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by Joe Strupp (Author)On July 29, 1962, four of Joe Strupp's relatives were found shot to death in their South Dakota home.The killer: Joe's great-uncle, John Bowman.The victims: Bowman, his wife, and their two teen-age sons.The result: a shocking tale of simmering tensions, mixed motives, and deadly outcomes that still harbors a mystery-why did it happen?When Joe first heard about the tragedy 20 years ago, he began a long and intense investigation into the family secret that revealed a tangl...
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by Thomas de Quincey (Author)In "On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts," Thomas De Quincey presents a satirical examination of the nature of murder and its perception within society. De Quincey uses dark humor and irony to explore various aspects of murder, including the motives of murderers, the methods they employ, and the public's fascination with sensational crimes.This new large print edition comes with an Easy to Read Layout designed to make reading comfortable and includes "Thre...
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by Mark Seyler (Author)In 2017, the White House denied it was planning to hire a private Montana company to run a covert direct-action spy network. It sounded unbelievable.That was actually the most believable part of the whole story.In the mountain town of Whitefish, accusations flew between a controversial tech tycoon and a Marine Corps veteran with a shadowy past. The one-time friends had created Amyntor Group, a mysterious Montana business with global ambitions. Multiple investigations su...
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by Joseph Wambaugh (Author)On June 25, 1989, the naked corpse of schoolteacher Susan Reinert was found wedged into her hatchback car in a hotel parking lot near Philadelphia's "Main Line."Her two children had vanished.The Main Line Murder Case burst upon the headlines--and wasn't resolved for seven years.Now, master crime writer Joseph Wambaugh reconstructs the case from its roots, recounting the details, drama, players and pawns in this bizarre crime that shocked the nation and tore apart a ...
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by Stephen M. Sanzeri (Author)Cary Stayner was found guilty of the Yosemite Sightseer Murders, but some people closely associated with the investigation believe that Stayner did not act alone. Law enforcement had the right guys from the beginning, so what in the hell happened? The stories of the victims - Carole and Juli Sund, Silvina Pelosso, and Joie Armstrong did not end with their savage murders, in February of 1999. Stephen Sanzeri, former police officer, private investigator, and bounty...
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by Pete Dover (Author)Dawn Magyar led a seemingly idyllic life with her high school sweetheart Don. The two married young, had a young son and seemed destined for a happy life....until one Saturday afternoon when Dawn went grocery shopping, never to be seen again. Her body would eventually be found with Dawn the victim of a brutal homicide. The murder shocked the Michigan small town as the killing would remained unsolved for thirty years had it not been for some foresight of the detective at ...
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by Ruth Canton (Author)On the surface, Herb Baumeister looked to have a 'normal' life. He was married with three children and the founder of a successful thrift store chain...But behind the scenes there was a very troubled individual. He had been committed to a psychiatric hospital by his father in his youth and his wife could count on one hand the number of times they had sex over the course of their twenty-five year marriage. Baumeister was a closeted homosexual...and a violent one...maybe ...
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by Ana Benson (Author)Long before the Casey Anthony trial that captivated the nation at the end of the 2000s, there was a very famous case that strikes an incredible resemblance. The trial of Alice Crimmins was the main talk in the 1960s as it divided the country into two opposing sides. While the Casey Anthony trial was very straightforward because of the numerous evidence that pointed in the direction of her guilt, Alice Crimmins's case lacked the physical proof that could link the woman di...
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by Pete Dove (Author)"We're no nearer to a solution now than we were when the body was found. For all I know, we're farther away from one."Can any words be harder for a loved one to receive? No parent can conceive of finding that their sixteen year old daughter has been murdered. For two days Beverly Jarosz's parents, Thaddeus and Eleanor, along with her sister Carol, held out hope that there would be a quick solution to the crime. Those forty-eight hours must have flashed around them; a whir...
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by Danny Curry (Author)Edmund Lopes was as charming as they come. He could befriend any man or woman on the street with his "golden tongue". Known to tell a tall tale or two, he led a normal life until he abandoned his first wife and his children. From there, he would remarry, kill his second wife, try to kill his girlfriend and murder another woman. Eventually tried and convicted, he would be released on parole after only twelve years. Ordered not to leave the state, Lopes defied the authori...
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by Justin Brooks (Author), Barry Scheck (Foreword by)Surviving prison as an innocent person is a surreal nightmare no one wants to think about. But it can happen to you. Justin Brooks has spent his career freeing innocent people from prison. With You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You're Innocent, he offers up-close accounts of the cases he has fought, embedding them within a larger landscape of innocence claims and robust research on what we know about the causes of wrongful convictions. ...
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by Joe Moore (Author)In this shocking memoir, a former FBI informant reveals what he learned from successfully infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan in the backwoods of the Sunshine State, uncovering details about the hate group's structure and its modern far-right spinoffs which are operating to achieve the same goal: inciting a second civil war by whatever violent means necessary."We need you back."It was a call FBI informant and former Army sniper Joe Moore never expected to get. He'd already infi...
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by Tanya Smith (Author)A riveting true story of an unsuspecting woman who creates an ingeniously clever white-collar scheme that manipulates the Federal banking system out of millions--who eventually loses everything that is most important to her. In Never Saw Me Coming, Tanya Smith shares her deeply personal and remarkable story of how she went from a precocious young girl to a money-grabbing, computer-savvy wiz. It starts out as a keen interest in technology and innocently acquiring phone n...
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by Bill Kimberlin (Author)Step inside the death chamber and behind the walls of Ohio's death row.Bill Kimberlin, Psy.D, invites the reader on an extensive and unbiased journey inside Ohio's death row in WATCH ME DIE: Last Words From Death Row.You will see how these inmates think as Kimberlin not only spends time interviewing them, but also eats meals with them and, in some cases, is the last person to speak with them before they are executed. From the moment they are placed on suicide watch u...
