True Crime

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by Robert A. Steadman (Author)In a small Michigan town, no one suspects that a scammer and murderer is afoot. When Alice Bramer's husband is killed under what she believes is suspicious circumstances, she enlists the help of ex-Army Ranger and winning trial attorney Ben Bradshaw. What they discover-a web of fraud, financial ruin and death-leads to a shocking court case. Number of Pages: 208 Dimensions: 0.44 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: March 25, 2024 Large Print: Yes

Hacked: The Secrets Behind Cyber Attacks - Paperback

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by Jessica Barker (Author)When it comes to cyber attacks, everyone's a potential victim. But you don't have to be helpless against these threats. Hacked offers the knowledge and strategies you need to protect yourself and your business. In this book, cybersecurity expert Jessica Barker uncovers how hackers are weaponizing cutting-edge tactics and technologies to target individuals and organizations, before showing how you can safeguard yourself against any potential attacks and how to react ...

Midwest Vice: A Chain of Midcentury Sex Trafficking and Murder - Paperback

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by Gavin Schmitt (Author) This book delves into four interconnected murders, each of them unsolved, in which the common denominator is the underground world of sex trafficking. Using police and FBI records never before made public, underworld links are made between numerous vice centers in the Midwest. What does a small mining town in upper Michigan have to do with organized crime in Peoria, Illinois? More than you might think! Within these pages, meet corrupt night club owners, dancers who m...

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by Jason Zeitler (Author)A thrilling tale of political intrigue, love and loss, and the soul-stirring value of friendshipLondon, mid-1930s. Fascism is on the rise. Against the backdrop of political upheaval, two friends-Vernon, a mixed-race Ceylonese postgraduate student, and Saul, a wealthy Jewish intellectual and connoisseur of music-meet regularly for tea at a Lyons' Corner House on Coventry Street. They discuss everything under the sun. Despite their blossoming friendship, however, neithe...

How Now, Butterfly?: A Memoir Of Murder, Survival, and Transformation - Paperback

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by Charity Lee (Author), Brian Whitney (Author)Losing a young daughter to murder is the worst nightmare that a mother could possibly imagine, but what if the killer was her son? Charity Lee was thrust into this unimaginable situation when her 13-year-old son Paris murdered her beloved 4-year-old daughter, Ella.Charity goes through intense grief at the loss of her daughter, while at the same time trying to understand why her son would have done something as horrific as this, and how she could...

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by Melvin Johnakin (Author)Philadelphia is the backdrop where the political and social culture is dominated by fraud, music moguls, a few religious shysters and ex cons all playing and eating from the same table and poverty is the commodity that fuels the gambling frenzy. The big gamble includes public housing contracts, intertwined with educational contracts for Charter Schools, Workforce Development and a building that was repurposed for something else, a private playground, and street main...

A Parade of Grief: Gun Violence in America - Paperback

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by Robert Fraga (Author)Fraga "... traces America's history ... from the days of Bleeding Kansas to the long tradition of political assassination; exploring the ways that American gun culture has become more radical over time. Related issues of racism; police violence; mental health; and suicide are discussed; as are the numerous ways that efforts to legislate gun control have been stymied at all levels of government. Fraga is a skilled writer; and his matter-of-fact prose captures the mundan...

Watching the Watchers: Communist Elites, the Secret Police and Social Order in Cold War Europe - Hardcover

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by Henry Thomson (Author)Throughout history, dictators have constructed secret police agencies to neutralize rivals and enforce social order. But the same agencies can become disloyal and threatening. This book explores how eight communist regimes in Cold War Europe confronted this dilemma. Divergent strategies caused differences in regimes of repression, with consequences for social order and political stability. Surviving the shock of Josef Stalin's death, elites in East Germany and Romania...

31 Murders: Following the Trail of Serial Sex Killer Earle Nelson - Paperback

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by Alvin A. J. Esau (Author) Many decades before Ted Bundy roamed the country there was serial killer Earle Nelson. During the 1920s, this geographically mobile killer went from city to city. His modus operandi involved getting into a house by pretending to be a person looking for a room to rent or inspecting a house that was for sale, and then strangling the landlady, often followed by having sex with the dead body. Robbery was frequently a secondary motive. After Nelson was captured in Cana...

Fugitives: The Story of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker - Paperback

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by Jan I. Fortune (Author), Emma Parker (As Told by), Nell Barrow Cowan (As Told by)Fugitives: The Story of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, first published in 1934 only three months after their deaths, are the recollections by Bonnie's mother and Clyde's sister of the infamous criminal duo. The story is told by their family members who often met them in secret locations and daily dreaded the news of their deaths. While some researchers question some of the facts in the book, it does contain l...

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by Douglas C. Walker (Author), Kenneth G. Robinson (Contribution by)Doug, "Limitations, there really are none. Only the ones we put on ourselves."Danny_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________The headlines read, "The Last Good Deed Cost Daniel A. Walker Jr. His Life" and "Murder Victim Was Always Doing Favors."The unresolved twist-of-fate story regarding the October 1, 1974, murder of Danny Walker has haunted his ...

