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"Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. There is no such thing as concealment..."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Almost Home: My Life Story  by
Damien Echols For over 10 years Damien has been on death
row for a crime he did not commit. He, Jason Baldwin and
Jessie Miss kelley are The West Memphis Three. A few believe Damien is a devil-worshipping child killer, but he is the victim of hysteria. As an accomplished writer, poet, and visual artist, he has found inspiration on death row in Arkansas. Damien continues his fight for freedom.
A Murder In Shaker Heights: The Unsolved Killing Of 16-year-old Lisa Pruett by Ted Schwartz -- Since the September 14, 1990 brutal murder of Lisa Pruett, a Shaker Heights High School student, despite a trial nobody has been convicted of the crime. Kevin Young, was acquitted but has lived here under the shadow of suspicion since.
Prairie Murders: Mysteries, Crimes And Scandals by Peter Smith -- Seven chilling stories of murders across the Prairies are recounted in this gripping collection. Not for the faint-hearted, these stories tell of violence and bloodshed, as well as the police investigations that led to the eventual capture of the perpetrators. From the “Ductman of Drumheller” to the murder of Banff cabbie Lucie Turmel, these true stories will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Serial Killers: Issues Explored Through the Green River Murders by Tomas Guillen. Little is written about the issues that permeate serial killer cases or massive murder investigations. These essays focus on those issues. The essays take the perspective of the Green River Murders and the relationships of the people it touched for over two decades. The issues explored are relevant to such controversial topics as murder investigations, justice, victimology, interrogation techniques, media coverage of crime, and grief. CD-ROM includes video coverage of the confession. .
Courtroom 302: A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse Steve Bogira takes us into the heart of America’s criminal justice system in in Chicago’s Cook County Criminal Courthouse, the busiest felony courthouse in the country. We see it through the eyes of those who have experienced it, in the courtroom, lockup, jury room, judge’s chambers, and the spectators’ gallery. When the judge goes to the scene of the crime during a trial, we are with them. We witness the high-profile cases: the son of a reputed mobster, charged with the racially motivated beating of a thirteen-year-old boy. And the middle-aged man whose crack addiction brings him before the judge repeatedly. Bogira shows how the war on drugs is choking the system. Fast-paced, and gripping, Courtroom 302 is an illumination of our criminal court system that raises fundamental issues of race, civil rights, and justice.
102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers writers Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn vividly recreate the 102-minute span between the moment Flight 11 hit the first Twin Tower on the morning of September 11, 2001, and the moment the second tower collapsed, all from the perspective of those inside the buildings--the 12,000 who escaped, and the 2,749 who did not. Using hundreds of interviews, countless transcripts of radio and phone communications, and exhaustive research, Dwyer and Flynn bring that flood of responses back--from heartbreak to bewilderment to fury. One man, in the second tower, survived because he bolted from his desk the moment he heard the first plane hit; another, who stayed at his desk on the 97th floor, called his wife to tell her to cancel a surprise trip he had planned. In many cases, the deaths of those killed by the collapse of the towers were avoidable.
Twilight Of Innocence: The Disappearance Of Beverly Potts by James Jessen Badal -- One of the nation’s first highly publicized missing child cases was ten-year-old Beverly Potts, last seen at 9:00 p.m., August 24, 1951, at Halloran Park on Cleveland’s West Side. She and her neighbor friend Patricia Swing had gone to see the Showagon—a troupe of performers that traveled around Cleveland’s parks giving free performances. Patricia had to be home before dark, but Beverly could stay until the show was over. When she was
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0:30 he called the police. Beverly disappeared without a trace. Badal reexamines the events leading to Beverly's disappearance, the police investigation, and examination of police records provide a chronology of false leads and hoaxes.
