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Murders in the Swampland
by Patricia Lieb
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Serial murders, hate crimes, torture... Who would have expected such violence in the quiet country community of Hernando County, Florida? Initially covered by award winning reporter Patricia Lieb during her tenure with The Daily Sun Journal, she recounts these and other shocking true crime events in MURDERS IN THE SWAMPLAND. (Published: 2008)
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In Cold Blood [Secure]
by Truman Capote
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On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. Five years, four months and twenty-nine days later, on April 14, 1965, Richard Eugene Hickock, aged thirty-three, and Perry Edward Smith, aged thirty-six, were hanged from the crime on a gallows in a warehouse in the Kansas State Penitentiary in... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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The Fatty Arbuckle Rape Case
by Charles Nuetzel
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The Fatty Arbuckle Rape Case was responsible for bringing to the attention of the public a more startling, shocking side of the glamour capital of the world: Hollywood in the 1920's! Suddenly the town became known as SinCity, one of the labels which still, even today, sometimes is leveled at the Industry that made it famous. If you have ever wondered what made Hollywood the sin city of the world during the twenties, how it finally cleaned itself up, this series will reveal some of the startling ... more info>> (Published: 1969)
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While They Slept: An Inquiry into the Murder of a Family [Secure]
by Kathryn Harrison
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Early on an April morning, eighteen-year-old Billy Frank Gilley, Jr., killed his sleeping parents. Surprised in the act by his younger sister, Becky, he turned on her as well. Billy then climbed the stairs to the bedroom of his other sister, Jody, and said, "We're free." But is one ever free after an unredeemable act of violence? The Gilley family murders ended a lifetime of physical and mental abuse suffered by Billy and Jody at the hands of their parents. And it required each of the two surviv... more info>>
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15 Serial Killers: Docufictions
by Harold Jaffe
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Taking as his text Georges Bataille's insight that "only at the extremes is there freedom," critically acclaimed "guerrilla writer" Harold Jaffe documents Bataille's aperçu with 15 bone-chilling illustrations. Manson, Starkweather, Speck, Son of Sam, the Night Stalker, Aileen Wuornos, the Unabomber, Dahmer, Bundy, Gacy, Kemper, Kevorkian and Kissinger are not merely present and accounted for, they are rendered into a "reality TV" that you've never seen before. Widely praised as a virtuoso stylis... more info>> (Published: 2003)
Words: 35116 - Reading Time: 100-140 min.
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A Grave Too Many
by William Norris
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In the spring of 1917, at the height of World War I, a young South African was recruited by the Royal Flying Corps to be trained as a fighter pilot on the Western Front. His name was Andrew Weatherby Beauchamp-Proctor. A tiny man, who needed cushions in the cockpit of his SE 5A in order to reach the controls, Beauchamp-Proctor proved so proficient, that by the end of the war, he had become the fifth-ranking ace on the Allied side with 54 kills. After recovering from wounds sustained in September... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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Conspiracy of Fools [Secure]
by Kurt Eichenwald
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In 2000, when The Informant was published, few would've imagined that a story about price fixing at Archer Daniels Midland could be as un-put-downable as the best crime fiction. Yet critics--and consumers--agreed: The New York Times reporter Kurt Eichenwald had taken the stuff of dry business reporting and turned it into an unparalleled page-turner. With Conspiracy of Fools, Eichenwald has done it again. Say the name "Enron" and most people believe they've heard all about the story that imperile... more info>>
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Invisible Darkness: The Shocking True Story of the "Perfect" Couple and Their Secret Life of Kidnapping, Torture, Rape, and Murder [Secure]
by Stephen Williams
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Invisible Darkness is the story of one of the more bizarre cases in recent memory--killings so sensational that they prompted the Canadian government, in the interests of justice, to silence its national press and to lock foreign journalists out of the courts. To all appearances, Paul and Karla Bernardo had a fairytale marriage--beautiful working-class girl weds bright upper-middle-class guy and they buy a fashionable dream house in the suburbs. But, bored with his straight, prestigious accounti... more info>>
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Storming Las Vegas: How a Cuban-Born, Soviet-Trained Commando Took Down the Strip to the Tune of Five World-Class Hotels, Three Armored Cars, and $3 Million [Secure]
by John Huddy
