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Law and crime, True crime
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Chronicles the bloody 1971 San Quentin prison riot led by Black Panther radical George Jackson, who was armed with a…
gun allegedly supplied by his lawyer, Stephen Bingham. After thirteen years in hiding, Bingham emerged to be tried and acquitted of murder. Strong language and violence. 1996.
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True crime, Psychology
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A forensic psychologist explains how she differentiates between mentally insane and basically evil criminials. Giving an overview of the law…
concerning the insanity defense, Kirwin disputes current "designer defenses" and gives recommendations for the legal system. Uses examples of cases of notorious criminals. Some violence and strong language
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True crime, Bestsellers (Non-fiction), General non-fiction
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The author recalls childhood tales told by his father and his father's friends (Sid Young, Asher Dann, and Larry King)…
about Jewish involvement in organized crime. Using interviews of survivors and their relatives, as well as police reports and court documents, he recounts the activities of such men as Meyer Lansky, Louis Lepke, and Bugsy Siegel. Some strong language and some violence. Bestseller
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Social issues, True crime
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A former United Church minister massacres his family. What led to this act of femicide, and why were his victims…
forgotten?On May 2, 1963, Robert Killins, a former United Church minister, slaughtered every woman in his family but one. She (and her brother) lived to tell the story of what motivated a talented man who had been widely admired, a scholar and graduate from Queen’s University, to stalk and terrorize the women in his family for almost twenty years and then murder them.Through extensive oral histories, Cook and Carson painstakingly trace the causes of a femicide in which four women and two unborn babies were murdered over the course of one bloody evening. While they situate this murderous rampage in the literature on domestic abuse and mass murders, they also explore how the two traumatized child survivors found their way back to health and happiness. Told through vivid first-person accounts, this family memoir explores how a murderer was created.
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Arts and entertainment, True crime
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Chronicles Lord Elgin's obsession with the Greek marble statues, friezes, and architectural elements he shipped from Athens to London between…
1800 and 1802. Explains how Elgin's love of antiquities cost him his nose, his wife, and his fortune; states that ownership of these treasures is still disputed almost two hundred years later
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History, Biography, European history, True crime, Judaism, Christianity
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An account of the 1858 abduction of a six-year-old Jewish boy in Bologna by Papal authorities. The boy had been…
secretly baptized by a servant girl, and church dogma dictated that he be raised as a Catholic. The author asserts that the resulting furor hastened the collapse of the Vatican's temporal power in Italy. Strong language
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True crime, Espionage, Politics and government, General non-fiction
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An account of the 1994 hijacking of a FedEx cargo jet by a disgruntled employee, who was flying as a…
passenger. Describes the tense moments when he attacked and seriously injured the flight crew, forcing them to take extreme measures to subdue their assailant and land the plane safely. Strong language and violence
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True crime, Biography
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Memoir of the former New York City police commissioner who is credited with reducing serious crime by a third between…
1994 and 1996. Traces his working-class youth, his early years on the Boston police force, and his rise through the blue ranks to the top of the law enforcement profession. Violence and some strong language
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True crime
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Crime writer Linda Wolfe began searching for a killer after a female acquaintance was murdered in 1983. She learned that…
a private detective suspected a charming Argentine, Ricardo Caputo, and a decade later Caputo is found and charged in the deaths of four other women. Wolfe still seeks answers to her friend's unsolved murder. Some violence
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True crime, Laws and statutes
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Chronicles the 1981 rape and murder case of Roger Coleman, who was executed in Virginia's electric chair in 1992. Examines…
the circumstances and evidence and concludes that the accused was poorly represented and may well have been wrongly convicted. Strong language and violence
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True crime
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Chronicle of an investigation following the death of Annette Goode's toddler daughter, Renee, at the home of Annette's estranged husband,…
