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"It all started when journalist Jillian Lauren asked LAPD Homicide Detective Mitzi Roberts about which case Roberts was most proud of closing. "Samuel Little," Roberts answered. The now 79-year-old Little had murdered approximately 90 women over six decades and repeatedly got away with the murders due to lack of evidence (or jurisdiction); Roberts finally brought him to justice by tying him to the murders of three Los Angeles women. Surprised she...
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In 1981, at the age of eighteen, John N. Huffington was found guilty of a double homicide in Harford County, Maryland. He was given two death sentences plus 21 years in what became known as the Memorial Day Murders.
Maintaining his innocence from day one, John spent 32 years, 2 months, and 28 days in the Maryland Prison System, the first 10 years of his sentence were on death row. John's conviction was tainted with flimsy, unsubstantiated science...
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Mark Shaw is the foremost analyst of organised crime in SA.' – Jonny Steinberg
At the dawn of the country's brave new democracy, Cape Town was at war. Pagad, which began as a community protest action against crime, had mutated into a sinister vigilante group wreaking death and destruction across the city. Between 1996 and 2001, there were hundreds of bomb blasts – most infamously at the Planet Hollywood restaurant at the V&A Waterfront – and...
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A story made even more shocking because it's true.
In 1880, an organized mob of the Donnellys' enemies murder four family members and burn their house to the ground. Another sibling is, shot to death in a house a short distance away. William Donnelly and a teenage boy are, the only witnesses to the murders.
The surviving family members seek justice through the local courts but quickly learn that their enemies control the jury and the press. Two sensational...
5) Shattered: The True Story of a Mother's Love, a Husband's Betrayal, and a Cold-Blooded Texas Murder
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With true crime classics like Descent into Hell and Die My Love, author Kathryn Casey has peered into the darkest corners of the Lone Star State, shedding a fascinating, chilling light on a series of notorious Texas murders. In Shattered, she explores in riveting detail an infamous Houston area crime: the brutal slaying of a young mother and her unborn child by the person closest to them. Shattered-a shocking true story of blood, rage, and betrayal-will...
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A violent family living in violent times.
In the 1840s, the Donnelly family emigrates from Ireland to the British province of Canada. Almost immediately, problems develop as the patriarch of the family i sent to the Kingston Penitentiary for manslaughter, leaving his wife to raise their eight children on her own. The children are, raised in an incredibly, violent community and cultivate, a devoted loyalty to their mother and siblings, which often...
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The Cleveland Street scandal, involving a homosexual brothel reputedly visited by the Queen's grandson, shocked Victorian Britain in 1889. This is the first full-length account of one of its key players, Jack Saul, a working class Irish Catholic rent boy who worked his way into the upper echelons of the aristocracy and wrote the notorious pornographic memoir The Sins of the Cities of the Plain. Glenn Chandler, creator of Taggart, explores his colourful...
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"DeSalvo Is the Strangler!" declared the headlines after handyman Albert DeSalvo confessed to eleven brutal rape-murders that terrorized Boston from 1962 to 1964. The repeat sex offender boasted he had raped an additional two thousand women. His depraved story became the subject of a bestselling book and major Hollywood movie. But, it turns out, DeSalvo was not the Boston Strangler.
This detailed investigation exposes the true DeSalvo as a pathological...
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Upon discovering that her great-great aunt was the victim and central figure in one of Illinois's most notorious crimes, author Susan Elmore set out to learn more. She uncovered a perplexing case that resulted in multiple suspects, a lynch mob, charges of perjury and bribery, a failed kidnapping attempt, broken family loyalties, lies, cover-ups, financial devastation, and at least two suicides. In June 1882, when young schoolteacher Emma Bond was...
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the disappearance of Jaidyn Leskie has captivated the nation for a decade. Babysitter Greg Domaszewicz was charged with killing the child, his girlfriend's son, and throwing the body in a lake. One court acquitted him of the crime and another said he had disposed of the body: so who did kill Jaidyn? this new, updated edition contains interviews with Jaidyn's parents, Domaszewicz's former lover and friends, and the full statements of prisoners who...
