True Crime

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by Norman Nelson (Author)What Drives Men CrazyBy: Norman Nelson Meet Norman Nelson. He was a cop for 23 years, most of it with LAPD and the LA Sheriff's Department and with the ladies. He has learned what makes women crazy and what they love, along with peculiar and eccentric stories to back him up. The story of Norman Nelson is a story based in some truths of being an LA cop turned bull rider. It's one story you must hold onto your hat while reading. Between Norm's women there's a police sto...

The Real-Life Murder Clubs: Citizens Solving True Crimes - Paperback

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by Nicola Stow (Author)The story behind real-life clubs of ordinary citizens who come together to solve true crime mysteries--including the sleuths behind Don't F**k with Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer In 2019, Netflix had a hit with documentary series Don't F**k with Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer. It was based on one of Canada's most infamous crimes: the 2012 murder of thirty-three-year-old Lin Jun by his porn-star boyfriend, Luka Magnotta, in Montreal. Magnotta filmed himself killing ...

The CIA Document of Human Manipulation: Kubark Counterintelligence Interrogation Manual: Kubark Counterintelligence Interrogation Manual - Hardcover

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by The Central Intelligence Agency (Author), Cia (Author)Released by the Freedom of Information Act. This document is a thorough description of how the CIA recommends interrogating a subject. To get the information that is needed there is nothing withheld short of torture. For example in "Threats and Fears," the CIA authors note that "the threat of coercion usually weakens or destroys resistance more effectively than coercion itself. The threat to inflict pain, for example, can trigger fears ...

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by Christopher Chance (Author)SATAN'S ARENA is the most appalling of true-life prison writing, which chronicles the events of years spent in Spanish prisons. It highlights the fact that much international crime is planned in prison and how prison is the villain's jobcentre. This harrowing book is prison writing in the raw and is not for the squeamish or politically correct. The anti-Spanish and anti-French sentiment is solely the author's undiluted emotions at the time of writing due to the t...

The Gorilla Man Strangler Case: Serial Killer Earle Nelson - Hardcover

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by Alvin A. J. Esau (Author)The hitchhiker seemed harmless. He was dressed in a blue suit and a colorful sweater, accessorized with a grey cap and tan shoes. He carried nothing. It was the morning of June 8, 1927, when the Chandler family picked up the well-dressed man in Minnesota and dropped him at the Canadian border. They had unwittingly transported notorious serial killer, "The Gorilla Man," who had strangled more than twenty women from one end of the United States to the other. He would...

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by Paul Illidge (Author)In the footsteps of Catch Me If You Can and The Wolf of Wall Street . . .RSKY BZNS is the incredible true story of the charming rogue swindler John James Illidge, whose proclivity for investment fraud culminates in a $100 million con of several dozen unsuspecting clients (among them his own mother and wife) who never saw a dime of their money again. On the run, Illidge flees to his older brother Paul's house, living with him and his three children for the next six mont...

Scrapped: Justice and a Teen Informant - Hardcover

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by Lisa Peebles (Author), John O'Brien (Author)"Scrapped captures the barren roads and fallow fields of Oswego County the way Capote captured Finney County, Kansas in In Cold Blood." -Tom Barbash, New York Times bestselling author of The Dakota WintersCriminal defense lawyer Lisa Peebles was taken aback by a secretly recorded phone call and police interrogation video that surfaced in a 20-year-old kidnapping case. They held the stench of a cover-up. She recruited an investigative reporter to ...

Performing Deception: Learning, Skill and the Art of Conjuring - Paperback

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by Brian Rappert (Author)In Performing Deception, Brian Rappert reconstructs the practice of entertainment magic by analysing it through the lens of perception, deception and learning, as he goes about studying conjuring himself. Through this novel meditation on reasoning and skill, Rappert elevates magic from the undertaking of mere trickery to an art that offers the basis for rethinking our possibilities for acting in the modern world. Performing Deception covers a wide range of theories in...

Performing Deception: Learning, Skill and the Art of Conjuring - Hardcover

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Assassins...: Episode 3 (Killing The King) - Paperback

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by Joy Deja King (Author)Business is booming for Bad Bitches Only. The hired assassins are in great demand. Not only for their ability to kill but also using their beauty as a weapon against their intended targets. But when Bailey becomes bait to lure in their latest victim, is she mentally prepared to go up against the man known as The King? If she proves to be no match for the infamous King, will Shiffon and her crew of assassins be able to save her, or will they all pay the price for Baile...

Assassins...: Episode 2 (Clout Chasers): Bad Bitches - Paperback

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by Joy Deja King (Author)Martina and her clique love living the life of attending exclusive industry parties, wearing designer labels and sharing the intimate details of their lives on social media. Their thirst for attention and being in the spotlight seems harmless until it threatens to take down some of the biggest artists on Fortune Five Records. When Bad Bitches Only is hired to find out which one of the women is a FBI informant, Shiffon soon realizes she underestimated this crew of clou...