Shane. No evidence surfaces to prove suspicions of murder until a large insurance policy prompts three other women--the district attorney, a detective, and Renee's grandmother--to seek more answers. Strong language
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True crime, Hobbies and crafts, Arts and entertainment
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An account of journalist Watson's investigation of the well-known art auction house in London. Recalls how he learned of possible…
illegal operations from James Hodges, a former employee of the company. In order to verify the story, Watson planned a sting operation in which an Italian painting was to be sold at auction in London. The story also aired on CBS's 60 Minutes
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True crime, Law and crime
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A study of nearly one hundred female serial killers outlining their motives, methods, and eventual punishments. Organized into ten chapters…
by category of murder such as: black widows, revenge, angels of death, and team killers. Some violence
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Canadian history, True crime
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Winner of the CrimeCon Clue Award for True Crime Book of the Year "When a doctor does go wrong, he…
is the first of criminals," Sherlock Holmes observed during one of his most puzzling murder investigations. Incredibly, at the time the words of the world's most famous fictional detective appeared in print in the Strand Magazine, a real-life Canadian doctor was stalking and murdering women in London's downtrodden Lambeth neighbourhood. Dr. Thomas Neill Cream had been a suspect in the deaths of two women in Canada, and had killed as many as four people in Chicago before he arrived in London in 1891 and began using pills laced with strychnine to kill prostitutes. The Lambeth Poisoner, as he was dubbed in the press, became one of the most prolific serial killers in history. In this fascinating book, Dean Jobb reveals how bungled investigations, corrupt officials and failed prosecutions allowed Cream to evade detection or freed him to kill, again and again. The first complete account of Dr. Cream's crimes and his many victims explores how the stifling morality and hypocrisy of the Victorian era allowed this monster to poison vulnerable and desperate women, many of whom had turned to him for medical help. It offers an inside account of Scotland Yard's desperate search for a killer as brazen and efficient as Jack the Ripper
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True crime, United States history, Biography
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Vanity Fair's Joe Pompeo investigates the notorious 1922 double murder of a high-society minister and his secret mistress, a Jazz…
Age mega-crime that propelled tabloid news in the 20th century. On September 16, 1922, the bodies of Reverend Edward Hall and Eleanor Mills were found beneath a crabapple tree on an abandoned farm outside of New Brunswick, New Jersey. The killer had arranged the bodies in a pose conveying intimacy. The murder of Hall, a prominent clergyman whose wife, Frances Hall, was a proud heiress with illustrious ancestors and ties to the Johnson & Johnson dynasty, would have made headlines on its own. But when authorities identified Eleanor Mills as a choir singer from his church married to the church sexton, the story shocked locals and sent the scandal ricocheting around the country, fueling the nascent tabloid industry. This provincial double murder on a lonely lover's lane would soon become one of the most famous killings in American history—a veritable crime of the century. The bumbling local authorities failed to secure any indictments, however, and it took a swashbuckling crusade by the editor of a circulation-hungry Hearst tabloid to revive the case and bring it to trial at last. Blood & Ink freshly chronicles what remains one of the most electrifying but forgotten murder mysteries in U.S. history. It also traces the birth of American tabloid journalism, pandering to the masses with sordid tales of love, sex, money, and murder. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook
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True crime
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LURED FROM THE SAFETY OF HOME -- INTO THE JAWS OF HELL "America's principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers"…
(The Boston Book Review), Harold Schechter shatters the myth that violent crime is a modern phenomenon -- with this seamless true account of unvarnished horror from the early twentieth century. Journey inside the demented mind of Albert Fish -- pedophile, sadist, and cannibal killer -- and discover that bloodlust knows no time or place.... On a warm spring day in 1928, a kindly, white-haired man appeared at the Budd family home in New York City, and soon persuaded Mr. and Mrs. Budd to let him take their adorable little girl, Grace, on an outing. The Budds never guessed that they had entrusted their child to a monster. After a relentless six-year search and nationwide press coverage, the mystery of Grace Budd's disappearance was solved -- and a crime of unparalleled gore and revulsion was revealed to a stunned American public. What Albert Fish did to Grace Budd, and perhaps fifteen other young children, caused experts to pronounce him the most deranged human being they had ever seen.
