True Crime

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Report copyright infringementby Pinkerton (Author)The Kent State University Press is excited to reissue these classic true crime detective stories by Allan Pinkerton, the Scottish American detective and spy who founded the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in 1850. His agency was the largest private law enforcement organization in the world at the height of its power, and its well-known logo of a large, unblinking eye actually served as inspiration for the term "private eye." In The Murdere...

Anatomy of a Medically Abusive Childhood

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Report copyright infringementby Candace Ahalse (Author)Have you ever been in contact with a medical or Munchausen by proxy abuser? Are you sure? Have you ever been in a traffic accident, a school lockdown, an office lockdown, an infrastructure failure, a fire, or a power outage? Have you ever been burglarized, stalked, falsely accused of a crime, falsely accused of a scandal, or catfished? Have you ever had your property vandalized, your car sabotaged, your property stolen, or your pets stole...

The Perfect Weapon: The Obama Cabal's Phony National Security Prosecution of J. Everett Dutschke

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Report copyright infringementby Dana James (Contribution by), Laura Gomez (Contribution by), Rachael Goldsmith-Jackson (Contribution by)In 2013, with the United States still reeling from the Boston Marathon bombing, the US Capital and Federal Buildings were evacuated when the nation was told the American capitol was under a chemical weapons attack in the form of ricin sent to political targets. The more of the investigation that was revealed to the press, the stranger it all got, with embarra...

Lynching and Mob Violence in Ohio, 1772-1938

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Report copyright infringementby David Meyers (Author), Elise Meyers Walker (Author) In the late 19th century Ohio was reeling from a wave of lynchings and other acts of racially motivated mob violence. Many of these acts were attributed to well-known and respected men and women yet few of them were ever prosecuted--some were even lauded for taking the law into their own hands. In 1892, Ohio-born Benjamin Harrison was the first U.S. President to call for anti-lynching legislation. Four years l...

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Report copyright infringementby Truman Capote (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The most famous true crime novel of all time "chills the blood and exercises the intelligence" (The New York Review of Books)--and haunted its author long after he finished writing it. On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there wer...

A Description of the Crimes and Horrors in the Interior of Warburton's Private Mad-House

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Report copyright infringementby John Mitford (Author)When Lady Briget Perceval tricked John Mitford into supporting her campaign to promote Caroline of Brunswick, the then Princess of Wales, he was hidden away in Whitmore House, a for-profit mad-house owned by the cany and bombastic Thomas Warburton. From the inside, Mitford helped Lady Perceval place forged letters in the newspapers-an arrangement that ended badly, with a falling out and a lawsuit from which Mitford was acquitted. During his...

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Report copyright infringementby William J. Allender (Author)For over three decades, William J. Allender has lent his expertise to solving some of Australia's most publicised crimes. He has been called upon to testify about the role drugs and poisons played in these nefarious and notorious offences - was the killer under the influence of drugs? Was a poison used to end the victim's life? 'The Expert Witness' gives you a front row seat to thirty of Allender's most fascinating cases. Follow alon...

Digging Up Bones: When Truth Is Exhumed: When Truth Is Exhumed

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Report copyright infringementby Tanya Covington Radic (Author)What happens when the dead refuse to stay buried?For decades, Robertson County's funeral industry operated behind a veil of trust, tradition, and silence. But when graves were opened and long-buried questions began to surface, a troubling story emerged-one involving funeral homes, missing records, community loyalties, and allegations that shook an entire region.Digging Up Bones is a gripping investigation into the life and legacy o...

Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident

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Report copyright infringementby Donnie Eichar (Author)The New York Times and Wall Street Journal Nonfiction Bestseller that explores the gripping Dyatlov Pass incident that took the lives of nine young Russian hikers in 1959. What happened that night on Dead Mountain? In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain. Eerie aspects of the mountain climbing incident--unexplained violent injuries, signs t...

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Report copyright infringementby William J. Allender (Author)Poisons and drugs from a variety of sources have been used in an illegal way for centuries, and have an unfortunate, enduring fascination. Forensic medical scientist and toxicologist Dr William J. Allender has regularly been called upon to testify about the role poisons and drugs have played in a death, lending his expertise to solving some of Australia's most publicised crimes over more than three decades. Here, he is back with a se...

Body Brokers: Inside America's Underground Trade in Human Remains

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Report copyright infringementby Annie Cheney (Author)"You are a little soul carrying around a corpse." --Epictetus "Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will follow." --Matthew 24:28 Body Brokers is an audacious, disturbing, and compellingly written investigative exposé of the lucrative business of procuring, buying, and selling human cadavers and body parts. Every year human corpses meant for anatomy classes, burial, or cremation find their way into the hands of a shadowy group of entr...