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When it comes to violent crime, the Las Vegas cops and casino owners thought they had seen it all. But they had never witnessed anything like Jose Vigoa. Born in Cuba, a child of Fidel Castro's revolution, Vigoa used his quick wits and quicker fists to trade a life of poverty and desperation for one of danger and adventure as a Soviet-trained special forces officer. Battle hardened in the killing fields of Afghanistan and Angola, Vigoa won a reputation for toughness, bravery, and coolness under ... more info>>
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The Iron Ghetto
by John L. Indo
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A deeply moving and realistic account of prison life and its social ramifications. A combination of first-hand observations, psychological theory, and critical philosophical insights into a forlorn culture which few endeavor to understand, but which for the lack of such understanding we are all very much at a loss. Sometimes controversial; sometimes pathetic; humorous; shocking, but always realistic, resourceful, and insightful. [Cover art Dirk A. Wolf] (Published: 1999)
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The S.C.U.M. Manifesto
by Valerie Solanas
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This notorious work, published by Maurice in NY, needs little introduction beyond an explanation of the acronym: The Society for Cutting Up Men. Ms. Solanas is of course most famous, not for cutting up, but rather for shooting one Andy Warhol. She did not finish the job. We do, in any case, admire some of Ms. Solanas' anarchist tendencies, and think of her often when forced to leave the bar when we want to smoke.
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Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan [Secure]
by Jake Adelstein
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From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up. At nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquility. What he got was a life of crime ... crime reporting, that is, at the prestigious Yomiuri Shinbun. For twelve years of eighty-hour workweeks, he covered the seedy side of Japan, where extortion, murder, human trafficking, and c... more info>>
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A Criminal Injustice: A True Crime, a False Confession, and the Fight to Free Marty Tankleff [Secure]
by Richard Firstman
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When he went to bed on the night of September 6, 1988, seventeen-year-old Marty Tankleff was a typical kid in the upscale Long Island community of Belle Terre. He was looking forward to starting his senior year at Earl L. Vandermeulen High School the next day. But instead, Marty woke in the morning to find his parents brutally bludgeoned, their throats slashed. His mother, Arlene, was dead. His father, Seymour, was barely alive and would die a month later. With remarkable self-possession, Marty ... more info>>
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A Talent to Deceive: Who REALLY Killed the Lindbergh Baby?
by William Norris
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The kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh's infant son, and the subsequent trial and execution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, have been a source of fascination for more than 70 years. Now, for the first time, William Norris delves into sources of information ignored by previous investigators and comes up with the identity of the true culprit. (Published: 2006)
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Armed and Dangerous: The Hunt for One of America's Most Wanted Criminals [Secure]
by William Queen, Douglas Century
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Under and Alone comes an intimate and riveting account of federal law-enforcement agent William Queen's relentless hunt for one of America's most cold-blooded criminals. As an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, William Queen must tackle a number of challenging cases, including going undercover to investigate a group of violent skinheads and infiltrating and busting a ring trafficking in high-powered explosives, drugs, and firearm... more info>>
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Body Brokers: Inside America's Underground Trade in Human Remains [Secure]
by Annie Cheney
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"You are a little soul carrying around a corpse."--Epictetus. "Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will follow."--Matthew 24:28. Body Brokers is an audacious, disturbing, and compellingly written investigative expose of the lucrative business of procuring, buying, and selling human cadavers and body parts. Every year human corpses meant for anatomy classes, burial, or cremation find their way into the hands of a shadowy group of entrepreneurs who profit by buying and selling human remains... more info>>
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Catch Me if You Can: The Amazing True Story of the Most Extraordinary Liar in the History of Fun and Profit [Secure]
by Frank W. Abagnale
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Frank W. Abagnale, alias Frank Williams, Robert Conrad, Frank Adams, and Robert Monjo, was one of the most daring con men, forgers, imposters, and escape artists in history. In his brief but notorious criminal career, Abagnale donned a pilot's uniform and copiloted a Pan Am jet, masqueraded as the supervising resident of a hospital, practiced law without a license, passed himself off as a college sociology professor, and cashed over $2.5 million in forged checks, all before he was twenty-one. Kn... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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Do You Sincerely Want to Be Rich? [Secure]
