True Crime

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by Kathryn Jewel (Author)On August 30, 1993, Roberta Moore drove to work; it was a cold, rainy morning. She had left her two sons and little daughter at home with her husband. He was supposed to make sure they got dressed in time to catch the school bus. She had been on the job for only thirty minutes when she received a call at 7:45 a.m. Roberta was surprised to hear her husband's voice on the line. John Moore told his wife he couldn't find their sons. Robert, 13, and Benjamin (Ben), 10, we...

Storefront Sting: An ATF Agent's Life Undercover - Paperback

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by Lou Valoze (Author), Brian Whitney (Joint Author)This thrilling story memorializes one of the most dangerous--and successful--series of undercover operations conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Written by the special agent who took these operations from disrupting small time fencing schemes to infiltrating major criminal organizations, this book is the first story of these secretive operations. During the operation's run from 2006 to 2014, Lou Valoze's fic...

The Hate Factory: A First-Hand Account of the 1980 Riot at the Penitentiary of New Mexico - Paperback

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by Georgelle Hirliman (Author)The terror lasted for thirty-six hours. When it was over, thirty-three inmates were dead, all at the hands of their fellow convicts. It was an outbreak of inmate violence unequaled in the annals of prison uprisings. It happened at the Penitentiary of New Mexico-Time magazine called it 'the nation's most notorious prison." W.G. Stone was there. He witnessed the beatings, the stabbings, the rape, the torture. 'Tying the rope under his arms and around his chest, th...

Suddenly Derailed: A Pittsburgh Story - Paperback

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by Craig Potter (Author)Eight days into the New Year, there's an explosion. Misty, a former acquaintance of Craig's girlfriend, is put off by Craig's rejection to her sexual advances. Misty leads the Feds to believe that Craig is the next domestic terrorist since Timothy McVeigh. After being chased, harassed and viciously interrogated by the ATF and FBI, Craig must fight for his freedom amongst the backwoods mentality that is typical of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Craig was thrown in ...

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by Ed Taggert (Author)At the Kefauver Committee hearings in the U.S. Senate in 1951, it was revealed that organized crime was extending its tentacles into Reading, PA. Five years later, after a new Democratic administration took over in the city, the IRS launched a campaign to collect taxes from gambling machine operators. Two years after that the federal Alcohol and Tax Unit raided a huge still and IRS agents completed investigations of two large numbers banks. After President Kennedy signed...

Fourteen: The Murder of David Stukel - Paperback

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by Bill O'Connell (Author)Chicago Tribune editor Bill O'Connell O'Connell explores one of the most heinous but least publicized crimes in Illinois history: the 1968 abduction, sexual assault, and murder of fourteen-year-old David Stukel by fourteen-year-old bullies Billy Rose Sprinkle and James Perruquet. O'Connell-David Stukel's Little League teammate-recalls the victim's idyllic childhood and takes readers into the minds of the murderers and inside the homes, hearts, and photo albums of th...

The Chaparral Murders: Dollar Store Justice - Paperback

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by M. M. Stoddart (Author)From the dense woods of the Appalachian Mountains comes this true tale of deception, murder, and greed in a tiny West Virginia town. M. M. Stoddart returns to the scene of the decades-old murders of Glenn Roberts and his teenaged son, Timothy, to conduct a new investigation of the biggest homicide case in Tucker County history-one shrouded by suspicion and doubt for more than twenty years. Glenn and Timothy were killed by near-contact shotgun blasts from the same wea...

The Professional Serial Killer and the Career of Ted Bundy: An Investigation Into the Macabre Id-Entity of the Serial Killer - Paperback

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by Bonnie M. Rippo (Author)In the pages of The Professional Serial Killer and the Career of Ted Bundy, you will find yourself eerily intrigued as the serial killer introduces himself to you. Say hello to your neighbor, partner, son, or daughter-whose dual identity now includes the facade of Politician, Clergyman, Lawyer, Contractor, or Compliance Officer. Your imagination will spark as you slowly but gradually become enamored to the serial killer's ingenuity, as an entrepreneur in the art of ...

The Day the Catskills Cried: A True Crime Story - Hardcover

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by Wayne E. Beyea (Author)On May 24, 1977, Trudy Resnick Farber was abducted from her home by a masked, armed intruder, taken to a remote wooded mountainside and buried alive A million dollar ransom demand was made for her release. The Day the Catskills Cried is the complete and true story concerning a horrific crime that shook the Catskill region of New York. Number of Pages: 264 Dimensions: 0.75 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 06, 2008

The Loss of the Most Precious Gift: The Life of a Son - Paperback

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by Susan L. Appleby (Author)In my state of shock and dismay, I asked God over and over again, "Why?" Always, before closing my eyes at night, I prayed for my sons, asking God to keep them healthy, happy, and safe. I never dreamed that a horrific crime would take one of their lives. This nightmare was indeed unbelievable. I was unable to focus. I kept thinking that there had been a mistake; I kept trying to convince myself that it wasn't James who had been killed. I found myself rambling on an...