Forensics III: They Got Fifteen Minutes of Fame from the Way They Died - Hardcover

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by Harry A. Milman (Author)In Forensics III: They Got Fifteen Minutes of Fame from the Way They Died, I reviewed twenty-eight ordinary people who were thrust into the spotlight, gaining fame not for their talents or accomplishments while living, but for the way they died. Newspaper and magazine articles ensured that stories of the circumstances surrounding their deaths remained in the public eye, so that, as Andy Warhol had predicted, their fame would last at least fifteen minutes. In some ca...

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by Karen Holcomb (Author), John F. Holcomb (Author)On Easter Sunday 1975, James Urban Ruppert shot and killed his 11 closest relatives in what was then the largest family mass murder in the United States. The killings, which took the lives of eight children ages 4 to 17, sent shock waves through Ruppert's hometown of Hamilton, Ohio. Ruppert claimed that his insanity and belief in a conspiracy against him, coupled with his brother's off-hand comment, "How's your Volkswagen running, Jim?," sent...

The Crate: A Story Of War, A Murder, And Justice - Paperback

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by Deborah Vadas Levison (Author)After surviving the horrors of the Holocaust - in ghettos, on death marches, and in concentration camps - a young couple seeks refuge in Canada. They settle into a new life, certain that the terrors of their past are behind them. They build themselves a cozy little cottage on a lake in Muskoka, a cottage that becomes emblematic of their victory over the Nazis. The charming retreat is a safe haven, a refuge from haunted memories. That is, until a single act of...

Blood and Volts: Edison, Tesla, and the Electric Chair - Paperback

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by Th Metzger (Author)An ax murderer, two of the most brilliant scientific minds of the century, billions of dollars in profit, precedent-setting legal battles, secrets of life and death - all of these come together in the story of the first electric chair.In Blood and Volts, Th. Metzger creates a unique synthesis of scholarship, storytelling, and cultural critique. Though it draws from a number of disparate fields-true crime, history of technology, conspiracy theory, criminal law-Blood and V...

Forensics III: They Got Fifteen Minutes of Fame from the Way They Died - Paperback

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by Jamilah Thomas (Author), Ashley Siebels (Cover Design by)A woman is stuck in the middle a painting crime story of the century, and everyone's pointing fingers at her. In 1995, A painting was stolen underneath everyone's faces, and everyone's pointing figures at the wrong person. In this comedic reverse heist story, a group of people who are somehow connected with the real thief are tasked to get it back by a mysterious person. Number of Pages: 86 Dimensions: 0.18 x 9.61 x 6.69 IN Publicat...

Absolute Truth Will Set Us Free - Paperback

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by Druanne (Dru) Carpenter Earll (Author)For many American families, the most overt displays of racism have happened in far-too-recent history. One educator has uncovered dark ties to a pivotal miscarriage of justice-and she wants the world to know.When DruAnne Carpenter Earll received an unexpected phone call from a journalist, her family history was thrown into a new-and tragic-light. In 1939, W.D. Lyons was accused of three heinous murders. A Black sharecropper, he was arrested, beaten by ...

Death on St. Charles Street: Discovering my family's murderous secret - Paperback

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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 Patricia Stinson (Author), Patricia Louise Stinson (Author)In the Wyoming Territory in the 1800's there was little law. People took what they wanted. Lynchings, called Texas Cakewalk, happened. This is a true account of the motives and aftermath of the lynchings. What were the motives of six men to lynch people? Did they get away with it?Texas Cakewalk is about true and infamous lynchings. The story is of eight people from different backgrounds with different ambitions and attitudes. The e...

Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore's Deadliest Gang Leader - Paperback

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by Mark Bowden (Author)In this unprecedented deep dive into inner-city ganglife, Mark Bowden takes readers inside a Baltimore gang, offers an in-depthportrait of its notorious leader, and chronicles the 2016 FBI investigationthat landed eight gang members in prisonSandtown is one of the deadliest neighborhoods in the world;it earned Baltimore its nickname Bodymore, Murderland, and was made notoriousby David Simon's classic HBO series "The Wire." Drug deals dominate streetcorners, and ruthless...

Hollywood Con Queen: The Hunt for an Evil Genius - Paperback

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by Scott C. Johnson (Author)Soon to be an Apple TV+ Docuseries!"This book is as engrossing as anything by Agatha Christie, as unsettling as a novel by Stephen King, and reported with a vigorous empathy that leaves Truman Capote in the dust. Scott Johnson's courage, his relentless quest for the truth behind a set of brilliantly obscured cruelties, and his examination of the very fabric of psychopathy ultimately lead him to question how the appalling lies spat out by the Con Queen relate to the...

