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Forensic Science Basics: Every Contact Leaves a Trace - Paperback

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by David Holding (Author)Interested in Forensic Science?'Forensic Science Basics' is comprehensive in its coverage of the fascinating subject of forensic science. Factual and detailed, it is also easy reading for those who wish to gain a basic introduction to this particular area of science, while also being a source of reference for the more 'scientifically orientated' reader.David Holding provides non-technical coverage of how UK crime scene investigations and forensic analyses are conducte...

Killer Clown: The Horrifying Story of Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy (True Crime) - Paperback

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by James Richmond (Author)Uncover the horrific true story of America's infamous first "killer clown".Widely held as one of the worst serial killers America has ever seen, John Wayne Gacy led a seemingly normal life - but behind his apparently friendly persona and his charity work as a clown to entertain sick kids, he held a dark secret.Now, this harrowing book reveals the disturbing true story behind Gacy's killing spree, revealing in stark detail the horrific acts that made him one of Americ...

Dallas Cop: True Tales from a Career - Paperback

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by Ray Dethloff (Author)Relaxed conversations with friendly neighbors interrupted by senseless violence Patrolling the silent night streets-then suddenly, the thrill of the chase Boredom, instantly interrupted by massive adrenalin dumps Needing to remind yourself that most people are good while you interact daily with criminals and people of questionable character in dire and surreal situations "...He knew why I was there and admitted that things got a little out of hand. When I asked him why...

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by Jamāl Al-Dīn Al-Jawbarī (Author), Humphrey Davies (Translator), S. A. Chakraborty (Foreword by)Uncovering the professional secrets of con artists and swindlers in the medieval Middle East The Book of Charlatans is a comprehensive guide to trickery and scams as practiced in the thirteenth century in the cities of the Middle East, especially in Syria and Egypt. Al-Jawbarī was well versed in the practices he describes and may have been a reformed charlatan himself. Divided into thirty chapte...

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by Deana Hamby Nall (Author), Mike S. Allen (Author)On the morning of September 26, 1974, the body of Fern Cowen Rodgers was discovered on the floor of her home in Searcy, Arkansas. The 68-year-old socialite was murdered, sometime in the night, by two bullets fired into her head. This is the story of that crime and the subsequent investigation and trials. It's a tragic tale that would eventually play out-in bits and pieces-in magazines and newspapers throughout the United States. Authors Dean...

The Serial Killer Coloring Book for Adults: Most Notorious Murderers - Including Facts and Quotes, Perfect True Crime Gift - Paperback

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by Gabriel England (Author)Do you have a fascination with serial killers? Then this is the book you have been looking for.Many people are drawn to the morbid violence of serial killers, we simply cannot comprehend their actions, yet we feel compelled to. For many of these killers, killing became more than just a crime. It became an art. An art which they practiced and enjoyed. Like the painting of a portrait or the coloring of a book just like this one.In this book you'll discover 25 of the w...

Billionaire Drug Lord - José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha: The Untold Story of a Medellín Cartel Kingpin - Paperback

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by Mafia Library (Author)You probably heard the stories of Pablo Escobar, the Medellín Cartel, and Narcos. But do you know the story of the equally essential founder of the cartel and the guy who appears in FORBES 1988 World's Billionaires List as a Druglord?- Meet José Gonzalo Rodríguez GachaThis brand new release by Mafia Library takes readers deep into the life of one of the most influential and ruthless figures in the history of the global drug trade. Known as "El Mexicano," Rodríguez Gac...

Fenced In: Fighting for Freedom - Paperback

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by April Scales (Author)From the author that brought you Memoirs of Suzie, 31 Days of Growth and Reflection, and "Quote 365", FENCED IN is the true story about a girl who became a woman behind bars. The book depicts her struggles, encounters, and how she copes through it all. Written in the voice of the girl and young woman she once was is a raw and unfiltered account of April's journey of personal growth and efforts to win release from prison. Number of Pages: 110 Dimensions: 0.3 x 9 x 6 IN ...

