True Crime

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Boston Mob: The Rise and Fall of the New England Mob and Its Most Notorious Killer - Paperback

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by Marc Songini (Author)Journalist Marc Songini presents the brutal and bloody history of Boston's organized crime syndicates in the 1960s and 70s through the life of gangster Joseph Barboza. The New England Mafia was a hugely powerful organization that survived by using violence to ruthlessly crush anyone that threatened it, or its lucrative gambling, loansharking, bootlegging and other enterprises. And psychopathic strongman Joseph "The Animal" Barboza was one of the most feared mob enforc...

Love Her to Death: The True Story of a Millionaire Businessman, His Gorgeous Wife, and the Divorce That Ended in Murder - Paperback

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by John Glatt (Author)Love Her to DeathJohn Glatt A MARRIAGE: DESTROYED They were a picture-perfect family--until a bitter divorce drove Darren Mack over the edge. A Reno millionaire, Mack was ordered by the court to pay his wife $10,000 a month in alimony. Instead, he stabbed her in the garage while their daughter watched TV upstairs.A JUDGE: TARGETED The only person Mack hated more than his wife was the family court judge who presided over their divorce. So, after killing his wife, he loade...

Whatever Mother Says...: A True Story of a Mother, Madness and Murder - Paperback

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by Wensley Clarkson (Author)Raising her five kids alone in a rundown section of Sacramento, Theresa Cross Knorr seemed like the ultimate survivor. But her youngest daughter, 16-year-old Terry, told police another story: one almost too terrible to believe. According to Terry, Theresa - no longer the petite brunette she once was - had turned insanely jealous of her pretty eldest daughters and enlisted the help of her two teenaged sons in a vicious campaign against their sisters. Terry's gruesom...

Gone Forever: A True Story of Marriage, Betrayal, and Murder - Paperback

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by Diane Fanning (Author)Susan McFarland was a vivacious, successful mother of three young sons. On November 25, 2002, she disappeared. Three days later, her car was found, keys in the ignition. Later that day, her husband reported her missing--and a desperate search began.Her friends and family hoped against hope that Susan was not gone forever. But investigators became increasingly suspicious of Richard McFarland. When the charred, decomposed body of Susan McFarland was finally discovered a...

Love Hurts: The True Story of a Teen Romance, a Vicious Plot, and a Family Murdered - Paperback

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by Keith Elliot Greenberg (Author)Alba, Texas. In 2008, Terry Caffey, a home health care aide and aspiring preacher, was asleep in his bedroom when he woke up to a barrage of bullets. His wife, Penny, was killed instantly. With blood pouring from five bullet wounds, among other serious injuries, Terry tried-but failed-to save his two youngest children before crawling out of his burning house. Meanwhile, Terry's sixteen-year-old daughter, Erin, was missing... Once Erin was found by local autho...

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by Gary C. King (Author)Joseph Duncan had been convicted of raping and torturing a 14-year-old boy in Tacoma, Washington. On the Internet he proudly boasted of his perversions. But the system turned Duncan loose, and no one would stop him from committing an even more horrifying act... Number of Pages: 260 Dimensions: 0.59 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: February 01, 2007

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by Michele R. McPhee (Author)Chris Paciello seemed to have it all. With heartthrob good looks and an A-list roster of clients and friends, he was a South Beach businessman/playboy whose local fame was reaching new heights until his "wise guy" past came crashing down upon him.When some of Chris's former 'fellas were arrested, they ratted him out to the government. One case in particular a botched robbery that turned deadly was a time bomb that would blow the cushy new world Chris created for h...

Never Leave Me: A True Story of Marriage, Deception, and Brutal Murder - Paperback

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by John Glatt (Author)In a quiet community of million dollar homes and shiny SUVs, the Nyce family projected the very image of success. Dr. Jonathan Nyce, an asthma sufferer, had achieved medical breakthroughs that made him rich-and offered hope to countless people. Michelle's beauty made her an object of desire. And adultery was her husband's worst nightmare. Police found Michelle's Land Cruiser floating in a frigid creak near the family home. When forensic investigators examined Michelle's ...

