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Alcatraz: A History of the Penitentiary Years - Hardcover

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by Michael Esslinger (Author)ALCATRAZ - the name alone said it all... It was meant to send a shudder down the spines of the nation's most incorrigible criminals. It stripped Al Capone of his power. It tamed "Machine Gun" Kelly into a model of decorum. It took the birds away from the Birdman of Alcatraz. When prisoners boarded the boat for Alcatraz, they knew that they had reached the end of the line. Not only was this the toughest of all Federal penitentiaries, but it was also said to be virt...

Escaping Alcatraz: The Untold Story of the Greatest Prison Break in American History - Hardcover

$48.55

by Michael Esslinger (Author), David Widner (Author), Richard Tuggle (Foreword by)NOTE: This book contains graphic depictions of extreme crime and violence. Its content may not be suitable for all readers.Under the cover of night on June 11, 1962, using only crude homemade tools, Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin tunneled their way out of Alcatraz, America's most secure maximum security prison. Enacting a complex escape plan, the trio broke free from the cellblock, made it un...

Perfection To A Fault: A Small Murder in Ossipee, New Hampshire, 1916 - Paperback

$12.94

by Janice S. C. Petrie (Author)Voted "Best in New Hampshire" by New Hampshire Magazine and was a featured segment on WCVB-TV Boston's Chronicle."Petrie expertly puts details into historical context and annotates each chapter with newspaper and court documentation. Written in 2000 but even more intriguing as the 100th anniversary of the crime approaches, this thorough account will appeal to fans of true crime."- Publisher's Weekly"Petrie vividly re-creates the circumstances and aftermath of an...

Perfection To A Fault: A Small Murder in Ossipee, New Hampshire, 1916 - Hardcover

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by Janice S. C. Petrie (Author)This book is the non-fiction account of the events which encompassed a murder and trial at the turn of the century in Ossipee, New Hampshire. When Florence Small's smoldering body rose to the surface of the basement water, local folks immediately suspected her husband of the crime. Frederick Small was an outsider, a Boston man, who had moved to Ossipee Lake to semi-retire. There was a deep distrust of "city fellas up there behind the Ossipees," in 1916 and perha...

To Kill the Irishman: The War that Crippled the Mafia - Hardcover

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by Rick Porrello (Author)Basis for the motion picture Kill the Irishman with Ray Stevenson, Vincent D'Onofrio, Val Kilmer & Christopher Walken. The the true story of fearless Irish-American racketeer Danny Greene, the Irishman who takes on the mob in a 1970s bombing war. The end result is the fall of several Mafia families and the defection of high-ranking mobsters.Author BiographyRick Porrello wears several hats. He is a Cleveland area police chief, jazz drummer and author of several non...

El zar de la droga: la vida y la muerte de un narcotraficante mexicano - Paperback

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by Terrence E. Poppa (Author) El zar de la droga es la biograf a de Pablo Acosta, narco mexicano que construy uno de los m s poderosos imperios en la historia del narcotr fico mundial. Tambi n es la historia de la corrupci n, violencia sin l mite y opulencia del infernal mundo de los narcotraficantes.Acosta convirti a Ojinaga, Chihuahua, en el mayor "dep sito" de cocaina del mundo occidental, desde donde abastec a la demanda de toda la Uni n Americana. El zar de la droga revela los or genes...

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by James Perloff (Author)Twenty-five years after publication of The Shadows of Power, James Perloff returns to the venue of political history, and takes you where the mass media won't.- Who benefited from the mysterious sinking of the USS Maine?- Why did President Woodrow Wilson order the manifest of the torpedoed Lusitania hidden in the archives of the U.S. Treasury?- After the official inquiry into the Pearl Harbor attack, why did Admiral Kimmel and General Short - the commanders at Pearl H...

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by Tom Brennen (Author)Voice of the Anchorage Times columnist Tom Brennan, author of the best-selling Murder at 40 Below, retells the most dramatic and exciting stories from the confidential files of Alaska's police detectives who investigate murder, mayhem, crimes of passion and greed, and plenty of criminal stupidity throughout the northern state. Back JacketHow Alaska's criminal cases were solved. COLD CRIME is a collection of stories about some of Alaska's high-profile criminal investigat...

Death In Big Bend: True Stories of Death & Rescue in the Big Bend National Park - Paperback

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by Laurence Parent (Author), Laurence Parent (Photographer)Big Bend attracts some of the most dedicated visitors of any national park in the country. They drive for hours from all across Texas and beyond, sometimes for just a short weekend of wilderness. They bring everything needed for camping, boating, hiking, birding, and backpacking stuffed into or strapped to their vehicles. Most importantly, this loyal group of visitors brings a strong sense of caring and respect for the park.Most visit...

Show-Me Atrocities: Infamous Incidents in Missouri History - Paperback

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by Larry E. Wood (Author)The guerrilla conflict in Missouri during the Civil War gave rise to an atmosphere of rancor that carried over into the post-war years and often led to violent incidents in the latter nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Many other notorious episodes in the state grew not out of gigantic social upheaval like civil war but out of everyday passions like greed, envy, lust, and racial hatred. Most of the incidents chronicled in Show-Me Atrocities are of the latter ty...

