True Crime

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by Jane Caputi (Author), Maria Virolainen (Editor), Alexander Dolinin (Editor)Like many writers, Alexander Pushkin often created multiple versions of the same work, leaving readers to wonder which he intended as final and authoritative--a question complicated, moreover, by his fraught relationship with the repressive regime of tsar Nicholas I. Illuminating the creative processes and historical realities that shaped Pushkin's writing, this richly annotated series reproduces each work exactly a...

Whisper to the Black Candle: Voodoo, Murder, And the Case of Anjette Lyles - Paperback

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by Weldon White Jaclyn (Author)In the 1950s, Macon, Georgia, was a sleepy little town where doors remained unlocked and crime was something that occurred in other places. Anjette Lyle's restaurant was a popular gathering place. It was the place to go for lunch to hear the latest news. Then, one day, Anjette Lyles was charged with the murders of two husbands, her mother-in-law, and her nine-year-old daughter, all committed over the course of seven years. The case was the most sensational Macon...

Lynched by a Mob! The 1892 Lynching of Robert Lewis in Port Jervis, New York - Hardcover

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by Michael J. Worden (Author)2023 Gold Medal in True Crime - Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY).2023 Winner in True Crime - Next Generation Indie Book Awards. The award winning account of the lynching of Robert Lewis! On the evening of June 2, 1892, a frenzied mob dragged Robert Lewis nearly a half a mile through the streets of Port Jervis, New York, before hanging him from the limb of a tree. Lewis, an African American, was no stranger to the village: he had lived and worked in Port Je...

Lynched by a Mob! The 1892 Lynching of Robert Lewis in Port Jervis, New York - Paperback

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A Personal Kiwi-Yankee Dictionary - Paperback

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by Louis S. Leland Jr. (Author)How would you respond if a New Zealander invited you to a "leg-in"? Would you know what to do if someone told you to pull up a "browser"? Without some assistance, most foreigners would indeed be baffled by the intricacies of the Kiwi tongue. Now, however, help is available as Louis S. Leland Jr., a professor of psychology at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, unravels the mysteries of this colorful language. Composed in equal parts of fact and hil...

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by Sid Underwood (Author)Raymond Hamilton, a pal of Bonnie and Clyde was one of the best-known desperadoes of the 1930s. Many thought he was more deadly and dangerous than his counterpart, Clyde Barrow. His 1934 escape from the Texas State Prison in Huntsville, Texas, made the front page of the New York Times. Although overshadowed, by the legend of Bonnie and Clyde, Raymond Hamilton was every bit as notorious and his crime spree rivaled any of his era. This book chronicles Hamilton's life fr...

Descent Into Madness: The Diary of a Killer - Paperback

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by Vern Frolick (Author)The true story unfolds a gripping tale of one of western Canada's greatest wilderness manhunts. The book is based on the incredible diaries of the crazed Michael Oros, and follows his lengthy pursuit by police up to the time he is taken by an RCMP bullet. The author and Crown Prosecuting Attorney, Vernon Frolick, has written this book from the outlaw's point of view, based on the diary entries made by Michael over his thirteen-year descent into madness. The reader is t...

Anatomy of a Kidnapping: A Doctor's Story - Paperback

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by Steven L. Berk (Author)In March 2005, medical school dean Steve Berk was kidnapped in Amarillo, Texas, by a dangerous and enigmatic criminal who entered his home, armed with a shotgun, through an open garage door. Forced at gunpoint to take the wheel of the perpetrator's own car, Berk faced a series of critical choices that day, any of which could have determined survival or death. Berk's experiences and training as a physician, especially his understanding of Sir William Osler's treatise ...

Sex, Murder, and the Unwritten Law: Courting Judicial Mayhem, Texas Style - Paperback

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by Bill Neal (Author), Gordon Morris Bakken (Foreword by)From the 1880s until after World War I, Texas prosecutions for adultery, fornication, rape, seduction, and sodomy were many, but formal penal code seemed much too merciful to suit most southerners, who believed in direct and personal redress of such wrongs. "Unwritten law" seemed to justify the killing--or at least maiming--of almost anyone who by actual physical contact or inappropriate comment offended southern notions of female virtu...

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by Eric Ambler (Author) Number of Pages: 240 Dimensions: 0.56 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: April 02, 2009

Getting Away with Murder on the Texas Frontier: Notorious Killings and Celebrated Trials - Paperback

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by Bill Neal (Author), Gordon Morris Bakken (Introduction by)In 1916, in the tiny West Texas town of Benjamin, a gunman slips into a courtroom and murders the defendant. In 1912, in Fort Worth's finest hotel, a young man kills an old gentleman in cold blood in the middle of the lobby. The verdict in both of these murderers' trials? Not guilty. The explanation? "This is Texas." Laws passed by politicians in far-off Austin meant little to Westerners living on the Texas frontier. Sagebrush justi...