A Date with Death: The Secret Life of the Accused Craigslist Killer - Paperback

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by Michele R. McPhee (Author)In a luxury Boston hotel on April 14, 2009, police discovered the body of a beautiful young woman-her head battered, a bullet through her heart. Within hours, the story exploded, making headlines across the nation. The victim, a masseuse named Julissa Brisman, had advertised her erotic services on popular classified ads Web site Craigslist. A twenty-two-year-old medical student named Philip Markoff was her last-known client... The Boston Police Homicide Unit follo...

A Scream on the Water: A True Story of Murder in Salem - Paperback

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by Margaret Press (Author), Joan Noble Pinkham (Author)LURED ONTO A YACHT...Although Salem, Massachusetts, once echoed with the screams of tortured women, it has long since been a quiet New England fishing village...until one warm summer day, when the peace was shattered by the cries of a young woman meeting a grisly fate. TRAGICALLY CUT DOWN IN THE PRIME OF LIFE...Happily married, Martha Brailsford was a lovely, talented young artist with a big heart who agreed to go for a sail with her neig...

Chasing the Devil: My Twenty-Year Quest to Capture the Green River Killer - Paperback

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by David Reichert (Author)It began with the discovery of three women's bodies found near suburban Seattle's Green River in August, 1982. Soon more corpses and human remains would be found, some as far as Oregon. They were teenage runaways or other women whose anonymous lifestyles had made them easy, vulnerable targets--and they were all the victims of a faceless murderer whose rampage would span two decades and take as many as forty-nine lives. No other serial killer in the nation's history h...

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by Kieran Mark Crowley (Author)In the summer of 1985, in his exclusive Upper East Side Manhattan apartment, Robert Bierenbaum, a prominent surgeon and certified genius, strangled his wife Gail to death. He then drove her body to an airstrip in Caldwell, N.J., and dumped it into the Atlantic Ocean from a single-engine private plane. The next day he reported her missing. Number of Pages: 426 Dimensions: 0.95 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: September 01, 2001

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by Carlton Stowers (Author)One day, two-year-old Renee Goode was playing happily with her sisters and cousin, as the four of them enjoyed an impromptu slumber party at the home of her father, Shane Goode. The next day she was dead. The local medical examiner could not determine the cause of Renee's death, but her mother, Annette, and grandmother, Sharon, were convinced she'd been murdered. And, they knew the identity of Renee's killer: her father, Shane Goode, a manipulative, emotionally abus...

A Poisoned Passion: A Young Mother, Her War Hero Husband, and the Marriage That Ended in Murder - Paperback

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by Diane Fanning (Author)By the age of twenty-four, Air Force Staff Sergeant Mike Severance had already survived a series of missions in Afghanistan and Iraq. But his life back at home, in Texas, would prove a lot more dangerous... In the winter of 2005, Mike's wife, a veterinarian named Wendi Mae Davidson, reported him missing. Wendi told police that Mike had been acting erratically-visiting local clubs, staying out late, sometimes not coming home at all. She filed for divorce the very next ...

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by Don Davis (Author), Donald A. Davis (Author) Number of Pages: 314 Dimensions: 0.7 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: April 01, 1996

In the Middle of the Night: The Shocking True Story of a Family Killed in Cold Blood - Paperback

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by Brian McDonald (Author)The affluent suburb of Cheshire, Connecticut, seemed like the perfect place for Dr. William Petit and his wife, Jennifer Hawke-Petit, to raise their two lovely daughters... Until July 23, 2007, when, according to police, two ex-cons invaded the Petit home hoping to embark on a routine robbery--one that would ultimately prove deadly. Number of Pages: 264 Dimensions: 0.6 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: September 01, 2009

Mop Men: Inside the World of Crime Scene Cleaners - Paperback

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by Alan Emmins (Author)Neal Smither doesn't hide his work. The side of his van reads: "Crime Scene Cleaners: Homicides, Suicides and Accidental Death." Whenever a hotel guest permanently checks out, the cops finish an investigation, or an accidental death is reported, Smither's crew pick up the pieces after the police cruisers and ambulances have left.Author BiographyALAN EMMINS has written for GQ, The New York Post, Dazed & Confused, FHM, Playboy, and The New York Daily News. He is also ...

