True Crime

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The End of the Zodiac Mystery: How Forensic Science Helped Solve One of the Most Infamous Serial Killer Cases of the Century - Paperback

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by Michael N. Wakshull (Author), Jan Tucker (Editor)The Most Dangerous Animal of All was co-written by the estranged son of California's infamous Zodiac killer to reveal his father's true identity. When the book hit the streets the skeptics were in full force. Just like those who mocked the boy who cried wolf, no one could blame them. Too many people had already claimed to either be the killer or to know who he really was. The problem is-the skeptics weren't considering the handwriting compar...

Forensic Document Examination for Legal Professionals: A Science-Based Approach - Paperback

$37.75

by Michael Wakshull (Author)Forensic document examination, performed correctly, is a reliable discipline that can demonstrate the innocence of your client or the guilt of your opponent. Used strategically, it can help you settle out of court. When court is necessary, your document examiner may be able to change their opinions. To achieve this, your document examiner must be proficient in the latest techniques and adept at reporting results. Knowing the techniques and strategies behind this di...

Dare I Call It Murder?: A Memoir of Violent Loss - Hardcover

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by Larry M. Edwards (Author), Connie Saindon (Foreword by), Tim Brittain (Designed by)Larry Edwards unmasks the emotional trauma of violent loss as he ferrets out new facts to get at the truth of how and why his parents were killed. In 1977, Loren and Joanne Edwards left Puget Sound aboard their 53-foot sailboat Spellbound, destined for French Polynesia. Six months later they lay dead aboard their boat in the middle of the Pacifi c Ocean. Larry's younger brother became the prime suspect in th...

It Happened in Little Valley: A Case Study of Uxoricide - Paperback

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by Max Malikow (Author)The murder of Sue Ann Riggs by her husband, Ralph Riggs and subsequent suicide of her lover, Albert Roy Marsh, were the culmination of ordinary people engaged in ordinary circumstances. Ralph and Sue had a troubled marriage; Albert had recently divorced; Sue and Albert were having an affair. These circumstances hardly constitute a perfect storm for tragedy, but tragedy occurred in the early morning of November 28, 1956 in Little Valley, New York, the ordinary village in...

Willis Newton: The Last Texas Outlaw - Paperback

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by G. R. Williamson (Author)This the true story of Willis Newton and his outlaw gang who robbed trains and over seventy banks-more than Jessie James, the Daltons, and all of the rest of the Old West outlaws-combined. They robbed a number of banks at gunpoint, but their specialty was hitting banks in the middle of the night and blowing the vaults with nitroglycerine. One frigid night in January of 1921 they even hit two banks, back to back, in Hondo, Texas. Their biggest haul occurred in 1924 ...

Dream Room: Tales of the Dixie Mafia - Paperback

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by Chet Nicholson (Author)Dream Room: Tales of the Dixie Mafia, Chet Nicholson's breakout true-crime book is a thrilling tale that takes the reader inside the infamous Dixie Mafia. The band of loosely organized criminals operated throughout the states of the old Confederacy. The more violent of their number robbed, burgled, extorted and murdered throughout the South; while the kinder and gentler wing of the gang preferred gambling, liquor and prostitution. Number of Pages: 466 Dimensions: 1.2...

Serial Killer Quote of the Day: 365 Days of Serial Killers Uncut and In Their Own Words - Paperback

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by Brian Whitney (Editor), Jeffrey Dahmer (Author), Ted Bundy (Author)This book will send chills up and down your spine. You've heard that before, but in this case, it's true.Here, you will see for yourself how a serial killer's mind works. You will hear them, in their own words, describe their despicable deeds. And you will learn how to kill someone without remorse, and even with a sense of fun and enjoyment.Over the past five years, johnny trevisani (no caps, by the way - all lowercase), ha...

Girl, Taken: A True Story of Abduction, Captivity and Survival - Paperback

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by Patrick Quinlan (Author), Elena Nikitina (Narrated by), Elena Nikitina (Author)***Gold Literary Award Winner in the Memoir category at 2019 Global Ebook Awards*** "The fear settled inside me... It was excruciating... It was rapidly destroying me." Imagine you are walking home alone one evening. Suddenly, you are assaulted, drugged and kidnapped. Strange men drive you through the night and keep you prisoner in a dark, tiny room. You don't know who they are. You don't know what they want. Th...

