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Murder & Mayhem in Norton, Ohio - Hardcover

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by Lisa Ann Merrick (Author)For such a small city, Norton's past is rife with bloody deeds, tragic accidents and destructive disasters. This community on the edge of Akron had its share of train wrecks, plane crashes and devastating fires, but other events were decidedly more sinister in nature. In 1931, a young robber allowed his twelve-year-old brother to ride along on a bank heist--to little brother's great delight. A labor dispute in 1950 resulted in two bombings of a local residence in a...

Murder & Mayhem in Dayton and the Miami Valley - Hardcover

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by Sara Kaushal (Author)The Miami Valley of Ohio has a rich but gruesome and bloody history. In Dayton, Christine Kett murdered her daughter and confessed seventeen years later on her deathbed. William Fogwell of Beavercreek clung to life long enough to name his killer before he died. Joshua Monroe, a Yellow Springs man, killed his lover--also his sister-in-law--in a jealous rage. Reputed serial killer Oliver Crook Haugh was accused of murdering multiple women over several years, but he was u...

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by L. E. Schuck (Author)The Last of the Dalton Gang is a biography of a career criminal who was tutored by older thieves on the art of stealing tires from boxcars on trains. He learned well. He eventually became the mastermind behind thefts of tires and other valuables from warehouses, railroad shipping containers, and boxcars. During Dalton's forty-plus years of crime, he spent time in three different federal prisons and many state institutions. Dalton recounts many of his crimes and include...

50 Shades of Serial Killer-Baby Monster: The Most Creepy and Disturbing Serial Killer Coloring Book - Paperback

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by Explicit Colors (Author)Discover some of the world's most infamous Baby Monsters in perfectly-illustrated detail.A lot of people have an obsession with serial killers, creepy stories and violence, giving them a cult-like following from those with a morbid fascination. With their crimes going down in history, so many people have tried to get into their minds and discover what made them tick, but.. if killers are "Babies" and "Kids" ? Inside this spine-chilling, original and disturbing color...

Conspiracy Theories: Unsolved Mysteries, Murders, & Crimes - Paperback

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by William S. Johnson (Author)As the 21st Century marches into its third decade, our understanding of the world, and our place within it, seems to be clearer than ever. Each day brings us more and more miraculous scientific discoveries, while technology has interconnected us to an extent that our ancestors and forefathers could not have conceived. And yet, despite the collective of human knowledge lying at our fingertips, there are still a multitude of unsolved mysteries that stubbornly resis...

Syndicate Wife: The Story of Ann Drahmann Coppola - Paperback

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by Hank Messick (Author)Hank Messick's chronicle of Ann Drahmann Coppola is set against the background of the pervasive and astounding Syndicate operations in the Cincinnati region, centered across the river in the vice capital of Newport, Kentucky. Following the death of her first husband, gambler Charlie Drahmann, Cincinnati native Ann Augustine married Mike "Trigger" Coppola, Harlem mob gambling racketeer and Syndicate overlord. Between Miami, Florida, and Newport, Kentucky, "Trigger" Mike...

My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heiress - Paperback

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by Rachel Deloache Williams (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF TIME'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR Sex and the City meets Bad Blood and Catch Me if You Can in the astonishing true story of Anna Delvey, a young con artist posing as an heiress in New York City--as told by the former Vanity Fair photo editor who got seduced by her friendship and then scammed out of more than $62,000. Rachel DeLoache Williams's new friend Anna Delvey, a self-proclaimed German heiress, was worldly and ambiti...

CRISIS, CULL or COUP? WHAT, HOW and WHO? Facts and Truths to Make You Think!: Exposing The Great Lie and the Truth About the Covid-19 Phenomenon. - Paperback

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by Stephen Manning (Author), John Waters (Contribution by)EXPOSING THE GREAT LIE! So, you want to know what's really going on? Are you ready for the shocking truth? An inconvenient truth that requires each and every one of us to take individual and collective responsibility in the face of what may yet prove to be the greatest orchestrated crime against humanity that the world has ever seen. Indeed, this could very well be the proverbial Biblical apocalypse - that final battle between good-and...

