True Crime

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Accused: The Unsolved Murder of Elizabeth Andes - Paperback

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by Amber Hunt (Author), Amanda Rossmann (Author)The true story of the unsolved murder of Ohio co-ed Elizabeth Andes, the police's quick arrest of her boyfriend, Bob Young, and the criminal and civil juries that each delivered not-guilty verdicts, allowing Young, the only suspect in the case, to walk free, as featured on the Cincinnati Enquirer's popular podcast Accused: The Unsolved Murder of Elizabeth Andes. Perfect for fans of Adnan's Story, based on the hit podcast Serial. Number of Pages:...

Deep State Target: How I Got Caught in the Crosshairs of the Plot to Bring Down President Trump - Paperback

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by George Papadopoulos (Author)"Wait till you read this book. It blew me away. . . . This is a must-read book. . . . This will be a movie." --Sean Hannity "George Papadopoulos was the whole reason for the Trump Russia investigation." --Mark Meadows, White House Chief of Staff A shocking account of international spy games and a disturbing eyewitness report on a secret double government--the Deep State--intent on destroying lives and a presidency George Papadopoulos became a national figure ...

Wild Escape: The Prison Break from Dannemora and the Manhunt That Captured America - Paperback

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by Chelsia Rose Marcius (Author)"Marcius writes with genuine narrative power. Her depth of research provides insights into this historical escape that we can't get anywhere else " --Anthony Flacco, New York Times and international bestselling author A gripping, true-crime debut of imprisonment, escape, and survival from New York Daily News crime reporter Chelsia Rose Marcius. On June 6, 2015, inmates Richard Matt and David Sweat escaped from Clinton Correctional Facility, New York State's ...

All That Remains: A Renowned Forensic Scientist on Death, Mortality, and Solving Crimes - Paperback

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by Sue Black (Author)Book of the Year, Saltire Literary Awards A CrimeReads Best True Crime Book of the Month For fans of Caitlin Doughty, Mary Roach, Kathy Reichs, and CSI shows, a renowned forensic scientist on death and mortality. Dame Sue Black is an internationally renowned forensic anthropologist and human anatomist. She has lived her life eye to eye with the Grim Reaper, and she writes vividly about it in this book, which is part primer on the basics of identifying human remains, part ...

The True Crime Puzzle Book: Over 90 Puzzling Cases to Solve - Paperback

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by Gareth Moore (Author)**THE PERFECT MYSTERY PUZZLE BOOK FOR MURDLE FANS**Can you pull off a heist? Do you know how to plot a getaway route? Are you smart enough to hack the hackers?Will you crack the criminals' code and catch them in the act?Unleash your inner sleuth with The True Crime Puzzle Book! Dive into over 90 thrilling cases designed to challenge your wits. Can you outsmart the criminals, decode their secrets, and foil their plans?Join the ranks of brilliant detectives or embrace yo...

Quest for Love: Memoir of a Child Sex Slave - Paperback

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by Anneke Lucas (Author)This memoir invites the reader into the heart and mind of a young Belgian girl as she shares events out of one year of her life, her voice supported by the vocabulary and understanding of the adult author. The child's circumstances are brutal; she is being sold by a mentally ill mother into a murderous pedophile network. She desperately clings to the belief that in spite of all appearances, true love does exist, and searches for the faintest sign of it in the midst of ...

Sunny Skies, Shady Characters: Cops, Killers, and Corruption in the Aloha State - Paperback

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by James Dooley (Author)For thirty years starting in the mid-1970s, the byline of Jim Dooley appeared on riveting investigative stories of organized crime and political corruption that headlined the front page of Honolulu's morning daily. In Sunny Skies, Shady Characters, James Dooley revisits highlights of his career as a hard-hitting investigative reporter for the Honolulu Advertiser and, in later years, for KITV television and the online Hawaii Reporter. His lively backstories on how he ch...