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From Doing Meth Shards to Running Prison Yards is an autobiography of an ordinary, average man from a ghost town in poverty-stricken eastern Kentucky known as Jenkins. It tells the true-life story of how moving to North Carolina to find work tragically ended up finding me addicted to meth and the treacherous and perilous life I lived for nearly a dozen years until the abundance of drug addiction fueled bad choices that finally led me to my consequences--my...
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The Tragedy of Kabul Bank is the story of a massive fraud, deception and betrayal by a group of crony capitalists aided and abetted by the then highest political authorities of Afghanistan. It is an expose of rampant greed and excessive risk taking that shocked the world and caused enormous damage to Afghanistan's economy and image. The Tragedy of Kabul Bank is a narrative of a notorious case of corruption in post-Taliban Afghanistan, recipient of...
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Byron Smith moved back to his family home in Little Falls, Minnesota, to care for his elderly mother and enjoy a quiet retirement from the US State Department. On Thanksgiving Day 2012, Byron shot and killed two teens who broke into his home by breaking a bedroom window. It was the sixth burglary in less than six months. Previous burglaries included over fifty thousand dollars in gold, cash, jewelry, and his Vietnam medals. He feared for his life...
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Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths Around Derby is a collection of gruesome murders brought together by author Kevin Turton. Each chapter gives a detailed examination of some of the facts behind some of Derby's most notorious murder cases. Carefully researched the book re-counts the circumstances and consequences of each individual case. Whilst the book covers the hard facts of the brutal times the author gives insight into the social conditions prevalent...
15) The Belle of Bedford Avenue: The Sensational Brooks-Burns Murder in Turn-of-the-Century New York
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Affluenza leading to bad behavior among the youth of an earlier century-ultimately ending in murder.
At the turn of the 20th century, many affluent Brooklyn teens and young adults were bucking the constraints of their immigrant parents and behaving badly: drinking, having sex, staying out all night, stealing, scamming local businesses-and even more serious activities. The culmination for twenty-year-old Walter Brooks was being murdered in a seedy...
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"Never Answer to a Whistle "It was meant to be a simple task of repossessing an executive jet from Nigeria...Mike became embroiled in a mess created by an English aristocrat involved in illegal currency dealing.At the same time, Mossad agents were plotting the kidnapping of a Nigerian diplomat in Kensington.To escape certain death from two groups of very angry Nigerians, Mike took off from Lagos International Airport, without permission, only to have...
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The Spirit of Linda is based primarily on true events. It is a poignant story about six sisters and their mother. Relate yourself and feel the drama of the characters with their loves, heartaches, and the mystery of family secrets. Share their heartfelt tragedies along with unexplained supernatural events. Then brace yourself for an ultimate vindication.
 
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The author of The A-Z of London Murders investigates Jack the Ripper's stalking grounds for even more crimes and killings in England's capital. For centuries London's East End has been associated with some of the worst elements of human depravity, where foul deeds and murder were commonplace; and in 1888 the area's disrepute was added to by the horrific murders committed by Jack the Ripper. The East End was populated by people crammed together in...
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This book is the first to examine the battle for public opinion that palm oil faced from the days of Phil Sokolof's American Heart Association (AHA) in the late eighties and the curiously named Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) right up to the present day Greenpeace, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the Friends of the Earth (FOE) and the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) and will analyze how the tables were turned on them.
What was uncovered...
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The Linden Triangle: Linden Avenue and Linden Place, Hempstead, Long Island. At this blighted intersection, seemingly forgotten by the middle and upper class communities that surround it, the dream of suburban comfort and safety has devolved into a nightmare of flying bullets and bloodshed. Here, a war between the Bloods and Crips has torn a once-peaceful neighborhood apart.
The book tells the true story of one year in the life of a suburban village-turned-war-zone....
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