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Indiana's False Hauntings: Stories of Pranks, Fakes and Supernatural Mistakes

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Report copyright infringementby Ashley M. Watson (Author)Haunted Hoaxes of the Hoosier State In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, newspapers were a major source of ghost stories. Paranormal experiences, no matter how mundane, were newsworthy and entertaining--even when they turned out not to be ghosts after all. A coffin holding a "talking corpse" on a train turned out to be a box of bullfrogs. An overturned automobile carrying white paint resulted in a paint-covered "ghost" wand...

Ghosts of Crook County: An Oil Fortune, a Phantom Child, and the Fight for Indigenous Land

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Report copyright infringementby Russell Cobb (Author)The true--and unsolved--story of unabashedly greedy men, their exploitation of Muscogee land, and the hunt for the ghost of a boy who may never have existed For readers of David Grann's award-winning Killers of the Flower Moon In the early 1900s, at the dawn of the "American Century," few knew the intoxicating power of greed better than white men on the forefront of the black gold rush. When oil was discovered in Oklahoma, these counterfei...

The Murder of Debbie Gama: Justice and Absolution in Erie

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Report copyright infringementby Justin Dombrowski (Author)The murder that still haunts a Pennsylvania cityOn the morning of August 8, 1975, sixteen-year-old Debbie Gama disappeared after leaving her home in Erie, only to be found dead days later in a creek nearly thirty miles from her home. What followed was an investigation that lacked suspects or even evidence pointing to a viable suspect. That is, until a private investigator named Dan Barber uncovered evidence leading directly to her kill...

Grey Area: Dark Web Data Collection and the Future of Osint

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Report copyright infringementby Vinny Troia (Author)A compelling, first-hand account of the dark web, from its underground ecosystem, to the people responsible for committing data breaches and leaking data, 21st century's most consequential data breaches, the responses to those attacks, and the impact of dark web data and intelligence gathering and can have in the defense and security of our nation. In Grey Area, veteran hacker and cybersecurity investigations expert Vinny Troia offers an unf...

The Absinthe Forger: A True Story of Deception, Betrayal, and the World's Most Dangerous Spirit

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Report copyright infringementby Evan Rail (Author)Now in paperback: an astonishing true crime story about an eccentric grifter who blew up the lucrative black market for vintage bottles of the legendary drink of artistic renegades, absinthe . . . Thought to be hallucinogenic and banned globally for a century, absinthe is once again legal and popular. Yet it is still associated with bohemian lifestyles, just as when it was the favorite drink of avant-gardists like Toulouse-Lautrec and Van Gogh...

I Am a Mob Boss: The Last Confession of a Criminal Kingpin

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Report copyright infringementby Anonymous (Author)I could've died a thousand times. People were out to get me, as they always are when you run the show. It's kind of silly that it's cancer that's going to get me, but now I know the end's not going to come from a sudden bullet to the skull one night, at least I have enough time to tell my story. It's a story that would have had me locked up long ago, if anyone knew I was at the top. It all started innocently enough, with a few smash-and-grabs ...

Raven 23: How the Department of Justice Betrayed American Heroes

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Report copyright infringementby Gina Keating (Author)Based on the popular podcast, a journalist's shocking story of how the U.S. government charged brave veterans with phony war crimes to placate foreign autocrats.Gina Keating is proud of being a liberal and a journalist. She always has been. So when Keating first looked into the Raven 23 case, she expected to find the government doing its job, giving its war fighters a fair trial. Instead, she found that Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Eric Hold...

The Great Chinese Art Heist: Imperialism, Organized Crime, and the Hidden Story of China's Stolen Artistic Treasures

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Report copyright infringementby Ralph Pezzullo (Author)The extraordinary story of the theft of priceless Chinese antiques around the world and the connection to crimes spanning more than two centuries--with present-day implications. For the past decade, the art world has been rocked by a series of very costly and elaborately planned heists at major museums. The first took place the night of August 6, 2010 at the Drottningholm Palace in Stockholm, Sweden - the official residence of the Swedish...

