True Crime

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by Ed Taggert (Author)At the Kefauver Committee hearings in the U.S. Senate in 1951, it was revealed that organized crime was extending its tentacles into Reading, PA. Five years later, after a new Democratic administration took over in the city, the IRS launched a campaign to collect taxes from gambling machine operators. Two years after that the federal Alcohol and Tax Unit raided a huge still and IRS agents completed investigations of two large numbers banks. After President Kennedy signed...

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by Richard J. Bond (Author), Michael Douglas Carlin (Author), Russell Poole (Contribution by)The powerful and compelling true story of corruption, coercion and murder surrounding the Tupac Shakur & Christopher "Biggie Smalls" Wallace homicides brought to 2014. With contribution by former Los Angeles Police Detective Russell Poole, the original Wallace homicide investigator, Michael Douglas Carlin, Director of "American Federale" and Richard "RJ" Bond, director of the "Tupac Assassination"...

King of the Bootleggers: A Biography of George Remus - Paperback

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by William A. Cook (Author) As a pharmacist turned lawyer turned master prohibition era bootlegger, George Remus is now remembered as one of the most notorious figures of the American prohibition. Even though he was a lifelong teetotaler, Remus built one of the nation's largest illegal liquor empires with little regard to disguises or secrecy. This biography tells the complete story of Remus' private life and public persona, focusing especially on the turbulent rise and fall of his bootleggin...

Wanted in America: Posters Collected by the Fort Worth Police Department, 1898-1903 - Hardcover

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by Leanna Schooley (Editor), Thomas Kellam (Editor)This book of genuine wanted posters distributed by law enforcement agencies at the turn of the twentieth century will change your perspective on the genre. Wanted in America: Posters Collected by the Fort Worth Police Department, 1898-1903 features fifty posters and the fascinating true crime stories behind them. While some of the offenders are virtually unknown today, others, such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, remain household names...

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by Rayshawn Charlesedward Abram (Author)After losing DB, Rah and Sauce slip into a dark realm, which leads o chaos and bloodshed. Unfortunately though, with agony clouding their vision, their ill-will was misdirected. As a result, unnecessary conflicts sprang forth, and the duo began spiraling down a path of self-destruction...with no regards of the consequences. However, an emotional occurrence eventually brings life back into its proper perspective, enabling misery to transition inot motiva...

The Colombo Mafia Crime Family: The Complete History of a New York Crime Organization - Paperback

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by Mafia Library (Author)Dive into a gripping journey into the shadowy world of one of the most enigmatic crime syndicates in American history with this insightful book on the Colombo Mafia Crime Family. This narrative takes you deep into the heart of the family's operations, revealing the dynamics of power and intrigue that defined their notorious legacy.Witness the evolution of the family through the ages, from its formation to its zenith under influential leaders whose names have become sy...

Redemption of a Murderer: The Judy Neelley Story - Hardcover

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by Louise Stowe-Johns (Author)When fifteen-year-old Judy Adams runs away with Alvin Neelley, she entangles herself in a web of lies and criminality. After committing two murders Judy has two choices: she can remain with her husband, Alvin, and become a serial killer or turn herself in to the police.Seven months later she is sent to death row in the women's prison of Alabama. Judy can't understand how she became a murderer and the victim of Alvin, whose physical and psychological brutality red...

Loving Natalee: A Mother's Testament of Hope and Faith - Paperback

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by Beth Holloway (Author)In May of 2005, Beth Holloway received the worst phone call a parent can imagine. Her beautiful daughter, Natalee, had vanished without a trace in Aruba during her high school senior class trip. Four years later, Beth Holloway steps forward to tell the story of her daughter's disappearance and her own harrowing ordeal--and her never-ending belief in the power of faith that gave her hope against all odds.When Natalee went missing, her photograph was splashed across new...

