True Crime

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by Joanna C. Valente (Author)A Love Story inspects the bleakest corners of the heart, unwinding our concept of identity and being through a strange, unknown universe that we often grapple to understand and make sense of. These poems are a symphony within an unopened box. Do we choose to open it and find what's inside? Are we brave enough to go deeper to find what we ourselves contain? Number of Pages: 94 Dimensions: 0.19 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: July 13, 2021

Disorderly Conduct: The Oddities of My 20-Year Life As an FBI Special Agent - Hardcover

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by John Iannarelli (Author), Joey Robert Parks (Author)John Iannarelli (a.k.a. "FBI John") served for more than twenty years as an FBI Special Agent and was also the Bureau's national spokesperson. His investigative work included the Oklahoma City Bombing, the 9/11 attack, the Sony hack, numerous bank robberies, kidnappings, and other assorted crimes. But if you are looking for those stories this is not the book for you. While most law enforcement matters are deadly serious, there's another s...

Last Man Standing: The Graham Henry Story - Paperback

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by Jay Pring (Author)The shocking and brutal life and crimes of one of Australia's most notorious and feared underworld kingpins, Graham 'Abo' Henry. From his violent childhood and rise through the ranks of Sydney's most dangerous men, to his involvement in a Royal Commission into Police Corruption that would bring down a government, this is his compelling and terrifying true story.Angry, belligerent, dangerous beyond compare, Graham Henry built a criminal gang and empire that swept aside all...

Mass Murders in Harris County, Houston and Pasadena Texas - Paperback

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by Don Cooper (Author) David Owen Brooks, one of the mass murderers of twenty-eight or more young boys, died of COVID-19 on May 28, 2020, in a Texas prison. At the time I wrote this book, I did not know he died. The book was written by way of my memories of events that happened in my life and up to the time I met David Brooks. Just two or three days before Brooks turned himself into the Houston Police Station, he tried to lure me to a party in Pasadena, Texas, by telling me there would be lot...

Ted Bundy: The Terrifying True Crime Story of America's Most Notorious Serial Killer - Paperback

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by James Richmond (Author)Discover The Terrifying True Crime Story of America's Most Notorious Serial Killer - Ted BundyDelve into a chilling darkness of the serial killer world and explore it through the eyes of victims, detectives, witnesses, and other people who were involved and experience the whole new dimension of true-crime storytelling.Described as "a sadistic sociopath who took pleasure from another human's pain and the control he had over his victims, to the point of death, and even...

The Terror of Indiana: Bent Jones & The Moody-Tolliver Feud Second Edition - Hardcover

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by Bob Moody (Author)The first U.S. blood feud to make headlines from coast to coast involved two wealthy Indiana farm families. This true story includes an attempted midnight massacre, a cold-blooded murder, prisoners shooting at a mob from inside a jail, the daring horseback escape of a defendant while his jury was still in deliberation, an innocent young man murdered by mistake, flamboyant trials for "one of the most celebrated cases in the history of Western jurisprudence", and a criminal...

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by Clint Watts (Author), Farid Haque (Author), J. Nino Galenzoga (Illustrator)When U.S. government employees Rachel and Andre discover that someone is using social media to spread false narratives about an upcoming election, they go to work. With the election nearly upon them, the two cybersleuths follow the trail of "deepfakes" synthetic media to a "troll farm" command center in Russia. But will they be able to stop the cyber assailants from causing chaos, confusion, and division before it's...

Playing Poker Against The Mob: The Joe Cammarano Story: Volume 1 - Paperback

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by Jeff Lisandro (Author)Jeff Lisandro is Australia's most successful poker player. He plays in the world's biggest cash games and has half a dozen World Series of Poker bracelets. Years before his public poker success, he ran casinos for underworld gangs in Sydney and Moscow. Join him in a high-stakes adventure across two continents as he stays one step ahead of the police, hitmen, and Mob bosses. Playing Poker Against the Mob is the first of three books. An unforgettable story of poker as y...

Lucianity: The Perverse Religion of Christians - Hardcover

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by John Byer (Author)Lucianity, the Perverse Religion of Christians is a book about the hidden history of the New Testament -- where it not only reveals the scripture's mysterious origin ... but also its very unique and clandestine creation. In this book, the reader will learn that Christianity, the religion that people sincerely believe and practice today, is not the religion of Christ. Instead, it is the religion of an overzealous disciple who was able to gain possession of every gospel and...

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by Kate Holden (Author)An epic true story of greed, power and a desire for legacy from an acclaimed Australian storyteller. July 2014, a lonely road at twilight outside Croppa Creek, New South Wales: 80-year-old farmer Ian Turnbull takes out a .22 and shoots environmental officer Glen Turner in the back.On one side, a farmer hoping to secure his family's wealth on the richest agricultural soil in the country. On the other, his obsession: the government man trying to apply environmental laws....