The Murder of Sheriff W. W. Withers and Other Historic Eugene Cases

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Report copyright infringementby Jennifer Chambers (Author)Same Crime, Different TimeOregon gained statehood in 1859, but law and order had a harder time gaining a foothold in the West. Born and raised near Eugene, popular Lane County Sheriff W.W. Withers was shot while investigating a horse theft. The trial for his murder would end in the county's last official hanging. Convicted killer Claude Branton, desperate to escape prison, went so far as to try to hold up the guards with a potato carve...

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Delaware (Author)In the nineteenth century, heinous, bloody crimes shocked Michigan's emerging western frontier. A farmer, intent on marriage, disappeared after leaving a Leonidas tavern in 1853, culminating in the conviction of three men even though the body was undiscovered. A shooter fatally wounded a beloved sheriff during an 1867 Kalamazoo midnight jailbreak attempt, sparking a nationwide manhunt. The 1897 shooting of a couple in their Van Buren Co...

Murder in Old Forge, Pennsylvania: The Tragic Death of the Ziemba Children

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Report copyright infringementby Brian W. Kincaid (Author)On July 26, 1981, eight-year-old Cheryl Ziemba and her four-year-old brother, Christopher, disappeared from their backyard in Old Forge, Pennsylvania. Within hours, hundreds of neighbors, police and firefighters were engaged in a frantic search, praying that they were not a town "snakebitten," or cursed to misfortune. Two days later, all hope was lost when firefighters discovered the bodies of the children in an abandoned strip-mining p...

The Last Days of Cleveland: And More True Tales of Crime and Disaster from Cleveland's Past - Paperback

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by John Bellamy (Author)"Heroes and rogues fill the pages of this book. The stories will hold your attention and chill you to the bone." -- Crime Shadow NewsCleveland's master of historical crime and disaster returns with 15 more true tales in this sixth volume of his popular series, including ... West Park sisters Helen, 11, and Marguerite, 10, who died after eating Rough-on-Rats brand poison in their grandmother's basement-- victims of a genetic "suicide mania," or driven to death by the cr...

Dear Dawn: Aileen Wuornos in Her Own Words, 1991-2002 - Paperback

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by Aileen Wuornos (Author), Lisa Kester (Editor), Daphne Gottlieb (Editor)The chilling autobiography of Aileen Wuornos, the notorious female serial killer who was the subject of an Investigation Discovery special and the Oscar-winning film starring Charlize Theron, Monster Between 1989 and 1990, Aileen Wuornos, a hitchhiking prostitute, shot, killed, and robbed seven men in remote Florida locations. Arrested in 1991, she was condemned to death on six separate counts and executed by lethal inj...

Minnesota's Oldest Murder Mystery: The Case of Edward Phalen: St. Paul's Unsaintly Pioneer - Paperback

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by Gary Brueggemann (Author)On September 27, 1839, the battered body of a middle-aged Irishman was found by some Dakota Indian boys. The corpse washed up along the Mississippi River shore, about seven miles downstream from Fort Snelling near the ancient Indian landmark the non-Indians called Carver's Cave. It was the body of Sgt. John Hays, a popular former soldier, who, prior to his disappearance twenty-one days earlier, had been sharing a log shanty a few miles upriver from the cave with hi...

Minnesota's Headline Murders! 1900 to 1919 - Paperback

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by Patrick L. Shannon (Author)Extra Extra Read all about ten sensational stories of murder and justice at the dawn of the twentieth century in Minnesota's Headline Murders 1900-1919. Author Patrick L. Shannon's well-researched and compellingly told tales from the front pages of Minnesota's past will fascinate any fan of true crime. Number of Pages: 288 Dimensions: 0.9 x 8.9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: February 27, 2018

A Beautiful Child: A True Story of Hope, Horror, and an Enduring Human Spirit

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Report copyright infringementby Matt Birkbeck (Author)THE INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY GIRL IN THE PICTURE Sharon Marshall was a brilliant and beautiful student whose future was filled with promise--until her murderous, fugitive father drew her into a lifetime of deception that became one of the most baffling cases in the annals of American true crime. A student at Forest Park High School near Atlanta, Georgia, popular blonde-haired Sharon Marshall was at the top of her class. Serv...