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by Selden Richardson (Author)Explore the dark side of the history of the River City... Richmond has a curious share of horrific accidents, coolly calculated slaughter, and incidents of implacable deceit in its history. Here, the wronged, the devious, and the heartbroken enact their lives on the stage set of the River City's ostensibly genteel neighborhoods, where a tree-shaded city street may have been the site of a crime of passion and an innocuous path in the woods recalls a grisly unsolved...

Hinterkaifeck: Terror in the German Countryside - Paperback

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by D. a. Chadwick (Author)On March 31, 1922, on a cold, snowy night, five members of a German farm family were murdered along with their new maid. Days before the crime, Andreas Gruber had complained to neighbors that his house key was missing and there were footprints from the woods behind the house up to the barn, but no prints leaving the area. Police would find roof tiles moved on the south and north sides of the house where someone could watch the family activities and indentions in the ...

The Patriarca Mafia Crime Family - Paperback

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by Mafia Library (Author) Number of Pages: 114 Dimensions: 0.24 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: September 07, 2023

He Calls Me Redeemed: A Memoir of Childhood Sex Abuse, Heroin Addiction, Hope, and Redemption - Paperback

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by Arman Kaymakcian (Author)Sexual abuse. Heroin addiction. A childhood lost and a life nearly ended. He Calls Me Redeemed is a raw and gripping memoir of pain, addiction, and the redeeming power of faith. In He Calls Me Redeemed, Arman explores his past at the intersection of faith, addiction, abuse, family, culture, and death. He walks the reader through his life, typical in some ways but painted with a unique touch of Armenian culture and the harsh realities of sexual abuse in his drug-ric...

Four Years in a Cave: Surviving Genocide - Paperback

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by Julian Bhebhe (Author)Four Years in a Cave documents a painful, real life-experience of an elementary school teacher who survives a brutal, barbaric, and tribally-charged military purge of the 1980s in Zimbabwe. A secretly selected and specially trained brigade abducts the teacher from a minority tribe, falsely accusing him of collaborating with dissidents seeking to destabilize the regime dominated by the majority tribe. The teacher is savagely tortured but he manages to escape and hide i...

The Bufalino Mafia Crime Family: The Complete History of a Northeastern Pennsylvania Criminal Organization - Paperback

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by Mafia Library (Author)Do you want to discover what Mafia Boss personally advised Marlon Brando on the set and inspired his iconic and Oscar-winning performance in ''THE GODFATHER''?-Meet Russell Bufalino and his Mafia Crime Family!In the shadows of Northeastern Pennsylvania, a clandestine empire emerged-one that would become synonymous with the essence of organized crime. "The Bufalino Mafia Crime Family" takes you on a gripping journey through the tumultuous history of the notorious Bufal...

Monsters on the Loose: The True Story of Three Unsolved Murders in Prohibition Era San Diego - Paperback

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by Richard L. Carrico (Author)In 1931, San Diego's idyllic image as a beach town with peaceful suburbs concealed a harrowing reality: a series of unsolved crimes targeting women, fueling fear and vulnerability. MONSTERS ON THE LOOSE tells the tragic and true stories of three women murdered early that year: Virginia Brooks, Louise Teuber, and Hazel Bradshaw. Local law enforcement, out-of-town criminologists, and investigators from what would become the FBI pursued hundreds of leads. Statewide,...

Prison Days: True Diary Entries by a Maximum Security Prison Officer, August, 2018 - Paperback

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by Simon King (Author)Stabbings, murders, assaults. It's just another month in Max. Here we are with the exciting 3rd installment of the brutal Prison Days series. Working in this environment can desensitize some to the point where the 'horrific' is nothing more than a hiccup and the outrageous is seen as normal. But murder is murder and shit still is shit. Headlining this month's stories is a prisoner with a taste for something you have to read to believe; the demise of a young father and on...