I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever - Paperback

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by Barbara Rae-Venter (Author)EDGAR AWARD FINALIST - "A true-crime masterpiece written by a cold-case-cracking master."--John Douglas, New York Times bestselling co-author of Mindhunter "Barbara Rae-Venter isn't just the genealogy expert who helped capture the Golden State Killer--she's an unsung hero who has given murdered women and children their faces and names back."--Maureen Callahan, New York Times bestselling author of American Predator "Echoes the dedication displayed by such fictiona...

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by Michel Francoeur (Author)In this unflinching memoir, Michel Lafl?che Francoeur takes readers on a harrowing journey from the depths of childhood trauma through the false promises of spiritual movements to a hard-won authenticity.After his chaotic exit from a Bible-based cult, he went on a quest for meaning that led him through Scientology and other controversial groups, such as the Brahma Kumaris, each offering an escape from reality. But as he confronts the ghosts of his past, he realizes...

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by Jim Norton (Author)Ivey, Badge 44 is a heartfelt tribute to a loving family man and police officer, who gave all to protect the city he loved. The aftermath would leave two families to process the effects of dealing with one of the most sinister criminals imaginable. This true crime/biography memorializes the life of Police Officer Jerry R. Ivey and what he meant to his community. A young family man, sworn to protect and serve, crosses paths with a criminal who had committed a violent robb...

Whispers in the Cradle: Uncovering the Dark Side of English Nursery Rhymes - Hardcover

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by Brittany Weinberger (Author)I grew up singing them. You did too. Cheerful nursery rhymes that seemed so harmless-innocent songs passed down through generations, filling our childhoods with laughter and melody. But what if I told you those playful verses were hiding something much darker? Something far more sinister?In Whispers in the Cradle, I set out to unravel the chilling truths buried beneath these seemingly sweet songs. What I discovered was a haunting web of history-tales of plague a...

The Maybrick Murder and the Diary of Jack the Ripper: The End Game: The End Game - Paperback

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by Christopher Jones (Author), Daniel L. Dolgin (Author)In 1889, Victorian England was shocked to its very core, by a scandalous murder case in Liverpool. A young American woman, Florence Maybrick, was found guilty of killing her much older husband, James Maybrick, by poisoning him with arsenic extracted from flypapers. It was a story that had everything: sex, drugs and adultery. Queen Victoria and three American presidents were to be caught up in the drama. Florence was to spend fifteen year...

Homeless Come Home: An Advocate, the Riverbank, and Murder in Topeka, Kansas - Paperback

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by Benedict F. Giamo (Author)Benedict Giamo has published widely on the condition of historical and contemporary homelessness in America. In Homeless Come Home: An Advocate, the Riverbank, and Murder in Topeka, Kansas, Giamo offers a deeply sympathetic yet critical look at the life of homeless advocate David Owen, who was tortured and killed in 2006 by some of those he intended to help. Part chronicle, part social analysis, part investigative journalism, and part true-crime book, Homeless Co...

Where They Lay: A Forensic Expedition in the Jungles of Laos - Paperback

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by Earl Swift (Author)Where They Lay melds an account of an elite military team's high-tech, high-risk search for a Vietnam War pilot's remains with a remarkably immediate and poignant retelling of his final intense hours. In far-flung rain forests and its futuristic lab near Pearl Harbor, the Central Identification Laboratory (CILHI) strives to recover and identify the bodies of fighting men who never came home from America's wars. Its mission combines old-fashioned bushwhacking and detectiv...

From Mob Ties to Miracles: A True Story of Betrayal and Redemption - Hardcover

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by Karen McCormack Haugen (Author)An Unlikely Path to SalvationFrom Mob Ties to Miracles is a riveting memoir that details Karen McCormack Haugen's personal journey through darkness. These pages reveal the transformative power of faith, resilience, and redemption. Born into a world shadowed by crime and betrayal, the author had her life affected by the complex web of organized crime, where loyalty was demanded and deception lurked around every corner.When betrayal struck from the least expect...