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by Shakim Bio (Author)A true story about the author, Brooklyn born - Queens, NY raised, "Shakim Bio", who grew up during the "Golden Era" of Hip Hop. Shakim soon became a respected street general in the drug trade, whose real life actions and persona, along with his comrades in crime, inspired the making of the movie "Belly" and its main characters. LessAuthor Shakim Bio reflects on his childhood to adult life, illustrating his introduction to Hip Hop Music, fading rap career dreams, associat...

Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away - Paperback

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by Ann Hagedorn (Author)Nominated for an Edgar Award This "historical page-turner of the highest order" (The Wall Street Journal) tells the chilling story of an American-born Soviet spy in the atom bomb project in World War II, perfect for fans of The Americans.George Koval was born in Iowa. In 1932, his parents, Russian Jews who had emigrated because of anti-Semitism, decided to return home to live out their socialist ideals. George, who was as committed to socialism as they were, went with...

The Missing Strad: The Story of the World's Greatest Violin Forgery - Paperback

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by Gerald Gaul (Author)Pay attention to that violin you used in high school. Look closely at the next violin you see at a garage sale. It might be worth millions of dollars. The greatest violin ever made is not in a museum. It might be in your violin case because it was involved in a perfect forgery more than a century ago. No one noticed when the criminal got rid of the evidence by passing it on to an unsuspecting customer.A witness is now ready to tell you the truth from beyond the grave, b...

The Missing Strad: The Story of the World's Greatest Violin Forgery - Hardcover

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The Lost Boys of Montauk: The True Story of the Wind Blown, Four Men Who Vanished at Sea, and the Survivors They Left Behind - Paperback

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by Amanda M. Fairbanks (Author)An immersive account of a tragedy at sea whose repercussions haunt its survivors to this day, lauded by New York Times bestselling author Ron Suskind as "an honest and touching book, and a hell of a story."In March of 1984, the commercial fishing boat Wind Blown left Montauk Harbor on what should have been a routine offshore voyage. Its captain, a married father of three young boys, was the boat's owner and leader of the four-man crew, which included two locals ...

The Babysitter: My Summers with a Serial Killer - Paperback

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by Liza Rodman (Author), Jennifer Jordan (Author)This chilling true story and "harrowing account of the evil that can lurk around the edges of girlhood" (Carolyn Murnick, author of The Hot One)--reminiscent of Ann Rule's classic The Stranger Beside Me--follows a little girl longing for love who finds friendship with her charismatic babysitter, unaware that he is a vicious serial killer. Growing up on Cape Cod in the 1960s, Liza Rodman was a lonely little girl. During the summers, while her mo...

The Devil You Know: Encounters in Forensic Psychiatry - Paperback

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by Gwen Adshead (Author), Eileen Horne (Author)In this "unmissable book" (The Guardian), an internationally renowned forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist demonstrates the remarkable human capacity for radical empathy, change, and redemption.What drives someone to commit an act of terrible violence? Drawing from her thirty years of experience in providing therapy to people in prisons and secure hospitals who have committed serious offenses, Dr. Gwen Adshead provides fresh and surprising i...

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by Mary Spilsbury Ross (Author)A passionate story of ambition versus the universal desire to be loved, A young aspiring ballerina from a sleepy town in the Pacific Northwest and an elegant dance master with a secret past, come together in post-WWII Europe. This well-researched historical fiction takes the reader backstage, hanging out with the Rolling Stones, and other celebrities of the '60s and to Cairo sitting next to the King of Jordan, the President of Egypt, and heads of state from the ...

Wvu Coed Murders: Who Killed Mared and Karen? - Hardcover

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by Geoffrey C. Fuller (Author), S. James McLaughlin (Author)Some said that the killer couldn't be a local. Others claimed that he was the wealthy son of a prominent Morgantown family. Whispers spread that Mared and Karen were sacrificed by a satanic cult or had been victims of a madman poised to strike again. Then the handwritten letters began to arrive: You will locate the bodies of the girls covered over with brush--look carefully. The animals are now on the move.Investigators didn't find t...

