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A Checklist for Murder: The True Story of Robert John Peernock [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Anthony Flacco
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The Peernocks cast the impression of being a very well-to-do and content family even after the separation of Richard and his wife. But madness was contained inside their house and one night Richard Peemock came to kill his wife and daughter, brutally beating them, force feeding them alcohol and placing them together in a car which he let drive into a wall so that it would seem like a drunk driving accident.What Richard Peernock didn't forsee was his daughter's survival and her willingness for th... more info>>
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The Innocent Man [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by John Grisham
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In the town of Ada, Oklahoma, Ron Williamson was going to be the next Mickey Mantle. But on his way to the Big Leagues, Ron stumbled, his dreams broken by drinking, drugs, and women. Then, on a winter night in 1982, not far from Ron’s home, a young cocktail waitress named Debra Sue Carter was savagely murdered. The investigation led nowhere. Until, on the flimsiest evidence, it led to Ron Williamson. The washed-up small-town hero was charged, tried, and sentenced to death—in a trial littered wit... more info>>
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Chemical Cowboys: The DEA's Secret Mission to Hunt Down a Notorious Ecstasy Kingpin [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Lisa Sweetingham
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For nearly a decade, Ecstasy kingpin Oded Tuito was the mastermind behind a drug ring that used strippers and Hassidic teenagers to mule millions of pills from Holland to the party triangle--Los Angeles, New York, and Miami. Chemical Cowboys is a thrilling journey through the groundbreaking undercover investigations that led to the toppling of a billion-dollar Ecstasy trafficking network--starting in 1995 when NewYork DEA Agent Robert Gagne infiltrated club land to uncover a thriving drug scene ... more info>>
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Murders in the Swampland [MultiFormat]
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)
Words: 94268 - Reading Time: 269-377 min.
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While They Slept: An Inquiry into the Murder of a Family [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
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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Dissecting Death [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by David L. Carroll
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From TV's CSI to bestsellers by Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs, interest in forensics is at an all-time high. Now one of our most respected forensic pathologists gives a behind-the-scenes look at eleven of his most notorious cases, cracked by scientific analysis and Sherlock Holmesian deduction. As chief medical examiner of Rockland County, New York, for almost thirty-five years, Dr. Frederick Zugibe literally wrote the book on the subject--his widely used textbook is considered the definit... more info>>
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In Cold Blood [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
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)
Words: 100000 - Reading Time: 285-400 min.
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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 eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
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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Lethal Marriage [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Nick Pron
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WARNING: This book contains graphic descriptions of violence. Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo might look like the ideal couple, but they were a nation's most despicable killers. Karla began their depraved sex and murder spree by stealing drugs to knock out her little sister. While Paul raped and sodomized the unconscious girl, Karla dutifully caught it all on videotape. Unbelievably, the worst was yet to come. In a brazen daylight kidnapping, Karla lured schoolgirl Kristen French to their car a... more info>>
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by John Berendt
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Read John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in Large Print.* All Random House Large Print editions are published in a 16-point typefaceShots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's sharply observed, suspenseful,... more info>>
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The Fatty Arbuckle Rape Case [MultiFormat]
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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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF/Adobe EPUB]
by Jon Krakauer
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Jon Krakauer's literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. In Under the Banner of Heaven, he shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of religious belief within our own borders. At the core of his book is an appalling double murder committed by two Mormon Fundamentalist brothers, Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a revelation from God commanding them to kill their blameless victims. Beginning with a meticulously ... more info>> (Published: 2003)
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15 Serial Killers: Docufictions [MultiFormat]
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)
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A Grave Too Many [MultiFormat]
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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Almost Midnight: An American Story of Murder and Redemption [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Michael Cuneo
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The haunting true story of a triple murder in the Ozarks, two lovers on the lam, and a death-row inmate saved by the Pope. On a spring day more than ten years ago, sixty-nine-year-old Lloyd Lawrence was gunned down in rural Missouri. The shooter also turned his twelve-gauge shotgun on Lawrence's wife and their paraplegic grandson. The crime took place in a region known mostly for Pentecostal fervor, country music, and family-friendly tourism. But soon the murders would expose a dark underbelly i... more info>> (Published: 2004)
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High Sierra [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by W. R. Burnett
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The tormented and exhausted man at the center of W.R. Burnett's High Sierra is a notorious criminal whom the newspapers call "Mad Dog" Roy Earle. Earle is every bit the criminal the newspapers depict, but he is a complicated soul who is the tragic hero of the novel--a horribly flawed man, a violent criminal who still retains a bit of a conscience but never gets a decent break. As in most of Burnett's novels, High Sierra ostensibly describes a carefully plotted crime that is undermined by human n... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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Killers: The Most Barbaric Murderers of our Times [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Nigel Cawthorne
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On 24 February 1994, the police turned up at 25 Cromwell Street, an ordinary three-story house in central Gloucester, with a warrant to dig up the back garden. The door was answered by Stephen West, the 20-year-old son of the householders Fred and Rosemary West. The police told him that they were looking for the body of his sister Heather, who had disappeared in May 1987 at the age of 16. The world's most depraved murderers were somebody's neighbour, someone else's father. What turns a person in... more info>>
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Night of the Juggler [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by William P. McGivern
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In New York, a psychopathic killer will strike on October 15, as he always does--the anniversary of his mother's death, when he will kidnap, rape and murder an innocent young girl by slashing her jugular vein. William P. McGivern's Night of the Juggler tells the tense story of the serial killer as he prepares to kill again and the New York cops who are trying to find him before he strikes. A task force has been formed in the NYPD to find the killer known as the Juggler. Detective Vincent "Gypsy"... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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Sniper: Inside the Hunt for the Killers Who Terrorized the Nation [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader]
by Sari Horwitz
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Sniper is the behind-the-scenes story of one of the most frightening rampages to occur in U.S. history--and how it was stopped. For more than three weeks, the nation watched in disbelief as Washington, D.C., and its surrounding suburbs were held hostage by anonymous gunmen shooting innocent civilians at random. Sniper is the definitive account of those alleged gunmen, John Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, and the massive manhunt that ended with their capture by a heavily armed SWAT team in an early-... more info>> (Published: 2003)
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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 eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
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 Dreams of Ada [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Robert Mayer
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The true bewildering story of a young woman's disappearance, the nightmare of a small town obsessed with delivering justice, and the bizarre dream of a poor, uneducated man accused or murder--a case that chillingly parallels the one, occurring in the very same town, chronicled by John Grisham in The Innocent Man
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The Fabulous Clipjoint [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Frederic Brown
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Fredric Brown's The Fabulous Clipjoint comes from a now-vanished world of crime fiction that once satisfied the same appetites in the audience that are now fed by television programming. Neatly crafted and loaded with atmosphere and humor, The Fabulous Clipjoint, published in 1947, follows the exploits of an unlikely pair of amateur sleuths--a teenaged boy and his uncle, who follows the carnival--in solving a disturbing murder. The victim is a drunk, who seems to have gotten rolled and winds up ... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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The Iron Ghetto [MultiFormat]
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 Onion Field [Secure eReader]
by Joseph Wambaugh
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This is the frighteningly true story of two young cops and two young robbers whose separate destinies fatally cross one March night in a bizarre execution in a deserted Los Angeles field.
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The S.C.U.M. Manifesto [MultiFormat]
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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