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by George Parthimos (Author)Hackers, Crackers, Pirates, and Phreaks provides a vivid first-hand account of the emergence of the 1980's global computer underground, and its ultimate downfall, as seen through the eyes of one of its pioneering members. Follow the compelling journey of 'The Rebel, ' an inquisitive 12-year-old who transforms to become one of the world's most prolific software pirates by the age of 17, only to watch helplessly as his world collapsed around him. In this compelling c...
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by Stephen B. Ubaney (Author)Author Steve Ubaney launched a three-year fact finding and investigative expedition that explains who wanted her dead, why they wanted her dead, how they did it and how they covered it up. The carefully planned disinformation campaign about Diana's death that was launched by those responsible and promoted to the international media successfully threw millions of people off the trail.Mr. Ubaney puzzled over and explained the following questions revealing how this m...
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by Stephen Hrones (Author)In autumn 1979 in Back Bay, Boston, a young woman is found dead in an empty building, covered in blood, the victim of a heinous crime. Detective Gus Grazzi, a crusty veteran of Boston's homicide department, quickly zeroes in on a suspect. When a key witness has trouble recalling details from the night of the murder, Gus enlists a hypnotist to try to fill in the blanks. But will her testimony hold up in court?What seemed like a slam-dunk case becomes riddled with doub...
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by Dmitry Zapolsky (Author)Crime. Corruption. Murder. Betrayal. The 2022 invasion of Ukraine might have caught most of the world by surprise - but not those familiar with President Vladimir Putin's gangster state and its inner workings. From stealing national resources to implementing a mafia-style hierarchy within the Kremlin, both Putin's rise and Russia's downfall can be traced back to a single point of origin: the city of Saint Petersburg.In Putinburg, acclaimed St. Petersburg journalist ...
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by Tom Clavin (Author)The definitive account of the Dalton Gang and the most brazen bank heist in history, by the multiple New York Times bestselling author. The Last Outlaws is the thrilling true story of the last of one of the greatest outlaw gangs. The dreaded Dalton Gang consisted of three brothers and their rotating cast of colorful accomplices who saw themselves as descended from the legendary James brothers. They soon became legends themselves, beginning their career as common horse t...
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by Valerie Bauerlein (Author)"Valerie Bauerlein's blistering, unforgettable account of the Murdaugh saga leaves no stone unturned, helping us finally truly understand the man at the center of one of the century's wildest crime stories."--Robert Kolker, author of Hidden Valley Road and Lost Girls Power, privilege, and blood--this is the definitive and thrilling true story of Alex Murdaugh's violent downfall, from a veteran Wall Street Journal reporter who has become an authority on the case. A...
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by Andrea Lankford (Author)** THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ** ** AN AMAZON "BEST BOOKS OF THE MONTH" FOR AUGUST 2023 (Biographies & Memoirs) ** From an award-winning former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure follows the author's quest to find missing hikers along the Pacific Crest Trail by pairing up with an eclectic group of unlikely allies. As a park ranger with the National Park Service's law enforcement team, Andrea Lankfo...
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by Erin Kae (Author)Grasp This Salt is a collection of poetry that seeks to explore what it means to be a mother and the complexities of trying to understand our own mother's experience of mothering us, while following the life and trial of Susan Smith, convicted in 1995 for the murder of her two young sons.Nestled inside the sins of a woman who would kill her own children is the voice of a young mother grieving multiple miscarriages while her toddler named Erin keeps playing at drowning. The...
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by Robert Baer (Author), Dayna Baer (Author)Robert Baer was known inside the CIA as perhaps the best operative working the Middle East. Over several decades he served everywhere from Iraq to New Delhi and racked up such an impressive list of accomplishments that he was eventually awarded the Career Intelligence Medal. But if his career was everything a spy might aspire to, his personal life was a brutal illustration of everything a spy is asked to sacrifice. Bob had few enduring non-work frie...
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by Leonard Levitt (Author)For years, the police commissioner and the mayor have duked it out for publicity, credit, and power. Some have translated their stardom into success after leaving office, while others have been hung out to dry. NYPD Confidential reveals the battles for power that have led to the city's most infamous corruption cases. Filled with amazing details of backroom deals and larger-than-life power brokers, Leonard Levitt lays bare the backstabbing, power grabs, and chaotic in...
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by Frederick P. Hitz (Author)In this riveting insider's account, a former inspector general of the CIA compares actual espionage cases and practices with classic and popular spy fiction, showing that the real world of espionage is nearly always stranger and more complicated than even the best spy fiction.Exploring everything from tradecraft and recruitment to bureaucracy and betrayal, The Great Game contrasts fictional spies created by such authors as John Le Carr?, Tom Clancy and Joseph Conr...
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by David A. Gibb (Author)He was a perfect man living a perfect life...which made him a perfect killer. Canadian Air Force Colonel Russell Williams commanded the largest Canadian Forces base in the country. He had personally piloted prime ministers, dignitaries, and members of the British royal family, and was one of the most respected and trusted soldiers in the military.He was also a rapist and a murderer.This is the disturbing true account of how one of Canada's highest- ranking military of...
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by Sarah Maza (Author)On an August evening in 1933, in a quiet, working-class neighborhood in Paris, eighteen-year-old Violette Nozière gave her mother and father glasses of barbiturate-laced "medication," which she told them had been prescribed by the family doctor; one of her parents died, the other barely survived. Almost immediately Violette's act of "double parricide" became the most sensational private crime of the French interwar era--discussed and debated so passionately that it was c...