Murder & Mayhem in Gallatin County, Montana - Hardcover

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by Kelly Suzanne Hartman (Author), Gallatin Historical Society (Contribution by), Gallatin History Museum (Contribution by)Quiet fields broken by gunfire, the splash of a body dropping into the Madison River, cries for help cut off into silence and the grim last words spoken on the gallows all color the bloody history of Gallatin County. Cut-and-dried murder charges, unsolved cases and questionable accusations all paint the picture of law enforcement in and around early Bozeman. From the grue...

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by Alan Brown (Author)Kentucky is known primarily for horse racing, bourbon and fried chicken, but the Dark and Bloody Ground has a mysterious side as well. Kentuckians talk about their own Hillbilly Beast, believed to have frightened campers at Mammoth Cave National Park. The gnarled and twisted Witches' Tree is a favorite on Louisville ghost tours. Kentucky's UFO incidents--like Thomas Mantell's mysterious plane crash, the Hopkinsville alien attack and the Paintsville train-UFO crash--are a...

Murder in the Mountains: Historic True Crime in Western North Carolina - Paperback

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by Nadia Dean (Author)Murder, Moonshine & Mayhemin Western North CarolinaGuns, liquor, racial strife, divisive politics, and war come together in ten well-documented, true-crime stories of nineteenth-century mountain families. In these accounts, unrivaled by any of the Wild West, history and genealogy buffs may be surprised to learn that Asheville was the site of more than one lynching, that the Ku Klux Klan had gained power in the region, or that a US Deputy Marshal got away with murder-...

A Rose for Her Grave & Other True Cases - Paperback

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by Ann Rule (Author)This first installment in the New York Times bestselling Crime Files series is a chilling collection of shocking crimes and the ensuing struggles to bring the perpetrators to justice--from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Stranger Beside Me. Soon to be a Lifetime original movie. The "country's premier true crime author" (Library Journal) brings her clear-eyed, compassionate writing and investigative skills to this unputdownable anthology. Distinguished by th...

Murders in Hollywood: True Crime Stories of Homicide in the Hills - Paperback

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by Eliza Toska (Author)When you think of Hollywood, you picture glamour, celebrities and an abundance of sunshine. The Walk of Fame, Hollywood Boulevard, and the Chinese Theatre help make up the opulent attractions. LA is known for the iconic Hollywood sign, the rich diversity of the city, and... murder, obsession, and lies? Los Angeles is an attractive place to be, particularly if you have dreams of being a movie star. However, there is a darker side to Hollywood - one filled with seediness,...

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by M C Bennett (Author)And the rains came. Not in the real world where the sun shined brightly overhead, but in the now dark, awakened corners of Grey's mind. Every time he closed his eyes, a kaleidoscope of colors would reflect off the heavens and dance with the lightning above. If he listened carefully, he could hear the night singing like a voltage through the ground. It was a strange feeling, one that he was just beginning to understand. The accident had obviously altered more than the st...

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by Clay Coppedge (Author)Outrageous acts of villainy have slowly drifted out of the national limelight and into the dustbin of Texas history. Consider the uproar over the 1879 shooting of actor Maurice Barrymore in Marshall and the 1949 murder of oil field legend Tex Thornton in Amarillo. The 1909 Coryell County Courthouse massacre committed by a sixteen-year-old girl remains just as shocking today. For the long-suffering associates of repeat offenders like Fort Worth's Flapper Bandit or Temp...

Murder at Asheville's Battery Park Hotel: The Search for Helen Clevenger's Killer - Hardcover

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by Anne Chesky Smith (Author)The words of a murderer. In 1936, Helen Clevenger's uncle discovered her bloodied body crumpled on the floor of her small room in Asheville's grand Battery Park Hotel. She had been shot through the chest. Buncombe County sheriff Laurence Brown, up for reelection, desperately searched for the white teenager's killer as the public clamored for answers. Even after Sheriff Brown secured a confession from a young Black man, many southerners feared that the crime had no...

