True Crime

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Age of Secrets: The Conspiracy that Toppled Richard Nixon and the Hidden Death of Howard Hughes - Hardcover

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by Gerald Bellett (Author)An acclaimed award-winning non-fiction international political thriller exposing the real reason for Watergate, the hidden death of Howard Hughes, and the illicit activities of the CIA, with the CIA's worldwide pursuit of John Meier trying to expose it all, including revealing information on the RFK Assassination and Critical Comments by New York Times bestselling author Jim Hougan.THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE IN DEVELOPMENT 'MEIERGATE' IS ABOUT THE LIFE STORY OF JOHN ME...

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by Briar Lee Mitchell (Author)Briar Lee Mitchell interviewed over 20 serial and rampage killers, to gain insight into their lives today. Some have been incarcerated for decades and their outlook on life, their crimes and what purpose they might have was discussed in detail with interesting and sometimes unusual results. "Care is just a word until someone like Briar comes along and gives it true life."- Monk Steppenwolf, serving a life sentence in Michigan for killing five people in 1964 "You ...

The Killing Spree: A True Story of a String of Brutal Murders, Rapes, and the Cop Who Tried to Stop It - Paperback

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by Anita Paddock (Author)John Edward Swindler never learned to read or write and instead became a bona fide criminal at the age of fifteen. His crimes quickly advanced from car theft to arson. At three hundred pounds, with long, fuzzy red hair and pimply skin, his appearance was so frightening that he intimidated fellow inmates into performing crimes from their jail cells. He sodomized other convicts, who dared not refuse him. He was moved in and out of solitary confinement in an attempt to b...

Daughter of Song: A Cambodian Refugee Family, Their Daughter, Crime and Injustice - Paperback

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by Doug Hood (Author)While volunteering at a women's prison, Doug stumbles upon Panna Krom's story. A gut-wrenching tragedy that would send him on a meandering near-impossible mission to try to correct an appalling injustice.Panna, the 17-year-old daughter of a Cambodian refugee family, went from hiding an unwanted pregnancy to being charged in a highly-publicized murder case. That ultimately earned her an 18-year sentence.With no legal credentials, Doug exposes a broken criminal justice syst...

Manual de Seguridad para Grandes Superficies: Manual de Seguridad Centros Comerciales - Paperback

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by Doiler Ortiz Prada (Editor), Rafael Darío Sosa González (Author)No solo hablamos de grandes superficies a nivel almacenes, logramos tener como grandes superficies bodegas que en realidad son depósitos de mercancía a gran escala sea cual sea su razón social, para nosotros debe de quedar bien claro esta situación en cuestión de que nos determina la misión que se va a cumplir, en especial los controles que se deben tener tanto de mercancía entrante como saliente, el control del personal que l...

At the Dead Hours of Midnight: A Bloody Reign of Terror in the Great Smoky Mountains - Paperback

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by Richard Way (Author), Stanford Johnson (Author), Mike Duvall (Contribution by)A vigilante group called The White Caps of Sevier County organized in Sevier County, Tennessee, in the early 1890s. Their original mission was an expression of community consensus, meant to enforce community standards of conduct and behavior when a group of prostitutes arrived in a rural, mountainous community in that county - Emert's Cove/Copeland Creek. The original White Caps were believed to have been a group...

Wanda: The Untold Story of the Wanda Beach Murders - Paperback

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by Alan J. Whiticker (Author)On an overcast, windswept day in January 1965, two teenage girls were raped and murdered on an isolated beach in Sydney's southern suburbs. The discovery of their bodies the following day sparked a public outcry, media frenzy and one of the largest police investigations in Australian history. To this date the deaths of Christine Sharrock and Marianne Schmidt -notoriously known as the Wanda Beach Murders - remain unsolved, and the story behind the crime has never b...

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by Dave Horn (Author)The story is about the murder of three young women in a North Yorkshire town. The police are baffled as they were all murdered on the same sat night and as their investigation stalls, three people close to the girls set out to get retribution a major in the SAS a nursing sister, and a successful chemist the hunt races from north Yorkshire to America, southern Ireland, and Libya, but are the men dealt retribution, who are murderers, the right ones!!! It's not until the end...

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by Louis A. Caliendo (Author), Anthony (Author)As a teenager, in the early 1900s, Antonio Caliendo left Italy in hopes of finding a better life in America. His journey from the Italian countryside would take him from the steel mills of Western Pennsylvania to the iron bars of Western Penitentiary.Through his involvement in "bootlegging" during the Prohibition, Antonio would be introduced to the beginnings of organized crime in his new country. He would eventually face the most challenging obs...

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The Ultimate Serial Killer Trivia Book: A Collection Of Fascinating Facts And Disturbing Details About Infamous Serial Killers And Their Horrific Crim - Hardcover

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by Jack Rosewood (Author)Have you ever wanted to know everything there is to know about serial killers? Ever pondered the differences between psychopaths and sociopaths? Want to know exactly why cannibals eat human flesh? Want to read about the most downright bizarre serial killer motivations of all time? What jobs attract the most serial killers? How many uncaptured murderers are walking our streets right this second? How do female killers differ from males? What deluded maniac killed peop...

