True Crime

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by Althea Davis (Author)"Althea Davis is transparent in this heartfelt semi-autobiographical" "chronicle of her life. She takes us on her journey as an innocent, naive," "young Christian girl to dipping her toe into an untapped secular world" "as a young adult and finally taking the true plunge of faith." "In this narrative, we see her learning, discovering, sailing, and stumbling her way through in this new world. We follow her as she copes with life's challenges and grapples with the common...

Gangs of Russia: From the Streets to the Corridors of Power - Paperback

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by Svetlana Stephenson (Author)Since their spectacular rise in the 1990s, Russian gangs have remained entrenched in many parts of the country. Some gang members have perished in gang wars or ended up behind prison bars, while others have made spectacular careers off the streets and joined the Russian elite. But the rank and file of gangs remain substantially incorporated into their communities and society as a whole, with bonds and identities that bridge the worlds of illegal enterprise and l...

Bonnie Prince Charlie: Charles Edward Stuart - Paperback

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by Frank McLynn (Author)'McLynn's splendid and eminently readable biography gives us not Charles the myth but the man ... as he shows, the key to understanding the prince lies in the entanglement of the inner personal drama with the tragedy played on the public stage.' Kevin Sharpe, SpectatorIn this highly acclaimed biography Frank McLynn brings vividly before us the man Charles Edward Stuart who became known to legend as Bonnie Prince Charlie and whose unsuccessful challenge to the Hanoveria...

Kayaking the Vermilion Sea: Eight Hundred Miles Down the Baja - Paperback

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by Jonathan Waterman (Author)With two slender sixty-pound kayaks, a ten-pound medical kit, twenty pounds of books, triple-digit temperatures, and no contact with the outside world, Jonathan and Deborah Waterman spent two months paddling through the violent tides and storms that define the mythically charged Sea of Cortes. Amid the lore and romantic past of the Baja they discovered that what began as a mutual exploration would soon become an unforgettable test of will.Exhilarating and lyrical,...

Daniel My Brother: Mystery in the Mojave - Paperback

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by Ken Robinson (Author), Douglas Walker (Author)The headlines read, "The Last Good Deed Cost Daniel A. Walker Jr. His Life" and "Murder Victim Was Always Doing Favors." The unresolved twist-of-fate story regarding the October 1, 1974, murder of Danny Walker has haunted his family and friends for nearly fifty years. What happened to the free-spirited, easygoing twenty-one-year-old as he crossed the Mojave Desert that fateful night?Just hours before he was killed, Dan stopped near Cajon Pass t...

The Message of Light Amid Letters of Darkness - Hardcover

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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...

Who Murdered Lizzie? My Family Story of the Brutal Crime of 1884 that Shocked the City of Roanoke, Virginia - Paperback

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by Denise Tanaka (Author)A brutal crime ripped from the headlines . . . of 1884!Who snatched 14 year old Lizzie Wilson off the streets that fateful night? Who cut her throat and tossed her corpse into an empty field? For six months, the sheriff and citizens of Roanoke, Virginia searched for the murderer. A flimsy accusation brought two African-American men to trial, but in the end, they walked free.Family descendant Denise Tanaka has spent years researching this unsolved mystery. For the firs...

Kushites: In Loving Memory of Toranio and Callington Wallace - Paperback

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by Miguel Bashford (Author)This is a true story. It is based on the tragic homicide of two brothers, Toranio and Callington Wallace, whom were the brothers of the author, Miguel Bashford. Kushites exposes the long lasting corruption of police brutality and injustice in the island of Jamaica. Justice is at the forefront of demands, as this and many similar predicaments continue to plague the natives. Number of Pages: 76 Dimensions: 0.16 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: December 15, 2023

The Past Is Never Dead: The Trial of James Ford Seale and Mississippi's Struggle for Redemption - Paperback

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by Harry N. MacLean (Author)In 2007 James Ford Seale was indicted for the murder of two black youths in southwest Mississippi in 2007. This book covers the trial and conviction of Seale for the crimes, and explores the ongoing attempt of Mississippi to atone for its bloody racial past and the possibility of redemption through the prosecution of former Klansman for crimes of the sixties. This books was shortlisted for the William Saroyan Prize, offered by Stanford University.In January 2007 th...