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by Roy Heizer (Author)Cincinnati's history is rife with reprehensible crimes and great tragedies. In 1874, a brutal murder caught the attention of a strange and notorious journalist, who turned the crime into a legend. In the 1930s, Cincinnati resident Anna Marie Hahn became Ohio's first female serial killer and the first woman executed in its electric chair--but she isn't the only serial killer to have darkened the dangerous streets of the city. Murderers are not the only monsters. Microbes ...

Solving the West Georgia Murder of Gwendolyn Moore: A Cry from the Well - Hardcover

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by Clay Bryant (Author)On a sultry August morning in 1970, the battered body of a young woman was hoisted from a dry well just outside Hogansville, Georgia. Author and investigator Clay Bryant was there, witnessing the macabre scene. Then fifteen, Bryant was tagging along with his father, Buddy Bryant, Hogansville chief of police. The victim, Gwendolyn Moore, had been in a violent marriage. That was no secret. But her husband had connections to a political machine that held sway over the Trou...

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by Kevin McGonegal (Author)Take a journey through crime and vice in twentieth-century Wilmington, from a Tatnall Street bawdy house to the corporate boardrooms of the DuPont Company. Visit the old New Castle County Workhouse, scene of a break-in by a lynch mob and the daring escape of a notorious murderer. A police chief trying to keep his corrupt practices under wraps, agents raiding political headquarters and a detective murdered on the street were all part of city life in the early twentie...

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by Eddie Guerin (Author), Jeff Vorzimmer (Introduction by)"This is not what one could call in any shape or form a pretty story. It is the plain unvarnished tale of a man who has been a notorious criminal from his boyhood days, and it is printed only because it will prove, in a way that all the prison statistics in the world cannot prove, that you can't win at the crooked game...."So begins the introduction to the original 1929 edition of I Was a Bandit by Eddie Guerin, a notorious thief who k...

Andréi Chikatilo, el carnicero de Rostov - Paperback

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by Mente Criminal (Author)Andréi Románovich Chikatilo, miembro del Partido Comunista y maestro de escuela, se considera el asesino en serie más salvaje y prolífico de la historia de Rusia. Conocido como el Carnicero de Rostov, cometió asalto sexual, asesinato, mutilación y canibalismo con mujeres y niños entre 1978 y 1990 en Rostov del Don, ciudad ubicada al suroeste de la Rusia europea. Confesó un total de 56 asesinatos y fue juzgado por 53 en abril de 1992. Condenado a muerte y consciente d...

Gilberto Chamba, el monstruo de Machala - Paperback

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by Mente Criminal (Author)Apodado como El Monstruo de Machala por la brutalidad con la que asesinó a sus víctimas, Gilberto Antonio Chamba Jaramillo se encuentra recluido desde 1993 en el Módulo 6 del Centre Penitenciari de Quatre Camins, en Cataluña. Cometió la mayor parte de los crímenes en Ecuador, de donde es oriundo. Huyó a España, pero no dejó atrás su instinto asesino y volvió a matar. Se aprovechaba de las mujeres solas, indefensas o en situación de vulnerabilidad. Generalmente las le...

Pedro Alonso López, el monstruo de los Andes - Paperback

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by Mente Criminal (Author)En la triple frontera de Colombia, Perú y Ecuador, El Monstruo de Los Andes se ufanó de haber asesinado a más de 300 niñas y adolescentes mujeres, humildes nativas de entre 8 y 14 años, aunque solo 57 muertes fueron probadas. Capturó a esas pequeñas inocentes y vulnerables, las mancilló y las estranguló a la luz del día para verlas morir y poder gozar. Probablemente 100, 200 o 300 criaturas fueron enterradas por sus manos gigantes. Sin embargo, solo cumplió una míser...