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by Larry M. Griggers (Author)This book is a dramatization of a killing that took place in 1920, and documents the capture, multiple trials, and sentencing of a man who was suffering from a mental disorder.This book's inspiration was planted indelibly in my mind by my late Uncle James Ellis Boyd. It happened when I was a young boy - sitting on a rock formation on the bank of Swift Creek in lower Toombs County, Georgia. Just as a child, listening keenly to someone reading them a bedtime fable, ...

An Outlaw's Journal: Joe Byrne and the Cow from El Dorado - Hardcover

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by Georgina Stones (Author), Aidan Phelan (Illustrator)The year is 1876, and Joe Byrne is wrestling with the loyalty he has to his best friend, Aaron Sherritt, and his loyalty to his family. When Aaron comes to him with a proposition to benefit both parties, Joe makes a decision that will lead him to the darkest place he can imagine: Beechworth Gaol. Georgina Stones explores this rarely examined part of the history of Joe Byrne through dramatised narrative and her extensive historical researc...

The Whiffle Ball Killer: A true story and my witness statement - Paperback

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by Karen Roberts (Author)The Whiffle Ball KillerBy: Karen RobertsThe Whiffle Ball Killer is an account through the eyes of a young woman from a different culture living in the area of the Green River Killings. She details her turbulent life with her husband and her suspicions about him, all while navigating the damaging string of misunderstandings in dealing with local and federal agencies and seeking help to escape an abusive marriage.About the AuthorKaren Roberts attended Green River Commun...

More Stories from Ontario's Most Dangerous City: From Beyond The Yellow Tape - Paperback

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by Rick Digiandomenico (Author)Retired Police Sergeant Rick DiGiandomenico returns with more stories gathered from his thirty years of policing. In his first book, 'Ontario's Most Dangerous City, ' the retired Sergeant chronicled his career. He revealed that on a human level, there is no way that you can deal with all of the craziness and violence without being personally affected by it. So, it's time to buckle up once again as you go on another ride-along through the city streets. Be prepare...

A Prisoner by No Crime of My Own: From Innocence to Horror: The True Crime Story of a Child Witness - Paperback

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by Tedder (Author), Susan Mary Malone (Editor), Brit Diaz (Contribution by)At three years old, Jodie watched her father murder a woman in a seedy hotel room. He, a true-born sociopath, strolled undetected, using religion as his disguise. A life suffocating the truth wouldn't work for Jodie. The murdered woman's spirit seemed to ignite a search for answers in Jodie's adulthood. A budding darkness around the reality of her past was coming sharply into focus. Fighting to free yourself from gener...

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by Richard Shears (Author)It is known as the Island of Gods and with more than four million tourists, both rich and budget-conscious, visiting Bali each year, it is inevitable that things will go wrong. Drugs, surfing, murder, love, death on the roads, hangovers, bombs, relaxation...they are all part of the cocktail of life in a land of looming volcanoes, hillside rice paddies and idyllic beaches. What Happens in Bali covers many topical and up-to-date stories including Schapelle Corby, the B...

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by Mac McKinnon (Author)GROUNDBREAKING!Two elderly, wealthy spinster sisters in Llano, Texas, die within a day of each other, and it is chalked up to an unfortunate coincidence and old age. After all, they were seventy-five and eighty-three years old, respectively. One month later, an elderly man in San Angelo, Texas, 130 miles from Llano passes away, and it is attributed to old age and poor health. But there would prove to be a couple of common denominators, Tim Scoggin and poison.This case ...

ARCH Enemies: The Battle to Save Washington Square Park - Paperback

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by R. E. E. McKenna (Author)Washington Square Park was an iconic historical tourist attraction, with its music, songs, and counterculture inhabitants. The drug culture in the park during the '70s, '80s, and '90s was part of the draw for tourists and teens to the park. NSU II's scope of responsibility included Washington Square Park. Politicians and the police always turned a blind eye to the crowds and their drug use inside the park. The police officers assigned to NSU II were instructed not ...

The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States - Paperback

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by Ida B. Wells-Barnett (Author)The investigative journalist and activist Ida B. Wells, later Wells-Barnett, spearheaded the anti-lynching movement in the United States. Expanding on her groundbreaking exposé Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases (1892), A Red Record used mainstream white newspapers to document a resurgence of white mob violence, finding that -more than 10,000 African Americans had been killed by lynching in the South between 1864 and 1894. Wells compiled statistics o...

The Murders of Christopher Watts - Hardcover

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by Cheryln Cadle (Author)On August 13, 2018 Christopher Watts murdered his pregnant wife and two toddler daughters. Cheryln Cadle contacted him and started visiting him in prison. Christopher started writing her letters from his prison cell in Wisconsin. These letters had his confessions of things he had never told anyone else. Now she shares the letters and the truth about what happened that fateful night in Frederick Colorado to Shanann, Nico, Bella and Celeste Watts at the hands of their f...

