True Crime

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The Message of Light Amid Letters of Darkness - Paperback

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by Rosemarie Birri D'Alessandro (Author)On April 19, 1973, Rosemarie D'Alessandro's daughter, Joan, said "Goodbye, Mommy," as she ran out the door. Joan was a Brownie Scout, and she was excited about delivering the last two boxes of Girl Scout cookies to a neighbor. Her mother didn't know it would be the last time that she would see her seven-year-old child alive. Her neighbor sexually assaulted and brutally murdered her joyful little girl.The crime stunned the suburban community of Hillsdale...

RISKING LIFE FOR DEATH - Lessons for the Living from the Autopsy Table - Paperback

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by Ryan Blumenthal (Author)Every contact leaves a trace: a single strand of hair or a tiny droplet of blood can be the silent witness at a crime scene.Locard's Exchange Principle underpins all forensic science and holds that the perpetrator of a crime will bring something to the crime scene and leave with something from it.Forensic experts use this principle daily to catch murderers and assailants. In Risking Life for Death, South African forensic pathologist Ryan Blumenthal offers a master c...

Charles Manson (1934-2017) - An American Cult Leader and Criminal Mastermind - Paperback

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by Scarlett Prescott (Author)Step into the enigmatic world of Charles Manson, a man who forever altered the course of history as an American cult leader and criminal mastermind. In this gripping account, follow the life of Manson from his troubled childhood to the formation of the infamous Manson Family and their disturbing descent into violence.Delve into the charismatic personality that allowed Manson to exert a chilling influence over his followers, leading them to commit some of the most ...

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by Wu Jie (Author)When a victim of abuse became abuser, then what would happen?Who killed him? His parents, his childhood friends, his classmates, his teacher, the indifferent neighbors or himself?RainBirth, Bright Yang, Dusk Lin and Eagle were born in same alley and year. In the year when he was fifteen, RainBirth committed suicide and hung himself up in a forest behind his school. Bright Yang found in about one week, nearly everyone forgot about him, none cared about his death. She wanted t...

KANMO Dossier: Union Station Shooting & Aftermath - Paperback

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by Ronald E. Harlow (Author)The FBI hid crucial information about this shooting, made critical documents disappear, even failed to properly account for weapons recovered at the shooting scene. For many decades people have tried to "solve" the shooting, but I did. Even though the FBI concealed vital evidence. If they can prove me wrong, they will. Don't bet on it though. Because they can't.------------------------------------------------------------This work is not intended to provide escape f...

Evil Women in History: Uncovering the Gruesome Crimes of Ten Notorious Female Killers - Paperback

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by Edward Turner (Author)Dive into the dark and unsettling world of female killers in "Evil Women in History: Uncovering the Gruesome Crimes of Ten Notorious Female Killers." This chilling book delves deep into the lives and crimes of ten infamous women who left a trail of horror and devastation in their wake. Through meticulous research and gripping storytelling, it explores the motivations, methods, and twisted psychology behind their gruesome acts.From the notorious serial killer Aileen Wu...

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by Alexyss Rubjerg (Author)Fourteen Unsolved Murders Over Twenty Years, All With the Same Strange Circumstances Beginning around 1996, there have been a series of murders--sometimes called the Smiley Face Murders for their vague association with a smiley face scrawled on a nearby wall--which share similar strange circumstances. The victims, all men, were last reported seen in a bar or other social situation. They disappeared for days or weeks. Then they were found in waterways in unnatural po...

The Quest Of The Sacred Slipper - Paperback

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by Sax Rohmer (Author)The Quest of the Sacred Slipper is another rough-and-tumble tale of eastern evil clashing with western civilization by Sax Rohmer. The book has a story of a group of homicidal Muslims who are racing after a slipper that once belonged to the prophet Mohammed in this gory novel by the prolific and commercially successful Sax Rohmer (Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward). In this narrative, journalist Cavanagh becomes entangled in a dispute about a stolen object-the Sacred Slipper-t...