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by Jv Jr. Huffman (Author)"Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall" (Proverbs 16:18 ESV). A true story of how one man's sin of pride led to seventeen years of lies, deceit, enslavement, and millions of dollars in losses for over five hundred investors across the United States. Experience his journey through the depths and darkness of sin and his encounter with God's forgiving grace and mercy. If you struggle with entrapment of sin, in this book, you will find the cou...

Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic - Paperback

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by Sam Quinones (Author)Winner of the NBCC Award for General NonfictionNamed on Amazon's Best Books of the Year 2015--Michael Botticelli, U.S. Drug Czar (Politico) Favorite Book of the Year--Angus Deaton, Nobel Prize Economics (Bloomberg/WSJ) Best Books of 2015--Matt Bevin, Governor of Kentucky (WSJ) Books of the Year--Slate.com's 10 Best Books of 2015--Entertainment Weekly's 10 Best Books of 2015 --Buzzfeed's 19 Best Nonfiction Books of 2015--The Daily Beast's Best Big Idea Books of 2015--Se...

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by Ann Rule (Author), Georgia Hardstark (Foreword by)In 1971, while working the late-shift at a Seattle crisis clinic, true-crime writer Ann Rule struck up a friendship with a sensitive, charismatic young coworker: Ted Bundy. Three years later, eight young women disappeared in seven months, and Rule began tracking a brutal mass murderer. But she had no idea that the "Ted" the police were seeking was the same Ted who had become her close friend and confidant. As she put the evidence together, ...

Tough Streets, Rough Skies, and Sunday Sidelines - Paperback

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by Larry A. Wansley (Author), Carlton Stowers (With)Reading Tough Streets, Rough Skies, and Sunday Sidelines, readers may need to be reminded that it is a true story. From Larry Wansley's days as a young police detective, dodging bullets while attempting to calm the Compton (California) race riots to his leadership of a staff that identified the 9/11 hijackers, this globally respected security figure has written an action-packed recollection of his foot-to-the-pedal career. As one of the FBI'...

Not If I Can Help It: A Family Lawyer's Battles for Justice for Victims of Domestic Violence and the Poor - Paperback

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by Meg Groff (Author)Meg Groff dedicated forty years of her life to fighting for justice for victims of domestic violence in rural and suburban Pennsylvania. Not If I Can Help It recounts some of the most harrowing, infuriating, yet inspiring stories from Groff's work as a Legal Aid attorney representing women and children whose only resource is the sheer courage they exhibit every day. Among others, you'll meet: Lacey, a penniless single mom whose multimillionaire in-laws sued for custody o...

Cult Following: The Extreme Sects That Capture Our Imaginations--And Take Over Our Lives - Hardcover

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by J. W. Ocker (Author)"A must-read for those with a taste for cult narratives."--Publishers WeeklyFrom the author of Cursed Objects and The United States of Cryptids, an eye-popping compendium of the 30 most infamous, audacious, and dangerous cults in history Have you ever wondered how ordinary people end up enmeshed in extreme cults? Everything you've ever wanted to know about history's most notorious cults--and the psychology of the people who join them--is packed into this accessible, eng...

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith - Paperback

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by Jon Krakauer (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, this extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America's isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities. - Now an acclaimed FX limited series streaming on HULU. "Fantastic.... Right up there with In Cold Blood and The Executioner's Song." --San Francisco Chronicle Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these Tal...

Hunting the Jackal: A Special Forces and CIA Soldier's Fifty Years on the Frontlines of the War Against Terrorism - Paperback

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by Billy Waugh (Author), Tim Keown (Author)Spanning more than five decades, here is a riveting true account of fighting America's enemies around the world--told by the soldier/operative who was there I am not a hero. Billy Waugh has lurked in the shadows and on the periphery of many of the most significant events of the past half-century on active duty with U.S. Army Special Forces and the CIA fighting enemies of the United States. In Hunting the Jackal, this legendary warrior reveals the ext...

