True Crime

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The Unexpected Gambler: A History of Casinos Cheating the Public and One Gambler's Revenge - Paperback

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by Robert Asiel (Author)An unknown chapter of gambling history that begins in "The Golden Age of Las Vegas." The author details how crooked casinos cheat, and describes the people who retaliate against them called crossroaders. He reveals the methods both sides use that he learned from veteran crossroaders who taught him how to beat casinos. It led to adventures throughout the U.S., Europe, and the Caribbean, where there's intrigue, danger, and celebrity. Robert explains how he and his hand-p...

Innocent Woman: The Karen Lucchesi Story - Hardcover

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by Karen Lucchesi (Author)A true and tragic story. The events described in Innocent Woman, The Karen Lucchesi Story, were borne of personal experience. Karen was framed for laundering money. Her choices? Lie, plead guilty, then take a plea deal for probation or up to six months in jail, or tell the truth by pleading innocent, go to trial and face up to 10 years in prison. What would you do? This is a raw and real-world story. Karen believed that Americans were innocent until proven guilty, bu...

King of Burglars: : The Heist Stories of Max Shinburn - Paperback

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by Jerry Kuntz (Editor), Maximilian Schoenbein (Author)Written by the greatest bank robber of the 1860s, Maximilian Schoenbein, alias Max Shinburn, these stories reveal the details behind his most famous heists and prison escapes; and also those of fellow master thieves Adam Worth and George M. White. Includes: --The Real Story of the Stolen Gainsborough Portrait --How Adam Worth Stole the Kimberley Diamonds --Mark Shinborn's Story of the Concord Bank Robbery --Mark Shinborn Tells Story of Hi...

Orville's Revenge The Anatomy of a Suicide - Paperback

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by Stephen B. Martin (Author)60th Anniversary of the Disappearance of Orville Gibson The story of Orville Gibson, a Newbury, Vermont farmer whose frozen body was found in the waters of the Connecticut River on March 26, 1958, has remained controversial for sixty years. The investigation into Gibson's death and the subsequent trials and acquittals made the case one of Vermont's most famous murder investigations, featured twice in Life magazine. In Orville's Revenge, retired Judge Stephen B. Ma...

Bangs: A Policeman's Guide to Corruption - Paperback

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by Cameron Deaver (Author), D. B. Flowers Jr (Author)On a perfect autumn night in 1984, a retired policeman charged into his neighbor's garage, hell-bent on collecting a long-overdue narcotics debt. Instead, he met two shotgun blasts-one shredded his chest, and the other ripped a hole in his back as he tried to flee. A half hour later, he flatlined in the ambulance. But this cop wasn't about to leave so easily. The ensuing court trial released a flood of stunning revelations about three of th...

Mr. New Orleans: The Life of a Big Easy Underworld Legend - Paperback

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by Frenchy Brouillette (Author), Matthew Randazzo V. (Author)Wiseguys called him "the Keith Richards of the American Mafia" and JFK hero Jim Garrison denounced him as "one of the most notorious vice operators in the history of New Orleans" ... but you can just call him MR. NEW ORLEANS. Mr. New Orleans tells the incredible story of Frenchy Brouillette, a redneck Cajun teenager who stole his big brother's motorcycle and embarked on a 60-year vacation to New Orleans, where he became a legendary ...

What Happened to Paul Carter? Vol i & ii Editted: The very true story of love, passion & a Hitman - Paperback

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by Katherine a. de Bois (Author)Written in the vein of 'Gone Girl' and 'Girl on a Train', this contemporary, psychological thriller, is sadly, an engrossing TRUE story. Stranger than fiction, therefore all the more fascinating and cruel. It immediately immerses you in the life of Katherine De Bois, now being hunted by a hired hitman, and still in hiding.As you live the confused flashbacks and experience the love, the loss, the shock and pain with her, she pieces memories together, hoping to u...

