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Neither Confirm Nor Deny: How the Glomar Mission Shielded the CIA from Transparency - Paperback

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by M. Todd Bennett (Author)In 1974, the Hughes Glomar Explorer, ostensibly an advanced deep-sea mining vessel owned by reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes, lowered a claw-like contraption to the floor of the Pacific Ocean. This high-tech venture was only a cover story for an even more improbable scheme: a CIA mission to retrieve a sunken Soviet submarine. Like a Jules Verne novel with an Ian Fleming twist, the saga of the Glomar Explorer features underwater espionage, impossible gadgetry, an...

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by Ken Englade (Author)Serial killer Gary Heidnik's name will live on in infamy, and his home, 3520 North Marshall Street in Philadelphia, is a house tainted with the memory of unbelievable horrors. What police found there was an incredible nightmare made real. Four young women had been held captive--some for four months--half-naked and chained. They had been tortured, starved, and repeatedly raped. But more grotesque discoveries lay in the kitchen: human limbs frozen, a torso burned to cinde...

Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation - Paperback

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by Erika Krouse (Author)Winner of the 2023 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime - A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Part memoir and part literary true crime, Tell Me Everything is the mesmerizing story of a landmark sexual assault investigation and the female private investigator who helped crack it open. Erika Krouse has one of those faces. "I don't know why I'm telling you this," people say, spilling confessions. In fall 2002, Erika accepts a new contract job investigating lawsuits as...

The Man Behind the Curtain: A Memoir - Hardcover

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by Jessica Renee (Author), Valerie Dimino (Author)Jessica Renee was 11 years old when her stepfather began routinely raping and sexually assaulting her. Only when she was 15 and her boyfriend asked the right questions did the truth come to light-a terrible truth that her mother chose not to believe. Backed by a church community that believed a woman's duty was to support her husband above all else, Jessica's mother and countless other family and friends turned against her, labeling her a sinn...

Death at the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles - Hardcover

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by Dale Richard Perelman (Author)Built during Los Angeles's rapid growth in the Roaring Twenties, the Beaux Arts-style Cecil Hotel was briefly a glimmering downtown landmark until it became one of the most infamous sites of violence and murder in the country. Nicknamed The Suicide, the Cecil was the eerie location of more than a dozen people taking their own lives going back to the 1940s and '50s. Rumors still swirl that Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, frequented the hotel in the days befo...

Mafia Democracy: How Our Republic Became a Mob Racket - Paperback

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by Michael Franzese (Author)It is necessary for a prince wishing to hold his own to know how to do wrong, and to make use of it or not according to necessity. -Niccolò Machiavelli, The PrinceGreed. Lies. Corruption. These are the foundational elements of the American Mafia story. Here, the pursuit of power overshadows even the desire for a dollar, and self-interest outweighs the greater good. It's a world that's foreign to the average American-or is it? The values of our democracy and those o...

American Injustice: One Lawyer's Fight to Protect the Rule of Law - Paperback

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by David S. Rudolf (Author)From the fearless defense attorney and civil rights lawyer who rose to fame with Netflix's The Staircase comes a "bracing account of abuses of power and corruption in the criminal justice system." (The Guardian)"A fine companion to Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy and Emily Bazelon's Charged. A stellar--and often shocking--report on a broken criminal justice system." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)In the past thirty years alone, more than 2,800 innocent American priso...

Unthinkable: Who Kills Their Grandmother? - Paperback

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by James W. Marquart (Author)It was a warm, still, July summer night in 2014, when an 85-year-old woman, a beloved grandmother and neighbor, was viciously murdered by someone who slipped quietly into her bedroom and slit her throat and watched her bleed to death in less than a minute.Who committed this awful murder, how, and why? The perpetrator of this horrible crime was the woman's own grandson, an adored and trusted family member. He was married and also had four children of his own. James...

