True Crime

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The Edge of Innocence: The Trial of Casper Bennett - Hardcover

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by David Miraldi (Author)A Chilling Crime That Shocked Lorain, Ohio, and a Defiant Attorney Determined to Unearth the Truth.1960s Lorain, Ohio: Casper Bennett is accused of the unimaginable-drowning his wife in a scalding bath. Rumors swirl, and whispers pervade every corner of town. But there's one man, untested in the vicious waters of murder trials, willing to wade in and defend him: the author's father.David Miraldi unveils a riveting tale intertwined with personal history. In a time befo...

One Day Of Murder, 10 Days of Snow - Paperback

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by Norma Gund (Author)Partial amputation of neck--Norma Gund's official diagnoses after facing a killer in 2011.March 13, 2011, changed Norma Gund's life forever. She visited a neighbor's home in rural Trinity County, California, and found more than she expected. Number of Pages: 90 Dimensions: 0.24 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: January 12, 2024

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by Walter Robertson (Author)Everyone is curious about the judicial system and/or what life is like to live in prison, but no one wants to go. A Prisoner's Diary is a book about people from different backgrounds who all share a common experience, and that is being incarcerated. This book was written to help bring awareness and give insight to what it is like on a day-to-day basis for someone who is or who has been incarcerated. Each individual has a different but yet in many ways a similar exp...

Wrecking Crew: Demolishing the Case Against Steven Avery - Paperback

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by John Ferak (Author)Updated 5th Anniversary Edition Including Exclusive Interview with Steve Avery In 2016-17, while working for the USA TODAY NETWORK's Wisconsin Investigative Team, author John Ferak wrote dozens of articles examining the murder case against Steven Avery, who had already beaten one wrongful conviction only to be charged again with the murder of Teresa Halbach in 2005. This case captured global attention through the Netflix documentary "Making A Murderer." In this anniversa...

Reflections in Verse, Volume 7: Vanished Innocence: Vanished Innocence - Paperback

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by Khalilah H. Purnell (Author)Shedding light on the voices of our missing Black children. This volume is more than just poetry; it includes a short section providing knowledge and insight into why African-American families react the way they do when Black children go missing. It highlights the stark difference in treatment and priorities given to missing Black children compared to their Caucasian counterparts. This book is a powerful call to action, aiming to bridge the gap in understanding ...

Inside the Texas Chicken Ranch: The Definitive Account of the Best Little Whorehouse - Hardcover

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by Jayme Lynn Blaschke (Author)Thanks to the classic Dolly Parton film The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and ZZ Top's ode "La Grange," many people think they know the story of the infamous Chicken Ranch. The reality is more complex, lying somewhere between heartbreaking and absurd. For more than a century, dirt farmers and big-cigar politicians alike rubbed shoulders at the Chicken Ranch, operated openly under the sheriff's watchful eye. Madam Edna Milton and her girls ran a tight, discreet...

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by Michael Jr. DeWitt (Author)The Darker Side of Hampton County Hampton County is a rural county in South Carolina with a long and storied history, but it has a shady side. Author Michael DeWitt details the corruption, murders and crimes that remained in the memories of locals for years. Number of Pages: 162 Dimensions: 0.44 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: May 29, 2023

Betrayed by Choices: A Family Story of Murder, Forgiveness, and Redemption - Hardcover

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by Jim Buffington (Author), Kirk Blackard (Author)Betrayed by Choices tells the story of experiencing unspeakable tragedy and betrayal and a family's journey from disbelief, through trauma, to forgiveness and redemption.When Jim Buffington was only twelve years old, he suffered a tremendous loss due to an execution style murder in his family. The devastation was indescribable. A year later, while still working through his grief, he was dealt another adversity and the family entered the crimin...

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by Richard Tabler (Author)The District Attorney's, District Judge, the Jury and numerous others told the you that I was a monster. That I was a future threat to society, un-rehabilititable! They were wrong and they lied to you. Through the compassion of family, friends, lawyers, wardens and the love and strength of God. I've turned my life around and not only have I shown through hard work, studying, and prayer, but through Faith that even for one convicted and sentenced to Death, rehabilitat...

