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The Bonanno Family: A History of New York's Bonanno Mafia Family - Paperback

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by Andy Petepiece (Author)The Bonanno Family is a well-researched book on the 100-plus-year history of one of New York's infamous La Cosa Nostra organizations. It begins with an outline of the first Bosses, and ends with Boss Mikey Mancuso demoting his Acting Boss and Consigliere.Some of the important events covered included the 1931 killing of Boss of Bosses Salvatore Maranzano, the formation of the Commission, and the dates of the national meetings of La Cosa Nostra. Among those was the inf...

Napa Murder of Anita Fagiani Andrews: A Cold Case That Caught a Serial Killer - Hardcover

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by Raymond a. Guadagni (Author)In 1974, the brutal murder of Anita Fagiani Andrews, a fifty-one-year-old former beauty queen and mother of two, shook the small working-class town of Napa. Detectives, criminalists and forensic experts raced to identify who'd struck Anita down in her own bar, but despite their efforts, the case went cold. Decades passed, during which the town grew into a world-renowned wine region and tourist destination, but the case remained an open question. After thirty-sev...

Westside Park Murders: Muncie's Most Notorious Cold Case - Hardcover

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by Keith Roysdon (Author), Douglas Walker (Author)On a warm night in September 1985, teenagers Kimberly Dowell and Ethan Dixon were brutally murdered in Westside Park in Muncie, Indiana. Their killer has never been charged. Early on, police focused on a family member of one of the teens as a primary suspect. The investigation even ruled out fantastic scenarios, including a theory that the perpetrator was a Dungeons & Dragons devotee. The case grew cold. Only decades later did a dogged pol...

Wanted in Indiana: Infamous Hoosier Fugitives - Hardcover

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by Andrew E. Stoner (Author)To most Hoosiers, John Dillinger is the very picture of an Indiana fugitive, but the state has seen many fascinating criminal characters on the run. In Tippecanoe County, two Lafayette youths murdered the sheriff's deputies transporting them to prison. The gun-toting Elwood gun girl walked from the headlines into legend. One fugitive passed himself off as a small-town cop while on the run, and a well-spoken Indiana killer became the first fugitive captured as a dir...

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by Nick Van Der Leek (Author)On April 26th, 2018, Patrick Frazee, a cattle rancher from Florissant near Cripple Creek in Colorado, confided in his elderly neighbor that he'd finally figured out a way to kill his fiancé. "No body, no crime, right?"Joe Moore, a fellow rancher who thought of Frazee as a stepson, and as one of the best cattlemen around, urged the 30-year-old to "get that sh*t out of your head." But Frazee didn't. He persisted. Seven months later, Frazee committed what he hoped wa...

Prohibition New York City: Speakeasy Queen Texas Guinan, Blind Pigs, Drag Balls and More - Hardcover

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by David Rosen (Author)Texas Guinan was the queen of New York's speakeasies in the Roaring Twenties. Her clubs were backed by leading gangsters and welcomed some of the city's biggest sharks and swankest swells. Movie stars, flappers, madams, musicians and more flocked to midtown's Wet Zone, Greenwich Village and Harlem for inebriated entertainment. Patrons threw cultural norms aside as free-flowing hooch lubricated the jazz joints, sex circuses and drag balls that fueled the era's insurgent ...

Lowcountry Murder of Gwendolyn Elaine Fogle: A Cold Case Solved - Hardcover

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by Shuler - Retired Special Agent - Sc (Author)For decades, evidence of the 1978 murder of Gwendolyn Elaine Fogle lay in the evidence room at the Walterboro Police Department. Investigators periodically revisited the case over the years, but it remained the department's top cold case for thirty-seven years. Special Agent Lieutenant Rita Shuler worked on the case shortly after she joined the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED), and she couldn't let it go, not even after her retireme...

Murder and Mayhem in Southwestern Illinois - Hardcover

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by John J. Dunphy (Author)Southwestern Illinois experienced a plethora of violence during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Settlers and Native Americans clashed at the Wood River Settlement, while Abraham Lincoln dueled on a Mississippi River island. Racial strife led to the lynching of a Black schoolteacher in Belleville in 1903 and a deadly riot in East St. Louis fourteen years later. Benbow City was a latter-day Wild West town of saloons, gambling dens and brothels, and Pere Marquet...

