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Murder Under God's Eye: The nightmare killing in Stanford's church - Paperback

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by Scott Herhold (Author)The murder of Arlis Perry inside Stanford Memorial Church flummoxed detectives for nearly 44 years. Then the case ended with a bang.Early on the morning of Oct. 13, 1974, a security guard found the body of 19-year-old Arlis Perry underneath a pew inside the historic church at the heart of Stanford's campus. The deeply religious wife of a Stanford sophomore, Arlis had gone to pray in the sanctuary late the night before. She was strangled, with an ice pick thrust into h...

The Murder Archives: Killer Facts - Paperback

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by Serial Killers (Author), Dominique Elizabeth (Author)Ever wondered the last meals of some of the most infamous killers? What words did they scream moments before they were executed? A general wondering of death row and capital punishment. This book offers the information that the mind ponders of some of the most heinous killers that spent the rest of their lives behind bars, reliving their crimes within their own twisted minds, as they wait patiently for their own death - some ever glorifi...

Murder, Mayhem and Whitecapping: The Fall of the Northwest Georgia Whitecappers - Paperback

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by Jodi McDaniel Lowery (Author)Murder, Mayhem and Whitecapping is set in northwest Georgia 1894. It is the story of two men who were attacked by a group of whitecappers, men sworn by a blood oath to protect moonshiners, remove immoral people from their communities, but most of all to protect their own. The area of northwest Georgia had a membership of 800-1000 men. Henry Worley, a whitecapper himself, turns on his brotherhood, and manages to survive the hangman's noose but a week later is sh...

211 Blue, The Story of the Chameleon Cop: The Story of the Chameleon Cop - Paperback

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by William Engle (Author), Taylor Engle (Author)An ill-planned pregnancy forces teenage Bill Ellis to confront the grim obstacles of adulthood, as he is thrust into a career as a police officer in order to support his rapidly-growing family. His passion for going to college and eventually becoming an actor and performer doesn't mesh well with the politics and no-nonsense attitude of the cop world, so he flips the script. This true story of coming-of-age, which appeared as headlines in Souther...

Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing's Golden Age - Hardcover

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by Fred M. Kray (Author)One fateful winter night, a famous racehorse mysteriously broke his leg while alone in his stall. An investigation ensued, but the real story has never been told...until now. It was a cool, quiet evening at Calumet Farm, where the most valuable racehorses-including the prolific stallion Alydar-had settled into their stalls for the evening. Alton Stone, filling in for the regular night watchman, completed his rounds at the barn. Although nothing seemed out of the ordina...

The Delphi Murders: The Quest To Find 'The Man On The Bridge' - Paperback

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by Brian Whitney (Author), Nic Edwards (Author)On February 13, 2017, two Indiana teenagers, Abigail Williams, 13, and Liberty German, 14, went for a walk in the woods near the abandoned Monon High Bridge. They never returned home. Their bodies were discovered on Valentine's Day morning, sparking a torrent of news coverage and social media speculation that engrossed the attention of people around the world. A grainy photo of the suspected killer walking across the bridge and a chilling cellph...

Unbelievable Crimes Volume Two: Macabre Yet Unknown True Crime Stories - Paperback

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by Daniela Airlie (Author)Take a walk through the depths of human depravity with Unbelievable Crimes Volume Two. I'll delve into some of the most shocking and disturbing crime cases in recent history, taking you on a harrowing journey through some of the most twisted tales you've not heard of - yet.I'll tell you about the heinous crimes of Lawrence Singleton, who brutally assaulted and mutilated a teenage girl as she tried hitchhiking her way home in Los Angeles. I'll also cover the truly twi...

DAISY DE MELKER - Hiding among killers in the City of Gold - Paperback

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by Ted Botha (Author)Mother. Nurse. Gold-digger. Cause célèbre. When Daisy de Melker stood trial in 1932, accused of poisoning her son and two husbands, the public couldn't get enough of her. Crowds gathered outside court baying for blood, and she waved to them like a celebrity. Against the backdrop of Johannesburg in its golden age, a booming metropolis of opulence and chaos nicknamed the 'City of Gold' and the 'University of Crime', she had quietly gone about her sinister business while aro...

Suffer the Little Children: Into the Hands of Evil - Paperback

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by Cheryln Cadle (Author)16 true crime stories of children that have been murdered by their parents or foster parents. Most of these stories have been told by the murderer themselves. Number of Pages: 280 Dimensions: 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: March 27, 2023

Suffer the Little Children: Into the Hands of Evil - Hardcover

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Precious Few Clues: The True Crime Investigation Of Kansas City's

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by Marla Bernard (Author)On an unseasonably warm April evening in 2001, the headless body of a tiny girl was found discarded in a makeshift dump site in the woods on the southeast side of Kansas City, Missouri. One long night turned into four long years for Sgt. David Bernard and the Kansas City Police Department's 1020 Squad. They followed 1,500 leads, had a replica of the child's head sculpted from her skull, and ultimately conducted the single most extensive area canvass in the KCPD's hist...