The Murders of Christopher Watts - Paperback

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Shattered Justice: The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders - Paperback

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by J. D. Morrison (Author)Shattered Justice, bearing the title chosen by Paul Smith (Sheriff of Mayes County, OK, from 1981 to 1985), describes Smith's squelched efforts to get justice for three little Girl Scouts murdered deep in the woods just outside Locust Grove, OK, on June 13, 1977. Lori Farmer, 8, Doris "Denise" Milner, 10, and Michelle Gusé, 9, were bludgeoned and strangled while sharing a tent during their first night of summer camp.Morrison chronicles Smith's attempts to get three s...

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by Shaun Attwood (Author)In 1966, Lord Mountbatten granted Jimmy Saville access to the highest levels of the royal family. What did they have in common? They used their prestige to abuse vulnerable minors, while relying on their power and establishment connections to remain untouchable.In 2022, Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison after she had procured teenage girls for Jeffrey Epstein and his predator pals. Their connections included the most powerful people in the world, r...

If I Can't Have You: Susan Powell, Her Mysterious Disappearance, and the Murder of Her Children - Paperback

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by Gregg Olsen (Author), Rebecca Morris (Author)A DEVOTED MOTHER GOES MISSINGEvery once in a great while a genuine murder mystery unfolds before the public's eyes...Such is the tragic case of Susan Powell and her murdered boys, Charlie and Braden. When the pretty Utah mother went missing in December of 2009, the media was swept up in the story--with lenses and microphones trained on Susan's husband, Josh. He said he had no idea what happened to Susan--and that he and the boys had been camping...

Gangster Squad: Covert Cops, the Mob, and the Battle for Los Angeles - Paperback

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by Paul Lieberman (Author)Read this man's book. --James EllroyA harrowing, edge-of-your-seat narrative of murder and secrets, revenge and heroism in the City of Angels--the real events behind the blockbuster Warner Brothers film starring Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone. GANGSTER SQUAD chronicles the true story of the secretive police unit that waged an anything-goes war to drive Mickey Cohen and other hoodlums from Los Angeles after WWII. In 1946, the LAPD launched the Gan...

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by Karen Gravano (Author)From Karen Gravano, a star of the hit VH1 reality show Mob Wives, comes a revealing memoir of a mafia childhood, where love and family come hand-in-hand with murder and betrayal. Karen Gravano is the daughter of Sammy the Bull Gravano, once one of the mafia's most feared hit men. With nineteen confessed murders, the former Gambino Crime Family underboss--and John Gotti's right-hand man--is the highest ranking gangster ever to turn State's evidence and testify against...

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by Marc Ruskin (Author)Of all the tools available to law enforcement, the living, breathing undercover operative remains the gold standard. This is true in TV shows and in the real world. In the era of electronic surveillance, UC work enforces accountability; it prevents mistakes, and of all the boots on the ground, undercover agents are often the most valuable. The FBI generally has about 100 UC agents working full-time in the field. In the 1990s and 2000s, Marc Ruskin had the most diverse, ...

While She Slept: A Husband, a Wife, a Brutal Murder - Paperback

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by Marion Collins (Author), Collins (Author)When Jill Cahill was leaving to return home after visiting with her family for a week, she turned to her sister with a grin, and said: If Jeff kills me, you can have all my things. A few days later, she was in a coma in a Syracuse hospital, her skull shattered by a savage beating inflicted by her 37-year-old husband. Six months later, she was dead. Jeff and Jill Cahill seemed to have it all. Two kids, a dog, a nice house of the picket fence variety....

Scream at the Sky: Five Texas Murders and One Man's Crusade for Justice - Paperback

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by Carlton Stowers (Author)An unsolved murder spree that left a town frozen in fear...In rural Texas, just before Christmas in 1984, a young nurse was found raped and murdered in her Wichita Falls home. Within weeks, a second woman was found-her brutalized body dumped in the frozen Texas plains. Over the next seventeen months three more women would fall victim to a faceless evil, fueling the city's fears and baffling authorities whose every lead came to a dead end. For one haunted man the cas...

Jersey Sting: Chris Christie and the Most Brazen Case of Jersey-Style Corruption-Ever - Paperback

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by Ted Sherman (Author), Josh Margolin (Author)In the summer of 2009 the blog Gawker stated Everybody in New Jersey Was Arrested Yesterday. Now for the first time, The Jersey Sting is the real story behind the biggest corruption bust in New Jersey's notoriously corrupt history. Among the forty-four people arrested in July 2009 were three mayors, five Orthodox rabbis, two state legislators, and the flamboyant deputy mayor of Jersey City, Leona Beldini, once a stripper using the stage name Hope...

Alphaville: New York 1988: Welcome to Heroin City - Paperback

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by Michael Codella (Author), Bruce Bennett (Author)A raw, gritty memoir - part true-life cop thriller, part unputdownable history of a storied time and place - that will grip you by the throat until the explosive end Codella describes Alphabet City] so vividly, with such hardboiled language that you feel like you're in the squad car with him. --New York Post A] taut true-crime tale... genuinely exciting. --Kirkus A blistering cop's-eye view of the Drug War during the heady years of the late...