True Crime

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by Leonard Dinnerstein (Author)The events surrounding the 1913 murder of the young Atlanta factory worker Mary Phagan and the subsequent lynching of Leo Frank, the transplanted northern Jew who was her employer and accused killer, were so wide ranging and tumultuous that they prompted both the founding of B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League and the revival of the Ku Klux Klan. The Leo Frank Case was the first comprehensive account of not only Phagan's murder and Frank's trial and lynching b...

The Puppet Masters: How the Corrupt Use Legal Structures to Hide Stolen Assets and What to Do about It - Paperback

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by Emile Van Der Does De Willebois (Author), J. C. Sharman (Author), Robert Harrison (Author)Billions in corrupt assets, complex money trails, strings of shell companies and other spurious legal structures. These form the complex web of subterfuge in corruption cases, behind which hides the benefi cial owner--the puppet master and benefi ciary of it all. Linking the benefi cial owner to the proceeds of corruption is notoriously hard. With sizable wealth and resources on their side, they explo...

Justice for Forests: Improving Criminal Justice Efforts to Combat Illegal Logging - Paperback

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by Marilyne Pereira Goncalves (Author), Melissa Panjer (Author), Theodore S. Greenberg (Author)Every two seconds, across the world, an area of forest the size of a football field is clear-cut by illegal loggers. In some countries, up to 90% of all the logging taking place is illegal. Estimates suggest that this criminal activity generates approximately US $10-15 bn annually worldwide--funds that are unregulated, untaxed, and often remain in the hands of organized criminal gangs. Thus far, dom...

Fighting Corruption in Public Services - Paperback

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by Inc World Book (Author)Since the Rose Revolution at the end of 2003, Georgia has had singular success in fighting corruption in a variety of public services. This book is an attempt to chronicle these efforts and to distil the 'how to' of these anti-corruption reforms. The reason corruption in public services had to be fought was clear. What had to be done was also obvious to many. But little has been written on 'how' the government made it happen. What were the salient features of Georgia...

We Are Fighting the World: A History of the Marashea Gangs in South Africa, 1947-1999 - Paperback

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by Gary Kynoch (Author)Since the late 1940s, a violent African criminal society known as the Marashea has operated in and around South Africa's gold mining areas. With thousands of members involved in drug smuggling, extortion, and kidnapping, the Marashea was more influential in the day-to-day lives of many black South Africans under apartheid than were agents of the state. These gangs remain active in South Africa. In We Are Fighting the World: A History of the Marashea Gangs in South Afric...

Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity - Paperback

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by Lisa Duggan (Author)On a winter day in 1892, in the broad daylight of downtown Memphis, Tennessee, a middle class woman named Alice Mitchell slashed the throat of her lover, Freda Ward, killing her instantly. Local, national, and international newspapers, medical and scientific publications, and popular fiction writers all clamored to cover the ensuing "girl lovers" murder trial. Lisa Duggan locates in this sensationalized event the emergence of the lesbian in U.S. mass culture and shows h...

Exceptional Violence: Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica - Paperback

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by Deborah A. Thomas (Author)Exceptional Violence is a sophisticated examination of postcolonial state formation in the Caribbean, considered across time and space, from the period of imperial New World expansion to the contemporary neoliberal era, and from neighborhood dynamics in Kingston to transnational socioeconomic and political fields. Deborah A. Thomas takes as her immediate focus violence in Jamaica and representations of that violence as they circulate within the country and abroad....

A Tale of Two Murders: Passion and Power in Seventeenth-Century France - Paperback

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by James R. Farr (Author)As scandalous as any modern-day celebrity murder trial, the "Giroux affair" was a maelstrom of intrigue, encompassing daggers, poison, adultery, archenemies, servants, royalty, and legal proceedings that reached the pinnacle of seventeenth-century French society. In 1638 Philippe Giroux, a judge in the highest royal court of Burgundy, allegedly murdered his equally powerful cousin, Pierre Baillet, and Baillet's valet, Philibert Neugot. The murders were all the more sh...

America's Most Hated Woman: The Life and Gruesome Death of Madalyn Murray O'Hair - Paperback

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by Ann Rowe Seaman (Author)Why did Life Magazine dub her "the most hated woman in America"? Did she unravel the moral fiber of America or defend the Constitution?They found her heaped in a shallow grave, sawed up, and burned. Thus ended Madalyn Murray O'Hair, the articulate "atheist bitch" whose 1963 U.S. Supreme Court case ended school prayer. Her Christian-baiting lawsuits spanned three more decades; she was on TV all over the country, foul-mouthed, witty, and passionate, launching today's ...

Spymasters: Ten CIA Officers in Their Own Words - Paperback

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by Ralph Weber (Editor)Spymasters is a collection of interviews revealing enlightening perspectives on the covert operations of this powerful, secretive arm of the U.S. government. Here former top-ranking CIA officials shed light on some of the most sensitive issues and practices in American foreign intelligence to date. These men disclose information about: President Harry S. Truman's demands for a centralized intelligence agency and the stubborn resistance of James F. Byrnes, J. Edgar Hoov...