Bending Toward Justice: The Birmingham Church Bombing That Changed the Course of Civil Rights - Paperback

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by Doug Jones (Author) Number of Pages: 384 Dimensions: 0.89 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: March 05, 2019

Smash Smash Smash: The True Story of Kai The Hitchhiker - Paperback

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by Philip Fairbanks (Author), Alissa Fleck (Foreword by), Wendy Painting (Introduction by)Millions of people heard these words and shared the viral video with their friends. This mysterious surfing hitchhiker then vanished as quickly as he appeared, only to reappear on many late night talk shows and fan videos. But 3 months later, he was arrested and charged with killing a prominent New Jersey lawyer... in self defense against a sex assault.Who is this mysterious hitchhiker? What was with tha...

Lucy Letby - The Complete Story - Paperback

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by Katherine Smith (Author)In August, 2023, Lucy Letby was sentenced to life imprisonment with a whole life order, the most severe sentence possible under English law. Only three other female criminals had ever received a whole life order - Myra Hindley, Rose West, and Joanna Dennehy. How did a smiling, happy young nurse from Hereford end up with Dennehy, Hindley, and Rose West in a little exclusive club of evil? Lucy Letby - The Complete Story provides a comprehensive overview of this awful...

Family, Friends and Neighbors: Stories of Murder and Betrayal - Hardcover

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by Richard Estep (Author) Interest in true crime and murder is strong Fascination with murder and killers is high Logical organization makes finding information quick and easy Numerous black-and-white photographs Thoroughly indexed Authoritative resource Sure to appeal to true crime aficionados and fans of horror Publicity and promotion aimed at the wide array of websites focused on true crime Promotion targeting more mainstream media and websites with a popular topic Promotion targeting nati...

The Edge of Malice: The Marie Grossman Story - Paperback

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by David Miraldi (Author)Marie Grossman seems to have it all: a devoted husband, two wonderful children, and a professional career.But all of that changes when she drives her car into the darkened parking lot of a fast food restaurant. After Marie lowers her car window to place an order at the drive-thru, a man suddenly appears and places a gun at her temple. What follows is every woman's worst nightmare.The Edge of Malice is a true account of one woman's quest for justice after a violent cri...

Shocking Celebrity Deaths and Murders Volume 3 - Paperback

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by Dylan Frost (Author)The cases that follow are once again eclectic and darkly fascinating. Drug overdoses, murders, suicides, unsolved deaths, autoerotic asphyxiation, car crashes, plane crashes, freak accidents, doomed child stars, and so on. Shocking Celebrity Deaths and Murders Volume 3 includes, among others, Anna Nicole Smith, Dustin Diamond, Patrick Swayze, John Ritter, Sarah Harding, Bobby Driscoll, Samantha Smith, and Mya-Lecia Naylor. Number of Pages: 132 Dimensions: 0.31 x 9 x 6 I...

The Last Story: The Murder of an Investigative Journalist in Las Vegas - Paperback

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by Arthur Kane (Author)THE LAST STORY: The Murder of an Investigative Journalist in Las Vegas is an exclusive deep dive into a chilling true tale of sex, ambition, retribution, and homicide. Jeff German, a veteran Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative reporter, was no stranger to controversy or the danger of his work. For more than four decades, he wrote stories relentlessly confronting the mob, corrupt politicians, and greedy bureaucrats. As a result, he was often threatened-enough that he ...

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by Will Anderson (Author)Delve into the chilling narrative of one of history's most infamous serial killers, Ed Kemper. This meticulously researched book offers a deep exploration of his psyche, childhood, and gruesome crimes. Unravel the twisted motivations and psychological factors behind Kemper's reign of terror, while gaining insights into criminal profiling, forensic psychology, and the enduring impact on true crime culture. Number of Pages: 142 Dimensions: 0.3 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Dat...

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by Keith Roysdon (Author), Douglas Walker (Author) The coldest cases from Middletown, USA With dozens of unsolved murders spanning decades, Muncie and surrounding Delaware County might have more killings without justice than any American community like it. In 1962, Maggie Mae Fleming was shot to death as she sat in her living room. Paula Garrett was bludgeoned in her home in 1979, and her son, who survived the attack, wants justice. Garth Rector, killed in 2008, could have been murdered by a...

