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In August 2009, former madam Dalia Dippolito conspired with a hit man to arrange the murder of her ex-con husband. Days later, it seemed as if all had gone according to plan. Beautiful young Dalia came home from her health club to an elaborate crime scene, complete with yellow tape outlining her townhome and police milling about. When the Boynton Beach, Florida, police informed her of her husband Michael's apparent murder, the newlywed Dippolito can...
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Gambling, prostitution and bootlegging have been going on in Steubenville for well over one hundred years. Its Water Street red-light district drew men from hundreds of miles away, as well as underage runaways. The white slave trade was rampant, and along with all the vice crimes, murders became a weekly occurrence. Law enforcement seemed to turn a blind eye, and cries of political corruption were heard in the state capital. This scenario replayed...
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A True Crime anthology of women at their most barbaric... In 2006, two young women shocked the world with a brutal crime that seemed straight out of a torture porn movie. Valerie Parashmuti and Jessica Stasinowsky were two lesbian women who fancied themselves as vampires. They had been living together for a year before they took in a troubled sixteen-year-old named Stacey Mitchell. The attractive Stacey, however, caused a rift between the two lovers....
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Portraits de ces jeunes à la dérive de la société
Ils utilisent des procédés mafieux, ils entretiennent des relations étroites avec la pègre, ils sont pleins de haine, de vengeance et de rejet de la société, ils torturent, volent, violent, tuent...
« Ils »? Des jeunes. Généralement sans repères affectifs et sociétaux, parfois nés dans de « bonnes » familles.
Dans ce livre « vérité », voici la relation de procès de Cours...
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On a frigid day in 1843, Amasa Sprague, a wealthy Yankee mill owner, left his mansion to check on his cattle. On the way, he was accosted and beaten beyond recognition, and his body was left facedown in the snow. What followed was a trial marked by judicial bias, witness perjury and societal bigotry that resulted in the conviction of twenty-nine-year-old Irish-Catholic John Gordon. He was sentenced to hang. Despite overwhelming evidence that the trial...
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Courtney Schulhoff and Michael Morin had spent the previous day like any other teenage couple, watching a double-bill movie at the local cinema. Courtney, sixteen at the time, had been dating twenty-year-old Michael Morin for about a year, and their story was nothing like a typical teenage romance story.
When they finally got to the home of Stephen Schulhoff, Courtney's dad, in Altamonte Springs, Florida, what happened next is still somewhat a mystery....
2587) A Victim Of Desperation
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After her parents' divorce, Jessica, age eleven, is responsible for overseeing the household and watching her younger siblings while her ever-absent mother manages her three businesses.
At sixteen, she is introduced to Jim, nearly a decade older than she. Their friendship blossoms into a summer romance, which results in her pregnancy. Confident she can raise the baby with Jim's support, she sets a goal to graduate from high school at age seventeen...
2588) Manson's Girls
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A look back at the many women who become followers of Charles Manson during his Helter Skelter siege in California in the 60s & 70s. All were hippie girls who became loyal to the maniac who told them to kill for him...Among those featured here are the stripper Susan Atkins, a sweet-voiced stripper whose looks belied a devil within. Leslie Van Houten who was an educated young woman that became a murderous animal under Manson's control. Patricia Krenwinkel...
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Henrik Aalhus hat bislang unbekannte Informationen über den größten Steuerraub in der Bundesrepublik gespeichert. Bevor er den USB-Stick mit den Daten dem Journalisten Kurt Zink übergeben kann, wird er erschossen. Der Stick aber ist verschwunden. Zink gerät daraufhin ins Visier der Finanzmafia und der Staatsanwaltschaft in Köln. Außerdem ist plötzlich ein früherer Bundesrichter hinter ihm her. Sie alle vermuten den Datenträger bei ihm. Zink...
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"He promised to kill me when he got out. I believed him. If I wanted justice, I had to fight both him and the courts...maybe kill him first. If I didn't do something, I was going to die."