Sex, Murder, & the Unwritten Law: Gender and Judicial Mayhem, Texas Style - Hardcover

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Anatomy of a Kidnapping: A Doctor's Story - Hardcover

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by Steven L. Berk (Author)Four hours. That was the amount of time between looking down the barrel of a gun and finding myself free along a silent highway lined by cotton fields. In the time period that seemed eternal, my unique experiences as a doctor created an indescribable bond between myself and my captor. I looked upon the situation just as I looked upon a medical emergency: I took a deep breath, hid my panic, and tried to solve the situation. In March 2005, Dr. Steven Berk was kidnapped...

Serial Killers: The Insatiable Passion - Paperback

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by David Lester (Author)This bestselling book has become a staple of every serious true crime book collector's library. One of the most reliable concise sources of information available about serial killers and their crimes, this book offers a psychological and sociological analysis of this most frightening yet fascinating criminal. Psychologist David Lester, recognized worldwide as a leading authority on death-both in the fields of suicide and homicide-offers a much-needed assessment of whet...

Trooper Down!: Life and Death on the Highway Patrol - Paperback

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by Marie Bartlett (Author)It's a trooper's worst nightmare. What begins as a routine patrol suddenly turns violent when someone pulls a weapon. Moments later, the trooper is down--wounded or dead. Then, like a swarm of angry bees, every other trooper on the force mobilizes to catch the suspect. Whether they're issuing a ticket for speeding "just a little" over the limit or conducting an all-out manhunt, the people who have chosen this perilous and demanding profession are rarely revealed as v...

The FBI Files on Elvis Presley - Paperback

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by Thomas Fensch (Editor)Elvis Presley was never accused of a crime, but for years the FBI kept a file on Presley because of the crimes that went on in the background of his world: death threats made against him; a major extortion attempt while he was in the Army in Germany; complaints about his public performances, a mention of a paternity suit; the theft by larceny of an executive jet which he owned and the alleged fraud surrounding a 1955 Corvette which he owned. These formerly Top Secret ...

FBI Files on the Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping - Hardcover

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by Thomas Fensch (Editor)The Kidnapping of the first son of aviator Charles Lindbergh became the crime of the century and defined "media circus." As much as the world in the 1930's loved "Lucky Lindy" for his flight from New York to Paris, so the world despised the kidnapper of the Lindbergh's child. Although the crime occurred in New Jersey, the FBI maintained complete files on the case, because ransom money crossed state lines. These are the complete, never-published, FBI files on the Lindb...

FBI Files on the Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping - Paperback

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Inside the Gestapo: Hitler's Shadow Over the World - Paperback

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by Hansjrgen Koehler (Author)The fascinating first-hand account by a top defector of the ruthlessness, spy intrigues and curious personalities of the Third Reich. A unique and intimate record, full of surprises, sardonic wit and tragic endings. "Gestapo tactics: " Espionage, intrigue, and subversion. Cunning, cynical, and ruthless in exploiting every human weakness - and murdering anyone who got in the way. Koehler was a special agent working for the top Nazi cop Heydrich, head of the Gestapo...

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by Claire Burch (Author)WHAT REALLY KILLED ROSEBUD? is an exploration into the life and death of Rosebud Abigail Denovo, a nineteen year old People's Park activist who was shot and killed by an Oakland police officer on August 25, 1992. The initials of her pseudonym spelled R.A.D. for radical. WHAT REALLY KILLED ROSEBUD? is also an offshoot of the author's long involvement with documenting the events and life stories of the people who gather in and around People's Park in Berkeley, home of th...

Accident And Deception: The Huey Long Shooting - Paperback

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by Donald A. Pavy (Author), W. Thomas Angers (Foreword by)In Accident And Deception: The Huey Long Shooting, Dr. Donald Pavy vindicates Dr. Carl Weiss of the false allegations connecting him to the shooting of Huey P. Long in the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge, LA on September 8th 1935. In this book, he discusses his firm conviction that intensive medical and other evidence, paired with specific information, in a sworn affidavit, from the Superintendent of Louisiana State Police, Fran...

Murder in the Garden: Famous Crimes of Early Fresno County - Paperback

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by Scott Morrison (Author)Presenting 15 famous cases from Fresno, California, set in the first part of the 20th century, a long-time detective in the sheriff's office introduces key figures such as a bootlegger, an unfortunate local dubbed Alligator Jack, and a perpetrator known as the Fig Garden Fiend. Featuring local landmarks such as Mussel Slough--the setting for Frank Norris's ""The Octopus--""and offering additional commentary that compares these sensational past cases to current high-p...