Wolves in Sheep's Clothing: A Ponzi Scheme Victim's Story - Hardcover

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by Pat Dougherty (Author)Obtain an inside look at a real-life Ponzi scheme from the vantage point of one of its victims.We've all heard of Ponzi schemes, but what happens when you're the victim of one?After a 30-year career with the 3M Company, Pat Dougherty retired on December 1, 2022. Prior to retiring, he invested in a clean energy company called Rhino Onward International (ROI) that claimed to be seeking investors to fund a clean energy hydrogen plant in Arizona. Having friends in managem...

Please Don't Shoot Me Again: It was Seven Deadly Minutes: Cop Killing Cops - Paperback

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by Steve Trethewy (Author)"Please don't shoot me again", would be the most horrific words to hear anyone say. These were Sgt. Mike Crowe's words as he was being gunned down by one of his subordinates at the South Border Narcotics Taskforce office in Yuma, Arizona on July 4, 1995. Mike wouldn't be the only victim that night; the night Deputy Jack Hudson was planning his burglary at the taskforce in furtherance of his undercover plan to do his big case. Lt. Dan Elkins and Evidence Custodian Jim...

Not If I Can Help It: A Family Lawyer's Battles for Justice for Victims of Domestic Violence and the Poor - Hardcover

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Black Tunnel White Magic: A Murder, a Detective's Obsession, and '90s Los Angeles at the Brink - Hardcover

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by Rick Jackson (Author), Matthew McGough (Author), Michael Connelly (Foreword by)Detective Rick Jackson, a decorated LAPD detective and a key inspiration in the development of Harry Bosch, delivers a shocking and immersive look into the one case he could never let go. In June 1990, Ronald Baker, a straight-A UCLA student, was found repeatedly stabbed to death in a tunnel near Spahn Ranch, where Charles Manson and his followers once lived. Shortly thereafter, Detective Rick Jackson and his p...

Memoir of a Mangled Mind (with dust jacket): How Concealing My Dissociative Identity Disorder Unleashed Multiple Personalities - Hardcover

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by Steven Simmons Shelton Ma Jd (Author)Three minds. One body.And nobody is safe.At age sixteen, blackouts take over Steve Simmons's life. He loses hours, days, and weeks at a time. Terrified he'll be institutionalized or disbelieved, Steve doesn't tell anyone.He soon discovers that he has multiple personalities, a mental disorder that developed years earlier when sexual predators targeted him. Originally created to protect him, these "alters" hijack his consciousness to live their own lives-...

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by Troy Taylor (Author) Number of Pages: 402 Dimensions: 0.82 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: February 21, 2025

I Don't Like Mondays: The True Story Behind America's First Modern School Shooting - Paperback

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by N. Leigh Hunt (Author)In 1979, Brenda Spencer, a seemingly average teenage girl living in a nice suburban neighborhood, made and executed plans that would place her in infamy and set a violent and terrifying national precedent. She receives a rifle for Christmas and a month later set her sights and opens fire on the elementary school across the street.The event is forever glorified by the song 'I Don't Like Mondays' by The Boomtown Rats and marks the bloody beginning of the American phenom...

Dear Jacob: A Mother's Journey of Hope - Paperback

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by Patty Wetterling (Author), Joy Baker (With)Tens of thousands of readers embraced Dear Jacob: A Mother's Journey of Hope, first published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press in hardcover in 2023. The paperback edition, featuring a new afterword and cover, spreads its powerful message even further. In 1989, eleven-year-old Jacob Wetterling was kidnapped not far from his home in St. Joseph, Minnesota. The community quickly rallied around the family, and Patty Wetterling, Jacob's mother,...

The Horrors of Fox Hollow Farm: Unraveling the History & Hauntings of a Serial Killer's Home - Paperback

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by Richard Estep (Author), Robert Graves (Author)Fox Hollow Farm, the infamous Indiana property where Herb Baumeister allegedly murdered at least eleven men, has a grim past and an unsettling present. This riveting book pieces together the story of the tragic case and explores the paranormal encounters that continue to this day, delving into the psyche of a suspected murderer and the terrifying supernatural activity that lingers in the aftermath of such unspeakable evil. The Horrors of Fox Ho...