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by Arianna Griffith (Author)"By the time I got to know Paige Summer's reality, I had become one of his 31 known victims. A number of incidents happened in those years I lived with him, that were constant indicators that there was something seriously wrong about that person." The Sociopath's Puppet tells the heart-wrenching memoir of Arianna's struggle when she finds herself stuck in a terrible relationship after leaving a 10-year alcoholic & abusive marriage. At first, Paige seemed to be ...

Collateral Damage: Truth, Lies, and Deceptions - Paperback

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by Michael J. Kuchera (Author), Anne C. Jacob (Editor), Ginger Marks (Cover Design by)Corruption, lies, and deception plague one honest, hard-working, man. Sinister plots devised by his own family lead one dogged IRS representative to his doorstep. A constant barrage of twisted events eventually lead to the discovery of government corruption at its finest. And one poor soul is caught in the middle. Number of Pages: 60 Dimensions: 0.14 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: September 05, 2023

Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground - Paperback

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by Kevin Poulsen (Author)Former hacker Kevin Poulsen has, over the past decade, built a reputation as one of the top investigative reporters on the cybercrime beat. In Kingpin, he pours his unmatched access and expertise into book form for the first time, delivering a gripping cat-and-mouse narrative--and an unprecedented view into the twenty-first century's signature form of organized crime. The word spread through the hacking underground like some unstoppable new virus: Someone--some brilli...

BREAKING THE BOMBERS - How the Hunt for Pagad Created a Crack Police Unit - Paperback

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by Mark Shaw (Author)'Mark Shaw is the foremost analyst of organised crime in SA.' - Jonny SteinbergAt the dawn of the country's brave new democracy, Cape Town was at war. Pagad, which began as a community protest action against crime, had mutated into a sinister vigilante group wreaking death and destruction across the city. Between 1996 and 2001, there were hundreds of bomb blasts - most infamously at the Planet Hollywood restaurant at the V&A Waterfront - and countless targeted hits on...

The Cambodian Wars: Clashing Armies and CIA Covert Operations - Hardcover

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by Kenneth Conboy (Author)For most Americans, Cambodia was a sideshow to the war in Vietnam, but by the time of the Vietnam invasion of Democratic Kampuchea in 1978 and the subsequent war, it had finally moved to center stage. Kenneth Conboy chronicles the violence that plagued Cambodia from World War II until the end of the twentieth century and peels back the layers of secrecy that surrounded the CIA's covert assistance to anticommunist forces in Cambodia during that span. Conboy's path-bre...

The Psychology of Evil: Understanding the Minds of Serial Killers, Psychopaths, and Sociopaths - Paperback

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by Michael Pace (Author)In the depths of the human psyche lies a deep fascination with the enigma of evil. What drives individuals to commit violent acts that defy all notions of humanity? The "Psychology of Evil: Understanding the Minds of Serial Killers, Psychopaths, and Sociopaths", aims to answer our desire to understand the mind of these criminals. This book takes readers through a riveting journey in the minds of history's most notorious figures, from serial killers such as Jeffrey Dahm...

Ambush: The Real Story of Bonnie and Clyde - Hardcover

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by Ted Hinton (Author), Larry Grove (As Told to)The story of Bonnie and Clyde--their love, their desperate killings, and their destruction in an explosion of gun fire--has fueled an American legend more than seventy years. But it is only with this book by the last surviving officer of the six who shot Bonnie and Clyde that the full story of their capture has been told.Ted Hinton's description of a secret, illegal police trap--hidden at the time from the press and public--is one of many revela...