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by Carlton Stowers (Author)On a fall afternoon in 1983, in an upscale Dallas suburb, Rozanne Gailiunas was found stripped, bound to her bed, and shot through the skull. Her four-year-old son has been napping peacefully in the next room when she was killed. Rozanne's husband, Dr. Peter Gailiunas--and her lover, Larry Aylor--immediately fell under suspicion. Until a surprise informant identified the mastermind behind the murder as Aylor's own wife, Joy--a woman so driven by jealousy and greed t...

Playing with Fire: The True Story of a Nurse, Her Husband, and a Marriage Turned Fatal - Paperback

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by John Glatt (Author)A beautiful nurse. A lethal injection. A gruesomely charred corpse. Nothing could have shocked the sleepy community of Morgantown, West Virginia, more than the lurid details that surfaced after a house fire claimed the life of Shelly Michael's husband Jimmy. Local authorities suspected possible arson. Then they discovered that Jimmy had been dead before the fire even started--paralyzed by a fatal dose of muscle relaxant Did Shelly Michael, a respected nurse and mother, k...

Dead Run: The Murder of a Lawman and the Greatest Manhunt of the Modern American West - Paperback

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by Dan Schultz (Author)Evoking Into the Wild and The Monkey Wrench Gang, Dead Run is the extraordinary true story of three desperado survivalists, a dangerous plot, a brutal murder, and a treacherous manhunt. On a sunny May morning in 1998, three friends in a stolen truck passed through Cortez, Colorado on their way to commit sabotage of unspeakable proportions. Evidence suggests their mission was to blow up the Glen Canyon dam. Had they succeeded, the structure's collapse would have unleashe...

Officer's Wife: A True Story of Unspeakable Betrayal and Cold-Blooded Murder - Paperback

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by Michael Fleeman (Author)He was a captain in the US air Force. She was a psychologist in Fayetteville Number of Pages: 330 Dimensions: 0.74 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: June 01, 2006

Blood Justice: The True Story of Multiple Murder and a Family's Revenge - Paperback

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by Tom Henderson (Author)In 1991, flight attendant Nancy Ludwig checked in to an airport hotel near Detroit. The next morning she was found gagged, raped, and tortured-her throat slit with such rage that she was nearly decapitated. Her husband Arthur never gave up hope that the future would bring enough evidence to close the case. But it was the past that held the clue. In 1985, fifty-five-year old Margarette Eby, a music professor, met the same grisly death at her cottage in Flint, Michigan....

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by Kyle Swenson (Author)From award-winning investigative journalist Kyle Swenson, Good Kids, Bad City is the true story of the longest wrongful imprisonment in the United States to end in exoneration, and a critical social and political history of Cleveland, the city that convicted them. In the early 1970s, three African-American men--Wiley Bridgeman, Kwame Ajamu, and Rickey Jackson--were accused and convicted of the brutal robbery and murder of a man outside of a convenience store in Clevela...

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by James Renner (Author)As seen on the Oxygen mini-series The Disappearance of Maura Murray When an eleven year old James Renner fell in love with Amy Mihaljevic, the missing girl seen on posters all over his neighborhood, it was the beginning of a lifelong obsession with true crime. That obsession leads James to a successful career as an investigative journalist. It also gave him PTSD. In 2011, James began researching the strange disappearance of Maura Murray, a UMass student who went missin...

