True Crime

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by Cynthia Bergen (Author), Ajani Abdul-Khaliq (Editor)Timothy was raised by his grandparents in a humble lower middle class home where he attended a private Catholic school. Until one night a radical decision led to spiraling series of events... Number of Pages: 72 Dimensions: 0.17 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: April 23, 2019

Traumatized - The Lives of Isaiah Jones and Devon Jones - Paperback

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by Devon Jones (Author), Anelda Attaway (Editor), Devon Jones (Cover Design by)Have you ever had a nightmare that seemed way too real? A nightmare that feels as if it is happening right then and there? There are only two explanations for this particular dream. One being that it could just be a figment of your imagination, and the other being that it is absolutely not a dream, but in fact a tragic reality Unfortunately, I had to come to the realization that I was not dreaming on one specific...

Unsolved: Cold-Case Homicides of Law Enforcement Officers - Paperback

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by James a. Bultema (Author)Ripped from today's headlines, Unsolved is the first ever book to examine the sacrifices made by American's heroic law enforcement officers who were murdered while their killers escaped justice. Left behind are devastated loved ones and a law enforcement agency hunting down the assassins. Building on years of comprehensive nationwide research, Bultema, a former LAPD cop, puts a story behind some of the names etched on police monuments across this country.Law enfor...

French Connection Blues: Memoirs of a Narc - Paperback

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by Peter Bono (Author)When Pete Bono became a New York City Police Officer, he found himself faced with a harrowing choice - either he honored the oath he swore to the brotherhood of cops and protected the "Thin Blue Line", or he confronted fellow officers who crossed the line...and risked losing everything. The Special Investigating Unit of the NYPD Narcotics Division was the most corrupt law enforcement agency in American history. Some members of the unit used illegal wiretaps to obtain inf...

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by Pia Moorland (Author)Pia, a child of deaf adults, recounts her harrowing experiences of being forced to grow up beyond her years. Her story is one of resilience as she overcomes the impact of silence on her life and the effects of deafness in a world that does not or is unwilling to hear. With unflinching honesty, Pia shares the unique challenges she faces in speaking out and finally being hear Number of Pages: 432 Dimensions: 0.88 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: May 12, 2016

Busting Bad Guys: My True Crime Stories of Bookies, Drug Dealers, and Ladies of the Night - Paperback

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by Mark Langan (Author)13 seconds of pure terror in a shootout with a drug dealer... Real crime. Real-life cop stories. Sergeant Mark Langan relives his front-row seat working the seamier side of crime during his decorated twenty-six-year career from youngest rookie in 1978 to narcotics sergeant on the Omaha Police force. Langan caught bold burglars who silently entered homes to get thrills off of touching sleeping victims. He hit bookie joints in smoke-filled bars, squeezed snitches for info...

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by Charles Bronson (Author), Robin Barratt (Author)In this increasingly violent and troubled world, people demand to be respected. But what is exactly is respect? Is it learned or earned? How do you go from being a 'nobody' to a 'somebody'? How do you respect others and equally how can you get other people to respect you? Can you only be truly respected if you have a reputation? There is probably no one more qualified to talk about respect and reputation in prison than Charles Bronson. Tagged...

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by Gary McAvoy (Author), Ronald R. Nye (Foreword by)Truman Capote's bestselling book "In Cold Blood" has captivated worldwide audiences for over fifty years. It is a gripping story about the consequences of a trivial robbery gone terribly wrong in a remote village of western Kansas.But what if robbery was not the motive at all, but something more sinister? And why would the Kansas Bureau of Investigation press the Attorney General to launch a ruthless four-year legal battle to prevent fresh d...

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by Gary McAvoy (Author), Ronald Nye (Foreword by)Truman Capote's bestselling book "In Cold Blood" has captivated worldwide audiences for over fifty years. It is a gripping story about the consequences of a trivial robbery gone terribly wrong in a remote village of western Kansas.But what if robbery was not the motive at all, but something more sinister? And why would the Kansas Bureau of Investigation press the Attorney General to launch a ruthless four-year legal battle to prevent fresh deta...