The Day the Catskills Cried: A True Crime Story - Paperback

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by Melvin Stamper Jd (Author)"This book is a veritable powerhouse that shatters, in one instant, the wall of lies and deceit that took decades to build upon our impressionable minds. Stamper's ability to explain complex legal and political information in a comprehensive yet concise manner is without equal. Like a master sculptor he has chipped away the 'Words of Art and Deception' to reveal the inescapable and undeniable Truth. This book has single-handedly bared the cleverly crafted schemes ...

Fourteen: The Murder of David Stukel - Hardcover

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Infamous Murders and Mysteries: Cold Case Files and Who-Done-Its - Hardcover

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by Robert J. Girod Sr. (Author)From the author of Profiling the Criminal Mind comes these true stories of cold cases and true mysteries. A truly compelling collection of adventures from the files of a career police detective and university professor that takes the reader inside the mysteries and murders that intrigue the author and make the reader listen for "things that go bump in the night." From spies to ghosts to celebrities and the places we like to spend time reading spy and murder mys...

The Bogeyman: Stalking and Its Aftermath - Hardcover

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by Sherry L. Meinberg (Author) Number of Pages: 316 Dimensions: 1 x 8.72 x 7.02 IN Publication Date: February 24, 2003

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by Albert Arthur Allison (Author)July 8, 1932, 11 PM. East Austin, an African-American district in Jim Crow Texas. Sixty-year-old Charles Johnson is driving home from Bible study when a car full of young white men swerves in front of him. A brief altercation ensues. Convinced that his life is threatened, Johnson fires his pistol and drives away. Johnson's shot kills the unarmed, eighteen-year-old son of Albert Allison, a prominent cotton landlord, influential in politics, and an advocate for ...

Bordergate: The Story The Government Doesn't Want You to Read - Hardcover

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by Darlene L. Fitzgerald (Author), Peter S. Ferrara (Author)There is a cancer growing on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The best and brightest agents we have are being systematically harassed out of DHS. This is a story of bureaucracy run amok at the expense of our national security. We are less safe now than before "9-11", even though billions of taxpayer dollars have been spent. Why? This is the gripping true story of National Security Whistleblowers and their courageous fight f...

Profiling The Criminal Mind: Behavioral Science and Criminal Investigative Analysis - Hardcover

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by Robert J. Girod Sr. (Author)Profiling the Criminal Mind is, as the subtitle indicates, is a text and reference on behavioral science and criminal investigative analysis for investigators, forensic scientists, prosecutors, behavioral scientists, and academics. This compilation combines crime scene forensics and experience with behavioral science to get into the criminal's mind and interpret crime scenes. A practical guide to applied criminology, the author brings together his years of expe...

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by Wint Capel (Author)What really happened before, during and just after the sensational, Prohibition era murder of the police chief by the town's most admired physician has been saved from oblivion by this book by retired newspaper editor Wint Capel, The Good Doctor's Downfall. The author dug up the facts and has arranged them to show in great detail how brilliant Dr. J. W. Peacock ambushed the young, arrogant police chief, John Taylor, on a busy downtown street in Thomasville, a small North...

The DD Group: An Online Investigation Into the Death of Marilyn Monroe - Hardcover

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by David Marshall (Author)From January through October 2003, a group of individuals engaged in an in-depth discussion of the death of one of the 20th century's most beloved figures, Marilyn Monroe. The result is The DD Group, the highly detailed work of author David Marshall. It chronicles Monroe's final day and her tragic and puzzling demise. Using available information including police reports, vintage magazine and newspaper accounts, documentaries and biographies, and correspondence with s...

The Monfils Conspiracy: The Conviction of Six Innocent Men - Paperback

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by Denis Gullickson (Author), John Gaie (Author)On November 21, 1992, Thomas Monfils, an employee at the James River paper mill in Green Bay, Wisconsin, disappeared. After an intensive search, his body was found the next evening, submerged in a pulp vat. The police called it murder. In 1995, six of Monfils' coworkers were wrongfully convicted of his death, the result of a preordained theory and a reckless prosecution. Highly detailed and meticulously researched, The Monfils Conspiracy reveals...

The Monfils Conspiracy: The Conviction of Six Innocent Men - Hardcover

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A Mob of His Own: Mad Sam DeStefano and the Chicago Mob's Juice Rackets - Paperback

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by Dark Tony (Author)The true story of one of Chicago's most sadistic murderers who killed for power, money and pleasure. Sam "Mad Dog" DeStefano controlled the flow of money on Chicago's streets backed by the Chicago mob, he became a multimillionaire by squeezing the "juice" out of his victims. This book details the life of Mad Sam and describes the sick methods he used to kill. This book also explores Chicago's Italian mob and what was commonly known as the "juice" rackets, loan sharking, a...