By The Side Of The Road: The True Story Of The Abduction And Murder Of Ann Harrison - Paperback

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by Marla Bernard (Author)In the early hours of March 22, 1989, two friends - career criminals with violent felony convictions - drove around the eastern Kansas City area in a stolen car committing a series of crimes. The weather was mild for late March in Kansas City; the sky was clear, and there was the pale remnant of a Full Moon that bore the dubious name of Death Moon, the last full moon of winter.A little before 7 a.m., 15-year-old Ann Harrison walked to the end of her driveway on Kansas...

The Great Magness Trial: The Killing of Patton Anderson, the Trial of the Magness Family, and the Pursuit of Justice on the Tennessee Frontier - Paperback

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by Jack MacGregor Campbell (Author)The "Great Magness Trial" was one of the most celebrated murder cases in early Tennessee history. David Magness shot and killed Major Patton Anderson in Shelbyville in 1810. His father, Jonathan Magness, and brother Perrygreen Magness were arrested as accomplices. Though considered a violent drunkard, Anderson was a personal friend of Andrew Jackson, who exerted his considerable influence to avenge Anderson's death. The involvement of prominent figures such ...

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by Alisa Statman (Author), Brie Tate (Author)Restless Souls is the true, bone-chilling chronicle of the Manson Family murders and its aftermath, from the point of view of the victims' families.When actress Sharon Tate and four others were brutally murdered by Charles Manson and his followers, the world was shocked. More than forty years later, the gruesome barbarity of the "Manson Family" still fascinates and horrifies.This true crime memoir by Alisa Statman, a 20-year Tate family friend, and...

Skyjack: The Hunt for D.B. Cooper - Paperback

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by Geoffrey Gray (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The true, unsolved story of D. B. Cooper's 1971 airplane hijacking, one of the greatest cold cases of the twentieth century, by an author featured in D.B. Cooper: Where Are You?!, now streaming on Netflix "Here is writing and storytelling that is vivid and fresh--a delectable adventure."--Gay Talese"I have a bomb here and I would like you to sit by me." That was the note handed to flight attendant Florence Schaffner by a mild-mannered pass...

The Tainted Rose: Stories from a Portland Detective - Paperback

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by Don Dupay (Author)Within these pages you'll meet the most prolific safe burglar and jewel thief the Pacific Northwest has ever known-a man named Billy. You'll see how Billy was foiled by a shrewd longshoreman eating a ham and cheese sandwich on his lunch break. You'll meet another jewel thief, Chuck, who never could figure out why the Pawn shops in Las Vegas were onto him. Then there were the dangerous women I encountered. Dangerous because they were driven to do terrible things, compelled...

Jonestown: An American Family Tragedy - Paperback

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by H. J. Jones (Author)After the heartbreaking loss of her own father, the youngest daughter, Mary, found a replacement in Reverend Jim Jones. But as a member of his Peoples Temple in California, she soon became overworked, underfed, and was beaten. Meanwhile, her family back home watched helplessly as she slowly disappeared into Jim Jones's clutches. Then, just as her parents' generation once searched for a better life in a new country, Mary moved with her young family to Guyana. Jonestown: ...

Cauldron of Blood: The Matamoros Cult Killings - Paperback

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by Jim Schutze (Author)"Death, drugs and the occult meet in grisly inquiry at the Mexican border" in this true crime account of a mass murder by a serial killing cult leader (The New York Times). When Mark Kilroy vanished while on spring break in Matamoros, Mexico, the search for the missing pre-med student led to a gruesome discovery on a lonely stretch of land called Rancho Santa Elena: a mass grave containing Mark's mutilated corpse along with the remains of thirteen other people. The inve...