Judgment Ridge: The True Story Behind the Dartmouth Murders - Paperback

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by Dick Lehr (Author), Mitchell Zuckoff (Author)A riveting investigation of the brutal murders of two Dartmouth professors -- a book that, like In Cold Blood, reveals the chilling reality behind a murder that captivated the nation.On a cold night in January 2001, the idyllic community of Dartmouth College was shattered by the discovery that two of its most beloved professors had been hacked to death in their own home. Investigators searched helplessly for clues linking the victims, Half and S...

American Taboo: A Murder in the Peace Corps - Paperback

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by Philip Weiss (Author)In 1975, a new group of Peace Corps volunteers landed on the island nation of Tonga. Among them was Deborah Gardner -- a beautiful twenty-three-year-old who, in the following year, would be stabbed twenty-two times and left for dead inside her hut.Another volunteer turned himself in to the Tongan police, and many of the other Americans were sure he had committed the crime. But with the aid of the State Department, he returned home a free man. Although the story was kep...

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by Eric Konigsberg (Author)A New Yorker writer investigates the life and career of his hit-man great-uncle and the impact on his family.Growing up in a household as generic as Midwestern Jews get, author Eric Konigsberg always wished there was something different about his family, something exotic and mysterious, even shocking. When he was sent off to boarding school, he learned from an ex-cop security guard that there was: His great-uncle Harold, in prison in upstate New York, was a legendar...

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by Peter Maas (Author)The First Inside Account of the MafiaIn the 1960s a disgruntled soldier in New York's Genovese Crime Family decided to spill his guts. His name was Joseph Valachi. Daring to break the Mob's code of silence for the first time, Valachi detailed the organization of organized crime from the capos, or bosses, of every Family, to the hit men who "clipped" rivals and turncoats. With a phenomenal memory for names, dates, addresses, phone numbers--and where the bodies were buried...

Indecent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street - Paperback

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by David McClintick (Author)When the head of Columbia Pictures, David Begelman, got caught forging Cliff Robertson's name on a $10,000 check, it seemed, at first, like a simple case of embezzlement. It wasn't. The incident was the tip of the iceberg, the first hint of a scandal that shook Hollywood and rattled Wall Street. Soon powerful studio executives were engulfed in controversy; careers derailed; reputations died; and a ruthless, take-no-prisoners corporate power struggle for the world-f...

My Father the Spy: An Investigative Memoir - Paperback

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by John H. Richardson (Author)As his father nears death in his retirement home in Mexico, John H. Richardson begins to unravel a life filled with drama and secrecy. John Sr. was a CIA "chief of station" on some of the hottest assignments of the Cold War, from the back alleys of occupied Vienna to the jungles of the Philippines--and especially Saigon, where he became a pivotal player in the turning point of the Vietnam War: the overthrow of South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem. As John Jr....

The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece: An Edgar Award Winner - Paperback

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by Edward Dolnick (Author)In the predawn hours of a gloomy February day in 1994, two thieves entered the National Gallery in Oslo and made off with one of the world's most famous paintings, Edvard Munch's Scream. It was a brazen crime committed while the whole world was watching the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. Baffled and humiliated, the Norwegian police turned to the one man they believed could help: a half English, half American undercover cop named Charley Hil...

The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul, and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles - Paperback

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by Don Wolfe (Author)In 1946, Elizabeth Short traveled to Hollywood to become famous and see her name up in lights. Instead, the dark-haired beauty became immortalized in the headlines as the Black Dahlia when her nude and bisected body was discovered in the weeds of a vacant lot. Despite the efforts of more than four hundred police officers and homicide investigators, the heinous crime was never solved. Now, after endless speculation and false claims, bestselling author Donald H. Wolfe disco...

Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster - Paperback

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by T. J. English (Author)Here is the shocking true saga of the Irish American mob. In Paddy Whacked, bestselling author and organized crime expert T. J. English brings to life nearly two centuries of Irish American gangsterism, which spawned such unforgettable characters as Mike "King Mike" McDonald, Chicago's subterranean godfather; Big Bill Dwyer, New York's most notorious rumrunner during Prohibition; Mickey Featherstone, troubled Vietnam vet turned Westies gang leader; and James "Whitey" ...

Lone Wolf: Eric Rudolph and the Legacy of American Terror - Paperback

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by Maryanne Vollers (Author)Five years after escaping into the mountains of North Carolina, Eric Rudolph was becoming a figure of folk legend. The FBI had long since abandoned its manhunt--the largest ever on U.S. soil--for the fugitive accused of bombing the Atlanta Olympics, two abortion clinics, and a gay bar. Then, one night, Rudolph got careless; he was arrested and put in jail--possibly forever. But even in custody, he remained unrepentant . . . and an enigma.In Lone Wolf, Maryanne Voll...

Death and Justice: An Expose of Oklahoma's Death Row Machine - Paperback

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by Mark Fuhrman (Author) Controversy rages about capital punishment as innocent men and women are being released from death rows all over the country. Are innocent people being executed? Is capital punishment justice or is it revenge? Into the debate steps Mark Fuhrman, America's most famous detective, and no stranger to controversy himself. Fuhrman seeks to answer these questions by investigating the death penalty in Oklahoma, where a "hang 'em high" attitude of cowboy justice resulted in ...

Serpico: The Classic Story of the Cop Who Couldn't Be Bought - Paperback

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by Peter Maas (Author), Frank Serpico (Author)THE CLASSIC TRUE STORY OF THE COP WHO COULDN'T BE BOUGHT"I don't think anyone can come away from Serpico without admiration for one man's lonely integrity." --New York TimesWith an Afterword by Frank SerpicoThe 1960s was a time of social and generational upheaval felt with particular intensity in the melting pot of New York City. A culture of corruption pervaded the New York Police Department, where payoffs, protection, and shakedowns of gambling ...

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by Sebastian Junger (Author)"Riveting. . . reads like a novel. . . . A worthy sequel to The Perfect Storm." --New York Times Book ReviewIn the most intriguing and original crime story since In Cold Blood, New York Times bestselling author Sebastian Junger examines the fatal collision of three lives during the infamous Boston Strangler serial murder caseIn the spring of 1963, the quiet suburb of Belmont, Massachusetts, is rocked by a shocking murder that fits the pattern of the infamous Boston...

The Fence: A Police Cover-Up Along Boston's Racial Divide - Paperback

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by Dick Lehr (Author)"The Fence is a monumental account of an urban travesty. Dick Lehr's depiction of one of the darkest chapters in recent Boston law enforcement history and the savage injustices perpetrated on two hero cops--one black, one white--has all the earmarks of a classic." -- Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic RiverThe Boston police officers who brutally beat Michael Cox at a deserted fence one icy night in 1995 knew soon after that they had made a terrible mistake. The badge and han...

For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz Age Chicago - Paperback

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by Simon Baatz (Author)It was a crime that shocked the nation: the brutal murder in Chicago in 1924 of a child by two wealthy college students who killed solely for the thrill of the experience. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were intellectuals--too smart, they believed, for the police to catch them. When they were apprehended, state's attorney Robert Crowe was certain that no defense could save the ruthless killers from the gallows. But the families of the confessed murderers hired Clarence...

Morir En El Intento: La Peor Tragedia de Immigrantes En La Historia de Los Estados Unidos - Paperback

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by Jorge Ramos (Author)Con la pasión y la minuciosidad que lo caracteriza, el periodista Jorge Ramos nos cuenta los detalles de esta desgarradora tragedia, a la vez que busca comprender cómo algo tan inhumano puede suceder en pleno siglo XXI.Back JacketLa aterradora historia de un viaje sin regreso...Cada día, cientos de personas toman incalculables riesgos para cruzar la frontera entre México y Estados Unidos en busca de trabajo y mejores oportunidades de vida. Pero para un grupo de inmigran...