The Life and Career of Dr. William Palmer of Rugeley - Paperback

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by Bill Peschel (Author)THE BAD BOY OF RUGELEYIn 1856, Dr. William Palmer made history when he was hanged for poisoning his best friend. It was not only the first trial involving strychnine, but the first that was moved because of the extensive publicity it received in the new penny newspapers that were exploding in popularity.In 1925, George Fletcher published his lifetime's research on the case. Drawing on his family's ties to the area, he visited Staffordshire repeatedly over several decad...

The Harlem Plug: The Richard 'Fritz' Simmons Story - Paperback

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by Harlem Holiday (Author)"To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace." MALCOLM X In Harlem's tumultuous history, there are many tragedies. For those growing up in this part of New York City, a young man known simply as Fritz from West 112th Street became an urban legend in Harlem.In the 1970s, Richard "Fritz" Simmons is introduced to the drug trade, by an associate of the Lucchese crime family, one of the five families of La Cosa Nostra (the Mafia). Aft...

The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: Crime, Conspiracy and Cover-Up: A New Investigation - Paperback

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by Tim Tate (Author), Brad Johnson (Author)Longlisted for the People's Book Prize 2018.At 12.16am on Wednesday, June 5, 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded in the kitchen service pantry of the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles. A little over 24 hours later, he was pronounced dead. A 24-year-old Palestinian immigrant, Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, was captured in the pantry with a smoking gun in his hand. Eyewitnesses had seen him step out in front of Kennedy and begin shooting ...

Murder's Always Murder: Shocking True Crime Stories - Paperback

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by Rod Kackley (Author)A woman accepts a ride from a truck driver in Pennsylvania, a teenager hops into a blue Chevy pickup truck for a ride home from school on a hot day in North Carolina, while in Denver, a woman and her boyfriend take their new dog for a walk.These three innocent decisions prove fatal.Murder's Always Murder.And that's just the first of more than 60 Shocking True Crime Stories waiting for true crime aficionados like you. For instance, there's the story of a man who wanted t...

She Married the Green River Serial Killer: The Story of an Unsuspecting Housewife - Paperback

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by Pennie Wood (Author)Judith had been neglected, misunderstood, and abused until she met and married the man of her dreams, Gary Ridgway, who would become known as The Green River Serial Killer by the rest of the world.For fourteen happy years, Judith shared her life with an attentive and kind husband, never suspecting there was a secret side to the man she loved until the storybook romance turned into a terrifying nightmare.Gary Ridgway masterfully managed his two identities. One included r...

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When Angels Weep: The Weeki Wachee Homicides - Paperback

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by W. R. Langston (Author)WHEN ANGELS WEEP Two of the four shallow graves excavated on the Mansfield property held the remains of unidentified teenage girls. One is believed to be between the age of 12 and 16 and the second between 16 and 19. no one has come forward with any information to help detectives identify the two victims. After reading this book if you have any information as to the identity of the two teenagers please contact your local sheriff's department or Detective Mike Nelson ...

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by Oj Modjeska (Author)One after another, they appear by the sides of suburban roads and freeways - the naked, strangled bodies of women who have been raped, tortured and left for dead.Police begin to suspect that their target is a rogue operator who has emerged from their own ranks. And then, all hell breaks loose in Los Angeles.An arrest in the strangling murders of two co-eds across state lines finally leads to a break in the case, but the suspect is someone the investigators could have ev...

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by Troy Taylor (Author)NEVERMORETHE HAUNTED LIFE AND MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF EDGAR ALLAN POEThere are very few among those with a love for the supernatural who don't also have a passion for Edgar Allan Poe. Poe wasn't simply a melancholy author who wrote about premature burials, sinister black cats, and talking ravens; he was much more. If you've ever read a modern mystery or horror novel, you can thank Poe. If you've ever read a book like this one - or any of author Troy Taylor's books of true s...

Observations on the Pell Proceedings - Paperback

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by Frank Brennan (Author)Cardinal George Pell pleaded not guilty before a jury to child sexual assault charges in 2018. The public knew little of the proceedings because the trial judge had imposed a suppression order, prohibiting the media from publicising the evidence and court proceedings. Fr Frank Brennan SJ was asked by the Australian Catholic bishops to follow the proceedings and to offer commentary on the conduct of the proceedings once the suppression orders were lifted. The bishops a...

Ashland Tragedy: Murder, a Mob and a Militia in Kentucky - Hardcover

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by H. E. Joe Castle (Author), J. M. Huff (Author)On Christmas Eve 1881, a horrible crime shook the small town of Ashland, Kentucky, and captivated the entire nation. Three children were brutally murdered and their house set ablaze. Nothing in the small town's past had prepared it for what followed. Three men were convicted of the crimes, and two were sentenced to death. But the murderers were protected by the governor's untrained militia, which would eventually turn their guns on Ashland's in...