While She Slept by Marion Collins --When Jill Cahill was leaving to return home after visiting with her family, she turned to her sister and said: "If Jeff kills me, you can have all my things." A few days later, she was in a coma in a hospital, her skull shattered by a savage beating inflicted by her 37-year-old husband. Six months later, she was dead. Jeff and Jill Cahill seemed to have it all. Two kids, a dog, a nice house of the picket fence variety. But on April 21, 1996 Jeff and Jill had a torrid argument while their kids were upstairs sleeping. She lay in a coma for nearly six months, and just as she started to show signs of coming out of it.. she received a visitor. Other books by Marion Collins
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Shattered Justice - A Savage Murder and the Death of Three Families' Innocence
by John Philpin
A family's horror -- one
child murdered . . . another destroyed. The Crows' neighbors
in the peaceful middle class community in San Diego's North
County were shocked by the savagery of the crime -- a young
girl murdered, stabbed repeatedly, in her own bed in the
dead of night. The lack of any evidence of forced entry
led the Escondido police to their inevitable conclusion:
someone in the family was responsible for 12-year-old Stephanie
Crowe's slaying. The investigation quickly zeroed in on
the victim's older brother, Michael, and two teenage friends
-- three loners who enjoyed inhabiting dark fantasy worlds
of quests and violence. Through efficient, by-the-book
police work, the boys were broken down and ultimately confessed.
The only problem was the detectives had gotten everything
wrong . . . Shattered Justice is the riveting and disturbing
true account of a horrific tragedy and the terrible crime
that followed -- a nightmare of four innocent lives shattered,
one by a killer's blade, three by obsession and twisted
law.
John Philpin has been the forensic consultant to the San Diego County Sheriff's Department in their re-investigation of the Stephanie Crowe homicide. He was also one of the first independent criminal profilers in the U.S. and is a retired psychologist with an international reputation as an expert on violent behavior. He has appeared on "Unsolved Mysteries," "Northwest Afternoon," "Inside Edition," the "Jim Bohannon Show," "America's Most Wanted," CBC's "As It Happens," "20/20 Downtown" and has served as a guest commentator on Court TV's "Prime Time Justice." His published works include Beyond Murder, about the Gainesville student murders, and Stalemate, a child abduction and murder in the San Francisco Bay area. Philpin, the recipient of numerous awards recognizing his contributions to murder investigations, holds degrees in English, clinical psychology, and forensic psychology. He has published five successful novels.
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Baby Be Mine
by Dianne Fanning
When Lisa Montgomery presented her husband Kevin with their new-born baby girl, he was ecstatic. Naming the child Abigail, the couple brought her to their local pastor. Miles away, police were investigating the brutal murder of a pregnant woman...
Twenty-three year old Bobbie Jo Stinnett was 8-months pregnant, She and her husband Zeb dreamed the dreams of Americans everywhere--raising a family, saving money to buy their own home, growing old together over decades of love. Then Bobbie Jo's mother found her lying in a pool of blood. Someone had strangled Bobbie Jo to death—and then cut her fetus from her womb. The dreams were over. The nightmare had begun.
... In late 2004, two women met in a dog-breeding internet chat room. When Elizabeth Montgomery came face to face with eight-months-pregnant Bobbie Jo Stinnett, prosecutors claim she already had a plan. Investigators knew that Bobbie Jo had fought desperately for her life—and that her fetus, alive or dead, was gone. Investigators scrambled after a killer. An “Amber Alert” went out for an hours-old infant. And this horrifying case was about to shock neighbors and a nation: of a woman accused of murdering for a baby...
Dianne
Fanning is the co-editor of Red Boots & Attitude,
a collection of fiction, non-fiction and poetry 34 Texas
Women Writers. Two of her short stories are in the book.
A portion of the royalties go to the Breast Cancer Resource
Center. Diane's earned more than seventy Addy writing commercials
and scripts for radio, television, and an advertising agencies.
By Governor appointment, she served three terms on the
State Advisory Committee for the State Employee Charitable
Campaign; Vice President on the Executive Committee of
the Writer's League of Texas; Board of Directors of the
National Alliance for Choice and Giving; and Community
Shares-USA. Diane is the recipient of the 2001 NACG Freedom
Fighter Award.