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by Richard Rj Bond (Author), Michael Douglas Carlin (Author), Russell Poole (Contribution by)The powerful and compelling true story of corruption, coercion and murder surrounding the Tupac Shakur & Christopher "Biggie Smalls" Wallace homicides brought to 2014. With contribution by former Los Angeles Police Detective Russell Poole, the original Wallace homicide investigator, Michael Douglas Carlin, Director of "American Federale" and Richard "RJ" Bond, director of the "Tupac Assassination"...

Catching Hell: A True Story of Abandonment and Betrayal - Paperback

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by Jay Dobyns (Author)Four days on the job Jay Dobyns was shot point-blank in the back by a criminal suspect. The bullet travelled through his lung and exited his chest. For the next twenty-seven years, he accepted every dirty and dangerous undercover assignment possible. Some days he succeeded, on others he failed, but all he ever wanted to do was to defend and protect people who couldn't, or wouldn't, do that for themselves.Death threats mounted from street criminals and he was again shot i...

Catching Hell: A True Story of Abandonment and Betrayal - Hardcover

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Disconnected/Reconnected: Writing from Lancaster Prison - Paperback

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by Words Uncaged (Producer), Bidhan Chandra Roy (Editor)"Disconnected/Reconnected" is a collection of writing from prisoners at Lancaster State Prison in Los Angeles County exploring how pain and trauma lead to incarceration, and how love and meaningful reflection lead to healing. The program at Lancaster was implemented by Words Uncaged, a non-profit organization providing creative platforms to inmates in California prisons to create a dialogue between prisoners and the outside world. Founde...

Murder & Mayhem in the Fourth Corner: True Stories of Whatcom, Skagit, and San Juan Counties' Earliest Homicides - Paperback

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by T. a. Warger (Author), Emily Zimmerman (Cover Design by)Murder and Mayhem -- true stories of crimes in the United State's fourth corner. Everything from public hangings, husbands killing wives, wives killing husbands, and strangers coming to town. Filled with intrique and rich, true history. A great read. Number of Pages: 300 Dimensions: 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: October 01, 2018

From Murder Incorporated to the PGA Tour: The Remarkable, Untold Story of Charlie

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by Chuck Workman (Author), Peter Cimino (Author)America's most notorious Jewish hit man was Charlie "The Bug" Workman. His media legacy was that he killed the infamous Jewish Mob Boss, Dutch Schultz in 1935. However, his true legacy was much different than the "killer/thug/hoodlum" reputation that the general-public was fed.First and foremost, behind prison walls for 24 years, his top priority was keeping his beloved son Chuck out of the mob. As he told his mob contingent, "Anyone who tries t...

Hollywood Confidential: A True Story of Wiretapping, Friendship, and Betrayal - Paperback

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by Dan E. Moldea (Author)In May 2003, I became involved in a doomed book project with reporter Anita Busch about the federal investigations of Los Angeles private detective Anthony Pellicano, the "Sleuth to the Stars," who had targeted Busch, among others. Directly or indirectly, usually working through a group of prominent Los Angeles attorneys, Pellicano had represented a wide variety of Hollywood celebrities, including actresses Rosanne Barr, Farrah Fawcett, and Elizabeth Taylor; actors Ke...

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by Peter Lance (Foreword by), John a. Gotti (Author)For four decades the name Gotti has been synonymous with organized crime in the minds of the public, who were told stories about them with varying degrees of accuracy. But now in Shadow of My Father, the real story of the King of the Volcano is revealed for the first time. John A. Gotti who survived four trials and a parole violation hearing without a guilty verdict, in four years, now takes up his pen to tell the story of his father's unwav...

Intended for Mature Audiences - Paperback

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by Donna Thomas (Author)Murder in Denver. From the cornfields of Nebraska to the top rung as a rising star of the adult porn industry, Timothy John Boham had everything a young man could ask for; including a beautiful young daughter. The fall from the top of the ladder to the depths of prison was short and steep as in one rash moment with one wrong decision, Boham lost it all. Seasoned true crime writer Donna Thomas spent countless hours with the subject Timothy John Boham. Thomas also worked...