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by John Douglas (Author)El perfilador y antiguo agente especial del FBI, hoy legendario, John Douglas, ha ayudado a resolver algunos de los casos de asesinato más difíciles de EE. UU. Douglas ha sido pionero en su técnica y la inspiración detrás de la exitosa serie de Netflix Mindhunter. Para llegar a lo que es hoy, Douglas se ha pasado décadas trabajando con las fuerzas policiales para entender la mente de los criminales y los asesinos en serie. Durante ese tiempo investigó, entrevistó y ana...

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by Ladonna Humphrey (Author)For over two decades the identity of Melissa Witt's killer has been hidden among the dense trees and thorny undergrowth rooted deeply in the uneven ground of a remote mountaintop in the Ozark National Forest.Determined to find answers, LaDonna Humphrey has spent the past seven years hunting for Melissa's killer. Her investigation, both thrilling and unpredictable, has led her on a journey like no other.The Girl I Never Knew is an edge-of-your-seat account of LaDonn...

Smoke: How a Small-Town Girl Accidentally Wound Up Smuggling 7,000 Pounds of Marijuana with the Pot Princess of Beverly Hills - Paperback

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by Meili Cady (Author)Combining the excess of The Bling Ring with the intimacy of Blow and the charm of Catch Me If You Can, an outrageous, entertaining and true story of an aspiring young actress' ill-fated friendship and unwitting alliance with a drug smuggling "heiress."Aspiring actress Meili Cady left small-town Washington State for the glamorous lure of Los Angeles. Young and alone, she was struggling to make her big break. Then she met Lisette Lee. Calling herself the "Korean Paris Hilt...

Breaking Free: How I Escaped Polygamy, the Flds Cult, and My Father, Warren Jeffs - Paperback

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by Rachel Jeffs (Author)In this searing memoir of survival in the spirit of Stolen Innocence, the daughter of Warren Jeffs, the self-proclaimed Prophet of the FLDS Church, takes you deep inside the secretive polygamist Mormon fundamentalist cult run by her family and how she escaped it.Born into the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Rachel Jeffs was raised in a strict patriarchal culture defined by subordinate sister wives and men they must obey. No one in this radic...

The Steal: A Cultural History of Shoplifting - Paperback

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by Rachel Shteir (Author)Rachel Shteir's The Steal is the first serious study of shoplifting, looking to history to reveal the roots of our modern dilemma. Dismissed by academia and the mainstream media and largely misunderstood, shoplifting has become the territory of moralists, mischievous teenagers, tabloid television, and self-help gurus. But shoplifting incurs remarkable real-life costs for retailers and consumers. The "crime tax"--the amount every American family loses to shoplifting-re...

Street Gang Patterns and Policies - Paperback

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by Malcolm W. Klein (Author), Cheryl L. Maxson (Author)In the past two decades, many prevention and suppression programs have been initiated on a national and local level to combat street gangs--but what do we really know about them? Why do youths join them? Why do they proliferate? Street Gang Patterns and Policies is a crucial update and critical examination of our understanding of gangs and major gang-control programs across the nation. Often perceived solely as an urban issue, street gang...

Confessions of a Dying Thief - Paperback

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by Darrell J. Steffensmeier (Author)*Recipient of the American Society of Criminology's 2006 Michael J. Hindelang Award for a book, published within the past three calendar years, that is "the most outstanding contribution to research in criminology." *Nominated for the 2007 Outstanding Book Award of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Sam Goodman, was a long-time thief, fence, and quasi-legitimate businessman. He had a criminal career that spanned fifty years, beginning in his mid-teen...

The Pursuit of Absolute Integrity: How Corruption Control Makes Government Ineffective - Paperback

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by Frank Anechiarico (Author), James B. Jacobs (Author)In this comprehensive and controversial case study of anticorruption efforts, Frank Anechiarico and James B. Jacobs show how the proliferating regulations and oversight mechanisms designed to prevent or root out corruption seriously undermine our ability to govern. By constraining decision makers' discretion, shaping priorities, and causing delays, corruption control--no less than corruption itself--has contributed to the contemporary cri...