American Made: Who Killed Barry Seal? Pablo Escobar or George HW Bush - Paperback

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by Shaun Attwood (Author)Set in a world where crime and government coexist, American Made is the jaw-dropping true story of CIA pilot Barry Seal that the Hollywood movie starring Tom Cruise was afraid to tell. Barry Seal flew cocaine and weapons worth billions of dollars into and out of America in the 1980s. After he became a government informant, Pablo Escobar's Medellin Cartel offered a million for him alive and half a million dead. But his real trouble began after he threatened to expose ...

Un-Making a Murderer: The Framing of Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey - Paperback

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by Shaun Attwood (Author)"Finally, an amazingly honest book that details exactly how my brother was set up" - Brad Dassey Innocent people do go to jail. Sometimes mistakes are made. But even more terrifying is when the authorities conspire to frame them. That's what happened to Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey, who were convicted of murder and are serving life sentences. Un-Making a Murderer is an explosive book which uncovers the illegal, devious and covert tactics used by Wisconsin officia...

The Cali Cartel: Beyond Narcos - Paperback

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by Shaun Attwood (Author)From the ashes of Pablo Escobar's empire rose an even bigger and more malevolent cartel. A new breed of sophisticated mobsters became the kings of cocaine. Their leader was Gilberto Rodr guez Orejuela - known as the Chess Player due to his foresight and calculated cunning.Gilberto and his terrifying brother, Miguel, ran a multi-billion-dollar drug empire like a corporation. They employed a politically astute brand of thuggery and spent $10 million to put a president i...

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by Shaun Attwood (Author)Shaun Attwood arrived in Phoenix, Arizona, a penniless business graduate from a small industrial town in England. Within a decade, he became a stock-market millionaire. But he was leading a double life. After taking his first Ecstasy pill at a rave in Manchester as a shy student, Shaun became intoxicated by the party lifestyle that would change his fortune. Years later, in the Arizona desert, Shaun became submerged in a criminal underworld, throwing parties for thous...

The Mafia Philosopher: Two Tonys - Paperback

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by Shaun Attwood (Author)"A fast-paced true-crime memoir with all of the action of Goodfellas" - UNILAD, Joseph Loftus "Sopranos v Sons of Anarchy with an Alaskan-snow backdrop" - True Geordie PodcastBreaking bones, burying bodies and planting bombs became second nature to Two Tonys while working for the Bonanno Crime Family, whose exploits inspired The Godfather.After a dispute with an outlaw motorcycle club, Two Tonys left a trail of corpses from Arizona to Alaska. On the run, he was pursue...

Warnings Unheeded: Twin Tragedies at Fairchild Air Force Base - Paperback

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by Andy Brown (Author), Massad Ayoob (Foreword by)Mass murder and military aviation disaster. One community's experience with two fatal tragedies that occurred suddenly... but not without warning.On 20 June 1994, a vengeance-seeking gunman opened fire in an Air Force hospital. Despite warnings from his roommates and co-workers. Despite the efforts of mental-health doctors. A sociopath had slipped through the cracks.Four days after the shooting, a B-52 bomber crashed during an air-show practic...

Warnings Unheeded: Twin Tragedies at Fairchild Air Force Base - Hardcover

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Lee Harvey Oswald's Cold War: Why the Kennedy Assassination should be Reinvestigated - Volumes One & Two - Paperback

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by Greg R. Parker (Author)Volume One takes the reader from the Barrios of Bogot through the intrigues of Manchuria and war-torn South-East Asia to the slums and skyscrapers of New York City, the latter as seen through the eyes of the truant, Lee Harvey Oswald. Within a year of formation in 1947, the CIA committed what was probably its first major act. It involved an assassination using a designated patsy. Time and place: Bogot , April 9, 1948 - the victim, the youthful and charismatic presid...

