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Greentown: Murder and Mystery in Greenwich, America's Wealthiest Community
By Timothy Dumas. 2013
The first edition of Greentown helped reopen one of America's most shameful unsolved murder cases, the savage slaying of fifteen-year-old…
Martha Moxley in an exclusive enclave of Greenwich, Connecticut, the night before Halloween 1975. Soon after Martha's body was discovered, attention focused on members of the Skakel family, who lived across the street from the Moxleys. Ethel Skakel and Robert Kennedy had married in Greenwich, and the two families were close. Thomas Skakel, Ethel's nephew, was the last known person to see Martha alive. The murder weapon, a ladies' golf club, came from the Skakel household. When the Greenwich police tried to pursue its investigation, however, the community closed in upon itself. Lawyers were summoned, walls went up, information was suppressed, and no one was charged. And yet, continuing to haunt Greenwich, the case refused to go away--until, twenty-three years later, following the publication of this book, a grand jury was convened, and two years after that a man--Thomas's brother Michael--was finally indicted for the crime.This revised edition now brings the Martha Moxley murder case to a close. Updated to include the indictment, trial, and conviction of the murderer, Greentown offers the suspenseful and chilling account of a terrible crime. More than that, while relating a tale of seductive power, it uses the murder to tell the heartrending story of a family and a community responding to the unthinkable.Reclaiming Parkland: Tom Hanks, Vincent Bugliosi, and the JFK Assassination in the New Hollywood
By Oliver Stone, James DiEugenio. 2016
Reclaiming Parkland details the failed attempt of Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks and producer Gary Goetzman to make Vincent Bugliosi’s…
mammoth book about the Kennedy assassination, Reclaiming History, into a miniseries. It exposes the questionable origins of Reclaiming History in a dubious mock trial for cable television, in which Bugliosi played the role of an attorney prosecuting Lee Harvey Oswald for murder, and how this formed the basis for the epic tome. Author James DiEugenio details the myriad problems with Bugliosi’s book, and explores the cooperation of the mainstream press in concealing many facts during the publicity campaign for the book and how this lack of scrutiny led Hanks and Goetzman?cofounders of the production company Playtone?to purchase the film rights. DiEugenio then shows how the film adapted from that book, entitled Parkland, does not resemble Bugliosi’s book and examines why. This book reveals the connections between Washington and Hollywood, as well as the CIA influence in the film colony today. It includes an extended look at the little-known aspects of the lives and careers of Bugliosi, Hanks, and Goetzman. Reclaiming Parkland sheds light on the Kennedy assassination, New Hollywood, and the political influence on media in America.Judas: Así traicioné a mi hermano, el gángster más famoso de Holanda
By Astrid Holleeder. 2018
A un mal perro, a un perro que muerde, hay que meterlo en una jaula. O sacrificarlo. Willem Holleeder es…
uno de los criminales más celebres de Europa. Obtuvo cierta notoriedad al secuestrar, en 1983, al presidente de la cervecera Heineken. Durante décadas ha manejado a sus parientes como si fueran un apéndice más de sus negocios mafiosos, llegando a amenazarlos de muerte si se atrevían a traicionarle. A su hermana Astrid, sin embargo, Willem la consideró siempre su confidente. Vive escondida porque tuvo el valor de escribir este libro. Tras observar cómo su hermano se abría paso en el hampa, apenas cumplía ninguna de las condenas que recibía y morían tanto sus socios como quienes osaban denunciarle, Astrid decidió cambiar las tornas. Empezó a colaborar con la fiscalía y a grabar las conversaciones con Willem, para obtener pruebas que permitieran condenarlo definitivamente. Nadie sabe cómo terminará la partida. Judas no es solo una historia de crimen real: es un retrato espectacular sobre las relaciones de familia y el sentido de la traición. La crítica ha dicho...«Un libro arrebatador donde no sobra ningún detalle.»Berliner Zeitung «Un relato real inesperadamente siniestro y cruel que, al estar narrado con solvencia, se convierte en una lectura fabulosa, trufada con el típico humor negro de Amsterdam.»De Telegraaf «Un libro en el que se mezclan la repulsión, el amor y la venganza. Este es el relato real de una familia que ha sido dominada por el crimen.»NRC Handelsblad «Escrita desde un lugar secreto, en protección de testigos, Judas es una historia sobre el engaño, el fraude y, por encima de todo, el coraje. Una denuncia contra los lazos familiares que llegan a estrangular las vidas de muchos.»The Washington Post «Un drama fascinante y conmovedor.»De Volkskrant «Astrid Holleeder es una Sherezade actual. Es muy buena explicando historias para salvar la vida día tras día.»Literaturspiegel «Holleeder es un apellido poco conocido fuera de Holanda. Con este libro, todo va a cambiar.»The New York Times «Un relato autobiográfico espléndido, sensacional, inolvidable.»KirkusWicked Pittsburgh (Wicked)