The Golden Spiral: and the Looting of 2,000 Year-Old Transylvanian Treasure - Paperback

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by Dan Dimancescu (Author)This fast-paced book describes the looting, police investigations and recovery of mysterious 2,000 year-old golden artifacts from a royal Dacian site in Transylvania (Romania). Covering a 20-year period and $50 million in looted objects, it focuses on 24 rare massive golden bracelets sold into illicit antiquarian markets in Europe and the United States. Based on numerous interviews, access to police files in Romania, and research, the author opens a unique window int...

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by Tamara Shaffer (Author)Murder Gone Cold relates the double murder of Barbara and Patricia Grimes back in 1957. The work of many years, author Tamara Shaffer, has painsakingly researched this unsolved crime through actual interviews, newspaper articles and court testimony. Many not seen before photographs are also included in this book. Number of Pages: 164 Dimensions: 0.35 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: June 01, 2006

A Crime Unlike Any Other: What the Facts Say About Dr. Bruce Edwards Ivins and The Anthrax Attacks of 2001 - Paperback

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by Edward G. Lake (Author)The anthrax letter attacks of 2001 resulted in a seven year investigation that the FBI described as "one of the largest and most complex in the history of law enforcement." However, because nearly seven years passed before the public was made aware of who the FBI had determined was the lone perpetrator, the public's view of the case was muddled by wildly inaccurate news reporting, by a constant barrage of conspiracy theories, and by wild distortions of the actual fac...

Inside Out: Fifty Years Behind the Walls of New Jersey's Trenton State Prison - Paperback

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by Harry Camisa (Author), Jim Franklin (Author)After 50 years behind the walls of New Jersey's maximum-security Trenton State Prison, Camisa witnessed 13 electrocutions, was taken hostage twice, and stopped the escape of five violent felons. This new edition of a true-crime classic includes the killing of biker Robert Mudman Simon by Ambrose Harris on the prison's death row. Number of Pages: 406 Dimensions: 0.97 x 9.02 x 6.02 IN Publication Date: July 15, 2008

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by William F. Shelton (Author), James S. Warren (Introduction by)Against the backdrop of thousands of gawking and disorderly onlookers, a Franklin County Sheriff, oversees the public hanging of the Coley brothers for the murder of a Jewish peddler. On humid July, Friday the 13th, 1884 in Louisburg, North Carolina, Tom and Calvin Coley meet their death at the end of a rope on the front lawn of the Franklin County Courthouse. Later they were carried by wagon to a little hamlet called Wood about...

The Casey Anthony Murder Trial - Paperback

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by Matrix Filia (Author), Claudette Walker (Author)This book is a comprehensive look at the law, media, judge, jury, defendant, lawyers, witnesses, and evidence, in this high profile murder trial. This is what most people never see: the events that occur during a murder trial. With all the elements of an American tragedy, complete with the elevation of the mother to celebrity status, Casey Anthony stood accused of murdering her two-year-old daughter. Caylee was last seen with her mother, and ...

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by Cece Samal (Author)Just Another Murder is the fascinating, true story of a woman who, after raising a family in a long and loving marriage, finds herself alone. The events that follow as she begins to move out of her solitude are told in a strikingly candid and personally revealing way. This is a story of starting over -- innocent romance, joyous beginnings, and tragic endings. Many women will understand and remember the emotions and conflicts expressed here, yet few women would disclose t...

The Real Teflon Don: How An Elite Team of New York State Troopers Helped Take Down America's Most Powerful Mafia Family - Paperback

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by George Karalus (Author), Matt Gryta (Author)The two most famous mobsters of the twentieth century were Al Capone and Don Corleone. The most powerful American mobster of the twentieth century was Stefano Magaddino. This book tells the story of a decade-long war against the Magaddino crime family waged by an elite stealth New York State police team. Veteran crime reporter Matt Gryta, who covered many of the events and trials described in the book, and former State Trooper George Karalus, a m...

Murder and Deceit: The Story of Jack Nissalke - Paperback

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by John Bucher (Author) Number of Pages: 172 Dimensions: 0.4 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: March 28, 2016

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by Larry Hancock (Author)Hancock reveals startling discoveries about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the conspiracy to mislead history. Number of Pages: 620 Dimensions: 2 x 9.1 x 6.4 IN Publication Date: November 01, 2006

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by Larry Hancock (Author), Debra Conway (Editor)Someone Would Have Talked, the new third edition by historian Larry Hancock, goes beyond just proving a conspiracy to murder JFK. Over 14,000 documents, White House diaries, telephone logs and executive tape recordings detail how the new President managed a cover-up which changed the future of our country -- A second conspiracy designed to mislead the nation, the world, indeed, history itself. Someone Would Have Talked tackles the assassination ...

