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by Raul Sandoval (Author)Underground is the true story of Raul Sandoval Jr. who was sitting in a car waiting for two friends to go in and out of a Taco Bell located in Prunedale, California, only to find out his friends had murdered an employee in a robbery gone wrong and was asked to help them flee the crime scene. Now being charged with first-degree murder, Sandoval flees the country and goes to Mexico on an unbelievable journey, when the U.S. government puts him on America's Most Wanted in...
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by Neal Hall (Author)Author BiographyNeal Hall is an award-winning reporter at the Vancouver Sun, where he has been a rock music critic, feature writer and crime reporter. He grew up in Vancouver's east end.
Number of Pages: 224
Dimensions: 0.57 x 8 x 5.25 IN
Publication Date: October 27, 2022
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by David R. Simon (Author)Tracing the causes of elite deviance to the structure of U.S. power and wealth, this book introduces students to theories of elite deviance and covers both criminal and non-criminal elite acts that cause significant harm. This considerably updated, 11th edition enriches its coverage of both historical and contemporary elite deviance. Updates include:
New and expanded discussions on history, property, and historical critique from Revolutionary America onward.
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by Daniel Lomas (Author), Christopher John Murphy (Author)Intelligence and Espionage: Secrets and Spies provides a global introduction to the role of intelligence - a key, but sometimes controversial, aspect of ensuring national security. Separating fact from fiction, the book draws on past examples to explore the use and misuse of intelligence, examine why failures take place and address important ethical issues over its use. Divided into two parts, the book adopts a thematic approach to th...
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by William B. Taylor (Author)The curious tale of two priest impersonators in late colonial Mexico Cut loose from their ancestral communities by wars, natural disasters, and the great systemic changes of an expanding Europe, vagabond strangers and others out of place found their way through the turbulent history of early modern Spain and Spanish America. As shadowy characters inspiring deep suspicion, fascination, and sometimes charity, they prompted a stream of decrees and administrative mea...
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by Simon Speed (Author)In 1991, an American serial killer named Jeffrey Dahmer was captured in Milwaukee. Even by the grim and gruesome standards of serial killers, Dahmer's crimes shocked the world. He was not only a prolific serial killer but a necrophile and cannibal to boot. The macabre crime scene in his apartment was nightmarish beyond belief. 1000 Facts About Jeffrey Dahmer contains ALL you could ever want to know about this notorious, harrowing, and enduringly famous man.
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by June Ti (Author)Organized stalking is carried out by an enthusiastic and structured group that has cruel intentions: stalk, harass, injure, financially ruin, and mentally crumple human prey until incapacitation occurs. What sets this crime apart is that innocents are picked off the street. There is no getting away from the stalkers and no getting away from the unusual technology that is used to take over someone's life."For the first couple of months," says June, "I thought it was a sick g...
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by Thomas Goodrich (Author)From the harrowing fate of pioneer women captured by Indians on the plains of America to World War Two in Europe and the greatest mass rape in human history . . . from the wholesale sexual assault on Japanese women and children by Allied occupation troops to the tragic story of a young wife and mother snatched from her Florida home in broad daylight, then raped, murdered and buried like garbage . . . as the title suggests, Rape Hate is an up-close and personal look ...
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by Ron Hutcherson (Author), J. Andre Boles (Author)Officer Jimmy Hoff was going to make the biggest hand to hand cocaine buy in the history of Reno Police Department. One of the most liked and respected officers in town, he was escorted to slaughter by three teenage boys lead by a twenty year old wannabe gangster. Walking the narrow line between foolhardy and gutsy, Jimmy was let down by his surveillance team and wound up in a shallow grave. The killers were quickly rounded up and convicted w...
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by Jeffrey H. Beerworth (Author)As Burlington grew into a city out of wilderness, more citizens meant more opportunities for crime. Horse thefts, murders and drunken brawls swamped the young and prosperous city. Those misdeeds inspired the first officers of what would become the Burlington Police Department to serve and protect. Step behind the scenes of the Griwold murder case, the Mad Riot of 1898 and the murder of Officer James McGrath. Glimpse the dangers of police work and the shared hum...