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by Eri G. Meeks (Author)Ripped from the headlines, this collection of true crime stories spans the past century of criminal enterprises in Palm Springs and surounding communities. Inside you'll read about the most famous murders, mob connections, conspiracies, fraud scams, prostitution rings and more. Several of the stories go into greater depth, such as: Tribal Casinos, The Octopus, and Indian Head Nichols; Cliff Lambert and the Boiz; and The Trials and Tribulations of Ginny Foat, with facts...

You Think I'm Dead: Based on the True Story of The Boy in the Box - Paperback

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by Louis Romano (Author)It's 1957. On a cold, February night, along a lonely road in Philadelphia, a little boy is found. DEAD. Someone still holds a secret. From HistoricMysteries.com "However, hope still remains as Court TV, 48 Hours and America's Most Wanted have featured this case on recent episodes. Perhaps the lead everyone has been waiting for will present itself." Two main questions still abound, having left kind-hearted people around the world stumped. #1 WHAT would be the motive for...

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by Shannon Adamcik (Author)This is a true story and no one can tell it better than the people who lived it. A crime reporter can look at the details of a case, but they cannot tell you how it feels to live through it. I can and I did. I used the pre-trial and trial transcripts, copies of the police reports, the autopsy and DNA reports, and DVD recordings of all of the evidence in the case. I've done copious research. But more importantly, I take readers step-by-step through what it feels like...

The Desert Murders: How Junk Science, Witness Contamination, and Arizona Politics Condemned an Innocent Man - Paperback

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by Mary Lash (Author)"The Desert Murders: How Junk Science, Witness Contamination, and Arizona Politics Condemned an Innocent Man" reconstructs the case of Scott Lehr, a man sentenced to death in Arizona - despite abundant evidence of his innocence. In 1991-92, an epidemic of seven rapes in the desert outskirts of Phoenix mystified local law enforcement. Television and newspaper reports described the assaults against girls and women ranging in age from 10 to 47 as related, for the victims had...

Billion Dollar Lies: How Lennar Corporation Swindled Pensioners, Lenders, And Partners And Undermined The Foundation Of Our Justice System - Hardcover

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by Nicolas Marsch (Author)This is a chilling tale of corporate fraud and deceit that is in a class by itself. When Lennar Corporation was confronted over hundreds of millions of dollars in alleged "losses" in a lucrative development partnership, they hired a scorched-earth litigation team to clean up the mess and conceal the evidence. And their choice of lawyers spoke volumes. The company hired the entire legal team that had just concluded an extraordinarily expensive but failed defense of Je...

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by Jolene Johnson (Author)Growing up in foster care can be challenging. Holden provides us a look at her childhood as one of Canada's foster children. Holden who was born in Vancouver BC, was placed in over twenty three different homes from Vancouver, Prince George and Williams Lake BC. She tells of how she was thrusted into a system that was set up to protect her only to be victimized by her caregivers. Holden tells a tale of how she was physically, sexually and emotionally abused as a child...

Stoned Again: The High Times and Strange Life of a Drugs Correspondent - Paperback

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by Mike Sager (Author)"In Stoned Again, Mike Sager refers to himself as a "drugs correspondent," but that's legitimately humble smoke that belies what's really going on here. While there's plenty of weed, heroin, 'shrooms, and crack (not to mention plenty of Ricky James, bitch) in these pages, what is most evident on every page is the remarkable reporting, empathy, craftsmanship, and storytelling that have rightly placed Mike Sager among the journalistic legends of our time." --Maximillian P...

Fortney Road: Life, Death, and Deception in a Christian Cult - Paperback

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by Jeff C. Stevenson (Author)"A fascinating and disturbing look into the world of vicious cults and the psychological damage they inflict." -Jonathan Kellerman Fortney Road is a disturbing account of calculated mental, physical, and sexual abuse in an evangelical Christian cult. Drawing on seven years of research including interviews with seventeen survivors, it tells the story of the rise and fall of the Church of the Risen Christ, its sadistic leader the Reverend Larry Hill, and its outreac...

