True Crime

El increíble relato en primera persona de Carlos Lehder sobre su vida como narcotraficante y sobre la creación y la evolución del cartel de Medellín. Por más de treinta años se han tejido todo tipo de leyendas en torno al afamado narcotraficante Carlos Lehder....

Chicago has long served as a symbol of urban pathology in the public imagination. The city's staggering levels of violence and entrenched gang culture occupy a central place in the national discourse, yet remain poorly understood and are often stereotyped. Views from the Streets...

Author: Victor HillPublisher: Eagle ConsultingPublished: 09/24/2024Pages: 230Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52dISBN: 9798991359504

Everyone loves a good villain From the back pages of history, vivid, entertaining portraits of little-known scoundrels whose misdeeds range from the simply inept to the truly horrifying. Even if you're an avid history buff, you've probably never heard of this disreputable cast of...

In 1912 what was arguably the most violent crime, the darkest mystery, in Midwest history took place. Law enforcement officers encountered a scene of unimagined violence: eight victims, six of them children, bludgeoned to death with an ax while they slept. Everywhere there were...

A vain man of good looks but no family ties to the Mob, Vincent "Vinny Gorgeous" Basciano worked his way up to acting boss of the Bonanno crime family, becoming its leader when official boss Joseph Massino went to prison in 2003. When the...

How fakes, fraudsters, and grape crusaders have shaped the world of wine. This novel take on the history of wine reveals that, whether by adding toxic sweeteners or passing off counterfeit bottles, wine fraud is abundant--and as old as wine itself. Vintage Crime will...

Murder then is the same as Murder Now The cold-blooded killers of today are the same as they were one hundred years ago. The style of their clothes, their music, and even their means of transportation are completely different, but murder then is the...

Violence in the Valley is a book of short stories about unusual murders and other crimes investigated in the mid-Ohio Valley by the Parkersburg Police Department Detective Bureau, West Virginia State Police, and other agencies along the peaceful Ohio River from Wheeling to Huntington,...

Entering the shady world of what he calls "violent entrepreneurship," Vadim Volkov explores the economic uses of violence and coercion in Russia in the 1990s. Violence has played, he shows, a crucial role in creating the institutions of a new market economy. The core...

On an August evening in 1933, in a quiet, working-class neighborhood in Paris, eighteen-year-old Violette Nozi?re gave her mother and father glasses of barbiturate-laced "medication," which she told them had been prescribed by the family doctor; one of her parents died, the other barely...

Author: Dale BrumfieldPublisher: History Press Library EditionsPublished: 10/30/2017Pages: 274Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.18lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63dISBN: 9781540226938This title is not returnable

In Tallahassee, Florida, early one cold winter morning in 1978, a mad man entered the Chi Omega sorority house near the Florida State University campus, and viciously attacked four women. Two would die. A fifth woman was brutally attacked just blocks away. Authorities urgently...

«La violencia se nos ha metido debajo de las u?as, bajo la epidermis del pecho, en la sinapsis individual y colectiva. Ante eso Manu Ureste nos entrega este libro magn?fico para resistir. Su empat?a con la vida de las v?ctimas relatadas en sus cr?nicas...

This book is a walkthrough of my journey with sexual abuse and incest within my family. Through my life story, readers will gain understanding why I felt the need to expose these secrets and shame that held my family in bondage for many years,...

Read the true story of the manhunt that inspired The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, the acclaimed FX series. "The breadth and thoroughness of [Maureen] Orth's research are often staggering."--The New York Times "Fascinating . . . ripe with chilling detail."--Entertainment Weekly...

"Es war ein herrlicher Julimorgen, als der junge Sohn des Hauses die elterliche Wohnung verlie . Er hatte die f r die Schule n tigen B cher in einen Riemen geschnallt unter dem Arm, aber erst um die neunte Stunde forderten die dumpfen Klassenr...

I decided to walk away from my mother when I discovered she murdered my step-father. I was in my 30's then and shortly before had learned she murdered who I thought was a stranger. I didn't realize the man she murdered was my biological...

I decided to walk away from my mother when I discovered she murdered my step-father. I was in my 30's then and shortly before had learned she murdered who I thought was a stranger. I didn't realize the man she murdered was my biological...

A father's journey through grief, controversy, activism and healing following his son's death in the massacre at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999. The book describes the experiences of Tom Mauser, who became a nationally recognized gun control advocate who often spoke to...