True Crime

London's strangest and scariest people and places are brought vividly to life in this walk through the capital's dark side. Featuring serial killers, psychopaths, gangsters, ghosts and martyrs, here are fifty true stories from all corners of the city guaranteed to chill your bones.Author:...

Kerryann Gannon is just 16-years-old when she meets thrice-married Malcolm George Baker.Uneducated, troubled and 21-years her senior, his charm and smiles cover the dark shadow inflicted by a cruel and sadistic father. Kerryann falls for the fa?ade and in a short space of time...

Savannah is one of America's most beautiful and historic cities. Yet underneath the mint juleps, oaks bearded with Spanish moss and the splendor of colonial architecture, there lurks a deadly undercurrent. This is a first-person account of an award-winning newspaper crime reporter's career, covering...

Bloody Valentine is the story of the murder of a young woman called Lynette White in the Cardiff docklands on Valentine's Day 1988. It's also the story of the miscarriage of justice that came after, when three black men, 'the Cardiff Three', were wrongly...

Yorkshire is the largest county in the country. Steeped in history this normally peaceful area has occasionally been gripped by some of the most horrifying crimes of the nineteenth century.'Bloody Yorkshire' chronicles thirteen of the vilest murderous acts which frame Yorkshire's sinister past. From...

BLOW is the unlikely story of George Jung's roller coaster ride from middle-class high school football hero to the heart of Pable Escobar's Medellin cartel-- the largest importer of the United States cocaine supply in the 1980s. Jung's early business of flying marijuana into...

The 1992-1995 battle for Sarajevo was the longest siege in modern history. It was also the most internationalized, attracting a vast contingent of aid workers, UN soldiers, journalists, smugglers, and embargo-busters. The city took center stage under an intense global media spotlight, becoming the...

Blue Lives Matter is a book that explores the line-of-duty deaths suffered by the law enforcement "blue" family. This book examines the deaths of eight police officers and one police canine in Los Angeles County. The chapters portray the fallen officers and the canine...

For thirteen years, Helena Jayne Bryant was hunted by a madman. For thirteen years, she walked through fear trying to escape the strange obsession of a lunatic. What began as a casual friendship on a forgettable night soon turned into a bizarre odyssey that...

In one of the most illuminating portraits of police work ever, Chief Charles Campisi describes the inner workings of the world's largest police force and his unprecedented career putting bad cops behind bars. "Compelling, educational, memorable...this superb memoir can be read for its sheer...

Author: Erin ChandlerPublisher: Rabbit House PressPublished: 09/18/2024Pages: 240Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.50w x 0.55dISBN: 9798990783331

A shocking investigation into a true crime that tore a town apart--the violent murder of a young coed in Kentucky, the innocent boy who was jailed for the crime, and a small Southern community filled with haunting, unforgettable characters.Katie Autry was a foster child...

A botched homicide investigation unfolds in Long Beach, California in a climate of lies and cover-ups. Police reports, emergency-call transcripts and surveillance videos show evidence of murder. But homicide detectives claim the victim died in a freak yoga accident. They allow the harvesting of...

Entdecken Sie einige der ber chtigtsten M rder der Welt in perfekt illustriertem Detail.Menschen sind besessen von Serienm rdern, deren morbide Faszination ihnen eine kultartige Anh ngerschaft unter denjenigen mit Hang zum Makabren verschafft. Ihre Verbrechen sind in die Geschichte eingegangen und viele Menschen...

Erleben Sie einige der ber chtigsten M rder der Welt detailliert und perfekt illustriert.Die Menschen sind besessen von Serienm rdern und haben eine kultartige Anziehungskraft auf sie mit einer morbiden Faszination. Als ihre Verbrechen ein Teil der Geschichte geworden sind, haben viele Menschen versucht,...

In the early 1990s, Demetrius Big Meech Flenory and his brother, Terry Southwest T, rose up from the slums of Detroit to build one of the largest cocaine empires in American history: the Black Mafia Family. They socialized with music mogul Sean Diddy Combs,...

After working for years as a child psychiatrist in The Hague, Netherlands, Rita Zecher moves to Aruba, a small island in the Dutch Caribbean. Rita and her two youngest children embark on a journey to start a new life. As a five-lingual psychiatrist, and...

For the first twenty-five years of his career, Lucky Luciano was a vicious mobster who became the king of the New York underworld. For the next twenty-five, he was a fake, his reputation maintained by government agents. Boardwalk Gangster follows him from his early...

The Pacific Northwest is home to the world's most famous serial killers, as well as more than its share of parents who kill their children, teenagers who kill their parents, women who marry for money, naughty teachers, America's first female serial killer, and even...

Bodies of Evidence is packed with intriguing case histories involving an astonishing variety of forensic evidence. Criminal investigators have learned how to interpret vital testimony that is written in the language of fingerprints and flakes of skin, gradients of teeth and bone, splashes of...