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United States history, True crime
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Award-winning true crime author Jane Turzillo brings together the strippers, gangsters, robbers, shady politicians, and more from Cleveland's rough and…
rowdy past. From world-class museums and popular sports teams to peaceful parks and charming neighborhoods, Cleveland has a lot to offer. But it has a wilder, darker side. Along the one-block passageway called Short Vincent, tourists and celebrities mixed with bookies and mobsters for drinks and dinner, underworld gossip, and all kinds of "entertainment." In 1969, Ted Conrad disappeared with $215,000 in stolen cash. An obituary more than fifty years later finally told authorities where he went. In the wee hours of March 24, 1970, someone slipped up to the front of the Cleveland Museum of Art and planted a bomb on the marble pedestal that supported Rodin's The Thinker. Who and why remain unknown.
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United States history, True crime
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Nicknamed "Liquor Island," Long Island was rumrunner's paradise during Prohibition. With its proximity to major markets and coastal communities for…
easy transit, Suffolk County was awash in illegal hooch. Smugglers bringing cases of booze from offshore often secretly hid product temporarily in local garages and sheds, leaving a bottle as a thank-you. Coded communication crisscrossed the county on shortwave radios arranging sales and logistics. Violence from criminal outfits disrupted previously quiet towns, as locals too often were swept up in dangerous unintentional engagements with bootleggers. Pour one out and join author Amy Kasuga Folk as she recounts stories from Suffolk County's Prohibition era
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United States history, True crime
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New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award-winner Daniel Stashower returns with American Demon, a historical true crime starring legendary…
lawman Eliot Ness. Boston had its Strangler. California had the Zodiac Killer. And in the depths of the Great Depression, Cleveland had the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run. On September 5th, 1934, a young beachcomber made a gruesome discovery on the shores of Cleveland's Lake Erie: the lower half of a female torso, neatly severed at the waist. The victim, dubbed "The Lady of the Lake," was only the first of a butcher's dozen. Over the next four years, twelve more bodies would be scattered across the city. The bodies were dismembered with surgical precision and drained of blood. Some were beheaded while still alive. Terror gripped the city. Amid the growing uproar, Cleveland's besieged mayor turned to his newly-appointed director of public safety: Eliot Ness. Ness had come to Cleveland fresh from his headline-grabbing exploits in Chicago, where he and his band of "Untouchables" led the frontline assault on Al Capone's bootlegging empire. Now he would confront a case that would redefine his storied career. Award-winning author Daniel Stashower shines a fresh light on one of the most notorious puzzles in the annals of crime, and uncovers the gripping story of Ness's hunt for a sadistic killer who was as brilliant as he was cool and composed, a mastermind who was able to hide in plain sight. American Demon reconstructs this ultimate battle of wits between a hero and a madman. A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books
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Capturing the Younger Brothers Gang in the Northern Plains: The Untold Story of Heroic Teen Asle Sorbel is a historic…
tale of vigilante valorNear sleepy Hanska slough, September 21, 1876, Norwegian teen Asle Sorbel made a daring "Paul Revere ride" into Madelia, Minnesota. His efforts, and those of the Madelia Magnificent Seven, led to the capture of the Younger Brothers of the Jesse James-Younger Gang. The gang's botched Northfield bank raid and infamous Madelia Shoot Out were well reported. But, Alse's story was lost to history. Friends of the outlaws planned reprisals. Alse changed his name, his persona and his location. He kept his mount shut. In 1883, he quietly reestablished himself in Dakota Territory. As years passed, he became the premier horse doctor in the Webster, South Dakota area, all the while haunted by vigilant fear. Author Arley K. Fadness uncovers the lost secrets and remarkable life of valiant Asle Oscar Sobel.