True Crime

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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...

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by Joe Urschel (Author)It's 1933 and Prohibition has given rise to the American gangster--now infamous names like Bonnie and Clyde and John Dillinger. Bank robberies at gunpoint are commonplace and kidnapping for ransom is the scourge of a lawless nation. With local cops unauthorized to cross state lines in pursuit and no national police force, safety for kidnappers is just a short trip on back roads they know well from their bootlegging days. Gangster George Machine Gun Kelly and his wife, K...

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by Jerome Loving (Author)This is the story of an author and his apprentice. It is the story of literary influence and tragedy. It is also the story of incarceration in America. Norman Mailer was writing The Executioner's Song, his novel about condemned killer Gary Gilmore, when he struck up a correspondence with Jack Henry Abbott, Federal Prisoner 87098-132. Over time, Abbott convinced the famous author that he was a talented writer who deserved another chance at freedom. With letters of supp...

The Art of the Con: The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries in the Art World - Paperback

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by Anthony M. Amore (Author)Art scams are today so numerous that the specter of a lawsuit arising from a mistaken attribution has scared a number of experts away from the business of authentication and forgery, and with good reason. Art scams are increasingly convincing and involve incredible sums of money. The cons perpetrated by unscrupulous art dealers and their accomplices are proportionately elaborate. Anthony M. Amore's The Art of the Con tells the stories of some of history's most noto...

Mommy's Little Girl: Casey Anthony and Her Daughter Caylee's Tragic Fate - Paperback

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by Diane Fanning (Author)When news broke of three-year-old Caylee Anthony's disappearance from her home in Florida in July 2008, there was a huge outpouring of sympathy across the nation. The search for Caylee made front-page headlines. But there was one huge question mark hanging over the case: the girl's mother. As the investigation continued and suspicions mounted, Casey became the prime suspect. In October, based on new evidence against Casey--her erratic behavior and lies, her car that s...

True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray - Paperback

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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 led 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 missing ...

Secrecy World (Now the Major Motion Picture the Laundromat): Inside the Panama Papers, Illicit Money Networks, and the Global Elite - Paperback

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by Jake Bernstein (Author)Now a Major Motion Picture The Laundromat from Director Steven Soderbergh, Starring Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, and Antonio BanderasTwo-time Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Jake Bernstein takes us inside the world revealed by the Panama Papers, a landscape of illicit money, political corruption, and fraud on a global scale. A hidden circulatory system flows beneath the surface of global finance, carrying trillions of dollars from drug trafficking, tax ev...

Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial - Paperback

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by Rabia Chaudry (Author)After more than twenty years in prison, Adnan Syed's murder conviction was overturned, and he was finally set free. Rabia Chaudry's New York Times bestseller and award-winner Adnan's Story reveals how the case was mishandled and became the subject of Sarah Koenig's Peabody Award-winning podcast Serial. In early 2000, Adnan Syed was convicted and sentenced to life plus thirty years for the murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee, a high school senior in Baltimore, Mary...

A Murder Over a Girl: Justice, Gender, Junior High - Paperback

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by Ken Corbett (Author)In February 2008, during first period English class at a junior high school in Oxnard, California, blue-eyed and blond fourteen-year-old Brandon McInerney shot and killed fifteen-year-old Larry King, a brown boy, who had recently begun to identify as "Leticia." Shaken by a newspaper item about this murder and further unsettled by ongoing media that sidestepped gender identity and race in the coverage of the crime, psychologist Ken Corbett traveled to LA to attend the tr...

The Midnight Assassin: The Hunt for America's First Serial Killer - Paperback

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by Skip Hollandsworth (Author)Winner of the Texas Institute of Letters's Carr P. Collins Award A New York Times BestsellerOne of Book Riot Best Book of the YearIn nineteenth-century Austin, Texas, a ruthless murderer terrorized the city in what would soon become a story more shocking than any fiction. In the late 1800s, just as Austin was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis, a series of brutal murders rocked the burgeoning city and sho...

Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime - Paperback

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by Ron Stallworth (Author)The #1 New York Times Bestseller The extraordinary true story and basis for the Academy Award winning film BlacKkKlansman, written and directed by Spike Lee, produced by Jordan Peele, and starring John David Washington and Adam Driver. When detective Ron Stallworth, the first black detective in the history of the Colorado Springs Police Department, comes across a classified ad in the local paper asking for all those interested in joining the Ku Klux Klan to contact ...

