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Haunted DoncasterHaunted Doncaster contains a selection of the reported sightings and stories from ordinary people in Doncaster who believe they have had an extraordinary experience. The majority of the haunted locations in this book have been investigated first-hand by the authors, who give the reader...
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The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo: Charles Deville Wells, Gambler and Fraudster ExtraordinaireCharles Deville Wells has two loves in his life: a beautiful French mistress, Jeannette, and his sumptuous yacht, the Palais Royal. At the risk of losing them both, Wells stakes everything he owns at the roulette tables in Monte Carlo's world-famous Casino--and in the...
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Las Hijas de Juarez (Daughters of Juarez): Un Auténtico Relato de Asesinatos En Serie Al Sur de la FronteraCiudad Juárez, México, queda en la frontera sur del Río Bravo, frente a El Paso, Texas. Por más de doce años, aquí se ha llevado a cabo un sinnúmero de crímenes atroces contra mujeres y niñas que incluyen secuestros, violaciones, mutilaciones y asesinatos. Según...
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Presumed Guilty: What the Jury Never Knew about Laci Peterson's Murder and Why Scott Peterson Should Not Be on Death RowNo one knows the story behind the sensational headlines of the Scott Peterson murder trial better than defense attorney Matt Dalton. For six straight months after Peterson's arrest, Dalton was the defense's only full-time investigative attorney on the case. During that time, he lived...
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Helping Humanity: American Policy and Genocide RescueHelping Humanity: American Policy and Genocide Rescue explores American foreign policy reactions to genocide and state caused humanitarian crises. This book provides an examination of the nature of genocide and America's 19th century philanthropic efforts; it then offers case studies focused on the Cuban...
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Victorian Murderesses: A True History of Thirteen Respectable French and English Women Accused of Unspeakable CrimesThis riveting combination of true crime and social history examines a dozen cases from the 1800s involving thirteen French and English women charged with murder. Each incident was a cause c l bre, and this mixture of scandal and scholarship offers illuminating details of...
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Witches in West Memphis: The West Memphis Three and another story of false confessionThis might be the most unjust prosecution in U.S. legal history. If you think what happened to Steven Avery in the true crime film, Making a Murderer, was shocking you will be completely appalled by what happened to three little boys and three teens...
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Pain and Gain-The Untold True StoryThis is the untold true story of one citizen's pointless torture and month-long captivity. The story, formerly mistold if not utterly overlooked, has been made into a feature film. Even as a dark comedy, there is little amusement to be found in human suffering....
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Tupac 187: The Red KnightThe powerful and compelling true story of corruption, coercion and murder surrounding the Tupac Shakur & Christopher "Biggie Smalls" Wallace homicides brought to 2014. With contribution by former Los Angeles Police Detective Russell Poole, the original Wallace homicide investigator, Michael Douglas Carlin, Director of...
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Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of BTK, the Serial Killer Next DoorThe definitive story of Dennis Rader, the notorious BTK serial killer, told by the award-winning crime reporters at "The Wichita Eagle" with the full cooperation of the BTK Task Force.Author: Roy Wenzl, Tim Potter, Hurst LavianaPublisher: HarperPublished: 05/27/2008Pages: 400Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.42lbsSize: 6.92h x...
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Deadly Dose: The Untold Story of a Homicide Investigator's Crusade for Truth and JusticeThe crime was unforgivable.The suspected murderer--unbelievable.One man's pursuit of justice--unstoppable. The death of promising young pediatric AIDS researcher Eric Miller stunned the Raleigh, North Carolina, community, largely because of the horrific way he was killed. For months, Eric was slowly tortured as arsenic consumed...
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The Company We Keep: A Husband-And-Wife True-Life Spy StoryRobert Baer was known inside the CIA as perhaps the best operative working the Middle East. Over several decades he served everywhere from Iraq to New Delhi and racked up such an impressive list of accomplishments that he was eventually awarded the Career Intelligence...
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3,096 Days in CaptivityOn March 2, 1998, ten-year-old Natascha Kampusch was kidnapped, and found herself locked in a house that would be her home for the next eight years. She was starved, beaten, treated as a slave, and forced to work for her deranged captor. But she...
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More Hollywood Murders and Scandals: Tinsel Town After DarkMore Hollywood Scandals and Murders: Tinsel Town After Dark is the second book in a series on some of the most famous and infamous murders and scandals going right back to the beginnings of Hollywood. From Thomas Ince to Dorothy Stratten and George Reeves...
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Honor Killing: Race, Rape, and Clarence Darrow's Spectacular Last CaseIn the fall of 1931, Thalia Massie, the bored, aristocratic wife of a young naval officer stationed in Honolulu, accused six nonwhite islanders of gang rape. The ensuing trial let loose a storm of racial and sexual hysteria, but the case against the suspects...
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When the Rackets ReignedAt the Kefauver Committee hearings in the U.S. Senate in 1951, it was revealed that organized crime was extending its tentacles into Reading, PA. Five years later, after a new Democratic administration took over in the city, the IRS launched a campaign to collect...
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Big Bankroll PBArnold Rothstein (1882-1928) was described in the newspapers of the 1920s as a sportsman, a gambler, and the man who fixed the 1919 World Series. But he was much more than that. A bootlegger and labor racketeer, he corrupted politicians, promoted crooked stock sales,...
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True Hollywood Noir: Filmland Mysteries and Murders2014 IPPY Bronze Medal Award. A tantalizing mixture of classic Hollywood nostalgia and true crime, True Hollywood Noir: Filmland Mysteries and Murder, featuring 100 rare photographs, is suspenseful, entertaining, and eminently readable. Uncover true stories of mystery and murder in a dozen different chapters...
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Indecent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall StreetWhen the head of Columbia Pictures, David Begelman, got caught forging Cliff Robertson's name on a $10,000 check, it seemed, at first, like a simple case of embezzlement. It wasn't. The incident was the tip of the iceberg, the first hint of a scandal...
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Capone: The Life and World of Al CaponeThe public called him Scarface; the FBI called him Public Enemy Number One; his associates called him Snorky. But Capone is the name most remember. And John Kobler's Capone is the definitive biography of this most brutal and flamboyant of the underground kings--an intimate...
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