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Helter skelter: the true story of the Manson murders
By Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry. 1974
Guilty until proven innocent
By Donald S Connery. 1977
Account of the case of eighteen-year-old Peter Reilly who was persuaded by the police to confess to the murder of…
his mother. After a successful appeal and national attention, all charges against him were finally dropped. Some strong language. 1977.Guarding the secrets: Palestinian terrorism and a father's murder of his too-American daughter
By Ellen Francis Harris. 1995
True story of Palestinian Zein Isa, who moves his family to St. Louis but forbids his daughters to act American.…
When daughter Tina defies him by dating a young black man and working part-time, Isa and his wife stab her to death. The FBI, investigating Isa's terrorist activities, gets the murder on tape. Strong language and violence. 1995.Describes the byzantine history of New York's five Mafia families - Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese and Lucchese. Also illuminates the…
Mafia's origin in 19th-century Sicily and its transition to this country. Throughout his survey of the mob's evolution, Raab renders the mobsters as three-dimensional figures, without glossing over their vicious crimes and their impact on honest citizens. 2005.Black mass: Whitey Bulger, the FBI, and a devil's deal
By Dick Lehr, Gerard O'Neill. 2013
Investigative journalists expose FBI corruption. In 1975 Boston FBI agent John Connolly began using Irish mobster Jim "Whitey" Bulger as…
an informant. Though Bulger committed outrageous crimes, the state police and federal drug agents were never able to get a conviction, and authorities became suspicious of a fix. 2013.Finding Chandra: a true Washington murder mystery
By Sari Horwitz, Scott Higham. 2010
The 2001 disappearance of Washington, D.C., intern Chandra Levy, and the discovery of her remains a year later in a…
remote area of D.C.'s Rock Creek Park, made headlines, especially when her affair with Congressman Gary Condit became known. Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters Higham and Horwitz expand on their investigation that in 2008 identified Levy's likely killer, delivering a meticulous study of the case and the media circus surrounding it. Descriptions of sex, explicit descriptions of violence. 2010.Final payoff: the true price of convicting Clifford Robert Olson
By Ian Mulgrew. 1990
In 1981, Clifford Olson negotiated a deal with the RCMP that would give his wife $10,000 for each victim that…
Olson located. This book examines the deal, the precedent it set and its impact on the victims' families. 1990.Marron's account of the 1991 murder of Nina de Villiers by Jonathan Yeo examines the history of both victim and…
killer. Yeo, a known violent offender, was on parole at the time he murdered de Villiers and another woman, Karen Marquis. Marron also discusses the coroner's inquest which followed, and the aftermath of the tragedy for the families of the victims. c1993.Four true-crime cases. In "North to Alaska" a divorced father loses contact with his children. In "Too Late for the…
Fair" the grown son of a long-missing woman suspects she was murdered by his father. Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2011.Deadly encounters: true crime stories of Alberta
By Barbara Smith. 1993
Eight tales of rum-running, shoot-outs, hostages, and murder which have occurred in Alberta. Ranging from the tragic to the bizarre,…
some of the cases remain unsolved to this day. Some descriptions of violence. 1993.Deadly silence: Canadian mafia murders
By Peter Edwards, Antonio Nicaso. 1993
The authors use the details of thirteen Mafia murders in Canada to trace the development of the Mafia in this…
country. Each murder is examined in the context of the Mafia ethos. Also includes the code of behaviour for the Calabrian Mafia. Strong language and descriptions of violence. 1993.Dark ambition: the shocking crime of Dellen Millard
By Ann Brocklehurst. 2016
Tim Bosma of Hamilton, Ontario, was a successful businessman and happily married young father until he put his truck up…