Kidnapping the Prince of Albany: John O'Connell Kidnapping of 1933 - Paperback

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by James Dunn (Author)A corrupt political Kingpin learns his mobster cronies have betrayed him by kidnapping his nephew and are holing him for ransom, which he is unable to pay. He exacts his revenge by pulling strings making kidnapping a federal offense that carries the death penalty. A true story based on inside information from the grandson of the "hand picked" jury foreman and recently declassified FBI files. Number of Pages: 472 Dimensions: 0.95 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: January 02,...

Southern Nightmare: The Hunt for The South Side Strangler - Paperback

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by Richard Foster (Author)The shocking true saga of the first killer in U.S. history caught using DNA, Southern Nightmare is based on interviews with the homicide detectives and FBI profilers who hunted for the South Side Strangler, along with friends and family members of his victims. In fall 1987, this prolific serial killer stalked the streets of two Virginia cities 100 miles apart, plunging the state into terror as he brutally raped and strangled a succession of women in their homes. Lear...

My Best Friend is a Liar: The Real Life Story of a World Class Con Artist - Paperback

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by Melissa Sprouse Browne (Author)Everyone wants a best friend. Someone to be there in good times and bad, with whom you'll share secrets, wishes and dreams. No one ever expects that best friend to be a world class con artist who preys on your deepest desires to further her own dark agenda. In "My Best Friend is a Liar," we meet sociopath Sharon Johnson. Scams and swindles are her daily games and she's excellent at winning. With decades of destruction and victims from all walks of life, Sharo...

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by Edia Connole (Author), Nicola Masciandaro (Author), Fintan Neylan (Author)A collection of philosophical and critical essays on the television series True Detective. "Traditionally, the detective genre deals with the problem of epistemology - how to know something that one doesn't know. There are some things we cannot know, and some things we should not know. Sometimes clues just give way to more clues, and epistemic tedium rules the day. These essays reveal knowledge becoming an enigma to ...

Famous Crimes the World Forgot: Ten Vintage True Crime Stories Rescued from Obscurity - Paperback

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by Jason Lucky Morrow (Author)Extraordinary True Crimes Resurrected from the Grave Famous Crimes the World Forgot uncovers ten amazing true crimes that exploded into the national news, shocking Americans from coast to coast-crimes that were eventually forgotten-until now. Many of these incredible cases went unexplored for decades. They include: a "Jack the Slugger" style serial killer who haunted the streets of Denver, bashing women in the head with a baton; the hatchet murder of a wife and c...

Warjac America's Most Wanted - Hardcover

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by Greg a. Swaim (Author)Warjac knew he was a lucky guy. A product of Indiana poverty, here he was at age 33, hanging out with millionaires and movie stars. Warjac's new friends didn't know much about him. As far as they knew, his name actually was Bob King and he was running an upper-crust apartment building, the Biltmore, in Los Angeles. They didn't know about his shady past, that he had been in and out of jail for half his life and that he was on the FBI's Most Wanted List.Dean Martin, one...

A Washington Tragedy: Bill & Hillary Clinton and the Suicide of Vincent Foster - Paperback

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by Dan E. Moldea (Author)From the Introduction to the 2015 2nd Edition of A Washington Tragedy: Bill & Hillary Clinton and the Suicide of Vincent Foster: The Foster case would prove to be an eye-opening, life-altering experience for me. Through my extensive research, I collected clear evidence that a dishonest, money-grubbing cabal of disingenuous Clinton-haters-who shared information, covered up each other's mistakes, outright fabricated evidence, and received their funding from the same...

The Mystery of the Lufthansa Airlines Heist: A Wiseguy Reveals the Untold Story - Paperback

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by Dominick Cicale (Author), Robert Sberna (Author)Where is the $6 million that was stolen during the infamous Lufthansa Airlines heist? For 37 years, the FBI has been unable to find the cash and jewels taken from the Lufthansa cargo vault at JFK airport. Now, for the first time, a Mafia insider reveals the bizarre story of what happened to the loot. In this short-format book, Dominick Cicale, a former high-ranking member of the Bonanno crime family, discloses never-before-told details about ...