Murder & Mayhem in Central Washington - Hardcover

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by Ellen Allmendinger (Author)Crime ran rampant at the turn of the twentieth century across Central Washington, from jail breaks, lethal bootleggers and assassinations in Kittitas County to shootouts and burglaries in Benton County. In Zillah, the Dymond Brothers Gang were known for stealing horses between prison stints. In Yakima, residents reeled in shock over the premeditated killing of a gambler, a riot and the discovery that a respected brewer had committed murder. Through it all, sherif...

Murder in Amish Ohio: The Martyrdom of Paul Coblentz - Hardcover

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by David Meyers (Author), Elise Meyers Walker (Author)In the summer of 1957, a young Holmes County farmer was gunned down in cold blood. There was little to distinguish this slaying from hundreds of others throughout the United States that year except for one detail: Paul Coblentz was Amish. A committed pacifist, Coblentz would not raise a hand against his killers. As sensational crimes often do, the Amish murder opened a window into the private lives of the young man, his family and his comm...

Brockport Murder Dog Trial: Bizarre Tragedy and Spectacle on the Erie Canal - Hardcover

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by Bill Hullfish (Author), Laurie Fortune Verbridge (Author)In the summer of 1936, fourteen-year-old Maxwell Breeze was playing in the waters of the Erie Canal in Brockport when a dog jumped into the canal and climbed his back, and the boy drowned. The owner of the dog was served notice to appear at a hearing, at which time a trial was set to determine if the dog should be put down. The unusual case captivated the nation as newspapers from coast to coast covered the story, Paramount Pictures ...

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by Oj Modjeska (Author)After an investigation spanning nearly two years, Los Angeles investigators come up empty in the case of a terrifying serial sex killer.But then, a seemingly unrelated arrest is made across state lines. In book two of Murder by Increments, we journey deeper into the life and mind of the suspect at the center of the case: one of the most confounding and mysterious serial killers in American history.Killing Cousins documents the shocking story of an abusive childhood that...

The Name Book Series: Series 2 - Paperback

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by Sheena R. Edwards (Author)Living in a world fueled with historical hatred is very daunting. The fact that we are expected to accept being murdered on the regular a normalcy WE WILL NOT! We will continuously SPREAK OUT AGAINST INEQUALITIES! Sadly, we are constantly hearing NOT GUILTY VERDICTS! further confirming the failures of our justice system. Fighting for change is a major priority, and understanding what it will take to make change happen is just as important. Again, because it is JUS...

Deer Creek: The Murders of William H. Gibson and John S. Frazer - Paperback

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by D. a. Chadwick (Author)In 1890 two Kansas cattlemen were murdered in Elk and Chautauqua Counties. William H. Gibson and John S. Frazer were killed after Tick Fever decimated herds, which was brought to Kansas with their Texas Longhorns. Gibson was poisoned in a hotel room while Frazer was brutally stabbed on the prairie. The crime remains unsolved. The author has spent years studying newspapers and legal documents to chronicle events occurring before and after the homicides. The most compr...

El Chapo: Más allá de la duda razonable - Paperback

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by Jesus Garcia (Author), Ioan Grillo (Prologue by), Julia Bittruf (Cover Design by)Jesus Garcia, who covered the trial incessantly, expertly maps out how this case was built and El Chapo's time before the court played out. It's a bittersweet tale. It would perhaps be worse if such a high-profile drug lord had escaped justice. But considering the horror of the violence in Mexico over the last two decades it doesn't seem enough. In part because of the trial, senior politicians and generals hav...

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by Irene Reyes-Smith (Author)The life of an inner-city police officer is an exhilarating and challenging task. It's even more daunting when you're a female and black. Irene Reyes-Smith has one thing on her mind when working the streets: to make it back home to her family.Unfortunately, Officer Reyes-Smith has been put in the position of fighting the system from both sides. In her novel, Surviving the Badge, she writes about defending her right to serve and protecting her son from a system tha...

