True Crime

The most comprehensive work ever done on legal executions by hanging in Texas. Arranged by counties, this book documents 467 executions in Texas, many that have been forgotten through the years. Such as: Decapitated: Jack Fields--Wharton County, and Charles Myers-- Tarrant County were both...

"Has more than its fair share of violence, sex, debauchery and reversals of fortune ... But what emerges between the lines are stories of human suffering, stories of class struggle, stories that speak as much to the criminal mind as to the crime itself."...

Death Ride is a riveting account of the brutal murders of Mike and Frieda Kuntz and the attempted murder of their five-year-old son, Larry, who witnessed the tragic deaths of his parents. This is an amazing true story of survival and the ability to...

"An unflinching witness who dares us to see the full humanity of the condemned and interrogate the very premise of the death penalty." - Sister Helen Prejean In the vein of Waiting for an Echo and Dead Man Walking, a deeply immersive look at...

The strange and gruesome crime-scene snapshot collection of LAPD detective Jack Huddleston spans Southern California in its noir heyday. Death Scenes is the noted forerunner of several copycat titles.Author: Sean Tejaratchi, Katherine DunnPublisher: Feral HousePublished: 04/01/2000Pages: 168Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 8.03h x 10.08w x...

The true account of the man who murdered his family in their New Jersey mansion--and eluded a nationwide manhunt for eighteen years. Until 1971, life was good for mild-mannered accountant John List. He was vice president of a Jersey City bank and had moved...

Author: Teresa CrowePublisher: Teresa Crowe BooksPublished: 05/15/2022Pages: 452Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.70lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00dISBN: 9798218010003

On November 24, 1963, President John F. Kennedy's alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald was gunned down in the basement of Dallas City Hall at the start of his transfer to the County Jail. It took place in front of dozens of Dallas Police personnel...

This is the true story of two young men of the Georgia frontier who met by chance for the first time on the night of April 26th, 1909. One was black, one was white. Fate brought their paths together at a railroad depot in...

"Fans of the forensics-oriented novels of such mystery writers as Kathy Reichs and Patricia Cornwell...not to mention television series like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, will make an eager audience for this one."--Booklist On a patch of land in the Tennessee hills, human corpses decompose...

The 1909 murder case surrounding the wealthy Swope family of Independence, Missouri, gripped newspaper readers throughout the nation. This book gathers the facts behind the suspicious fates of three Swope family members: the eccentric Colonel, millionaire donor of Kansas City, Missouri's Swope Park, his...

Since President Nixon coined the phrase, the "War on Drugs" has presented an important change in how people view and discuss criminal justice practices and drug laws. The term evokes images of militarization, punishment, and violence, as well as combat and the potential for...

A prominent district attorney was brutally slain in the early morning outside the Kaufman, Texas, courthouse. Two assailants laid in wait. One of them confronting him on his walk to work. Brutally shooting him multiple times. This was just the beginning of a series...

Deceit, Disappearance & Death came about because Pamela always wondered what happened to the Calverts and why Dennis Gerwing took his own life. The book would not have happened were it not for Pamela's husband, Peter's friendship with Dennis' brother Fred. And, Peter's habit...

DECEIVED IS A MEMOIR OF DETECTIVE MIKE KING'S 1991 INVESTIGATION AND THE ULTIMATE TAKE-DOWN OF A DEVIANT POLYGAMOUS CULT CALLED THE ZION SOCIETY. FOR OVER A DECADE, GOSSIP SWIRLED AROUND NORTHERN UTAH THAT A SECRETIVE GROUP OF RELIGIOUS ZEALOTS WERE BUYING UP HOMES TO...

"You want to read this book. It is chilling and compelling at the same time." - Dr. Phil McGraw. "I can think of no more important book at this moment in our history than Profiling Evil: An Investigative Memoir of the Zion Society Cult....

The deadliest campaign of vigilante justice in American history erupted in the Rocky Mountains during the Civil War when a private army hanged twenty-one troublemakers. Hailed as great heroes at the time, the Montana vigilantes are still revered as founding fathers. Frederick Allen's sharply...

Investigative reporter Edward Jay Epstein defines the seldom seen universe of intelligence and counterintelligence.Set in the era of the Cold War, it explores the ultimate art of nations: Winning without fighting, or, in a single word, deception. It concerns, as James Jesus Angleton described...

A history of winning intelligence practices from the Spanish Armada to Cyberwar that offers timeless, practical lessons we ignore at our peril. According to conventional wisdom, strategic surprise and other intelligence failures are both inevitable and ultimately irrelevant because, at least in international politics...

The shocking true story of one of Britain's most secretive, groundbreaking and successful police covert operations Bristol, 1979. An attacker roams the streets... Young women are warned not to go out alone... Enter the Decoys. For several years, a prolific predator haunted Bristol. Avon...