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by Rodney Hobson (Author)These days fraudsters operate on a massive scale that was previously unimaginable. Thousands of people from all walks of life are relieved of billions of pounds each year. No-one knows the full scale of fraud because embarrassed victims often fail to report it. Despite all the press coverage, people keep falling for old tricks that often re-emerge in new guises. Scammers are ingenious, utterly ruthless and without conscience. Rodney Hobson, author of the best-selling ...

Bandit Years: A Gathering of Wolves - Paperback

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by Mark Dugan (Author)Live again the days of the Old West when travel was not only rough but dangerous! The days when outlaws lurked behind boulders and along remote trails, ready to trap and rob the unwary drivers and their passengers. Billy LeRoy, Bill Miner, Charley Allison and Hamilton White III all shared a common bond of contempt for the law-abiding life, preferring to become stagecoach robbers. BANDIT YEARS profiles these four unforgettable outlaws who made the Barlow-Sanderson Overlan...

Murder Along the Cape Fear: A North Carolina Town in the Twentieth Century - Hardcover

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by David T. Morgan (Author)Murder Along the Cape Fear is the story of Fayetteville and Fort Bragg, North Carolina, during the twentieth century. Seen through the eyes of a native son, this is the tale of one - a distinguished historian - who lived through some of it and heard about much of it from friends and relatives. In this hundred-year journey the town was profoundly impacted by the establishment of Fort Bragg 10 miles to its west. Throughout this hundred-year history, murder seems to be...

Dynamite and Six-Shooter: The Story of Thomas E.

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by Jeff Burton (Author), Marc Simmons (Foreword by)Thomas E. Ketchum, better known as "Black Jack" Ketchum, at six foot two inches tall with dark skin and black hair and described as having a "wonderful physique," never became one of those folklore desperados whose violent and lawless ways were burnished with an illusive romance. If he is remembered at all, it is mostly for the peculiar circumstances which attended the curtailment of his earthly career. Yet, as a man who was noted in his own ...

Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil - Paperback

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by Michael C. Ruppert (Author)The acclaimed investigative reporter and author of Confronting Collapse examines the global forces that led to 9/11 in this provocative exposé. The attacks of September 11, 2001 were accomplished through an amazing orchestration of logistics and personnel. Crossing the Rubicon examines how such a conspiracy was possible through an interdisciplinary analysis of petroleum, geopolitics, narco-traffic, intelligence and militarism--without which 9/11 cannot be unders...

Victim: The Other Side of Murder - Paperback

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by Gary Kinder (Author)Now a classic of true crime, Victim is a compelling and tragic look at how lives can be changed forever by a random act of violence. During an armed robbery, several hostages were brutally tortured, shot in the head, and left for dead. Victim focuses on the members of one family -- including a mother who died after the attack and a son who was left barely alive -- as they fought for his survival and struggled to rebuild their lives. Victim was the first book to go beyon...

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by Maurice Moya (Author)The Torreon Cabin Murders in December of 1995 was one of the most heinous cases in the history of the state of New Mexico. A young man and his live-in girl friend were murdered execution style in a cabin in Cibola National Forest near a small town called Torreon. Her two young sons were then locked in the cabin to die of starvation and dehydration by the murderer. Later, the young man's father discovered the bodies and New Mexico State Police and a gang detective from ...

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by Edna Rowland (Author)Uncover the Mystery True Crime Astrology looks at these questions: What was at the root of Ted Bundy's addiction to killing? What are the similarities between the murders of John Lennon and John F. Kennedy? Marilyn Monroe: Suicide or Murder? Did Jeffrey MacDonald kill is wife and daughters? What motivated Richard Speck to murder eight student nurses? What are the astrological indications of suicide? True Crime Astrology sheds light on these and other compelling myster...

Secret Partners: Big Tom Brown and the Barker Gang - Paperback

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by Tim Mahoney (Author)Among the most dangerous criminals of the public enemies era was a man who has long hidden in history's shadows: Tom Brown. In the early 1930s, while he was police chief of St. Paul, Minnesota, Brown became a secret partner of the infamous Barker gang. He profited from their violent crimes, he protected the gang from raids by the nascent FBI--and while he did all this, the gangsters gunned down cops and citizens in his hometown.Big Tom Brown, 6'5" and 275 pounds, contin...

Augie's Secrets: The Minneapolis Mob and the King of the Hennepin Strip - Paperback

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by Neal Karlen (Author)"Karlen offers a colorful and impressively researched account of the Minneapolis underworld and his fascinating relative that feels right out of Damon Runyon's Guys and Dolls." --Star Tribune"Deliciously snappy." --American Jewish World"Karlen brings back the days when Peggy Lee walked into Augie's straight off the bus from North Dakota, when mid-century celebrities like Frank Sinatra visited Hennepin Avenue, and when the most powerful crime lords in the land checked th...