Great American Youth: A True Saga - Paperback

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by Mike Scott (Author)Based on actual events, this soul-gripping tale is an account of survival in the urban jungle of Chicago, in the 1980s. While embarked on his own street-journey, Michael Scott enters a world in which a band of brothers are locked in a desperate engagement, an Alamo-like siege of their hood. Amidst turbulent conditions, the narrator gives us all a ticket to ride next to him on this roller coaster ride, with its twist and turns of horror and frustration, suspense and humor...

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by Susan Kelly (Author) Was Albert DeSalvo Really the Boston Strangler? Handyman Albert DeSalvo confessed to eleven brutal rape/murders that terrorized Boston from 1962 to 1964. The repeat sex offender boasted he had raped an additional 2,000 women. His story became the subject of a bestselling book, a major Hollywood movie, and a Hulu docuseries. But DeSalvo was not The Boston Strangler. Author Susan Kelly's detailed investigation shows us the true DeSalvo--a pathological liar whose hunger ...

On the Fringe: Confessions of a Maverick Anthropologist - Paperback

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by Edward C. Green (Author)On the Fringe is a deeply-moving memoir, a reflective and soul-baring account of the author's extraordinary journey as a professional who helped people from dying of AIDS, cholera, and other diseases across the globe. As an anthropologist, Green worked on every inhabited continent, giving the reader an on-the-ground look at how we aid developing nations. Chapters take readers to one exotic locale after another, describing gypsies in Montenegro, sex workers in Tanzan...

Spies in the Himalayas: Secret Missions and Perilous Climbs - Hardcover

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by Mohan S. Kohli (Author), Kenneth Conboy (Author)In the towering mountains of northern India, a chilling chapter was written in the history of international espionage. After the Chinese detonated their first nuclear test in 1964, America and India, which had just fought a border war with its northern neighbor, were both justifiably concerned. The CIA knew it needed more information on China's growing nuclear capability but had few ways of peeking behind the Bamboo Curtain. Because of the ex...

The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case: A Critical Analysis of the Trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann - Hardcover

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by James M. III Dedman (Author), George R. Sr. Dekle (Author)The First Book to Examine the Trial Itself The kidnapping and murder of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. touched off one of the most massive manhunts in the history of American crime detection and generated so much publicity at home and abroad that it was touted as the "Crime of the Century." The arrest of Bruno Richard Hauptmann in connection with the kidnapping inevitably led to the "Trial of the Century." Although Hauptmann was almost ...

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by Christopher Berry-Dee (Author)But no matter how many people they have killed, no matter how many lives they have ruined and whatever the nature of their sickening crimes, serial killers are still human. Analysing the early years of the lives of men like Jeffrey Dahmer, who abused and killed 17 young men, offers a fascinating insight into the effects of a dysfunctional or abusive childhood. Criminologists Christopher Berry-Dee and Steven Morris have spoken and corresponded with killers all ...

Los Padrotes Tlaxcala / The Pimps of Tlaxcala - Paperback

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by Juan Alberto Vázquez (Author)Sin lugar a duda, Los padrotes de Tlaxcala es un libro duro y desgarrador que pone de manifiesto el lado perverso de la sociedad de consumo, cuya maquinaria ha creado un mercado para la esclavitud sexual. Tenancingo, un pequeño poblado de Tlaxcala, es conocido por ser uno de los epicentros de la trata de personas no sólo de México, sino de todo el mundo. Desde ahí familias enteras de padrotes han extendido su millonario negocio por el territorio nacional y buen...

JFK Assassinated: In the Courtroom: Debating the Critic Research Community - Paperback

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by Robert a. Wagner (Author)"Serves as an accessible, effective ... primer to the assassination" - Kirkus Reviews A researcher extensively reviews the body of JFK assassination evidence and concludes that Lee Harvey Oswald fired the wounding and fatal shots that killed President Kennedy, and likely acted alone in committing the act. The author builds on his extensive research with hundreds of conversations and debate with the most prominent members of the JFK assassination research community....