Behind the Walls of St. John's: A Story of Catholic Abuse - Paperback

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by Arlene Krieger (Author)Behind the Walls of St. John's is the story of Carolyn, one of several hundred children sexually abused by the priests and nuns living at St. John's Catholic School for the Deaf. Carolyn was sent to St. John's at the age of four. Her parents took at face value the Nun's chronicle of their successful educational program. Never once did they question in what manner the curriculum was taught or how the school conducted itself. It was a school run by the clergy who were ...

Tom Henry: Confession of a Killer - Paperback

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by David Hendricks (Author)In 1983 the author, a Christian Businessman, arrived home from a sales trip to discover that his wife and three children had been brutally murdered. A year later he was convicted and sent to prison. He was innocent. In prison he met Henry Hillenbrand, known as the card man because he sold homemade greeting cards. Henry told David an incredible story. In 1970, after murdering the woman he loved and the man he found her in bed with, he had executed a daring escape fro...

Enemy of the Truth, Myths, Forensics, and the Kennedy Assassination - Paperback

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by Sherry Fiester (Author)President John F. Kennedys assassination is the most studied murder investigation of the 21st century, yet it remains plagued by questions and a variety of unproven theories. Regardless of how tenacious and believable an enduring claim may be, if lacking historical or scientific sustenance, it is a myth. While these intriguing, but unverifiable suppositions gather attention, they detract from the quality of information essential to explain this mysterious homicide. M...

The Sandy Hook Shooting: The FBI Files: Unsealed Files on Adam Lanza & The Sandy Hook Shooting - Paperback

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by Fbi (Author)Police in Newtown, Connecticut, were told years before Adam Lanza's 2012 killing spree that he planned to carry out a massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. That is just one of the revelations in this batch of documents the FBI has released.These roughly 1,000 pages of heavily redacted documents show that in 2008, a man told police he'd heard Lanza say he planned to kill students at Sandy Hook, along with his mother. When the man went to the cops with what he'd learned, they...

Fabricating Evidence II: Office of the Attorney General/Mississippi Department of Corrections Integrity Meltdown - Paperback

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by Sr. Britton Mosley (Author), James Fancher (Author)The purpose of Fabricating Evidence II: Office of the Attorney General/ Mississippi Department of Corrections Integrity Meltdown is to expose the corruption inside the Mississippi Department of Corrections and the Office of the Attorney General. Former Correctional Warden John "Jimmy" Fancher and former Correctional Captain Britton Mosley, Sr. became targets after Fancher refused to accept bribes from the former Correctional Commissioner C...

Complete Las Vegas Shooting Search Warrants: Unsealed Stephen Paddock Court Documents - Paperback

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by Department of Justice (Author)Almost 500 pages of unsealed FBI documents on the Las Vegas shooting, and the alleged shooter Stephen Paddock. Documents show that FBI agents knew the gunman behind the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history left behind stockpiles of guns, ammunition and explosives when they sought warrants to search his properties and online accounts.These unsealed FBI documents shed new light on the worst mass shooting in US history. Details about Stephen Paddock's m...

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by Gian J. Quasar (Author)We picture the Victorian era as a conservative, socially ordered society- the glittering nobility on top; mindless thugs on the bottom; a new, morally staid middleclass in between. This makes the bizarre crime spree in London all the more an oddity. The killings were not those of a brutal gutter thug. They were skillfully executed to be public mysteries. Prostitutes were found on the streets, their bodies flayed for the first passers-by, which was often only minutes ...

Following Orders: The Death of Vince Foster, Clinton White House Lawyer - Paperback

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by Marinka Peschmann (Author)Journalists are not supposed to only cover one side's negatives. Following Orders is a book the Clintons, apparent partisan hacks who don't read books, and the extreme right-wing murder conspiracy peddlers don't want you to read - conspiracy peddlers who have peddled more conspiracies including Sandy Hook, and other "false flag" conspiracies. On July 20, 1993, Vince Foster was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound in the head in Fort Marcy Park, ...