The Killing of Major Denis Mahon: A Mystery of Old Ireland - Paperback

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by Peter Duffy (Author)At the height of the Irish Famine, now considered the greatest social disaster to strike nineteenth-century Europe, Anglo-Irish landlord Major Denis Mahon was assassinated as he drove his carriage through his property in County Roscommon. Mahon had already removed 3,000 of his 12,000 starving tenants by offering some passage to America aboard disease-ridden "coffin ships," giving others a pound or two to leave peaceably, and sending the sheriff to evict the rest. His mu...

The Last Face You'll Ever See: The Culture of Death Row - Paperback

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by Ivan Solotaroff (Author)In fascinating detail, Ivan Solotaroff introduces us to the men who carry out executions. Although the emphasis is on the personal lives of these men and of those they have to put to death, The Last Face You'll Ever See also addresses some of the deeper issues of the death penalty and connects the veiled, elusive figure of the executioner to the vast majority of Americans who, since 1977, have claimed to support executions. Why do we do it? Or, more exactly, why do ...

A Deadly Game: The Untold Story of the Scott Peterson Investigation - Paperback

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by Catherine Crier (Author)In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Catherine Crier, a former judge and one of television's most popular legal analysts, offers a riveting and authoritative account of one of the most memorable crime dramas of our time: the murder of Laci Peterson at the hands of her husband, Scott, on Christmas Eve 2002. Drawing on extensive interviews with key witnesses and lead investigators, as well as secret evidence files that never made it to trial, Crier traces Scott's biz...

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by Henri Charriere (Author)"A modern classic of courage and excitement." --The New Yorker Soon to be a Major Motion Picture Starring Charlie Hunnam and Rami MalekHenri Charrière, nicknamed "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one goal: escape. After planning and executing a series of treacherous yet failed attempts over many y...

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by Jimmy Breslin (Author)In his inimitable New York voice, Pulitzer Prize winner Jimmy Breslin gives us a look through the keyhole at the people and places that define the Mafia--characters like John Gotti, Sammy "the Bull" Gravano, Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso (named for his weapon of choice), and Jimmy "the Clam" Eppolito--interwoven with the remarkable true-crime saga of the good rat himself, Burt Kaplan of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, the star witness in the recent trial of two NYPD detectives indic...

The Rabbi and the Hit Man: A True Tale of Murder, Passion, and Shattered Faith - Paperback

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by Arthur J. Magida (Author)A fascinating true-crime narrative about the first rabbi ever accused of murder and what the case says about the role of clergy in America.On the evening of November 1, 1994, Rabbi Fred Neulander returned home to find his wife, Carol, facedown on the living room floor, blood everywhere. He called for help, but it was too late. Two trials and eight years later, the founder of the largest reform synagogue in southern New Jersey became the first rabbi ever convicted o...

Beyond the Body Farm: A Legendary Bone Detective Explores Murders, Mysteries, and the Revolution in Forensic Science - Paperback

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by Bill Bass (Author), Jon Jefferson (Author)A pioneer in forensic anthropology, Dr. Bill Bass created the world's first laboratory dedicated to the study of human decomposition--three acres on a hillside in Tennessee where human bodies are left to the elements. His research has revolutionized forensic science, but during a career that has spanned half a century, Bass and his work have ranged far beyond the gates of the "Body Farm."In this riveting book, the renowned bone sleuth explores the ...

Contrabando: Confessions of a Drug-Smuggling Texas Cowboy - Paperback

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by Don Henry Ford (Author)Don Henry Ford, Jr., is an unapologetic outlaw. For seven years he made his living smuggling marijuana across the U.S.-Mexico border in the Big Bend region of Texas. His business partners were some of the era's biggest narcotraficantes like Pablo Acosta and Amado Carrillo Fuentes. After Ford was arrested and imprisoned, he escaped and lived for a year in rural Mexico, raising a bumper crop of weed and hiding out from the federales, before his recapture and return to ...