Toxic Rage: A Tale Of Murder In Tucson - Paperback

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by A. J. Flick (Author)Brian Stidham fell in love with Tucson, Ariz., the minute he came to town. A young and talented eye surgeon, he accepted a job with an established eye surgeon to take over his pediatric patients. "It's a beautiful place," Stidham told a friend. "I can live right there by the mountains and go hiking. It's a great deal for me there. The partner I'll be working with is ultracool. He's giving me the keys to the kingdom." Brad Schwartz, the doctor who hired Brian, was amb...

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by Gary L. Joralemon (Author)The Stadium Steps is actually two tales. It's the story of a probation officer, the son of a slain police officer, raised by his mother and a parish priest who becomes a surrogate father to the boy. But Father Iggy is more than a paternal figure in the life of Michael O'Shea. The priest becomes his boxing coach and, at an early age, may have sowed the seeds for the traumatic brain injury which leads to O'Shea's placement in a medical facility for patients with bra...

A Doctor at Calvary: The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ as Described by a Surgeon - Paperback

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by Pierre Barbet (Author)2024 Reprint of the 1953 Edition. Illustrated with 12 plates. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. What the Gospels don't reveal about Christ's sufferings, science does. While the Gospels relate only the barest essentials concerning the physical suffering of Jesus, Dr. Pierre Barbet addresses these gaps with scientific inquiry. A Doctor at Calvary provides a forensic pathologist's analysis of the Holy Shroud of ...

Why Didn't You Come Sooner? Compassion in Action: Stories of Children Rescued Form Slavery - Paperback

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by Kailash Satyarthi (Author)The work of rescuing children from slavery is not for the faint of heart, as thetwelve gut-wrenching accounts in this book will show. Harder still is to givethem their life back, after they've been kidnapped, trafficked, sold, abused andmade to work in horrific conditions, often for as long as they can remember.Pradeep was offered up for human sacrifice by his family, thought to be a badomen; Devli was a third-generation slave in a stone quarry in Haryana, whohad ...

Lost Girls: An American Mystery - Paperback

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by Robert Kolker (Author)The New York Times bestseller--With an Afterword and a New Epilogue by the AuthorA New York Times Notable Book--Now a Netflix Film"Meticulously reported and beautifully written . . . a haunting and powerful crime story that gives voice to those who can no longer be heard."--David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Wager"Rich, tragic . . . monumental . . . true-crime reporting at its best."--Washington PostOne late spring evening in 2010, Shannan Gilbe...

A Murder on the Hill: The Secret Life and Mysterious Death of Ruth Munson - Paperback

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by Roger Barr (Author)The mysterious murder of a woman in a historic neighborhood is shrouded in scandal, innuendo, police neglect, and media sensationalism in Depression-era Minnesota. Join author Roger Barr as he searches for answers to this unsolved case. At 7:00 a.m. on December 9, 1937, St. Paul firefighters battling an arsonist's fire in the abandoned Aberdeen Hotel discovered the badly burned body of a woman. The victim was soon identified as 31-year-old Ruth Munson, a waitress at the ...

Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer - Paperback

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by Jillian Lauren (Author), Michael Connelly (Foreword by)"Sam Little is the monster in this story and Jillian Lauren is the slayer. She is the one who stuck her nose into it, saw something was not right, was dreadfully wrong, in fact, and did something about it." --Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times bestselling authorHe was sitting right across the table... and he would have killed her if he couldJillian Lauren had no idea what she was getting into when she wrote her first letter to prolifi...

A Preponderance of Evil: The Nathaniel Bar-Jonah Story - Paperback

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by Lauri Olsen (Author)When 10-year-old Zachary Ramsay disappeared on his way to school in Great Falls, Montana, police investigated all possible leads to find him. One name on a list of suspects rose to the top: Nathaniel Bar-Jonah (born David Paul Brown.) Convicted of abduction, child molestation and attempted murder in Massachusetts, Bar-Jonah's crimes against children had escalated when he moved to the Big Sky State. It was only after the FBI decoded his cryptic writings that law enforcem...

Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America's Most Dangerous Female Spy--And the Sister She Betrayed - Paperback

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by Jim Popkin (Author)*An Amazon Best Book of 2023**An Apple Book of the Month for January*"This is the definitive history of how one of America's most highly regarded intelligence analysts betrayed her country, and how she almost got away with it." --Pete Williams, former NBC News justice correspondentInvestigative journalist Jim Popkin weaves the tale of two sisters who chose two very different paths, plus the unsung heroes who fought to bring Ana Montes to justice. With exclusive access to...

Free Love: The Story of a Great American Scandal - Paperback

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by Robert Shaplen (Author), Louis Menand (Foreword by)A wry, instructive, and hugely entertaining account of "one of the most sensational trials in American history" (New York Times Book Review). On the night of July 3, 1870, Elizabeth Tilton confessed to her husband that she'd had an affair with their pastor, Henry Ward Beecher. This secret would soon transfix America, for Beecher was the most famous preacher of the day, founder of the most fashionable church in Brooklyn Heights, a president...