True Crime

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The Killer Across the Table LP - Paperback

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by John E. Douglas (Author)The legendary FBI criminal profiler, number-one New York Times bestselling author, and inspiration for the hit Netflix show Mindhunter delves deep into the lives and crimes of four of the most disturbing and complex predatory killers, offering never-before-revealed details about his profiling process, and divulging the strategies used to crack some of America's most challenging cases.The FBI's pioneer of criminal profiling, former special agent John Douglas, has stu...

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by Laurence Leamer (Author)The New York Times bestselling author of The Kennedy Women chronicles the powerful and spellbinding true story of a brutal race-based killing in 1981 and subsequent trials that undid one of the most pernicious organizations in American history--the Ku Klux Klan.On a Friday night in March 1981 Henry Hays and James Knowles scoured the streets of Mobile in their car, hunting for a black man. The young men were members of Klavern 900 of the United Klans of America. They...

Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully: An Edgar Award Winner - Paperback

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by Allen Kurzweil (Author)Winner of the Edgar(R) Award for Best Fact CrimeThe true account of one boy's lifelong search for his boarding-school bully.Equal parts childhood memoir and literary thriller, Whipping Boy chronicles prize-winning author Allen Kurzweil's search for his twelve-year-old nemesis, a bully named Cesar Augustus. The obsessive inquiry, which spans some forty years, takes Kurzweil all over the world, from a Swiss boarding school (where he endures horrifying cruelty) to the s...

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by Bill Moushey (Author), Robert Dvorchak (Author)The most comprehensive and explosive book on the worst scandal in the history of sports, Game Over investigates the devastating sexual abuse case that brought down Joe Paterno and forever tarnished the name of Penn State. In this incisive work of investigative journalism, Bill Moushey and Bob Dvorchak, along with Lisa Pulitzer, go behind the headlines, official statements, and court transcripts to tell the full story of the sexual abuse scanda...

A Brain of My Own: A Memoir about Dissociation Dissolved - Paperback

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by Wendy Hoffman (Author)A personal account of attempting to escape slavery by a mind control cult A Brain of My Own is about slavery, about brains stolen in childhood and before; brains that have been intruded upon, stopped, shrunk, paralyzed. We know about the history of people whose bodies were enslaved; but we know barely anything about the victims who appear free but whose brains are invisibly chained. Nor do we know about the international collusion, silence, and apathy that surround th...

The Starker: Big Jack Zelig, the Becker-Rosenthal Case, and the Advent of the Jewish Gangster - Hardcover

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by Rose Keefe (Author)Selig Harry Lefkowitz, alias Big Jack Zelig, was New York's first great gangster boss. Like many of his pre-Volstead contemporaries, his historic impact has been overshadowed by Al Capone and Murder Inc. He is listed in today's crime anthologies primarily because four members of the gang, along with corrupt cop Charles Becker, died in the electric chair for the July 1912 murder of gambler Herman Rosenthal. In New York City from 1908 to 1912, however, Zelig inspired admir...

Unsolved Murders: UK True Crime - Paperback

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by Pam D'Mona (Author)A school girl strangled on her way home from buying breakfast cereal, a banker blasted to death on his doorstep and the vicious slaughter of a Playboy Bunny - these are just some of the crimes that still lie unsolved on the files of Britain's police forcesUnsolved Murders - UK True Crime examines some cases that have baffled detectives over the last eight decades. From the puzzle of a woman's body found in a wych elm tree during the Second World War to modern cases such ...