Arkansas Hitchhike Killer: James Waybern Red Hall - Hardcover

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by Janie Nesbitt Jones (Author)Faulkner County native Red Hall was a serial killer who confessed to murdering at least twenty-four people. Most of his victims were motorists who picked him up as he hitchhiked around the United States. In the closing months of World War II, he beat his wife to death and went on a killing spree across the state. His signature smile lured his victims to their doom, and even after his capture, he maintained a friendly manner, being described by one lawman as a pl...

Just After Midnight The Darlie Routier Story - Paperback

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by W. G. Davis (Author)On June 6, 1996, a mother named Darlie Routier did the unthinkable: she murdered her two sons, Damon aged 5, and Devon just one week shy of his 7th birthday, in cold blood while they slept in their luxurious home in Rowlett, Texas. This capital murder case, built on detailed, abundant, and damning circumstantial evidence, continues to generate national publicity, roil people's emotions, and raise lingering doubts of her guilt. Meanwhile, Darlie awaits death by lethal in...

When Angels Weep: The Weeki Wachee Homicides - Hardcover

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Deaths on Pleasant Street: The Ghastly Enigma of Colonel Swope and Doctor Hyde - Paperback

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by Giles Fowler (Author)The 1909 murder case surrounding the wealthy Swope family of Independence, Missouri, gripped newspaper readers throughout the nation. This book gathers the facts behind the suspicious fates of three Swope family members: the eccentric Colonel, millionaire donor of Kansas City, Missouri's Swope Park, his affable cousin, and a young nephew and heir. The mystery pits the Swope matriarch against her disfavored son-in-law, Dr. Bennett Clark Hyde. Charged with poisoning the ...

The Mysterious Murder of Martha Moxley: Did the Political and Financial Power of the Kennedy/Skakel Families Trump the Truth? - Paperback

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by Joe Bruno (Author)Making it 2 books for the price of 1!"*****Ranked #1 on Amazon/USA in Hot New Releases in "Law Witnesses," "Law Enforcement" and "True Crime-Hoaxes & Deceptions"Ranked #1 on Amazon/USA in "Law Witnesses" and "Media & the Law"*****At around 9:30 pm on October 30, 1975, blond and beautiful 15-year-old Martha Moxley had just left the Skakel residence and was walking to her home on the other side of Walsh Lane, in the swank Belle Haven section of Greenwich, Connecticu...

American Hotel Story: History, Hauntings, and Heartbreak in LA's Infamous Hotel Cecil - Paperback

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by Richard Estep (Author)On December 20, 1924, the newest hotel in downtown Los Angeles opened its doors. Catering to businessmen, bankers, theatergoers, and travelers, the Cecil started out as a home away from home for the city's high rollers. Then came the Great Depression. Times changed, and the hotel found itself in the middle of Skid Row. Awash in a sea of violent crime, drugs, and homelessness, the Cecil gained a dark reputation which remains to this day. Tales of murder, suicide, and s...

I've Seen Dead People: Diary of a Deputy Coroner - Paperback

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by Donna Francart (Author)DEATH, FEAR, LOVE, EMOTIONS, SPIRITSStep inside the mind of Donna Francart, a former Deputy Coroner, as she describes to you her years of Medicolegal Death Investigations. What began as her personal diary written to herself, her way of Debriefing, began to form a heartbeat of it's own.She has allowed her inner most thoughts to be shared, with you, Of the fears, tears, and anger she battled with, along the way and the profound lessons she learned, not only from the de...

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by Scott E. Bowser (Author)Edward Theodore Gein was one of the most notorious murderers in U.S. history. The particularly bizarre and morbid nature of his crimes shocked the world, even though it may never be known if he committed more than two murders. Besides the death of his brother in 1944 under mysterious circumstances, six people disappeared from Wisconsin towns of La Crosse and Plainfield between 1947 and 1957. Gein was conclusively linked to only two, though it is suspected there were...

The Trouble in Room 519: Money, Matricide, and Marginal Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century - Paperback

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by Thomas Aiello (Author)At approximately seven o'clock in the evening on May 7, 1950, Gordon Malherbe Hillman filled an empty bottle with water, capped it, and walked into his mother's room in the pair's fifth-floor suite at Boston's luxurious Copley Plaza Hotel. He then edged up behind the semi-invalid woman and bludgeoned her to death. Hotel staff had planned to evict the two the following day after several weeks of unpaid rent. Mounting debts had finally broken the fifty-year-old Hillman,...

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by Stephanie Dickinson (Author)"In the 'Razor Wire Wilderness' of Stephanie Dickinson's exquisitely lyrical portrayal of female incarceration - intimately researched by becoming pen pals with many inmates over many years - she reveals her own dark attraction and identification with Krystal Riordan. ... It is not, 'There but for the grace of God go I, ' but because of Dickinson's grace and amazing god-given talent that she is able to take us into the heart, mind, memory and imagination of Krys...