Shocking Celebrity Deaths and Murders Volume 2 - Paperback

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by Dylan Frost (Author)A second all new volume of celebrity deaths and murders. The cases that follow are eclectic and darkly fascinating. Drug overdoses, murders, television suicides, crazed fans, unsolved deaths, autoerotic asphyxiation, car crashes, freak accidents, doomed child stars, and so on. New additions include James Dean, Peaches Geldof, Paul Walker, Steve Irwin, Whitney Houston, Christine Chubbuck, Lana Clarkson, Caroline Flack, Jayne Mansfield, and many more. Number of Pages: 15...

Trafficking in Antiblackness: Modern-Day Slavery, White Indemnity, and Racial Justice - Hardcover

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by Lyndsey P. Beutin (Author)In Trafficking in Antiblackness Lyndsey P. Beutin analyzes how campaigns to end human trafficking-often described as "modern-day slavery"-invoke the memory of transatlantic slavery to support positions ultimately grounded in antiblackness. Drawing on contemporary antitrafficking visual culture and media discourse, she shows how a constellation of media, philanthropic, NGO, and government actors invested in ending human trafficking repurpose the history of transatl...

Mother and Murderer: the Sad True Tale of Rebecca Smith - Paperback

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by Sally Hendry (Author)Rebecca Smith, from Bratton near Westbury in Wiltshire, southern England, was the last woman in Britain to be hanged for infanticide of her own baby. She suffered her punishment at Devizes. But this unassuming woman who attended chapel and prayed night and morning, had poisoned not just one but eight of her babies. Her crime shocked and puzzled Victorian Britain. So why did she do it? Historian and journalist Sally Hendry delves into the nineteenth century to unpick Re...

The Verdict of History, Sacco and Vanzetti - Paperback

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by Frank M. D'Alessandro (Author) Number of Pages: 592 Dimensions: 1.32 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: May 03, 2004

Eyes of a Pedophile: Detecting Child Predators - Paperback

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by Betty J. Kuffel (Author)Peer inside the mind of violent child molester Nathanael Bar-Jonah.Personal coded writings, life-long behaviors and victim testimony reveal how he operated and the difficulties law enforcement experienced stopping him. This narrative follows Bar-Jonah's evolution from religious beginnings to hunting children.Extensively researched medical and psychological details explain what is known about child predators and shows how to recognize pedophile behavior and protect c...

Women Serial Killers Through Time: 4 Books in 1 - Paperback

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by Sylvia Perrini (Author)THIS BOOK INCORPORATES 4 SMALL BOOKS I HAVE WRITTEN ABOUT WOMEN SERIAL KILLERS. IT INCLUDES: WSK OF THE 17th CENTURY WOMEN MURDERERS OF THE 18th CENTURY WSK OF THE 19th CENTURY WSK OF THE 20th CENTURY Our society can barely account for evil in males, let alone imagine it in females. The female nests, creates, and nurtures doesn't she or is it that we just want to believe in the intrinsic non-threatening nature of women? Yet, history is full of instrumentally violent ...

kNOw Sextortion: The Facts of Digital Blackmail and What You Can Do to Protect Yourself - Paperback

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by John W. Bowlin Sr (Author)Do you "kNOw" Sextortion? Sextortion - we tend to think that this can only happen to celebrities. After all, regular, everyday people aren't making sex tapes that their ex-lovers could use to extort them are they? Actually, what used to be a term that didn't exist just a few years ago, "sextortion" is quickly becoming an issue that not only affects celebrities, but women and men as well as teenagers and children. Sextortion is a very real crime that has resulted i...

Choking in Fear: a memoir about the Hollandsburg murders - Paperback

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by Mike McCarty (Author)Small-town Indiana seems the perfect place for a boy to grow up, and Mike McCarty loved his life in Waveland as a police officer's son. At the tender age of nine, however, his quiet community was shocked by a horrific crime-a family's murder in their own home. For the first time, Mike knew real fear. Years later, long after the killers were jailed, Mike remains haunted by the evil deed. Although a police officer like his father, Mike feels impotent in the face of the m...

