True Crime

A survivor's firsthand account of attempted murder in St. Francisville, Louisiana. A former warden of Angola Prison shoots his wife five times with a pistol, then sits down to watch her die on her plantation home porch. The victim, author Anne Butler, survives to...

As a native Angeleno who was born in 1960 and came of age in the 1970s, the music produced by the artists who populate this book provided the soundtrack to my youth, so it is a subject matter that is close to my heart....

The Wild West is infamous for its outrageous stories, cowboys, and gun battles. But the region is also known for its ghost stories, unexplained deaths, bizarre murders, and peculiar burials.In Weird Wild West, author Keven McQueen brings together a fabulous collection of tales of...

A finalist for the PEN Center USA Award for NonfictionWelcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell, is surfer and former war reporter Chas Smith's wild and unflinching look at the high-stakes world of surfing on Oahu's North Shore--a riveting, often humorous, account of beauty,...

A history of organized crime in Warren and Trumbull County, featuring stories on Jimmy Munsene, the notorious Farah Brothers, Detroit Mobster Frank Cammarata, Anthony "Tony Dope" Delsanger and others.Author: Allan R. MayPublisher: Conallan Press LLCPublished: 03/05/2013Pages: 316Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x...

Author: J. R. JordanPublisher: J.R. Jordan Jr.Published: 11/30/2023Pages: 298Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81dISBN: 9781916954809This title is not returnable

Hidden and long-forgotten stories of frontier San AntonioAuthor: David BowserPublisher: Maverick BooksPublished: 07/25/2023Pages: 138Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.30w x 0.30dISBN: 9781595342683About the AuthorDavid Bowser is known as the historical detective of San Antonio, where he has lived for three decades.

Dive into this riveting tale and discover just how deadly a pen and paper can be when wielded by a master manipulator. In the 1930s, in the sleepy town of Quiet Dell, West Virginia lonely, wealthy women began to disappear. Under the guise of...

On a warm night in September 1985, teenagers Kimberly Dowell and Ethan Dixon were brutally murdered in Westside Park in Muncie, Indiana. Their killer has never been charged. Early on, police focused on a family member of one of the teens as a primary...

Security guard services is a growing industry. Security personnel need education and training to effectively carry out employers' policies and procedures. What a Security Guard Needs to Know for Best Practices is a guide to providing basic information pertaining to the tools the security...

Before photography was commonplace, newspaper writers used a unique, graphic style of writing to allow readers to visualize the sometimes horrific and tragic events that occurred in their cities and neighborhoods. This book showcases such articles and obituaries from the 1880's in Oshkosh, Wisconsin,...

What Difference Does It Make? is a true story of one individual who still believes in the democratic system that is now being stripped away from the honest American, and the struggle this one person went through to attempt to preserve it. With over...

What Drives Men CrazyBy: Norman Nelson Meet Norman Nelson. He was a cop for 23 years, most of it with LAPD and the LA Sheriff's Department and with the ladies. He has learned what makes women crazy and what they love, along with peculiar...

On a foggy afternoon in September of 1982 the Investor, a salmon fishing vessel, was engulfed in flames near the tiny village of Craig, Alaska. All efforts to stop the blaze were repulsed by the heat and fury of fire--until the blaze until it...

On an icy night five years ago, Johnnie Jordan -- just fourteen years old -- brutally murdered his elderly foster care mother, leaving the state of Ohio shocked and outraged. He could not tell police why he did it or even how it made...

July 1970. Eighteen-year-old Paula Oberbroeckling left her house in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Four months later, her remains were discovered just beyond the mouth of a culvert overlooking the Cedar River. Her homicide has never been solved.Fifty years cold, Paula's case had been mostly forgotten...

July 1970. Eighteen-year-old Paula Oberbroeckling left her house in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Four months later, her remains were discovered just beyond the mouth of a culvert overlooking the Cedar River. Her homicide has never been solved.Fifty years cold, Paula's case had been mostly forgotten...

On January 20, 1983, six-year-old Tania Murrell vanished on her way home from an elementary school in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Hundreds of searchers - police, volunteers and friends and relatives of Tania - looked high and wide, but there was no trace of her....

Joseph DeVon and Louise moved their three sons from Mississippi to the Chicago area hoping to leave behind the terrible secrets thatcould possibly destroy the lives of the people they love. However, those secrets not only followed them, but they also wreaked havoc on...

In his second memoir, David Alan Arnold takes us on a Life and Death Adventure, in his helicopter, flying for Ice Road Truckers and Deadliest Catch. But, he also gets into adventures at home, picking a fight with an Organized Crime Ring that took...