At the Door of Memory, Aubrey Rike and the Assassination of President Kennedy - Hardcover

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by Aubrey Rike (Author), Colin McSween (With)While in Trauma Room 1, Dallas, Texas, Aubrey Rike found himself at the center of an unparalleled time in history, and in doing so, assumed the unscripted yet essential role of providing selfless and heartfelt assistance to Jacqueline Kennedy.The emotional incident Aubrey shares is at times heartbreaking, and brings unashamed tears to his eyes as he relates those private moments with Mrs. Kennedy. Now a poignant memory, Aubrey s experience also rev...

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by Zachary Lysek (Author), Katherine Ramsland (Author)As idyllic as eastern Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley may be, there's an unexpected dark side. Serial killers, mass murderers, violent gangs and outright hit men have all operated here, along with high-profile family killers. Even before these incidents, there were several Indian massacres and some homicides that made forensic history. In these pages Katherine, in collaboration with Northampton County coroner Zachary Lysek, looks at historica...

The Wind Cries Mary: Murders That Shook A Power Town - Paperback

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by Erika Grey (Author)On May 27, 1969 in the sleepy power town of New Canaan, Connecticut, a bedroom town to New York city executives, ten-year-old Mary Mount, the daughter of an IBM research scientist was abducted and murdered. Several persons including serial killers became suspects. A year and a half after Mary's abduction and murder, John Rice, a 17-year-old honor student and Boy Scout in New Canaan, brutally murdered four members of his family. Rice became another suspect in Mary Mount's...

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by Darryel A. Woodson (Author)A riveting telltale account of urban street life rarely documented (accurately). This book has it all: check writers, con men and women, counterferfeiters, credit card scam artist, drug dealers, identity thieves, killers, numbers runners, old and new players, pickpockets, pimps, prison life, prostitutes and short change artists to name a few. The writer promises he has given his readers, "everything you ever wanted to know about the ' The Game' but was afraid to ...

Fugitives; The Story of Clyde Barrow & Bonnie Parker - Paperback

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by Emma Parker (As Told by), Nell Barrow Cowan (As Told by), Jan I. Fortune (Compiled by)Originally published in 1934 and rushed to press only three months after Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker met their bloody end, Fugitives: The Story of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, offers a behind the scenes glimpse into the lives of two of America's most infamous criminals. The story is told by their family members who often met them in secret locations and dreaded the news of their deaths daily. While ...

Consequences, the Criminal Case of David Parker Ray - Paperback

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by J. E. Sparks (Author)"Consequences: The Criminal Case of David Parker Ray by J.E. Sparks, non-fictional true crime, is a study of the case as it unfolded, from crime-scene discovery and investigations through trials, to its unsatisfactory end because of missing persons files left open, probably forever. This second edition had new case information obtained by author after publication of first edition." Number of Pages: 300 Dimensions: 0.67 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: Dece...

Stained By Blood: A Murder Investigation - Paperback

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by Douglas J. Hagmann (Author)Private Investigator Marc Stiles has taken on a cold case murder investigation at the request of the victim's family. His own family. The case could not be more personal for Marc, whose uncle was found brutally stabbed in a frenzied killing that took place in the very home of Marc's youth, and in the very bedroom where Marc had fostered memories of a warm, safe and happy childhood as he grew from a toddler through adolescence. It was in the darkness of the early ...

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by Rozetta Mowery (Author)"Tragedy in Tin Can Holler" is a captivating must read true story of a family's past transgressions revealing a serial killer during the great depression, incest and child abuse, lies and betrayals and domestic violence buried for decades The vicious murder of the author's mother haunted her for 48 years, but discovering the truth about her mother's murder was just the tip of the iceberg. Her story is spell-bounding as she unveils the hidden secrets that shocked the...

In DeLorean's Shadow: The Drug Trial of the Century by the Sole Surviving Defendant - Paperback

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by Dominique Serafini (Illustrator), Margery Spielman (Illustrator), Stetcyn Leigh Arrington (Illustrator)The John Z. DeLorean Case, was recognized worldwide by international newspapers and news outlets as, "The Drug Trial of the Century." It still owns that headline four decades later. The ramifications of the DeLorean trial led to a tsunami of criminal prosecutions that tore through the cocaine cartels and vast criminal underworld in a series of massive arrests. It resulted in the seizures ...

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by Sonny Girard (Author)Sonny Girard's Mob Reader is the ultimate organized crime primer from someone who's actually spent his entire life as an insider and writes without confessions. Unlike mob turncoats (i.e.: rats) he writes authentically without self-serving, gratuitous excuses. His old friends, whoever's left, are still his best friends. Mob Reader contains his original articles, short snapshots of mostly unknown characters, reviews of his favorite mob books, letters from visitors to ww...

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by Seth Ferranti (Author)In Street Legends Vol. 1, Seth brings forth powerful biographies of six of the most notorious gangster of the crack era who influenced hip-hop and street culture. This book profiles six of the biggest street legends from the crack era- Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff, Wayne Perry, Anthony Jones, Aaron Jones, Peter "Pistol Pete" Rollack and George "Boy George" Rivera. Kilo's of cocaine and heroin, millions of dollars of drug money, luxury customized cars, dime pieces galore,...