By Richard Gazarik. 2018
Muckraking journalist Walter Liggett dubbed Pittsburgh the "Metropolis of Corruption" in 1930 when he reported the city had more vice…
per square foot than New York, Detroit, Cleveland or Boston. Decades earlier, the Magee-Flinn political machine ruled public officials, and crooked police helped racketeers protect brothels and gambling dens. Mayor (later Governor) David Lawrence was indicted several times for graft but acquitted each time. Even Pittsburgh Steelers founder Art Rooney Sr. colluded with gangsters, according to FBI reports. Join author Richard Gazarik as he reveals the wicked history of the Steel City.Wicked Wichita (Wicked)
By Joe Stumpe. 2018
Early Wichita earned a wicked reputation from newspapers across Kansas thanks to a bevy of madams and murderers, bootleggers and…
bank robbers, con men and crooked cops. Gambler and saloonkeeper "Rowdy Joe" Lowe was the toast of the town before shooting down his rival, "Red" Beard, and skipping town. Robber and cop killer "Clever Eddie" Adams spread a wave of terror until the police evened the score. Dixie Lee ran the city's classiest brothel with little interference from authorities. Notorious quack "Professor" H. Samuels made a fortune selling worthless eye drops. And county attorney Willard Boone was chased out of town when he was caught with his hand in the bootlegger's cookie jar. Local author Joe Stumpe tells the real stories of the city's best-known and least-known criminals and misfits.Wicked Milwaukee (Wicked)
By Yance Marti. 2018
The Cream City of yesteryear was a dingy haven for scofflaws and villains. Red-light districts peppered downtown's landscape, but none…
had the enduring allure of River Street, where Kitty Williams and Mary Kingsley operated high-class brothels. Chinese opium dens flourished in the backrooms of laundries. The demise of the Whiskey Ring brought down local distillers in a nationwide scandal that nearly reached the Oval Office. As a result, Police Chief John Janssen and the Committee to Investigate White Slavery and Kindred Vice waged a protracted battle to contain the most brazen offenses. Local historian and founder of OldMilwaukee.net Yance Marti uncovers the rough and rowdy blackguards who once made Milwaukee infamous.Wicked Fairfax County (Wicked)
By Cindy Bennett. 2018
Fairfax County is far more than just a bedroom community for Washington, D.C. The county has been the site of…
crimes as shocking and fascinating as anything that happens across the Potomac. In 1898, troops from a Spanish-American War training camp looted their way across the area, even robbing a few graves. The twentieth century brought horrific murders, hysteria over a hatchet-wielding rabbit and an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus. The tenacity of suffragists jailed in the Lorton Workhouse changed the very character of our nation. Later, spies crisscrossed the county, leaving our country's Cold War secrets and millions in cash stuffed under bridges. Join author Cindy Bennett as she chronicles the wicked and wild side of Fairfax County.Wicked Asheville (Wicked)
By Marla Hardee Milling, Joshua P Warren. 2018
Asheville is a wonderfully strange city, but it has a few shadows in its past. Teenager Helen Clevenger was brutally…
murdered at the luxurious Battery Park Hotel in 1936. William Dudley Pelley called himself "America's Hitler" and founded his Silver Legion in Asheville. He stirred up enough antiwar propaganda to go to prison. A desperado named Will Harris came into town on a cold night in November 1906 and left a trail of dead bodies and panic among Asheville citizens. Mayor Gallatin Roberts killed himself in the wake of collapsing banks. Asheville native Marla Hardee Milling delves into wicked stories of murder, sedition, corruption, arson and disease.San Diego Murder & Mayhem (Murder & Mayhem)
By Steve Willard. 2018
Early twentieth-century San Diego was growing fast, and the officers sworn to protect the city encountered more than their fair…