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by John Glatt (Author)Then, in August 2009, a registered sex offender named Phillip Garrido appeared on the University of California, Berkeley campus alongside two young women whose unusual behavior sparked concern among campus officials and law enforcement. That visit would pave the way for shocking discovery: that Garrido was Jaycee Lee Dugard's kidnapper... Jaycee's story was revealed: For eighteen years, she had lived in an outbuilding on the Garrido property in Antioch, CA, just two hour...

The Laundromat (Previously Published as Secrecy World): Inside the Panama Papers, Illicit Money Networks, and the Global Elite - Paperback

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by Jake Bernstein (Author)* * * Previously published as Secrecy World * * * The Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture from Director Steven Soderbergh, Starring Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, and Antonio BanderasTwo-time Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter takes us inside the world revealed by the Panama Papers, a landscape of illicit money, political corruption, and fraud on a global scale. A hidden circulatory system flows beneath the surface of global finance, carrying trillions of...

Critical Thinking and Intelligence Analysis - Paperback

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by David T. Moore (Author)This National Defense Intelligence College publication defines critical thinking in the context of intelligence analysis, explains how it influences the entire intelligence process, explores how it toughens the art of intelligence analysis, suggests how it may be taught, and deduces how analysts can be persuaded to adopt this habit. "David Moore has added his powerful voice to those calling for America's intelligence analysts to be more self-conscious about their met...

The Mountain Meadows Massacre - Hardcover

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by Juanita Brooks (Author)In the Fall of 1857, some 120 California-bound emigrants were killed in lonely Mountain Meadows in southern Utah; only eighteen young children were spared. The men on the ground after the bloody deed took an oath that they would never mention the event again, either in public or in private. The leaders of the Mormon church also counseled silence. The first report, soon after the massacre, described it as an Indian onslaught at which a few white men were present, only...

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by Jack Black (Author)You Can't Win is an autobiography by burglar and hobo Jack Black, written in the early to mid-1920s and first published in 1926. It describes Black's life on the road, in prison and his various criminal capers in the American and Canadian west from the late 1880s to early 20th century. The book was a major influence upon William S. Burroughs and other Beat writers. The book tells of Black's experiences in the hobo underworld, freight-hopping around the western United Sta...

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So I See You Don't Paint Houses - Hardcover

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by Jeramy Berthiaume (Author)The first book ever published about Richard Gaikowski's metamorphosis into the Zodiac Killer. His rise as a member of New York's Knickerbocker News and San Francisco's Good Times coupled with his descent into mental illness, illicit drug use, and lifelong feelings of envy and need for self-affirmation help us as a society begin to comprehend this story.See how Dick Gaik's life correlated to the canonical crimes of America's most wanted, unknown murderer. "I think ...

Challenging Conceptions: Children Born of Wartime Rape and Sexual Exploitation - Hardcover

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by Kimberly Theidon (Editor), Dyan Mazurana (Editor), Dipali Anumol (Author)Author BiographyKimberly Theidon, PhD, Henry J. Leir Professor in International Humanitarian Studies, Co-Director, Gender and Intersectional Analysis and Women's/Femmes' Leadership Program, the Fletcher School of Global Affairs, Tufts University Dyan Mazurana, PhD, Research Professor, Co-Director of Gender and Intersectional Analysis and Women's/Femmes' Leadership Program, Fletcher School of Global Affairs; Research...

BEHIND AND BEYOND THE BADGE - Volume III: More Stories from the Village of First Responders with Cops, Firefighters, Ems, Dispatchers, Forensics, and - Hardcover

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by Donna Brown (Author)There is so much more to a police officer's badge, to any badge that all first responders wear. But that's what the world sees-a badge. What's behind and beyond that badge is what people need to know-the person. In BEHIND AND BEYOND THE BADGE, Volume III, award-winning author Donna Brown takes you to those places that few see. First responders have opened their hearts and shared what it's truly like to do their jobs, their favorite parts of the job, and their toughest,...

Jack the Ripper - a Case of conspiracy? - Paperback

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by Graham J. McEwan (Author)Were the 'Jack the Ripper' murders of 1888 the work of a lone, deranged individual, who has remained unidentified to this day, or were they perpetrated by a cabal of ruthless killers anxious to protect the 'Establishment' in a time when Britain was riven by poverty, crime and political instability? Number of Pages: 136 Dimensions: 0.29 x 11.69 x 8.27 IN Publication Date: November 24, 2022

Do For Me - A True Crime Story Of Politics And Corruption In New York - Paperback

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by Bill Sanderson (Author)Sheldon Silver, one of New York's most powerful politicians, was excited to take legal fees from a real estate developer-but the attorney with whom he'd split the money worried. "Is this all right, Shelly?" he asked.Silver answered: "Of course ... I'm a lawyer." His friend took those words as assurance that "it was OK to refer cases to a lawyer no matter what position he held."But it was not OK. Silver's agreement with his lawyer friend began a scheme to use his powe...