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Preliminary
Semiannual UCR FBI preliminary figures indicate law enforcement agencies reported an increase of 3.7 percent in the number of violent crimes in the first half of 2006 compared to the first six months of 2005. The violent crime category includes murder, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Property crimes from January to June of 2006 decreased 2.6 percent compared to 2005. Property crimes include burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft. Data for arson are not included in property crime. 2006 figures indicate arson increased 6.8 percent in the first half of the year compared to 2005.
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Nightmare in Wichita: The Hunt for the BTK Strangler by Robert Beattie-- The First Book to tell the tale of the killer-written by the lawyer who assisted the police during the thirty-year search and was instrumental in the long-awaited arrest. In 1974 a serial killer began a 14 year murder spree in Wichita, Kansas. The sex murderer taunted authorities with clues, puzzles, and obscene letters. In 1988, he vanished, the killings stopped, and one of the longest manhunts reached a dead end. In 2004, a letter and clue arrived at a Wichita paper: BTK was back.
Depraved by John Glatt -- John Edward Robinson was a 56-year-old grandfather from Kansas. An entrepreneur and Eagle Scout, he was honored as 'Man of the Year" by a Kansas City charity. He is a sexual deviate with a taste for torture. Promising money and adventure, for 15 years, he trawled the Web for women. The summer of 2000, decomposed remains of women were discovered in barrels on his farm, other bodies were found in storage units.
Court TV Crime Stories: Vol 1: Serial -- Richard Ramirez
The Bloody Countess: The Crimes of Elizabeth Bathory
A Deadly Game: The Untold Story of the Scott Peterson Investigation Catherine Crier has covered the Peterson case since Laci disappeared on December 24, 2002. Crier, a former judge and Court TV's legal analyst, reveals previously unseen police reports, transcripts of recorded conversations, photographic evidence and interviews with key witnesses and lead investigators
 Presumed Guilty: What the Jury Never Knew About Laci Peterson's Murder and Why Scott Peterson Should Not Be on Death Row by Matt Dalton. For six months after Peterson's arrest, Dalton was the defense's only full-time investigative attorney. He lived in Modesto while he investigated every element of the case, interviewing witnesses, reviewing 35,000 pages of police documents, and almost daily meetings in jail with Peterson. This is the first book to go inside the defense team with evidence the jury did not hear -- that will play a part in pending appeals: None of the numerous witnesses, who saw Laci alive December 24, testified at trial; five blocks from the Peterson home an eight months pregnant woman was harassed by two men on December 24; a burglary across the street on December 24, and the burglars' questionable claims along with unreported details of the autopsy cast doubts on the prosecution's case.
Striking Back: The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and Israel's Deadly Response. The first full account, of the Munich Massacre and the Israeli response–a lethal, top secret, thirty-year-long antiterrorism campaign to track down the killers. 1972. The Munich Olympics. Palestinian members of the Black September group murder eleven Israeli athletes. Back in Israel, Prime Minister Golda Meir vows to track down those responsible and, in Menachem Begin’s words, “run these criminals and murderers off the face of the earth.” A secret Mossad unit, code named Caesarea, is mobilized, a list of targets drawn up. Thus begins the Israeli response–a mission that unfolds not over months but over decades. The Mossad has never spoken about this operation. Until Klein tells the full story of Munich and the Israeli counter terrorism operation it spawned. Klein peels back the myth and misinformation about the “shadow war” against Black September and other terrorist groups. Burning questions are answered, including who was killed and who was not, how it was done, which targets were hit and which were missed. Truths revealed: the degree to which the Mossad targeted nonaffiliated Black September terrorists for assassination, the operation retributive acts against Israel, and more. Klein shows that the Israeli response to Munich was not revenge, as is popularly believed.
