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By Leo Damore. 2018
By Rus Bradburd. 2018
Marshall High School coach Shawn Harrington's career comes crashing to a halt when he is caught in a drive-by shooting.…
Using his body to shield his daughter from gunfire, Harrington is struck and paralyzed. Shawn Harrington's story of senseless gun violence and racial assumptions is also a story of the nature of friendship, of communities, and of hope. 2018.By Tom Henderson. 2018
In 1991, flight attendant Nancy Ludwig checked in to an airport hotel. The next morning she was found gagged, raped,…
and tortured, her throat slit. In 1985, Margarette Eby met the same grisly death. A cunning sting operation yielded irrefutable DNA evidence, and authorities were led to the home of respected navy veteran Jeffrey Gorton. But his cold-blooded secrets were only beginning to come to light, leaving fears that there were more victims yet to be found. 2018.Valentine's Day, 2007. Stephen Grant filed a missing person's report on his beloved wife, Tara. The stay-at-home father of two…
was beside himself with despair. But key elements in Stephen's story weren't adding up. Then, the police made a gruesome discovery. Parts of Tara Grant's body started turning up around the woods near the Grant's home. The truth was finally coming to light and, after a two-day manhunt, Stephen admitted to having killed Tara. 2018.The story of George Jung's journey from middle-class high school football hero to the heart of Pablo Escobar's Medellín cartel--…
the largest importer of the United States cocaine supply in the 1980s. 2017.By Melissa Del Bosque. 2017
Journalist Melissa del Bosque follows FBI rookie Scott Lawson and Agent Alma Perez's harrowing attempt to dismantle cartel leader Miguel…
Treviño's American racing dynasty--a dynasty built on extortion and blood money. With extensive access to investigative evidence and in-depth interviews with key players, del Bosque delivers a riveting and suspenseful narrative about greed and corruption. 2017.By David Bagby. 2017
In November 2001, the body of Andrew Bagby was discovered outside Latrobe, Pennsylvania, five bullet wounds in his face, chest,…
buttocks, and the back of the head. For parents Dave and Kate, Andrew's murder was only the first in a string of tragic events. 2017.By Monica Hesse. 2017
Shocked by a five-month arson spree that left rural Virginia reeling, Washington Post reporter Monica Hesse drove down to Accomack…
County to cover the trial of Charlie Smith, who pled guilty to sixty-seven counts of arson. But Charlie wasn't lighting fires alone: he had an accomplice, his girlfriend Tonya Bundick. Through her depiction of the dangerous shift that happened in their passionate relationship, Hesse brilliantly brings to life the once-thriving coastal community and its distressed inhabitants, who had already been decimated by a punishing economy before they were terrified by a string of fires they could not explain. Incorporating this drama into the long-overlooked history of arson in the United States, "American Fire" re-creates the anguished nights that this quiet county spent lit up in flames, mesmerizingly evoking a microcosm of rural America - a land half gutted before the fires even began. 2017.By Lowell Cauffiel. 2016
By Jerry Bledsoe. 2016
Marriage connected three wealthy Southern families until multiple murders severed their ties. The police were convinced at first that the…
killings were professional, but suspicion settled on the family members as a total of nine murders took its deadly toll. This true story is based on newspaper articles written by Bledsoe. 2016.By Samuel K Dolan. 2016
Utilizing official records, newspaper accounts, and oral histories, this book tells the story of the untamed Wild West of the…
Prohibition era (1920s-1930s) and introduces a gallery of Western gunfighters and lawmen. 2016.By Janet Freedman, Marie Howes. 2003
More people suffer a disability before age 65 than die before age 65. Shows how to manage a mid-career disabling…
experience from a personal, financial, and legal standpoint. A guide through government and private insurance and rehabilitation programmes, housing and living assistance, and legal and money management considerations. 2003.By Ted Schwarz, LaVonne McKee. 1994
LaVonne McKee's adolescent son, Dwayne, was shot in the neck by his best friend, Jeff, who told Dwayne to "get…
ready to say goodbye." McKee describes the family's reactions when Jeff escapes punishment although Dwayne is paralyzed, and when Dwayne regains partial use of his limbs despite his doctors' predictions. Violence and some strong language. 1994.By James B Jacobs, Coleen Friel, Robert Radick. 1999
An in-depth account of the impact of the Cosa Nostra on business, labour, and politics in New York City in…
the twentieth century. Describes mob infiltration of the garment, construction, and other major industries; chronicles law enforcement initiatives to drive the mob out of the metropolis since 1980. c1999.By R. T Naylor. 1987
By Rick Boychuk. 1994
In 1968, Raymond "Frenchy" Durand murdered his wife Jeannine and hid her body near Houston, Texas. More than two decades…
later, the case of the woman known as Jane Doe was finally solved, owing to the perseverance of the victim's son and daughter, who were schoolchildren when their mother disappeared. Boychuk tells of how these children lost their mother under mysterious circumstances, then had to depend on a father they could not trust. Some strong language and some violence. 1994.By Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry. 1974
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.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.