Search for the Truth: Black Woman Failed by the State of Georgia - Paperback

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by Michelle Graves (Author)On November 4, 2018, the women in a "football moms'" slumber party in Cumming, Georgia woke up to a traumatizing sight: Their friend, Tamla Horsford, lay dead in the backyard, her body covered in scrapes and bruises.The first autopsy reported that Tamla had fallen from the balcony and broken her neck. The women had been drinking all night, making Tamla's death seem like a case-closed accident. But the family disagreed and requested an independent autopsy.It's been r...

The Girl with the Agate Eyes: The Untold Story of Mattie Howard, Kansas City's Queen of the Underworld - Paperback

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by Dan Kelly (Author)Mattie Howard was known as "Queen of the Underworld," "Queen of the Bandits," and the "Golden Girl," and she was described as "the most picturesque woman crook known to police of the Middle West" and "a cold-blooded murderess." But her most common sobriquet was "The Girl with the Agate Eyes."At the dawn of the Roaring Twenties, a time when women could not yet vote, law enforcement officers considered Mattie Howard a criminal mastermind who not only associated with some of...

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by Ernest Booth (Author), Woody Haut (Introduction by)"Over the years, Booth would have a police record that stretched from the greater Los Angeles area up to Oakland, Berkeley, Stockton, and Portland, resulting in no less than five prison sentences, mostly served in either Folsom Prison or San Quentin. It was in the latter where Booth met Robert Tasker, who, at the time, was editing the prison's in-house literary magazine. Recognizing Booth's ability to spin tales of past exploits, Tasker ur...

Murder on Federal Street: Tyrone Everett, the Black Mafia, Fixed Fights, and the Last Golden Age of Philadelphia Boxing - Paperback

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by Sean Nam (Author), Carlos Acevedo (Foreword by)"Nam has been one of this era's best boxing writers for quite some time. ... Until now, only hard-core boxing fans were aware of Everett's story. ... Now, thanks to Nam, the picture has gone from cloudy to clear and complete."-Steve Farhood, boxing analyst for Showtime, 2017 inductee into the International Boxing Hall of Fame, and former editor of The Ring magazine"It's investigative reporting and storytelling at its finest with a touch of ......

The Top Serial Killers Of Our Time (Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5): True Crime Committed By The World's Most Notorious Serial Killers - Paperback

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by Jason Krueger (Author)For some reason I've always been fascinated by crime, particularly serial killers and what makes them "tick". Some if not all of the acts performed by human beings in this publication are so despicable that they seem impossible to believe. Unfortunately the contents contained within are not part of some fictional script for a future Hollywood movie, they are factual These volumes feature the following murderers: Volume 1 Daniel Barbosa, Andrei Chikatilo, Pedro Rodrig...

A Plea for Justice: The Timothy Cole Story - Paperback

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by McKinley B. Fred (Author)During the closing months of 1984 and extending through March 25, 1985, a number of violent rapes occurred around Texas Tech in Lubbock, Texas. As a result, females, both students and employees of the university, along with those who worked in the general area, were caught up in a wave of terror in the persona of the Tech rapist. A PLEA FOR JUSTICE: The Timothy Cole Story describes how a 24-year-old black student and an army veteran became entangled in a web of dec...

1079: The overwhelming force of Dyatlov Pass - Paperback

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by Teodora Hadjiyska (Author), Igor Pavlov (Author)Height 1079 was the name of the mountain where the nine members of the Dyatlov trekking group perished in 1959. The bizarre circumstances of their death and the ensuing frenzy surrounding the incident brought to attention the original name given to the place by the local Mansi people - Kholat Syakhl, or Dead (Barren) Mountain. Until now, there has been no plausible explanation of what actually happened on that fateful night of February 1, 195...

Jeffrey Dahmer: The Milwaukee Cannibal - Hardcover

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by Savannah Crawford (Author)Some evils are meant to belong to the land of lore: where horrible monsters exist only to bewitch and unsettle the mind. But there are real horrors in this world, and the thing of nightmares can often exist right outside your door. Unfortunately, the only way to extinguish this kind of darkness, is to examine it in the light. For the name Jeffrey Dahmer still exists in the lexicon of American history as an example of pure evil and the proof that monsters truly do ...