Infamous Con Artists and Scammers: History's Craziest True Crime Stories - Paperback

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by Adrian Langenscheid (Author), Benjamin Rickert (Author), Caja Berg (Author)Brazen impostors, unscrupulous fortune tellers and cunning con artists - True Crime success author Adrian Langenscheid tells of the craziest, most bizarre, unbelievable incidents in history. Of true destinies and perpetrators, driven by the greed for money and power. Cases written by life that leave the reader at times stunned, at times laughing, and then, again, shaking their heads. Number of Pages: 222 Dimensions:...

It's Just the Way It Was: Inside the War on the New England Mob and other stories - Hardcover

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by Joe Broadmeadow (Author), Brendan Doherty (Author), Jeffrey Slater (Other)In It's Just the Way It Was: Inside the War on the New England Mob and other stories, Joe Broadmeadow and Brendan Doherty take you inside the investigations, covert surveillances, and murky world of informants in the war against Organized Crime. Make no mistake about it, it was a war targeting the insidious nature of the mob and their detrimental effect on Rhode Island and throughout New England. Indeed, the book re...

Rotten Fruit is Falling Down: Because I shake the tree - Hardcover

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by Erin Arvizu (Author)When her child revealed a shocking sexual assault at the hands of a family member to her in 2021, Erin decided to stop at nothing to find justice for her child and the cousins who had experienced the same abuse. Rotten Fruit Is Falling Down is a gripping and raw exploration of the indomitable human spirit in the face of unthinkable pain. In this powerful and vulnerable memoir, author Erin delves into the depths of a family haunted by sexual abuse, in which silence has p...

Palestine Twilight: The Murder of Dr Glock and the Archaeology of the Holy Land - Paperback

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by Edward Fox (Author)Part travelogue, part true-thriller, Edward Fox's brilliantly original book investigates the murder of a US archaeologist on the West Bank in 1992 and opens up the Palestinian world he served - a Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil of Palestine and the West Bank. On 19 January 1992, Dr Albert Glock - US citizen, archaeologist and Director of Archaeology at Bir Zeit University in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, was murdered by an assassin. Two bullets to the heart. Th...

Dahmer The Dark Chronicles: America's Infamous Milwaukee Cannibal - Paperback

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by Oliver Lancaster (Author)"Dahmer: The Dark Chronicles" takes readers on a chilling journey into the twisted mind of America's most infamous serial killer, Jeffrey Dahmer. Known as the Milwaukee Cannibal, Dahmer shocked the world with his heinous crimes and gruesome acts of violence. This meticulously researched and compellingly written book explores the depths of Dahmer's depravity, examining the factors that led to his murderous tendencies and the horrifying details of his crimes. Delve i...

Intelligence Agencies, Technology and Knowledge Production: Data Processing and Information Transfer in Secret Services during the Cold War - Paperback

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by R?iger Bergien (Editor), Debora Gerstenberger (Editor), Constantin Goschler (Editor)This volume examines intelligence services since 1945 in their role as knowledge producers. Intelligence agencies are producers and providers of arcane information. However, little is known about the social, cultural and material dimensions of their knowledge production, processing and distribution. This volume starts from the assumption that during the Cold War, these core activities of information service...

Oscar Slater - A Killer Exposed - Paperback

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by Brenda Rossini (Author)This is the story of Oscar Slater, a Jewish immigrant in Glasgow, Scotland and two fellow Scottish scammers, Helen Lambie and Patrick Nugent. In the Christmas season of 1908, the trio conspired to rob an elderly, wealthy lady of her diamonds, and, in the course of which burglary, Oscar Slater murdered her on December 21, 1908. All, not some, authors and sleuths who researched the 1909 conviction emphatically supported Oscar Slater's innocence, that he was misidentif...