The Dark Mafia: Organized Crime in the Age of the Internet - Paperback

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by Antonio Nicaso (Author), Marcel Danesi (Author)This book explores how organized crime has adapted and evolved in sync with ever-expanding technologies to update its popular image and to conduct its covert operations. It shows how organized crime operates in dark virtual spaces and how it can now form a dynamic interactive system with legitimate online spaces, solidifying its criminal exploits and resources, and making them attractive to a new generation of computer users. Focusing on Itali...

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by Niall Gibbons (Author)The force of lithium to power future electric vehicles and the renewable energy revolution ignites a race to control the world's largest deposit in the mountains of Uzbekistan.Thanks to good luck and charm, Mitch Nolan, a philandering divinity school dropout, leads America's quest for the resource. A quest in which Mitch faces the Russian mob, the CIA, the DEA, an Afghan warlord, and an exotic Uzbek princess.Join Mitch as he leads America's quest for lithium--the comm...

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by Pat Fogarty (Author), Susan Grant (Cover Design by), Autumn Yeagley (Editor)On March 27, 1901, ten-year-old Willie McCormick gave his mother a quick hug, put on his favorite wool cap, and waved goodbye as he dashed from his Bronx home to join up with two of his older sisters.The girls had left moments earlier to start a five-block walk to Sacred Heart Church on Marcher Avenue. It was the Wednesday evening before Palm Sunday and Willie had planned to attend a 7 o'clock benediction. The girl...

Poison Dynasty: A short history of the murderous Bighams of Florence County - Paperback

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by Jeff Deeds (Author)On January 15, 1921, five members of the infamous Bigham family of Pamplico, South Carolina, were gunned down in cold blood during a one-hour killing spree, resulting in the prosecution - across six years, three trials and many appeals - of Edmund Dalrimple Bigham for their murders. This was the culmination of a nearly one-hundred-year reign of terror by successive members of the Bigham family, including many other murders, as well as serial extortion, fraud and systemat...

Spooks: The Haunting of America-The Private Use of Secret Agents - Paperback

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by Jim Hougan (Author)"Probably the most eye-opening and engrossing exposé to date of the bizarre 'power games' played by multinational corporations and tycoons." --Publishers Weekly A classic of investigative reporting, Spooks is a treasure trove of who-shot-who research on the metastasis of the US intelligence community, whose practices and personnel have engulfed the larger society. Teeming with tales of wiremen, hitmen, and mobsters; crooked politicians and corrupt cops going about their...

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by Manuel Ureste (Author), Miriam Castillo (Author)La investigación que ganó el Premio Ortega y Gasset de Periodismo 2018Francisco es conserje en una escuela rural de Villahermosa, Tabasco, y en su tiempo libre hace trabajos de plomería para sobrellevar su precaria situación económica. Lo paradójico es que Francisco también es el dueño de una empresa privada que ganó un contrato por 500 millones de pesos. Ésta es una de las estrategias que PEMEX, SEDESOL y la SEP, entre otras dependencias de ...

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by Sue Clifton (Author)In 1955, fourteen-year-old African American Emmett Till left Chicago to visit family in Money, Mississippi. While at the general store in Money, Emmett impulsively "wolf whistled" at pretty (white) Carolyn Bryant. The whistle became the trigger leading to the most brutal torture and murder of a child in Mississippi history. The murderers went free!Many details are NOT known about what happened in those early morning hours of August 28, 1955, until-two who were there tha...

Rumrunning in Suffolk County: Tales from Liquor Island - Hardcover

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by Amy Kasuga Folk (Author)Nicknamed Liquor Island, Long Island was rumrunner's paradise during Prohibition. With its proximity to major markets and coastal communities for easy transit, Suffolk County was awash in illegal hooch. Smugglers bringing cases of booze from offshore often secretly hid product temporarily in local garages and sheds, leaving a bottle as a thank-you. Coded communication crisscrossed the county on shortwave radios arranging sales and logistics. Violence from criminal o...

Napa Valley Case Files: Justice in Wine Country - Hardcover

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by Raymond a. Guadagni (Author), Judge Phil Champlin (Foreword by)Well known for its picturesque setting, Napa Valley is also home to crimes perpetrated in the name of greed, love and rage.Shocking incidents have rocked the small communities nestled among the vineyards, like that of greedy young Billy Duvall, who killed his parents as they slept, and Bob Edwards, who suffocated his beloved wife in a misguided attempt to keep a promise. Two victims of domestic violence came to very different e...

Murder & Mayhem in Erie, Pennsylvania - Hardcover

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by Justin Dombrowski (Author)Gruesome Tales From the Gem City of the Great LakesFrom the French and Indian War to Oliver Hazard Perry at the Battle of Lake Erie, the city of Erie has a prideful place in the American story, but there also exists a seedy history of crime and murder. In 1905 Detective James Jimmie Higgins was mysteriously killed at Central High School and the drawn-out manhunt for his murderer occupied headlines for months. On a cold January night in 1911, a massive explosion ro...