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by Jim Hughes (Author)Hughes here intertwines the still unsolved Boston Gardner Museum heist with the life and bludgeoned murder of Boston's infamous mobster-Whitey Bulger. Get ready for a sus-penseful ride to an ending which will surprise you. This is a sequel to the author's previous novel-Goldmaker, A Modern Alchemist. Number of Pages: 256 Dimensions: 0.54 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: April 18, 2023

Burn Boston Burn: The Largest Arson Case in the History of the Country - Paperback

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by Wayne M. Miller (Author), Paul a. Christian (Foreword by), Michael Clark (Cover Design by)Burn Boston Burn-The Largest Arson Case in the History of the Country is an astounding true crime narration. A conspiracy of 9 men, including 3 Boston cops and a Boston firefighter, burned Boston and surrounding communities in the early 1980s due to tax-cutting measures that caused layoffs of hundreds of police and firefighters. Over 2 years, these fire buffs, turned arsonists, torched 264 buildings, ...

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by Rick Meadows (Author), Helen Phillips (Author)Rick Meadows is a retired detective who spent his final years in law enforcement working with the Crimes Against Children unit. In this role he confronted predators inflicting tremendous evil upon innocent children. One day in early May he was called to intervene in the life of a ten-year-old girl, Shantay. Rick quickly discovered that Shantay was not only the victim of one of the worst cases of child abuse in the state of Virginia, she and her...

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by Edward Davenport (Author)The Mainliner Explosion A few minutes past 7 p.m, the evening of Nov 1, 1955, a United Airlines DC-6B Mainliner plane exploded 11 minutes into it 1,075-mile final stretch of its daily route from New York to Portland, via Chicago and Denver, ending 44 lives. Four veteran CAB investigators, representatives of the Douglas Company- the plane's manufacturer, and over 60 of United's top technical men, were rushed to the crash scene, a gently rolling area of ranch and far...

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by Maurice Hicks (Author)Maurice grew up in the unforgiving streets of Baltimore City during a time when Baltimore was under siege by murderers, robbers, drug dealers, and burglars. He was an introvert who strategically avoided the fate of many of the inhabitants of his community. Many of them met their untimely demise by the age of sixteen.Maurice sought refuge by attending Sunday school at Gillis Memorial Baptist Church. He hungered for spiritual wisdom and an understanding of the condition...

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I'm Not Broken: Surviving the House of Demons - Paperback

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by Jessica Lynn Reale (Author)Her body is thawing, and the smell of death is oozing from her. I want to be sick, but I say nothing. I watch like I was told. Good girls, listen. I want to rub my legs clean; I want a shower. Startled when my mom announced she was done. I finally see. Even though I was watching, I did not truly see. I say nothing. I sit and watch. Wishing for heaven too.Survival is all I can think of, I must do as they say, or I will be next. I am trying to be strong but failing...

Coincidence: Murder at the Wild Idol Inn 50th Anniversary Edition Revised and Expanded with a New Forward and Aftermath - Paperback

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by Luckii Ludwig (Author), Leigh McLellan (Designed by), Dan Hanel (Foreword by)Coincidence - 50th Anniversary EditionMurder at the Wild Idol Inn50th Anniversary EditionRevised and Expanded with a New Forward and AftermathA triple murder in a small town hits the headlines: Shooting at the Wild Idol! Two men face the gas chamber when they're convicted for first-degree murder in 197l.The question on everyone's lips is not, "Why this horrid crime?" Instead, it's about the morality of the death p...

San Francisco's Hottest Cold Case: How I Exposed a Police Cover-Up and Solved My Father's Murder - Paperback

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by Jon Kinyon (Author)"Something clearly stinks in how police handled this case." - Tony Serra, famed Civil Rights Attorney Andy Kinyon was raised in Palo Alto, California. He was a born hustler. He became the top national salesman for the publisher of LOOK Magazine at the age of 22 in 1965. That same year, he befriended notable figures like Ken Kesey and Jerry Garcia. Andy was among the first to join the counter-culture movement in Haight-Ashbury and worked for Bill Graham and Chet Helms, c...

Chasing Picasso: The True Story of a Daytime Heist on Art Hill - Paperback

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by C. Joan Baker (Author)In Chasing Picasso: A True Story of A Daytime Heist on Art Hill, the author unveils the mysterious history and disappearance of a small Picasso painting from the Saint Louis Art Museum in 1973. The 1906 Rose Period oil painting has not been seen since it disappeared in a clandestine daytime theft under the watch of museum guards. The painting and the heist would have been forgotten altogether if it weren't perhaps for one curious author, C. Joan Baker. A quest she hop...

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by Cedric L. Gray (Author)A story in the life of C-Nyle. Growing up had its ups and downs. Becoming an adult would be the challenge. The streets aint ever loved no one.. This was my struggle. Number of Pages: 200 Dimensions: 0.42 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: March 22, 2023

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by Reece Peace (Author)Why does everyone want this nice man dead? A man of God, a man of peace, but he couldn't be killed. God's plan and God's hand was on Reece Peace's life. After 5 assassination attempts put on him. The author is still alive. You will know that God cares for his people no matter their size, color, background, age, gender, or creed. God is no respecter of person. Walk in God's plan and his will and you will conquer any and every trial that comes your way. Get off that rocki...