Sin & Redemption: The Pink Elephant Connection - Paperback

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by James E. McCarthy (Author), Feeney Rik (Cover Design by)"A rare, hopeful crime story that also manages to be deeply honest." - Kirkus Reviews "The book reads like a memoir, has action and excitement like a thriller, and educates the reader along the way. If you like books with a criminal nexus or are a fan of memoir/"based on a true story" books, this one would be a slam-dunk for you." - OnlineBookClubPinnacle Book Award - Best Books in the Category of FICTIONeLit - Silver Medal Award Winn...

Targeted: A Deputy, Her Love Affairs, A Brutal Murder - Paperback

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by M. William Phelps (Author)When her missing boyfriend is found murdered, his body encased in cement inside a watering trough and dumped in a cattle field, a local sheriff's deputy is arrested and charged with his murder. But as New York Times bestselling author and investigative journalist M. William Phelps digs in, the truth leads to questions about her guilt. In his first full-length, original true-crime book for WildBlue Press, Phelps delivers a hard-hitting, unique reading experience,...

Dying to Cross: The Worst Immigrant Tragedy in American History - Paperback

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by Jorge Ramos (Author)On May 14, 2003, a familiar risk-filled journey, taken by hopeful Mexican immigrants attempting to illegally cross into the United States, took a tragic turn. Inside a sweltering truck abandoned in Texas, authorities found at least 74 people packed into a "human heap of desperation." After months of investigation, a 25-year-old Honduran-born woman named Karla Chavez was found responsible for leading the human trafficking cell that led to this grisly tragedy in which 19 ...

My Spy: Memoir of a CIA Wife - Paperback

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by Bina C. Kiyonaga (Author)So begins the love story of Joe Kiyonaga, the striking Japanese-American war hero from Hawaii, and Bina Cady, the irreverent Irish-Catholic redhead from Baltimore. Similar in their convictions, different in most every other respect, the two leaped into a marriage in 1947 that defied the anti-Japanese sentiments of the day. And their unlikely union would come to include a powerful, top-secret cohort: the CIA. For while Bina, Joe, and their children played the part o...

Badge, Tie, and Gun: Life and Death Journeys of a Miami Detective - Paperback

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by Ramesh Nyberg (Author)"The most absobring cop memoir you will read this year--maybe ever." - TJ English, NY Times Bestselling author (Havana Nocturne, The Westies). Retired Homicide Detective Ramesh Nyberg describes in rich detail his remarkable journey growing up in Miami as the child of an Indian school teacher and Swedish boat-builder. Nyberg considers Miami his only real sibling, and weaves jarring stories of murder and cocaine smugglers into poignant memories of his childhood and life...

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by Eileen Cleary (Author)Eileen Cleary's Wild Pack of the Living is not simply a retelling of Steven Stayner's abduction at the age of 7; rather, the poems of this volume are haunting and intimate visitations of his experience conducted by means of startling arrangements of lyric and image. Subject matter one might initially read as fodder for tabloid tales is transmuted into the profound knowledge of the scope of the loss and its terrifying repercussions. I am both heartbroken by these poems...

The End of Camelot, Truth Revealed: JFK, the Saga Unfolded - Paperback

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by Kevin Sandifer (Author)If you think you know anything about this assassination, be prepared to be blown away! Things you have never heard of: Two Oswalds, Botched Autopsies, and Connections from the CIA to the Mossad to the Mafia. Kevin Sandifer has done an exhaustive review of all the information available and come up with many astute observations. The plot of this cover up story is so interwoven, masterfully hidden, and undeniably eye opening that you will find yourself enthralled for ho...

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by Simon Dovey (Author)This book has been my effort to chronicle the existence of an international child sex trafficking network involved in the dissemination of the pederast ideal, the facilitation of political blackmail beneath it, and the production of sadomasochist child pornography, including snuff films, at its greatest depths. The tendrils of this network are met with throughout the chapters of this book, which cover a continuity of child 'serial killings' and 'political scandals' thro...