Mirandized Nation: The Inside Story of Ernesto Miranda and the Phoenix Police Department - Paperback

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by Clark Lohr (Author), Timothy W. Moore (Author)Mirandized Nation: The Inside Story of Ernesto Miranda and the Phoenix Police Department tells the story of the Phoenix PD investigation that ended in Ernest Miranda's arrest, revealing how law enforcement operated before, during, and after the Miranda Ruling by the United States Supreme Court.Author BiographyFollowing several years as a patrol officer, TIMOTHY W. MOORE has been a detective for nearly two and half decades, working a wide range ...

Subprime Felon: Inside Federal Prison Camp - Paperback

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by Pyerse Dandridge (Author)Pyerse Dandridge thought he was on the way up. After earning his BA in English from Sacramento State University, he was paying his daily expenses by toiling in a restaurant while working on his novel. But his purchase of five houses with faulty subprime loans cost him his freedom. After the houses were lost to foreclosure, Pyerse was prosecuted by the federal government for loan fraud and sentenced to 17 months in Herlong Prison Camp, near the California-Nevada bor...

Bird Dog 757: Operation Rabbit Hole - Hardcover

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by David Poiry (Author)David Poiry's New and Revised, Third EditionIt was a warm September evening in 1973. Rabbit was a twenty-eight-year-old Los Angeles uniformed policeman, on duty working a black and white police car in Westchester, a district of Venice Division near the Los Angeles airport. He had been assigned there for almost four years. Although Rabbit's assignment to this sleepy hollow town was somewhat of a forced retirement for him, it was a peaceful community much like the one he ...

A Stolen Life: The Terrance TK Kelly Story - Hardcover

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by Sam Herting (Author)August 12, 2004. A night of inconceivable tragedy in Richmond, California after a 15-year-old murders a hero in the community. How did this happen and why? This is the story of Terrance TK Kelly and the village that raises him under difficult circumstances. It follows a father as he transforms from menace in the community to pillar in the community and molds a chubby crybaby into one of the top football recruits in America. It's a testament to human resilience and our a...

Ski Town Shenanigans: The Best of the Steamboat Springs Police Blotter - Paperback

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by Veronika Khanisenko (Other), Matt Stensland (Author), Mack Maschmeier (Illustrator)For many locals, the Steamboat Pilot & Today's police blotter is a breakfast staple. From arguments over sweaters, to bears breaking into Subarus, to men on horseback trotting into local watering holes, we promise you Steamboat Springs is no sleepy ski town. This is the best of the Steamboat Springs police blotter from 2005 through 2014. Number of Pages: 130 Dimensions: 0.28 x 7 x 5 IN Publication Date: ...

His Name Was Murder: Real Kansas City Crime Stories From The Prosecutor - Paperback

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by Phil Levota (Author)This book tells the story of five different homicide cases from Kansas City, Missouri as told by the prosecutor who handled the cases himself, Phil LeVota. Five different stories are the five chapters that tell the different tale of true crime from the criminal's perspective, the police perspective, and the prosecution perspective. The Jackson County Prosecutor's office and the Kansas City Police department were involved in obtaining justice for the victims. From the ho...

Our Friend Travis: The Travis Alexander Story - Paperback

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by Chris and Sky Hughes (Author)Travis Victor Alexander was a good looking, charismatic, entrepreneur and motivational speaker. He was in the prime of his life enjoying good health, financial success, world travel and a bustling social life. But, things weren't always so good for him. His life began in dismal circumstances, and tragically, it ended worse than it began. He was born to drug addicted parents and suffered many of the worst privations of life. His family was poor and his parents w...

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by Roger Reaves (Author)Roger Reaves grew up a poor farm boy in Georgia and went from making 'moonshine' to becoming one of the most prolific smugglers of the 20th century. He covered six continents, transporting 20 ton ship loads of hash, tons of cocaine, and completed more than 100 sorties across the US border with plane loads of marijuana.His friends and associates spanned the globe. From Medellin Cartel kingpins Jorge Ochoa and Pablo Escobar; to "Mr Nice" Howard Marks and the infamous Bar...