en el narcotr ficoSon muchas las cosas que se han contado sobre El Patr n, en series de TV, en documentales, pel culas, revistas, reportajes y m s. Tambi n se han escrito libros, entonces, por qu este es diferente?Es el cierre de una trilog a narrada por uno de los principales afectados, un padre cuyo hijo fue uno de los sicarios del Patr n. Presenta hechos que solo un testigo presencial podr a, al mismo tiempo que esclarece mitos, verdades y men...

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by Kris Hollington (Author)THE TRUTH BEHIND THE BBC'S THREE GIRLS The UK was shocked to its core in May 2012 when a gang of nine men were convicted of the systematic sexual abuse of disadvantaged teenage girls in the Rochdale area. The crimes included counts of rape, aiding and abetting rape, sexual assault and trafficking girls within the UK for sexual exploitation. Yet many childcare experts reckoned these crimes were just the tip of an iceberg of wide scale exploitation occurring across th...

Devil Exposed: A Twisted Tale of Drug Trafficking, Corruption & Murder in the City of Angels - Paperback

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by Matthew B. Cox (Author)PIERRE RAUSINI-in the 1990's-was a twenty-something-year-old Los Angeles-based drug trafficker. He and his associates drove luxury European supercars, lived in Beverly Hills' penthouses, and dated Playboy models while dodging federal indictments. Then, two FBI officers with the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force entered the picture. Dirty agents willing to fix cases and identify informants.Suddenly, two of Rausini's associates-supposed informants working wit...

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by David Jensen (Author)Few of a generation do not recall listening to Radio Luxembourg 'under the bed clothes'. At a time when the station was huge, David 'Kid' Jensen was one of its best-known names, broadcasting to millions across Europe, showcasing music at a key moment of change. Transferring eventually to the BBC, he was part of a golden era for Radio 1. When the station was reaching peak audiences he was on board, working alongside the radio names who have become part of folklore such ...

Jacob the Ripper: The Case Against Jacob Levy - Paperback

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by Tracy I'anson (Author)When playing the game of Name the Ripper, many authors start with a suspect and attempt to make them fit the facts; some can't even be proved to be in London at the time of the murders. What is required is an ordinary man local to the East End; a man who suffered mental illness, and was known to prowl the streets at night. A man with vast experience of wielding a knife in his place of work, and who had family ties to Wentworth Model Dwellings, where the only clue ever...

From Wounded Fairies to Sweet Fanny Adams: Helping Police with Their Enquiries Through the Centuries - Paperback

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by Peter Moore (Author)The medical profession and criminal law have worked together over the millennia, from the Ancient Egyptians to the present day. Doctors have been asked to interpret wounds since antiquity. In From Wounded Fairies to Sweet Fanny Adams Dr. Peter Moore looks at how doctors got involved in crime, examining the accused or checking injuries, dating from the Edwin Smith papyrus, written in ancient Egypt in about 1600 BC which lists 48 cases involving wounds. He reveals how it ...

Checkmate: The Wallace Murder Mystery - Paperback

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by Mark Russell (Author)On 19th January 1931 a telephone message was left for Mr William Wallace at the Liverpool Central Chess Club, of which he was a member. It involved an appointment with a possible business client for the insurance collector, and instructed him to call at 25 Menlove Gardens East at 7.30pm the following evening. On the 20th Wallace duly left his home in Anfield at around 6.45pm and took three trams to Allerton. After searching the Menlove area for some time and asking sev...

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by Kate Clarke (Author)On the afternoon of 21 March 1815 Orlibar Turner and his family sat down to a meal of rump steak, potatoes and dumplings prepared by their young cook Elizabeth (or Eliza) Fenning. Shortly afterwards, the family was taken violently ill with stomach pains and vomiting. Next morning a local surgeon, urgently summoned to the Turners' house in London's Chancery Lane, identified arsenic in the dough that had been used to make the dumplings. Eliza was immediately arrested and ...

Trial of Ronald Light: The Green Bicycle Case - Paperback

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by Sally Smith (Author)Death by gunshot. That was the somewhat belated opinion of the doctor who examined Bella Wright's body. Death by gunshot in a lonely Leicestershire lane, on the evening of 5 July 1919. Initially, police enquiries failed to disperse the shadows which enveloped the case. Bella - a free-spirited twenty-one year old - had been seen shortly before her death with a man, cycling the roads outside Leicester, but that man had vanished into nothingness. No trace of him could be d...

Lawyer Games: After Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - Paperback

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by Dep Kirkland (Author)LAWYER GAMES is the TRUE story of the murder case that gave rise to the book and Clint Eastwood directed motion picture, Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil. But this book goes far beyond the boundaries of a single murder case. No reader of LAWYER GAMES will ever again look the same way at a criminal trial.In the early morning of May 2, 1981, Danny Hansford was shot dead by James Williams with a World War II vintage Luger in a historic Savannah mansion. For the nex...

Serial Killer Dr. H. H. Holmes Speaks: He tells his story from a prison cell - Paperback

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by Mike Rothmiller (Contribution by), H. H. Holmes (Author)Herman Webster Mudgett was his true name. He preferred to be known as Dr. Henry Howard Holmes and he confessed to 27 murders, but only a few could be proven. Whatever the true number, Holmes, was a diabolical and bizarre person. Folklore pegs his murders at 200, but by any standard that number cannot be verified. No one doubts Holmes killed. However, he was not just known as a murderer; he was also known as a con man, swindler, and bi...

Hyde's Killer Doctor: Enter the psychology of Britain's most famous and prolific serial killer: A True Crime story of Dr. Harold Shipman (Pa - Paperback

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In the Shadow of Mt. Diablo: The Shocking True Identity of the Zodiac Killer - Paperback

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by Mike Rodelli (Author)"a worthy, if not definitive, addition to the body of Zodiac knowledge." -- Kirkus "It is no exaggeration to call the identity of the Zodiac Killer the most maddening unsolved crime in American history...But it is also no exaggeration to say that Mike Rodelli's case stands above them all" -- Tom Zoellner, Author and Former Reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle In June 1999, Mike Rodelli had an idea that had never occurred to a generation of detectives in the San Fr...

Plants, Murder and Medical Mysteries - Paperback

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by Sandy B. Primrose (Author)Plants, Murder and Medical Mysteries by Dr Sandy Primrose is a collection of real-life stories which detail crimes - abduction, rape and murder - and medical mysteries that have been solved using forensic botany. The same expertise has been used to identify the sources of drugs, to authenticate artefacts, to detect food fraud and illegal logging of protected tree species. Agatha Christie's knowledge of poisons is discussed and details are given of a murderer who u...