share of wily lawbreakers. From a shootout with a lone gunman in Mission Hills to gunfights with a gang of bank robbers that involved enthusiastic bystanders hoping to assist, detectives and patrolmen alike tried to maintain the peace. They encountered unexpected bodies, confronted car thieves and pursued criminals through neighboring states and into Mexico. Join author Steve Willard as he unearths stories directly from the case files of the early San Diego Police Department.Hampton Roads Murder & Mayhem (Murder & Mayhem)
By Nancy E Sheppard. 2018
Hampton Roads is an iconic destination, but the "birthplace of America" has a nefarious past. Dive into the story of…
cannibalism in the Jamestown colony and learn the gory details of the tale of the Witch of Pungo. Blackbeard and his men wreaked havoc in Hampton Roads before Virginians brought them to justice. Explore rarely told stories of lynchings, riots and a hoax involving none other than famed aviator Charles Lindbergh. Join author and historian Nancy E. Sheppard as she explores some of the darkest moments in Hampton Roads' vibrant history.Vampiros, caníbales y payasos asesinos
By Esteban Cruz Ni o. 2018
Esteban Cruz Niño vuelve a sorprender con Vampiros, caníbales y payasos asesinos. Una pequeña enciclopedia de la maldad humana, donde…
lo académico e investigativo y una narración fluida nos interna en hechos verídicos e insólitos que han reseñado los archivos judiciales de distintos rincones del mundo. La realidad pareciera una deformación de la ficción. Un texto que conmoverá al más frío y escéptico de los lectores. Papá Denke, la condesa Báthory, John Wayne Gacy, Pogo, el payaso asesino, los vampiros de Sacramento y Hannover, El Maniaco de la Cruz, el carnicero de Rostov, Issei Sagawa, la estrella caníbal, Bruce Jeffrey Pardo, el Papá Noel Asesino, son algunos de los personajes que transitan estas páginas de horror y estupefacción. 'No confíen del todo, nunca, los asesinos están en todas partes y, como dicen del diablo, suelen presentarse de maneras muy agradables. Quedan advertidos. Bienvenidos al infierno'. Álvaro Vanegas 'En resumidas cuentas, hemos dado la categoría de criaturas fantásticas a humanos tan malignos que no podemos llegar a comprender, y que pueden estar en este momento a su lado'. El autorHard-Boiled Anxiety: The Freudian Desires of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald, and Their Detectives
By Karen Huston Karydes. 2016
Named one of Kirkus Reviews' Best Indie Books of 2016. 'Curl up on the analyst's couch with all your favorite…
mystery scribes, as Karen Huston Karydes sleuths out the neurotic, personal threads that make up the warp and the weft of their greatest fictions. A dark, yet illuminating read.' - Kim Cooper, author of The Raymond Chandler Map of Los Angeles and The Kept Girl For close to fifty years, three masters of the hard-boiled detective novel dispatched intrepid gumshoes into upper-crust homes and seedy back alleys, peeling back and exposing all the pretexts of polite society. Or did they? Were there even closer, darker secrets they never quite copped to? In Hard-Boiled Anxiety, Karen Huston Karydes offers a new and unsettling reading of the classic pairings: Dashiell Hammett and his successive shamuses, the Continental Op, Sam Spade, and Nick Charles; Raymond Chandler and his brooding knight errant, Philip Marlowe; and Ross Macdonald and his 1960s sleuth, Lew Archer. Each novelist, though celebrated in the American pantheon, harbored ghosts, injuries, and a guilty backstory of his own. Their fictional detectives served as doubles, in ways both flamboyant and subtle, as the authors wrestled inner demons and labored, in Karydes's words, to "write themselves well." Included are remarkable observations from a memoir kept by Ross Macdonald as he underwent psychotherapy in the 1950s, never divulged at this length until the publication of this volume. Sigmund Freud, welcome to Sunset Boulevard.#1 New York Times bestselling author and queen of true crime Ann Rule's sixteenth volume in her True Crime Files…
series, Deadly Neighbors delves into the unsolved case of a billionaire's son mysteriously falling off a balcony to his death and more.In July 2011, billionaire Jonah Shacknai's Coronado, California, mansion was the setting for two horrifying deaths only days apart--his young son's plunge from a balcony and his girlfriend's ghastly hanging. What really happened? Baffling questions remain unanswered, as these cases were closed far too soon for hundreds of people; Rule looks at them now through the eyes of a relentless crime reporter. The second probe began in Utah when Susan Powell vanished in a 2009 blizzard. Her controlling husband, Josh, proved capable of a blind rage that was heartbreakingly fatal to his innocent small sons almost three years later in a tragedy that shocked America as the details unfolded. If anyone had detected the depth of depravity within Josh Powell, perhaps the family that loved and trusted him would have been saved. In these and seven other riveting cases, Ann Rule exposes the twisted truth behind the façades of Fatal Friends, Deadly Neighbors.These doomed relationships are the focus of queen of true crime Ann Rule's sixteenth all-new Crime Files collection. In these shattering inside views of both headlined and little-known homicides, Rule speaks for vulnerable victims who relied on the wrong people. She begins with two startling novella-length investigations.In 1959, Olathe, Kansas, was made famous by the murder of the Clutter family and Truman Capote’s groundbreaking book on…
