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Lizzie Borden on Trial: Murder, Ethnicity, and Gender - Paperback

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by Joseph A. Conforti (Author)Most people could probably tell you that Lizzie Borden "took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks," but few could say that, when tried, Lizzie Borden was acquitted, and fewer still, why. In Joseph A. Conforti's engrossing retelling, the case of Lizzie Borden, sensational in itself, also opens a window on a time and place in American history and culture. Surprising for how much it reveals about a legend so ostensibly familiar, Conforti's account is also fascina...

KGB Lexicon: The Soviet Intelligence Officers Handbook - Paperback

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by Vasili Mitrokhin (Author)In this volume Mitrokhin presents two dictionaries produced by the KGB itself to define their activities in both offensive and defensive intelligence work. The translated documents tell the story of the KGB's methods and targets and should interest the general public as well as the specialist. Number of Pages: 480 Dimensions: 1.36 x 9.16 x 6.32 IN Publication Date: February 04, 2002

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by Jean Guisnel (Author)To some a brand-new forum for the freedom of speech, the Internet is also the most up-to-date way to gather intelligence. Brilliant hackers like Kevin Mitnik--modern-day "pirates"--pose real security threats to government and industry. Cyberwars explores a dangerous new world where international terrorists plot their attacks and are tracked by secret service organizations on-line, drug traffickers do business and launder money, and electronic economic espionage is the ...

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by Arnold G. Parks (Author)The Missouri State Penitentiary was established in 1833 via a bill passed by the state legislature, and the first prisoner was incarcerated in 1835. Inmates constructed the main prison building from rock quarried at the site in 1836. The penitentiary closed on September 15, 2004, and plans are in place to redevelop the site into offices for state agencies and private enterprises. The Missouri State Penitentiary was once considered one of the largest maximum-security...

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by Christine Watkins (Editor)A rising number of sexual assaults on college campuses has led to an increased discussion about date rape, acquaintance rape, and sexual assault in recent years. This informative edition presents essays that cover varying perspectives on date rape, including whether or not alcohol is the cause of most date rapes, whether or not the definition of date rape is adequate, and whether or not legislation is needed to protect date rape victims. Number of Pages: 112 Dimen...

Ghosts and Murders of Manhattan - Paperback

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by Elise Gainer (Author)Manhattan's past whispers for attention amongst the bustle of the city's ever-changing landscape. At Fraunces Tavern, George Washington's emotional farewell luncheon in 1783 echoes in the Long Room. Gertrude Tredwell's ghost appears to visitors at the Merchant's House Museum. Long since deceased, Olive Thomas shows herself to the men of the New Amsterdam Theatre, and Dorothy Parker still keeps her lunch appointment at the Algonquin Hotel. In other places, it is not the...

Motor City Mafia: A Century of Organized Crime in Detroit - Paperback

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by Scott M. Burnstein (Author)Learn the story behind one of Detroit's most infamous mobs with rare photographs documenting their rise and fall.Motor City Mafia: A Century of Organized Crime in Detroit chronicles the storied and hallowed gangland history of the notorious Detroit underworld. Scott M. Burnstein takes the reader inside the belly of the beast, tracking the bloodshed, exploits, and leadership of the southeast Michigan crime syndicate as never before seen in print. Through a stunnin...

Detroit's Infamous Purple Gang - Paperback

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by Paul R. Kavieff (Author)Beginning as a group of delinquents committing petty crimes, they became Detroit's infamous Purple Gang, of one of the most notorious organized crime groups of the 20th century.The photographs in this fascinating collection chronologically follow the evolution of the Purples from their days as a juvenile street gang through their rise to power and eventual self-destruction. Detroit had a gold rush atmosphere and a thriving black market during the 1920s that attracte...

Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina - Paperback

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by Peter Dale Scott (Author)Peter Dale Scott's brilliantly researched tour de force illuminates the underlying forces that drive U.S. global policy from Vietnam to Colombia and now to Afghanistan and Iraq. He brings to light the intertwined patterns of drugs, oil politics, and intelligence networks that have been so central to the larger workings of U.S. intervention and escalation in Third World countries through alliances with drug-trafficking proxies. This strategy was originally developed...