Rumble in Brooklyn: A Memoir - Paperback

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by Joseph Trigoboff (Author)Straight from East New York, the dark heart of Brooklyn, RUMBLE IN BROOKLYN depicts the street fighting childhood of Joseph Trigoboff, who knew and exchanged blows with several of the murderous gangsters who would later become famous in WISEGUY and GOODFELLAS. In some critical ways RUMBLE serves as a prequel to these other works but it is also a book about the importance of family life to cushion the horrors of a a deadly neighborhood and the enduring power of chil...

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by Jeffrey Dean Doty (Author)On the evening of December 3rd, 1957, seven year old Maria Ridulph and her eight year old friend, Kathy Sigman, were playing in the new fallen snow on a street corner in the sleepy town of Sycamore, Illinois. A stranger approached the girls, introduced himself as "Johnny" and offered them piggyback rides. When Kathy Sigman ran home to get her mittens, she left Maria and Johnny behind on the street corner. Little did she know that she would be the last person to se...

In Warm Blood: Prison and Privilege, Hurt and Heart - Paperback

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by Judith Gwinn Adrian (Author), Darren Morris (Author)In this fictionalized biography, authors Judith Gwinn Adrian and DarRen Morris share stories of privilege and prison, hurt and heart: epistolary accounts of two people raised in the parallel universes of southeast Wisconsin and northern Illinois. After serving three months of a 15-year sentence for armed robbery, Judy's father's privilege allowed him to join the military and then become a physician and medical researcher. Some of his rese...

A Question of Intent: Child Abuse and the Justice System - Paperback

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by Helen Webster (Author), Robert Ross Q. C. (Contribution by)A Question Of Intent is the true story of a little girl's dismal life and the events that followed her tragic death. The author had access to the transcripts of the Preliminary Inquiry and the subsequent Trial and Appeals, and many related supporting documents. This is the story of a four-year-old who was beaten to death in the name of discipline. Susan's story is one of physical punishment that began when she was an infant of five...

Brotherhood & Betrayal: The Streets Pity No One - Paperback

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by Dawnna Rouleau (Editor), Ann Chinadoll Macecari (Contribution by), James Hollywood Macecari (Author)There is nothing poetic, nor is there any price worth paying for the life we choose to live on the streets. I've finally learned that lesson, but far too late. The pain that I've caused to my family and friends is unfathomable. It's not until you become older and start to reflect on your life choices, that you realize how dreadful you have made life for those around you. My wife Chinadoll is...

Notorious Missouri: 200 Years of Historic Crimes - Hardcover

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by James W. Erwin (Author), Vicki Berger Erwin (Author)From the duel on Bloody Island to the Missouri Miracle kidnapping and recovery of Shawn Hornbeck, Missouri has seen its share of notorious crimes. It was home to the first western gunfight on the town square between Wild Bill Hickok and Dave Tutt. The three trials of the alleged murderer of Colonel Thomas Swope, the founder of Kansas City's Swope Park, enveloped the state. Residents also saw the killings within a few blocks of each other ...

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by Robyn Maharaj (Author), Patrick Kennedy (Author)In the late hours of July 22, 1991, Detective Patrick "Pat" Kennedy of the Milwaukee Police Department was asked to respond to a possible homicide. Little did he know that he would soon be delving into the dark mind of one of America's most notorious serial killers, the "Milwaukee Cannibal" Jeffrey Dahmer.As the media clamored for details, Kennedy spent the next six weeks, sixteen hours a day, locked in an interrogation room with Dahmer. Th...