Stolen from the Garden: The Kidnapping of Virginia Piper - Paperback

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by William Swanson (Author)"Swanson gives a detailed retelling of the kidnapping and the harrowing ransom drop-off procedure that Harry Piper went through to get his wife back. Cooperation from the Pipers' sons enables Swanson to give an insider account of the family's ordeal and access to FBI files on the case obtained by the son, Harry Piper III, after court battles with federal officials." Minneapolis Star Tribune Number of Pages: 280 Dimensions: 0.8 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: August...

Secret Intelligence and Public Policy: A Dilemma of Democracy - Paperback

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by Pat Holt (Author)This readable book introduces students to the U.S. intelligence community, the functions of intelligence, and the mechanisms that are to provide public control of intelligence. Chapters on collection, analysis, counterintelligence, and covert action describe the form and uses of each, and illuminate the choices and tradeoffs involved in making decisions about intelligence. Number of Pages: 269 Dimensions: 0.64 x 9.03 x 6.05 IN Publication Date: October 01, 1994

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by William David Myers (Author)On the feast of St. Michael, September 1659, a thirteen-year-old peasant girl left her family's rural home to work as a maid in the nearby city of Braunschweig. Just two years later, Grethe Schmidt found herself imprisoned and accused of murdering her bastard child, even though the fact of her pregnancy was inconclusive and no infant's body was found to justify the severe measures used against her. The tale spiraled outward to set a defense lawyer and legal theo...

The Chicago Trunk Murder: Law and Justice at the Turn of the Century - Hardcover

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by Elizabeth Dale (Author)On November 14, 1885, a cold autumn day in the City of Broad Shoulders, an enthusiastic crowd of several hundred watched as three Sicilians--Giovanni Azari, Agostino Gelardi, and Ignazio Silvestri--were hanged in the courtyard of the Cook County Jail. The three had only recently come to the city, but not long after they were arrested, tried, and convicted for murdering Filippo Caruso, stuffing his body into a trunk, and shipping it to Pittsburgh. Historian and legal ...

This Bloody Deed: The Magruder Incident - Paperback

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by Ladd Hamilton (Author)The story of the infamous murder and robbery of Lewiston merchant Lloyd Magruder and his companions during the 1860s gold rush is legendary in Montana, Idaho, and Washington. Ladd Hamilton constructs a compelling account of the destruction of Magruder's pack train while traveling on the Southern Nez Perce Trail in the Bitterroot Mountains, and the subsequent quest by Magruder's friend Hill Beachey to track his killers to San Francisco, escort them back to Lewiston, an...

Murder in Minnesota: A Collection of True Cases - Paperback

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by Walter N. Trenerry (Author)"My investigation of Minnesota murders over the years revealed no new motives for killing anyone. The old ones are perfectly satisfactory. . . . I hope you will find these murders interesting. I regret that I could not report the most ingenious and remarkable ones. They looked like accidents or natural deaths and were never discovered."--Walter N. TrenerryMurder in Minnesota features some of the state's most infamous criminals--a collection of fascinating and dis...

Fundraiser a: My Fight for Freedom and Justice - Hardcover

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by Robert Blagojevich (Author), Leonard Cavise (Foreword by)Most people will recognize the name Robert Blagojevich as the brother of ill-fated Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich. But many don't know why Robert came to work for his brother or how he came to be named as a defendant in the criminal trial accusing Rod of attempting to sell Barack Obama's former Senate seat to the highest bidder after the presidential election of 2008.Now, Robert offers a brutally honest inside look at what it is l...

Death Foretold: The Jesuit Murders in El Salvador - Paperback

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by Martha Doggett (Author)The case of the six Jesuits and two women murdered at Central American University (UCA) in San Salvador on November 16, 1989, has come to signify, by extension, a class-action suit on behalf of the 70,000 people tortured and executed over the course of a decade by the Salvadoran Armed Forces, with the complicity of the government. The identification of all those responsible for the Jesuit murders-the intellectual authors as well as the triggermen-would provide a firs...

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by James S. Jenkins (Author) Number of Pages: 224 Dimensions: 0.51 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: April 01, 2007

Dial M: The Murder of Carol Thompson - Paperback

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by William Swanson (Author)At 9:00 on the morning of March 6, 1963, in the quiet St. Paul neighborhood of Highland Park, Mrs. Fritz Pearson glanced out her window and saw something almost unimaginable: slumped on the front steps of the home across the street was a woman, partially clothed in a blue bathrobe and bloodied beyond recognition. The woman, Mrs. Pearson would come to learn, was her beloved neighbor Carol Thompson, wife and mother of four.Earlier that morning, T. Eugene Thompson, kno...

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by Paul R. Chabot (Author)Dr. Paul Chabot - Military Intelligence Officer, White House Drug Czar Advisor, Law Enforcement Veteran - President and CEO of Chabot Strategies LLC (www.chabotstrategies.com) is an Iraq war veteran and began his military intelligence career in 2001, serving first at the Office of Naval Intelligence, later with the Defense Intelligence Agency, in conjunction with an assignment in the Pentagon working for the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the National Military Command Cent...