Unwise Passions: A True Story of a Remarkable Woman---And the First Great Scandal of Eighteenth-Century America - Paperback

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by Alan Pell Crawford (Author)In the spring of 1793, eighteen-year-old Nancy Randolph, the fetching daughter of one of the greatest of the great Virginia tobacco planters, was accused, along with her brother-in-law, of killing her newborn son. Once one of the most sought-after young women in Virginia society, she was denounced as a ruined Jezebel, and the great orator Patrick Henry and future Supreme Court justice John Marshall were retained to defend her in a sensational trial. This gripping...

Secrets Can Be Murder: The Killer Next Door - Paperback

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by Jane Velez-Mitchell (Author), Nancy Grace (Foreword by)Respected television news journalist Jane Velez-Mitchell asks a probing, disturbing question: Are killers like Scott Peterson and Andrea Yates all that different from the rest of us? What kind of monster would do this? When journalists break the story of a child who's been kidnapped, a young woman who's been brutally raped, or a family who's been slaughtered, that's the question most of us ask. Secrets Can Be Murder exposes the hidden...

There is a Gunman on Campus: Tragedy and Terror at Virginia Tech - Paperback

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by Ben Agger (Editor), Timothy W. Luke (Editor), Stanley Aronowitz (Contribution by)On April 16, 2007, a Virginia Tech student killed 32 of his classmates and professors and then turned the gun on himself. The media focused their power and our attention on the campus, the students and faculty of Virginia Tech, and the gunman and his victims. But we have yet to understand fully what happened in Blacksburg. There is a Gunman on Campus brings our thoughts back to the shocking campus shootings an...

Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three - Paperback

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by Mara Leveritt (Author)*A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING REESE WITHERSPOON AND COLIN FIRTH* The West Memphis Three. Accused, convicted...and set free. Do you know their story?In 2011, one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in American legal history was set right when Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley were released after eighteen years in prison. Award-winning journalist Mara Leveritt's The Devil's Knot remains the most comprehensive, insightful reporting ever done on t...

Illegal Tender: Gold, Greed, and the Mystery of the Lost 1933 Double Eagle - Paperback

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by David Tripp (Author)It is one of America's treasures. The most valuable ounce of gold in the world, the celebrated, the fabled, the infamous 1933 double eagle, illegal to own and coveted all the more, it has been sought with passion by men of wealth and with steely persistence by the United States government for more than a half century--it shouldn't even exist but it does, and its astonishing, true adventures read like "a composite of The Lord of the Rings and The Maltese Falcon" (The New...

Spy Dust: Two Masters of Disguise Reveal the Tools and Operations That Helped Win the Cold War - Paperback

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by Jonna Mendez (Author), Antonio Mendez (Author), Bruce B. Henderson (With)Moscow, 1988. It is the twilight of the Cold War, and the KGB is at its most ruthless. In the last three years, ten CIA operatives have been executed or neutralized. Langley has no idea how the KGB seems to be able to predict the CIA's every move, but some believe they are using an invisible electromagnetic powder that allows them to keep tabs on anyone who touches it: spy dust. Enter CIA officers Tony Mendez and Jonn...

Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family - Paperback

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by Charles Bowden (Author)Lionel Bruno Jordan was murdered on January 20, 1995, in an El Paso parking lot, but he keeps coming back as the key to a multibillion-dollar drug industry, two corrupt governments -- one called the United States and the other Mexico -- and a self-styled War on Drugs that is a fraud. Beneath all the policy statements and bluster of politicians is a real world of lies, pain, and big money. Down by the River is the true narrative of how a murder led one American famil...