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by Caryl Hopson (Editor), Susan R. Perkins (Editor)From Little Falls to Frankfort, Herkimer County is no stranger to the seamier side of life. The drowning murder of Grace Brown at Big Moose Lake and the ensuing trial of Chester Gillette was the inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's famous novel An American Tragedy. Medical students from the Fairfield Medical College attempted to rob local g... Number of Pages: 178 Dimensions: 0.44 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: September 20, 2021

Doctor Poison: The Extraordinary Career of Dr George Henry Lamson, Victorian Poisoner Par Excellence - Paperback

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by Jan Bondeson (Author)One of the most notorious Victorian murders was committed by Dr George Henry Lamson, who stood trial in 1882 for poisoning his crippled brother-in-law Percy Malcolm John; he was found guilty, sentenced to death, and executed. This book is the first full-length account of the Lamson case since the relevant 'Notable British Trials' volume appeared back in 1912. Using contemporary newspapers, the police and Home Office files at the National Archives, and various other arc...

Mary Ann Cotton: Britain's First Female Serial Killer - Hardcover

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by David Wilson (Author)As one of the UK's leading commentators, David Wilson shows how some serial killers stay in the headlines whilst others rapidly become invisible - or "unseen". Yet Mary Ann Cotton is not just the first but perhaps the UK's most prolific female serial killer, with more victims than Myra Hindley, Rosemary West, Beverly Allit or male predators such as Jack the Ripper and Dennis Nilsen. But her own north east of England (and criminologists) apart, she remained largely forg...

LUCK, MIRACLES and EVIL: Solving Terror Crimes at Lockerbie, Oklahoma City and The World Trade Center - Paperback

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by Rick Hahn (Author)Amazing stories of how landmark terrorist attacks were solved. The bombing of a Pan Am airliner as it flew over southern Scotland, the bombing of The World Trade Center in 1993 and the infamous bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, all terrorist acts with a small chance of being solved. Yet they were all solved, some in just days by the intervention of incredible luck! Author Rick Hahn describes each terror attack, then details the response by law enfor...

Justice in Mississippi: The Murder Trial of Edgar Ray Killen - Hardcover

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by Howard Ball (Author)The slaying of three civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Mississippi, in 1964 was a notorious event documented in Howard Ball's 2004 book Murder in Mississippi. Now Ball revisits that grisly crime to tell how, four decades later, justice finally came to Philadelphia. Originally tried in 1967, Baptist minister and Klansman Edgar Ray Killen was set free because one juror couldn't bring herself to convict a preacher. Now Ball tells how progressive-minded state officials ...

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by Troy Taylor (Author)ONE BLEAK MIDWINTER NIGHTTERROR AND TRAGEDY OF THE HOLIDAY SEASONBY TROY TAYLORFor most people, the traditional holiday season is about love, family, and joy - gatherings, parties, Christmas traditions, food, presents, and days and nights of laughter, good tidings, and cheer. But it hasn't always been that way. Once upon a time, the holidays were the season for ghosts.And why not? The winter nights were long and dark. It was a time of snow, cold, and ice. Days and weeks...

Peepeyes: Cause of Death: Unknown (DOA) the True Crime Murder Mystery of Nell Tucker - Hardcover

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by Dwain S. Tucker (Author) Number of Pages: 324 Dimensions: 0.88 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: March 26, 2011

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by Mooque Bishop (Illustrator), James C. McCusker (Author)Behind every fortune is a crime. Yet for young Philly Mob boss Vinny Veccuto in 1981, his crimes were his passion. Centralizing his business in a steak shop on a corner in Ducktown, Atlantic City, Vinny reaps the riches of early casino construction. After he becomes "King of the Jersey Shore", Vinny sees his success put to the test between unbearable Federal investigation, a violent drug war erupting in his own inner circle, and those ...

Disposable Income: A True Story of Sex, Greed and Im-purr-fect Murder - Paperback

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by Tammy Mal (Author)In 1948, when elderly Anna Homeyer, and her much younger husband Charles, decided to sell their home in the Bronx and move to Pennsylvania, residents of the small town of Factoryville couldn't understand why. With no family or friends in the area, and no reason to be there, the isolated little village seemed an odd choice for strangers to relocate too. But finding the older couple friendly and outgoing, Factoryville warmly welcomed their new neighbors, who seemed eager to...