the crime, In Cold Blood. But fewer know that Olathe achieved notoriety again in 1982, when a member of Olathe’s growing Evangelical Christian population, a gentle man named David Harmon, was bludgeoned to death while sleeping—the force of the blows crushing his face beyond recognition. Suspicion quickly fell on David’s wife, Melinda, and his best friend, Mark, student body president of the local Bible college. However, the long arms of the church defended the two, and no charges were pressed. Two decades later, two Olathe policemen revived the cold case making startling revelations that reopened old wounds and chasms within the Olathe community—revelations that rocked not only Olathe, but also the two well-heeled towns in which Melinda and Mark resided. David’s former wife and friend were now living separate, successful, law-abiding lives. Melinda lived in suburban Ohio, a devoted wife and mother of two. Mark had become a Harvard MBA, a high-paid corporate mover, a family man, and a respected community member in a wealthy suburb of New York City. Some twenty years after the brutal murders, each received the dreaded knock of justice on the door. A Cold-Blooded Business provides fascinating character studies of Melinda and Mark, killers who seemingly returned to normalcy after one blood-splattered night of violence. Featuring a new afterword by the author covering the events of the past five years, this fast-moving true crime narrative is a chilling exploration into the darkest depths of the human psyche.If You Shoot, Shoot To Kill
By Corbett Hart. 2017
This is the professional autobiography of a Special Agent of the FBI segmented into twenty cases in which he was…
largely instrumental in bringing to completion. They range from white collar criminals attempting to swindle Elvis Presley to desperados such as Billy Dean Anderson, Danny Owens and an assortment of nefarious criminals including, but not limited to swindlers, bank robbers, murderers, and an untrue wife negotiating for her husband’s assassination.La verdadera historia del asesinato de un inmigrante que convirtió a un pueblo acogedor en Long Island, en la zona…
cero en la guerra contra la inmigración. En noviembre del 2008, Marcelo Lucero, un inmigrante Ecuatoriano de treinta y siete años, fue atacado y asesinado por un grupo de adolecentes cuando caminaba por las calles de Patchogue acompañado por un amigo de infancia. Los atacantes iban a cazar beaners --término despectivo para Latinos-- siguiéndolos y acosándolos, que, llegaron a confesar los adolecentes, formaba parte de su entretenimiento habitual. Los latinos en Estados Unidos, son mayormente hombres, y aunque no todos inmigrantes, se han convertido en el blanco de ataques de odio en años recientes. La nación lucha con la creciente cantidad de inmigrantes indocumentados, donde los suburbios se han convertido en el primer lugar de destino, y donde los políticos pueden avanzar su carera arrojando una retorica anti-inmigrante. Lucero trabajaba en una tintorería cuando cayó víctima a la fiebre anti-inmigrante. A raíz de su muerte, Patchogue fue puesto en primera plana, un casi desconocido suburbio de Estados Unidos, se convirtió en la zona cero en la guerra contra la inmigración. Tras su muerte, Lucero se convirtió en símbolo de todo lo malo de nuestro sistema migratorio: oportunidades disminuyentes para obtener visas para viajar a Estados Unidos, fronteras porosas, una dependencia creciente de trabajo a bajo costo y el aumento de la intolerancia. Tomando de entrevistas de primera mano e informando del lugar de los hechos, la periodista Mirta Ojito ha elaborado un inquebrantable retrato de una comunidad luchando para conciliar el odio y el miedo en la idílica imagen del suburbio típicamente estadounidense. Con un compromiso de contar todos los lados de una historia, Ojito desenreda una narrativa apasionante con objetividad y visión, proporcionando una mirada invaluable en uno de los problemas más alucinantes de los Estados Unidos.Amando a Pablo, odiando a Escobar: Odiando A Escobar (Vintage Espanol Ser.)