This is not a manufactured dialogue from a thriller but the words of attorney Sharon Muse. They came after she survived an attempted kidnapping, rape, and murder at the hands of Hank Morrison, a former client. On April 7, 2006, Muse miraculously escaped from the...
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Imagine being condemned to death for murder, when even the prosecutors admit that you didn't actually kill anyone. This is what happened to Richard Glossip, a death-row inmate who was found guilty of murdering motel owner Barry van Treese. Despite being convicted on the word of the actual self-confessed killer, the state of Oklahoma is still intent on executing him, raising international outcry and controversy. Ian Woods, a reporter for Sky News in...
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An insider exposes the shocking facts deliberately left out of the hit Netflix series Making a Murderer-and argues persuasively that Steven Avery was rightfully convicted in the 2005 killing of Teresa Halbach.
After serving eighteen years for a crime he didn't commit, Steven Avery was freed-and filed a thirty-six-million-dollar lawsuit against Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. But before the suit could be settled, Avery was arrested again-this time for...
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After a stellar twenty-three-year career with the Drug Enforcement Administration, Dan Addario's own part fighting in the War on Drugs didn't end. For good reason. Because in July of 1993, he lost his thirty-one-year-old son to a crisis that shows no signs of abating. With Chasing the Dragon, Addario becomes the highest-ranking DEA agent ever to pen a book that includes the sum total of his experiences investigating narcotics hotbeds across the globe....
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“Unraveled, Time to Forgive, A True Ending to Murder” is the true story of a fifty-year-old unsolved murder. Lisa lived her life since she was nine years old knowing information that might have changed the outcome of the one accused of her Momma's murder. As a child, she was never asked anything and didn't know she held important information until years later when her grandmother finally told her the details of the first murder. Unfortunately,...
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The true story of drugs and corruption in Brooklyn's 75th precinct, as told by a cop who lived it, a journalist, and an Edgar Award-winning author.
They had no fear of the cops. Because they were the cops.
NYPD officers Mike Dowd and Kenny Eurell knew there were two ways to get rich quick in the Seven-Five. You either became drug dealers, or you robbed drug dealers. They decided to do both. Dowd and Eurell ran the most powerful gang in East New...
2596) The Mckay Kidnapping
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he McKay kidnapping is one of Britain's most notorious cases of kidnap and, perhaps, murder. The story itself is interesting enough- it involves mistaken identity, lords and ladies, newspaper magnates and mystery. But the story of how two brothers were punished for the crime, despite a body not having been found (and not ever found to this day), is what sets this case apart.
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Did the phrase "That's what I was wondering..." solve a murder?
In the morning hours of July 16, 1936, Helen Clevenger's uncle discovered her bloodied body crumpled on the floor of her small room in Asheville's grand Battery Park Hotel. She had been, shot through the chest. Buncombe County Sheriff Laurence Brown, up for reelection, desperately searched for the teenager's killer as the public clamored for answers. Though witnesses reported seeing a...
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Suppose you were accused of a crime you did not commit. Now suppose you were denied all available defense and therefore, convicted of this crime and then shipped off to prison where you will spend the next 54 months of your life. Finally, suppose the accusation was proven false, but one judge blocks all of your redemption efforts. Now ask yourself this question, "How far would you go to prove you're innocent."
This is the story of a police officer...
2599) Burke & Hare
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The shocking true story of 19th century Scotland's most famous serial killers is "gruesome and funny and sometimes both together" (The Observer, UK).
In a boarding house just off Edinburgh's West Port, an old army pensioner dies of natural causes. He owes the landlord rent. Instead of burying the body, the landlord, William Hare, and his friend, William Burke, fill the coffin with bark and sell the corpse to Dr. Robert Knox, an ambitious Edinburgh...
2600) The Blonde Bandit
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Irene Schroeder was an armed robber who was the first woman to be electrocuted in the state of Pennsylvania for her role in a grocery store robbery that led to the shooting of a policeman. She and her boyfriend went on the run, Bonnie and Clyde style, until they were finally arrested after a long shootout. But what led Irene, once a sweet and doting waitress, to take on a life of crime? This is her story.
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