Dirty Girl: The State Sanctioned Murder of Brothel Madam Shirley Finn - Paperback

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by Juliet Wills (Author), David Whish-Wilson (Author)In June 1975, dressed to impress in her finest ball gown, dripping with expensive jewellery and driving a limited edition luxury car, socialite and brothel madam Shirley Finn was invited to the grounds of the Royal Perth Golf Club for a special occasion - her own modern day public execution. The killers knew they wouldn't be caught. Their power reigned supreme in one of the most remote and prosperous cities on earth, during an era of police...

The Stories We Tell: Classic True Tales by America's Greatest Women Journalists - Paperback

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by Patsy Sims (Editor)The Stories We Tell celebrates the work of twenty women who have made major contributions to the canon of American magazine writing.While each has her own style, the women in these pages share the attributes of all good writers: meticulous research and reporting, attention to detail, a talent for choosing the perfect word. Above all, they are astute observers and sticklers for accuracy. Over the years, they have been both prolific and versatile, writing about a wide rang...

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by Lorenzo Spencer (Author)The Cold Gates of Hell is based on the true story of how Lorenzo Spencer, Sr. was called to preach by God but ran from his calling because of his lack of knowledge. Spencer believes that it was because of God's will that he was punished not only for the crimes he committed but also for his disobedience. During his time in prison, Lorenzo fought many fights, which are detailed in this story. However, God still showed him favor by allowing him to win every single one....

Why I Didn't Save the World: A Survivor's Story of Rape, Life, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - Paperback

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by Patricia Lawrence (Author)On the eve of her twentieth birthday, the author is kidnapped and gang-raped. Afterwards, she faces a sheriff who won't take the report and a doctor who tells her to "get over it." This is a story about sexual trauma, about living through it, and with it. It is not about getting over it, it's about stumbling on, it is about living anyway. Rape creates an emotional abyss. This is the story of living on the wrong side of that abyss, of living with undiagnosed Post T...

Countdown to Murder: Alex: Money, Murder & Deception in South Carolina - Paperback

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by Rebecca F. Pittman (Author)The South has always been steeped in mystery. Gunshots from duels fought for family honor still echo from the distant past. The same gray Spanish moss that swayed on moonlit nights throughout plantation grounds still move eerily on coastal breezes. It is in this fabled low country of South Carolina that the ever-changing tidal plain has begun to give up its secrets. A once powerful legal dynasty that covered five counties and spread throughout more like the deadl...

Question of Sanity: The True Story of Female Serial Killers in 19th Century New York - Paperback

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by Michael T. Keene (Author)The women who serve as the subjects for this book, all share compelling stories. Most of the women in Keene's book are from North Central New York living along the Erie Canal in small, isolated rural communities.Some of the women chronicled in the book include, Lizzie Halliday, convicted of murdering nine of her own family members. Catherine Claus, who boasted of killing 15 infants in her care, Caroline D. Sorgenfrie, charged with the murder of her four husbands', ...

Making a Case for Innocence: True Stories of a Criminal Defense Investigator - Paperback

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by April Higuera (Author)TRUE CRIME THRILLER with a twist. Written first-hand by the actual investigator in DEFENSE of real people charged with murder. A criminal justice system that is blind to some while embracing others for unconscious and unconscionable reasons. Empowering, inspiring, evocative journey of a real-life seasoned criminal defense investigator through guilt, innocence, and the court system. Entertaining personal stories and gritty details of real murders. Throughout her tr...

When Normal Blew Up: The Story of the People Who Died and the People Who Lived On - Paperback

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by Joni Foster (Author)2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Bronze, True Crime (Nonfiction)"Powerful book...thinking about it weeks later." -- James Crawford, Director, Lakewood Public LibraryIn 1967, in the small town of Circleville, Ohio, a man walked into an old-fashioned drug store on a busy Saturday and laid a smoking package on the pharmacy counter in the back. He shouted for everyone to leave, he had a bomb. The store owner grabbed the package and ran down the back hallway. The man ch...