Shattered: Reclaiming a Life Torn Apart by Violence - Paperback

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by Debra Puglisi Sharp (Author)In April 1998, Debra Puglisi Sharp -- wife, nurse, and mother of teenage twins -- was tending the roses in her garden when a factory worker with a cocaine habit slipped in through an open door and waited for her to come in. Nino, her husband of twenty-five years, got in the way and was shot. The man then attacked and raped Debra, placed her in the trunk of his car, and drove away. Kept hog-tied in her abductor's house, Debra finally learned of her husband's murd...

Presumed Guilty: What the Jury Never Knew about Laci Peterson's Murder and Why Scott Peterson Should Not Be on Death Row - Paperback

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by Matt Dalton (Author), Bonnie Hearn Hill (With)No one knows the story behind the sensational headlines of the Scott Peterson murder trial better than defense attorney Matt Dalton. For six straight months after Peterson's arrest, Dalton was the defense's only full-time investigative attorney on the case. During that time, he lived in Modesto and investigated every element of the case, interviewing scores of witnesses, reviewing more than 35,000 pages of police documents, and meeting almost d...

The Man with the Candy: The Story of the Houston Mass Murders - Paperback

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by Jack Olsen (Author)The night David Hilligiest didn't come home was both like and unlike other nights when other Houston boys disappeared between the years 1971 and 1973. At three in the morning the police were called, but they just said that boys were running away from the best of homes nowadays and that they'd list David as a runaway. No, there would be no official search for the youngster. Aghast, the Hilligiests, in the months that followed, hired their own detective, put up posters, ev...

Flim-Flam Man: The True Story of My Father's Counterfeit Life - Paperback

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by Jennifer Vogel (Author)A frank and intimate portrait of a charismatic, larger-than-life underworld figure, as told by the daughter who nearly followed in his footsteps. "Do unto others before they do unto you," John Vogel used to advise his daughter, Jennifer. By his account, the world was a crooked place and one had to be crooked in order to survive. A lifelong criminal, John robbed banks, burned down buildings, scammed investors, plotted murder, and single-handedly counterfeited more tha...

Secuestrada (Kidnapped): Una Historia de la Vida Real - Paperback

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by Leszli Kalli (Author)Para los cuarenta y seis ocupantes del avión Fokker 50 de Avianca, que volaba de Bucaramanga a Bogotá, el 12 de abril de 1999 se convirtió en una pesadilla. Guerrilleros encapuchados secuestraron el avión y lo hicieron aterrizar en una pista abandonada. Entre los pasajeros viajaba Leszli Kálli, una joven de dieciocho años que soñaba vivir una experiencia facinante en un kibutz en Israel. En los campamentos de la guerrilla, Leszli escribió este diario en el que detalla ...

Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team - Paperback

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by George Jonas (Author)Vengeance is a true story that reads like a novel. It is the account of five ordinary Israelis, selected to vanish into "the cold" of espionage secrecy -- their mission to hunt down and kill the PLO terrorists responsible for the massacre of eleven Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972. This is the account of that secret mission, as related by the leader of the group -- the first Mossad agent to come out of "deep cover" and tell the story of a heroic endeavo...

The Daughters of Juarez: A True Story of Serial Murder South of the Border - Paperback

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by Teresa Rodriguez (Author), Diana Montané (Author), Lisa Pulitzer (With)For more than twelve years, the city of Juárez, Mexico -- just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas -- has been the center of a horrific crime wave against women and girls. Consisting of kidnappings, rape, mutilation, and murder, most of the atrocities have involved young, slender, and poor victims -- fueling the premise that the murders are not random. As for who is behind the crimes themselves, the answer remains...

Unleashed: Of Poltergeists and Murder: The Curious Story of Tina Resch - Paperback

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by William George Roll (Author), Valerie Storey (Author)One scientist's account of the poltergeist case that made headlines across the country -- and the riveting examination of a child's mysterious murder. When she was just fourteen years old, Tina Resch became the center of the best-documented case of poltergeist activity of the twentieth century. During the spring of 1984, Tina's home in Ohio was thrown into chaos: appliances turned themselves on without electric current, objects flew thro...

