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Marikana: Voices from South Africa's Mining Massacre - Paperback

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by Peter Alexander (Author)The Marikana Massacre of August 16, 2012, was the single most lethal use of force by South African security forces against civilians since the end of apartheid. Those killed were mineworkers in support of a pay raise. Through a series of interviews conducted with workers who survived the attack, this account documents and examines the controversial shootings in great detail, beginning with a valuable history of the events leading up to the killing of workers, and in...

The Bomb Doctor: A Scientist's Story of Bombers, Beakers, and Bloodhounds - Hardcover

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by Kirk Yeager (Author), Selene Yeager (Author)A rare peek behind the curtain into boots-on-the-ground, in-the-lab scientific bomb forensics--told with humanity, heart, and even a bit of humor. This is not CSI. What you encounter as a true bomb detective--or "Bomb Doctor," as some in the FBI call me--are fields of twisted metal containing soot-covered fragments intermingled with human remains. You have carnage and chaos. As you wade into that sea of wailing sirens and screaming survivors awas...

Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls - Paperback

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by Jessica McDiarmid (Author)In the vein of the bestsellers I'll Be Gone in the Dark and The Line Becomes a River, a penetrating, deeply moving account of the missing and murdered indigenous women and girls of Highway 16, and a searing indictment of the society that failed them. For decades, Indigenous women and girls have gone missing or been found murdered along an isolated stretch of highway in northwestern British Columbia. The corridor is known as the Highway of Tears, and it has come to...

Everyday Tradecraft: Tactics of Spymasters for Daily Life - Paperback

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by Marco Aletto (Author) Number of Pages: 142 Dimensions: 0.33 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: April 15, 2024

The Day My Mother Never Came Home - Hardcover

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by Reginald L. Reed (Author)Reed invites you into his journey of healing and the pursuit of justice.With raw vulnerability, Reed delves into the depths of his trauma, offering glimpses into the psychological impact on his life while also offering a powerful message of hope and resilience. His story highlights the indomitable spirit that can arise from even the darkest of circumstances.The Day My Mother Never Came Home is not simply a true crime tale; it is a testament to the power of the huma...

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by Sarah Thompson (Author)Law enforcement do not often look to older women when they are seeking out suspects. For two decades, this fact kept Tamara Samsonova off the radar of police investigators. In photographs, she's a thin, frail woman with a mess of blond-brown hair and watery brown eyes. The wrinkles on her face and hands and reminiscent of any innocent old woman off the street. Tamara Samsonova looks as benign as the old woman next door who used to let you play in her yard when you we...

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by Thomas Burgess (Author)Burgess vs. United States highlights the Disparate Impact that the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) has on African Americans when going through the federal criminal justice system. Thomas Burgess an African American and former federal inmate tells his story of how the AEDPA denied him his Constitutional right to Habeas Corpus in prayer that it will trigger "The Habeas Corpus Reform Act" in order to stop the Disparate Impact that the AEDP...

Mystery At The Blue Sea Cottage: A True Story of Murder in San Diego's Jazz Age - Paperback

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by James Stewart (Author)Set in Jazz Age San Diego against the backdrop of yellow journalism, notorious Hollywood scandals, Prohibition corruption and a lively culture war, Mystery At The Blue Sea Cottage tells the intriguing true crime story of a beautiful dancer, a playboy actor, and a debonair doctor. In January 1923, 20-year-old Fritzie Mann left home for a remote cottage by the sea to meet a man whose identity she had revealed to no one. The next morning, the barely clad body of the beau...

There's Power in Pain and Poetry - Paperback

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by Tequan Daly (Author)There is Power in Pain and Poetry takes readers on a journey through the depths of Tequan Daly's incarceration and the transformative power of his art. Locked behind bars, Tequan discovers an unexpected outlet for expression and connection; poetry. As he navigates the harsh realities of incarcerated life, from witnessing the agonizing detox of fellow inmates to grappling with his own demons, Tequan finds solace and purpose in crafting verses that resonate with raw emoti...

The Cell: A Story Of Tragedy And Survival - Hardcover

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by Barry Beck (Author)While hockey great Barry Beck had been in fights before, nothing had prepared him for a one-two punch this vicious. On July 26, 2020, Beck's son Brock was murdered. Just over seven months later, Beck's former New York Rangers teammate, U.S. Olympic hero Mark Pavelich, died by suicide."With Brock's murder, I was thrust into this prison cell of trauma. You can't get out. You don't have the skills. You're trapped like a prisoner."With no clear pathway out, and too little su...

College Girl, Missing: The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight - Paperback

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by Shawn Cohen (Author)"This book is the heartbreaking story that every parent dreads... Cohen sheds light on what really happened the night Lauren was never seen again." --David Crow, author of The Pale-Faced LieShe visited friends. She walked to a bar. She was right there... until she was gone.College student Lauren Spierer was pursuing her dreams, joining her boyfriend at a party school eight hundred miles from home. Social and gregarious, studying fashion and rooming with friends, Lauren ...

Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers - Hardcover

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by Frank Figliuzzi (Author)"A true-crime masterpiece." --Don WinslowFrom the FBI's former assistant director, a shocking journey to the dark side of America's highways, revealing the FBI Highway Serial Killings Initiative's hunt for the long-haul truckers behind an astonishing 850 murders-and counting.In 2004, the FBI was tipped off to a gruesome pattern of unsolved murders along American roadways. Today at least 850 homicides have been linked to a solitary breed of predators: long-haul truck...

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by Angela Browne (Author)A compassionate look at 42 battered women who felt "locked in with danger and so desperate that they killed a man they loved"; scholarly and compelling.Author BiographyAngela Browne, Ph.D. is a social and forensic psychologist on the faculty of the department of psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Number of Pages: 228 Dimensions: 0.68 x 9.02 x 6 IN Publication Date: January 21, 2008

Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of the Mona Lisa - Paperback

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by R. a. Scotti (Author)On August 21, 1911, Leonardo da Vinci's most celebrated painting vanished from the Louvre. The prime suspects were as shocking as the crime: Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire, young provocateurs of a new art. The sensational disappearing act captured the world's imagination. Crowds stood in line to view the empty space on the museum wall. Thousands more waited, as concerned as if Mona Lisa were a missing person, for news of the lost painting. Almost a century lat...

Night Terrors: The True Story of the Kingsgrove Slasher - Paperback

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by Glen Humphries (Author)"Could you estimate the number of houses and backyards you have unlawfully entered?" "No, it would be terribly hard to say." "Would it be hundreds or would it be thousands?" "Many, many hundreds. Perhaps thousands."- The Kingsgrove Slasher's police questioning Between 1956 and 1959, suburban Sydney was terrorised by a phantom known as the Kingsgrove Slasher. A peeping Tom, he graduated to breaking into houses to watch people sleep before later slashing women and girl...

The Killing Game: The True Story Of Rodney Alcala - Paperback

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by Alan R. Warren (Author)Beginning in 1968 and continuing into the 1970s, a predator stalked California and New York, torturing, raping and murdering young girls and women. But who was the monster behind these tragedies?Eventually, a suspect emerged, but he didn't look like a monster. Indeed, Rodney Alcala was a handsome, charming photographer who'd once studied film at New York University under director Roman Polanski. With his wit and easy self-confidence and humor, he'd even been selected...

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by Brian Whitney (Author)Elliot Rodger considered himself to be intelligent, refined, handsome, fashionable and charming. He spent years trying to be cool so women would like him. He thought if he just wore expensive and fashionable clothing, had a better car, or if he were rich, then women would throw themselves at him. In fact, he thought himself to be "The Supreme Gentleman."Yet, women paid no attention to him. His only conclusion was that they were genetically flawed, and because of this ...

From There to Here As I Remember It!: An Autobiography - Hardcover

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by Leonard Szczesny (Author)Leonard Szczesny was born in 1931 on the Polish-Russian border to a Polish family. Because in 1933 his father Josef was banished for five years of hard labor to Siberia and was not allowed to ever return to within two hundred kilometers of his village, Leonard's travels started at an early age. In 1937, with his mother Antonina and his older brother Jan, he traveled east to rejoin his father at a new place of employment. World War II broke out in 1939, and by 1943 ...

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by Brian R. Foster (Author)True crimes stories-straight from the sourceThis third book in a true crime series continues to explore the side of life most people never see. Evil and Then Some contains more than forty stories of true cases-told from the perspective of law enforcement-offering an inside view of scams, drug gangs, serial killers, armed robbery, and homicide.The stories here include a fatal shooting at a funeral, an armed robbery at an ice cream parlor, murdering mistresses, scammi...

Leopold & Loeb: The Killing of Bobby Franks - Hardcover

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by Alan R. Warren (Author), John Borrowski (Afterword by), John Copenhaver (Foreword by)The Killer Queens is a new series of historical fiction books based on true stories. Sources, such as police reports and newspaper articles, are examined to gather as many facts as possible surrounding each case. As with any work of fiction, some creative additions are made when telling these stories, usually within the conversations between the personalities involved. The various sources are the basis of ...

Unbelievable Crimes Volume Six: Macabre Yet Unknown True Crime Stories - Paperback

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by Daniela Airlie (Author)Join me in exploring some of the most heinous crimes known to man in Unbelievable Crimes Volume Six.In this installment, I'll cover the story of a female spree killer, whose lust for blood saw her take the lives of three men - and try to murder two more unsuspecting victims. The purpose of her crimes? In her own words, it was for "fun."I'll also delve into a most frustrating crime - a cold case dating back to 1968 - where a teen girl was mercilessly murdered by an un...

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by Deborah Mateo (Author)It was another hot summer in the State of Texas and new opportunities brewed in the air. She was a young Hispanic single mother with nothing but hunger for success running through her veins. On a deep internal lead, she applied to be a Police Officer and the turn of events that followed, seemed as though they had been written for her a long time ago. This new experience brought her life full circle, explaining to her why she had been through so much trauma, abuse and ...