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Bone Voyage: A Journey in Forensic Anthropology

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Report copyright infringementby Stanley Rhine (Author)A husband preserved in mothballs, a vigilante victim encased in red mud, and convicts beaten and burned in a prison riot are only a few of the cases of death examined here by forensic anthropologist Stanley Rhine. Drawing on cases he worked for the New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator, Rhine demonstrates how unidentified skeletal remains indicate race, sex, age, height, and ultimately identity and how the specialist decodes skelet...

Open Season: True Stories of the Maine Warden Service

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Report copyright infringementby Daren Worcester (Author)Before reality TV, GPS devices, and dashboard computers, there was a coming of age for the Maine Warden Service. It was a time when a compass, map, and one's wits were what mattered most in the field. Every day offered the potential for an exciting new adventure, many of which endangered the wardens' lives. Recreating the full warden experience, Open Season includes 20 stories from two former colonels, two lieutenants, two sergeants, fou...

War in the Woods: Combating The Marijuana Cartels On America's Public Lands

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Report copyright infringementby John Nores (Author), James Swan (Author)The inside story of the drug cartels on our public lands-and the game wardens taking them on.Back JacketWar in the Woods tells the story of the real dirt, guts, and sometimes blood involved in a perilous job: eradicating the illegal pot plantations that are fast turning once-pristine corners of America's state and national parks, national forests, and wildlife reserves into environmentally ravaged war zones. Featuring tal...

Inside the Mind of BTK: The True Story Behind the Thirty-Year Hunt for the Notorious Wichita Serial Killer

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Report copyright infringementby John E. Douglas (Author), Johnny Dodd (Author)A dramatic and compelling true-crime psychological thriller This incredible story shows how John Douglas tracked and participated in the hunt for one of the most notorious serial killers in U.S. history. For 31 years a man who called himself BTK (Bind, Torture, Kill) terrorized the city of Wichita, Kansas, sexually assaulting and strangling a series of women, taunting the police with frequent communications, and bra...

A Death Retold in Truth and Rumour: Kenya, Britain and the Julie Ward Murder

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Report copyright infringementby Grace A. Musila (Author)Re-examines this unresolved murder in Kenya and the underlying role of rumour, the media and inter-state relations on how the death has been reported and investigated. Julie Ann Ward was a British tourist and wildlife photographer who went missing in Kenya's Maasai Mara Game Reserve in 1988 and was eventually found to have been murdered. Her death and the protracted search for her killers, stillat large, were hotly contested in the media...

V Is for Venom: Agatha Christie's Chemicals of Death

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Report copyright infringementby Kathryn Harkup (Author)SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 EDGAR ALLAN POE AWARDS (BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL) 'Hugely entertaining and informative' MARK ALDRIDGE'Harkup balances the macabre with the scientifically intricate' NEW SCIENTIST Fourteen stories. Fourteen more poisons. Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's all made-up ... Agatha Christie is renowned for her captivating plots and creative ways of killing off ill-fated victims. And what better way to add in...

The Bed Trick: Sex and Deception on Trial

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Report copyright infringementby Izabella Scott (Author)A riveting, brilliant account of a court case in which a woman accused her best friend of impersonating a man during sex, and won--a study of desire, performance, truth, and the stories we tell about ourselves in public, online, in love, and in law. A woman falls in love with a man. His name is Kye Fortune. They meet online and begin spending time together every weekend, in hotel rooms or at her apartment. Kye is doting, and funny, and ha...

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Report copyright infringementby Alan Carter (Other)Hop aboard for a desperate, deadly ride with Alan Carter, Amanda Curtin, Peter Docker, Jon Doust, Deborah Robertson, Dave Warner, and more. This is thrilling, jaw-clenching crime fiction from some of Australia's finest writers.Author BiographyAlan Carter is a crime writer who was short-listed for the prestigious CWA Debut Dagger Award, was runner-up in the Penguin Crime Writing Competition, and won the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction. ...

Gunbarrels and Backroads: Shootouts, Addiction, and the Long Ride to Prison

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Fogt (Author)They called him Mr. Malfunction because something was always breaking, or about to. A bike. A deal. A rule he swore he lived by.Michael D. Fogt grew up with violence framed as normal, and he learned early that fear works. He carried that lesson into the Ohio backroads, the outlaw biker world, and a life built around speed, guns, drugs, and control. For years he tells it like he was untouchable, running hard, surviving shootouts, stacking ca...