Housewife Assassin: The Woman Who Tried to Kill President Ford

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Report copyright infringementby Geri Spieler (Author)United States History award-winner from the International Book Awards, Best Nonfiction True Crime award from BookFest, and Five Stars from Reader's Favorite among other accolades. Spieler offers a portrait of an erratic, unstable woman with a protean capacity to shift identities, with the 1960s and '70s as a dramatic backdrop. Fans of true crime accounts or contemporary history will savor this. --Publishers Weekly President Gerald Ford su...

Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir - Paperback

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by Lacy Crawford (Author)A "powerful and scary and important and true" memoir of a young woman's struggle to regain her sense of self after trauma, and the efforts by a powerful New England boarding school to silence her--at any cost (Sally Mann, author of Hold Still). Shortlisted for the 2022 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing When Notes on a Silencing hit bookstores in the summer of 2020, even amidst a global pandemic, it sent shockwaves through the country. Not only did this ...

Family Secrets: The Case That Crippled the Chicago Mob - Paperback

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by Jeff Coen (Author)Even in Chicago, a city steeped in mob history and legend, the Family Secrets case was a true spectacle when it made it to court in 2007. A top mob boss, a reputed consigliere, and other high-profile members of the Chicago Outfit were accused in a total of eighteen gangland killings, revealing organized crime's ruthless grip on the city throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Painting a vivid picture of murder, courtroom drama, family loyalties and disloyalties, journalis...

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by Félix Fénéon (Author), Lucy Sante (Introduction by)A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL Novels in Three Lines collects more than a thousand items that appeared anonymously in the French newspaper Le Matin in 1906--true stories of murder, mayhem, and everyday life presented with a ruthless economy that provokes laughter even as it shocks. This extraordinary trove, undiscovered until the 1940s and here translated for the first time into English, is the work of the mysterious F lix F n on. Dandy,...

The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cold Cases - Paperback

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by Michael Capuzzo (Author)Thrilling, true crime tales from the Vidocq Society - a team of the world's finest forensic investigators whose monthly lunches lead to justice in ice-cold murders. Three of the greatest detectives in the world were heartsick over the growing tide of unsolved murders. Good friends and sometime rivals William Fleisher, Frank Bender, and Richard Walter decided one day over lunch that something had to be done, and pledged themselves to a grand quest for justice. The...

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by Juan Díaz Canales (Author), Juanjo Guarnido (Illustrator)Hardboiled feline detective John Blacksad is back in the latest tour de force from the multiple-award winning duo of writer Juan D az Canales and artist Juanjo Guarnido Taking a much-needed break after the events of A Silent Hell, Blacksad lands a side job driving a rich Texan's prized yellow Cadillac Eldorado across 1950s America, hitting the back roads from New Orleans to Tulsa. But before long, the car is stolen and Blacksad find...

The Rise and Fall of the Dillinger Gang - Hardcover

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by Jeffery S. King (Author)A historical treatment of the career of the members of the Dillinger gang along with individual member biographies. Number of Pages: 266 Dimensions: 1.06 x 9.32 x 6.36 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: April 15, 2005

I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank the Irishman Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa - Paperback

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by Charles Brandt (Author)New York Times Bestseller -- #1 True Crime Bestseller The inspiration for the major motion picture, THE IRISHMAN. "The best Mafia book I ever read, and believe me, I read them all." -- Steven Van Zandt "Charles Brandt has solved the Hoffa mystery." -- Professor Arthur Sloane, author of Hoffa "Sheeran's confession that he killed Hoffa in the manner described in the book is supported by the forensic evidence, is entirely credible, and solves the Hoffa mystery." --...