Las Hijas de Juarez (Daughters of Juarez): Un Auténtico Relato de Asesinatos En Serie Al Sur de la Frontera - Paperback

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by Teresa Rodriguez (Author), Diana Montane (Author), Lisa Pulitzer (With)Ciudad Ju rez, M xico, queda en la frontera sur del R o Bravo, frente a El Paso, Texas. Por m s de doce a os, aqu se ha llevado a cabo un sinn mero de cr menes atroces contra mujeres y ni as que incluyen secuestros, violaciones, mutilaciones y asesinatos. Seg n Amnist a Internacional, para 2006, se hab an encontrado m s de 400 cad veres, sin contar centenares de desaparecidas. Muchos creen que las muertes se deben a la...

Love & Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain - Paperback

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by Max Wallace (Author), Ian Halperin (Author)A chilling, groundbreaking investigation into the death of one of the great rock icons of our times -- including exclusive access to the case tapes of Courtney Love's former P.I., and a host of compelling new evidence. On Friday, April 8, 1994, a body was discovered in a room above a garage in Seattle. For the attending authorities, it was an open-and-shut case of suicide. What no one knew then, however, is that the deceased -- Kurt Cobain, the s...

Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland - Paperback

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by James St James (Author)Now a motion picture starring Macaulay Culkin and Seth Green, Party Monster is a "vastly entertaining, scarily well-written and horrifically funny book" (The Baltimore Sun) that depicts a dazzling, dizzying descent into hell--New York's downtown club scene, where dancing, sex, drugs, and murder were just part of the everyday experience. True crime has never been more fun. When Party Monster was first published, it created a storm of controversy for its startlingly vi...

American Gunfight: The Plot to Kill President Truman--And the Shoot-Out That Stopped It - Paperback

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by Stephen Hunter (Author), John Bainbridge (Author)November 1, 1950 -- an unseasonably hot afternoon in sleepy Washington, D.C. At 2:00 P.M. at his temporary residence in Blair House, President Harry Truman takes a nap. At 2:20 P.M., two Puerto Rican natives approach from different directions. Oscar Collazo, a respected metal polisher and family man, and Griselio Torresola, an unemployed salesman, don't look dangerous, not in their new suits and hats, not in their calm, purposeful demeanor, ...

Reasonable Doubt: The Fashion Writer, Cape Cod, and the Trial of Chris McCowen - Paperback

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by Peter Manso (Author)From the bestselling author of Ptown and Brando comes a riveting new look at the 2002 murder of a beautiful fashion writer and the trial that went horribly wrong--recently depicted on the TV news special A Killing on the Cape. With clear-eyed prose, this "is an unusually captivating story, and Peter Manso has expertly plumbed the depths of it to write a riveting book that true crime fans will love" (Vincent Bugliosi, bestselling author of Helter Skelter). In January 200...

History of Murder: Personal Violence in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present - Paperback

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by Pieter Spierenburg (Author)This book offers a fascinating and insightful overview of seven centuries of murder in Europe. It tells the story of the changing face of violence and documents the long-term decline in the incidence of homicide. From medieval vendettas to stylised duels, from the crime passionel of the modern period right up to recent public anxieties about serial killings and underworld assassinations, the book offers a richly illustrated account of murder's metamorphoses. In...

The Mistress of Murder Hill: The Serial Killings of Belle Gunness - Paperback

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by Sylvia Elizabeth Shepherd (Author) Number of Pages: 268 Dimensions: 0.69 x 7.86 x 5.48 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: September 01, 2001

The Treatment and Rehabilitation of Offenders - Paperback

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by Iain D. Crow (Editor)Treatment and rehabilitation have been central to the development of criminal justice policy, and have played an important role in the development of criminology. In recent years punishment and retribution have attracted more attention than rehabilitation, but there has been a resurgence of interest in treatment and rehabilitation, with indications that some things do ′work′, and an emphasis on ′evidence-based′ policy making. It is also the belief of many that a penal ...