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6981) The perfect alibi
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"A young woman accuses a prominent local college athlete of rape. Convicted on DNA evidence, the athlete swears his innocence. When a second rape occurs, DNA evidence again points to the imprisoned athlete. As young lawyer Robin Lockwood searches for answers, she finds herself enmeshed in a tangled web of buried secrets, lies, and violence"--Provided by publisher.
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A hidden key that opens a drawer locked for the past eight years, a mysterious envelope filled with cash, and a threatening note... none of this is what rising radio star Vivian Witchell expects to find in her late father's office. But when Vivian stumbles into trouble, she hardly knows how to steer herself back to safety. With the handsome and maddeningly practical private detective Charlie Haverman at her side, Vivian spends the holiday season uncovering...
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"Two Batgirls are better than one! Batgirls Cassandra Cain and Stephanie Brown have been masked vigilantes in the scary, gritty city of Gotham for a while now, so what happens when you move them to a whole new sunny neighborhood and make them roomies with Barbara Gordon? A whole lot of love, friendship, parenting...and homicide detective work?"--
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On one hot afternoon in July of 1982, Krista Harrison was picking up aluminum cans with one of her friends in Marshallville park. Marshallville park was about one hundred yards from Krista's childhood home. During this time the young boy that was with Krista saw her abduction. The boy ran to Krista's home in a panic, with tears running down his face as he tried to explain what he had just witnessed. When her friend was able to calm down enough he...
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Attorney and true crime writer examines the unsolved 1969 murders of two female college students whose bodies were left off the Garden State Parkway.
In the early hours of May 30, 1969, the brutally stabbed bodies of two nineteen-year-old friends, Elizbeth Perry and Susan Davis, were dumped near Ocean City, New Jersey. This is the story of their case.
Among the numerous suspects author and attorney Christian Barth identifies are infamous serial killers...
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On October 9th, 1980, Portland, Oregon police arrived at A grim scene. A pretty young woman with soft facial features and dark brown, shoulder-length hair was found dead. She suffered from repeated stab wounds in her neck, as well as evidence of blunt force trauma, as if from a severe bludgeoning. The victim was Cherie Ayers, a twenty-nine year old woman who was found dead in her home. She was the first of a trail of bodies scattered throughout Oregon....
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Découvrez les plus célèbres psychopathes de l'histoire...
Carl Panzram fut victime de viol collectif à l'âge de 14 ans. Pour se venger, il viola à son tour un bon millier de jeunes garçons et d'hommes adultes, et commit plus de vingt meurtres.
Ed Kemper tua sa grand-mère d'une balle dans la tête et de deux dans le dos. Il ne s'arrêta pas en si bon chemin, il assassina aussi son grand-père, sa mère, son frère et six auto-stoppeuses.
Jerry...
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They enter their victims' homes through an open window or an unlocked door. Five real life boogeymen are profiled here led by Joseph Baldi. Between 1970 and 1972, four innocent young women lost their lives at the hands of Joseph Baldi. The murders took place in Queens, New York where Baldi was given the nicknames of "The Monster of Queens" and "The Queens Creeper". His actions would even have him on the front page of a newspaper, the title of the...
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THE ALLIGATOR MAN
He was the inspiration behind a horror film named "Eaten Alive"...
Joe Ball was long thought to have been an apocryphal figure in Texas. A strange tale told by children to scare themselves. But he did exist and the true accounts of his sadistic nature go beyond any of the fictionalized versions told by the campfire. The grandson of a sadistic slave trader, Joe Ball was a serial killer who may have murdered as many as twenty women......
6990) The Women of Death Row
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A look back at some female convicts who either served their time on death row or deserved to be there...In Lumberton, North Carolina, Thomas Burke fell victim to a house fire which was caused by a burning cigarette. Investigative authorities thought that he had fallen asleep while smoking, leaving thirty-eight-year-old Velma Burke as his widow. They didn't know that the fire was set by Velma. Velma knew how to play the part of the grieving widow....
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In late October 2011, police in Florida received a call from a man with a very interesting story. He claimed that his relative's ex-girlfriend had called him about needing the services of a hit man. Unbeknownst to her, the man she had called was a secret government informant, and was not willing to help her carry out the sinister plan. The officers who received the call were not willing to take any chances, especially since the informant was convinced...
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Brutal murders of sexy young girls in the Dominican Republic by "The Butcher" have the authorities scrambling, before tourism is, destroyed. Their only hope? Det. Vic Gonnella & his luscious baby-mommy, Raquel. The duo decide to take the challenge, & make what they think is going to be a vacation for their family at the same time. Wrong. Dead wrong.
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Get a behind-the-scenes look at fourteen historic cases from the Murder Squad of Scotland Yard in this collection perfect for true crime fans.
In 1906 the Metropolitan Police Commissioner was asked by the Home Office to make available skilled investigators for murder inquiries nationwide as few constabularies had sufficiently skilled-or indeed, any-detectives.
Thus was born the Reserve Squad, or Murder Squad, as it later became known. Despite...
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Guy Georges was one of the most notorious serial killers ever to roam the streets of Paris. He was known as 'The Beast of the Bastille' because several of his attacks happened near the infamous prison, but the name is fitting for another reason as well, Georges enjoyed the hunt of his victims as much as the kill, much as a beast would.
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Quiet fields broken by gunfire, the splash of a body dropping into the Madison River, cries for help cut off into silence and the grim last words spoken on the gallows all color the bloody history of Gallatin County. Cut-and-dried murder charges, unsolved cases and questionable accusations all paint the picture of law enforcement in and around early Bozeman. From the gruesome to the mysterious, sordid accounts of robbery, crimes of passion and fatal...
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Colin Ireland was called a serial killer "wanna-be" who bypassed his morbid daydreams in order to consciously and deliberately murder five gay males as part of a New Year's resolution to see if he could do it. His extreme planning and attempts to hide evidence made investigators' jobs more difficult. Ireland would call police stations and drop little hints, essentially taunting the police. His choice of homosexual male victims who he picked up at...
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At 4 p.m. on March 16, 2021, a black 2008 Hyundai Tucson was caught on surveillance cameras entering a strip mall in Acworth, Cherokee County, Georgia. For about an hour, the car remained parked outside Young's Asian Massage, with the driver still in the car. At 4:50 p.m., the driver - a young man wearing black pants and a black-and-magenta hoodie - exited the car and walked to the door of the massage parlor which had the following sign posted on...
6998) Cruel Death
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It was Memorial Day weekend, the start of the summer season. Thousands headed to Ocean City, Maryland, to enjoy its scenic beaches, lively boardwalk, and trendy nightclubs. Among the bright-spirited vacationers was a couple with a much darker idea of fun. Erica Sifrit, a former honor student, was packing a gun in her Coach bag. Her husband, B.J., an ex-Navy SEAL, was trained in violence. What started as a chance encounter with another couple ended...
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The first full account of the Slenderman stabbing, a true crime narrative of mental illness, the American judicial system, the trials of adolescence, and the power of the internet. On May 31, 2014, in the Milwaukee suburb of Waukesha, Wisconsin, two twelve-year-old girls attempted to stab their classmate to death. Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier's violence was extreme, but what seemed even more frightening was that they committed their crime under...
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Every city's history has its dark underbelly of crime. Columbus is no exception. From the turn of the century to the dawn of World War I, scandals involving an opium den and a sadistic murderer rocked a respectable downtown community. Around the same time, a cop killer masterminded a plot to free himself from the Franklin County Jail by having his gang attempt to blow the place up with nitroglycerin. In 1946, dead bodies kept popping up after a prim...
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