A Law for the Lion: A Tale of Crime and Injustice in the Borderlands - Paperback

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by Beatriz De La Garza (Author)"Esto no es cosa de armas" (this is not a matter for weapons). These were the last words of Don Francisco Guti駻rez before Alonzo W. Allee shot and killed him and his son, Manuel Guti駻rez. What began as a simple dispute over Allee's unauthorized tenancy on a Guti駻rez family ranch near Laredo, Texas, led not only to the slaying of these two prominent Mexican landowners but also to a blatant miscarriage of justice. In this engrossing account of the 1912 crime and t...

The Mark Inside: A Perfect Swindle, a Cunning Revenge, and a Small History of the Big Con - Paperback

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by Amy Reading (Author)In 1919, Texas rancher J. Frank Norfleet lost everything he had in a stock market swindle--twice. But instead of slinking home in shame, he turned the tables on the confidence men. Armed with a revolver and a suitcase full of disguises, Norfleet set out to capture the five men who had conned him, allowing himself to be ensnared in the con again and again to gather evidence on his enemies. Through the story of Norfleet's ingenious reverse-swindle, Amy Reading reveals the...

Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History - Paperback

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by Ben Mezrich (Author)From the bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House, this is the incredible true story of how a college student and two female accomplices stole some of the rarest objects on the planet--moon rocks--from an "impregnable" high-tech vault. But breaking into a highly secure laboratory wasn't easy. Thad Roberts, an intern in a prestigious NASA training program, would have to concoct a meticulous plan to get past security checkpoints, an el...

Into the Heart of the Mafia: A Journey Through the Italian South - Hardcover

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by David Lane (Author)In this investigation into the criminal underworld of the cities and villages of the Italian South, David Lane provides an unrivaled expos of the operations of the Mafia today From Naples, home of Mafia-controlled mozzarella and toxic waste, through the no less rotten Calabria, to Sicily, cradle of Cosa Nostra, the hold of the Mafia on Southern Italy is as strong as ever. Following a multi-decade career as a journalist in Italy, David Lane uses his extensive contacts in...

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by John Brewer (Author)One April evening in 1779, Martha Ray, the pretty mistress of a famous aristocrat, was shot dead at point-blank range by a young clergyman who then attempted to take his own life. Instead he was arrested, tried and hanged. In this fascinating new book, John Brewer, a leading historian of eighteenth-century England, asks what this peculiar little story was all about. Then as now, crimes of passion were not uncommon, and the story had the hallmarks of a great scandal--yet...

Fly, Colton, Fly: The True Story of the Barefoot Bandit - Paperback

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by Jackson Holtz (Author)Colton Harris-Moore. A teenage outlaw wanted in nine states for more than eighty crimes. For two years he outran authorities--often times barefoot. And every step of the way, a frenzied public cheered him on... "The Barefoot Bandit" looked like a typical American teenage boy. But Colton Harris-Moore was something else: a disturbing neighborhood nuisance at the age of ten, a troubled felon at twelve, wanted at fifteen, and the subject of a cross-country and internation...

A Brief History of Gangsters - Paperback

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by Brian J. Robb (Author)In this fascinating Brief History, Robb explores the history of the greatest crime bosses from around the world and their effect on pop-culture.Author BiographyBrian J. Robb is the New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling biographer of Leonardo DiCaprio, Johnny Depp, and Brad Pitt. He's also written acclaimed pop-culture books on silent cinema, the films of Philip K. Dick, Wes Craven, and Laurel and Hardy, and the TV series Dr. Who and Star Trek. He is co-editor of...

Murder in the M騁ro: Laetitia Toureaux and the Cagoule in 1930s France - Paperback

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by Gayle K. Brunelle (Author), Annette Finley-Croswhite (Author)On the evening of May 16, 1937, the train doors opened at the Porte Doree station in the Paris Metro to reveal a dying woman slumped by a window, an eight-inch stiletto buried to its hilt in her neck. No one witnessed the crime, and the killer left behind little forensic evidence. This first-ever murder in the Paris Metro dominated the headlines for weeks during the summer of 1937, as journalists and the police slowly uncovered t...