A Treacherous Hustle: Hitting a Lick for the love of a Pimp - Paperback

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by L. J. Wilson (Editor), Sheilia Peele-Miller (Author), Sereniti Hall (Author)Falicia Blakely is born into a family bursting at the seams with dysfunction. Just as she isgetting used to living with her grandmother in Jacksonville, Florida, the feisty fifteen-year-old issuddenly uprooted and sent to live with her mother in Atlanta, Georgia (ATL). Immediately, mother and daughter go head-to-head because Falicia has major problems making theadjustment. Most times, her mother is unaware and emot...

That Punk Jimmy Hoffa: Coffey's Transfer at War with the Teamsters - Paperback

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by Marilyn June Coffey (Author)Award-winning Great Plains writer Marilyn Coffey recounts her family's intricate dance with the Teamsters, beginning with her dad's tiny trucking company spawned on a front porch in 1929, in a David-and-Goliath encounter that spanned decades.In 1956, Tom Coffey knuckled under Jimmy Hoffa's six-month-long Teamsters strike. He sold his twenty-seven-year-old truckline, Coffey's Transfer Company, rather than sign Hoffa's contract. But the story didn't end there-and ...

Code 33: : True California Cop Stories from the 1970s - Paperback

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by Thomas C. Wamsley (Author), Melanie Mulhall (Editor), Robert Schram (Designed by)Code 33: True California Cop Stories from the 1970s has won three CIPA - EVVY Awards, a national and international book competition, for Literary Non-Fiction, Memoir - Autobiography, and Inspirational. It has also received a positive book review and posted in the San Francisco Police Officers Association Journal by Dennis Bianchi, retired SFPD officer and lecturer of literature and criminal justice at San Fran...

Ethylene: The Rise and Fall of The 139th St. NFL Crew - Paperback

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by Lou Back (Author)"Take a look inside the raw, first hand account of a gripping tale where envy, greed and murder destroyed lives, families and friends on the mean streets of Harlem" Number of Pages: 198 Dimensions: 0.42 x 8.5 x 5.51 IN Publication Date: June 19, 2017

Destroying Their God: How I Fought My Evil Half-Brother to Save My Children - Paperback

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by Wallace Jeffs (Author), Shauna Packer (With), Sherry Taylor (With)In 1991, Wallace Jeffs was coerced to become an FLDS polygamist. In 2011, Wallace rebelled against the sect, and the FBI helped him reclaim his kidnapped children.Then an "accident" put Wallace into a forty-five-day coma. Growing up as half-brother to future Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saint prophet Warren Jeffs, Wallace tried to follow FLDS teachings. After he built a successful business, the church required him to marry a se...

A Drop of Rain: My Journey to Post-Traumatic Growth - Paperback

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by Heather Smith Callahan (Author)On a rainy April evening in 1993, a serial killer responding to a Craigslist ad for Heather Callahan's used car attacked her on the street in front of her Denver home and left her for dead. Heather didn't die. She refused to, thinking, as her blood pooled in the rain-soaked street: This is wrong. I am not going to die, not now, not this way.Heather not only survived in the aftermath of this terrible attack, she thrived, her indomitable spirit a testament to h...

Patrolling the Heart of the West: True Tales of a Nevada State Trooper - Paperback

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by Steve Raabe (Author)"Told with great humor and compassion, Raabe's tales show us the heart behind the badge." --Michael Gurian, NY Times bestselling author of The Wonder of Boys "Raabe's stories reflect "the good, the bad and the ugly" aspects of patrolling our highways. Patrolling the Heart of the West will bring a new appreciation for the unique role and responsibilities of state troopers, especially those who work in rural or remote areas." --G Paul Corbin, criminal justice professor an...