True Crime

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Kidnapped: And Other Stories of God's Grace - Paperback

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by Susie Barnes (Author)"He told me to shut up, but I refused, continuing to scream with all my might. He placed his hands around my throat and kept telling me to shut up. His grip was now so tight that I fought for breath and there was none. I was being strangled, and I knew that death was soon to follow." These are the words of Susie Barnes, relating her miraculous survival from the grip of a kidnapper. This and other stories of God's grace that you will not want to miss occupy the pages of...

The Toughest Prison of All: The true story of a career bank robber and how he broke his addiction to criminal thinking - Paperback

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by Floyd C. Forsberg (Author)Floyd was the most infamous bank robber of his time. From his early teens, Floyd believed that crime would lead to happiness and prosperity. But after each crime, he ended up back in prison, planning his next escape, his next big job. In 1974, he and three others pulled off a one-million-dollar heist, but it didn't end up the way he planned. This book is a personal account of Forsberg's life of crime, beginning with burglary and purse snatching, then car theft, fo...

Memoir of a Mangled Mind: How Concealing My Dissociative Identity Disorder Unleashed Multiple Personalities - Paperback

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by Steven Simmons Shelton Ma Jd (Author) Number of Pages: 404 Dimensions: 0.9 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 19, 2024

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by Peter Dove (Author)New Orleans has always managed to create a mix of the mysterious and the macabre in our minds. As a city, it is different; its jazz, its location and openness to the elements, its cosmopolitan community. At the turn of the last century, the French influence was still strong. A quarter of the population spoke the Gallic language, and French newspapers were still popular. But these Northern Europeans were not the only significant immigrant group to reside there.In 1915, At...

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by Pete Dove (Author)Yeardey Love and George Huguely seemed like the average college couple...dating then drifting apart. It seemed as though, in the beginning, this was something that both sides accepted. Young people change more quickly than older ones, and long college relationships are rare. When a couple had so little time to be together, the process of breaking up becomes easier and more likely. But as their final college days approached, Huguely became less and less able to accept the ...

The Lost Fifty-Seven: A Genealogical Journey of Discovery, Deception, Secrets and Scandal - Paperback

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by Ron Williams (Author)"He probably had another family in the United States that we didn't know about" went the story author Ron Williams was told when he would ask about his deceased paternal grandfather. As a child, the explanation satisfied, but then it didn't.The Lost Fifty-Seven: A Genealogical Journey of Discovery, Deception, Secrets and Scandal is a genealogical memoir sharing the author's prolonged efforts to uncover the truth about his grandfather's secretive early life.Alfred Victo...

Cocaine Murder in the first degree - Paperback

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by Edgar Futrell (Author)Cocaine Murder in the 1st Degree" is a fast-paced thriller filled with suspense, crime, and shocking twists. Set against a backdrop of drugs, violence, and betrayal, this gripping novel explores the dark consequences of addiction and deception. With its intense action and unpredictable plot, it will keep readers on the edge of their seats until the very end..... Number of Pages: 308 Dimensions: 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: December 10, 2024

White Mischief: The Murder of Lord Erroll - Paperback

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by James Fox (Author)The riveting true story of decadence, deception, and murder among British aristocrats in colonial Kenya In 1941, with London burning in the Blitz, a group of hedonistic English nobles partied shamelessly in Kenya. Far removed from falling bombs, the wealthy elites of "Happy Valley" indulged in morphine, alcohol, and unrestricted sex, often with their friends' spouses. But the party turned sinister in the early hours of a January morning for Josslyn Hay, Lord Erroll, who h...

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by Benjamin P. Feldman (Author), Darleen Gumtow (Author)In 2007, my first book, Butchery on Bond Street: Sexual Politics and the Burdell-Cunningham Case in Ante-Bellum New York, appeared.1 The volume is the dispositive history of one of the most infamous 19th-century crimes in New York City, dominating the attention of the local and national press and public in much the same way as did O. J. Simpson in the late 20th century. Dr. Burdell was a well-to-do dentist living and working in lower Man...

The Ultimate Evil: The Search for the Sons of Sam - Paperback

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by Maury Terry (Author), Joshua Zeman (Introduction by)The true-crime cult classic that inspired the Netflix docuseries The Sons of Sam: A Descent into Darkness and a companion podcast, The Ultimate Evil follows journalist Maury Terry's decades-long investigation into the terrifying truth behind the Son of Sam murders. On August 10, 1977, the NYPD arrested David Berkowitz for the Son of Sam murders that had terrorized New York City for over a year. Berkowitz confessed to shooting sixteen peop...