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by Larry McShane (Author)As the last Don of the Philadelphia mob, Ralph Natale, the first-ever mob boss to turn state's evidence, provides an insider's perspective on the mafia. Natale's reign atop the Philadelphia and New Jersey underworlds brought the region's mafia back to prominence in the 1990s. Smart, savvy, and articulate, Natale came up in the mob and saw first-hand as it hatched its plan to control Atlantic City's casino unions. Later on, after spending 16 years in prison, he reclaim...

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by Michael Fleeman (Author)She was his second wife--to die. . . Coming off a failed marriage, a beautiful woman named Toni joined an online dating site, hoping to find true and lasting love. Harold Henthorn seemed like her dream come true--a handsome man who said he had "a heart for others." Only weeks after meeting, they were wed. But Toni's family began noticing Harold's dark side--especially his controlling nature, which Toni didn't seem to mind. Until she met her end at the bottom of a r...

Afraid of the Dark: The True Story of a Reckless Husband, His Stunning Wife, and the Murder That Shattered a Family - Paperback

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by Tom Henderson (Author)Detroit mortgage broker Mark Unger adored his wife Florence and their two young sons. But after a decade of marriage and increasing financial trouble, Mark's life began to slowly unravel. He became addicted to pain killers and gambling, and ended up spending five months in rehab. Forced to go back to work, Flo became bitter and resentful of Mark and began to have an affair with one of his friends. When Mark returned home and his disability checks weren't enough to mak...

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by Tom Henderson (Author)A promising young attorney and a dedicated family man, Michael Fletcher seemed to have it all. But in the summer of 2000, Michael found himself standing trial for the murder of his pregnant wife, Leann. The verdict--guilty of second-degree murder--would leave friends, family, and the public at large scrambling to make sense of a twisted and frightening series of events that ended in the brutal killing of Leann Fletcher. What could possibly have led Michael Fletcher to...

Poisoned Love: The True Story of ER Nurse Chaz Higgs, His Ambitious Wife, and a Shocking Murder - Paperback

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by Carlton Smith (Author)Kathy Augustine was a controversial two-term Nevada State Controller. In 2003, her husband Chuck died of an apparent stroke. Only a month later, she married Chaz Higgs, an ER nurse who, it was later revealed, had attended to her late husband just before his death. Three years later, fifty-year-old Kathy died after a heart attack--the result, her family and friends believed, of a stressful political campaign. But when an autopsy of Kathy's body revealed no signs of hea...

Wealthy Men Only: The True Story of a Lonely Millionaire, a Gorgeous Younger Woman, and the Love Triangle That Ended in Murder - Paperback

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by Stella Sands (Author)Wealthy Men Only Stella Sands Nanette Johnston's personal ad made it clear: I know how to take care of my man if he knows how to take care of me. Newport Beach millionaire Bill MacLaughlin made the fatal mistake of responding. Within months, the gorgeous 28-year-old moved in with the middle-aged entrepreneur. Three years later, she began seeing another man on the side, a former NFL linebacker who took a job at a nearby nightclub. Three weeks later, MacLaughin would be...

Love You Madly: The True Story of a Small-Town Girl, the Young Men She Seduced, and the Murder of Her Mother - Paperback

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by Michael Fleeman (Author)She posted it online: Just to let everyone know, my mother was murdered. But those simple words written by sixteen-year-old Rachelle Waterman couldn't begin to describe the horror of the crime: Her mother's body locked in a van. Doused in gasoline. Burned beyond recognition... Alaska troopers arrested two young men--both of whom had dated Rachelle and claimed to still love her. Investigators grilled Rachelle until she made shocking and apparently incriminating revel...

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by Diane Fanning (Author)An army brat-turned-marine, he saw combat in Vietnam, and returned a decorated soldier. An avid reader, his dreams of being an acclaimed novelist came true. His desire to find love was fulfilled when he married brilliant executive Kathleen Atwater, the first female student accepted at Duke University's School of Engineering. The Petersons seemed the ideal academic couple- well-respected, prosperous, and happy. Number of Pages: 422 Dimensions: 0.94 x 8 x 5 IN Publicati...