Sikhs: The Untold Agony of 1984 - Paperback

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by Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay (Author)About the BookA SEARING ACCOUNT OF 1984, PACKED WITH STORIES AND MEMORIES.'I want sukh, peace, ' said Shanti. She had watched her three sons, one of them an infant, and husband torched alive by marauding mobs. The sixty-five-year-old Sikh woman from a west Delhi slum said that the police had inserted a stick inside her.The distraught man spoke a single sentence but repeated it twice in chaste Punjabi: 'Please give me a turban. I want nothing else.'In the after...

CIA Lock Picking: Field Operative Training Manual - Paperback

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by Central Intelligence Agency (Author)There has been much opinion and little fact written on the subject of lockpicking. It will be my purpose to clarify the facts about this process and, at the same time, train you in the proper procedure so that before you leave this class today, you will at least have picked one lock. Please note that to become truly proficient, you must devote much time and patience in the future.In this volume, we will discuss not only the fundamental theories of lock p...

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by Robert K. Tanenbaum (Author)From the New York Times-bestselling author, a thrilling true crime story of grisly murder, police corruption, and an attorney's work to save an innocent man. In 1963, Emily Hoffert and Janice Wylie were just two young women living on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Then one muggy day in August, an intruder made his way into their apartment where he raped and murdered them. Months passed before the police had a suspect in custody. His name was George Whitmore Jr.,...

The Gunman and His Mother: Lee Harvey Oswald, Marguerite Oswald, and the Making of an Assassin - Paperback

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by Steven Beschloss (Author)This "groundbreaking" biography of Lee Harvey Oswald's formative years "provides new insight into the character of the man who murdered a president" (Michael Takiff, author of A Complicated Man and Brave Men, Gentle Heroes). The narrative of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy has been told from many points of view, most significantly in the wave of books exploring the Warren Commission's findings and the conspiracy theories that followed. But for journ...

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by Francisco González (Author)I am a man who has long been deeply studying the Holy Scriptures; (the Bible), this has allowed me to have a different formation as a human being; for having believed in the Holy Scriptures, that is, (the Bible). For me; The pro-life argument asserts that abortion is morally wrong because it deprives the fetus of a future. In this sense, killing a human being is wrong, because it deprives the victim of a future like ours: a future that contains very valuable or d...

This Machine Kills Secrets: Julian Assange, the Cypherpunks, and Their Fight to Empower Whistleblowers - Paperback

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by Andy Greenberg (Author)Who Are The Cypherpunks? This is the unauthorized telling of the revolutionary cryptography story behind the motion picture The Fifth Estate in theatres this October, and We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks, a documentary out now. WikiLeaks brought to light a new form of whistleblowing, using powerful cryptographic code to hide leakers' identities while they spill the private data of government agencies and corporations. But that technology has been evolving for...

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by Michael D. Kelleher (Author)In the late sixties, a serial killer calling himself the Zodiac terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area, committing brutal, random attacks, and bragging about them in letters to the San Francisco Chronicle.In Santa Rosa, fifty miles to the north, investigators Manny Bruin and Mick Millian were asked to tail potential suspect Byron Avion, an odd, portly man admittedly obsessed with the Zodiac. He had other eccentricities as well, not the least of which was his larg...

Affairs of Poison - True Crime's Deadliest Poisoners - Paperback

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by Dylan Frost (Author)Poison is a fairly popular method of murder in true crime history because it doesn't require brute force or a weapon of any kind. You can simply slip it in a cake or a drink. Anything you want. A lot of poisoners think they stand a much better chance of getting away with murder but this is a misguided view. It might be more complex to capture a poisoner than a mad axeman but the police tend to catch up with poisoners in the end. In this book we'll take a look at some of...

Clark Baldwin, The Serial Killing Trucker - Paperback

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by Ruth Kanton (Author)On Wednesday May 6, 2020, investigators arrived at Clark Perry Baldwin's home in Waterloo, Iowa, and placed him under arrest for multiple murders. Brent Cooper, the district attorney general of the 22nd Judicial District in Tennessee announced the arrest later that day, revealing that Baldwin was the main suspect in three cold cases, one in Spring Hill Tennessee, and two in Wyoming. Baldwin is suspected of the 1991 murder of Pamela Rose Aldridge McCall and her unborn ba...

Cuckooland: Where the Rich Own the Truth - Hardcover

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by Tom Burgis (Author)'Stand by for fireworks as it hits the shelves' SUNDAY TIMES'If Orwell were with us today, he'd be writing books like this' PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE'Breath-taking and jaw-dropping' PETER FRANKOPAN'A true-life thriller' ANNE APPLEBAUMFrom the bestselling author of Kleptopia comes a true story about Cuckooland - a world where the rich can buy everything - including the truth.Everywhere, the powerful are making a renewed claim to the greatest prize of all: to own the truth. The...