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by John Kuglin (Author), Pat Williams (Foreword by)Beverly Snodgrass made a lot of poor choices. Once a prostitute in the old mining town of Butte, she later became a madam running two of the most popular brothels. She fell deeply in love with a crooked politician, whom she nicknamed "Dimple Knees." When corrupt cops in uniform came to her businesses, it usually wasn't to serve and protect but rather to collect payoffs. Butte is sometimes described as a town that "drinks her liquor straight,"...
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by Michael McClendon (Author)It's the phone call that every parent dreads. When the ringing awakened Jackie Carpenter on that black Georgia night, she found everything she had ever known or believed or trusted ripped from her. Jackie's gentle son Jason was in jail, accused of murder, and Jason's wife and six year old son were shaken and helpless. What began as a nightmare grew into an ordeal. The story caught fire, grabbed headlines, and polarized a community. As she spiraled deeper into nigh...
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by Allan Weaver (Author)The autobiography of an ex-offender and twice-times inmate of Barlinnie Prison, now a social work team-leader in his native Scotland. As a local hard case, author Allan Weaver took no prisoners. Neither does he in this compelling work in which he tells of a life of violent episodes and his chaotic early life. Teachers, social workers and 'authority figures' never tried 'to get to know him' to unearth the clues and triggers and discover what his offending was all about....
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by Margo Nash (Author)On a hot night in July 1995, Janet Downing, a 42-year-old mother of four, was brutally stabbed 98 times in her home in Somerville, a city two miles northwest of Boston. Within hours, a suspect was identified: 15-year-old Eddie O'Brien, the best friend of one of Janet's sons. But why Eddie? He had no prior history of criminal behavior. He was not mentally ill. He had neither motive nor opportunity to commit the crime. Others had both. Yet none of that mattered because pow...
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by Kevin M. Sullivan (Author)VAMPIRE: The Richard Chase Murders is the tale of a diabolical, homicidal madman running amok, mutilating and murdering the unsuspecting residents in the quiet neighborhoods of Sacramento, CA. His diabolical and unrelenting desires, not just to kill his victims but to drink their blood, unleashed a terror within the city unlike anything the residents had ever known. By the time Richard Trenton Chase graduated high school, everyone knew he was strange. But no one h...
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by John Paul Fay (Author), Brian Whitney (Author)What happens when one of the most evil men in the history of America meets a man he trusts to share his darkest secrets with? How does it affect someone already on the edge of society when he is taken under the wing of a serial killer? Partly told through the letters of Arthur Shawcross, THE SHAWCROSS LETTERS is the tale of one of America's most notorious serial killers and his relationship with his would-be biographer, John Paul Fay. John Pa...
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by Hermann Hirschfeld (Author)"Es war ein herrlicher Julimorgen, als der junge Sohn des Hauses die elterliche Wohnung verlie . Er hatte die für die Schule nötigen Bücher in einen Riemen geschnallt unter dem Arm, aber erst um die neunte Stunde forderten die dumpfen Klassenräume ihr Recht und jetzt hatte es eben sechs geschlagen. Wie Otto seinen Eltern am Abend vorher mitgeteilt, beabsichtigte er mit einem gleichalterigen Kameraden noch einen längeren Spaziergang in der erquickenden Morgenluft ...
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by George Skelly (Author)The notorious Cameo Cinema murder case of 1949 is one of Britain's legal cause c l bres. But for over half a century the convictions of two young men, George Kelly and Charles Connolly, went unchallenged, until - following the publication of this book - they were exonerated by the Court of Appeal in 2003. This made it the longest-running miscarriage of justice in British legal history.In this powerful, meticulously-researched account, the author painstakingly exposes ...
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by Mason Ryan (Author)Lock the docks and bolt the windows, it's time to countdown the one hundred deadliest serial killers in history. What follows is a grisly and gruesome menagerie of killers you really wouldn't want to meet on a dark night!