Held Captive: The Kidnapping and Rescue of Elizabeth Smart. On a June night in 2002, Salt Lake City teenager Elizabeth Smart was abducted at knife point from her bedroom. March of the following year, Elizabeth was discovered alive a few miles from her home, a prisoner of a self proclaimed Messiah and his wife. What happened to Elizabeth during 9 months in captivity is shocking. Startling information about the controversial investigation.
Bully: Does Anyone Deserve to Die? By Jim Schutze -- Combines natural details about the saw grass marshes and alligators south of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with observations about the fantasy lives of teenagers hooked on surfing, steroids, and instant gratification, 7 suburban kids who slide into moral depravity.
The Mammoth Book of Unsolved Crime: The Biggest and Best Collection of Unsolved Murder and Mystery Cases -- Roger Wilkes -- This compelling volume presents thirty-five of the most intriguing crime cases that still defy solution, as reported by leading authors and journalists in the field of crime writing. Expanded and updated, this new edition of The Mammoth Book of Unsolved Crime includes such recent cases as British backpacker Peter Falconio, lost in the Australian outback, and reporting as diverse as Colin Wilson's look at the Zodiac Killer of California and Russell Miller's examination of the ongoing obsession with LA's Black Dahlia Killer, to Sydney Horley on the woman who was cleared of murdering her husband and went on to become a Broadway star, and Philip Sugden on that most mythic criminal enigma of them all, Jack the Ripper. Nearly all the cases involve one or more acts of murder, and all are left with a question mark hanging over them—real-life whodunits that offer a continuing challenge to all who find fascination in the criminal mind.
Burned Alive: A Shocking True Story of Betrayal, Kidnapping, and Murder by Kieran Crowley Kim Antonakos, a 20-year-old business major, was returning to her New York City apartment after a night of clubbing with a friend. But on her way home, Kim was abducted. Kim's father, Tommy Antonakos, a wealthy computer executive launched a search for his daughter. A mastermind ordered Kim bound, gagged and left in the freezing basement of an abandoned house, hoping to extract ransom from her father. When the plans fell through, he and his henchman doused a near-frozen Kim with gasoline, setting her on fire.
A Shadow in the City: Confessions of an Undercover Drug Warrior by Charles Bowden -- Joey O'Shay is not the real name of the narcotics agent in an unnamed city in the center of the country. The nearly three hundred drug busts he orchestrated over two decades are real, too. Bowden follows O'Shay as he sets in motion a $50 million heroin deal in Colombia as federal agents sit at attention from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., to New York City. O'Shay reveals the instinct and ceaseless vigilance that brought down kingpins.
Cold Case Files - The Most Infamous Cases -- DVD -- Bill Kurtis gathers ten of the most fascinating true crimes ever known. Combining the latest forensic techniques with old-fashioned police work; a step-by-step look at how a mystery is solved and the culprit is apprehended. Ten cases: One Night on the Bayou, Killer in the County, Frozen in Time, A Map to Murder, The Zodiac Killer, The Green River Killer, Weepy-Voiced Killer, The Lady Killer, Kidnapped, Love Triangle.
A Wife's Revenge by Eric Francis -- Susan Wright was a victim ... who admitted to killing her husband Jeffrey in their Harris County home in 2003, by stabbing him to death in self-defense. She recounted a harrowing tale of domestic abuse-one that the raging mother of two finally brought to an end-her way. But prosecutors had a story of their own... Susan was a seductress ... who set the mood for kinky sex with her unsuspecting husband. After tying Jeffrey to the bed, Susan straddled him, stabbed him 193 times with a butcher knife, then buried his body in a makeshift grave in their backyard. Justice would not come easy.
Other books by Eric Francis
Marked For Death by Brian J. Karem -- Larry McNabney, a respected California attorney was seduced and murdered with a lethal dose of horse tranquilizer by his deeply disturbed wife, Elisa McNabney, aka Laren Renee Sims, an ex-convict from Florida and her female lover, Sarah Dutra, a Sacramento California State University student. Includes an 8-page photo insert. Other books by Brian J. Karem
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