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Report copyright infringementby Douglas Preston (Author), Mario Spezi (Author)Read the true story that inspired the hit Netflix series! Douglas Preston, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Lost City of the Monkey God, presents a gripping account of crime and punishment in the lush hills surrounding Florence as he seeks to uncover one of the most infamous figures in Italian history. In 2000, Douglas Preston fulfilled a dream to move his family to Italy. Then he discovered that th...

Heinrich Wilson's Christmas Chills: True Stories of Horror, Mystery, and the Dark Side of the Holidays

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Report copyright infringementby Heinrich Wilson (Author)Heinrich Wilson's Christmas ChillsTrue Stories of Horror, Mystery, and the Dark Side of the HolidaysChristmas isn't just about joy. It never was.Behind the carols, the candles, and the carefully wrapped lies hides a history soaked in blood and superstition.In Heinrich Wilson's Christmas Chills, nothing is invented. Every story happened - or was recorded as if it did. From pagan sacrifices that gave birth to the holiday itself to modern t...

Medea's Daughters: Forming and Performing the Woman Who Kills

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Report copyright infringementby Jennifer Jones (Author)In Medea's Daughters, Jennifer Jones explores the legal, cultural, and dramatic representations of six accused murderesses to look at how English-speaking society responded to and controlled anxiety over female transgressions. The woman who kills-in particular, the woman who kills a member of her own family-has not only broken the law, she has also violated gender expectations. Jones argues that dramatic representations of criminal women...

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Davie (Author)In "The Dark City Murders: A Detective's Race Against Time," Detective James Monroe takes readers on a gripping journey through the investigation of one of the most heinous crimes in the city's history.When a string of murders rocks the city, Detective Monroe is tasked with leading the investigation. As the body count rises, Monroe and his team race against time to identify the killer and bring him to justice.But as the investigation unfolds,...

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Report copyright infringementby Michelle S. Morris (Author)Young, uber-achieving professional Halley McCarthy slinks back to her small-town Michigan roots in shame. Her carefully constructed life blew up and everything she measured as success disintegrated. Her employer, a San Francisco tech startup, is under federal investigation for fraud; its executives are accused of embezzlement; her vengeful ex-fiancé is not who he said; and soon a colleague is murdered. When escalating anonymous threat...

Death Scenes: A Homicide Detectives Scrapbook

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Report copyright infringementby Sean Tejaratchi (Author), Katherine Dunn (Author)The infamous LAPD archive of crime-scene photography--LosAngeles noir in its most unfiltered form.Death Scenes collects the stark black-and-white crime-scene photographs takenby LAPD detective Jack Huddleston across Southern California during themid-twentieth century. Originally created as investigative reference material by LAPD detective Jack Huddleston, these images document homicide scenes, interiors, streets...

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Report copyright infringementby Ira Leon (Author), Nicholas J. Ely (Editor)An insignificant life? This true story takes you on a journey with Ira Richard Leon- a man whose life was taken away by the corrupt actions of a heartless District Attorney. Bent on imposing his own version of justice on an innocent man, the District Attorney has made Ira the victim of a system that is guilty of falsifying police reports, withholding witness statements that prove Ira is innocent, as well as tampering w...

The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story

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Report copyright infringementby Kate Summerscale (Author)Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR - The Sunday Times - The New Statesman - The Times - The Spectator - The Telegraph Shortlisted for the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * A New York Times Book Review Paperback Row Selection "Prepare not to see much broad daylight, literal or metaphorical, for days if you read this.... The atmosphere evoked is something I will never forget."--The Times (Londo...

I Am a Killer: What Makes a Murderer: Their Shocking Stories in Their Own Words

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Report copyright infringementby Danny Tipping (Author), Ned Parker (Author)What goes through the mind of a killer when they commit murder?What motivates someone to take a life? How do murderers remember their lives and crimes? With unprecedented access to high-security prisons all around the country, the creators of Netflix's I Am a Killer set out to get answers to these questions--by talking to the killers themselves.Most of the killers will die in prison, but each one speaks openly about th...

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Report copyright infringementby Pam Moody (Author), Brenda E. Cortez (Editor)"DECAPITATED HEAD FOUND," headlines from the Dallas Morning News. The article goes on to report, "Severed head discovered in a remote part of Dallas; the body of the victim discovered later in a different location. The victim was identified as an Adult Probation Officer conducting home visits in East Dallas. No suspects have been named."Inspired by her own experiences, The Bitches of Bexar County delves into the unto...