By Virginia Vallejo. 2007
¡PRONTO EN LA GRAN PANTALLA!En julio de 2006 un avión de la DEA sacó a Virginia Vallejo de Colombia. Su…
vida estaba en peligro por haberse convertido en el testigo clave de los dos procesos criminales más importantes de la segunda mitad del siglo XX en su país: el asesinato de un candidato presidencial y el holocausto del Palacio de Justicia.Veinticinco años antes, Virginia Vallejo era la presentadora de televisión más importante de Colombia y la belleza profesional que aparecía en las portadas de las principales revistas. Cortejada por multimillonarios tradicionales, conoció en 1982 a Pablo Escobar, un misterioso político de treinta y tres años que en realidad manejaba los hilos de un mundo de riqueza inigualable en el que gran parte del incesante flujo de dinero procedente del tráfico de cocaína se canalizaba a proyectos de caridad y a las campañas de candidatos presidenciales de su elección.Este libro, una apasionada historia de amor convertida en crónica del horror y la vergüenza, describe la evolución de una de las mentes criminales más siniestras de nuestro tiempo: su capacidad de infundir terror y generar corrupción, los vínculos entre sus negocios ilícitos y varios jefes de estado, los asesinatos de candidatos presidenciales y la guerra en que sumió a su país. Amando a Pablo, odiando a Escobar es también la única visión íntima posible del legendario barón del narcotráfico, plena de glamour y espíritu de supervivencia y no exenta de humor. Virginia Vallejo narra esta historia descarnada como nadie más podría haberlo hecho.Wicked Branson (Wicked)
By Karen J. Underwood, Edward L. Underwood, Johnny Pinney. 2017
Branson's wholesome brand of entertainment made it the nation's destination for family fun, but the vacation wonderland can't claim a…
spotless past. Murder and mischief dogged the town's efforts at respectability from the very beginning. The founder's own brother, Galba Branson, was a prominent member of the notorious vigilante gang the Bald Knobbers. He died in a picnic shootout that originated in a church prank. Branson's transformation into a showbiz mecca brought quarrel and scandal in its wake, from provoked orangutans to wire-tapped dressing rooms. Three comedians and authors--Ed and Karen Underwood and John Pinney--offer this backstage pass to the seamier side of Branson's history.Me & My Girls
By Leondrei Prince. 2004
Tish, Rayon and Tasheena are about to show the world what friendship really means. Each living their own separate lives,…
they stumbled upon obstacles that would define who they are later in life... Tish- A high school mother learned early about responsibility by having a child by a small time drug dealer who later became a "King Pin" and victim of a quarrel... Rayon- One of Tish's best friend from the suburbs is more of a follower than anything else. She got caught up in a pregnancy and found comfort in her two best friends Tish and Tasheena who were from the projects... Tasheena- Is the direct opposite of the both of them... She was a woman scorned early by the love of her life who abandoned her for a heroin addiction. Unable to deal with the loneliness that overcame her, she sought out comfort from any and every man she could, only digging herself into a deeper depression. Until she discovered Allah (God).A fascinating tale of seduction, murder, fraud, coercion—and the trial of the “Minneapolis Monster” On a winter night in 1894,…
a young woman’s body was found in the middle of a road near Lake Calhoun on the outskirts of Minneapolis. She had been shot through the head. The murder of Kittie Ging, a twenty-nine-year-old dressmaker, was the final act in a melodrama of seduction and betrayal, petty crimes and monstrous deeds that would obsess reporters and their readers across the nation when the man who likely arranged her killing came to trial the following spring. Shawn Francis Peters unravels that sordid, spellbinding story in his account of the trial of Harry Hayward, a serial seducer and schemer whom some deemed a “Svengali,” others a “Machiavelli,” and others a “lunatic” and “man without a soul.”Dubbed “one of the greatest criminals the world has ever seen” by the famed detective William Pinkerton, Harry Hayward was an inveterate and cunning plotter of crimes large and small, dabbling in arson, insurance fraud, counterfeiting, and illegal gambling. His life story, told in full for the first time here, takes us into shadowy corners of the nineteenth century, including mesmerism, psychopathy, spiritualism, yellow journalism, and capital punishment. From the horrible fate of an independent young businesswoman who challenged Victorian mores to the shocking confession of Hayward on the eve of his execution (which, if true, would have made him a serial killer), The Infamous Harry Hayward unfolds a transfixing tale of one of the most notorious criminals in America during the Gilded Age.