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by Jon Rappoport (Author), David Icke (Contribution by) Number of Pages: 144 Dimensions: 0.35 x 7.02 x 4.28 IN Publication Date: November 01, 2002

James Munro: And the Freeway Killers - Paperback

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by Lori Carangelo (Author)Like Forrest Gump, Jim Munro grew up with multiple physical and mental handicaps to overcome. Unlike Gump, who was a likable movie hero and was liked in real life, Jim Munro was never liked - not by his American parents who adopted him from a German orphanage and then discarded him, nor by those who knew about his lifestyle and association with Bill Bonin, California's Freeway Killer. To unravel Jim Munro for this book, it was necessary to include graphic description...

Rage !: How An Adoption Ignited A Fire - Paperback

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by Lori Carangelo (Author)GREG MOX was, by all accounts, a nice, quiet, intelligent "computer nerd." His loving parents adopted and raised him since he was an infant. He was never physically or sexually abused and had no prior criminal history. Yet he felt his reasons justified the horrific killing of his Mom and Dad -- as did 21 other adoptees in this book who similarly unleashed their rage and then tried to cover up the evil deed with fire. Number of Pages: 142 Dimensions: 0.3 x 9 x 6 IN Pu...

Who Will Speak for JonBenét?: A New Investigator Reads Between the Lines - Paperback

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by Andrew G. Hodges (Author)What really happened that horrific Christmas night? "Thoughtprint" expert Dr. Andrew Hodges' forensic case study focuses on the killer's ransom note, which he claims clearly answers who did it, how, and why.Working as a detective of the human mind, Hodges unfolds the riveting story step-by-step, deciphering the hidden messages in the infamous ransom note, as well as in other documented communications critical to the case.Charles Donald Byron, Special Agent FBI (ret...

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by Don Allison (Author)A true story, Charlie is both historical and creative non-fiction; creative for the addition of dialogue that, in most cases. is speculative. The story follows Charlie Allison's life from youth to death, from farming to mining, to bootlegging, to Chicago where he became acquainted with members of the Torrio/Capone South Side gang. One member in particular, Fred Goetz, alias "Shotgun George Zeigler," was instrumental in Charlie's move to Couderay, Wisconsin where Charlie...

Skinhead... The Life I Chose - Paperback

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by Spike Pitt (Author), D. M. Samson (Cover Design by), Spike Pitt (Photographer)This is a true account of the skinhead cult, told by a man who was really there and still is. It is NOT about Nazism, or Neo-Nazism, and definitely not about politics; it is the story of how the ebullience of youth can be corrupted and misinterpreted by propaganda and the media. Warning This story contains a lot of strong language, British slang and outspoken opinions that may be offensive to some; it is neverthe...

Murder at 40 Below: True Crime Stories from Alaska - Paperback

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by Tom Brennan (Author)Murder at forty Below is a gritty yet fascinating account of many of Alaska's most notorious and unusual murder cases. Drawn from police files, eyewitness accounts, and news reports, these stories introduce extreme criminals in an extreme land. Meet church-going big-game hunter Robert Hanson, who stalked topless dancers for more than a decade, and Robert Stroud, a construction worker who killed a bartender in Juneau, later to become the nationally known "Birdman of Alca...

Ted Bundy: A Serial Killer Among Us - Hardcover

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by Savannah Crawford (Author)Not all monsters lurk in shadow, and sometimes the truest evils hide in plain sight. The story of the most popular serial killer to ever ravage the United States tells of such a case: when the world was forced to see the creature behind the charm. For history remembers Ted Bundy for two things: his grisly murders, and the circus surrounding his trial. During the seventies Ted Bundy terrorized, raped, assaulted, and murdered dozens of young women across seven state...

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by R. Earl Muir (Author)On December 4th, 2017 the body of a young girl is discovered fl oating in Eastlake Park in Birmingham, Alabama. Lt. Fay Findlay, head of the Special Crimes Unit of the Birmingham Police Department, encounters a case from the history books when she realizes the evidence is strikingly similar to an infamous murder from the same date and place that occurred in 1888. The City of Birmingham was just seventeen years old when the Hawes murders brought the young industrial cit...

Letters from Alcatraz: A Collection of Letters, Interviews, and Views from James

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by Michael Esslinger (Author)REVISED, EXPANDED AND UPDATED (Special Edition). Letters from Alcatraz now includes a new chapter of author interviews with James "Whitey" Bulger, discussing his years on the Rock. Alcatraz Island was home to some of the nation's most notorious criminals including James "Whitey" Bulger, Al Capone, Mickey Cohen, George "Machine Gun" Kelly, Robert Stroud- the Birdman of Alcatraz, Alvin Karpis, Henry Young, Frank Morris, John & Clarence Anglin, and Roy Gardner. I...