Number of Pages: 220
Dimensions: 0.5 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: May 20, 2021
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by Joseph Kolb (Author)In the late 1980s and 1990s, street gang members from the impoverished Segundo Barrio in El Paso, Texas, united in the Texas prison system to create the Barrio Aztecas gang. They quickly rose to power in the Texas prison system and ultimately became a powerful transnational criminal organization. Kolb describes the prison dynamic of predator and prey and the need for the prey to unify for protection against gangs such as the Texas Syndicate and Texas Mexican Mafia, also...
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by Jonathan Rignall (Author)Serial Killers Who Were Never Caught is full of darkly fascinating profiles of the many shadowy and harrowing serial killers who proved so frustratingly elusive they were never brought to justice for their grisly and gruesome crimes. What follows is a ghoulish gallery of the most mysterious and terrifying killers of all time...
Number of Pages: 168
Dimensions: 0.39 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: October 28, 2021
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by D. Dauphinee (Author)From Harvard Yard to the Andes, a story of discovery, love, and loss."In 1985, three Harvard archaeology graduate students travel to Peru for a backpacking trip to seek adventure, culture, and historic sites. While exploring undiscovered Incan ruins on the remote, eastern frontier of the old empire, the friends witness an unspeakable crime. Their enchanting trip becomes a primal fight for survival.The three friends must come to terms with their experiences, and each st...
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by Don Lattin (Author)In the tradition of Jon Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven, Don Lattin's Jesus Freaks is the story of a shocking pilgrimage of revenge that left two people dead and shed new light on The Family International, one of the most controversial religious movements to emerge from the spiritual turmoil of the sixties and seventies.Some say The Family International--previously known as the Children of God--began with the best intentions. But their sexual and spiritual excesses...
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by Claudia Rowe (Author)Winner of the Washington State Book Award for Memoir"Extraordinarily suspenseful and truly gut-wrenching. . . . A must-read."--Gillian Flynn, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Gone GirlIn this superb work of literary true crime--a spellbinding combination of memoir and psychological suspense--a female journalist chronicles her unusual connection with a convicted serial killer and her search to understand the darkness inside us."Well, well, Claudia. Can I call ...
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by Steven J. Phillips (Author)Back JacketOn June 28, 1972 in a South Bronx subway station, John Skagen, a white off-duty policeman on his way home, suddenly and without apparent provocation, ordered James Richardson, a black man on his way to work, to get against the wall and put his hands up. Richardson had a gun, and the two exchanged shots. In the melee that followed, Skagen was fatally wounded by a cop who rushed to the scene. In the ensuing trial, William Kunstler handled Richardson's de...
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by Charles Raw (Author), Bruce Page (Author), Godfrey Hodgson (Author)In the fall of 1955, Bernard Cornfeld arrived in Paris with scant money in his pocket and a tenuous relationship with a New York firm to sell mutual funds overseas. Cornfeld, a former psychologist and social worker, knew how to make friends fast and soon targeted two groups of people who could help him fulfill his economic ambitions: American expatriates who were looking to build their own fortunes and servicemen abroad who...
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by Diana L. Martin (Author)Riding the housing boom of the 2000s, Diana Martin combed Austin for tired, rundown bungalows, bought them, and, with artistic flair, recast them into little gems for people looking for custom homes. Then Wall Street crashed. Trapped with three houses in a market where no one was buying, she couldn't make her mortgage payments. The banks--the same ones begging for government bailouts--began moving against her. Desperate to sell, she opened the door to an intereste...
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by James T. Bartlett (Author)A mix of mystery and history, Gourmet Ghosts is a unique guide to more than 40 haunted bars and restaurants in Los Angeles. Including new and previously-unpublished stories, photographs and eyewitness accounts, this book also digs into the newspaper archives to find out if there's any truth to the tales - and offers tips on the best food, drink and Happy Hours. From Downtown to Hollywood and from West Hollywood to the Westside, you can find out which booth to choo...