The Leopold and Loeb Files: An Intimate Look at One of America's Most Infamous Crimes - Hardcover

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by Nina Barrett (Author)In 1924, University of Chicago students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were young, rich, and looking for a thrill. The crime that came next--the brutal, cold-blood murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks--would come to captivate the country and unfold into what many dubbed the crime of the century. As the decades passed, the mythology surrounding the unlikely killers continued to capture the interest of new generations, spawning numerous books, fictionalizations, and drama...

Cold Case Vancouver: The City's Most Baffling Unsolved Murders - Paperback

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by Eve Lazarus (Author)Cold Case Vancouver delves into fifty years of some of Vancouver's most baffling unsolved murders. In 1953, two little boys were found murdered in the city's storied Stanley Park, and who remain unidentified to this day. In 1975, a country singer was murdered just as she was on the verge of an amazing career. And in 1994, Nick Masee, a retired banker with connections to the renegade Vancouver Stock Exchange, disappeared along with his wife Lisa, their bodies never found...

Indians Wear Red: Colonialism, Resistance, and Aboriginal Street Gangs - Paperback

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by Elizabeth Comack (Author), Lawrence Deane (Author), Larry Morrissette (Author)With the advent of Aboriginal street gangs such as Indian Posse, Manitoba Warriors, and Native Syndicate, Winnipeg garnered a reputation as the "gang capital of Canada." Yet beyond the stereotypes of outsiders, little is known about these street gangs and the factors and conditions that have produced them. "Indians Wear Red" locates Aboriginal street gangs in the context of the racialized poverty that has become ...

The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial - Paperback

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by Maggie Nelson (Author)Late in 2004, Maggie Nelson was looking forward to the publication of her book Jane: A Murder, a narrative in verse about the life and death of her aunt, who had been murdered thirty-five years before. The case remained unsolved, but Jane was assumed to have been the victim of an infamous serial killer in Michigan in 1969.Then, one November afternoon, Nelson received a call from her mother, who announced that the case had been reopened; a new suspect would be arrested...

The Last Gang in Town: The Epic Story of the Vancouver Police vs. the Clark Park Gang - Paperback

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by Aaron Chapman (Author)A riot at a Rolling Stones concert opens this compelling story of a year-long confrontation in 1972 between the Vancouver police and the Clark Park gang, a band of unruly characters who ruled the city's east side. Corrupt cops, hapless criminals, and murder figure in this raucous history with contemporary overtones that questions which gang was tougher: the petty criminals, or the police themselves.Aaron Chapman is a writer, historian, and musician and the author of t...

Blood, Sweat and Fear: The Story of Inspector Vance, a Pioneer Forensics Investigator - Paperback

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by Eve Lazarus (Author)Heralded internationally as "Canada's Sherlock Holmes," John Vance was an innovative and pioneering forensic investigator who was so successful at solving criminal cases, he was the subject of numerous attempts on his life. Over the course of forty-two years beginning in the 1930s, Vance helped police detectives in British Columbia to determine murder from suicide as well as solve hit-and-runs, safe-crackings, and some of the most sensational murder cases of the twentie...

Adirondack Outlaws: Bad Boys and Lawless Ladies - Paperback

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by Niki Kourofsky (Author), Emily Drabanski (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Laurence Parent (Photographer)Local author and historian Niki Kourofsky exposes the North Country's shadowy past of crime and dark deeds. Her wry, lively storytelling puts readers right in the thick of shootouts, jewel heists, bank robberies, manhunts, and unsolved murders. Spanning eight decades of Adirondack history and ranging from Glens Falls to the Canadian border, Adirondack Outlaws is a rollicking page-turner, ric...

Deadwood's Al Swearingen: Manifest Evil in the Gem Theatre - Paperback

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by Jerry L. Bryant (Author), Barbara Fifer (Author)You've followed his wicked misdeeds and cuss-filled rants on the HBO series Deadwood (as played by Ian McShane), now go inside the life and death of the real Al Swearingen with Farcountry Press' newest release, Deadwood's Al Swearingen: Manifest Evil in the Gem Theatre. Meticulous research and lively writing by Deadwood historian and HBO consultant Jerry L. Bryant and co-author Barbara Fifer shed new light on Al's scandalized childhood in Osk...