by Charles Raw, Bruce Page, Godfrey Hodgson
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In the fall of 1955, Bernard Cornfeld arrived in Paris with scant money in his pocket and a tenuous relationship with a New York firm to sell mutual funds overseas. Cornfeld, a former psychologist and social worker, knew how to make friends fast and soon targeted two groups of people who could help him fulfill his economic ambitions: American expatriates who were looking to build their own fortunes and servicemen abroad who loved to live high-rolling lives and spend money. Using the first group ... more info>>
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Facing the Wind [Secure]
by Julie Salamon
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Robert and Mary Rowe's second child, Christopher, was born with severe neurological and visual impairments. For many years, the Rowes' courageous response to adversity set an example for a group of Brooklyn mothers who met to discuss the challenges of raising children with birth defects. Then Bob Rowe's pressures--professional and personal--took their toll, and he fell into depression and, ultimately delusion. And one day he took a baseball bat and killed his three children and his wife. In Faci... more info>> (Published: 2001)
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For the Sins of My Father: A Mafia Killer, His Son, and the Legacy of a Mafia Life [Secure]
by Albert Demeo
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A suspenseful, emotionally charged real-life Sopranos: The son of New York's most notorious Mafia killer reveals the conflicted life he led being raised by a cold-blooded murderer, who was also a devoted family man, and the wrenching legacy of Mafia family life. Al DeMeo will never forget the day in 1992 when a coworker, a fellow trader at the New York Stock Exchange, taunted him with a copy of the hot new book Murder Machine, chronicling the horrific criminal life of DeMeo's father, Roy, the he... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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Inside Death Row
by Christopher J. Kurtz
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Inside Death Row is both a qualitative and quantitative study of death row inmates in America, based on several years of research and correspondence with the condemned. (Published: 2003)
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Into the Devil's Den: How and FBI Informat Got Inside the Aryan Nations and a Special Agent Got Him Out Alive [Secure]
by Katherine Ramsland
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In 1996, the Aryan Nations was considered to be the most dangerous white supremacist group in the United States. This brutally violent neo-Nazi organization dreamed of carving an isolated homeland out of the American northwest--a dream they would finance by robbery, intimidation, and murder. For years, the FBI had sought to infiltrate the Aryan Nations, only to be thwarted by the group's extreme paranoia of new members. Enter Dave Hall, a tattooed, 350-pound, six-foot-four former biker. A black ... more info>>
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Legends of Winter Hill: Cops, Con Men, and Joe McCain, the Last Real Detective [Secure]
by Jay Atkinson
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Seasoned journalist and adventurer Jay Atkinson spent a year working as a rookie private eye for the storied firm McCain Investigations, founded by the late Joe McCain, Sr., one of the most decorated police officers in Boston history. In his colorful narrative style, Atkinson describes some of the cases he worked as a detective, chasing down an assortment of felons, thieves, and con artists, as well as the ghost of a real-life American hero, legendary cop Joe McCain. Atkinson traces McCain's sto... more info>>
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No Angel [Secure]
by Nils Johnson-Shelton, Jay Dobyns
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"Compulsively page-turning. The true story of Jay Dobyns, all-American dad and undercover cop running and gunning with the most dangerous outlaws in the USA. A high-velocity trip into a frightening American underworld told in rapid-fire, hard-boiled prose." --Evan Wright, author of the national bestseller Generation Kill "No Angel pushes narrative nonfiction to new limits...If you wondered whether the bravura writing of Truman Capote and Hunter S. Thompson has a legacy, look no further. Dobyns l... more info>>
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Stalemate: A Shocking True Story of Child Abduction and Murder [Secure]
by John Philpin
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To one investigator, only one person could be responsible for the disappearance and murder of little girls in the San Francisco Bay area, and that was Timothy James Bindner. For 10 years, Bindner has stayed one step ahead of the law; at every turn, he has challenged the police and FBI to make their case. Featuring the suspect's own words, "Stalemate" takes us into the complex realm of forensic investigation, bringing readers face-to-face with a man who may be playing a deadly game and winning.
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