Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Patterns in criminal homicide Patterns in criminal homicide Wolfgang, Marvin E. An analysis of all criminal homicides listed by police in Philadelphia between Jan. 1, 1948, and Dec. 31, 1952. OL1583460W
Echoes in the darkness Echoes in the darkness Joseph Wambaugh A true murder story, this book is based on the Main Line Murder Case in which a high school teacher was found dead in an automobile in Upper Merion, Pennsylvania, and her two children had disappeared. OL15855175W
A need to kill A need to kill Michael W. Cuneo Describes how sixteen-year-old Alec Kreider murdered his best friend, Kevin Haines, and Kevin's parents, Tom and Lisa, for no apparent reason, and showed no remorse for the brutal crime. OL16475165W
Love her to death Love her to death M. William Phelps Describes how Jan Roseboro was savagely beaten and strangled before her body was tossed in her backyard pool and how her husband Michael was eventually convicted of the crime after his pregnant mistr… OL17826312W
Foxcatcher Foxcatcher Mark Schultz On January 26, 1996, Olympic gold medalist Dave Schultz was shot in the back by John E. du Pont at the family's famed Foxcatcher Farm estate. Dave and his brother, Mark, were both gold medal-winning … OL19996572W
Hannah Mary Tabbs and the disembodied torso Hannah Mary Tabbs and the disembodied torso Kali N. Gross Shortly after a dismembered torso was discovered by a pond outside Philadelphia in 1887, investigators homed in on two suspects: Hannah Mary Tabbs, a married, working-class, black woman, and George W… OL20023192W
Echoes in the darkness Echoes in the darkness Joseph Wambaugh On June 25, 1989, the naked corpse of schoolteacher Susan Reinert was found wedged into her hatchback car in a hotel parking lot near Philadelphia's "Main Line." Her two children had vanished. The … OL2941537W