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by Geoff Doyle Retired Fbi Special Agent (Author)Fugitive 373 is the cautionary story of trust and acceptance by a close-knit Virginia family who embraced an individual as their own, only to learn that he was not who they thought he was. This "wolf in sheep's clothing" left a trail of deception, violence, and death from the hills of West Virginia to the sands of Arizona resulting in an intense multi-state Top Ten Most Wanted fugitive investigation by the FBI and a rookie Agent only 18 months ...

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by Susan O'Neill (Author)In this debut fiction collection--the first by a nurse who served in Viet Nam--Susan O'Neill offers a glimpse into the war from a female perspective. These stories are about women, and men, who served in three combat hospitals in 1969 and 1970. They are interconnected, peopled by one-time "stars" and recurring characters, and they deal both with both the minutia of everyday life in wartime, and grander, more over-reaching themes--love and loss, faith and despair, mora...

Causa de Muerte: Cuestionar Al Poder. Acoso Y Asesinato de Periodistas En México / Cause of Death: Questioning Power. - Paperback

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by Alejandra Ibarra Chaoul (Author)México es uno de los lugares más peligrosos en el mundo para ejercer el periodismo. En nuestro país, a muchos periodistas ocupados en la cobertura de temas locales se les hostiga, amedrenta y asesina por tomar postura sobre las injusticias que revelan, por señalar el abuso del poder y por dar voz a las inquietudes de su comunidad. Alejandra Ibarra expone en este libro una verdad trágica que llena de dolor e indignación: a numerosos comunicadores en México n...

Killers Amidst Killers: Hunting Serial Killers Operating Under the Cloak of America's Opioid Epidemic - Paperback

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by Billy Jensen (Author)Bestselling author, co-host of the hit podcast The Murder Squad, and true-crime investigative journalist Billy Jensen goes to Columbus, Ohio, where he examines the unsolved cases of eighteen dead and missing women, whom he suspects were the victims of serial killers on the loose and operating under cover of the opioid epidemic in America's heartland. In Chase Darkness with Me, readers and listeners learned Billy Jensen's journalist origin story, his struggles, his cal...

Stop. State Police.: A Road Dog's Perspective - Hardcover

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by Chris Bomber Bommarito (Author)I had just gotten out of the Army when my mother showed me a newspaper article stating, "Michigan needs Troopers". What the hell, I started the rigorous application process and was offered an academy position on the 1st attempt. Many others try multiple times getting accepted, some never! Being a Young Trooper in the mid 90's was a blast. We were trained by the Best and told to go out on the road to kick ass and take names. Not so much at the end of my 23-yea...

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by Sharon Virts (Author)When a mother is charged with murder in a town already convinced of her guilt, can defense attorney Powell Harrison find truth and justice in a legal system where innocence is not presumed? Emily Lloyd, a young widow in Reconstruction-era Virginia, is accused of poisoning her three-year-old daughter, Maud. It isn't the first death in her home--her husband and three other children all died of mysterious illnesses--so when Maud succumbs to an unexplained malady, the town...

Alcatraz Ghost Story: Roy Gardner's Amazing Train Robberies, Escapes, and Lifelong Love - Hardcover

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by Brian Stannard (Author)The Incredible True Story of the Most Hunted Man in Pacific Coast History--and the Woman He Loved Before the 1920s found their roar, a charismatic gambling addict named Roy Gardner dominated news headlines with daring train robberies and escapes from incarceration. Nicknamed "the Smiling Bandit," Gardner spilled no blood--except his own--as he cut a felonious path across the western United States, as the country hobbled through a recession in the aftermath of the Fi...

Warhol After Warhol: Secrets, Lies, & Corruption in the Art World - Hardcover

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by Richard Dorment (Author)Long-time art critic Richard Dorment reveals the corruption and lies of the art world and its mystifying authentication process. Late one afternoon in the winter of 2003, art critic Richard Dorment answered a telephone call from a stranger. The caller was Joe Simon, an American film producer and art collector. He was ringing at the suggestion of David Hockney, his neighbour in Malibu. A committee of experts called the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board had declare...