Mind-Controlled Sex Slaves and the CIA: A Collection of Essays and Interviews About Project MONARCH - Paperback

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by Tracy R. Twyman (Author)A Collection of Essays and Interviews About Project MONARCHWhat do Satanism, human trafficking, mind-control experiments and child sex abuse have to do with the U.S. government?According to the testimony of experts and survivors, the CIA utilized all of these elements and more for their Top Secret Project MONARCH, part of the MK-ULTRA mind control program. For reasons of National Security, dozens if not hundreds of people, many of them children, were allegedly subje...

Death by Talons: Did An Owl 'Murder' Kathleen Peterson? - Paperback

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by Tiddy Smith (Author)An Outrageous Theory For Murder!On December 9, 2001, Kathleen Peterson was found dead at the bottom of a staircase in her Durham, NC home. Her scalp was laced with deep incisions, and her blood was strewn from outside to inside the house. The sinister truth of that night turned her murder into North Carolina's most enigmatic criminal case, capturing media attention across the globe.Police zeroed in on Kathleen's husband, Michael Peterson, and charged him with murder. Bu...

The Spy Who Was Left Behind: Russia, the United States, and the True Story of the Betrayal and Assassination of a CIA Agent - Paperback

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by Michael Pullara (Author)The shocking true story of international intrigue --"a highly detailed, engrossing work" (Kirkus Reviews)--involving the 1993 murder of CIA officer Freddie Woodruff by KGB agents and the extensive cover-up that followed in Washington and in Moscow. "In a post-truth era, we need a lot more fearless writers like Michael Pullara" (Robert Baer, author of See No Evil). On August 8, 1993, a single bullet to the head killed Freddie Woodruff, the Central Intelligence Agency...

The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars - Paperback

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by Paul Collins (Author)"No writer better articulates ourinterest in the confluence of hope, eccentricity, and the timelessness of the bold and strange than Paul Collins."--DAVE EGGERS On Long Island, a farmer finds a duck pond turned red with blood. On the Lower East Side, two boys playing at a pier discover a floating human torso wrapped tightly in oilcloth. Blueberry pickers near Harlem stumble upon neatly severed limbs in an overgrown ditch. Clues to a horrifying crime are turning up all ...

Steel's: A Forgotten Stock Market Scandal from the 1920s - Hardcover

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by Dave Dyer (Author)While trying to solve a family mystery, Dave Dyer uncovered a massive stock market scandal that had been forgotten by history. His great uncle Clayton Pickard vanished in 1923, and, in the process of researching him, the author found a collection of thousands of original documents and photos from Clayton's employer, the L. R. Steel Company. The documents, unopened since 1923, told the fascinating story of a visionary entrepreneur operating in the boom-town environment of ...

Things Aren't Right: The Disappearance of the Yuba County Five - Paperback

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by Tony Wright (Author)Things Aren't Right: The Disappearance of the Yuba County Five explores the bizarre and tragic 1978 disappearance of Ted Weiher, Jack Madruga, Bill Sterling, Jackie Huett, and Gary Mathias in the Plumas National Forest in Northern California. Four of these men had intellectual disabilities while one was diagnosed with schizophrenia. On Friday, February 24, 1978, they left the Yuba County, California area in Madruga's 1969 Mercury Montego to attend a basketball game in C...

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by Saleem Underwood (Author)This is the true account of the rise and eventual fall of the most nefarious crime family in Arizona territory of the United States, the Big Five. This group was directly formed under the command and guidance of the most notorious drug lord in the history of Sinaloa, Mexico--El Chema. This organization will forever be shrouded in infamy. One of the leaders of this group was given a test. Everything hung on the balance that will forever change the lives and living o...

Diamond Doris: The True Story of the World's Most Notorious Jewel Thief - Paperback

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by Doris Payne (Author)Soon to be a Major Motion PictureIn the ebullient spirit of Ocean's 8, The Heist, and Thelma & Louise, a sensational and entertaining memoir of the world's most notorious jewel thief--a woman who defied society's prejudices and norms to carve her own path, stealing from elite jewelers to live her dreams.Growing up during the Depression in the segregated coal town of Slab Fork, West Virginia, Doris Payne was told her dreams were unattainable for poor black girls like...