for sale online, went for a test drive with two strangers, and never returned. His disappearance and the murder investigation that followed played out on social media and in the headlines over several weeks in spring 2013. His heartbroken family made futile pleas for his return. Weeks later, two men were arrested for Bosma's murder, a petty criminal named Mark Smich, and Dellen Millard, the heir of an aviation millionaire. Disturbingly, there appeared to be no motive for the gruesome killing of Bosma, whose charred remains were found on Millard's farm. It seemed to be a cold-blooded "thrill kill" carried out by what some would deem a psychopath, and his sidekick. But there was even more to the grisly story. The investigation of Bosma's death would eventually lead to the discovery of two other murders: the pair would be charged with the murder of Laura Babcock, Millard's former girlfriend, who disappeared in 2012, and Millard alone would be charged with the murder of his own father, Wayne Millard. 2016.Desire Street: a true story of death and deliverance in New Orleans
By Jed Horne. 2005
Analyzes the five trials of Curtis Kyles for the 1984 murder of sixty-year-old New Orleans housewife Delores Dye. Discusses political…
and legal manoeuvring in the case, reversal by the U.S. Supreme Court, subsequent retrials, and the unsolved status of the crime. 2005.Investigative journalist Yves Lavigne offers new information on the current state of the illegal drug trade in North America. From…
Toronto's Chinatown to L.A.'s mean streets, Lavigne shows how street gangs will go to great lengths to grab their cut of the world's illicit drug market. Strong language, descriptions of violence, and explicit descriptions of sex. 1999.Crime story: the true account of the reporters, cops, and lawyers on the trail of the body-parts killer
By Nick Pron, Kevin Donovan. 1992
Reporters from the "Toronto Star" tell how Selina Shen, a music student from China, was brutally murdered by her rejected…
lover in Toronto in 1988. For more than four years, the reporters pursued the case, enabling them to describe in detail the murderer, the relentless police work, and the legal tactics used by both the prosecution and the defense. The transcription of tape recordings and court proceedings offers the reader an inside look at the Canadian court system. 1992.But I trusted you: and other true cases (Ann Rule's crime files. #14.)
By Ann Rule. 2009
Seven accounts of murders in which the victims trusted their killers. In the title case, a school counselor was shot…
by his estranged wife while he slept. "Monohan's Last Date" recounts the crime of a trucker dispatching a swinger. Violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2009.At the end of the world: a true story of murder in the Arctic
By Lawrence Millman. 2017
The story of a series of murders that occurred in an extremely remote corner of the Arctic in 1941. Those…
murders show that senseless violence in the name of religion is not only a contemporary phenomenon, and that a people as seemingly peaceful as the Inuit can become unpeaceful at the drop of a hat or, in this instance, a meteor shower. At the same time, the book is a warning cry against the destruction of what's left of our culture's humanity, along with the destruction of the natural world. Has technology deprived us of our eyes? the author asks. Has it deprived the world of birds, beasts, and flowers? 2017.Bluenose justice: true tales of mischief, mayhem and murder
By Dean Jobb. 1993
More than a dozen stories of crime taken from two centuries of Nova Scotia's history, ranging from opinionated, eccentric judges…
to gruesome murders. Although they occurred in Nova Scotia, the themes of these tales -- greed, vengeance, the quest for justice -- are universal. c1993.Coping with glaucoma: A Guide To Living With Glaucoma For You And Your Family
By Edith Marks, Rita Montauredes. 1997
In 1869, in the woods just outside of Saint John, a group of berry pickers discovered several badly decomposed bodies.…
The authorities suspected foul play, but the identities of the victims were as mysterious as that of the perpetrator. From the coroner's inquest an unlikely suspect emerged to stand trial for murder: John Munroe, a renowned architect, well-heeled family man, and pillar of the community. Munroe's lawyer's strategy was as simple as it was revolutionary: Munroe's wealth, education, and exemplary character made him incapable of murder. The press and Saint John's elite vocally supported Munroe, sparking a debate about character and murder that continues to this day. In re-examining a precedent-setting historical crime with fresh eyes, Komar addresses questions that are still relevant more than a century later: is everyone capable of murder, and should character be treated as evidence in homicide trials? 2016.