The Fighting Marlows: Men Who Wouldn't Be Lynched - Paperback

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by Glenn Shirley (Author)Many people in northern Texas and southwestern Oklahoma still believe that the Marlow brothers--George, Charles, Alf, and Epp--were thieves and killers. In 1888 they were charged with rustling and murder, tried by public opinion, and betrayed by law officials responsible for their safety. After Alf and Epp were killed in a brutal ambush, Charles and George accomplished a grisly escape, only to be caught and sent to Dallas for trial where, for their own protection, the...

PETRO - Cleveland's Handsomest Public Enemy: The Story of Julius Petro and His Collinwood Burglary Crew - Paperback

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by Allan R. May (Author)A biography of Julius Petro, including biographies of his burglary crew, associates and the members of law enforcement who brought him to justice. Number of Pages: 560 Dimensions: 1.14 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: May 25, 2022

Slip-Up: How Fleet Street Caught Ronnie Biggs and Scotland Yard Lost Him: The Story Behind the Scoop - Paperback

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by Anthony Delano (Author)Keith Waterhouse, who wrote an ill-fated screenplay based on this book, said that Slip-Up was Perhaps the best analysis of Fleet Street at work ever written . It is the story of the discovery in Rio de Janeiro of Ronald Biggs, a celebrity fugitive on the run for 12 years after the Great Train Robbery of 1963 and the fiasco that resulted when newsmen and detectives worked out a bizarre plot to bring him back to Britain. Initially a cosy, if highly irregular, conspira...

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by B. Forrest Spink (Author)When Jim Martin was arrested and convicted of the murder of his mother in Savannah, GA, in 1991, it was regarded by police, and later by a jury, as an open-and-shut case of a "crackhead son" killing his mother to get money to buy his drugs. Martin still maintains, years later, that it was his female-impersonator drug supplier that actually killed his mother, and Martin's aunt claims that, while crack cocaine might have expedited the process, that Nazarene-minister ...

The Murder of Richard Jennings: The True Story of New York's First Murder for Hire - Paperback

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by Michael J. Worden (Author), Renee Lane Worden (Editor)The brutal murder of Richard Jennings in December of 1818 would gain notoriety as the first murder for hire in New York. It would also be remembered as an imperfect crime. Four men - James Teed, David Dunning, David Conkling and Jack Hodges - and one woman, Hannah Teed, had conspired to murder Jennings after losing a protracted court battle over a parcel of land. Poorly made plans and rumors in the close knit community of Sugar Loaf led...

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by M. J. Trow (Author)The Wigwam Murder - as the case against August Sangret came to be known - was one of the most brilliant pieces of detection and forensic science then on record. Drs Keith Simpson, Eric Gardner and Gerald Roche Lynch worked together to present a comprehensive body of work that convinced and shocked the jury. It was the first time that a human skull had been produced in a British court room. It belonged to Joan Pearl Wolfe, a nineteen-year-old runaway and vagrant who hung ...

Trafficked in Plain Sight: A Hybrid's Own War - Paperback

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by Lisa Bramer (Author)This is a memoir of horrifying traumas that someone born into a cult must live through. It is a true story with names and places changed for the safety and privacy of the author and anyone involved. You will experience laughter but mostly sadness and feeling sorrow for the innocent victims of such abuse. This book also teaches survival techniques, how to cope with trauma, how to overcome addiction, how to trust people with caution, and more life lessons that helped me s...

Gypsy Rose Blanchard Book: The Butterfly's Cage - Paperback

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by Brotherhood Press (Author), Cheryl J. Stackhouse (Author)"In the depths of a twisted mother-daughter relationship, lies a tale of deception, manipulation, and tragedy. 'Gypsy Rose Blanchard Book: The Butterfly's Cage' takes you on a heart-wrenching journey through the life of a young girl trapped in a web of lies. From the confines of her wheelchair to the shocking truth behind her illness, this captivating true story will leave you questioning the boundaries of love and the lengths one wi...