The Best New True Crime Stories: Unsolved Crimes & Mysteries - Paperback

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by Mitzi Szereto (Author)Sometimes the most mystifying and enticing stories are those without an ending. Mitzi Szereto's latest collection The Best New True Crime Stories: Unsolved Crimes & Mysteries profiles the true crime stories that have mystified us for years, teasing us with possibilities and unpredictable suspects. Number of Pages: 240 Dimensions: 0.8 x 8.3 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: September 13, 2022

Louder: Love, Lies, Deceit, and Breaking the Narcissist's Mirror - Paperback

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by Rachel Elizabeth Ehrenreich (Author)You think it can't and won't happen to you. So did I. Trigger warnings ahead. After escaping the extreme grip of an abusive narcissist who tried to destroy my life, I believed I'd found my happily ever after--but it was all a twisted reality of lies and deceit. A charming sociopath--a master of disguise--targeted me, and I fell in love with the mask he hid behind. By the time I realized that he had lied about everything, he had spent my entire life savin...

Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of Reckoning - Paperback

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by Sarah Weinman (Author), Rabia Chaudry (Foreword by)From Sarah Weinman, the award-winning editor of Unspeakable Acts, a groundbreaking new anthology showcasing the future of the true crime genreTrue crime, as an entertainment genre, has always prioritized clear narrative arcs: victims wronged, police detectives in pursuit, suspects apprehended, justice delivered. But what stories have been ignored? In Evidence of Things Seen, fourteen of the most innovative crime writers working today cast ...

Fool Me Once: Scams, Stories, and Secrets from the Trillion-Dollar Fraud Industry - Hardcover

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by Kelly Richmond Pope (Author)A riveting look at the perpetrators, victims, and whistleblowers behind financial crimes, from forensic accounting expert and documentarian Kelly Richmond Pope.Have you ever wondered why Bernie Madoff thought he could brazenly steal his clients' money? Or why investors were so easily duped by Elizabeth Holmes? Or how courageous people like Jeffrey Wigand are willing to become whistleblowers and put their careers on the line?Fraud is everywhere, from Nigerian "pr...

Circle of Treason: A CIA Account of Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed - Paperback

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by Sandra Grimes (Author), Jeanne Vertefeuille (Author)"While there have been other books about Aldrich Ames, Circle of Treason is the first account written by CIA agents who were key members of the CIA team that conducted the intense "Ames Mole Hunt." Sandra Grimes and Jeanne Vertefeuille were two of the five principals of the CIA team tasked with hunting one of their own and were directly responsible for identifying Ames as the mole, leading to his arrest and conviction. One of the most des...

Vanished in Vermillion: The Real Story of South Dakota's Most Infamous Cold Case - Paperback

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by Lou Raguse (Author)The result of hundreds of interviews, Vanished in Vermillion is a cold case story that flips the script on a typical investigation narrative, revealing the biggest law enforcement embarrassment in South Dakota history. In May 1971, Pam Jackson and Sherri Miller were two seventeen-year-olds driving to an end-of-the-school-year party in a rundown Studebaker Lark when they seemingly disappeared off the face of the earth. Police back then didn't do enough to try and find the...

The Devil's Jazz: The Haunted Chronicles of the Axman of New Orleans - Paperback

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by Vincent B. Chip Lococo (Author)"They have never caught me and they never will . . . I have been, am, and will be the worst spirit that ever existed either in fact or the realm of fancy." - The AxmanIn the sultry heart of New Orleans, a city haunted by the legacy of Jack the Ripper's reign of terror in London, a new menace emerges. The year is 1918, and the Axman of New Orleans prowls the cobblestone streets, targeting the city's large population of Sicilian immigrants.Vincent LoCoco's "The...

True Crime Stories You Won't Believe: Book Two - Paperback

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by Romeo Vitelli (Author)In this book, I present additional tales of true crime and bizarre applications of justice (or injustice, as the case may be). They include: The real story behind "Arsenic and Old Lace" and why the reality isn't as lighthearted as Hollywood made it out to be.A case in which a dream helped solve a gruesome murder. Or did it?When a staunch Irish sea captain murdered almost his entire crew on the high seas and what happened afterward.Did an Ouija board drive an Alabama ...