My Father and Atticus Finch: A Lawyer's Fight for Justice in 1930s Alabama - Paperback

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by Joseph Madison Beck (Author)My Father and Atticus Finch is the true story of Foster Beck, the author's late father, whose courageous defense of a black man accused of raping a white woman in 1930s Alabama foreshadowed the trial at the heart of Harper Lee's classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird. After repeatedly being told that his father's case "might have" inspired Ms. Lee, author Beck, now a lawyer himself, located the trial transcript and multiple newspaper articles and here reconstructs ...

Undercover Copper: One Woman on the Track of Dangerous Criminals - Paperback

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by Danni Brooke (Author)A thrilling, gritty expose of life as a female undercover cop. Number of Pages: 288 Dimensions: 0.65 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: March 14, 2024

Mrs. Cook and the Klan: Booze, Bloodshed, and Bigotry in America's Heartland - Paperback

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by Tom Chorneau (Author)On the day she was murdered, Myrtle Underwood Cook boasted to local authorities about new evidence of a major bootlegging ring operating out of the Rock Island train depot behind her house in a small farming town in eastern Iowa. Then, as she sat at her parlor window sewing, she took a single slug through the heart. She was president of the local temperance union; her killing made the front page of the New York Times. The next day her funeral made national news due to ...

Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story - Paperback

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by Max Marshall (Author)"Among the Bros is a harrowing and disturbing book. I have read about fraternity life but nothing like this. This book will blow your mind, each page digging deeper into the unimaginable. Except every word is true."--Buzz Bissinger, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Mosquito Bowl and Friday Night LightsA brilliant young investigative journalist traces a murder and a multi-million-dollar drug ring, leading to an unprecedented look at elite American fraternity ...

Scout Camp: Sex, Death, and Secret Societies Inside the Boy Scouts of America - Hardcover

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by James Renner (Author)In this timely and deeply personal true crime memoir, acclaimed journalist, author, creator of the True Crime This Week podcast, and former Boy Scout James Renner, explores the dark side of an American institution, its pervasive culture of sexual abuse, and the traumatic--even deadly--repercussions of its long-buried secrets. In the summer of 1995, at the largest Boy Scout camp in Ohio, a night of sexual violence ended with one counselor dead and another hospitalized. ...

The Prosecutor: One Man's Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice - Hardcover

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by Jack Fairweather (Author)From the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Volunteer, the powerful true story of a Jewish lawyer who returned to Germany after World War II to prosecute war crimes, only to find himself pitted against a nation determined to bury the past. At the end of the Nuremberg trial in 1946, some of the greatest war criminals in history were sentenced to death, but hundreds of thousands of Nazi murderers and collaborators remained at large. The Allies were ready to ov...

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder - Paperback

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by David Grann (Author)A "TOUR DE FORCE OF NARRATIVE NONFICTION" (WSJ) WITH OVER ONE YEAR ON THE NYT BEST SELLER LIST From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on The Wager, showing that it was not only the captain and crew who ended up on trial, but the very idea of empire. A Best Book of the Year: The Ne...

Undercover Junkie: Chasing Highs, Confronting Killers, and Unraveling in the Chaos - Paperback

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by Brent Cartwright (Author)IN THE UNDERBELLY OF KANSAS CITY'S MOST LETHAL STREETS, ONE COP DESCENDS INTO A NIGHTMARE OF ADDICTION, BETRAYAL, AND LOST IDENTITY IN PURSUIT OF JUSTICE.Detective Brent Cartwright seemed to have it all-a loving family, a promising police career, and a future full of possibilities. But the grind of everyday police work left him craving more-a deeper rush, bigger challenges, and higher stakes. His solution? Join the elite undercover unit, where he could chase the ci...

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by Robert J. Lamphere (Author), Tom Schachtman (With)A memoir of former FBI special agent Lamphere's involvement in the post World War II spook sweep in the US, reading like a slice of Cold War history with a generous dash of John Le Carre spy intrigue. The author chronicles his work with the FBI in uncovering the Rosenberg spy network, including JudiBack JacketThe names, we sometimes say, have been changed "to protect the innocent". As regards those agents in KGB networks in the U.S. during ...