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Border Contraband: A History of Smuggling Across the Rio GrandeWinner, Jim Parish Award for Documentation and Publication of Local and Regional History, Webb County Heritage Foundation, 2015Present-day smuggling across the U.S.-Mexico border is a professional, often violent, criminal activity. However, it is only the latest chapter in a history of illicit business dealings...
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Finding Jacob Wetterling: The 27-Year Investigation from Kidnapping to ConfessionIn October 1989, 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling was abducted near his home in the small town of St. Joseph, Minnesota. Despite an unparalleled effort to find him, his whereabouts remained a mystery for 27 years--until his kidnapper, arrested on another charge, confessed to Wetterling's murder...
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Wicked DetroitThe Motor City boasts a long and sordid history of scoundrels, cheats and ne'er-do-wells. The wheeling and dealing prowess of founding father Antoine Cadillac is the stuff of legend. Fur trader and charlatan Joseph Campau grew so corrupt and rambunctious that he was eventually...
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Misfortune on Cleveland's Millionaires' RowExtreme wealth could buy a mansion in Millionaires' Row but not immunity from unsavory business dealings or shameful behavior.May Hanna gave her millionaire ex-husband's hired Pinkerton detectives the slip to sneak out of the country. To escape financial embarrassment, James Potter, the manager of...
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The SquadA gritty and compelling account of an elite police group, the Middle Eastern Organised Crime Squad (MEOCS). Middle Eastern organised crime in Australia is a dark, dirty and dangerous world of drug empires, murders and turf wars. Crime families dominate the suburbs and the...
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Gods of Mischief: My Undercover Vendetta to Take Down the Vagos Outlaw Motorcycle GangThis harrowing, no-holds-barred true story is the "brash account of a reformed bad boy's decision to help the federal government take down Green Nation, the Vagos outlaw motorcycle gang" (Kirkus Reviews).Gods of Mischief is the harrowing, no-holds-barred true story of a bad guy turned...
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Blood & Ink: The Scandalous Jazz Age Double Murder That Hooked America on True CrimeVanity 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...
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You Can't Have My Daughter: A true story of a mother's desperate fight to save her daughter from Oxford's sex traffickers.A personal account of a mother's determination to never give up on her daughter.Author: Elizabeth McDonnellPublisher: Pan PublishingPublished: 04/09/2015Pages: 288Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.92lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.86dISBN: 9781447270850This title is not returnable
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Death of a Dissident: The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGBThe assassination of former Russian intelligence officer Alexander Sasha Litvinenko in November 2006 -- poisoned by the rare radioactive element polonium -- caused an international sensation. Within a few short weeks, the fit forty-three-year-old lay gaunt, bald, and dying in a hospital, the victim...
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It's Not about the Truth: The Untold Story of the Duke Lacrosse Case and the Lives It ShatteredMike Pressler walked into the bottomfloor meeting room of the Murray Building and, as he had done hundreds of times over a sixteen-year career at Duke University, prepared to address his men's lacrosse team. Forty-six players sat in theater-style chairs, all eyes riveted forward....
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The Autobiography of Jack the RipperIt's either a genuine confession by Jack the Ripper, or it's an extraordinary novel...Only you can decide.--Paul Begg, author of Jack the Ripper: The Definitive HistoryIn the Whitechapel neighborhood of London in 1888, five women were horribly mutilated and murdered by the infamous killer,...
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The Mother of all Lies The Casey Anthony StoryThe search for Caylee made front-page headlines when news broke of two-year-old Caylee Anthony's disappearance from her home in Orlando Florida in mid-July 2008.Caylee's own mother, Casey Anthony stepped into the national spotlight after the suspicious disappearance of her daughter. As her story unfolded...
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The Homicide of Yafeu 'Yaki Kadafi' FulaOn November 10, 1996, Yafeu 'Yaki Kadafi' Fula was killed by Rashad Clark. No trial was held so no evidence surrounding the homicide was ever entered into the record. More than 25 years later, Yaasmyn Fula has opened her archive and compiled the witness...
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Performing Deception: Learning, Skill and the Art of ConjuringIn Performing Deception, Brian Rappert reconstructs the practice of entertainment magic by analysing it through the lens of perception, deception and learning, as he goes about studying conjuring himself. Through this novel meditation on reasoning and skill, Rappert elevates magic from the undertaking of...
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Water in a Thirsty Land"Water in a Thirsty Land" is a chronicle of Dr. Taylor Filmore Ealy's 1874 to 1881 sojourn as a medical missionary in Indian Territory (Oklahoma) and New Mexico Territory, compiled by his daughter Ruth R. Ealy, and privately issued in a limited edition of...
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Db Cooper: The Untold Story of a Daredevil Hijacker (Chasing the Last Lead in America's Only Unsolved Skyjacking)The media epithet was used to refer to the man responsible for hijacking a boeing 727 aircraft on november 24th of 1971. The aircraft was taken in flight between portland, oregon and seattle, washington. The final destination for the flight was the seattle-tacoma international...
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A Lovely Girl: The Tragedy of Olga Duncan and the Trial of One of California's Most Notorious KillersThe incredible story of a 1958 murder that ended with the last woman to ever be executed in California--a murder so twisted it seems ripped from a Greek tragedyDeborah Larkin was only ten years old when the quiet calm of her California suburb was...
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The Dublin Railway Murder: The Sensational True Story of a Victorian Murder MysteryA thrilling and perplexing investigation of a true Victorian crime at Dublin railway station. Dublin, November 1856: George Little, the chief cashier of the Broadstone railway terminus, is found dead, lying in a pool of blood beneath his desk. He has been savagely beaten,...
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The Ghost: The Murder of Police Chief Greg Adams and the Hunt for His KillerHOW COULD SUCH A DARK SECRETHAVE BEEN KEPT FOR SO MANY YEARS?Police Chief Greg Adams was out on patrol. Christmas was coming to Saxonburg, Pennsylvania-a quaint borough of just 1,300-in three short weeks. The winter air was crisp. Colored lights sparkled on houses. He...
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How to Commit a MurderHOW TO COMMIT A MURDER"What sort of third degree do they give you for murder?""Listen, mister," said Danny, and began. He told me how one went about covering one's tracks after committing a murder, then branched out into a description of the underworld and...
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