Blind Rage: A True Story of Sin, Sex, and Murder in a Small Arkansas Town - Hardcover

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by Anita Paddock (Author)A true story of sin, sex, and murder in a small Arkansas town. When Ruie Ann Park-a pillar of the Van Buren, Arkansas, community-was found beaten to death and lying in a pool of blood in her home, the police and local residents assumed the son was the murderer. But the years would uncover a more sinister story. Up till that night, the Park family seemed to have it all. For fifty years they owned and published The Press Argus newspaper. Hugh was well-connected politica...

Masters of the Lost Land: The Untold Story of the Amazon and the Violent Fight for the World's Last Frontier - Hardcover

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by Heriberto Araujo (Author)"Gripping. ... Araujo's accretion of detail has a powerful effect, demonstrating how deeply the culture of violence has seeped into the social fabric of Amazonia -- and how hard it will be to eradicate." -- New York Times Book Review"A raw account of the critical struggle between law and lawlessness on the world's last great frontier." -- Christian Science MonitorIn the tradition of Killers of the Flower Moon, a haunting murder mystery revealing the human story beh...

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by Juan B. Botero (Author)A decade before Candidate Donald Trump announced his newly acquired obsession with building a wall on the US-Mexico border, investigative journalist Juan B. Botero denounced Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo to the House Ethics Committee because of his bizarre obsession with building a wall "paid for by the Mexican government." In the summer of 2006, he warned members of Congress and Colorado voters that if Tancredo's localization of World War II German-Italian fasci...

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by David Pietras (Author)David Berkowitz, who became infamously known as the 'Son of Sam', first struck on the morning of 29 July 1976. It was the beginning of many brutal attacks that were to terrorize New York City's citizens over a one-year period. During the summer of 1977 at the height of the killer's notoriety and with the city in a collective panic over who was going to be his next victim, bars and nightclubs were deserted. It seemed that the efforts of the NYPD and special task teams ...

The Story Behind In Broad Daylight - Paperback

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by Harry N. MacLean (Author)In "The Story Behin 'In Broad Daylight'" Author Harry MacLean reveals the details of how he uncovered what actually happened in the vigilante killing of Ken Rex McElroy in Skidmore, Missouri, in 1981, as told in "In Broad Daylight."Standing a few feet from where the killers opened fire on Ken Rex McElroy more than three decade ago, Harry N. MacLean explains how he came to write his Edgar Award-winning book. MacLean had doors slammed in his face, guns pulled on him,...

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by Antony W. Rogers (Author)In the quest for the origins of his family, author Antony Rogers, came across a series of coincidences that shocked him. The Great War had brought with it countless stories of unimaginable loss. A decade later and people continued to question the meaning of life, determined to live fast during their short existence. This was the backdrop to his discovery that his Great-grandmother had been murdered in the throes of passion with a Police Sergeant outside the gates o...

Murder Most Vile Volume 33: 18 Shocking True Crime Murder Cases - Paperback

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by Robert Keller (Author)Bizarre! Shocking! Horrific! Depraved!18 Shocking True Crime Murder Cases From Around The World, including;Kiss Me, Kill Me The killer had an unusual defense. He claimed that his victim had begged him to take her life. Is it still murder under those circumstances?Thy Brother's Wife A close-knit family is torn apart by a scandalous affair. Old grievances resurface. A shotgun splits the difference.Canadian Horror Story An alcoholic, drug addicted logger with mental issu...

The Boxer: A Detective Ellis H. Parker Mystery Story - Paperback

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by Russell Lloyd (Author)"The Boxer" is a fictional crime novel based on Detective Ellis H. Parker's career, a real detective who was commonly called America's Sherlock Holmes during his lifetime. He solved 288 of the 300 major crime cases he investigated. He also handled thousands more in his career as the Chief of Detectives in Burlington County, New Jersey. Later in his life, when the Lindbergh baby was kidnapped allegedly by Bruno Richard Hauptmann, Parker was asked by the New Jersey Gove...