More Likely Dead: An American Story Crime, Drugs, Sex, Violence-Redemption? - Paperback

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by Keith Hutchison (Author)MORE LIKELY DEAD An American Story Crime, Drugs, Sex, Violence-Redemption is a true story about a young man in California lost and thrown into a world of drugs, sex, and violence. This is a look back at how he got there. It's a rough ride with rays of light and a chance for self-redemption. Everyone has a story. This is mine. It's an adventure I didn't sign up for, a mental struggle to avoid self-destruction. But it is the path I traveled on the ride of my life. Num...

Afterward: Murder of a Soldier - Paperback

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by Terri Schlack (Author)1SGT (Ret) Rich and Terri Schlack are proud and supportive parents when their first born son, Ryan, decides to go into the army. After all, they are very familiar with military life and what safer place to be than on a military base.Afterward is the unique story of the Schlack family's life after Ryan is murdered senselessly in Fort Hood, Texas in 2009. The heartbreak of burying a son, the unforeseeable emotional and physical pain, the tensions of experiencing a milit...

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by Julian de la Chica (Author)A powerful love story about fighting against the church and God himself. Recreating the Colombia of the early twentieth century, God's Punishment tells the story of a small town nestled in the mountains of Colombia that became a concentration camp run by the state, the church, and the medical community.Editorial Note: Since 2000, composer Julián De La Chica has been researching Agua de Dios, Colombia, and its history as a town forcibly confining leprosy patients ...

Remembering Satan: A Tragic Case of Recovered Memory - Paperback

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by Lawrence Wright (Author)From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower comes "the most powerful and disturbing true crime narrative to appear since Truman Capote's In Cold Blood" (TIME)--a case that destroyed a family, engulfed a small town, and captivated an America obsessed by rumors of a satanic underground. In 1988 Ericka and Julie Ingram began making a series of accusations of sexual abuse against their father, Paul Ingram, who was a respected deputy sheriff in Olympia, W...

Eyewitness: The True Story of the Northport Aztakea Woods Murder - Paperback

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by Albert Quinones (Author)This is my story. I, Albert Quinones, live my life with the pain of the death of my two best friends--Ricky Kasso and Gary Lauwers.I live with the pain, sorrow, and nightmares every day. I live my life wondering if I could've done something differently to change what happened. maybe I should've said, "Let's call it a night," or did not go to the woods. Well, maybe I should've just went to the party without them. I don't know, but I have to live with this for the res...

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...

When a Killer Calls: A Haunting Story of Murder, Criminal Profiling, and Justice in a Small Town - Paperback

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by John E. Douglas (Author), Mark Olshaker (Author)From John Douglas--the legendary FBI criminal profiler, #1 New York Times bestselling author, and inspiration for the Netflix show Mindhunter--comes a chilling journey inside the mind and crimes of Larry Gene Bell, one of the most dangerous serial killers Douglas confronted, and the desperate effort to identify and catch him.On May 31, 1985, two days before her high school graduation, Shari Smith was abducted from the driveway of her family h...

Daredevil at the Wheel: The Climb and Crash of Joan Lacosta - Hardcover

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by Tony St Clair (Author), Aime Alley Card (Foreword by)"An essential contribution to women's sports history and car racing collections." --Booklist, Starred Review On Fourth of July weekend in 1924, Marion Martins flies past some of the best race car drivers of her time and takes home two trophies from the famous North Shore racetrack in Chicago. In 1926, on the beaches of Daytona, Florida, Joan LaCosta breaks a world speed record at 145 miles per hour. But Martins and LaCosta never face one...

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by John E. Douglas (Author), Mark Olshaker (Author) Number of Pages: 336 Dimensions: 1 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: February 01, 2022

Legal Mail Window: The Autobiography - Paperback

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by Bernard Tribe Ackon (Author)Legal mail window is about a time that God showed Himself strong on my behalf and gave me another chance at life. I was sentenced to 15 years in the department of corrections for possession of ammunition by a convicted felon. During a police raid searching for drugs they found nothing but a box of bullets. This book outlines the perseverance, faith and everything I went thru to have this case overturned. In prison there was a window where a postal lady would com...