My Search for Gregory Bell aka Norman MacCaud: Clues in the News - Paperback

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by Karen E. Black (Author)Norman Douglas MacCaud (1933-1993) was a Toronto boy, a career criminal, a participant in the Kingston Penitentiary Riot and some say, a hit man in Ireland in the 1970s and 1980s. As it turns out, he also wrote a book called "Birdsong" after he was deported. This is the story of my quest to find out who the author of "Birdsong" really was and how much of the story he told about the Kingston Penitentiary riot was true. Number of Pages: 28 Dimensions: 0.06 x 9.02 x 5.9...

The Dope Game - Misadventures of Fat Cat & Pappy Mason - Paperback

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by Seth Ferranti (Author)Fat Cat and Pappy Mason are the most infamous and legendary figures out of New York's crackera. A time that massively influenced rap culture and led to the ghetto icons becoming mythicalfigures in hip-hop's lyrical lore. Not only did the street stars inspire rappers like Run DMC, LL Cool J and 50 Cent with their styles, attitudes and swagger, they set the tone for a generation ofhustlers, gun thugs and drug barons, who tried to live up to the hype and standard of viol...

Crack, Rap and Murder: The Cocaine Dreams of Alpo and Rich Porter Hip-Hop Folklore from the Streets of Harlem - Paperback

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by Seth Ferranti (Author)In the mid-1980s when hip-hop and the crack era were jumping off street dudes like Alpo and Rich Porter were the icons in Harlem. Everyone was watching and emulating them. Their stories have been told in many different formats and forums but now the complete tale is detailed in one concise volume. Read Alpo and Rich Porter's story from beginning to tragic end in this extensively researched new volume in the Street Legends series brought to you by celebrated and noted ...

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by Billy Hayes (Author), William Hoffer (Author)Midnight Express tells the gut-wrenching true story of a young man's incarceration and escape from a Turkish prison. A classic story of survival and human endurance, told with humor, honesty, and heart, it became a worldwide best-seller and the Academy Award-winning blockbuster film of the same name. In 1970 Billy Hayes was an English major who left college in search of adventures to write about, like his hero Jack London. He had a rude awakenin...

Midnight Return: Escaping Midnight Express - Paperback

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by Billy Hayes (Author)Midnight Return picks up where Midnight Express left off. Billy Hayes leapt from prison isolation to international notoriety when the book about his five years in and escape from a Turkish prison became a worldwide bestseller, and an Academy Award-winning film. Midnight Return chronicles his struggles and triumphs in that transition, tracing Billy's journey from desperation to freedom, and even true love. It revisits his daring escape in more detail, and weaves in the h...

The Historic Licking County Jail: Untold Stories of the Murderers Who Lived There - Paperback

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by Neil D. Phelps (Author)Since 1889, the Licking County jail has sat in downtown Newark, Ohio, its turrets and towers gazing down on the streets below. For nearly a century, its heavy stone walls housed some of the most heinous criminals and bore witness to some of the most dramatic events in state history. Now for the first time, the history of this building and its inmates has been collected in one place. Daring escapes, grisly murders, a tragic lynching... all formed part of the history o...

The Christmas Killings: 40 Hours to Justice: Black and White - Paperback

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by Judith M. Monseur (Author), Dennis a. Murphy (Author), Stephen C. Grismer (Author)[Black & White Edition] The Christmas Killings: 40 Hours to Justice is published on the 25th anniversary of, arguably, Dayton, Ohio's most shocking murder spree. The crimes were so horrifying that they captured the attention of the national and international press. Known as "The Christmas Killings," this series of events became a worldwide news story in the print media and early days of cable news. This t...

Manson Exposed: A Reporter's 50-Year Journey into Madness and Murder - Paperback

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by Ivor Davis (Author)American based Foreign correspondent Ivor Davis, delivers a gripping, "I was there" eye witness, inside story about the most notorious murder spree of the 20th century.In Manson Exposed: A Reporter's Fifty-Year Journey into Madness and Murder, Davis is the brutally honest guide to this true crime horror story.In this mix of personal memoir, criticism, and investigative journalism, Davis delivers a truly original take on the byzantine case that terrified and mesmerized t...