Vegas Scams And Skimming Crime: Loan Sharking, Extortion, Union Control, And Drug: Story About True Crime - Paperback

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by Alden Midden (Author)If there was one thing I tool away from this book is that Mob rule was bad for business. The lords of Vegas hurt their own products by massive skimming of profits, poor accounting procedures, and the need to lay out huge sums of money to stay in business and out of jail, both in the form of attorney fees and bribes to every greedy government minion, from the local councilman to US Congressmen and FBI agents; they didn't have to bribe J Edgar Hoover, just show him a pic...

Florida True Crime Stories: Notorious Criminals In The Sunshine State's History: Crazy Florida Crime Stories - Paperback

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by Marco Koschnitzki (Author)When something crazy happens, eyes turn to Florida. From a woman who asked her boyfriend to kill her husband to the man with cocaine on his nose. These are true stories from the Sunshine state. Number of Pages: 34 Dimensions: 0.08 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: June 29, 2021

A Boy and His Dog in Hell: And Other True Stories - Paperback

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by Mike Sager (Author)Mike Sager has made a career "finding the quotidian within the extreme, the tender amid the grotesque," according to author and popular Columbia Journalism School professor Sam Freedman.A Boy and His Dog in Hell collects 19 stories that Sager-a best-selling author and veteran of the Washington Post, Rolling Stone, and Esquire-calls "my milestones, the pieces that have defined and distinguished my work over forty-some years of journalism-adventures, high jinks, near-death...

Blood & Marriage: Chris Watts: With these hands - Paperback

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by Kathleen McKenna Hewtson (Author)From the author of 'Murdaugh, She Wrote' and 'The Night My Husband Killed Me' ... In August of 2018, in a wealthy Denver suburb, a shocked and horrified nation learned that Christopher Lee Watts had murdered his pregnant wife, their two little girls and their unborn son. But shock was soon replaced by puzzlement. Why? And the surprising answer is that a standard Anadarko Petroleum employee policy led, unintentionally of course, to the murders. By early 2018...

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by Doris Gail Baldwin (Editor), Oakley Dean Baldwin (Author)Moundsville, the dreaded State Prison of West Virginia. This thriller is from the true personal experiences by author Oakley Dean Baldwin and stories about the dreaded and Haunted Moundsville Prison. Murder, torture, breakouts, manhunts, shootouts, it's all covered in this one. Number of Pages: 114 Dimensions: 0.24 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: July 02, 2021

Murder's A Tough Business: The Pursuit of True Evil - Paperback

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by Jim Leach (Author)"Murder's A Tough Business is an enlightening and entertaining book that explains how police investigate the most serious crime of all. Murder.The author, Jim Leach, shares his insight and expertise developed through four decades of law enforcement to produce an interesting, easy to read, anatomy of police work.The book can make professional law enforcement officers even better. If you are a TV crime story fan, your favorite show will become much more enjoyable, when you ...

Cops Under Fire!: 12 Gripping Stories of Real-Life Police Shootouts (and What to Make of them) - Paperback

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by Brian McKenna (Author)Armed-encounters expert and police trainer Brian McKenna shares his expertise in a series of gripping stories involving real-life police shootouts. Step into the shoes of police officers who have run toward the sound of gunfire, who have faced attacks by deadly assailants, and who have lived to share the tale.But this book is more than just stories about courageous cops.Each story is followed by McKenna's expert analysis of its important learning points, especially co...

Finding Suzy: The Hunt for Missing Estate Agent Suzy Lamplugh and 'Mr Kipper' - Paperback

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by David Videcette (Author)How can someone just disappear?Step inside a real-life, missing person investigation in this compelling, true crime must-read.Uncover what happened to missing estate agent Suzy Lamplugh, as David Videcette takes you on a quest to unpick her mysterious disappearance and scrutinise the shadowy 'Mr Kipper'.One overcast Monday in July 1986, 25-year-old estate agent Suzy Lamplugh vanished whilst showing a smart London property to a mysterious 'Mr Kipper'.Despite the baff...