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by Jane Ann Turzillo (Author)Award-winning true crime author Jane Turzillo brings together the strippers, gangsters, robbers, shady politicians, and more from Cleveland's rough and rowdy past. From world-class museums and popular sports teams to peaceful parks and charming neighborhoods, Cleveland has a lot to offer. But it has a wilder, darker side. Along the one-block passageway called Short Vincent, tourists and celebrities mixed with bookies and mobsters for drinks and dinner, underworld ...

Spyfail: Foreign Spies, Moles, Saboteurs, and the Collapse of America's Counterintelligence - Hardcover

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by James Bamford (Author)James Bamford, the bestselling author of The Puzzle Palace and Body of Secrets, unveils a hidden cabal of foreign powers that have spied against America to reveal the incredible spygames, secrets, and cyberweapons they've hatched, unlocked, and stolen--and how U.S. intelligence has utterly failed to stop them. SPYFAIL is about the highly dangerous and growing capability of foreign countries to conduct large-scale espionage within the United States and how the FBI and...

Serial Killers - Philosophy for Everyone: Being and Killing - Paperback

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by Fritz Allhoff (Editor), S. Waller (Editor), John M. Doris (Foreword by)Serial Killers - Philosophy for Everyone investigates our profound intrigue with mass-murderers. Exploring existential, ethical and political questions through an examination of real and fictional serial killers, philosophy comes alive via an exploration of grisly death. Presents new philosophical theories about serial killing, and relates new research in cognitive science to the minds of serial killers Includes a phil...

The Expressman and the Detective - Paperback

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by Allan Pinkerton (Author)The first of the many Pinkerton volumes, with historical significance as the American counterpart of Vidocq - the nineteenth century's most celebrated detective. Pinkerton wrote many volumes of stories and memoirs. The Expressman and the Detective recounts the unraveling of a case of theft involving an Alabama banking express mail service. Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884) was the world's first private detective. Emigrating to Chicago from Glasgow, Scotland, he discovered...

Indecent Secrets: The Infamous Murri Murder Affair - Paperback

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by Christina Vella (Author)On a hot summer day in Italy in 1902, the brutally stabbed body of Count Francesco Bonmartini was discovered, by means of its decomposing stench, inside his locked apartment. He was a typical Italian provincial aristocrat in all but one way: he had married into a prominent but deeply troubled family. His father-in-law was one of the nation's most famous doctors. His wife, Linda, a young freethinker, was the apple of her father's eye. Linda's brother dabbled in anarc...

What Happened to Johnnie Jordan?: The Story of a Child Turning Violent - Paperback

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by Jennifer Toth (Author)On an icy night five years ago, Johnnie Jordan -- just fourteen years old -- brutally murdered his elderly foster care mother, leaving the state of Ohio shocked and outraged. He could not tell police why he did it or even how it made him feel; all he knew was that something inside him made him kill. At the time, few people predicted the swift emergence of a class of young so-called "super-predators" -- criminals like Johnnie who injure and kill without conscience, per...

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by Cindy E. Barg (Author) Number of Pages: 236 Dimensions: 0.54 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: May 07, 2004

Scales of Justice: The Murders of Colette, Kimberley & Kristen MacDonald - Paperback

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by Christina Masewicz (Author) Number of Pages: 684 Dimensions: 1.5 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: June 08, 2007

In the Eyes of the Law: The True Story of Love, Betrayal, Murder, Fame and Justice in 1950's America - Paperback

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by Tom Faulconer (Author)The murder of Forrest Teel, a corporate vice-president and head of the international division of the largest pharmaceutical company in the world caught the attention of the nation in 1958. When his longtime mistress was arrested for the crime, the interest of the world was piqued. At the same time, a young lawyer was finishing a campaign to be elected judge in a criminal court in Indianapolis. Against all predictions, he won the seat. Only after he won did he realize ...

Psychology of Gang Involvement - Paperback

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by Jane L. Wood (Editor), Jaimee Mallion (Editor), Sarah Frisby-Osman (Editor)Psychology of Gang Involvement expands existing knowledge by applying psychological knowledge to gangs, including how gang members think, their mental and emotional well-being, and their perceptions of gang involvement, as well as issues relating to gang prevention and intervention strategies. This book offers readers a clearer understanding of the important role that social psychological processes play in the forma...

In Pursuit of Jack the Ripper: An Introduction to the Whitechapel Murders - Paperback

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by Robert A. Snow (Author)THE ULTIMATE COLD CASE From 1888 to 1891, London's East End was rocked by a series of brutal murders. The victims were prostitutes whose corpses were left gruesomely mutilated. These crimes came to be known as the Whitechapel murders and were attributed to an unidentified fiend who named himself "Jack the Ripper". The search for his true identity consumed an enormous amount of police resources and generated more than 1,600 pages of reports--but the case was never sol...