Arctic Predator: The Crimes of Edward Horne Against Children in Canada's North - Paperback

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by Kathleen Lippa (Author)The shocking crimes of a trusted teacher wrought lasting damage on Inuit communities in Canada's Arctic. In the 1970s, a young schoolteacher from British Columbia was becoming the darling of the Northwest Territories education department with his dynamic teaching style. He was learning to speak the local language, Inuktitut, something few outsiders did. He also claimed to be Indigenous -- a claim that would later prove to be false. In truth, Edward Horne was a pedoph...

The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare and of the Man of Science Who Abetted Them in the - Paperback

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by Lisa Rosner (Author)Up the close and down the stair, Up and down with Burke and Hare.Burke's the butcher, Hare's the thief, Knox the man who buys the beef.--anonymous children's song On Halloween night 1828, in the West Port district of Edinburgh, Scotland, a woman sometimes known as Madgy Docherty was last seen in the company of William Burke and William Hare. Days later, police discovered her remains in the surgery of the prominent anatomist Dr. Robert Knox. Docherty was the final victim...

Down the Hill: My Descent Into the Double Murder in Delphi - Hardcover

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by Susan Hendricks (Author)Former CNN/HLN anchor and veteran broadcast journalist Susan Hendricks takes an investigative deep-dive into the still-unsolved double homicide of two teens in Delphi, Indiana--and its lasting impact on the community On February 13, 2017, two teenage girls--13-year-old Abby Williams and 14-year-old Libby German--decided to enjoy a day off from school by exploring the popular hiking trails near the Monon High Bridge just a few minutes' drive from Libby's home in Del...

Sunday Afternoons and Other Times Remembered: A Memoir - Paperback

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by Ben Ewell (Author)On the afternoon of Easter Sunday, 1992, Ben Ewell's brother, sister-in-law, and niece were all murdered. While trying to make sense of this staggering tragedy, Ben can't help but think back through his life: the hard work and the many peaceful Sunday afternoons growing up on his family farm in Ohio in a house without a bathroom or running water; his high school antics in the 1950s; his time in Haight-Ashbury while attending law school in 1960s San Francisco; and the high...

Big Apple Gangsters: The Rise and Decline of the Mob in New York - Paperback

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by Jeffrey Sussman (Author)Through profiles of the most colorful and powerful crime bosses, gang members, corrupt cops, and numerous mob associates as well as pivotal events in the history of organized crime, Big Apple Gangsters reveals just how influential the mob has been in controlling large numbers of business not just in New York, but also in other cities.Author BiographyJeffrey Sussman is the author of fourteen nonfiction books, as well as numerous articles and short stories about boxin...

Killer on the Canal: 100 Logic Puzzles to Solve the Murder Mystery - Paperback

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by Clarity Media (Author), Collins Puzzles (Author)100 cosy crime puzzles.Follow detective aficionado and retiree Harvey Rivers as he traverses Britain's idyllic canal network, uncovering murder and intrigue along the way. You will need to draw on all your powers of logic and deduction to help him solve these 100 original murder-mystery puzzles.Challenges abound as Harvey encounters mysterious characters on his journey. You are tasked with solving logic puzzles related to Harvey's story.Life ...

On the Trail of the Assassins: One Man's Quest to Solve the Murder of President Kennedy - Paperback

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by Jim Garrison (Author)The New York Times Bestseller. about the search for the assassins of JFK. "Garrison's book presents the most powerful detailed case yet made that President Kennedy's assassination was the product of a conspiracy, and that the plotters and key operators came not from the Mob, but the CIA."--Norman Mailer More than fifty years after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, his murder continues to haunt the American psyche and stands as a turning point in our natio...