Wanted: Gentleman Bank Robber. the True Story of Leslie Ibsen Rogge, One of the FBI's Most Elusive Criminals - Paperback

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by Dane Batty (Author)What do you think of when you hear about someone on the FBI's Most Wanted List? Hardened criminals, without morals or any sense of right and wrong, ready to solve a dispute with a gun, right? But what if things weren't that cut and dried? What if the nice guy you hired to hook up your cable was Number Seven on the FBI's list? Les Rogge looks and acts just like your next- door neighbor. Yet in twenty years he may have robbed more banks than Jesse James and Bonnie and Clyd...

Barkers & Bones: Portrait of an Undercover Narc - Paperback

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by Phil Ribera (Author)This memoir takes you deep into the forbidding world of police narcotic investigations. Picking up where his first book, It's Only a Badge, left off, the author paints a vivid picture of his own terrifying journey undercover. From the first pages, you will be absorbed as the once-stellar police officer transforms himself into a street junkie. Watch his career soar as his personal life spins more and more out of control.2012 Writer's Digest award winning memoir."His writ...

When Death Comes Knocking: A woman's death-defying struggle following a horrific home invasion. Story featured on TV's Forensic Files(R) - Paperback

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by Tony E. Windsor (Author), B. Kaye Robinson (Author)In September 1995, Brenda Kaye Robinson was a single mother living an ordinary life in rural Sussex County, Delaware. Then one night she awoke to a nightmare of unspeakable horror. The savagery that took place inside her home as her 11-year-old son lay sleeping in a nearby room, changed her life forever. "When Death Comes Knocking" chronicles Robinson's journey of faith as she struggles to deal with both the physical and emotional trauma o...

True Hollywood Noir: Filmland Mysteries and Murders - Paperback

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by Dina Di Mambro (Author)2014 IPPY Bronze Medal Award. A tantalizing mixture of classic Hollywood nostalgia and true crime, True Hollywood Noir: Filmland Mysteries and Murder, featuring 100 rare photographs, is suspenseful, entertaining, and eminently readable. Uncover true stories of mystery and murder in a dozen different chapters featuring William Desmond Taylor, Thomas Ince, Jean Harlow, Thelma Todd, Joan Bennett, Lana Turner, George Reeves, Gig Young, Bob Crane, Natalie Wood, Robert Bla...

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by Wayne Smith (Author)This memoir depicts the Waffle House as a microcosm of humanity where Gandhi would not be out of place meeting the twelve disciples and hookers and addicts sit in booths next to agents of the Department of Justice. It shows a world where coffee is the beverage of communion, good and evil become blurred, and real life never mirrors exploits in the movies. Looking back on his journey for justice in an unjust world, Smith recalls various events in his career not as heroic ...

Mentally Ill in Amityville: Murder, Mystery, & Mayhem at 112 Ocean Ave. (2nd Edition) - Paperback

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by Will Savive (Author)On November 13, 1974 the quiet village of Amityville was rocked by the murders of six members of the DeFeo family at 112 Ocean Ave. The only surviving member of this tragic ordeal was Ronald DeFeo Jr., who was later charged and convicted to six-life-sentences. Thirteen months later, the Lutz family moved into the lavish Dutch Colonial home, but moved out mysteriously after just 28-days, claiming that the house was haunted Then came a media frenzy, and with the release ...

Bargain With A Devil: The Tragedy Behind Gone With The Wind - Paperback

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by Gloria Gravitt Moulder (Author)This book is not about Scarlett, Rhett, the Civil War or it's aftermath. It is about a "bargain" made by Margaret Mitchell the famous author of "Gone With The Wind" that eventually led to her death, and how it impacted the life of Hugh Dorsey Gravitt and his family. It's about manipulation, psychopathic behavior, sexual deviance, and murder that was made to look like an accident, false imprisonment, alcoholism, medical malpractice, attempted suicide, the hard...

Murder In The Yoga Store: The True Story of the Lululemon Killing - Paperback

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by Peter Ross Range (Author)MURDER IN THE YOGA STORE is the true story of the brutal killing of a beautiful young woman at a chic Lululemon yoga-wear shop. The grisly murder was committed on a pleasant Friday night in upscale Bethesda, Maryland, a leafy suburb of Washington, D.C. In this riveting narrative by veteran journalist Peter Ross Range, the author for the first time brings together the tale of what really happened in the yoga store murder. He portrays the personalities of both victim...

Porter and Ike Stockton: Colorado and New Mexico Border Outlaws - Paperback

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by Michael R. Maddox (Author)Renowned historian of the American West, Frederick Nolan, author of The West of Billy the Kid and The Lincoln County War: A Documentary History, noted that with the publication of this new book Maddox has "written a whole new chapter in outlaw history." -- During the first week of May 1881 the Santa Fe New Mexican carried two reward notices from Governor Lew Wallace. One was for $500 for William Bonney, "alias The Kid" and directly below that was another reward n...