The Monster That Killed His Family Twice: The Faith Green Story - Paperback

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by Faith Brown (Author)On September 21, 2016, Faith Brown witnessed her husband brutally murder her four children in their home. She was left alive--though scarred from the knife wounds he inflicted during the incident--and has spent the subsequent years learning to cope with the loss of her kids. The incident and subsequent trial made national news. After the attack, Faith learned that her husband (now serving a life sentence) had killed his previous wife, who was pregnant at the time, but h...

The Monster That Killed His Family Twice: The Faith Green Story - Hardcover

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by Wanda Draper Ph. D. (Author)THE WITNESS BRINGS A NEW DIMENSION TO THE GENRE OF TRUE CRIME LITERATURE, PIECING TOGETHER SHARDS OF PERSONAL CIRCUMSTANCES AND CRITICAL LIFE EVENTS, SO OFTEN SWEPT UNDER THE RUG OF FAMILY SHAME OR NEGLECT, REVEALING HOW THE PAST CASTS A GRAVE SHADOW OVER ONE'S FUTURE.CSI has long since rolled up the tape but the investigation isn't over. Detectives cool their heels from pounding the pavement but, the interviews have just started. The suspects - charged and book...

DALLAS COP Volume II More Than 400 True Short Stories - Paperback

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by Raymond Paul Dethloff (Author)DALLAS COP Volume II More Than 400 True Short Stories is a compilation of real and actual exciting true police, true crime stories as experienced by the street cop/beat cop author Ray Dethloff, a 26 year veteran with Dallas PD who served Dallas from 1990-2016. Go on a thrilling ride-along and see the multitude of situations that police on patrol in Dallas, in Texas, and those in law enforcement in Anywhere, USA can experience on any given work day. Anything ca...

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by Yolanda Dian (Author)Joseph DeVon and Louise moved their three sons from Mississippi to the Chicago area hoping to leave behind the terrible secrets thatcould possibly destroy the lives of the people they love. However, those secrets not only followed them, but they also wreaked havoc on the people around them. Jason DeVon the youngest son finds himself the object and center of this family's mysterious past. When Jason, Michael and James start finding love and relationships these secrets s...

The Dramatization of Defenseless in the Justice System - Hardcover

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by Annette Nawls (Author)The Dramatization of Defenseless in the Justice System is the true story of a woman seeking justice after a workplace sexual assault left her permanently disabled. Unprotected by the usual federal and state employment laws due to the assault taking place on a Native American reservation, Annette Nawls will not stop until there's justice for her and everyone who has been a victim of sexual assault.About the AuthorAnnette Nawls is married to Adrian Nawls, who is a Unite...

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by Shatrujeet Nath (Author) Number of Pages: 246 Dimensions: 0.67 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: December 15, 2022

Going Home to Die No More: A True Kentucky Story about a Train Robbery and a Hanging after the Civil War - Paperback

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by Russ Witcher (Author)Going Home to Die No More is the true story of a post-Civil War-era train robbery for which two men would eventually hang. It all began in November 1866, when Captain William P. King, a Union army veteran, along with 12 accomplices, derailed a Louisville & Nashville Railroad train, sending the iron steam engine plummeting down a 40-foot embankment just north of their homes in Franklin, Kentucky. No one was killed, but much was lost in the resulting fire, some $25,...

The Talking Badge: Battle Scars of Police Work - Paperback

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by Mike Garner (Author)The Talking Badge is a unique memoir featuring a collection of true stories, fictionalized as necessary, by a cop who worked the streets for 30 years-twenty as a K-9 and bomb squad officer. Self-described "crazy cop" Mike Garner tells you what it's like to serve and protect the public.You will never look at a cop on the street the same way after reading The Talking Badge. Learn why police officers do what they do and see why even the simplest traffic stop can become a l...

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by Dirk Cameron Gibson (Author)"In His Own Words: How J. Edgar Hoover Directed the FBI Through Marginalia" by Dr. Dirk Gibson is a well written look into the realities and myths that surround J. Edgar Hoover especially during his tenure as head of the FBI. This book blends elements of a biography as well as a historical investigation to tell the story of how Hoover behaved and led the FBI. It is a well-researched look at the internal workings of the FBI and Hoover as a man. The author is incr...